2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Read in 2014     To-Read in 2014

Yearly Challenges
2014 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge
Dewey Deciaml Challenge
The Randomiser Challenge
The Goodreads 100 Challenge
The Monopoly Sub Genre Challenge
Don't start a new series until you finish an old one!

Quarterly Challenges
Rainbow Challenge
#readwomen2014
Finish Those Series

Monthly Challenges
February: Explorations in Love
The Daylight Saving Time Mini Challenge
The Mnemonic Challenge
The Very Mini Birthday Challenge
The July Hoarders Challenge

Other Challenges
Finish Those Series'
BBC 100 Challnge
The Twelve Towers Challenge

My Personal Challenge 
My 2013 Corner
My 2012 Corner

Read 2014

1. The Virgins - ★★★★★ - 03/01/14
2. The Originals ★★★☆☆ - 06/01/14
3. This Is the Bear and the Scary Night - ★★★☆☆ - 12/01/14
4. Five Go to Smuggler's Top - ★★★☆☆ - 24/01/14
5. The Cuckoo's Calling - ★★★☆☆ - 28/01/14

6. A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast - ★★★★☆ - 11/02/14
7. Great Expectations - ★★★★★ - 17/02/14
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - ★★★★☆ - 19/02/14
9. Resist - ★★★☆☆ - 24/02/14
10. Y Dylluan Wen - ★★★★☆ - 25/02/14
11. An Inspector Calls - ★★★★☆ - 27/02/14
12. Autobiography - ★★★☆☆ - 28/02/14

13. Requiem - ★★★☆☆ - 02/03/14
14. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - ★★★☆☆ - 06/03/14
15. Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven - ★★★☆☆ - 08/03/14
16. Fight Club - ★★★★★ - 09/03/14
17. The Help - ★★★★☆ - 13/03/14
18. Mother, Mother - ★★☆☆☆ - 18/03/14
19. A Clockwork Orange - ★★★★★ - 19/03/14
20. American Gods - ★★☆☆☆ - 26/03/14
21. Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase - ★★★☆☆ - 29/03/14
22. The Phoenix and the Carpet - ★★★★☆ - 30/03/14

23. Ignite Me - ★★★★☆ - 07/04/14
24. Middlemarch - ★★★★☆ - 12/04/14
25. The 39 Steps- ★★★☆☆ - 14/04/14
26. Paper Towns - ★★★☆☆ - 14/04/14
27. Into the Still Blue - ★★★☆☆ - 24/04/14
28. Lord of the Flies - ★★★★☆ - 26/04/14
29. The Odyssey - ★★★☆☆ - 26/04/14
30. Notes from Underground - ★★★★☆ - 27/04/14

2014 Goodreads Choice Awards
January 1st - December 31st
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Young Adult Fantasy
Into the Still Blue - ★★★☆☆ - 24/04/14
Ignite Me - ★★★★☆ - 07/04/14
Ruins - ★★★☆☆ - 13/05/14
Ruination - ★★★☆☆ - 31/05/14
Dreams of Gods and Monsters - ★★★★☆ - 23/06/14

Young Adult Fiction
Panic (march)
Tease
Trouble
Say What You Will

Fantasy
The Bastards and the Knives (march)
The Thorn of Emberlain (november)

Fiction
Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase - ★★★☆☆ - 29/03/14 ?
+ 1 more

Historical Fiction
The Invention of Wings - ★★☆☆☆ - 18/07/14
Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase - ★★★☆☆ - 29/03/14 ?
Edge of Eternity - ★★★★☆ - 29/11/14
All the Light We Cannot See
Edge of Eternity

Completed - 8/10

Dewey Decimal Challenge
January 1st - December 31st
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700-799: Autobiography - ★★★☆☆ - 28/02/14
800-899: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - ★★★★☆ - 08/10/14

Possibilities
Quiet - 155
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - 616
Mein Kampf - 943
Girl, Interrupted - 616
Oscar Wilde: A Biography - 828
Judging a Book by its Lover - 818
Homage to Catalonia - 946
The Communist Manifesto - 335
The Secret History - 949
Some of my Friends have Tails - 599
Why not Catch-21? - 809
The Future of the Mind - 612

