50 Book Challenge for 2011

[MissKateCherie]

I finally made the list of the books I've read this year! there are probably more but I honestly can't remember them...I've put the original titles so some of them are written in greek, french etc...

1)Airhead by Meg Cabot
2)Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar
3)Gossip Girl: All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar
4)Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar
5)Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar
6)Gossip Girl: You're the One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar
7)Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar
8)Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together by Cecily von Ziegesar
9)Gossip Girl: Only in Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar
10)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling
11)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling
12)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling
13)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling
14)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
15)The Tales of Beedle The Bard by J.K Rowling
16)Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
17)Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
18)Vampire Academy: Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
19)The Wolves of Mercy Falls: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
20)The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
21)Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
22)Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
23)Alex Rider: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
24)The Immortals: Evermore by Alyson Noel
25)The Immortals: Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
26)The Immortals: Shadowland by Alyson Noel
27)Lady: My life is a b*tch by Melvin Burgess
28)Emma by Sophie Tasma
29)Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
30)Just as long as we're together by Judy Blume
31)The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
32)Festival au Chateau by Betty Cavana
33)Ο Θησαθρος της Βαγίας by Ζωρζ Σαρή
34)Το συμβόλαιο του πύργου by Κίρα Σίνου
35)Ψίθυροι αγοριών by Βούλα Μαστόρη
36)Herr Der Diebe by Cornelia Funke

 

[Siennalicious]

18. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
have to make it quicker now!!!

 

[Belowen]

01: American Subversive by David Goodwillie
02: The Collector by John Fowles
03: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
04: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
05: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
06: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
07: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
08: The Forest Of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan
09: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10: The Odyssey by Homer
11: The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
12: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
13: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
14: Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal

15: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton​

16: The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham

17: Bossypants by Tina Fey​

18: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

19: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins​

20: Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

21: Cell by Stephen King​

22: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
23: The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch by Emma Magenta
24: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
25: Divergent by Veronica Roth
26: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
27: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
28: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

 

[kate_is_goddess]

1 // Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
2 // Limit by Frank Schätzing
3 // Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
4 // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5 // Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
6 // Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
7 // The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8 // The Collector by John Fowles
9 // The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
10 // Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
11 // Slapstick! or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut
12 // Bei Einbruch der Nacht (L'Homme à l'envers) by Fred Vargas
13 // A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
14 // To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
15 // The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
16 // Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
17 // Written in Bone by Simon Beckett
18 // Whispers of the Dead by Simon Beckett
19 // My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
20 // The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
21 // Der Meister und Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
22 // All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
23 // Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
24 // Deadly Décisions by Kathy Reichs
25 // Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
26 // Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
27 // Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
28 // A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer
29 // Der Brenner und der liebe Gott by Wolf Haas
30 // Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
31 // Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
32 // Der Schwarm (The Swarm) by Frank Schätzing

 

[rox_yr_sox]

1. Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
2. Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours by Princess Michael of Kent
3. Haiku: Poetry Ancient and Modern: An Anthology by Jackie Hardy [Ed]
4. Art of the Soviets: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in a One-Party State, 1917-1992 by Bown & Taylor [Eds]
5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
6. Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two by Vladimir Paperny
7. The Edifice Complex: how the rich and powerful shape the world by Deyan Sudjic
8. God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
9. Plans, pragmatism and People: The legacy of Soviet planning for today's cities by R. Antony French
10. Quicksilver (Vol.1 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
11. The Confusion (Vol.2 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
12. The System of the World (Vol.3 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
13. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
14. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
15. Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
16. Tete-a-Tete: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Hazel Rowley
17. Pandora by Anne Rice
18. The Executioner by Joseph de Maistre
19. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
20. Conversations With Students by Rem Koolhaas
21. Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
22. Electra and Other Plays by Euripides
23. Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
24. Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
25. Utopics: Spatial Play by Louis Marin
26. The Politics of Utopia: A Study in Theory and Practice by Barbara Goodwin & Keith Taylor
27. The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles by Michael Wood
28. Collected Poems by W.H. Auden
29. The Gentle Art of Persuasion: How to Argue Effectively by Chester Porter QC
30. Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love by Andrew Schaffer
31. 100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists Selected by Alex Danchev (currently reading)
32. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (currently reading)
33. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
34. Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of a Great English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey
35. Darkness Rising by Frank Tallis
36. Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt (currently reading)

 

[Belowen]

01: American Subversive by David Goodwillie
02: The Collector by John Fowles
03: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
04: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
05: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
06: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
07: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
08: The Forest Of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan
09: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10: The Odyssey by Homer
11: The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
12: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
13: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
14: Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal

15: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton​

16: The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham

17: Bossypants by Tina Fey​

18: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

19: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins​

20: Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

21: Cell by Stephen King​

22: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
23: The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch by Emma Magenta
24: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
25: Divergent by Veronica Roth
26: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
27: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
28: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

29: Prism by Faye & Aliza Kellerman
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[Belowen]

How is everyone going with their challenge? I still have 21 books to read and hope I can smash a few out over the upcoming months where it starts to warm up a bit so I venture outside to sit on the sun lounge and read...

