Book Challenge 2013

[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 Evaluationby John M. Owen and Patricia J. Rogers
19. The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
20. Designing Surveysby Ronald Czaja & Johnny Blair
21. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
22. The History of Sexuality: Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
23. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse
24. Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies
25. How to Be a Woman by Catherine Moran
26. Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande (currently reading)
27. Basics of Qualitative Research by Anslem Strauss and Juliet Corbin (currently reading)

 

[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

 

[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

 

[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

 

[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
7. Cormac McCarthy - The Road
8. Stephen Chbosky - Perks of Being a Wallflower

 

[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

 

[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 - I really liked it so I'll leave a short review on review thread.

 

[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

Currently - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

 

[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

 

[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

 

[Niusity]

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

Currently - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

What did you think of "Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult"? I've bought it about a year ago but I couldn't finish - the pact by same authour so I decided put this one on 'to not read soon' shelf.

 

[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 (second time reading it, this time in the original French)

 

[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: All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross

decided to read a couple books at once... the terry gross book is a series of interviews, so i figure i can read it sort of like a collection of short stories and read an interview here and there as i please.

 

[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 - loved this one too.
25. Finding Emma by Steena Holmes - boring at parts but ok overall.

Curently reading:
Bossypants by Tina Fey

 

[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

Currently Reading:

13. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
14. Empress of Fashion A Life of Diana Vreeland - Amanda Mackenzie Stuart.

 

[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

Currently - Looking For Alaska by John Green

 

[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

Currently - 1984 by George Orwell

 

[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

Currently reading: The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullmam

 

[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

currently reading: The Paradox of Progress by Gregg Easterbrook

 

[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 (currently reading)