Challenge: 50 Books discussion

missed the beginning of this challenge last year, but on a roll already with my 50...

1) Emily Brontë-Wuthering Heights
2) Nichola Rivers-Gentlemen

I have decided to combine it with another challenge of reading a book from every letter of the alphabet (first name of title)-got off to a dodgy start, but will try and keep them in order after my current read of:
3) Breathless-Louise Marley

4) Sarah Waters - Affinity

5) Bram Stoker - Dracula

5) Julia Crouch - Cuckoo

6) Everything She Ever Wanted by Ann Rule

7) Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brainby Oliver Sacks

8)Notes from an Exhibition byPatrick Gale

9) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

10)The Merde Factor by Stephen Clarke

11)Snowdrops by A.D. Miller

12) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

13) Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra by George Jacobs

14)The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh

Given up on the alphabet challenge as it was ruining my enjoyment of being able to read books when I wanted to!

Finn wrote: "Given up on the alphabet challenge as it was ruining my enjoyment of being able to read books when I wanted to!"

That's the bad side of those types of plans: it takes away all the serendipity of reading. On the one hand, it's kind of fun having weird challenges and goals, and you never have to decide what to read next; on the other hand, you never GET to decide what to read next! And any book you're craving, well, unless it properly falls in the challenge/plan, it'll have to wait until another year.

Absolutely - I enjoyed it for organising my reading list, but have not been great at sticking to it; I enjoy reading new books and recommended books too much. It's no fun saying to someone "sounds like I'd really enjoy that, but will have to wait til I've got to Z before I can start it!"

15)Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger

Finn wrote: "Absolutely - I enjoyed it for organising my reading list, but have not been great at sticking to it; I enjoy reading new books and recommended books too much. It's no fun saying to someone "sounds like I'd really enjoy that, but will have to wait til I've got to Z before I can start it!" "

hehehe... I've had to do that. Not just because I had a challenge or plan going at the time, but also because my to-read lists are so long. If someone tells me they just read a great book or if they give me a book, I tend to say, "Ooh, that sounds really interesting, but I'll tell you right now, I might not get around to it for a few years." :D

16)The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

Loving this so far. I have really enjoyed all of Kate Morton's books (though have yet to read The Distant Hours so may read that next!)

17) The Prisoner of Heaven

Part of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series by Carlos Ruiz Zafón; I absolutely loved this book - and the whole series so far. Apparently there is one final book to finish it all off and wrap up the mystery of the cemetery of forgotten books - I, for one, cannot wait!

18) Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

19) Death Comes to Pemberley - P.D. James

20) Philippa Gregory - The White Queen
21) Philippa Gregory - The Red Queen

22)Jasper Fforde - The Big Over Easy

23) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls - Steve Hockensmith

24) Philippa Gregory - The White Queen

25) - Phillipa Gregory - The Kingmaker's Daughter

26) Katherine Webb- Unseen

Many of my books will have to roll over to next year. i only read 6. darnit!

the second half of my 50 are rolling onto 2014 too...

27) Kathy Reichs - Déjà Dead

28) John Grisham - The Racketeer

29) Kathy Reichs - Devil Bones

I'm really getting into the Kathy reichs books (I love the TV series Bones!), but I started with the first and them jumped to a much later one - so am going back to the second book in the series next.

Decided to start a new list for 2014...