Book Challenge 2013

[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 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 (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
13. Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
14. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Currently - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

 

[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
11: And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

 

[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
13)A Storm of Swords 1: Blood and Gold by George R.R. Martin

 

[Not Plain Jane]

1. Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu
2. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
4. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
5. Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity and Deathliness - Caroline Evans
6. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
7. Dracula - Bram Stoker
8. Skin - Mo Hayder

 

[ChrissyM]

^ 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

How is Swamplandia? It's on my "to read" list

 

[ChrissyM]

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: Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
8: All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross

Finally finished something! I think I may have to adjust my reading expectations for the year. So behind.

 

[heelscatchfire]

Swamplandia! is good so far, I'm not that far into it. It's certainly a quirky novel. I'm about 100 pages in and I find I'm more excited by some characters then others.

 

[heelscatchfire]

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
11: And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Oh please let me know how And The Mountains Echoed is! I've been wanting to read it. Hosseini is one of my favorite authors.

 

[Belowen]

Oh please let me know how And The Mountains Echoed is! I've been wanting to read it. Hosseini is one of my favorite authors.

Mine too! I preordered the book as soon as I saw it was being released this year

 

[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
20. To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck

 

[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
15. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
16. The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth

Currently reading:
17. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

 

[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. Die Therapie - Sebastian Fitzek **
17. Life support - Tess Gerritsen ****
18. Escape from Camp 14 - Blaine Harden ****
19. 1984 - George Orwell

 

[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
13)A Storm of Swords 1: Blood and Gold by George R.R. Martin
14)A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

 

[rox_yr_sox]

1. Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
2. Selected Poems by Walt Whitman
3. The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
4. The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
5. Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
6. In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
7. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce
8. Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce
9. Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce
10. Wolf Speaker by Tamora Pierce
11. Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce
12. The Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce
13. Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf
14. First Test by Tamora Pierce
15. Page by Tamora Pierce
16. Squire by Tamora Pierce
17. Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce
18. Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches by John M. Owen and Patricia J. Rogers
19. The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine - Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary by Jenny Uglow
20. Designing Surveys: A guide to decisions and procedures by Ronald Czaja & Johnny Blair
21. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
22. The History of Sexuality: Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
23. Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies
24. Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women by Carol Dyhouse
25. Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande
26. Basics of Qualitative Research by Strauss & Corbin
27. The War of the Roses by Michael Hicks
28. Cleopatra the Great by Joann Fletcher
29. Volunteer: A Traveller's Guide to Making a Difference Around the World by Lonely Planet Guides
30. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (currently reading)

 

[Juliette]

1. Jackson Pearce: Sisters Red
2. Bree Despain: The Dark Divine
3. Bree Despain: The Lost Saint
4. Bree Despain: The Savage Grace
5. Miha Kovač: Od katedrale do palačinke (for school)
6. Ruth Frances Long: The Treachery of Beautiful Things
7. Stephenie Meyer: The Host
8. Cecelia Ahern: One Hundred Names
9. Becca Fitzpatrick: Hush Hush
10. Becca Fitzpatrick: Crescendo
11. Becca Fitzpatrick: Silence
12. Becca Fitzpatrick: Finale
13. Jackson Pearce: Sweetly
14. Kendare Blake: Anna Dressed in Blood
15. Blake Morrison: The Justification of Johann Guttenberg (for school)
16: Kendare Blake: Girl of Nightmares
17. Jackson Pearce: Fathomless
18. Sophie Kinsella: Wedding Night
19. George Orwell: Animal Farm
20. Stephen Chobsky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

With the ones I really liked in bold.

 

[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 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 (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
13. Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
14. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
15. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Currently - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

 

[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
20. To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
21. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

 

[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. Die Therapie - Sebastian Fitzek **
17. Life support - Tess Gerritsen ****
18. Escape from Camp 14 - Blaine Harden ****
19. 1984 - George Orwell *****
20. Das Spiel (Das Tal #1) - Krystyna Kuhn **
21. Inferno - Dan Brown

 

[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
15. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
16. The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth
17. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
18. Rabbit Redux - John Updike

Currently reading:
19. Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity - Samuel P. Huntington
20. Cathedral - Raymond Carver

 

[heelscatchfire]

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
15. Swamplandia! - Karen Russell
16. And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled HOsseini

Currently Reading:

17. Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk