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Alison's Challenge 1-50 books
1.The Princess Bride
2.Tail Spin
3.The Lottery Winner
4.Atlanta Heat
5.Vampire Academy
6.Alison
7.Malachi: A Love That Never Lets Go
8.A Game of Thrones
9.A Walk in the Park
10.Those Amazing Dogs Book Two: In the Viking Volcano
11.Hunter Episode 1-7 by Goran Zidar (I only have episodes 1-4... but this is the only book I could find for Hunter)
12.The Two Towers
13.not a fan. Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus
14.Ender's Game
15.11/22/63
16.The Catcher in the Rye
17.The Picture of Dorian Gray
18.Facebook's Lost Love
19.Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
20.Living Crazy Love: An Interactive Workbook for Individual or Small-Group Study
21.The Last Song
22.A Clash of Kings
23.Catching Fire
24.Mockingjay
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30.
Book PagesIm going for 5,000 pages since I have never done a page count before. *MAY 1- UPPED PAGE NUMBER TO 7,500*
The Princess Bride- 387/387
The Lottery Winner- 272/272
Tail Spin- 307/307
A Game of Thrones- 835/835
Vampire Academy- 234/234
Atlanta Heat- 86/86
Malachi: A Love that Never Lets Go 115/175(we are scrapping this book)
BRAVE: Honest Questions Women Ask 100/158
Believing God Day by Day 0/400
Alison-98/98
A Walk in the Park-24/24
Those Amazing Dogs: In the Viking Volcano-98/98
Hunter: Episode 1- 26/26
Hunter: Episode 2- 16/16
Hunter: Episode 3-23/23
Hunter: Episode 4- 23/23
LOTR: The Two Towers- 360/360
Not A Fan- 215/215
Ender's Game-766/766
Clash of Kings- 969/969
11/22/63- 697/697
Les Miserables- 764/1463
Catcher in the Rye- 200/200
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God- 205/205
The Picture of Dorian Gray- 173/173
A Texan's Promise
John Doe
The Odyssey
Jukebox Jezebel
Journal of a Civil War Nurse
Return of the King
Little Women
The Host
Catching Fire- 391/391
Mockingjay- 390/390
The Lost Symbol
The DaVinci Code
Angels and Demons 0/583
Surviving Sandy: A Battle Against that Deadly Whore Mother Nature
And Then There Were None
A Storm of Swords
Jurrassic Park
Gone Girl
The Lost World
3+3-0/39
Fairytale Confidential- 0/640
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Seventh Mountain
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
A Feast of Crows
A Dance with Dragons-0/1101
How to Survive the Hunger Games
Weep No More My Lady
Anastasia Syndrome
Pretend You Don't See Her
Frostbite- 0/226
Shadow Kiss
Blood Promise 0/354
Spirit Bound
Last Sacrifice
Secret Vampire
Daughters of Darkness
Spell Binder
Moon Dance
One For The Money
Two For The Dough
Three to get Deadly
Four to Score
High Five
Hot Six
Seven Up
Vampire Moon
American Vampire
Moon Child
The Vampire with the Dragon Tattoo
The Vampire who Played Dead
Black Moon- 0/95
Amber Moon-0/183
Silver Moon
Bel Canto- 28/ 265
The Merman and the Moon Forgotten
Santa, Baby
Cowboy to the Rescue
Dead Until Dark
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely Dead
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse
Dead Ever After- 0/265
A is for Alibi- 0/231
Txt
Your Happily Ever After
8: The Previously Untold Story of the Previously Unknown Eighth Dwarf- 0/35
Zombie
Talk of the Town
Shiver
416- 0/312
50/50-0/5
Heaven is for Real
Island Child
The Quest for Crystals: The Book of Wind
The Return of Rafe MacKade
High Country Bride
The Sheriff's Runaway Bride
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Master of the Nine Steps- 0/486
More Jesus, Less Religion
The Quick and the Thread
Along Came a Spider
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
The Dogs of Babel
Mount Vernon Love Story
Orchard Valley Brides
Dress Your Family in Courderoy and Denim- 0/257
Honeymoon in High Heels- 0/210
Fade to Black-
A Time to Love- 0/228
A Time to Heal- 0/210
A Time for Peace- 0/213
Facebook's Lost Love- 23/23
The Last Song- 405/405
Living Crazy Love- 128/128
Total: 8330/7500 COMPLETED DECEMBER 1
TENTATIVE SCHEDULEJANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
A Time to Heal- Quilts of Lancaster County 2
Gone Girl
And then there Were None
MAY
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Les Misérables CLASSIC
John Doe
Bel Canto
JUNE
One For the Money
Two For the Dough
The Return of Rafe MacKade
Shiver
Dracula
Morning Comes Softly
Island Child
JULY
Anne of Green Gables CLASSIC
On the Street Where You Live
Master of the Nine Steps
Txt
69 Old Hard Road book 5- Best Friends
Zombie
AUGUST
Gone with the Wind CLASSIC
Nicholas and Company: The Merman and the moon forgotten
Your Happily Ever After
3+3
SEPTEMBER
Frankenstein CLASSIC
Daisy Miller and Washington Square CLASSIC X2
Fairytale Confidential
BRAVE
OCTOBER
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of his trip to heaven and back
The DaVinci Code
NOVEMBER
8: The Previously Untold Story of the Previously Unknown 8th Dwarf
Emma CLASSIC
The Seventh Mountain
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
DECEMBER
Under a Vampire Moon
Return of the King
Little Women CLASSIC
Go Allison! Your doing great with all your challenges. :-)
MY PERSONAL CHALLENGE-READ 1 BOOK FROM EACH OF MY SHELVES (TO GO 2013-2014)abuse THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC
animals
apartment-books DECKED
christian
classics LES MISERABLES
ghosts GHOSTGIRL
horror-scary
kids SHEN OF THE SEA: CHINESE STORIES FOR CHILDREN
mystery
nook-books-
other-owned-books -
sci-fi THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
shakespeare HENRY V
vampires
wedding-marriage A CHANCE IN TIME
zombies WARM BODIES
Thanks!
CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLEGENESIS
EXODUS
LEVITICUS
NUMBERS
DEUTERONOMY
JOSHUA
JUDGES
RUTH
1 SAMUEL
2 SAMUEL
1 KINGS
2 KINGS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
1 CHRONICLES
2 CHRONICLES
EZRA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
NEHEMIAH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
ESTHER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
JOB
PSALMS
PROVERBS
ECCLESIASTES
SONG OF SONGS
ISAIAH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66
JEREMIAH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
LAMENTATIONS 1 2 3 4 5
EZEKIEL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
DANIEL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
HOSEA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
JOEL 1 2 3
AMOS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
OBADIAH 1
JONAH 1 2 3 4
MICAH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
NAHUM 1 2 3
HABAKKUK 1 2 3
ZEPHANIAH 1 2 3
HAGGAI 1 2
ZECHARIAH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
MALACHAI 1 2 3 4
MATTHEW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
MARK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
LUKE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
JOHN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
ACTS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
ROMANS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
1 CORINTHIANS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
2 CORINTHIANS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
GALATIANS 1 2 3 4 5 6
EPHESIANS 1 2 3 4 5 6
PHILIPPIANS 1 2 3 4
COLOSSIANS 1 2 3 4
1 THESSALONIANS 1 2 3 4 5
2 THESSALONIANS 1 2 3
1 TIMOTHY 1 2 3 4 5 6
2 TIMOTHY 1 2 3 4
TITUS 1 2 3
PHILEMON 1
HEBREWS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
JAMES
1 PETER
2 PETER
1 JOHN
2 JOHN
3 JOHN
JUDE
REVELATION
My goal for this year is 30 books and in those books have to be 5 classics.JANUARY BOOKS
1. Tail Spin- I wasn't too impressed with this book. Towards the end it got better. It took 70 pages to get into the story and get all the back story done. To me, that is too long. Hopefully other Catherine Coulter books are better! I am going to try and read her again. This book was a free book I won on Goodreads. (30 BOOKS, HISTORY CHALLENGES)
2. The Princess Bride(1 Classic)- I wasn't planning on reading this book this year, but a friend brought it to me to borrow since I am in a care center healing up from surgery, so I thought i better read it. I have seen the movie, and I forgot quite a bit since it has been a while since I saw the movie. I remembered the very beginning and the ending. Everything else in the middle was pretty much new to me. lol. I could not put this book down! There was one night I read more than 100 pages. I will now have to track down the movie since the story is fresh in my mind. I would definitely recommend it, even though it is a pretty long book. (30 BOOKS, FAVORITES, TOP 100, OSCARS CHALLENGES)
3. The Lottery Winner- This was one of Mary Higgins Clark's best books in my opinion. I loved it! There were so many different mysteries in this book it kept you guessing the whole time. Alvirah and Willy are great at solving mysteries. I can't wait to read more books that they are in. (30 BOOKS, PERSONAL SHELF-MYSTERY, STATE AND COUNTRY, FAVORITES, OSCARS , HISTORY CHALLENGES)
FEBRUARY BOOKS4. Atlanta Heat-Wow! This book ended like I didn't think it would. It was a short little book. At first I thought it was gonna be a military Seal book where they are trying to protect the admirals god-daughter. Thats what it was at first, but it turned into a WAY different story! Ill leave it at that. And I am surprised that I didnt have a dream about a snake last night cause there was an anaconda in the story. I HATE SNAKES! (30 BOOKS, FAVORITES, OSCARS, PERSONAL CHALLENGE-NOOK BOOKS CHALLENGES)
5. Vampire Academy-(POSSIBLE SPOILER)Im racing through books this year! Im doing a lot better than last year. This book was a pretty good book. In the end I was expecting more interaction between Rose and Dimitri. I bet that will come in one of the other books. I was happy to see that (view spoiler) got a bf, but was surprised what happened to her at the end of the book. I wasn't going to read the others in the series but I think I might have to! (LISTOPIA, EVERY YEAR, OSCARS AND HOLLYWOOD, 30 BOOKS, FAVORITES, PERSONAL SHELF-VAMPIRES CHALLENGES)
MARCH BOOKS6. Alison- When I found this book I had to get it, even though it was free because of my name. I never see any Alison spelled like that, so when i see it spelled like my name. I snatch up whatever it is!
This book started out as a guy who hired a housekeeper and assistant to his job. Her name was Alison. By the end of the book they had a relationship. I really liked it even though it was really short. I would have liked it a lot better if there weren't as many spelling and punctuation mistakes. I sometimes catch the punctuation, but boy do I always catch the spelling! Misspelled words in books really drive me nuts! (FAVORITES, 30 BOOKS, OSCARS CHALLENGES)
7. Malachi: A Love That Never Lets Go- By Lisa Harper. Even though me and my partner from church decided to scrap this with 60 pages left, I am still going to count it. This was a bible study about... you guessed it... the book of Malachi. I didn't get it from the start. There was a bunch of dialog in there with Malachi testing God and I just didnt understand the dialog. This was the least favorite of the bible studies that I have done the past few years. (PERSONAL SHELF CHALLENGE-CHRISTIAN)
8. A Game of Thrones- I finally finished this book after a month and a half. It took me a while to get into the book and to understand who everyone was and get the houses figured out. Once I got all of that figured out I loved it and couldnt put it down!! It ended on a cliffhanger so I might just have to pick up the next book right away. Here is a note to everyone who reads this book... Do not pick a favorite character. Because once you do something will happen to them!(30 BOOKS, PERSONAL SHELF- OTHER OWNED BOOKS, TOP 100 BOOKS CHALLENGES)
9. A Walk in the Park- Before book starts girl finds boyfriend in bed with her best friend. Both are ex's now. Girl's best friend steals her Biore cream (Weird I thought, since it went through the whole book).Girl has little dog. Big dog attacks little dog. Guy comes and gets big dog which is his grandma's. Guy takes little dog and girl back to his grandma's house. Little dog isn't hurt too bad. Girl starts to fall for guy. Girl goes looking for guy in the grandma's house and finds grandma dead. Girl gets mad at guy. Guy explains. Guy and girl date. The End! Thats the whole book!! Really stupid book but it did fit some of my challenges. Thats why I read it. (50 BOOKS, BABY NAME, 50 STATE, OSCARS CHALLENGES)
10. Those Amazing Dogs Book Two: In the Viking Volcano- I thought this book would be more of a cute adult book. But instead, it was more of an upper elementary school/jr. high read. That's ok. I enjoyed it. I would have given it one star but there was a bit of history on the Vikings at the end and that popped it up a star for me. I loved how all the animals talked and how dogs, an arctic fox, and a polar bear got along so well! That would never happen in real life. (50 BOOKS, PERSONAL SHELF-ANIMALS, 50 STATE AND COUNTRIES, AWARDS COVER HUNT CHALLENGES)
11. Hunter Episode 1-7 by Goran Zidar- This was actually 4 books that I had on my Nook but since they were all really small I decided to put them into one book. This series is actually 7 books, but I could only get the first 4 on Barnes and Noble. This book was about Kade, who at the beginning was running away from animals. Then he crossed a river and went into a territory he seemed to recognize, but he wasnt sure. He came up to a bar where a lady was working. She hid him while the cops came to try to find "a fugitive", but they couldn't find anything. Then she took Kade to her house in the country. This is where we find out that this lady from the bar is a vampire. Thats where I stopped. I am going to try and find the rest of the books because I want to know what happens to Kade. (50 BOOKS)
APRIL BOOKS12. The Two Towers- This book wasnt my favorite. I have the movies at home and The Two Towers is my least favorite of the series. I was very bored with the book at the beginning and was struggling through it. When Sam and Frodo came back in the story I was more interested. And when Gollum came in, I breezed through it. I love Gollum! Now to eventually read the last of the series later this year. (50 BOOKS)
13. not a fan. Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus by Kyle Idleman- I loved this book. I read it for the bible study I am currently in. I read ahead but they said that was ok. This really taught me a lot about my faith and what things I am doing that I need to change or step up and do. If you are a believer in God and are struggling where you fit in with God, this is a great book to read. (50 BOOKS)
14. Ender's Game- (2 CLASSIC)I absolutely loved this book! This is gonna be a tough one for the other books to beat for the year. At the beginning I could definitely see me as Ender Wiggin. I went through a lot of bullying and name calling when I was in jr high and high school. I loved the progression of Ender as he went from that stage to becoming more powerful, to eventually becoming the leader of everything. I enjoyed the descriptions of the games that he was playing and could picture myself playing them. The ending really through me for a loop though. I thought how the author brought the video game back into play at the very end was clever! Although, I said I was like Ender Wiggin and had empathy for him, I myself, still have not conquered being powerful like he was. I guess thats something that I need to work on! (50 BOOKS, WORD PLAY, TOP 100 BOOKS, LISTOPIA, HISTORY, DECADES)
MAY BOOKSNONE :( Im reading 2 huge books at the moment. Couldn't get them done in one month.
JUNE BOOKS15. 11/22/63-Awesome book! The ending was a little out there, but it is a SK book after all. This is not the ordinary King book, but the first one I have read. I might try to read others. Jake aka George does everything he can to change the past with Kennedy's assassination. SPOILER... Somebody dies! But it might not be who you are thinking it will be. (HISTORY, STATES AND COUNTRIES, PERSONAL SHELF-HORROR, RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT, DECADES, 50 BOOKS)
JULY BOOKS16. The Catcher in the Rye-(3 CLASSIC) This was a great classic book! I didn't care much for the writing style of Salinger, but once I got into the story I ignored it... for the most part. Holden Caulfield is a jerk. Or at least i thought at the beginning of the book. The author made the character seem like a stuck up snot. Like he didn't care about anyone but himself. He flunked out of school... his 2nd and was really snotty about it in my opinion. Later in the book we realize he isn't stuck up at all! I won't give anything away but I can pretty much relate to Holden's life. Once I figured out what the author was telling us about Holden, I liked the book so much better. At the end, I had a lot of sympathy for him. I would have given this book 5 stars, but I am taking one star off for the writing style. This is one classic book I would definitely recommend! (STATE AND COUNTRIES, TOP 100 BOOKS, DEFINITION OF A CLASSIC, 50 BOOKS)
AUGUST BOOKS17. The Picture of Dorian Gray- (4 CLASSIC) Who knew that a picture could ruin a persons life so bad. I liked the Dorian before the picture was done, but not after. 4 Stars (STATES AND COUNTRIES, TOP 100 BOOKS, 50 BOOKS, BABY NAME)
18. Facebook's Lost Love- This was a cute short story i had on my nook. Its about two old friendsand how they reconnected on facebook and rekindled their romance. I gave it 2 stars and would have given it 3 but it was too predictable. (STATES-FLORIDA, 50 BOOKS,ALPHABET F)
SEPTEMBER BOOKSNONE- Still reading Les Miserables and Clash of Kings. Also I started The Last Song for a buddy read and I am in a bible study that started Crazy Love by Francis Chan with the workbook called Living Crazy Love. I got myself reading more than I can at this time!
OCTOBER BOOKS19. Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God- This was a book I read for a bible study. I am still working on the workbook that accompanies it. This was a very good book that made me think about my faith and where I am with God. It is basically a follow-up of Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus by Kyle Idleman. The two books work very well together!(50 BOOKS, CLUE CHALLENGE)
NOVEMBER BOOKS20. Living Crazy Love: An Interactive Workbook for Individual or Small-Group Study- This is the 10 week workbook for Chans book Crazy Love. I thought the book was pretty self explainatory and didnt need a workbook. Saying that the workbook did have some tough questions and made me think outside of my box. (50 BOOKS)
21. The Last Song- Be prepared to bawl like a baby at the end. I didnt think that would happen to me because it never has, but i was wrong. I kept putting off finishing the book because I had seen the movie and knew what was gonna happen. The love story between Will and Ronnie was great. This was the first Nicholas Sparks book i have read and he is now officially my new favorite author. He is very descriptive and it is easy to picture what is going on in the story, even if you havent seen the movie. But beware if you read it, have kleenex handy the last 100 pages or so! (50 BOOKS)
DECEMBER BOOKS22. A Clash of Kings- I guess since I finished this on Dec. 1 I will put the summary here. If I could I would give it 4.5 stars instead of 4. This book wasn't as good as the first one in my opinion. I did really like it though. Martin has a really great way of being descriptive. The battles that were in this book were really well thought out. Now I wonder what Bran and Rickon will be up to next! (50 BOOKS)
23. Catching Fire- I am not giving this book 5 stars because I didn't think it was as good and as gripping as the first one. The ending made up for it though. I just wanted to start Mockingjay right away. I didn't understand the Quarter Quall right away, but Katniss and Peeta going back in to the arena made fans of The Hunger Games get hooked. I wonder what Collins will come up for with Mockingjay! (50 BOOKS, LISTOPIA, EVERY YEAR, HISTORY)
24. Mockingjay- This wasn't my favorite of the series by any means. I was more confused during this book than I had been with the others. Collins did write a great series even though I was disappointed with this book. A lot of things happen to the characters in the series during this book. I won't spoil it for anyone. The one question is: Who does Katniss end up with? Peeta or Gale? We find out!!! (50 BOOKS, LISTOPIA, EVERY YEAR, HISTORY)
2013 YEARLY CHALLENGESBaby Name Challenge
Male
1 Liam
2 Ethan
3
4 Noah
5
6 Jack
7 Aiden
8 Jackson
9 Logan
10 Lucas
11 Benjamin
12
13 Ryan
14
15 Alexander
16 Jayden
17 Owen
18 Michael
19 Elijah
20 Matthew
Female
1 Emma
2
3 Sophia
4 Ava
5 Isabella
6 Ella
7 Mia
8 Emily
9 Chloe
10 Lily
11 Madison
12 Abigail
13 Avery
14 Charlotte
15 Amelia
16 Harper
17 Addison
18 Hannah
19 Grace
20 Zoe
50 State Challenge and Countries Challenge
STATES(9/50)
Alabama (AL)
Alaska (AK)
Arizona (AZ)
Arkansas (AR)
Colorado (CO)
Delaware (DE)
Georgia (GA)
Hawaii (HI)
Idaho (ID)
Illinois (IL)
Indiana (IN)
Iowa (IA)
Kansas (KS)
Kentucky (KY)
Louisiana (LA)
Maryland (MD)
Massachusetts (MA)
Michigan (MI)
Minnesota (MN)
Mississippi (MS)
Missouri (MO)
Nebraska (NE)
Nevada (NV)
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ)
New Mexico (NM)
North Dakota (ND)
Ohio (OH)
Oklahoma (OK)
Oregon (OR)
Rhode Island (RI)
South Carolina (SC)
South Dakota (SD)
Tennessee (TN)
Utah (UT)
Vermont (VT)
Virginia (VA)
Washington (WA)
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI)
Wyoming (WY)
AFRICA (0/54)
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
ASIA (0/44)
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Burma (Myanmar)
Cambodia
China
East Timor
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Korea, North
Korea, South
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Nepal
Oman
Pakistan
Philippines
Qatar
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Syria
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkey
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen
EUROPE (3/47)
Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
Vatican City
N. AMERICA (1/23)
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Canada
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
OCEANIA (0/14)
Australia
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Zealand
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
S. AMERICA (0/12)
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela
TOTAL: 13/244
AWARDS COVER HUNT COMPLETED 3/16/13Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2013
Our March theme is award winners, so let's explore non-literary awards!
The People's Hundred Flower Award is the Chinese equivalent of the Golden Globes. Read a book with flowers on its cover.
8. The winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is given the title of Best in Show. Read a book with a dog on its cover.
It's All About the Oscars and Hollywood ChallengeDuration: January 1, 2013 - March 31, 2013
1. Reviews will make or break a movie in Hollywood – Read a book with a Goodreads rating of 4 or more stars
3. The longest movie ever made is called "Modern times Forever." Its a whopping 240 hours long! - Read a long book (500+ pages)
4. Hollywood is in L.A. - Read a book whose author's name (first or surname) begins with L or A
5. Many great movies started out as books - Read a book that was adapted into a movie
7. Roll out the red carpet - Read a book whose cover is red or whose title is written in red
9. Movies weren't always in colour?! - Read a book whose cover is mainly black and/or white
13. She dating who!? They broke up?! Celeb relationships are everywhere you look. - Read a book in which a relationship ends or a new relationship begins
16. Every actor/actress dreams of having the star role - Read a book in which the main character has the same first or surname as you
17. February 14th is Valentine's day. Studios release several romantic movies this time of year - Read a book from the romance genre
19. Harry Potter, The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings, Shrek. There are many great movie series! - Read a book from a series
21. Lots of books have been made in TV series too. - Read a book that has been made into a TV series or mini series
23. Oscars speeches have to be short and snappy with a maximum length of 45 seconds - Read a short book (no more than 100 pages)
THE WORD PLAY CHALLENGEDuration: April 1 - April 30, 2013
Our theme for April is poetry, so we thought we should have some fun with words for this challenge.
3. Alliteration. Read a book whose title contains alliteration of some sort (words that begin with the same or similar sounds). Examples: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Pride and Prejudice Gone Girl
5. Homophone. Read a book with a title containing a homophone (a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning) A Time to Heal-Quilts of Lancaster County #2 (HEEL)
6. Pidgin. Read a book in which the characters speak in some sort of slang. Examples: Honolulu (Hawaiian creole pidgin), Ender's Game (Battle School slang), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
7. Pseudonym. Read a book by an author who has assumed a pen name under which the book was published. Examples: Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum), George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) AND THEN THERE WERE NONE- AGATHA CHRISTIE (MARY WESTMACOTT)
TOP 100 BOOKS CHALLENGE
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
1984 by George Orwell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Alice in Wonderland (Alice, #1) by Lewis Carroll
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by Frank Herbert
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
A Wrinkle in Time (Time, #1) by Madeleine L'Engle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Twilight (Twilight, #1) by Stephenie Meyer
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Odyssey by Homer
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Dracula by Bram Stoker
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Interview With the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles, #1) by Anne Rice
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Stand by Stephen King
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Watchmen by Alan Moore
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
At Start of 2013: 21
Goal: 32
TO READ IN 2013: 11
Listopia Challenge
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
1.
2.Gone with the Wind
Best Young Adult Cover
1.
2.
Best Young Adult Books
1.Anne of Green Gables
2.
Books we read again and again
1.
2.The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Great American Novel
1.Ethan Frome
2.Daisy Miller and Washington Square
You Have The Right To Remain Silent 
Ex-Con - 1 book per category
Model Prisoner - 2 books per category
Lifer - 3 books per category
-Elementary My Dear Watson - Of course we start with Sherlock Holmes. This can be any book where Sherlock appears as a character (so it's not restricted to those written by Arthur Conan Doyle) ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
-The Little Grey Cells of Agatha Christie Any book from the wonderful imagination of Agatha Christie - there are certainly plenty to choose from! AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
-True Crime - A book which is based on a real incident (can be fiction or non-fiction).
-Watching the Detectives - The central character is a member of the police. JOHN DOE
-Outside The Law - The central character is a lawyer, private detective, criminal (i.e not a member of the police).
-Come Up To The Lab - Central character is a doctor/medical examiner.
-Things Ain't What They Used To Be Historical Crime (i.e a book that is not set in the present).
-Crime in a Cold Climate - A book that is written by an author from/set in Scandinavia (Norway, Finland, Sweden).
EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE
2003- The DaVinci Code
2004- The Return of the King
2005- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2006- One for the Money
2007-
2008- The Art of Racing in the Rain
2009-
2010- Mockingjay
2011- Those Amazing Dogs 2: In the Viking Volcano
2012- John Doe
2013- ?
2nd Quarter Challenge April 1-June 31
MAJOR FAIL!!!
1. Hard to get into books - Find books that you have either struggled to begin or finish in the past and turn to them again and resolve to completely finish them this time; Bel Canto
2. Mammoth books - If reading books in excess of 500 pages long would be an enormous challenge for you, then resolve to read such a book for this challenge; Clash of Kings
3. TBR books - Read books that have either been on your GR TBR shelf the longest or that you've had at home on your bookshelves the longest. Remember, these books still need to provide some form of challenge for you. Dracula
The History ChallengeDuration: January – December 2013
Categories (Years):
2011: Protests (Egypt, Libya and Occupy Wall Street): Read a book about people standing up for something they believe in.
2010: Earthquakes (Haiti, Chile): Read a book where weather takes a toll on a community. Surviving Sandy: A Battle Against That Deadly Whore Mother Nature
2009: Barak Obama Inaugurated: Read a book where racism plays a role in the character’s lives.
2008: Lady Gaga Releases First Album: Read a book about music, monsters or fame.
2006: Pluto Officially Demoted from Planetary Status: Read a book about space, astronauts, or exploration.
2005: YouTube Launches: Read a book about sharing, movies, or entrepreneurs.
2003: Amber Alert System Created: Read a book about someone who goes missing or runs/is running away from something.
1999: Columbine: Read a book about school or workplace violence.
1998: Google Founded: Read a book about Google, searching, or learning.
1997: Movie “Titanic” Opens: Read a book about the Titanic, shipwreck, or a life at sea.
1994: Rwandan Genocide: Read Shake Hands with the Devil, or another book about Rwanda or genocide (includes books about the Holocaust).
1992: Jay Leno Takes Over The Tonight Show: Read a book where television plays a role in the characters’ lives.
7/5 CHALLENGE COMPLETE
GROUP/ BUDDY READSJANUARY
FEBRUARY A Game of Thrones
MARCH
APRIL
MAY 11/22/63
JUNE Les Misérables
JULY Les Misérables The Catcher in the Rye
AUGUST The Picture of Dorian Gray
SEPTEMBERThe Last Song
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER Assassin's Apprentice
DECEMBER
DECADES QUARTERLY CHALLENGE
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2013
We will be focusing on different decades over this three month period. We will be able to learn a little history while reading.
The objective of this challenge is to either read a book from each decade or choose something that occured during the decade to read about. Here are our decades and some specific examples for reading...
1900-1909: NAACP founded, Boxer Rebellion, Model T car introduced, etc.
1910-1919: Titanic sinks, World War I, Spanish flu, etc.
1920-1929: Women's Sufferage, Stock Market Crash, First talking movie, etc.
1930-1939: Amelia Earhart, March of Dimes founded, King Edward VIII abdicates throne, etc.
1940-1949: World War II, United Nations founded, Polaroid Camera invented, etc.
1950-1959: First organ transplant, Soviet Satellite Sputnik, Antarctica becomes Scientific preserve, etc.
1970-1979: Watergate Scandal, Civil War in Lebanon, North and South Vietnam form Socialist Republic of Vietnam, etc.
1990-1999: Collapse of Soviet Union, Internet becomes popular, Mad Cow Disease, etc.
2000-2009: 9/11, First Black President (US)
2010-present: read anything you want from 2010-present
July's The Definition of a Classic Challenge
Duration: July 1 - July 31, 2013
1. The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying: 'I'm rereading…', never 'I'm reading….' Read a book on this Read Them Twice...At Least list. Les Misérables
5. A classic is a book which even when we read it for the first time gives the sense of rereading something we have read before. Read a new to you book. ?
6.
12. A classic is a work that comes before other classics; but those who have read other classics first immediately recognize its place in the genealogy of classic works. Read a book that's part of a series.A Clash of Kings
OOPS!!! FORGOT ABOUT THIS CHALLENGE. MAJOR FAIL!!! Ill read these books eventually! 
3rd Quarter Challenge: Authors!
Duration: July 1, 2013 - September 30, 2013
2. Read a book by an author from your home country.
A Texan's Promise
3. Read a book written by an author whose first language is different from your own. The Odyssey
10. Read a book by a Goodreads author.Jukebox Jezebel
13. Read a book by an author who has fewer than 25 fans. Journal of a Civil War Nurse
14. Read a book by an author who has greater than 1,000 fans.Little Women
15. Read a book by your favorite author.The Host
ALISON'S CLASSICS FOR 20131. The Catcher in the Rye
2. Ender's Game
3. The Princess Bride
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray
5.
Mid 2013-all of 2014 reading list1.
2. Les Miserables
3.
4. A Texan's Promise
5. John Doe
6. The Odyssey
7. Jukebox Jezebel
8. Journal of a Civil War Nurse
9. Return of the King
10. Little Women
11. The Host
12.
13. Mockingjay
14. The Lost Symbol
15. The DaVinci Code
16. Angels and Demons
17. Surviving Sandy: A Battle Against that Deadly Whore Mother Nature
18. And Then There Were None
19. A Storm of Swords
20. Jurrassic Park
21. Gone Girl
22. The Lost World
23.
24. 3+3
25. Fairytale Confidential
26. The Art of Racing in the Rain
27. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
28. Frankenstein
29. Dracula
30. The Seventh Mountain
31. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
32. A Feast of Crows
33. A Dance of Dragons
34. How to Survive the Hunger Games
35. Weep No More My Lady
36. Anastasia Syndrome
37. Pretend You Don't See Her
38. Frostbite
39. Shadow Kiss
40. Blood Promise
41. Spirit Bound
42. Last Sacrifice
43. Secret Vampire
44. Daughters of Darkness
45. Spell Binder
46. Moon Dance
47. One For The Money
48. Two For The Dough
49. Three to get Deadly
50. Four to Score
51. High Five
52. Hot Six
53. Seven Up
54. Vampire Moon
55. American Vampire
56. Moon Child
57. The Vampire with the Dragon Tattoo
58. The Vampire who Played Dead
59. Black Moon
60. Amber Moon
61. Silver Moon
62. Bel Canto
63. The Merman and the Moon Forgotten
64. Santa, Baby
65. Cowboy to the Rescue
66. Dead Until Dark
67. Living Dead in Dallas
68. Club Dead
69. Dead to the World
70. Dead as a Doornail
71. Definitely Dead
72. All Together Dead
73. From Dead to Worse
74. A is for Alibi
75. Txt
76. Your Happily Ever After
77. 8: The Previously Untold Story of the Previously Unknown Eighth Dwarf
78. Zombie
79. Talk of the Town
80. Shiver
81. 416
82. 50/50
83. Heaven is for Real
84. Island Child
85. The Quest for Crystals: The Book of Wind
86. The Return of Rafe MacKade
87. High Country Bride
88. The Sheriff's Runaway Bride
89. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
90. Master of the Nine Steps
91. More Jesus, Less Religion
92. The Quick and the Thread
93. Along Came a Spider
94. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
95. The Dogs of Babel
96. Mount Vernon Love Story
97. Orchard Valley Brides
98. Dress Your Family in Courderoy and Denim
99. Honeymoon in High Heels
100. Fade to Black
101.
102. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
103. 1984
104. Hamlet
105. Jane Eyre
106. Brave New World
107. The Great Gatsby
108. Wuthering Heights
109. The Handmaid's Tale
110. Alice in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
111. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1)
112. Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
113. Gone with the Wind
114. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
115. Slaughterhouse-Five
116. Sense and Sensibility
117. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
118. The Count of Monte Cristo
119. One Hundred Years of Solitude
120. Memoirs of a Geisha
121. The Kite Runner
122. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
123. Life of Pi
124. The Book Thief
125. Anna Karenina
126. The Color Purple
127. Rebecca
128. Catch-22
129. Crime and Punishment
130. East of Eden
131. A Tale of Two Cities
132. The Joy Luck Club
133. The Stranger
134. The Bell Jar
135. Interview With The Vampire
136. Rua
137. The Witching Hour
138. Fahrenheit 451
139. A Bride for Tom
140. Lasher
141. Anne of Green Gables
142. Out of Time: A Time Travel Mystery
143. Taltos
144. Out of Town a Few Days
145. Courting Catherine
146. Blood Promise
147. Birthday List
148. A Man For Amanda
149. For the Love of Lila
150. Suzanna's Surrender
151. A Magical History
152. Hot Summer
153. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that killed Osama bin Laden
154. The Mother Road
155. The Origin of Species
156. Enemy Match
157. The Human
158. The Last Vampire
159. Swallows and Amazons
160. Swallowdale
161. Bombshell
162. The Diary of Adam and Eve
163. Peter Pan
164. Underdead
165. Faceless Killers
THE CLUE CHALLENGE
Duration: October 1 - 31, 2013
Clue, or Cluedo outside North America, is a popular board game that matches our October theme, cozy mysteries. Mix and match the suspects, weapons, and rooms to "solve" the mystery! Each book you use for this challenge must have all three elements: the color that matches the suspect, the weapon that matches the title, and the room that matches the author.
You can reuse suspects, weapons, and rooms as long as the final answer is different in at least one element than a previous answer you've done. For example, if you use "Mrs. Peacock with the rope in the ballroom," you can't use it again, but you could use "Mrs. Peacock with the rope in the conservatory."
Suspects
The cover must contain the color of the suspect:
Miss Scarlett - Red
Colonel Mustard - Yellow
Mrs. White - White
Reverend Green - Green
Mrs. Peacock - Blue
Professor Plum - Purple
Weapons
One of the words in the title of the book must start with the same first letter as the weapon:
Candlestick - C
Knife - K
Lead Pipe - L
Revolver - R
Rope - R
Wrench - W
Rooms
One of the author's names must start with the same first letter as the room:
Kitchen - K
Ballroom - B
Conservatory - C
Dining Room - D
Lounge - L
Hall - H
Study - S
Billiard Room - B
Library - L
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
by Francis Chan Miss Scarlett with the Candlestick in the Conservatory
October books*Dead Until Dark
*Les Miserables
*Living Crazy Love- Miss Scarlett, Lead Pipe, Conservatory
*John Doe
2025 Reading Challenge
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A-Atlanta HeatB-BRAVE
C-
The Catcher in the RyeD-Dead Until Dark
E-
Ender's GameF-
Facebook's Lost LoveG-
A Game of ThronesH-Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
I-Island Child
J- John Doe (Rizzoli and Isles)
K-Kahonua Island
L-The Lottery WinnerM- malachi: a love that never lets goN-Nicholas and Company: The Merman and the moon forgotten
O-On the Street Where You Live
P-The Princess BrideQ-The Quest for the Crystals: The Book of Wind
R-The Return of Rafe MacKade
S-Shiver
T-Tail SpinU-Under a Vampire Moon
V-Vampire AcademyW-Weeping Willow
X-Txt
Y-Your Happily Ever After
Z-Zombie
1-
11/22/632- Two For the Dough
3-3+3
4-416
5-50/50
6-69 Old Hard Road book 5- Best Friends
7-The Seventh Mountain
8-8: The Previously Untold Story of the Previously Unknown 8th Dwarf
9-Master of the Nine Steps
COULDNT FINISH
- Bel Canto
-Boxers (i thought it was a story about Boxers, but it was a Boxer's diary. To stupid for me)