The 50 Book Challenge (2012)

[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 > Girlfriend in a Coma < Douglas Coupland
11 > The Calling of the Grave < Simon Beckett
12 > The Hunger Games < Suzanne Collins
13 > Catching Fire < Suzanne Collins
14 > Mockingjay < Suzanne Collins
15 > Eleanor Rigby < Douglas Coupland
16 > Tree of Codes < Jonathan Safran Foer
17 > The King of Torts < John Grisham
18 > The Voice of the Corpse < Max Murray
19 > The Year of The Flood < Margaret Atwood
20 > Freiheit (engl: Freedom) < Jonathan Franzen
21 > Murder of an Expert Witness < P. D. James
22 > Look at Me < Jennifer Egan
23 > Bossypants < Tina Fey
24 > Unbearable Lightness < Portia de Rossi
25 > American on Purpose < Craig Ferguson
26 > Neverwhere < Neil Gaiman
27 > Middlesex < Jeffrey Eugenides
28 > The Litigators < John Grisham
29 > No One Belongs Here More Than You < Miranda July (reread)

 

[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
12. Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
13. The Fallen- Thomas E. Sniegoski
14. Leviathan-Thomas E. Sniegoski
15. Blue Bloods-Melissa De La Cruz
16. Rising Tides-Nora Roberts
17. A Study in Scarlet- Arthur Conan Doyle
18. A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales-Jonathan Nield
19. The Red Queen- Philippa Gregory
20. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. The Importance of being Earnest- Oscar Wilde
22. The Princess Bride- William Goldman
23. Tomorrow, When the War Began- John Marsden
24. 1984- George Orwell
25. El Siglo de las Luces-Alejo Carpentier
26. The Time Machine- H.G. Wells
27. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo-Stieg Larsson
28. The Dead of Night(Tomorrow #2)- John Marsden
29. A Killing Frost(Tomorrow #3)-John Marsden
30. Soulless-Gail Carriger
31. The Ice Princess-Camilla Läckberg
32. Norwegian Wood-Haruki Murakami
33. Witch & Wizard: The Gift-James Patterson
34. Darkness,Be My Friend(Tomorrow #4)-John Marsden
35. Rick Dad,Poor Dad-Robert Kiyosaki
36. The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
37. Daughter of Smoke and Bone-Laini Taylor
38. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz-L. Frank Baum
39. Of Love and Other Demons-Gabriel García Márquez
40. Little Women-Louisa May Alcott
41. Burning for Revenge(Tomorrow #5)-John Marsden
42. The Night is for Hunting(Tomorrow #6)- John Marsden
43. The Help-Kathryn Stockett
44. Chasing Fire-Nora Roberts
45. Anna and the French Kiss-Stephanie Perkins
46. Fight Club-Chuck Palahniuk
47. Masquerade(Blue Bloods #2)-Melissa de la Cruz
48. Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte
49. Diario de Irak-Mario Vargas Llosa
50. Like Yesterday-Freesia Lockheart
51. Green Hills of Africa-Ernest Heminway

 

[Karen0193]

hey, guys
Are we doing this challenge next year? Because I'm in.

 

[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
16. History of Madness by Michel Foucault
17. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
18. The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
19. Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia by Matthew Dennison
20. Animal Farm by George Orwell
21. Everyday Evaluation on the Run by Yolanda Wadsworth
22. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
23. The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
24. The Book of Love by Rumi
25. 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer
26. The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
27. Persuasion by Jane Austen
28. The Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England by Margaret C. Sullivan
29. Alexander the Great: Murder in Babylon by Graham Phillips
30. Utilization-Focused Evaluation by Michael Quinn-Patton
31. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
32. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Cambridge Letters: Correspondence with Russell, Keynes, Moore, Ramsey and Sraffa edited by Brian McGuinness and G. H. von Wright
33. The Portable Atheist edited by Christopher Hitchens
34. Work! Consume! Die! by Frankie Boyle
35. The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
36. The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
37. Footprints in Paris: A few streets, a few lives by Gillian Tindall
38. Social Assessment: Theory, Practice and Techniques by Taylor, Bryan and Goodrich
39. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Northern Thailand by Lonely Planet
40. Ancient Angkor by Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques
41. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
42. To Have and To Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
43. The Beach by Alex Garland
44. Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
45. The Adventuress by Nicholas Coleridge
46. The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite
47. Wet: On Painting, Feminism and Art Culture by Mira Schor
48. The Great Mysteries of Archaeology: The Pyramids by M.R. Luberto
49. My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl

 

[MissKateCherie]

hey, guys
Are we doing this challenge next year? Because I'm in.

I'm definitely in too!

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
18)The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries, Origins based on the novels by L.J. Smith
19)The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries, Bloodlust based on the novels by L.J. Smith
20)Μαμά 2 και ο μπαμπάς στον κόσμο του! by Κατερίνα Μανανεδάκη
21)Θράσος by Τατιάνα Αβέρωφ
22)Skins: The Novel by Ali Cronin
23)Η ψίχα εκείνου του καλοκαιριού by Ισίδωρος Ζούργος
24)Γιατί σκότωσα την καλύτερή μου φίλη by Αμάντα Μιχαλοπούλου
25)Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
26)Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
27)Blue Bloods: Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz
28)If I stay by Gayle Forman
29)The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
30)The Girl who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
31)The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
32)Hjartans Frojd by Per Nilsson
33)Forever... by Judy Blume
34)Paradise End by Elizabeth Laird
35) Η χαμένη σφραγίδα του αυτοκράτορα Ιουστινιανού by Θοδωρής Παπαθεοδώρου
36)Blue Bloods: Revelations by Melissa de la Cruz
37)The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries, The Craving based on the novels by L.J. Smith
38)The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries, The Ripper based on the novels by L.J. Smith
39)Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
40)The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell
41)Beastly by Alex Flinn
42)Vamire Academy: Last Sicrifice by Richelle Mead
43)Summer and the City by Candace Bushnell
44)The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
45)Mortal Instruments: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
46)The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
47)House of Night:: Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
48)The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
49)Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
50)In My Sister's Shoes by Sinead Moriarty
51)Fall from innocence (The body) by Stephen King
52)The Dedication, The Jaunt, The Raft, Nona by Stephen King
53)Eat, Drink and Be Married by Eve Makis
54)Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
55)Blue Bloods: The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa de la Cruz
56)Nur Wer Traumt, ist frei by E. W. Heine
57)The Accidental by Ali Smith
58)A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks
59)Gossip Girl: All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar
60)Chut! by Jean-Marie Gourio

 

[Karen0193]

Merry Christmas my fellow readers! I hope you all got some really good books to read next year! It's been a pleasure reading with you

 

[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
16. History of Madness by Michel Foucault
17. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
18. The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
19. Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia by Matthew Dennison
20. Animal Farm by George Orwell
21. Everyday Evaluation on the Run by Yolanda Wadsworth
22. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
23. The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
24. The Book of Love by Rumi
25. 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer
26. The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
27. Persuasion by Jane Austen
28. The Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England by Margaret C. Sullivan
29. Alexander the Great: Murder in Babylon by Graham Phillips
30. Utilization-Focused Evaluation by Michael Quinn-Patton
31. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
32. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Cambridge Letters: Correspondence with Russell, Keynes, Moore, Ramsey and Sraffa edited by Brian McGuinness and G. H. von Wright
33. The Portable Atheist edited by Christopher Hitchens
34. Work! Consume! Die! by Frankie Boyle
35. The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
36. The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
37. Footprints in Paris: A few streets, a few lives by Gillian Tindall
38. Social Assessment: Theory, Practice and Techniques by Taylor, Bryan and Goodrich
39. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Northern Thailand by Lonely Planet
40. Ancient Angkor by Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques
41. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
42. To Have and To Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
43. The Beach by Alex Garland
44. Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
45. The Adventuress by Nicholas Coleridge
46. The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite
47. Wet: On Painting, Feminism and Art Culture by Mira Schor
48. The Great Mysteries of Archaeology: The Pyramids by M.R. Luberto
49. My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl
50. Sandro Botticelli by Barbara Deimling

 

[Niusity]

I made it!! YAY!!! I'm so happy!

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
10. Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
11. Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
12. Short stories by Gabriel García Márquez
13. Mantissa by John Fowles
14. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
15. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
16. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
17. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
18. A Stolen Life by Jaycee Lee Dugard
19. Two kisses for Maddy by Matt Logelin
20. Seriously, I’m Kidding by Ellen DeGeneris
21. If Only It Were True by Marc Levy
22. The Selection by Kiera Cass
23. I've Got Your Number - Sophie Kinsella
24. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
25. Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have) by Sarah Mlynowski
26. They shoot horses, don't they? by Horace McCoy
27. Saving June by Hannah Harrington
28. The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
29. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
30. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
31. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
32. The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
33. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
34. Germinal - Emile Zola
35. Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
36. Switched at Birth: The True Story of a Mother's Journey by Kathryn Kennish
37. Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
38. The Plague by Albert Camus
39. Delirium - by Lauren Oliver
40. Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
41. The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
42. Sărmanul Dionis by Mihai Eminescu
43. Cezara by Mihai Eminescu
44. Geniu Pustiu by Mihai Eminescu
45. Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder by Bertolt Brecht
46. Brief einer Unbekannten by Stefan Zweig
47. The Bald Soprano and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco - had to read it for school. I guess theatre of the absurd just isn't my thing.
48. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark - it was a nice book, but I think I expected something more.
49. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - this was one great read, I wish it was longer.
50. Stranger in Town by Cheryl Bradshaw - didn't read the other books from the series (this one's the 4th book), but it was a light detective, I really enjoyed.

 

[mint condish]

I only read 8 books this year!
Last year I read 15 so that was way better.

1. Apathy and Other Small Victories - Paul Neilan -- one of my favourites of all time and a re-read.
2. Eating the Dinosaur - Chuck Klosterman
3. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua -- I remember it was interesting and very readable, but I didn't die for it or anything.
4. JPod - Douglas Coupland -- one of my favourites of all time and a re-read.
5. This is a Book - Demetri Martin -- Ugh. This was a disappointment. Kind of funny, but nothing special. 2 stars out of 5.
6. Watermelon - Marian Keyes
7. Where We Belong - Emily Giffin -- I loved this book. Made me emotional. Definitely recommend it. 4 stars out of 5.
8. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn -- Best book I read this year. Everyone has to read this, male or female. 5 stars out of 5.
7. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes -- Always read references to this book, never read it! Finally did and it's great.
8. (A self-help book I'll keep private )

 

[stamalot]

I did it! I'm pretty proud of myself! I've enjoyed keeping up with everyone's lists this year.

1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- Robert M. Pirsig
2. Cutting for Stone- Abraham Verghese
3. When the Emperor Was Divine- Julie Otsuka
4. The Night Circus- Erin Morgenstern
5. The Tiger's Wife- Tea Obreht
6. Life of Pi- Yan Martel
7. Wild- Cheryl Strayed
8. Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides
9. What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank- Nathan Englander
10. The Virgin Suicides- Jeffrey Eugenides
11. Unorthodox- Deborah Feldman
12. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
13. Letters to a Christian Nation- Sam Harris
14. The Lifeboat- Charlotte Rogan
15. Girl, Interrupted- Susanna Kaysen
16. Infidel- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
17. The Sense of an Ending- Julian Barnes
18. On the Island- Tracey Garvis-Graves
19. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
20. Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn
21. Waiting for Godot- Samuel Beckett
22. This Is How- Augusten Burroughs
23. Running With Scissors- Augusten Burroughs
24. Bel Canto- Ann Patchett
25. The Fault in Our Stars- John Green
26. The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood
27. The Age of Miracles- Karen Thompson Walker
28. Interpreter of Maladies- Jhumpa Lahiri
29. Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
31. The Light Between Oceans- M.L. Stedman
32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Mark Haddon
33. Dry- Augusten Burroughs
34. The Year of Magical Thinking- Joan Didion
35. Cloud Atlas- David Mitchell
36. The Time Machine- H.G. Wells
37. The Cranes Dance- Meg Howrey
38. Every Day- David Levithan
39. Out Of Reach- Carrie Arcos
40. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
41. The Middlesteins- Jami Attenberg
42. The Glass Castle- Jeanette Walls
43. This is How You Lose Her- Junot Diaz
44. The Silver Linings Playbook- Matthew Quick
45. Paris in Love- Eloise James
46. Sweet Tooth- Ian McEwan
47. Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
48. Home- Toni Morrison
49. After Dachau- Daniel Quinn
50. The Round House- Louise Erdrich

 

[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
15: The Long Walk by Stephen King
16: True Grit by Charles Portis
17: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
18: The Enemy by Charlie Higson
19: SVU: College Girls by Laurie John
20: Ice Man (confessions of a mafia contract killer) by Philip Carlo
21: Nightmare Hall: The Silent Scream by Diane Hoh
22: Beach Party by R.L. Stine
23: Insurgent by Veronica Roth
24: Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
25: Zone One by Colson Whitehead
26: Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell
27: Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
28: SVU: Love, Lies and Jessica Wakefield by Laurie John
29: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
30: Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
31: Jaws by Peter Benchley
32: How To Survive The End Of The World As We Know It by James Wesley Rawles
33: The Dead & The Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
34: A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
35: SVH: Double Love by Francine Pascal
36: The White Mountains by John Christopher
37: The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
38: Infected by Scott Sigler
39: What I Did by Christopher Wakling

 

[heelscatchfire]

Final list, definitely could not complete 50. Next year I am shooting for the same amount or 35.

1. A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
2. The Walking Dead: Book Three - Robert Kirkman
3. Damned - Chuck Palahniuk
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. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
16. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
17.Mocking Jay - Suzanne Collins
18. A Storm of Swords - George R R Martin
19. Aleph - Paulo Coelho
20. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
21. The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
22. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
24. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
25. Ham For Rye - Charles Bukowski
26. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
27. Eleven Minutes - Paolo Coelho
28. The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
29. A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin

 

[Hazel]

I'm kind of proud of my list, because I finally get back to reading books this year, but I hope there'll be more of them next year . My final list:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
2. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
4. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
5. The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
6. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
7. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
8. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
9. Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
11. How to Do Things with Words - John Langshaw Austin
12. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
13. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
14. I am the Messenger - Markus Zusak
15. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
16. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
17. The Stranger - Albert Camus
18. Something Happened - Joseph Heller
19. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
20. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
21. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
22. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
23. If I Lie - Corrine Jackson
24. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
25. Lie Down in Darkness - William Styron
26. Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth
27. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
28. Beloved - Toni Morrison
29. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

Congrats to everybody taking part in the challenge! It's very inspiring to keep track of your progress .

 

[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)
12. A Good Day to Die (Jim Harrison)
13. One Day (David Nicholls)
14. My Life Inside Rock And Out (Bill Graham/Robert Greenfield)
15. Moon Palace (Paul Auster)
16. The Cider House Rules (John Iriving)
17. For Those I Loved (Martin Gray)
18. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
19. Shakespeare Never Did This (Charles Bukowski)
20. The Easter Parade (Richard Yates)
21. Amsterdam (Ian McEwan)
22. The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (Irvine Welsh)
23. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)

This is my final list. I'm quite glad as I haven't had much spare time between school and work . And it is nine more than the year before. 2013 should be better as I will have a lot of free time!

 

[Teja]

My goal was to read 30 books (last year's was 20) and I got to 24. I'm satisfied with it because I've been super busy for the past few months.
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: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others by Melanie Joy
6. Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction by David DeGrazia
7. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
8. Kris Jenner … And All Things Kardashian by Kris Jenner
9. Women by Charles Bukowski
10. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
11. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
12. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
13. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
14. Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars #1) by Sara Shepard
15. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
16. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
17. Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
18. Flawless (Pretty Little Liars, #2) by Sara Shepard
19. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
20. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
21. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
22. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
23. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
24. Perfect (Pretty Little Liars, #2) by Sara Shepard

I'm reading two books currently but I don't think I'll finish any of them by Tuesday.

 

[Candice89102]

With my crazy school and work schedules, my goal this year was to read 30 books. I also read a lot of fanfiction (50,000+ words for each story), so that counts too, right?
I'm very proud of myself!

1. The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell
2. Summer and the City by Candace Bushnell
3. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4. The Wave by Susan Casey
5. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
6. My Friend Leonard by James Frey
7. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
8. Bossypants by Tina Fey
9. Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
10. Pages For You by Sylvia Brownrigg
11. Wasted Heart by Lynn Galli
12. Imagining Reality by Lynn Galli
13. Awakenings by Susan X Meagher
14. Beginnings by Susan X Meagher
15. Coalescence by Susan X Meagher
16. Disclosures by Susan X Meagher
17. Entwined by Susan X Meagher
18. Fidelity by Susan X Meagher
19. Getaway by Susan X Meagher
20. Honesty by Susan X Meagher
21. Intentions by Susan X Meagher
22. Journeys by Susan X Meagher
23. Karma by Susan X Meagher
24. Lifeline by Susan X Meagher
25. Monogamy by Susan X Meagher
26. Nurture by Susan X Meagher
27. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
28. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
29. Arbor Vitae by Susan X Meagher
30. Cherry Grove by Susan X Meagher
31. All That Matters by Susan x Meagher
32. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
33. Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

 

[ChrissyM]

I feel like I was very down to the wire on this one trying to complete my goal of 30 books!
I ended up plowing through a couple graphic novels and an old romance novel (SO BAD) to reach my goal.
I would have liked to end on a more quality note, but technically I finished, so I'm happy with that!

I think I may adjust my goal to 25 books next year so I can tackle the Game of Thrones series (or try to) and take on some other thick/dense books that I wasn't able to get to this year.

I've been stretched super thin these last few weeks starting a new job and balancing a new boyfriend/other obligations/the holidays - but I made it! phew!

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
6: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
7: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
8: Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi
9: Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
10: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
11: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
13: The Bookie's Son by Andrew Goldstein
14: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
15: Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
16: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
17: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
18: In the Woods by Tana French
19: The Likeness by Tana French
20: Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
21: Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin by Kathy Griffin
22: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
23: The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
24: You've Got to Read This edited by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard
25: Deception Point by Dan Brown
26: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
27: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
28: A God Somewhere by John Arcudi
29: Wanted by Mark Millar
30: Blithe Images by Nora Roberts

 

[modelista]

I'm a little ashamed cuz i thought i'd finish at least one a week but i kinda stuck some new releases from my fave authors/series so i guess i was limitedblush:.

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (JK Rowling)
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets (JK Rowling)
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban (JK Rowling)
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire (JK Rowling)
5. Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix (JK Rowling)
6. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (JK Rowling)
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling)
8. Victim (Jonathan Kellerman)
9. Gun Games (Faye Kellerman)
10. Guilty Wives (James Patterson)
11. 11th Hour (James Patterson)
12. I, Michael Bennett (James Patterson)
13. NYPD Red (James Patterson)
14. The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
15. The Accidental Affair (Eric Jerome Dickey)
16. Potboiler (Jesse Kellerman) - very well written but i'm more of a detective whodunit type & i'm not into conspiracy spy novels
17.The Casual Vacancy (JK Rowling) - curious to know what you guys thought of this cuz i'm kinda conflicted

i have two more i'm reading but i don't think i'll be able to finish them before tonight.. on a side note, i'm glad a got through the last 6 in like a month