The 50 Book Challenge (2012)

[Alvedansen]

01. Jon Krakauer - Under the banner of heaven
02. Sharon M. Draper - Tears of a tiger
03. David Benioff - City of thieves
04. Isaac Marion - Warm bodies
05. George R. R. Martin - A feast for crows (ASOIAF #4)
06. Robert Schneider - Schlafes Bruder (English title: Brother of Sleep)
07. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
08. Max Brooks - The zombie survival guide
09. Orson Scott Card - Ender's game
10. Ann Rule - The stranger beside me
11. Patrick Ness - The knife of never letting go
12. Richelle Mead - Last sacrifice

 

[nicestthing]

01. When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
02. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
03. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
04. Look at me by Jennifer Egan
05. Who Moved My Cheese? by Dr Spencer Johnson
06. Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger

 

[Alvedansen]

...someone shoot me! i started yet another book this morning

14. Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French kiss

this sounds so much like a typical chick-lit/teenager book (which is not my typical genre) but i really like it so far. the narrator reminds me of the "Jessica Darling" series (i loved the first two books)

 

[Candice89102]

I love looking at what everyone else has been reading. You guys are making my wish list grow like crazy!

 

[vivalavida]

So far have read:

1) Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
2) Starter for Ten - David Nicholls
3) Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
4) The Shining -Stephen King

And now about to begin Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

 

[miss_catherine]

Last year I started this part way through and then got lazy and forgot to update. So, sadly, I have no idea how many books I read. My memory is pretty good regarding the stuff I've read (or re-read) so far this year though, although not the order they were read in. Also, I didn't omit the second Harry Potter book, I only read number one and three this time. Anyway...

01. Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
02. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
03. Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier
04. Bossypants by Tina Fey
05. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
06. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
07. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
08. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
09. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Currently reading 10. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell AND 11. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri.

I have a feeling there were one or two more in there but, oh well. Also, didn't count graphic novels or things like McSweeney's.

Definitely feeling inspired by some other people's lists in regard to what to read next!

 

[Niusity]

1. The Magus by John Fowles
2. Atonement by Ian McEwan
3. Ciuleandra by Liviu Rebreanu
4. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
5. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
6. Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
7. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Currently reading:
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho

and I've just begun The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath because I was intregued after so many people on tfs read it,I can't say if it's good or not but I like it at this point. I thought it would be much worse.

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)The Vampire Diaries: The Return, Shadow Souls by L. J. Smith
2)La tete du chat by Βασίλης Αλεξάκης
3)The shadow of August by Sue Welford
4)The Runaways by Kristin Butcher
5)Gossip Girl: You know You Love me by Cecily von Ziegesar
6)The Vampire Diaries: The Return, Midnight by L. J. Smith
7)Gossip Girl: All I want is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar
8)Desert Flower by Waris Dirie Cathleen Miller
9)The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
10)Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
11)Mockinjay by Suzanne Collins
12)The Clique by Lisi Harrison
13)Extras by Scott Westerfeld

 

[GinAndTonic]

01. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
02. Glue (Irvine Welsh)
03. The Demon (Hubert Selby Jr)
04. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
05. A Long Way Down (Nick Hornby)
06. Popism (Andy Warhol / Pat Hackett)
07. Brit Pulp (Jean-Marie Pottier)
08. The Music Of Chance (Paul Auster)
09. Headhunters (John King)
10. Francis Bacon (Michael Peppiat)

 

[miss_catherine]

01. Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
02. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
03. Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier
04. Bossypants by Tina Fey
05. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
06. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
07. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
08. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
09. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

10. Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Still reading: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri (11) and have started Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (12).
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[YoninahAliza]

So I've read these books so far...

1. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
2. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
3. Anne of The Island by L.M. Montgomery
4. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Ermm... I'm so far behind everyone else! I've taken to carrying around a book with me and reading whenever I get a spare moment (which isn't that often sadly).

 

[funkystar]

I've read more books in the past 3 months than I've read in the past 5 years..so im proud of that but i'm still nowhere close to some people on here!

What I've read so far -

1) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson (3 stars)
2) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - 2nd read (5 stars)
3) A Stolen Life by Jaycee Lee Dugard (3 stars)
4) The Men We Became: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr. by Robert T. Littell (4.5 stars)
5) Come to the Edge by Christina Haag (4 stars)

Currently reading -

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - boring!, given up on this for now may read it later on in the year.