Completed - 2/5

The Randomiser Challenge
January 1st - December 31st
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January - The Originals ★★★☆☆ - 06/01/14
February - Mother, Mother - ★★☆☆☆ - 18/03/14
March - A Clockwork Orange - ★★★★★ - 19/03/14
April - Fragments - ★★★☆☆ - 06/05/14
May - Red Seas Under Red Skies
June - A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder - ★★★★☆ - 26/06/14
July - If This is Man
August - The Other Typist - ★★☆☆☆ - 20/08/14
September - Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow, #2) - ★★★★☆ - 19/10/14
oscar wilde
dragon tatoo
the haumted house

Completed - 7/12

The Goodreads 100 Challenge
January 1st - December 31st
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List here
3. The Catcher in the Rye - ★★★☆☆ - 18/10/14
8. Hamlet - ★★★★☆ - 11/06/14
9. Jane Eyre - ★★★★☆ - 24/10/14
17. Wuthering Heights (owned)
20. Lord of the Flies - ★★★★☆ - 26/04/14
24. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (owned)
26. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (owned)
27. Gone with the Wind
32. Slaughterhouse-Five
42. The Count of Monte Cristo
44. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - ★★★★☆ - 19/02/14
47. The Odyssey - ★★★☆☆ - 26/04/14
48. Memoirs of a Geisha (buddy read February)
52. And Then There Were None - ★★★★☆ - 29/05/14
51. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (owned)
58. Crime and Punishment (buddy read November)
60. Catch-22 (owned)
64. The Outsider - ★★★★☆ - 16/07/14
69. The Stand
70. The Road - ★★★☆☆ - 28/06/14
71. The Bell Jar
71. Lolita - ★★★★☆ - 08/11/14
72. The Help - ★★★★☆ - 13/03/14
73. The Sun Also Rises
75. The Pillars of the Earth (owned)
77. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
84. American Gods - ★★☆☆☆ - 26/03/14
84. Outlander
89. The Brothers Karamazov (buddy read January)
90. The Wind up Bird Chronicle
92. Beloved
94. Fight Club - ★★★★★ - 09/03/14
96. Ulysses - ★★★☆☆ - 13/07/14
98. Middlesex - ★★★☆☆ - 29/05/14
100. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao


Completed - 15/18

The Monopoly Sub Genre Challenge
January 1st - December 31st
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✓ Young Adult
Coming of Age - Paper Towns - ★★★☆☆ - 14/04/14
YA Fantasy - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - ★★★☆☆ - 06/03/14

Historical (time periods)
Medieval - A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast - ★★★★☆ - 11/02/14
Victorian - Great Expectations - ★★★★★ - 17/02/14
Ancient - The Odyssey - ★★★☆☆ - 26/04/14

Fantasy
Epic/high fantasy - Red Seas Under Red Skies
Mythic fiction - American Gods - ★★☆☆☆ - 26/03/14
Magical realism - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Science Fiction
Cyberpunk/Steampunk - Cress
Dystopian - Resist - ★★★☆☆ - 24/02/14
Space Opera - Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow, #2) - ★★★★☆ - 19/10/14

✓ Romance
Historical Romance - Jane Eyre - ★★★★☆ - 24/10/14
Paranormal Romance - Dreams of Gods and Monsters - ★★★★☆ - 23/06/14
Chick-lit - The Virgins - ★★★★★ - 03/01/14

Biographical
Memoir - Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History - ★★★☆☆ - 19/07/14
Autobiography - Autobiography - ★★★☆☆ - 28/02/14
Biography - Oscar Wilde

Non-fiction
History - Mein Kampf/Homage to Catalonia/The Communist Manifesto
Science - Quiet

✓ Suspense
Crime - The Cuckoo's Calling - ★★★☆☆ - 28/01/14
Horror - The Green Mile, Part 1: The Two Dead Girls - ★★★☆☆ - 08/11/14
Mystery - An Inspector Calls - ★★★★☆ - 27/02/14

Completed Books - 17/22
Monopolies - 4/8

Don't start a new series until you've finished on old one!
As long as you can
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Not exactly a challenge, but I thought it'd be good idea to try not to let the list of currently reading series grow too long so this is a mini personal challenge of mine for the year and possibly the next few years too.

Finished in 2014
1. Breathe
2. Delirium
3. Shatter Me
4. Under the Never Sky
5. Partials
6. Daughter of Smoke and Bone
7. Maus
8. Century

Started in 2014
1. Miss Peregrine
2. Worlds Apart
3. If I Stay
4. Maus
5. Century
6. The Green Mile
7. Little House

Rainbow Challenge
January 1st - March 31st
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Red: - ★★★★★ - 09/03/14
Orange: - ★★★★☆ - 30/03/14
Yellow: - ★★★★☆ - 13/03/14
Green: ★★★☆☆ - 06/01/14
Blue: - ★★★☆☆ - 08/03/14
Indigo: - ★★★☆☆ - 28/02/14
Violet: - ★★★☆☆ - 07/03/14
Rainbow: - ★★★☆☆ - 29/03/14

Completed - 8/7

#readwomen2014
April 1st - June 30th
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1. Pamela Erens - The Virgins - ★★★★★ - 03/01/14
2. Cat Patrick - The Originals ★★★☆☆ - 06/01/14
3. Angharad Jones - Y Dylluan Wen - ★★★★☆ - 25/02/14
4. Kathryn Stockett - The Help - ★★★★☆ - 13/03/14
5. Koren Zailckas - The Help - ★★★★☆ - 13/03/14
6. Louise Walters - Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase - ★★★☆☆ - 29/03/14
7. George Eliot - Middlemarch - ★★★★☆ - 12/04/14
8. Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None - ★★★★☆ - 29/05/14
9. Amanda Thome - Ruination - ★★★☆☆ - 31/05/14
10. Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes - ★★★★☆ - 07/06/14
11. Beverley Naidoo - The Other Side of Truth ★★★☆☆ - 24/06/14
12. Gayle Forman - If I Stay - ★★★☆☆ - 26/06/14

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
The Other Side of Truth by Beverly Naidoo
Some of my Friends have tails - Virginia McKenna
Flambards - K.M. Peyton

Completed 12/12

Finish Those Series
April 1st - June 30th
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✓Touching Juliette
Shatter Me
Unravel Me
Ignite Me - ★★★★☆ - 07/04/14

✓Under the Never Sky
Under the Never Sky
Through the Ever Night
Into the Still Blue - ★★★☆☆ - 24/04/14

✓Partials
Partials
Fragments - ★★★☆☆ - 06/05/14
Ruins - ★★★☆☆ - 13/05/14

✓Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Days of Blood & Starlight
Dreams of Gods and Monsters - ★★★★☆ - 23/06/14

✓Unwind
Unwind
UnWholly
UnSouled - ★★★★★ - 30/06/14

Completed Books - 6/6

Completed Series - 5/5

Quick Reads Challenge
October 1st - December 31st
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1. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - ★★★★☆ - 08/10/14
2. More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - ★★★☆☆ - 19/10/14
3. The Green Mile, Part 1: The Two Dead Girls - ★★★☆☆ - 08/11/14


The Canterville Ghost
The Haunted House
The Metamorphosis
The Catcher in the Rye
In the Winter Dark
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Slaughterhouse Five
Sherlock Holmes Book
The Sun Also Rises

Completed - 3/5

February: Explorations in love
February 1st - February 28th
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1. Philia. Translated from the ancient Greek as brotherly love. Read a book that features some sort of ‘bromance’ or two strong male characters.
Great Expectations - ★★★★★ - 17/02/14

4. Autassassinophilia. Another way to say you love death, destruction, or mayhem. Read a mystery, horror, or thriller.
An Inspector Calls - ★★★★☆ - 27/02/14

5. Chronophilia. When you only date people of a certain age group, derived from the God Chronos (father time). Read a book where the main characters are vastly different age ranges OR read a book that spans a large amount of time.
A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast - ★★★★☆ - 11/02/14

6. Biophilia. A love of nature. Coined by the great E. O. Wilson. Read a book whose setting takes place in nature or wild and untamed lands OR read a book about ecology. Bonus if you read a book by Edward O. Wilson!
Resist - ★★★☆☆ - 24/02/14

