Book Challenge 2015

[Belowen]

01) The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
02) The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
03) Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
04) The Martian by Andy Weir
05) The Raft by S. A. Bodeen
06) The Merciless by Danielle Vega
07) The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
08) Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
09) The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
10) Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
11) Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
12) The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
13) The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

 

[Fantomette]

How was the girl on the train?

^I´d like to know as well, it´s in my queue.

I enjoyed it, it's a good page turner.
The comparison with Gillian Flynn's work is kinda unavoidable: dark story, damaged characters and a better prose than the regular crime novel usually offers. It would be unfair to reduce this first novel to that though as it has its own merits.
If you need the characters to be likeable to enjoy a book don't bother but otherwise give it a try. You'll know right away if you're willing to immerse in this novel or not.

 

[jexxica]

1. Not that kind of girl by Lena Dunham
2. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
3. Horns by Joe Hill
4. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
5. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (current read)

 

[Fantomette]

I wanted to update the Goodread thread but it disappeared. This website features useful tools to update what you read (or what you want to read) and it allows you to compare your tastes with other people.
Here's my profile, feel free to add me!

1. I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President (Josh Lieb)
2. Qatar: Les Secrets du Coffre-Fort (C. Chesnot, G. Malbrunot)
3. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. L'Equipage (Joseph Kessel)
5. No Exit and The Flies (Jean-Paul Sartre)
6. The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins)

Currently reading:
God is Not Great (Christopher Hitchens)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Before I go to sleep (S.J. Watson)

 

[jexxica]

I wanted to update the Goodread thread but it disappeared. This website features useful tools to update what you read (or what you want to read) and it allows you to compare your tastes with other people.
Here's my profile, feel free to add me!

I agree. I discovered that site not so long ago but it's fun and useful. I added you, this is my profile if anyone would like to add me, too

 

[Belowen]

01) The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
02) The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
03) Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
04) The Martian by Andy Weir
05) The Raft by S. A. Bodeen
06) The Merciless by Danielle Vega
07) The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
08) Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
09) The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
10) Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
11) Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
12) The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
13) The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
14) The Visitors by Simon Sylvester
15) This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers

 

[VersaceVixen009]

Got a new addition required for school!
1. On The Road by Jack Kerouac (current read)
2. Buddhism For Beginners by Thubten Chodron (current read)
3. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel Delany (current read)

 

[ChristyLeReveur]

1. The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan by Abubakar Siddique
2. A History of Jordan by Philip Robins
3. Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern
4. Captivated by You by Sylvia Day
5. The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics by Andrew Small
6. The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan by Rafia Zakaria
7. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

Again, I have to further lower my goal from 30-35 books to 15 books because the books aren't that interesting to me this year.

 

[Belowen]

01) The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
02) The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
03) Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
04) The Martian by Andy Weir
05) The Raft by S. A. Bodeen
06) The Merciless by Danielle Vega
07) The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
08) Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
09) The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
10) Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
11) Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
12) The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
13) The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
14) The Visitors by Simon Sylvester
15) This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
16) Stolen by Lucy Christopher

 

[*Kristina*]

1) Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
2) I am Half- Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
3) Dangerous Girl by Abigail Haas
4) Saint Peter's Snow by Leo Perutz
5) As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley
6) The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan

 

[Niusity]

1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
2. Shopaholic on Honeymoon by Sophie Kinsella
3. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
4. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
5. Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
6. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
7. Night by Elie Wiesel - it was so so so good, defenitely a must read!
8. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton - my first magical realism book and it was absolutely wonderful!
9. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven - it was nice, very sweet and sad too.
10. Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell - the movie is one of my favorites but the book wasn't that good. A bit too slow, gave it three stars on goodreads.
11. The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson - there were some really cool stories, I skiped those which I didn't enjoy.
12. Nine and a Half Weeks by Elizabeth McNeill - again, I like the movie a bit more, everyone in reviews said it was so much better than 50 shades, I liked the ending but overall it wasn't anything special.
13. The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin - I loved that is showed the sovietic reality. The beginning was really good, the ending though was meh.
14. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - the first dystopia out there and I loved the way it was thought and crafted. The writing style was a bit odd, that's why I gave it three stars.
15. The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin - was boring at parts, I liked the first book a bit a bit more, besides that I don't really understand where is it going.
16. Top Ten Clues You're Clueless by Liz Czukas - this was the breakfast club in a supermarket. I liked the fact that it was all set in one day.
17. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - it was really good, did not expect to like it but I did.

Currently reading:
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

 

[jexxica]

1. Not that kind of girl by Lena Dunham
2. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
3. Horns by Joe Hill
4. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
5. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (current read)
6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

 

[TanyaKiller]

01. Artemis by Jean Shinoda Bolen ***
02. The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley ****
03. On the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran ****
04. We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han ****
05. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ***
06. On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer ****
07. Worüber kluge Menschen lachen by Manfred Geier ****
08. Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham ***
09. On Human Nature by Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault ***
10. We by Robert A. Johnson ***
11. Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins **

12. Dreams, a Portal to the Source by Edward Whitmont

 

[Belowen]

01) The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
02) The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
03) Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
04) The Martian by Andy Weir
05) The Raft by S. A. Bodeen
06) The Merciless by Danielle Vega
07) The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
08) Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
09) The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
10) Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
11) Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
12) The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
13) The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
14) The Visitors by Simon Sylvester
15) This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
16) Stolen by Lucy Christopher
17) Seed by Lisa Heathfield

 

[Tinetush]

I'm joining in late. But don't read much so I can remember all I've read so far.
I want to read more though, so gonna aim for 30 books/plays.

1-7) Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling (re-reads), (audio books - narrated by Stephen Fry)
8) The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
9) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (play)
10) Sociologi by Heine Andersen et al. (Text book in Danish about sociology)
11) The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

 

[Benn98]

How does the challenge work? Is there some sort of defined list, or can you select any book?

 

[Belowen]

01) The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
02) The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
03) Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
04) The Martian by Andy Weir
05) The Raft by S. A. Bodeen
06) The Merciless by Danielle Vega
07) The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
08) Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
09) The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
10) Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
11) Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
12) The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
13) The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
14) The Visitors by Simon Sylvester
15) This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
16) Stolen by Lucy Christopher
17) Seed by Lisa Heathfield
18) Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver

 

[ChristyLeReveur]

1. The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan by Abubakar Siddique
2. A History of Jordan by Philip Robins
3. Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern
4. Captivated by You by Sylvia Day
5. The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics by Andrew Small
6. The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan by Rafia Zakaria
7. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
8. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

 

[Belowen]

How does the challenge work? Is there some sort of defined list, or can you select any book?

It's more of a personal challenge than anything. You select the number of books you're aiming to read for the year, and post your progress as you make your way through the year! You can select any books you wish to read, there is no set list.

 

[VersaceVixen009]

School, work and a lack of interest in the books I've been reading have made me fail at this but still gonna try!
1.Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel Delany
2.Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult (current read)