The Next Best Book Club discussion

I want to try to read 100 books this year. Another challenge I have is the 7 classics challenge (which I changed to 15) and the "Variety is the spice of life" challenge.

Variety is the Spice of Life Challenge

Rules:
1. Each book can only satisfy one requirement.
2. Only one book per author. The idea is to branch out after all.

Read one book by an author of the opposite gender. Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
Read one book by a living author. The Long Walk by Stephen King
Read one book by deceased author. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Read one book which was originally written in a language other than English. (Translated or not, your choice) Kallocain by Karin Boye (Swedish)
Read one book which is non-fiction. Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
Read one genre book
-Fantasy:Magician by Raymond E. Feist
- Sci-Fi: Greg Bear - Star Wars: Rogue Planet
- Mystery: Simon Beckett - Written In Bone
- Western: Laura Ingalls Wilder - The Golden Years
- Romance: Jane Green - Swapping Lives
- Horror: Dean Koontz - Midnight
Read one work of literary fiction. The Remains of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguero
Read one book classified as "Young Adult" All American Girll by Meg Cabot
Read a short story collection or anthology. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
Read a poetry collection, poetry anthology, or an epic poem. Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson
Read a graphic novel.
Read a banned book. George Orwell - 1984

The 17 Classics Challenge

1. Anonymous - Sweeney Todd or the String of Pearls
2. Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's Houose
3. Karin Boye - Kallocain
4.Fjodor Dostojevskij – Crime And Punishment
5 Jane Austen – Emma
6. Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre
7. Gaston Leroux – The Phantom of the Opera
8. H. P Lovecraft – The Loved Dead
9. Herman Melville – Moby Dick
10. Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
11. Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
12. F. S Fitzgerald - Tender Is The Night
13. Anne Brontë - The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
14. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
15. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
16. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
17. Charles Dickens - Bleak House

So far I've read these:
January

1. Ewan McGregor - Long Way Round Chasing Shadows Across the World
2. Timothy Zahn - Star Wars The Thrawn Trilogy II - Dark Force Rising
3. Michael Reaves - Star Wars Darth Maul - Shadow Hunter
4. Stephenie Meyer - New Moon
5. Stephenie Meyer - Eclipse
6. Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men

February
7. Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
8. John Ajvide Lindqvist - Let the Right One In
9. Timothy Zahn - Star Wars The Thrawn Trilogy III - The Last Command
10. Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass
11.Philip Pullman – The Subtle Knife 090221
12. Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass 090223
13. Raymond E. Feist – Magician's Apprentice (Magician I) 090225

March:
14. Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman – Dragonlance
Chronicles Vol 1: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, 090301
15. Tsitsi Dangarembga – Nervous Conditions, 090301
16. Stephen King – The Gunslinger, 090304
17. Stieg Larsson – Luftslottet Som Sprängdes (MILLENNIUM Part 3), 090305
18. Raymond E. Feist – Between Two Worlds (Magician II), 090307
19. Philippa Gregory – The Constant Princess, 090308
20. Stephenie Meyer – Breaking Dawn , 090317
21. David Gibbins – Atlantis, 090320
22. Anonymous – Sweeney Tood or The String of Pearls, 090326
23. J M Coetzee – Disgrace, 090330

April:
24. Peter Pohl – Johnny, My Friend, 090401
25. Reginald Hill – On Beulah Height, 090404
26. Raymond E. Feist – Master of Magic (Magician III), 090407
27. Stephen King – Carrie, 090409
28. Roberto Saviano – Gomorrah, 090409

How was gomorrah?

I liked it. It was interesting and scary at the same time. I didn't think that it was "easy" to read it, it took me about 1 and a half month to finish it. But I would definitely recommend it :)

29. Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
30.Simon Beckett - Written In Bone

Liz wrote: "I liked it. It was interesting and scary at the same time. I didn't think that it was "easy" to read it, it took me about 1 and a half month to finish it. But I would definitely recommend it :)"

Also the movie doesn't seem an easy, relaxing movie but then again the topic and the one who wrote it never knows if he will live the next second since he started to publicly be against the mafia.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I agree with what you say.

31. Jane Green - Swapping Lives

32. Karin Boye - Kallo Cain

33. Jackie Collins - Vendetta Luckys Revenge

34. T.N Murari - Taj

35. Stephen King - The Dark Half

36. Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
37. Stephen King - Pet Sematary

38. Simon Beckett - Chemistry of Death

39. Doris Lessing - The Fifth Child

40. Patricia Cornwell - Body of Evidence

41. Diana Gabaldon - The Fiery Cross

42. Markus Zusak - The Book Thief

43. Joe Hill - 20th Century Ghosts

44. Stephen King - The Long Walk

45. Mitch Albom - Five People You Meet In Heaven

46. Patricia Cornwell - All That Remains

47. Mark Billingham - Buried

48. Reginald Hill - Deadheads

49. Charles Dickens - Bleak House

50. Sheila O'Flanagan - Too Good To Be True

51. Cormac McCarthy - The Road

52. P.D James - Unnatural Causes

53. Meg Cabot - All American Girl

54. Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark

55. Norman Lewis - The Honoured Society

56. Mari Jungstedt - Den Döende Dandyn

57. Johan Theorin-Echoes From the Dead

58. Patricia Cornwell - Cruel And Unusual

59. Tony Parsons - Stories We Could Tell

60. Stephen King - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

61. John Grisham - The Last Juror

62. Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

63. Jo Nesbo - Kackerlackorna

64. Jim Kelly - The Fire Baby

65. Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance Chronicles Vol II)

66. Peter James - Dead Simple. I really liked this book!

67. Mons Kallentoft - Midvinterblod

68. Ann Rosman - Fyrmästarens Dotter

69. Mons Kallentoft - Sommardöden

70. Paulo Coelho - The Witch of Portobello

71. Simon Sebag Montefiore - Young Stalin

72. Michael Connelly - The Narrows