9. Plushophilia. A love of stuffed animals. They even call themselves plushies. Read a book about a sub-culture OR read a book involving anthropomorphism. (personification)
Y Dylluan Wen - ★★★★☆ - 25/02/14

Completed 5/5

Daylight Saving Time Mini Challenge
March 1st - March 31st
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1. Read a book set in a place that currently uses daylight savings time.
Mother, Mother - ★★☆☆☆ - 18/03/14

3. Daylight savings time was first implemented in 1916. Read a book that takes place before 1916.
The Phoenix and the Carpet - ★★★★☆ - 30/03/14

4. Daylight savings time was first proposed by a man named George Veronon Hudson. Read a book by an author who shares an initial with George Vernon Hudson.
American Gods - ★★☆☆☆ - 26/03/14

Completed 3/3

The Mnemonic Challenge
March 1st - March 31st
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2. My Enormous Penguin Bounces Pretty High is to remember the series of alkanes in chemistry. Read a book that features an animal that is not typically kept as a pet (like a penguin).
The Phoenix and the Carpet

4. Wives of Henry VIII: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Read a book in which a character is part of an unhappy marriage.
The Help

5. Mrs. Baker is used to remember the eight common law felonies (murder, rape, sodomy, burglary, arson, kidnapping, escape, robbery). Read a book in a which one of these felonies takes place.
Fight Club/American Gods

6. Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally (PEMDAS) is to remember the order of operations in math (parenthesis, exponents, multiplication & division, addition & subtraction). Read a book that has a Goodreads description that includes parentheses.

7. Every good boy does fine is the mnemonic for the notes on the five lines of the treble clef. Read a book that involves music in some way.
A Clockwork Orange

8. I before E, except after C read a book that has a title containing a word following the mnemonic (e.g., it could contain the word "friend" or "receive").
Requiem/ Delirium Stories

Completed 5/3

The Very Mini Birthday Challenge
May 1st - May 31st
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1. Read a book that was published year you were born.

2. Read a book from an author who shares a birthday or birth year with you.

Completed - 0/2

The Hoarders Challenge
July 1st - July 31st
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1. Read the book that has been on your Goodreads TBR list longest.
Z for Zacharah
Eldest
Cress

2. Read a book from your physical book shelf or any other stash of books.

3. Read a book you got as a gift or for free.

4. Read a book recommended by or borrowed from a friend.

5. Read a group read that you missed.
The Catcher in the Rye

6. Read the next book in a series that you've neglected.
Red Seas Under Red Skies

7. Read the book that you've most recently added to your TBR list.
Night or The Epic of Gilgamesh

8. Read a book you started and never finished.

9. Read a book you bought with great intentions to read and just haven't got to it yet.

10. Read a book that you should have read in high school or college but you faked through instead.

Completed 0/5

monthly challenge

1. Loads of options

2. Lolita
Catch-22
A Farewell to Arms

3. 2001/2009: Catcher in the Rye

4. 94: Goosebumps

5. Roald Dahl, stephen king, mark twain

6. Mein Kampf, Catch-22

7. Jane Eyre

My list will be general from the most rated books on goodreads. Over 1,000,000, Over 500,000 and Over 200,000 ratings. Later books in any series are optional.

2. The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
4. The Hitchicker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. Memoirs of a Geisha
6. Slaughter-house Five
7. The Alchemist
8. Where the Sidewalk Ends
9. Gone With The Wind
10. Water for Elephants
11. The Secret Life of Bees
12. Charlotte's Webb
13. Fifty Shades of Grey (this is optinal, perhaps when I'm older)
14. Wuthering Heights
15. The Shining
16. Gone Girl
17. Eat, Pray, Love
18. Sense and Sensibility
19. A Thousand Splendid Suns
21. Where the Wild Things Are
22. Watchmen
23. The Five People You Meet in Heaven
24. The Grapes of Wrath
25. Catch-22
27. Crime and Punishment
28. Emma
29. The Scarlet Letter
30. The Poisonwood Bible
31. Room
32. The Bell Jar
33. One Hundred Years of Solitude
34. Confessions of a Shopaholic
35. Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood
36. Lolita
37. Wicked
38. The Outsiders
39. Atonement
40. The Glass Castle

