Stephanie’s Comments (group member since Feb 23, 2009)

Stephanie’s comments from the The Book Challenge group.

I've read 25 so far...


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - maybe
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Finished (almost)

A-Z Title Challenge - Non-Fiction


A - The Abolition of Britain From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana by Peter Hitchens
B - Bad Food Britain by Joanna Blythman
C - Confessions of an Eco-Sinner Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff by Fred Pearce
D - Derby Days by D. E. Brimson
E - Enough Breaking Free from the World of More by John Naish
F - Fat Pig Diet by Michael Winner
G - Groovy Old Men A Spotter's Guide by Nick Baker
H - Hopscotch and Handbags The Essential Guide to Being a Girl by Lucy Mangan
I - Inside Her Pretty Little Head A New Theory of Female Motivation and What It Means for Marketing by Jane Cunningham
J - The Joy of Laziness How to Slow Down and Live Longer by Michaela Axt-Gadermann and Peter Axt
K - Katey The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
L - London City of Disappearances by Iain Sinclair
M - My Life on a Hillside Allotment by Terry Walton
N - Not in My Name A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy by Julie Burchill
O - Our Culture, What's Left of It The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple
P - Platform Souls The Trainspotter As Twentieth-Century Hero by Nicholas Whittaker
Q - Queuing for Beginners The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime by Joe Moran
R - The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer ..and How It Rose Again by Judi Bevan
S - Subterranean Railway by Christian Wolmar
T - The Thrift Book Live Well and Spend Less by India Knight
U - Urban Dreams, Rural Realities by Daniel Butler
V - The Victorian Christmas by Anna Selby
W - We're British, Innit An Irreverent A-Z of All Things British by Iain Aitch
X - The Xmas Files The Philosophy of Christmas by Stephen Law
Y - Yorkshire Transvestite Found Dead on Everest by Mike Harding
Z -

A-Z Author Challenge - Fiction


A - Douglas Adams - The Dirk Gently Omnibus
B - M.C. Beaton - Death of a Witch
C - Agatha Christie - The Pale Horse
D - Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study In Scarlet
E - Jeffrey Eugenides - Virgin Suicides
F - Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest
G - Adele Geras - Lily
H - Rose Heiney - The Days of Judy B
I - Rosemary Ingham - Where the Truth Lies
J - Mick Jackson - The Underground Man
K - Etgar Keret - The Nimrod Flip-out
L - Oystein Lonn - The Necessary Rituals of Maren Gripe
M - Valerie Martin - The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories
N -
O - Catherine O'Flynn - What Was Lost
P - Wendy Perriam - Little Marvel and Other Stories
Q -
R - Eva Rice - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
S - Lilian Margaret Spencer - The Adventures of Nathaniel Swubble
T - Mark Twain - The Diaries of Adam and Eve
U - Linn Ullmann - Stella Descending
V - Willy Vlautin - Northline
W - Keith Waterhouse - Mrs. Pooter's diary
X - Gao Xingjian - Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather Stories
Y - Richard Yates - A Good School
Z - Richard Zimler - Children's Hours: Stories About Childhood

A-Z Author Challenge - Non-Fiction

A - Frank Ackerman - Can We Afford the Future? Deciphering Climate Economics
B - Paul Broks - Into the Silent Land Travels in Neuropsychology
C - Maureen Corrigan - Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading Finding and Losing Myself in Books
D - David Stuart Davies - Bending the Willow Jeremy Brett As Sherlock Holmes
E - Charlie English - The Snow Tourist
F - Judith Flanders - Consuming Passions Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
G - Seth Godin - Meatball Sundae How New Marketing is Transforming the Business World
H - Lynsey Hanley - Estates An Intimate History
I - Christine Ingham - Panic Attacks
J - Carrie Jones - Cutting Up Playgirl A Memoir
K - Paul Kingsnorth - Real England
L - Felicity Lawrence - Eat Your Heart Out Who Really Decides What Ends Up on Your Plate?
M - Sara Maitland - A Book of Silence
N - Elizabeth Norton - She Wolves The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
O - Harriet O'Brien - Queen Emma and the Vikings A History of Power, Love and Greed in Eleventh-Century England
P - Paul Peacock - Precycle!
Q - Tom Quinn - Eccentric London
R - Nick Rosen - How To Live Off-Grid - Journeys Outside The System
S - Tracey Smith- The Book of Rubbish Ideas An interactive, room-by-room, guide to reducing household waste.
T - D.J. Taylor. - Bright Young People The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940
U - Paco Underhill - Why We Buy The Science Of Shopping
V - Norah Vincent - Self-Made Man One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again
W - Ruth Wajnryb - Cheerio Tom, Dick and Harry Despatches from the Hospice of Fading Words
X - Xinran - What the Chinese Don't Eat
Y - Marwood Yeatman - The Last Food of England
Z -

7 Classics Challenge 2009

1. Evelina by Frances Burney - read
2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle - read
3. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - read
4. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens - read
5. 1984 by George Orwell - read
6. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - read
7. Love and Mr. Lewisham by H.G. Wells

Stephanie's A-Z Title Challenge 2009


A - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
B - Bill the Conqueror by P.G. Wodehouse
C - Company for Henry by P.G. Wodehouse
D - The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
E - Evelina by Frances Burney
F - Father Brown Selected Stories by G.K. Chesterton
G - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
H - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
I - Isabel and Rocco by Anna Stothard
J - Jill the Reckless by P.G. Wodehouse
K - A Killing Kindness by Reginald Hill
L - The Luck of the Bodkins by P.G. Wodehouse
M - Murder, She Wrote the Murder of Sherlock Holmes by James Anderson
N - Never Trust A Rabbit Stories With a Twist by Jeremy Dyson
O - The Other Queen A Novel by Philippa Gregory
P - A Pinch of Snuff by Reginald Hill
Q - The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
R - The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
S - The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
T - Ten Sorry Tales by Mick Jackson
U - Under the Snow by Kerstin Ekman
V - The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
W - Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
X - The Xmas factor by Annie Sanders
Y - The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Z -

Am doing:

A-Z Title Challenge - Non-Fiction/Fiction
*Almost
A-Z Author Challenge - Non-Fiction/Fiction
*Almost
7 Classics Challenge
*Read way more than 7, but I didn't read the last one I listed


To finish reading the P.G. Wodehouse books that I can reasonably obtain
*2 left to read

Finish the Daziel and Pascoe series by Reginald Hill
*Lost interest/started to hate this series as it went on*

To reduce my physical to-be-read pile to single figures
*Did reduce it until a couple of months ago when I started buying some 1001 books

Have roughly halved it since Jan 1st
Currently 25 - March 4th
*Currently about 20


To sell/donate my owned books as soon as read
*Only 3 to get rid of at the moment