 

[Alvedansen]

i had hoped to be able to read a lot during summer break but i barely read....so i'm i'm 6 books behind. but i have a little more time now and will hopefully pick books that i won't be able to put down so i will catch up :/

 

[tigerrouge]

34: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

 

[GinAndTonic]

01 - Pop Heart (Barbara Israel)
02 - Notes Of A Dirty Old Man (Charles Bukowski)
03 - South Of No North (Charles Bukowski)
04 - Ask The Dust (John Fante)
05 - Women (Charles Bukowski)
06 - Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
07 - High Fidelity (Nick Hornby)
08 - Miss Saturne (Barbara Israel)
09 - Life (Keith Richards)
10 - Chronicles I (Bob Dylan)
11 - Lord Of The Barnyard (Tristan Egolf)
12 - Francis Bacon, Interviews (Michel Archimbaud)
13 - Down And Out In Paris And London (George Orwell)
14 - Factotum (Charles Bukowski)

 

[Candice89102]

Wish I knew about this thread earlier! I haven't read much this year but I'm starting to pick up a few good books here and there, and I love looking at everyone else's lists for inspiration. I guess there's always 2012!

 

[ChrissyM]

1: This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
2: Just Kids by Patti Smith
3: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
4: Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
5: The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi
6: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
7: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8: The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
9: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
10: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
11: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
12: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
13: The Last Titan by Rick Riordan
14: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
15: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
16: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
17: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
18: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
19: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
20: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
21: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
22: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
23: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
24: A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
25: Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
26: Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
27: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
28: Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
29: Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
30: Room by Emma Donoghue
31: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
32: All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
33: From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
34: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
35: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
36: Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
37: Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris

I'm finally on the last Sookie book and reading the series has definitely helped me get a bit of a cushion in this challenge (apparently I'm currently 2 books ahead according to goodreads) so I'm hoping I can tackle something longer next...

It's definitely a relief to be a little ahead. The summer months and increased downtime have helped a lot for me to feel that I'm within reach of the goal

 

[tigerrouge]

35: The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller

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[mint condish]

There's no way I'll meet the 50 books this year, but this challenge has really encouraged me to keep up on my reading, and the other members have recommended great books for me to read. I've definitely enjoyed it. Even if I give myself a goal of 25-30 books to read a year, I think I'll be a happy camper.

(btw I think I'm around book 15 or something )

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)Airhead by Meg Cabot
2)Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar
3)Gossip Girl: All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar
4)Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar
5)Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar
6)Gossip Girl: You're the One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar
7)Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar
8)Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together by Cecily von Ziegesar
9)Gossip Girl: Only in Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar
10)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling
11)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling
12)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling
13)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling
14)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
15)The Tales of Beedle The Bard by J.K Rowling
16)Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
17)Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
18)Vampire Academy: Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
19)The Wolves of Mercy Falls: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
20)The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
21)Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
22)Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
23)Alex Rider: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
24)The Immortals: Evermore by Alyson Noel
25)The Immortals: Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
26)The Immortals: Shadowland by Alyson Noel
27)Lady: My life is a b*tch by Melvin Burgess
28)Emma by Sophie Tasma
29)Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
30)Just as long as we're together by Judy Blume
31)The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
32)Festival au Chateau by Betty Cavana
33)Ο Θησαθρος της Βαγίας by Ζωρζ Σαρή
34)Το συμβόλαιο του πύργου by Κίρα Σίνου
35)Ψίθυροι αγοριών by Βούλα Μαστόρη
36)Herr Der Diebe by Cornelia Funke
37)The Immortals: Dark Flame by Alyson Noel

 

[Belowen]

01: American Subversive by David Goodwillie
02: The Collector by John Fowles
03: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
04: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
05: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
06: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
07: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
08: The Forest Of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan
09: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10: The Odyssey by Homer
11: The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
12: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
13: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
14: Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal

15: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton​

16: The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham

17: Bossypants by Tina Fey​

18: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

19: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins​

20: Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

21: Cell by Stephen King​

22: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
23: The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch by Emma Magenta
24: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
25: Divergent by Veronica Roth
26: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
27: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
28: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

29: Prism by Faye & Aliza Kellerman
​

30: The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers

 

[tigerrouge]

36: A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer

I once swore that I'd never spend time reading any sort of 'misery memoir' but the book came to me for free, so on my list it went.
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[kate_is_goddess]

1 // Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
2 // Limit by Frank Schätzing
3 // Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
4 // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5 // Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
6 // Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
7 // The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8 // The Collector by John Fowles
9 // The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
10 // Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
11 // Slapstick! or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut
12 // Bei Einbruch der Nacht (L'Homme à l'envers) by Fred Vargas
13 // A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
14 // To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
15 // The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
16 // Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
17 // Written in Bone by Simon Beckett
18 // Whispers of the Dead by Simon Beckett
19 // My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
20 // The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
21 // Der Meister und Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
22 // All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
23 // Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
24 // Deadly Décisions by Kathy Reichs
25 // Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
26 // Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
27 // Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
28 // A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer
29 // Der Brenner und der liebe Gott by Wolf Haas
30 // Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
31 // Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
32 // Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
33 // The Road by Cormac McCarthy

 

[Dora]

Henri Barbusse-Clarte and "The Black Tulip" by A. Duma
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[ChrissyM]

1: This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
2: Just Kids by Patti Smith
3: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
4: Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
5: The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi
6: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
7: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8: The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
9: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
10: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
11: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
12: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
13: The Last Titan by Rick Riordan
14: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
15: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
16: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
17: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
18: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
19: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
20: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
21: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
22: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
23: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
24: A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
25: Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
26: Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
27: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
28: Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
29: Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
30: Room by Emma Donoghue
31: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
32: All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
33: From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
34: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
35: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
36: Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
37: Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
38: Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese

I've heard good things about Cutting For Stone, so I figured I might as well try to tackle the 650+ page book now that I'm a book or two ahead

There are a lot of longer books that I've put off reading this year for fear of falling behind in the challenge (my competitive nature is to blame), but I've heard that Cutting For Stone is one of those books that people tear through because they can't put it down... so, we'll see