Lauren’s Comments (group member since Apr 01, 2009)

Lauren’s comments from the Challenge: 50 Books group.

17. There But For The/ Ali Smith
18. The House of The Scorpion/ Nancy Farmer
19. The White Tiger/ Aravind Adiga
20. Before I Go to Sleep/ SJ Watson
21. The Buffalo Soldier/ Chris Bohjalian
22. The Psychopath Test/ Jon Ronson
23. Daughter of Smoke and Bone/ Laini Taylor
24. The Night Circus/ Erin Morgenstern
25. The Fault of Our Stars/ John Green

2. Heart of Stone/ Renate Dorrestein
3. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? / Mindy Kaling
4. The Edible Woman/ Margaret Atwood
5. Midnight Sun/ Elwood Reid
6. The Lover's Dictionary/ David Levithan
7. A Grown Up Kind of Pretty/ Joshilyn Jackson
8. The Hiding Place/ Trezza Azzopardi
9. Ready Player One/ Ernest Cline
10. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children/ Random Rigs
11. Unwind/ Neil Shusterman
12. The Catcher in the Rye/ JD Salinger
13. Fugitive Pieces/ Anne Michaels
14. Swamplandia/ Karen Russell
15. Fifty Shades of Grey/ EL James
16. Bruiser/ Neil Shusterman

1. Living Dead Girl/ Elizabeth Scott (horrible!)

46. A Family of Readers; The Book Lovers Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature/ Roger Sutton
47. The Lightening Thief/ Rick Riordan
48. Bossypants/ Tina Fey
49. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk/ David Sedaris

44. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet/ Jamie Ford
45. The Journey/ Adam Hamilton

43. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier/ Thad Carhart

42. The Distant Hours/ Kate Morton

32. The Abstinence Teacher/ Katrina Kittle
33. The Book of Ruth/ Jane Hamilton
34. Left Neglected/ Lisa Genova
35. The Wife's Tale/ Lori Lansens
36. Lost Memory of Skin/ Russell Banks
37. Sister of My Heart/ Chitra Banergie Divakaumi
38. How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe/ Charles Yu
39. Accidental Mother/ Rowen Coleman
40. The Murderers Daughters/ Randy Susan Meyers
41. Forbidden Fruit; Love Stories from the Underground Railroad; Betty DeRamus

27. So Much For That/ Lionel Shriver
28. You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know/ Heather Sellers
29. Mockingjay/ Suzanne Collins
30. The Kindness of Strangers/ Katrina Kittle
31. Room/ Emma Donahue

13. The Known World/ Edward P Jones
14. The Red Tent/ Anita Diamant
15. Jane Eyre/ Charlotte Bronte
16. Tran-Sister Radio/ Chris Bohjalian
17. The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao/ Junot Diaz
18. Cats Cradle/ Kurt Vonnegut
19. Let the Great World Spin/ Colum McCann
20. Backseat Saints/ Joshilyn Jackson
21. Don't Breathe a Word/ Jennifer McMahon
22. The Secret Scripture/ Sebastian Barry
23. My Horizontal Life/ Chelsea Handler
24. Catching Fire/ Suzanne Collins
25. Dark Places/ Gillian Flynn
26. Dismantled/ Jennifer McMahon

11. Little Bee/ Chris Cleave
12. Midwives/ Chris Bohjalian

8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (reread)/ Betty Smith
9. When Christians Get it Wrong/ Adam Hamilton
10. Sexy Girls: How Hot is Too Hot?/ Hayley DiMarco (for small youth group @ church)

1. The Book Thief/ Markus Zusak
2. The Junior Officer's Reading Club: Killing Time & Fighting Wars/ Patrick Hennessey
3. The Hour I First Believed/ Wally Lamb
4. The Hunger Games/ Suzanne Collins
5. Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People/ Amy Sedaris
6. Nature Girl/ Carl Hiaasen
7. In the Woods/ Tana French

50. False Memory/ Dean Koontz
51. So B. It/ Sarah Weeks
52. Wild Child: And other Stories/ TC Boyle
53. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil/ Deborah Rodriguez
54. Olive Kitteridge/ Elizabeth Strout

47. Oryx & Crake/ Margaret Atwood
48. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest/ Stieg Larsson
49. The Perks of Being a Wallflower/ Stephen Chboskey

39. By Their Father's Hand/ Monte Francis
40. The Toss of a Lemon/ Padma Viswanathan
41. Life Together/ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
42. A Fatal Lie/ Sally Chew
43. Eat, Pray, Love/ Elizabeth Gilbert
44. The Secret/ Rhonda Byrne
45. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society/ Mary Ann Shaffer
46. World Without End/ Ken Follett

Also finished the following chapter books with my 3 1/2 yr old:
Wind in the Willows
Wizard of Oz
Benny & the Crazy Contest

These don't count towards my 50 but have been fun enough to mention!

33. Duma Key/ Stephen King
34. Advent Conspiracy/ Rick McKinley
35. Educating the Other America: Top Experts Tackle Poverty, Literacy, & Achievement in Our Schools/ Susan B. Newman
36. Me of Little Faith/ Lewis Black
37. The Pillars of the Earth/ Ken Follett
38. People of the Book/ Geraldine Brooks

30. The Girl Who Played with Fire/ Stieg Larsson
31. Stumbling on Happiness/ Daniel Gilbert
32. The Killing Circle/ Andrew Pyper

28. The Year of the Flood/Margaret Atwood
29. The Hound of the Baskervilles/ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle