50 Book Challenge for 2011

[iperlchen]

50 was impossible for me, but I'm trying to get to 30 before the end of the year. Fine enough B)

20) Ines de la Fressange - The Parisian Guide to Chic
21) Martin Bril - Girls
22) Hein van Dolen - Greek Mythology
23) Pol Craeynest - Social Psychology
24) Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad
25) Rob Wijnberg & Stine Jensen - Ergo Sum
26) Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist
27) Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
28) Ernest van der Kwast - Stand-in
29) Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs
30) Johan Swinnen - Reflections. Film as philosophy

 

[ChrissyM]

i'm almost there

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
39: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
40: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
41: I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
42: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
43: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
44: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
45: Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
46: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
47: Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain
48: Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain
49: The Night Season by Chelsea Cain
50: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley

 

[Dora]

01. "The Escape of Pigeons"
02. "The winner stands alone" - P. Coelho
03. The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
04. Torment by Lauren Kate
05. Eat, Pray, Love by Elisabeth Gilbert
06. "Breaking Dawn"
07. "Taj-A story of Mughal India" by Timeri N. Murari
08. La piel del tambor of Arturo Pérez-Reverte
09. Paul et Virginie - Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
10. "The Accident" by Ismail Kadare
11. "A journey into cosmos".
12. "Duma Key" by Stephen King
13. "Romen Calibre" - Hector Malot
14. A hero of our time" - Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
15. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" - Stieg Larsson
16. Joy in the morning - Betty Smith
17. Captain Grant's Children - Jules Vernes
18. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
19. Intensity - Dean Koontz
20. Doctor of three continents
21. A Dry White Season - Andre Brink
22. Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down - Sherrilyn Kenyon
23. Henri Barbusse-Clarte
24. "The Black Tulip" by A. Duma
25. Bossypants - Tina Fey
26. The sea invasion - Jules Vernes
27. Enver Hoxha - Blendi Fevziu (a book on Albanian greatest dictator)

I also suggest that for next year's challenge, we better put a target on the number of pages rather than the number of books, because there are novel with barely 100 pages with are equivalent to a book of 600 pages (within the challenge).

Therefore, let's say that we barely got to 50 books this year X with an approximate number of pages of each book 200 or 250 = 10,000 or 12,500 pages/year.

When we count the books, we also place the number of pages on the side.

I don't know what you think of this, but I think it would be more fair.

(The number of approximate pages is negotiable

 

[Alvedansen]

^i agree that this would help to compare how much each of us has read, but i think we shouldn't have one goal for all of us, to me (personally) this is more about challenging myself, so i think we should all set our own goals. i currently only have time to read while i'm on my way to work/uni and back, i literally have no time/energy to read at home anymore and i'm sure many of you here have the same problem, others probably have a lot of free time.
and some just don't read much and ten finished books is a lot for them.
i personally think we should just make a reading challenge and we all can set our own individual goals (be it pages or books). or maybe we can combine it and set a common goal (again 50 books or a number of pages) while others who immediately know they'll never reach it or surpass it after five months can set their own goals? i don't know, but generally i think it's good idea (counting the pages) as i'm into longer books...

btw, so far i've read 13,873 pages this year (i hope i'll finish a few more books before the end of the year)

 

[ChrissyM]

I think even if you go by pages it can still be tough to quantify...
some books are just easier to read than others...

i just read three books that were over 300 pages each but I finished each of them within days because they were easy to read mystery/thriller type novels.

I think for next year we should just start a generic sort of "2012 Reading Challenge" thread where we all set our own goals. That way we can set realistic goals for ourselves while still sharing our reading lists, and discussing how it's going etc.

 

[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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30: The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
31: All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
32: Innocents by Cathy Coote 33: Spear of Destiny by Daniel Easterman
34: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
35: Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts
36: Leaf Storm by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
37: The Red Queen by Phillipa Gregory
38: We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
39: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

 

[tigerrouge]

I think even if you go by pages it can still be tough to quantify... some books are just easier to read than others...

And not all forms of literature are the same as each other. In terms of design, poetry might consist of very few words upon a page - but require the reader to do a lot more mental work than they would do when getting through a potboiler.

Can you compare a small volume of classic poetry to a generic 500-page fantasy saga, and say that one represents more effort than the other? I wouldn't.

 

[ChrissyM]

^^exactly, I completely agree

 

[Alvedansen]

01. John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
02. Richard Matheson - I am legend
03. Joyce Carol Oates - Big mouth & Ugly girl
04. Ken Follett - The pillars of the earth (re-read)
05. Haruki Murakami - Afterdark
06. Gayle Forman - If I stay
07. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (re-read)
08. Patti Smith - Just kids
09. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (re-read)
10. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The lightning thief
11. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The sea of monsters
12. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The titan's curse
13. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The battle of the labyrinth
14. Stephen Baxter - Ark
15. Markus Zusak - The book thief
16. Ethan Hawke - Hin und weg (original title: 'the hottest state')
17. Patrick Süskind - Der Kontrabaß (English title: 'the double-bass')
18. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt - Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran (English title: 'Monsieur Ibrahim and the flowers of the Qu'ran')
19. Eva Ibbotson - The secret of Platform 13
20. Justin Cronin - The Passage
21. Daniel Glattauer - Gut gegen Nordwind (English title: 'Love virtually')
22. George R. R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
23. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The last Olympian
24. Hape Kerkeling - Ich bin dann mal weg (English title: 'I'm off then')
25. George R. R. Martin - A Clash of Kings
26. Jay Asher - Thirteen reasons why
27. Fynn - Anna schreibt an Mister Gott (Original title: 'Anna's book')
28. Neal Shusterman - Unwind
29. Mark Haddon - The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
30. Harry Mulisch - Augenstern (English title:'Pupil')
31. Liz Jensen - Endzeit (Original title: 'The Rapture')
32. Eva Ibbotson - Not just a witch
33. Erich Segal - Love story
34. George R. R. Martin - A storm of swords
35. Pittacus Lore - The power of six
36. Susan Hill - The woman in black
37. Russell Brand - My booky wook
38. Ally Condie - Matched

 

[Dora]

Just finished "I pirati della Maledia" by Emilio Salgari
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[kate_is_goddess]

01 // Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
02 // Limit by Frank Schätzing
03 // Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
04 // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
05 // Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
06 // Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
07 // The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
08 // The Collector by John Fowles
09 // 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
34 // Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
35 // Palo Alto by James Franco
36 // Death's Acre by Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson
37 // Ausgeliebt by Dora Heldt
38 // All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

 

[Dora]

01. "The Escape of Pigeons"
02. "The winner stands alone" - P. Coelho
03. The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
04. Torment by Lauren Kate
05. Eat, Pray, Love by Elisabeth Gilbert
06. "Breaking Dawn"
07. "Taj-A story of Mughal India" by Timeri N. Murari
08. La piel del tambor of Arturo Pérez-Reverte
09. Paul et Virginie - Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
10. "The Accident" by Ismail Kadare
11. "A journey into cosmos".
12. "Duma Key" by Stephen King
13. "Romen Calibre" - Hector Malot
14. A hero of our time" - Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
15. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" - Stieg Larsson
16. Joy in the morning - Betty Smith
17. Captain Grant's Children - Jules Vernes
18. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
19. Intensity - Dean Koontz
20. Doctor of three continents
21. A Dry White Season - Andre Brink
22. Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down - Sherrilyn Kenyon
23. Henri Barbusse-Clarte
24. "The Black Tulip" by A. Duma
25. Bossypants - Tina Fey
26. The sea invasion - Jules Vernes
27. Enver Hoxha - Blendi Fevziu (a book on Albanian greatest dictator)
28. The Pirates of Malaysia - Emilio Salgari
29. Under the Dome - Stephen King

 

[Annu]

29. Under the Dome - Stephen King

Mine too! King is back


1. Pieces of Modesty by Peter O'Donnell
2. Treasure Yourself: Power Thoughts for My Generation by Miranda Kerr
3. My story by Marilyn Monroe
4. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
5. Diary of a bad year by J M Coetzee
6. Solar by Ian McEwan
7. Consolation by Anna Gavalda
8. The Gun seller by Hugh Laurie
9. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
10. Ruusumadonna by Tuija Lehtinen
11. Ruutumadonna by Tuija Lehtinen
12. The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
13. Andorra by Peter Cameron
14. The Darling Buds of May, A Breath of French Air, When the Green Woods Laugh by H.E. Bates
15. Unaccustomed earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
16. 101 Experiments in the philosophy of everyday life by Roger-pol Droit
17. Witch tree symbol, Mystery of the moss-cover mansion & The mystery of the fire dragon by Carolyn Keene
18. Love virtually by Daniel Glattauer
19. The land of painted caves by Jean M. Auel
20. The Blythes are quoted by L. M. Montgomery
21. The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
22. War by Sebastian Junger
23. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
24. Sputnik sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
25. The Xanadu talisman by Peter O'Donnell
26. Hiljaiset auttajat by Rauli Virtanen
27. The World without us by Alan Weisman
28. Matched by Ally Condie
29. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
30. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
31. Seljan tytot by Rauha S. Virtanen
32. Everything I Know I Learned from TV: Philosophy Explained Through Our Favourite TV Shows by Mark Rowlands
33. Änderungsschneiderei Los Milagros by María Cecilia Barbetta
34. Loppuunkasitely by Anna-Leena Harkonen
35. Kolme miesta netissa by Tuija Lehtinen
36. The Hound of death by Agatha Christie
37. Kuka murhasi rouva Skrofin? by Mika Waltari
38. Komisaario Palmun erehdys by Mika Waltari
39. Hyperion by Dan Simmons

40. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
41. Fifth Avenue, 5AM: Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's by Sam Wasson
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42. The grand design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
43. The fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
44. Breaking away by Anna Gavalda
45. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
46. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
47. The secret by Rhonda Byrne
48. Endymion by Dan Simmons
49. Matkalla - Martti Ahtisaaren tarina by Katri Merikallio and Tapani Ruokanen
50. Under the dome by Stephen King

 

[ChrissyM]

I finished my 50th book last night!

hooray!

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
39: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
40: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
41: I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
42: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
43: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
44: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
45: Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
46: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
47: Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain
48: Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain
49: The Night Season by Chelsea Cain
50: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley

I suppose it doesn't necessarily matter in terms of the challenge, but I'm starting The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen next

 

[kate_is_goddess]

Congrats! At least some of us managed to complete the challenge

 

[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
32. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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
37. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
38. The Cat Inside by William S. Burrroughs
39. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
40. Selected Poems by Bertolt Brecht
41. The Poems by Catullus
42. Imagist Poetry by assorted poets (edited by Peter Jones)
43. The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney
44. Wait For Me: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire
45. Deadly Communion by Frank Tallis
46. Mortal Mischief by Frank Tallis
47. Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis
48. Fatal Lies by Frank Tallis
49. Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
50. Nell Gwyn: A Biography by Charles Beauclerk (currently reading)
51. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
52. All that is solid melts into air by Marshall Berman

So, I'm done! Already planning my literary assault for next year.

My highlights:
- The Prince by Machiavelli: fascinating, insightful but also incredibly readable. About the reality of human nature and people's desire for power rather than an idealised version of human nature.
- God is not great: how religion poison everything by Christopher Hitchens: so well argued. Glad I could appreciate Hitchens gift before he died.
- The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson: expansive, engrossing and un-putdownabe. About science, mathematics, war, espionage, love, power and money during the European baroque era of Charles the II (and onwards to James II, William and Mary, Anne and the Georges) and all the colourful historical characters that are interrelated
- Selected Poems by Anna Ankmatova: simply beautiful poetry.

My lowlights:
- Great Philosophers that failed at love by Andrew Schaffer: written by a 30 something male whose command of language and use of slang makes it sound like it had a teenage hipster author. Had a numbers of historical errors or annoying generalizations. Neither breadth nor depth. Fail.
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel: just couldn't get into this. I really tried.

 

[Bonbonenata]

Ok, people! We did it! So it's time to review our results.

Send me PM with:
- ordered list of books you've read this year
- best book for 2011
- worst book for 2011


@Dora, it's good idea! I was thinking about it in the beginning of the challenge but it's more difficult to count pages than books. There is 15 000 pages challenge (link). In my opinion, it's too much. 15000 pages are equal to 30 book with 500 pages! Maybe 1000 pages? I want to make this challenge for real people not only for bookworms.

 

[MissKateCherie]

My final list just in time!

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
38)Fallen: Torment by Lauren Kate
39)Blue Bloods: Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz
40)J'ai hate de vieillir by Brigitte Smadja
41)Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
42)Le plus bel age de la vie by Bernard Barokas
43)Un passage dificile by Michel-Aime Baudouy
44)The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening by L. J. Smith
45)The Vampire Diaries: The Struggle by L. J. Smith
46)The Vampire Diaries: The Fury by L. J. Smith
47)If I stay by Gayle Forman
48)The Vampire Diaries: The Reunion by L. J. Smith
49:The Vampire Diaries: The Return, Nightfall by L. J. Smith
50)The Immortals: Night Star by Alyson Noel

 

[tigerrouge]

After finishing the 50 book challenge, I haven't read that much since, so I decided to do a 'Dickens in December' challenge, to go through five books of his that I've never touched before, during the holidays...

1 The Old Curiosity Shop (608 pgs)
2 Our Mutual Friend (832 pgs)
3 Dombey and Son (848 pgs)
4 Martin Chuzzlewit
5 Edwin Drood

I'm about 200 pages into Martin Chuzzlewit, and I don't know whether it's because I've already force-fed myself two thousand words of Dickens or the plot is a let-down, but getting through it is starting to be hard, and it's by no means a complicated story.

 

[heelscatchfire]

This is a great challenge! I would love to get into this in 2012!