Book Challenge 2015

[lstone15]

29. Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

 

[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
19) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
20) Lost Girls by Robert Kolker
21) Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
22) Never Never by Colleen Hoover
23) Where They Found Her by Kimberley McCreight
24) The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
25) Survive The Night by Danielle Vega
26) My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh
27) Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberley McCreight
28) Say Her Name by James Dawson
29) The Girl With A Clock For A Heart by Peter Swanson
30) Pleasure Island by Anna-Lou Weatherley
31) The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
32) A Time To Run by J.M. Peace
33) A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
34) You by Caroline Kepnes
35) Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas
36) The Good Girls by Sara Shepard
37) The Killing Lessons by Saul Black
38) The Raven Room by Ana Medeiros
38) What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
39) The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver
40) The Girl In 6E by A. R. Torre
41) The Tycoon's Stowaway by Stefanie London
42) Do Not Disturb by A.R. Torre

 

[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
19) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
20) Lost Girls by Robert Kolker
21) Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
22) Never Never by Colleen Hoover
23) Where They Found Her by Kimberley McCreight
24) The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
25) Survive The Night by Danielle Vega
26) My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh
27) Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberley McCreight
28) Say Her Name by James Dawson
29) The Girl With A Clock For A Heart by Peter Swanson
30) Pleasure Island by Anna-Lou Weatherley
31) The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
32) A Time To Run by J.M. Peace
33) A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
34) You by Caroline Kepnes
35) Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas
36) The Good Girls by Sara Shepard
37) The Killing Lessons by Saul Black
38) The Raven Room by Ana Medeiros
38) What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
39) The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver
40) The Girl In 6E by A. R. Torre
41) The Tycoon's Stowaway by Stefanie London
42) Do Not Disturb by A.R. Torre
43) The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn

 

[Alstroe]

A question: Are we going to have this challenge next year? I love to read.

 

[barbaraaa]

49. 12 Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup
50. Men Without Women, by Ernest Hemingway
51. Freakonomics, by Steven D Levitt and Stephen Dubner
52. Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard, by Pierre de Marivaux

 

[lstone15]

30. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell

 

[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
6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
7. Paper Towns by John Green
8. Missing (una investigación) by Alberto Fuguet
9. The girl on the train by Paula Hawkins
10. Écrire by Marguerite Duras
11. Tiny Beautiful things by Cheryl Strayed
12. Charlotte by David Foenkinos
13. The girl in the Spider's web by David Lagercrantz
14. The films in my life by Truffaut
15. Anna and the French kiss by Stephanie Perkins
16. Agua viva by Clarice Lispector
17. Miss Peregrine's Home for peculiar children by Ramson Riggs
18. Me and Earl and the dying girl by Jesse Andrews
19. Les souvenirs by David Foenkinos
20. Let it snow by three different autors (current read)
21. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling (current read)

I've been kinda slow this year when it is about books

 

[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
19) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
20) Lost Girls by Robert Kolker
21) Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
22) Never Never by Colleen Hoover
23) Where They Found Her by Kimberley McCreight
24) The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
25) Survive The Night by Danielle Vega
26) My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh
27) Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberley McCreight
28) Say Her Name by James Dawson
29) The Girl With A Clock For A Heart by Peter Swanson
30) Pleasure Island by Anna-Lou Weatherley
31) The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
32) A Time To Run by J.M. Peace
33) A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
34) You by Caroline Kepnes
35) Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas
36) The Good Girls by Sara Shepard
37) The Killing Lessons by Saul Black
38) The Raven Room by Ana Medeiros
38) What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
39) The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver
40) The Girl In 6E by A. R. Torre
41) The Tycoon's Stowaway by Stefanie London
42) Do Not Disturb by A.R. Torre
43) The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn
44) Sanctuary Bay by Laura J. Burns

 

[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
19) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
20) Lost Girls by Robert Kolker
21) Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
22) Never Never by Colleen Hoover
23) Where They Found Her by Kimberley McCreight
24) The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
25) Survive The Night by Danielle Vega
26) My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh
27) Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberley McCreight
28) Say Her Name by James Dawson
29) The Girl With A Clock For A Heart by Peter Swanson
30) Pleasure Island by Anna-Lou Weatherley
31) The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
32) A Time To Run by J.M. Peace
33) A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
34) You by Caroline Kepnes
35) Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas
36) The Good Girls by Sara Shepard
37) The Killing Lessons by Saul Black
38) The Raven Room by Ana Medeiros
38) What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
39) The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver
40) The Girl In 6E by A. R. Torre
41) The Tycoon's Stowaway by Stefanie London
42) Do Not Disturb by A.R. Torre
43) The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn
44) Sanctuary Bay by Laura J. Burns
45) Petals On The Wind by Virginia Andrews
46) The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
47) Nantucket Sisters by Nancy Thayer

 

[TanyaKiller]

Challenge completed! This year, I wasn't very worried about the challenge. I feel more satisfied with what I read. But now I have a pile of about 50 books I want to read for next year, so...Let's hope I can balance quantity and quality this time.