Fairytale Interrupted: What JFK Jr. Taught Me About Life, Love, and Loss by RoseMarie Terenzio - Great book so far can't wait to finish it.

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love by Carole Radziwill - only read a few pages so far so I can't judge it just yet.

 

[Teja]

1/30

1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Currently reading:
2. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher
3. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

 

[Alvedansen]

01. Jon Krakauer - Under the banner of heaven
02. Sharon M. Draper - Tears of a tiger
03. David Benioff - City of thieves
04. Isaac Marion - Warm bodies
05. George R. R. Martin - A feast for crows (ASOIAF #4)
06. Robert Schneider - Schlafes Bruder (English title: Brother of Sleep)
07. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
08. Max Brooks - The zombie survival guide
09. Orson Scott Card - Ender's game
10. Ann Rule - The stranger beside me
11. Patrick Ness - The knife of never letting go
12. Richelle Mead - Last sacrifice
13. Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French kiss
14. Patrick Ness - A monster calls

 

[Belowen]

01: No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
02: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
03: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
04: Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace
05: Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
06: The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton
07: The Beach by Alex Garland
08: I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
09: A Dead Man's Memoir (A Theatrical Novel) by Mikhail Bulgakov
10: I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak
11: Genesis by Bernard Beckett

 

[Alvedansen]

01. Jon Krakauer - Under the banner of heaven
02. Sharon M. Draper - Tears of a tiger
03. David Benioff - City of thieves
04. Isaac Marion - Warm bodies
05. George R. R. Martin - A feast for crows (ASOIAF #4)
06. Robert Schneider - Schlafes Bruder (English title: Brother of Sleep)
07. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
08. Max Brooks - The zombie survival guide
09. Orson Scott Card - Ender's game
10. Ann Rule - The stranger beside me
11. Patrick Ness - The knife of never letting go
12. Richelle Mead - Last sacrifice
13. Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French kiss
14. Patrick Ness - A monster calls

 

[kate_is_goddess]

01 > Das böse Mädchen (engl: The Bad Girl, orig: Travesuras de la Niña Mala) < Mario Vargas Llosa
02 > The Crossing < Cormac McCarthy
03 > Schachnovelle (engl: Chess Story / The Royal Game) < Stefan Zweig
04 > Op. non cit. < Alan Isler
05 > Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close < Jonathan Safran Foer
06 > Der Schwarm (engl: The Swarm) < Frank Schätzing

 

[rox_yr_sox]

1. On Cats by Doris Lessing
2. Mastiff by Tamora Pierce
3. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
4. Medea and other plays by Euripides
5. Eating Fire: Selected Poetry, 1965-1995 by Margaret Atwood
6. A Crimson Warning by Tasha Alexander
7. Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled his Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk
8. Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
9. The Lamp of Memory/Cambridge School of Art Inaugural Address/Of Kings' Treasures/Traffic (Penguin Great Ideas Compendium) by John Ruskin
10. Useful Work v. Useless Toil/Gothic Architecture/The Lesser Arts/How I Became a Socialist (Penguin Great Ideas Compendium) by William Morris
11. The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars by Annelise Freisenbruch (currently reading)
12. History of Madness by Michel Foucault (currently reading)

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)The Vampire Diaries: The Return, Shadow Souls by L. J. Smith
2)La tete du chat by Βασίλης Αλεξάκης
3)The shadow of August by Sue Welford
4)The Runaways by Kristin Butcher
5)Gossip Girl: You know You Love me by Cecily von Ziegesar
6)The Vampire Diaries: The Return, Midnight by L. J. Smith
7)Gossip Girl: All I want is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar
8)Desert Flower by Waris Dirie Cathleen Miller
9)The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
10)Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
11)Mockinjay by Suzanne Collins
12)The Clique by Lisi Harrison
13)Extras by Scott Westerfeld
14)Η ελπίδα πεθαίνει πάντα τελευταία by Ελπίδα Ισμαήλ

 

[Karen0193]

01.Never Let Me Go-Kazuo Ishiguro
02. The Virgin Suicides-Jeffrey Eugenides
03. The Great Gastby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
04. Bed of Roses- Nora Roberts
05. Affaire Royale- Nora Roberts
06. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy- John Le Carré
07. The Pillars of the Earth- Ken Follet
08. One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel García Márquez
09. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway