The Book Challenge discussion

My Personal Read List Goals -- Just To Keep Track


JANUARY
1. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (619 pgs)
2. Life and Love, Such As They Are by Anna Shapiro (240 pgs)

FEBRUARY
3. Prep A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld (448 pgs)
4. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (498 pgs)
5. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (563 pgs)

MARCH
6. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (629 pgs)
7. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (756 pgs)
8. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (512 pgs)
9. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (292 pgs)
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald (64 pgs)
11. All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison (320 pgs)
12. The Giver by Lois Lowry (208 pgs)
13. Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews (400 pgs)

APRIL
14. Fight Club A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk (224 pgs)
15. Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer (264 pgs)
16. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (317 pgs)
17. Candy in Action by Matthue Roth (224 pgs)
18. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (297 pgs)
19. Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews (439 pgs)
20. Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (213 pgs)

CURRENTLY READING
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (404 pgs)

BOOK COUNT: 19 out of 50
PAGE COUNT: 7527 out of 1,000,000

And The School Year Challenge


5 Points
1. Life and Love, Such As They Are by Anna Shapiro
2. Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4. Prep A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
5. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
6. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
7. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
8. The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay
9. Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
10. The Giver by Lois Lowry

10 Points
1. The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
2. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (same day too!)
3. When Patty Went to College by Jean Webster
4. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Dawn by V.C. Andrews
7. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
8. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
9. Fight Club A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

15 Points
1. Candy in Action by Matthue Roth
2. Dune by Frank Herbert
3. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
4. All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison
5. Annie Besant An Autobiography by Annie Wood Besant
6. Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston
7. Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
8. Black Flies A Novel by Shannon Burke

25 Points
1. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
2. (I Don't Know Yet)
3. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
4. The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce or If I Did It by O. J. Simpson

Points: 160.

My Progress On The 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die List


#093 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
#433 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#436 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#444 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#456 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#461 Naked Lunch The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
#508 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#529 GCSE "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
#547 1984 by George Orwell
#564 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#592 The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-41 The Grapes of Wrath/The Harvest Gypsies/The Long Valley/The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
#593 Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
#608 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#610 The Hobbit Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
#619 Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#663 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#667 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#699 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
#723 Ulysses by James Joyce
#825 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#883 A Tale of Two Cities vy Charles Dickens
#925 The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

22 out of 1,001 = 2.20%

My A-to-Z Challenge 2009


A: All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison
B: A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
C: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
D: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
E: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
F: Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
G: The Giver by Lois Lowry
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I: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
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L: Life and Love, Such As They Are by Anna Shapiro
M: Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
N: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
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P: Prep A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
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T: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
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