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GOODREADS 100 CHALLENGE:At the start of 2013: 50
Goal: 62
COMPLETED: 1/12
Here are the books I'm going to go for:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Secret Garden
Gone With the Wind
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Frankenstein
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Golden Compass
The Little Prince
Anne of Green Gables
The Picture of Dorian Gray
One Hundred Years of Solitude
EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE:Goal: 24
COMPLETED: 0/24
1990 -
1991 - Outlander
1992 -
1993 -
1994 - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
1995 - High Fidelity
1996 - A Game of Thrones
1997 - The Red Tent
1998 - The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
1999 - Single & Single
2000 - In a Sunburned Country
2001 - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
2002 - The Lovely Bones
2003 - Eragon
2004 - 2666
2005 - 1776
2006 -
2007 - A Long Way Gone
2008 - The Last Lecture
2009 - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
2010 - A Visit from the Goon Squad
2011 - The Weird Sisters
2012 - Gone Girl
2013 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
FACE TO FACE BOOK CLUB:Goal: 12
Completed 7/12
January - Sister finished 1/4/2013 - 4 stars
February - The History of Love - finished 7/13/2013 - 3 stars
March - Wolf Hall - finshed 3/24/2013 - 3 stars
April - continuation of Wolf Hall
May - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - finished 4/30/2013 - 3 stars
June - Cloud Atlas - finsihed 5/27/2013 - 3.5 stars
July - The Thirteenth Tale finished 4/19/2013 - 4 stars
August - The Paris Wife finsished 7/4/2013 - 5 stars
September - Seating Arrangements
October - River of Darkness
November - Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
December - Movie and Treats!!!
LET'S TURN PAGES CHALLENGE:Goal: 15,000
Completed: 1,555
Sister = 341
Open = 400 (read the kindle edition but the other ebook version was 400 pages so using that page count)
Brave New World = 259
Possession = 555
LISTOPIA CHALLENGEGoal: 10
Completed: 1/10
Best American History Books
1. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
2. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
3. John Adams
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5. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Favorite Magical Realist Novels
1. Garden Spells
2. The Master and Margarita
3. The Alchemist
4. Like Water for Chocolate
5. Love in the Time of Cholera
JANUARY'S NEW BEGINNINGS CHALLENGEGoal: 2
Completed: 2/2
1. Read a book by an author new to you
Sister by Rosamund Lupton finished 1/4/2013 - 4 stars
2. Read a book by an author who's first or last name begins with A
Open by Andre Agassi finished 1/12/2013 - 4 stars
JULY READSThe History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
They All Fall Down by J.A. Blake
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Bat by Jo Nesbø
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
APRIL READSThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
AUGUST READS In the Darkness by Karin Fossum
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy *audiobook
Books mentioned in this topic
Anna Karenina (other topics)The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (other topics)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (other topics)
Cloud Atlas (other topics)
They All Fall Down (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Leo Tolstoy (other topics)Sherman Alexie (other topics)
Karin Fossum (other topics)
Seth Grahame-Smith (other topics)
David Mitchell (other topics)
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- Personal Challenge Total: 15/58
- Goodreads 100: 1/12
- Every Year...1990: 3/24
- F2F Bookclub: 7/12
- Let's Turn Pages: 1,555/15,000
- Listopia Challenge: 1/10
Quarterly Challenges:
January - March: 0/0
April - June:
July - September:
October - December:
MONTHLY CHALLENGES:
January:
New Beginnings Challenge: 2/2 - completed 1/12/2013
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