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. Inter Views by James Hillman ****
13. Man for Himself by Erich Fromm ****
14. O Medico Doente by Drauzio Varella ***
15. My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick ***
16. Les Sagesses Antiques by Michel Onfray ****
17. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande ****
18. Mayada, Daughter of Iraq by Jean Sasson ***
19. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews ****
20. Creatures of a Day by Irvin Yalom ***
21. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison ***
22. Suicidio by Paula Fontenelle ****
23. The Japanese Mind by Roger J. Davies ****
24. Rational Man by Henry B. Veatch ****
25. Free Will by Sam Harris *****
26. Para Entender a Filosofia Clinica by Monica Aiub ****
27. Living Your Unlived Life by Robert A. Johnson ****
28. A Era do Ressentimento by Luiz Felipe Ponde **
29. Phaedo by Plato ***
30. Maxims by François La Rochefoucauld *****
31. Lying by Sam Harris ***
32. Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus ****
33. La Aventura de Pensar by Fernando Savater ***
34. De La Vanité by Michel de Montaigne ****
35. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo ***
36. Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon ****
37. Heretic by Ayaan Hirsi Ali ****
38. Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan ***
39. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian ****
40. Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens **

41. Seneca by Paul Veyne

 

[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
9. The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Vali Nasr
10. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
11. The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
12. Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot

Well I am 3 books behind my 15-books goal but then 2015 has been a really hectic year for me... but I was beyond my goal last year so I guess that made up lol.

 

[jexxica]

I guess this is how I end my year

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
6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
7. Paper Towns by John Green
8. Missing (una investigación) by Alberto Fuguet
9. The girl on the train by Paula Hawkins
10. Écrire by Marguerite Duras
11. Tiny Beautiful things by Cheryl Strayed
12. Charlotte by David Foenkinos
13. The girl in the Spider's web by David Lagercrantz
14. The films in my life by Truffaut
15. Anna and the French kiss by Stephanie Perkins
16. Agua viva by Clarice Lispector
17. Miss Peregrine's Home for peculiar children by Ramson Riggs
18. Me and Earl and the dying girl by Jesse Andrews
19. Les souvenirs by David Foenkinos
20. Let it snow by three different autors
21. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling
22. Lola and the boy next door by Stephanie Perkins (current read)
23. Splatter by Ed Wood (current read)

 

[barbaraaa]

53. A Study in Scarlet, by Conan Doyle
54. The Sign of Four, by Conan Doyle
55. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Conan Doyle
56. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Conan Doyle
57. The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Conan Doyle

And that sums up a great year for reading

 

[Not Plain Jane]

1. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
2. Dark Cinema - Jon Tuska
3. The Metamorphosis* - Franz Kafka
4. A Room with a View - E.M. Forster

5. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammet
6. Girl in a Band - Kim Gordon
7. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
8. Wuthering Heights* - Emily Bronte
9. Here we are Now - Charles Cross
10. The Ocean at the End of the Lane* - Neil Gaiman
11. Gone Girl* - Gillian Flynn

* re-reads

gah i totally dropped the ball here and stopped keeping track. i read nancy spungen's bio, a couple books on rom-coms, mindy kaling's "hanging out" one, the haunting of hill house and a few others i am sure ... so somewhere between 15-20 i guess? not as many as i'd like, but c'est la vie!

 

[lstone15]

31. L'étoile du sud / Les Indes noires - Jules Vernes
32. Killer's Choice (87th Precinct #5) - Ed McBain
33. Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise - Dai Sijie
34. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) - Agatha Christie
35. Short stories - Kozeta Olldashi

 

[Fantomette]

I didn't reach my goal of 35 books in 2015.

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) (I guess it counts as 2 books )
6. The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins)
7. Before I Go to Sleep (S.J. Watson)
8. Magnus (Sylvie Germain)
9. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
10. The Alienist (Caleb Carr)
11. The Basic Eight (Daniel Handler)
12. Candide: or, Optimism (Voltaire)
13. Reflections on the Guillotine (Albert Camus)
14. Catharsis (Luz)
15. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
16. Franquin's Last Laugh (Franquin)
17. The Little Prince (Saint-Exupéry)
18. Andromaque (Racine)
19. Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
20. Sauce for the Goose (Georges Feydeau)
21. The history of the voyages of Scarmentado (Voltaire)