Years I haven't read of the 20th Century

1979: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1967: The Outsiders or Flambards
1958: If This is Man/The Truce or Night
1944: Caligula
1938: Homage of Catalonia
1935: Little House of the Prairie
1934: Burmese Days?
1933: Down and Out in Paris and London
1931: The Waves by Viginia Woolf
1930: Swallows and Amazons or Nancy Drew
1929: A Farewell to Arms
1928: All Quiet on the Western Front / Lady Chaterly's lover
1927: The Big Four?
1924:
1923: The Murder on the Links?
1922: Siddhartha
1921:
1919:
1918: My Antonia
1917:
1916:
1914: Dubliners
1913:
1912: Metamorphosis
1910:
1909: The Arabian Nights
1907:
1906: The Story of the Amulet
1905: A Little Princess
1903:

And the 19th Century
1800:
1801:
1802:
1803:
1804:
1805:
1806:
1807:
1808:
1809:
1810:
1811:
1812 Brothers Grimm
1814: Peter Schlemihl
1815: The Devil's Elixirs
1816:
1817:
1819: Ivanhoe
1820:
1821:
1822:
1823:
1824:
1825:
2826:
1827:
1828:
1829: The Last Day of a Condemned Man
1830:
1831:
1832:
1833:
1834:
1836:
1838:
1839: Nicholas Nickleby
1840:
1841: The Old Curiosity Shop or Barnaby Rudge
1842: The Black Spider
1846: The Double
1848: Dombey and Son/The Communist Manifesto
1849: David Copperfield
1850: The Scarlet Letter
1851:
1852:
1853: Bleak House
1855:
1856:
1857: Little Dorrit
1858:
1859: The Haunted House
1861: Silas Marner
1863: Five Weeks in a Balloon
1866:
1867:
1869: War and Peace
1870: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1871:
1874:
1875:
1876:
1878:
1879:
1880:
1881: Silas Marner
1882:
1883: Treasure Island
1885:
1886: The Mayor of Casterbridge
1887: Ivanov
1888: Ocsar Wilde Fairy Tales
1889:
1891: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1892: The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
1893:
1895:
1897: The War of the Worlds
1898:
1899:

16th Century: Utopia
15th Century: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
14th Century: The Canterbury Tales
13th Century:
12th Century:
11th Century: The Pillow Book
10th Century: From the Meadows of Gold
9th Century: The Arabian Nights
8th Century:
7th Century:
6th Century: The Secret History
5th Century: The Art of War
4th Century: Confessions
3rd Century: The Library of Greek Mythology
2nd Century: Meditations
1st Century: The Aenid or Metamorphoses

A Book a Day?

Where the Sidewalk Ends - 176 pages
The Stranger - 123 pages
The Bell Jar - 244 pages
Like Water For Chocolate - 224 pages
Interpreter of Maladies - 198 pages

Utopia - 135 pages
The Last Summer of Reason - 145 pages
Girl, Interrupted - 168 pages
A Moveable Feast - 181
Fly on the Wall - 182
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - 190
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - 192

+ all owned books under 200 pages

Finial(ish) List - 1244
Maus - library, 296 pages
The Stranger - 125 pages
In the Winter Dark - 110
Utopia - Wendnesday

Finsh Those Series'
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This isn't a challenge, as such. It's just a place where I can keep track of all the series' I've finished. At the moment, that list is really short, but as more books come out it should grow. :)

Finshed - 22 - 93/93
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling - 7/7
Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Steifvater - 3/3
Twlight by Stephenie Meyer - 4/4
Witch Child by Celia Rees - 2/2
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - 4/4
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - 3/3
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis - 7/7
Maximum Ride by James Patterson - 8/8
Maze Runner by James Dashner - 3/3
Matched by Ally Condie - 3/3
Gone by Michael Grant - 6/6
The Chemical Garden by Lauren Destefano - 3/3
The Blemished by Sarah Dalton - 3/3
Divergent by Veronica Roth - 3/3
The Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine - 15/15
Breathe - 2/2
Delirium - 3/3
Touching Juliette - 3/3
Under the Never Sky - 3/3
Partials by Dan Wells - 3/3
Daughter of Smoke and Bone - 3/3
Maus - 2/2

