The 50 Book Challenge (2012)

[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
8. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
9. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo


Currently reading:
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac.

I'm so slow, I think the prob is that I read too heavy books, gotta read smth easier and not that big.

Oh and btw, I really love The Bel Jar, the problem is I have it on my computer and my eyes hurt if I read too much.

 

[ChrissyM]

I finally finished another book

1: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2: Bossypants by Tina Fey
3: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
4: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias
5: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

 

[kate_is_goddess]

01 > Das böse Mädchen (The Bad Girl) < Mario Vargas Llosa
02 > The Crossing < Cormac McCarthy
03 > Schachnovelle (Chess Story) < Stefan Zweig
04 > Op. non cit. < Alan Isler
05 > Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close < Jonathan Safran Foer (re-read)
06 > Der Schwarm (The Swarm) < Frank Schätzing
07 > Player One < Douglas Coupland
08 > Generation X < Douglas Coupland (re-read)

 

[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
12: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
13: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
14: The Secret History by Donna Tartt

 

[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
15. Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
16. Victor Hugo - Les Misérables (abridged English version)
17. Bill Bryson - Bill Bryson's African diary

 

[Alvedansen]

17. Bill Bryson - Bill Bryson's African diary

 

[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
15)Fallen: Passion by Lauren Kate
16)Η γυναίκα στους μακρινούς πολιτισμούς by Θεόδωρος Καρζής

 

[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. Evaluation Research by Alan Clarke
9. Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
10. The Lamp of Memory/Cambridge School of Art Inaugural Address/Of Kings' Treasures/Traffic (Penguin Great Ideas Compendium) by John Ruskin
11. Useful Work v. Useless Toil/Gothic Architecture/The Lesser Arts/How I Became a Socialist (Penguin Great Ideas Compendium) by William Morris
12. Annabel: an unconventional life by Annabel Goldsmith
13. In Tearing Haste by Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
14. Fourth Generation Evaluation by Egon G Guba and Yvonna S Lincoln
15. The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars by Annelise Freisenbruch (currently reading)
16. History of Madness by Michel Foucault (currently reading)

 

[iAAAGo]

If you guys want a list of books to read, here's a helpful one: http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

 

[heelscatchfire]

1. A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
2. The Walking Dead: Book Three - Robert Kirkman
3. Damned - Chuck Palahniuk ; Jan 5- Jan 8
4. The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho
5. The Walking Dead: Book Four - Rober Kirkman
6. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
9. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
10.The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
11. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
12. Maus - Art Spiegelman
13. Bossy Pants - Tina Fey
14. The Legend of Drizzt Do'Urden: Spine of the World - RA Salvatore
15. Love In the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[Teja]

5/30
1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2. What Is Globalization by Ulrich Beck
3. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein
4. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher
5. Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy

 

[Annu]

4. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher

Ooh.. I don't know how many times I have read that but it was one of those books in my teens.

13. Le potentiel érotique de ma femme by David Foenkinos
14. One of those Malibu Night by Elizabeth Adler
15. Hunger games by Suzanne Collins
16. Catching fire by Suzanne Collins
17. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Foenkinos has wonderful way to write, the story wasn't that interesting but writing was adorable.

One of those Malibu nights wasn't that bad.. we have used to watch movies with my sis and that way show our favorites and sometimes those are just wonderful (last her film was Colombiana ) but with books that hasn't work so well. This is part of the serie and I was actually interested in read third part but now I'm not sure if I even get there.

If someone would said that Hunger games is more war and rebellion than teenage killing each other tv-show, I would read it earlier. But marketers did their job, after looking enough Jennifer's Glamour cover I decided to read this. The idea was still awful and I didn't like the first book very much but with the second I totally lost in time which is not so good when you are reading it on the bus. I really liked that she opened up the world little bit more and show that you have to pay price about winning but still didn't tell everything, and it really raised many quoestions and make me thinks all connections other books, movies and real life situations. In the last book I mostly liked how everything wasn't black and white, there were so many shades of grey.. and in the end, difficulties doens't always make people stronger (how pop songs always seems to believe) sometimes they leave you empty and broken. Yeah.. I really felt this.. and I wanted to read it again, so I guess that is the good sign.

 

[Mistique]

1. Secret Vampire #1 in The Night World series by L.J. Smith

2. Timbuktu by Paul Auster
3. The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho
4. Rødby - Puttgarden by Helle Helle
5. Trust Me by Malorie Blackman
6. Ned til hundene by Helle Helle

I need to get into reading again. I only read "Ned til hundene" because I had to for a school assignment. ​

 

[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
10. Silver Girl-Elin Hilderbrand
11. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(short story)- F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

[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
07. The Mystery of the Bewitched Crypt by Eduardo Mendoza
08. The Labyrinth of the Olives by Eduardo Mendoza

 

[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
11. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
12. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
13. Marathon Man by William Goldman
14. The Inferno by Dante Aligheri
15. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin

Still reading Henry and Cato by Iris Murdoch and also started Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I think I'll end up finishing that one before the Murdoch. I kind of started that and then began reading way too many other books - I imagine I'll have to get more George RR Martin now too : A Game of Thrones was such an easy, escapist read.

 

[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)
11. Just Kids (Patti Smith)

I'm really slow at the moment.

 

[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
15)Fallen: Passion by Lauren Kate
16)Η γυναίκα στους μακρινούς πολιτισμούς by Θεόδωρος Καρζής
17)Vamire Academy: Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead

 

[ashperre]

Ah I wish I came across this thread earlier!
Definitely a good motivator for me, although probably starting a bit late!

1) The Descendents- Kaui Hart Kemmings
2) The Fault in our Stars- John Green

Now reading One Day- David Nicholls

 

[kate_is_goddess]

01 > Das böse Mädchen (The Bad Girl) < Mario Vargas Llosa
02 > The Crossing < Cormac McCarthy
03 > Schachnovelle (Chess Story) < Stefan Zweig
04 > Op. non cit. < Alan Isler
05 > Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close < Jonathan Safran Foer (reread)
06 > Der Schwarm (The Swarm) < Frank Schätzing
07 > Player One < Douglas Coupland
08 > Generation X < Douglas Coupland (reread)
09 > The Gum Thief < Douglas Coupland (reread)
10 > The Hunger Games < Suzanne Collins