Book Challenge 2013

[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

 

[ALAUU]

1. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz [3/5]
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows [4/5]
3. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick [4.5/5]
4. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman [3.5/5]
5. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell [4.5/5]

 

[Alvedansen]

1. Angelfall - Susan Ee ***
2. Gone girl - Gillian Flynn ****
3. Life of Pi - Yann Martel ****
4. Blue Nights - Joan Didion **
5. 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

 

[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

 

[ALAUU]

1. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz [3/5]
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows [4/5]
3. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick [4.5/5]
4. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman [3.5/5]
5. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell [4.5/5]
6. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes [4.5/5]

 

[kokobombon]

From the Croosfire Series:
6-Bared to You
7-Reflected in You

Anyone read 50 Shades of Grey? I find the crossfire books far more interesting -character wise-...

 

[paz2992]

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Sabados de Super Acción by Veronica Schulman
3. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5. Cielo Rojo by David Lozano Garbala (currently reading)

 

[cloudyshambles]

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

 

[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

Now reading- Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left by Martin Duberman

 

[Alyssa-K]

Ok, I'm joining in! I've decided to try and enlarge my culture by mostly reading classic litterature pieces. Sorry, all the titles will probably be in french though..

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. L'allure de Chanel by Paul Morand

3. Les Justes by Albert Camus
4. Lettre d'une inconnue by Stefan Zweig
5. Adolphe by Benjamin Constant

 

[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 (currently reading)

 

[barbaraaa]

I am still reading the opening, on page. 25

It's a bit difficult but I understand most of it.

I found it a good summary (despite being over 900 pages) of Diplomacy in modern and contemporary ages, hope you like it

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

 

[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

 

[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. Briar Rose - Jane Yolen

 

[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


Currently reading:
9. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

 

[cloudyshambles]

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

 

[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

 

[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

 

[dumbfairy]

1)Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
2)Frankenstein-Mary Shelley
3)Under the Greenwood Tree- Thomas Hardy.
4)Sons and Lovers-D H Lawrence

 

[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