Book Challenge 2013

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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
14.) The Quiet American by Graham Greene
15.) Educating Esme by Esmé Raji Codell

Now reading: The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
 
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
30. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
31. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - a re-read, LOVE IT.
32. Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson - I liked this book. Overall I'm not a big fan of road trips but this one was very well written. Had little notes and photos in it which made me smile every time I saw them. The only thing that I find a bit weird is the development of the relationship between the main characters.

Haven't read anything in June because of my finals but I'll try to read a bit more next months.
 
Niusity said:
28. Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
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how was this? considering reading a few books by Dreisner. i want to read american tragedy, but i've already seen the match point movie by woody allen which the movie remakes. wonder if it might be too repetitive. was jennie gerhardt a page turner?
 
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
12: The Magicians by Lev Grossman
 
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
19. Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity - Samuel P. Huntington
20. Cathedral - Raymond Carver
21. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
22. Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See - Juliann Garey

Currently reading:
23. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
24. What It Means to Be an American - Michael Walzer
 
Gosh, I am going embarrassingly slow, considering it's summer!

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
9. Grace: A Memoir - Grace Coddington
10. The New Extremism in Cinema: from France to Europe - Tanya Horeck & Tina Kendall
 
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
14.) The Quiet American by Graham Greene
15.) Educating Esme by Esmé Raji Codell
16.) One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
17.) Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi

Now Reading:Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
 
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
31. All Good Things by Sarah Turnbull
32. Nepal by Lonely Planet Guides
33. The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer (currently reading)
34. Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory by George Mallory (currently reading)
 
lucy92 said:
how was this? considering reading a few books by Dreisner. i want to read american tragedy, but i've already seen the match point movie by woody allen which the movie remakes. wonder if it might be too repetitive. was jennie gerhardt a page turner?
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Sorry fo such a late answer. It totally was. It was an amazing book and I highly recommend it to everyone. I like Dreiser's books a lot and in my opinion the best would be Jennie Gerhardt and Sister Carrie, though their plot is a bit similar, I liked them the most.

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
30. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
31. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
33. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - I don't understand what the all hype is about. In my opinion it was a book which concerned a very serious issue but the author tried his best to not mention its seriousness. I gave it 4 stars for the plot and the story as a whole but I was a bit dissapointed with it.
 
wow, some of you have already read so many books, I'm amazed :D
I fell off the reading wagon for a while but now I'm reading more again.

1. Escape from Camp 14 - Blaine Harden
2. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
3. Siddharta - Hermann Hesse
4. Operation Shylock: A Confession - Philip Roth
5. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
6. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
7. Cormac McCarthy - The Road
8. Stephen Chbosky - Perks of Being a Wallflower
9. Jennifer Egan - Emerald City and Other Stories
10. Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest

now reading: Oscar Wilde - An Ideal Husband
 
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
19. Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity - Samuel P. Huntington
20. Cathedral - Raymond Carver
21. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
22. Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See - Juliann Garey
23. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
24. What It Means to Be an American - Michael Walzer
25. The Death of Bees - Lisa O'Donnell
26. Divergent (Divergent, #1) - Veronica Roth

Currently reading:
27. American Pastoral - Philip Roth (rereading it for the sake of my MA thesis...)
28. Insurgent (Divergent, #2) - Veronica Roth

Divergent was what I needed for summer. Seriously, the plot (or maybe rather the characters) is nothing new and the writing is lousy, but it was good to switch off your brain a little bit and just enjoy reading.
 
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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
30. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
31. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
33. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
34. Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot - I liked the first three books better, but this one was ok too.
35. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella - I decided to re-reread the whole series because I have only read 3 of them in a very weird order (first Shopaholic and sister then Shopaholic ties the knot, then confessions of a shopaholic )and I borrowed the rest but never got to read them. I enjoyed this one a lot, even more than I did 5 years ago and I'm eager to read the rest.
 
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
22. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
 
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
12: The Magicians by Lev Grossman
13: Columbine by Dave Cullen
 
Belowen said:
11: And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini13: Columbine by Dave Cullen
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i recently read the Columbine book. it was interesting, wish it had gone into the minds of the rampage killers more, and gone into more detail about their "quiet period" in the school that day.

and yeah that was totally disgusting how that mom stole another victim's story and turned it into a book "she said yes" in order to promote her "faith" :rolleyes:

was the new khaled hosseini book a tearjerker?
 
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
17. Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
18. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

Currently Reading:
19. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
20. Rumi Poet and Mystic - Reynold A. Nicholson
 
lucy92 said:
was the new khaled hosseini book a tearjerker?
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Definitely not as much of a tear jerker as his previous two books, but yet another beautiful, intricate story, filled with rich character. I loved it.
 
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
15)The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
 
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
14.) The Quiet American by Graham Greene
15.) Educating Esme by Esmé Raji Codell
16.) One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
17.) Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
18.) The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Now reading: Nine Stories by JD Salinger
 
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
22. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
23. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
 
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