Book Challenge 2013

[ChristyLeReveur]

1. Our Best Last Chance by King Abdullah of Jordan
2. Leap of Faith: Memoirs of An Unexpected Life by Queen Noor of Jordan
3. Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
4. Fifty Shades Freed by E L James (re-read)
5. The Ivy by Lauren Kunze & Rina Onur
6. Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
7. Gossip Girl: Only In Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
8. Gossip Girl: Would I Lie To You by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
9. Gossip Girl: Don't You Forget About Me by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
10. Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
11. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
12. Gossip Girl: You're The One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
13. The Debutante Divrocee by Plum Sykes (re-read)
14. The Daughters by Joanna Philbin (re-read)
15. Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
16. The Longest War: A History of the War on Terror and the Battles with Al Qaeda Since 9/11 by Peter L. Bergen
17. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
18. The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
19. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account on the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer
20. Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio J. Mendez, Matt Baglio
21. The Arabian Nights: Volume II by Sir Richard Burton and Jack Zipes

 

[Candice89102]

1. Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
2. Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
3. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
4. Taking the Long Way by Lily R. Mason
5. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
6. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking: A Novel by Aoibheann Sweeney
7. Osmosis by Susan X Meagher
8. Looking For Alaska by John Green
9. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
10. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Currently - Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

 

[Belowen]

01: What I Did by Christopher Wakling
02: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
03: 1Q84 (book 1) by Haruki Murakami
04: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
05: Ten by Gretchen McNeil
06: The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
07: The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
08: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
09: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
10: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

 

[barbaraaa]

1. Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
3. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
4. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
5. The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
6. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
7. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
9. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
10. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
11. Possession by AS Byatt
12. A Cool Million by Nathanael West
13. The Suicide Club by RL Stevenson
14. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
15. The Dream Life of Balso Snell by Nathanael West
16. Candide by Voltaire
17. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
18. Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

Currently reading: The Amber Spyglass, also by Philip Pullman... trying to finish the trilogy

 

[Alvedansen]

1. Angelfall - Susan Ee ***
2. Gone girl - Gillian Flynn ****
3. Life of Pi - Yann Martel ****
4. Blue Nights - Joan Didion **
0. Paris, My Sweet - Amy Thomas (too bad to finish)
5. Einstein's refrigerator - Steve Silverman *
6. A walk in the woods - Bill Bryson ***
7. The DUFF - Kody Keplinger ***
8. Across the universe - Beth Revis **
9. Skin - Mo Hayder ****
10. Saeculum - Ursula Poznanski ***
11. Cinder - Marissa Meyer ***
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *****
13. Between shades of gray - Ruta Sepetys ***
14. Ready player one - Ernest Cline *****
15. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson *****
16. Escape from Camp 14 - Blaine Harden

 

[chickadee]

I also couldn't wait to start Anna Karenina. And then I couldn't wait to get it over with

I understand now.

1. The House of Special Purpose (John Boyne)
2. Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)
3. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
4. Leopold: The Untold Story of Queen Victoria's Youngest Son (Charlotte Zeepvat)

 

[Candice89102]

1. Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
2. Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
3. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
4. Taking the Long Way by Lily R. Mason
5. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
6. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking: A Novel by Aoibheann Sweeney
7. Osmosis by Susan X Meagher
8. Looking For Alaska by John Green
9. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
10. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
11. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Currently - Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer

 

[lucy92]

I understand now.

2. Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)

i stayed up all night reading rebecca recently. if you liked that i would reccomend reading jamaica inn by Daphne du Maurier as well.

 

[Niusity]

1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
3. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
4. Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot
5. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
6. Saving Grace by Darlene Ryan
7. Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
8. Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi
9. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
10. Princess in Love by Meg Cabot
11. Ulysses by James Joyce
12. The Trial by Franz Kafka
13. The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
14. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
15. The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War - Camil Petrescu
16. Procrustean bed - Camil Petrescu
17. The Sisters (The Ordeal, #1) by Aleksey Tolstoy
18. 1918 (The Ordeal, #2) by Aleksey Tolsto
19. Bleak Morning (The Ordeal, #3) by Aleksey Tolstoy
20. A Comprehensive Handbook for Traditional Chinese Medicine Facial Rejuvenation by Ping Zhang
21. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
22. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
23. Divergent by Veronica Roth
24. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
25. Finding Emma by Steena Holmes
26. Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks - doesn't really sound as a diary, iit was ok but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
27. Bossypants by Tina Fey - funny, but boring at parts. I expected it to be so much better! I still adore Tina though.
28. Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser - AMAZING! Dreiser never ceases to amaze me!

Curently reading:
Rockabye: From Wild to Child by Rebecca Woolf

 

[ChrissyM]

my slowness this year actually pains me...

Still working through the same list as I was three weeks ago

1: Faithful Place by Tana French
2: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
3: 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James
4: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
5: Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
6: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
7: All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross

 

[lucy92]

26. Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks - doesn't really sound as a diary, iit was ok but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

you know that book is a scam right? it's not a real diary, its just a piece of propaganda.

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries, The Asylum based on the novels by L.J. Smith
2)The Skins Novel by Ali Cronin
3)Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
4)Beastly by Alex Flinn
5)House of Night: Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
6)House of Night: Betrayed by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
7)The Creepers by David Morrel
8)P.S. I love you by Cecilia Ahern
9)Girl with a pearl earing by Tracy Chevalier
10)A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
11)A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
12)A Storm of Swords 1: Steel and Snow by George R.R. Martin

 

[brbrry]

1) The prague cemetery by Umberto Eco
2) The Great Gatsby by F. S. Fitzgerald
3) A casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
4) Antwerp by Roberto Bolaño
5) La femme parfaite by Patrick Deville
6) Animal Farm by George Orwell
7) The diner by Herman Koch
8) The reversal by Michael Connelly


Currently reading: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoi
Next: Existentialism is a humanism by Sartre

 

[Niusity]

you know that book is a scam right? it's not a real diary, its just a piece of propaganda.

Of course I know it, i just expected it to be more realistic like a diary.

1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
3. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
4. Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot
5. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
6. Saving Grace by Darlene Ryan
7. Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
8. Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi
9. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
10. Princess in Love by Meg Cabot
11. Ulysses by James Joyce
12. The Trial by Franz Kafka
13. The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
14. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
15. The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War - Camil Petrescu
16. Procrustean bed - Camil Petrescu
17. The Sisters (The Ordeal, #1) by Aleksey Tolstoy
18. 1918 (The Ordeal, #2) by Aleksey Tolsto
19. Bleak Morning (The Ordeal, #3) by Aleksey Tolstoy
20. A Comprehensive Handbook for Traditional Chinese Medicine Facial Rejuvenation by Ping Zhang
21. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
22. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
23. Divergent by Veronica Roth
24. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
25. Finding Emma by Steena Holmes
26. Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
27. Bossypants by Tina Fey
28. Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
29. Rockabye: From Wild to Child by Rebecca Woolf - I love Rebecca's blog and I truly loved her book! It was so funny and heart warming.
30. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James - WTF was that? I had to take a shower after finishing this awful piece of ****. If I have to save myself from a fire, the first book I'd burn would be this one. I picked it up because all my friends kept saying that I remind them of Ana. I honestly regret reading it.

Curently reading:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - I have to reread it because I want to go and see the movie but I forgot everything about it.

 

[Candice89102]

1. Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
2. Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
3. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
4. Taking the Long Way by Lily R. Mason
5. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
6. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking: A Novel by Aoibheann Sweeney
7. Osmosis by Susan X Meagher
8. Looking For Alaska by John Green
9. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
10. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
11. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
12. Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
13. Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer

Currently - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

 

[Hazel]

Unfortunately, I'm much slower with completing my list than I thought I would be

1. A Question of Honor - Lynne Olson, Stanley W. Cloud
2. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
3. Women - Charles Bukowski
4. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
5. White Noise - Don DeLillo
6. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
7. Of the Farm - John Updike
8. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
9. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
10. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
11. Sophie's Choice - William Styron
12. Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth

Currently reading:
13. Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya

 

[barbaraaa]

1. Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
3. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
4. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
5. The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
6. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
7. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
9. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
10. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
11. Possession by AS Byatt
12. A Cool Million by Nathanael West
13. The Suicide Club by RL Stevenson
14. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
15. The Dream Life of Balso Snell by Nathanael West
16. Candide by Voltaire
17. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
18. Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
19. Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov

Reading has been going slowly... too much stress these days.

 

[lizbabe09]

1.) Dead Is the New Black by Christine DeMaio-Rice
2.) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
3.) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
4.) The Case of the Missing Blahnik by Christine DeMaio-Rice
5.) They Never Die Quietly by D. M. Annechino
6.) Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left by Martin Duberman
7.) Drinking and Tweeting by Brandi Glanville
8.) Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
9.) That's What She Said by T.J. Jefferson
10.) True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
11.) God Believes in Love by Gene Robinson
12.) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
13.) Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez


currently reading: The Quiet American by Graham Greene

 

[Hazel]

1. A Question of Honor - Lynne Olson, Stanley W. Cloud
2. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
3. Women - Charles Bukowski
4. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
5. White Noise - Don DeLillo
6. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
7. Of the Farm - John Updike
8. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
9. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
10. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
11. Sophie's Choice - William Styron
12. Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth
13. Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya
14. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

Currently reading:
15. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Yes, shockingly, I somehow survived my adolescence having not read The Catcher in the Rye . I'm in the mood for coming of age books, so it's the high time to make up for it .

 

[heelscatchfire]

^ Me too! I actually have considered reading it this year as well.

1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
4. The Walking Dead: Book 5 by Robert Kirkman
5. The Walking Dead: Book 6 by Robert Kirkman
6. Candide - Voltaire
7. Carrie by Stephen King
8. The Walking Dead Book 7 - Robert Kirkman
9. The Walking Dead Book 8- Robert Kirkman
10. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
11. Laughing Gas - P.G. Wodehouse
12. Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts - Emily Anthes
13. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
14. Empress of Fashion A Life of Diana Vreeland - Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

Currently reading:

15. Swamplandia! - Karen Russell