The 50 Book Challenge (2012)

[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)

 

[TanyaKiller]

01. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon -
[*]
02. Wild Swans by Jung Chang - [*****]
03. The Black Book of Psychoanalysis by Catherine Meyer - [**]
04. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - [***]
05. Here Comes Trouble by Michael Moore - [***]
06. I Killed Scheherazade by Joumana Haddad - [**]
07. Ímpio by Fábio Marton - [**]
08. Tete-a-tete by Hazel Rowley - [****]
09. Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton -
[*]
10. Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin - [****]
11. The Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal - [***]
12. The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick [****]
13. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins [***]
14. Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton [****]
15. Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi [*****]
16. God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
[*]
17. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi [**]
18. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins [****]
19. Justice by Michael Sandel [***]
20. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen [***]
21. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank [****]
22. Problems from Philosophy by James Rachels

 

[Niusity]

^^how was just kids?

 

[Hazel]

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

Currently reading:
13. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

 

[yogini108]

You guys are an inspiration! I'm only on my 5th book although I'm currently reading Game of Thrones and those books are loooooong so thats my excuse

 

[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

Currently reading the last two. Tree of Codes is such an amazing book but it's kinda hard to follow the "story". The sentences are very poetic and beautifully constructed though!

 

[GinAndTonic]

^^how was just kids?

It was really good. I can only recommend it. It's beautifully written, the relationship between Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe was really something and I loved reading about these two wonderful artists.

 

[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
7. Kald mig prinsesse by Sara Blædel
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier - enjoyed it a lot.

 

[ChrissyM]

It was really good. I can only recommend it. It's beautifully written, the relationship between Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe was really something and I loved reading about these two wonderful artists.

agreed re: Just Kids...

I read it last year and was so impressed... I think it was one of my picks among the best that I had read in 2011.

Highly recommend it.

 

[Alvedansen]

...started yet another book (too many books on my list that i just can't get into or are too long, i need quick reads atm)

John Marsden - Tomorrow, when the war began

 

[ChrissyM]

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: You've Got to Read This edited by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard
9: Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi

I finished The Wise Man's Fear last night (all 990-something pages of it) and I feel at a bit of a loss now... I know it will be years until the third book is completed but I want to continue reading the story now!

I've pulled out a book of short stories that I've had since high school (have only read a handful of the actual stories I think from what had been assigned in class at the time), and I figured I would do what I did last year and read a few of the short stories while between books and then I'll be chiseling away at an additional book as I read the others...

It's called You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe
Kind of excited to start working my way through it.

Also starting on Marjane Satrapi's Chicken With Plums. It's the most recent book by the author of Persepolis.
I went and heard her speak at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and she was great, had an incredible sense of humor. So of course I had to buy a copy for her to sign for me
Chicken With Plums has also been turned into a movie, coming out this summer I believe.
It's a graphic novel and it's not particularly long, but since I'm tackling some monsters (length-wise) this year, I figure I'll count it.

 

[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
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- even though I didn't like it that much it was for sure one of the most original books I've ever read! I love Fowles but this was way too different even from the magus.
14. The Red and the Black-read it for school for third time already, it's ok for me as if it wasn't I would never ever in billion years read it again.

Currently reading:
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath-I'm reading it for three months already, the thing is I have it on my computer and I can't read much on it, my new kobo ereader will arrive in 2 weeks so hopefully I will finish it, I like it a lot!
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert- again school read.. ugh, hope I finish it soon, it's just not my cup of tea.

 

[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
7. Kald mig prinsesse by Sara Blædel
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
10. I am Legend by Richard Matheson

 

[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

 

[ChrissyM]

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: You've Got to Read This edited by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard
9: Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi
10: Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

 

[TanyaKiller]

01. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon -
[*]
02. Wild Swans by Jung Chang - [*****]
03. The Black Book of Psychoanalysis by Catherine Meyer - [**]
04. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - [***]
05. Here Comes Trouble by Michael Moore - [***]
06. I Killed Scheherazade by Joumana Haddad - [**]
07. Ímpio by Fábio Marton - [**]
08. Tete-a-tete by Hazel Rowley - [****]
09. Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton -
[*]
10. Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin - [****]
11. The Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal - [***]
12. The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick [****]
13. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins [***]
14. Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton [****]
15. Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi [*****]
16. God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
[*]
17. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi [**]
18. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins [****]
19. Justice by Michael Sandel [****]
20. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen [***]
21. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank [****]
22. Problems from Philosophy by James Rachels [****]
23. Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
[*]
24. A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz [****]
25. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

Can I just say I'm going a little braindead? I've been reading everyday, I only stop when I have to do my tasks and it feels like I can't reason with the books anymore.
And there's so much info, I don't know what I should do with it. Anyway, can I just say Darkfever is really, really baaaaad. Don't read it.
There are good chunks of it that feel like a waste so dumb it is, like when she
takes her clothes off in the middle of the street and NO ONE bloody notices it. Wtf? The author writes some more sexual scenes like it's softporn or something.
It's so embarassing.

 

[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
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

 

[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
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
15. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert- really, this wasn't even close to a really nice book, it makes think that women are stupid.

Currently reading:
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky- LOVE it. really, it's such a great book!

 

[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

 

[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