Sunday, January 9, 2011

100+ READING CHALLENGE

*This post will be regularly updated. Last updated: June 6, 2011

The challenge is hosted by Amy J @ MY OVERSTUFFED SHELF. Her original Linky to join the challenge is here.

The challenge as it appears on Amy's blog:

100+ Reading Challenge


DETAILS:
1. The goal is to read 100 or more books. Anyone can join. You don't need a blog to participate. Posting on GoodReads or wherever you post your reviews is good enough.

2. Audio, Re-reads, eBooks, YA, Manga, Graphic Novels, Library books, Novellas, Young Reader, Nonfiction – as long as the book has an ISBN or equivalent or can be purchased as such, the book counts.

What doesn't count: Individual short stories or individual books in the Bible.

3. No need to list your books in advance. You may select books as you go. Even if you list them now, you can change the list if needed.

4. Crossovers from other reading challenges count.

5. Challenge begins January 1st thru December, 2011. Books started before the 1st do not count. You can join at anytime.

6. When you sign up under Mr. Linky, put the direct link to your post where your books will be listed. Include the URL to this post so that other viewers can find this fun challenge. If you’d prefer to put your list in the sidebar of your blog, please leave your viewers the link to the sign up page. Again, so viewers can join the challenge too.
I will use this challenge to help me read books I already own - 68 books to be exact. There is also a cross-over with the books I will be reading for the Victorian Challenge.

Below is the list of 100 books (eclectic, of course!) in alphabetical order that I plan to read for this challenge. In between all these books I am hoping I can still read new 2011 books as well as books I will read based on other bloggers' recommendations and reviews.

1984 by George Orwell
Alice Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
Age of Innocence,The by Edith Wharton (owned)
American Boy,The by Andrew Taylor (owned)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (owned)
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (owned)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (owned)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (owned)
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (owned)
Camel Club,The by David Baldacci (owned)
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (owned)
Chronicles of Chrestomanci,The Volume I by Diana Wayne Jones (owned)
Chronicles of Chrestomanci,The Volume II by Diana Wayne Jones (owned)
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (owned)
Color Purple,The by Alice Walker
Count of Monte Cristo,The by Alexandre Dumas (owned)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dracula by Bram Stoker (owned)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (owned)
Emma by Jane Austen (owned)
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (owned)
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Girl with The Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (owned)
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (owned)
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Heart is a Lonely Hunter,The by Carson McCullers (owned)
Hobbit,The by J. R. Tolkien (owned)
Honeymoon,The by Justin Haythe (owned)
Hours,The by Michael Cuningham (owned)
Hound of the Baskervilles,The by Arthur Conan Doyle (owned)
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb (owned)
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (owned)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (owned)
Island,The by Victoria Hislop (owned)
Juliet by Anne Fortier (owned)
Kiss Me Again Stranger by Daphne du Maurier (owned)
Kiss The Girls by James Patterson (owned)
Last Child,The by John Hart (owned)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel (owned)
Little Prince,The by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Little Women by Louis May Alcott (owned)
Lost Art of Gratitude,The by Alexander McCall Smith (owned)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (owned)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (owned)
Magician's Assistant,The by Ann Patchett
Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat,The by Oliver Sacks
Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser (owned)
Master and Margarita,The by Mikhail Bulgakov
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Mayor of Casterbridge,The by Thomas Hardy (owned)
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay (owned)
Mill on the Floss,The by George Eliot (owned)
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (owned)
Moonstone,The by Wilkie Collins (owned)
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (owned)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (owned)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (owned)
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White (owned)
Passage,The by Justin Cronin (owned)
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Perks of Being a Wallflower,The by Stephen Chbosky
Phantom Tollbooth,The by Norton Juster (owned)
Poisonwood Bible,The by Barbara Kingsolver (owned)
Post-Birthday World,The by Lionel Shriver (owned)
Prayer for Owen Meany,A by John Irving
Rapture of Canaan,The by Sheri Reynolds (owned)
Room by Emma Donoghue
Room of One's Own,A by Virginia Woolf (owned)
Run by Anne Patchett
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (owned)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (owned)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (owned)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Space Between Us,The by Thrity Umbrigar (owned)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Stranger,The by Albert Camus (owned)
Swift Pure Cry,A by Siobhan Dowd (owned)
Tale of Two Cities,A by Charles Dickens (owned)
Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy (owned)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things They Carried,The by Tim O'Brien (owned)
Thornbirds,The by Colleen McCullough (owned)
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (owned)
Thunderbolt Kid,The by Bill Bryson (owned)
Truth About Forever,The by Sarah Dessen
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Vernes (owned)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (owned)
Washington Square by Henry James (owned)
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Warden,The by Anthony Trollope (owned)
Westing Game,The by Ellen Raskin
Woman in White,The by Wilkie Collins (owned)
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

I will keep this post on my sidebar and link my quotes as I go along.

Other books read this year outside of the list above: 

84,Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Chosen, The by Chaim Potok
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Good Hard Look,A by Ann Napolitano
How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Troper
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,The by Rebecca Skloot
Imperfectionists, The by Tom Rachman
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Kind of Intimacy, A by Jenn Ashworth
Lake,The by Banana Yoshimoto
Little Princess, A by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lotus Eaters,The by Tatjana Soli
Lover's Dictionary,The by David Levithan
Marriage Plot, the by Jeffrey Eugenides
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Matched by Ally Condie
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Paper Towns by John Green
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Pillars of the Earth,The by Ken Follett (reread)
Red Herring Without Mustard,A by Alan Bradley
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
Shakespeare:The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
Shining,The by Stephen King
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Storms and Secrets by Ann Summerville
Surgeon,The by Tess Gerritsen
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie,The by Alan Bradley
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Walk in the Woods,A by Bill Bryson
Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag,The by Alan Bradley
Weird Sisters, The by Eleanor Brown
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Year of Magical Thinking, The by Joan Didon

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