Ongoing series - 29, 67/150, 23 unpublished
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin - 5/7
Ender's Saga by Orson Scott Card - 5/13
Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Mayer - 2/4
Saving Sabrina by Michelle Frank - 1/?
BZRK by Michael Grant - 1/2
Legend by Marie Lu - 2/3
Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde 2/8
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman - 1/4
Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien - 1/3
Starters by Lissa Price - 1/2
Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris - 2/13
Heaven's Edge by Jennifer Silverwood - 2/3
Dust Lands by Moira Young - 2/3
Unwind by Neal Shusterman - 2/4
Inheritance by Christopher Poalini - 1/4
XVI by Julia Karr - 2/3
Inkworld by Cornelia Funke - 1/3
Ma series by Martha Long - 1/8
Jessica by Beth Fantaskey - 1/2
Tillerman Cycle by Cynthia Voigt - 1/7
Famous Five by Enid Blyton - 4/21
Five Children by E. Nesbit - 2/3
Dave Pelzer by Dave Pelzer - 2/4
Book of Faerie by Maggie Steifvater - 2/3
Robert Langdon by Dan Brown - 3/4
Gentleman Bastard by Scott Lynch - 1/7
Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld - 1/3
The Mortality Doctrine by James Dashner - 1/2
Miss Peregrine - 1/2

Started, will not finish - 27
Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith
Caster Chronicles by Kami Garcia
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
The Evolution trilogy by David Estes
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore
Weather Wardens by Rachel Caine
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Anne by L.M. Montgomery
Mortal Instuments by Cassandra Clare
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Luke and Eve by Sophie McKenzie
Children of the Lamp by P.B. Kerr
Everworld by Katherine Applegate
Skellig by David Almond
Holes by Louis Sachar
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Animorphs by Katherine Applegate
Amelia Jane by Enid Blyton
Fairy Magic by Daisy Meadows
The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
Book of Ember - 1/4
Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert

BBC 100 Challenge
1997 - 2027
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For this challenge I'll be reading books off this list. I want to have finished it by the time I turn 30, if possible, and will start keeping track now.

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen - 2013
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte - 2014
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling - 2007
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee - 2010
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell - 2012
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens - 2014
11. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott - 2011
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 - 2008
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger - 2014
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Nifnegger - 2013
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot - 2014
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald - 2013
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 - 2013
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame - 2002?
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy - 2012
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis - 2011
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - 2006?
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini - 2012
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne - 2004?
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell - 2012
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown - 2012
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 - 2012
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood - 2013
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding - 2014
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel - 2012
52. Dune – Frank Herbert - 2013
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 - 2013
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley - 2012
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon - 2011
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck - 2012
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold - 2011
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 - 2008
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker - 2013
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett - 2007?
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce - 2014
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens - 2012
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker - 2013
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 Albom
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 - 2011
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare - 2014
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl - 2013
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo - 2013

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The Book of Lost Things - owned
Cloud Atlas - owned
Requiem - kobo
Lord of the Flies - kobo, library
The Well of Lost Plots - library, borrow
Champion
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - library
And Then There Were None - kobo, library
The Stand - library
The Road - library
The Pillars of the Earth - library
American Gods - borrowed
Fight Club - library
Slaughterhouse-Five - library
Memoirs of a Geisha - kobo, library
The Odyssey
Ulysses - ebook library
Catch-22
The Help - ebook library
Into the Still Blue
Enders
Panic
The Bastards and the Knives
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - library, borrow
Mein Kampf - library
Fragments
UnSouled
NEB Ond Ni - kobo, library
Blasu - kobo, library
Ignite Me
Shadow Puppets - owned
Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow, #2) - owned
Shadow of the Giant
First Meetings in Ender's Universe - owned
Red Seas Under Red Skies - library

Lilac wrote: "BBC 100 Challenge"


I just stumbled upon your 'Corner' and had to say Awesome Goal Lilac! You're on a roll already!

Thank you! :D