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Lynne (lmsindel) | 37 comments I am going to keep all my challenges in this one place so I don't have to look all over for them.


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Lynne (lmsindel) | 37 comments BBC CHALLENGE

Here Goes:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 THE LORD OF THE RINGS - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 THE HARRY POTTER SERIES - JK Rowling
5 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR - George Orwell
9 HIS Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (1/3 DONE)
10 GREAT EXPECTATIONS - Charles Dickens
11 LITTLE WOMEN - Louisa M Alcott
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
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 CATCHER IN THE RYE – JD Salinger
19 THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - maybe
21 GONE WITH THE WIND - Margaret Mitchell
22 THE GREAT GATSBY - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 BLEAK HOUSE - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 THE HITCHICKER'S GUIDE - 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
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 CHORNICLES OF NARNIA - CS Lewis
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA - Arthur Golden
40 WINNIE THE POOH - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 THE DA VINCI CODE - Dan Brown
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
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 LORD OF THE FLIES - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 LIFE OF PI - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
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
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 OF MICE AND MEN - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
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
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A CHRISTMAS CAROL - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
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 Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad started but never finished
92 THE LITTLE PRINCE - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A TOWN LIKE ALICE - Nevil Shute
97 THE THREE MUSKETEERS - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 CHARLIE AND THE CHOLATE FACTORY - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


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message 4: by Lynne (last edited Aug 07, 2011 06:51PM) (new)

Lynne (lmsindel) | 37 comments 7 CLASSICS CHALLENGE:

Okay, here are 12 I want to read, in no particular order. I will try to actually get to 6 of them this year (half):

1) Pride and Prejudice
2) Farenheit 451
3) Picture of Dorian Gray
4) The Bridge of San Luis Rey
5) The Good Earth
6) Rebecca
7) Hound of the Baskervilles
8) How Green Was My Valley
9) The Ox Bow Incident


message 5: by Lynne (last edited Jul 31, 2011 05:25PM) (new)

Lynne (lmsindel) | 37 comments http://www.listology.com/list/1001-bo... (have read):

#49 LIFE OF PI
#86 THE PIOSONWOOD BIBLE
#93 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
#133 THE SHIPPING NEWS
#196 A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY
#227 WATCHMEN
#293 THE NAME OF THE ROSE
#301 THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
#335 RAGTIME
#435 THE COLLECTOR
#456 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
#470 A TOWN LIKE ALICE
#477 THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
#494 THE LORD OF THE RINGS
#508 THE LORD OF THE FLIES
#518 CASINO ROYALE
#521 THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
#525 THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
#547 1984
#552 CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY
#563 BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
#574 THE LITTLE PRINCE
#592 THE GRAPES OF WRATH
#608 OF MICE AND MEN
#610 THE HOBBIT
#619 GONE WITH THE WIND
#632 THE NINE TAILORS
#639 THANK YOU JEEVES
#660 THE MALTESE FALCON
#667 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
#699 THE GREAT GATSBY
#747 TARZAN OF THE APES
#825 THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
#835 BEN HUR
#848 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
#863 LITTLE WOMEN
#876 GREAT EXPECTATIONS
#883 A TALE OF TWO CITIES
#890 BLEAK HOUSE
#906 THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
#908 THE THREE MUSKETEERS
#913 A CHRISTMAS CAROL
#930 IVANHOE
#1001 AESOP'S FABLES


message 6: by Lynne (last edited Jul 31, 2011 05:25PM) (new)

Lynne (lmsindel) | 37 comments http://www.listology.com/list/1001-bo... (want to read):

#19 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
#43 The Corrections
#60 City of GOd
#62 The Human Stain
#124 The Master of Petersburg
#165 Wild Swans: 3 Daughters of China
#190 The Remains of the Day
#272 The Color Purple
#276 The House of Spirits
#284 July's People
#298 Burger's Daughter
#339 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
#420 Sometimes a Great Notion
#430 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
#450 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
#464 Henderson the Rain King
#474 Mrs. 'arris Goes to Paris
#486 Dr. Zhivago
#499 The Quiet American
#514 Lucky Jim
#535 The Third Man
#586 Farewell, My Lovely
#599 THe Big Sleep
#601 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
#603 Rebecca
#642 Murder Must Advertise
#652 The Thin Man
#695 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
#703 The Professor's House
#743 The 39 Steps
#780 Heart of Darkness
#781 Hound of the Bskervilles
#804 Sherlock Holmes
#809 THe Picture of Dorian Gray
#873 Les Miserables
#918 Oliver Twist
#922 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
#923 The Red and the Black
#925 The Last of the Mohicans
#938 Pride and Prejudice
#940 Sense and Sensibility

...and there you have it!


message 7: by Lynne (last edited Aug 07, 2011 06:52PM) (new)

Lynne (lmsindel) | 37 comments TOTALS:

I am 16/30 for the year

I am 13/26 for the A-Z title challenge

I am 3/6 for the classics challenge

I am 0/5 for the BBC challenge

I am 44/1001 books before I die all time.


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