75 Books...More or Less! discussion

Now that I completed my 50 book challenge, I am going to see if I can make 75.

1. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut ***
2. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl ****
3. Tunnels of Blood by Darran Shan ****
4. Empire of the Sun by J.G Ballard ***
5. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens ****
6. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold ***
7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass by Louis Carroll ****
8. Villette by Charlotte Bronte ****
9. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger *****
10. Omerta by Mario Puzo **
11. The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen ****
12. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anna Bronte ***
13. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova ****
14. Out Stealing Horses by Per Patterson ***
15. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood ****
16. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse *****
17. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer *****
18. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy ****
19. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier *****
20. Elysiana by Chris Knopf ***
21. Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon *****
22. Thirteenth Night by Alan Gordon ****
23. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov ***
24. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wile *****
25. The Lighting Thief by Rick Riordan ****
26. The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis *****
27. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon ****
28. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy ****
29. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris ***
30. The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson ****
31. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray ****
32. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon **
33. Self-Murder by Robert Scott Leyse ****
34. The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ****
35. The Ebony Tower by John Fowles ****
36. Walden by Henry David Thoreau ****
37. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan ****
38. The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ****
39. Lancelot by Walker Percy ****
40. The Brothers Karamazov byFyodor Dostoyevsky ****
41. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See ****
42. In a Dark Wood by Michael Cadnum ****
43. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak *****
44. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory ****
45. Dracula by Bram Stoker *****
46. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ****
47. The Petting Zoo by Jim Carrol *****
48. Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant ****
49. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
50. I, Tituba by Maryse Conde ****
51. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy ****
52. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist *****
53. World Without End by Ken Follet ***

Welcome, Silver. You can do it!

I fell just short last year, I will see if I can do it this time around.

54. The Green Man by Kingsley Amis****

55. The Color Purple by Alice Walker ****

You can do it!!! You've read some great books this year!!!

56. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins****

Silver, I'm reading my first Collins with another book group. We are reading The Woman in White I love it!!!

I read that book, and I thought it was great.

Andrea wrote: "Silver, I'm reading my first Collins with another book group. We are reading The Woman in White I love it!!!"

I want to read this one....and Moonstone!

Joy, can jump in we are only in the second week! It's being done by the Chunksters book group here on Goodreads. I run it with a Goodreads friends of mine and we only read books that are 500+ pages. We just finished Anna Karenina, Volume 1. We are also a couple of weeks away from wrapping up The Stand. It's a fun group and a few of the people here are also members there.

57. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain****

58. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez****

Andrea wrote: "Joy, can jump in we are only in the second week! It's being done by the Chunksters book group here on Goodreads. I run it with a Goodreads friends of mine and we only read books that are 500+ pages..."

I almost did sign up and join the chunksters group and start in reading it, but I really want to finish W&P, and the thought of reading two huge ones at a time, not to mention trying to get caught up with you guys kinda overwhelmed me! So maybe next year!

Silver wrote: "57. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain****"

Oooooh, an oldie but goodie!

59. Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin ***

60. Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell***

Looks like you've read some very good books this year. Hope you are able to reach your goal!

Thank you, I still have some books I am finishing up for the end of this month, but I don't think it is going to be quite enough.

61. Room by Emma Donoghue***

62. The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan****

Silver, Room is being raved about from lots of people I know. Looks like you liked it, but didn't love it.

Yes, that sums it up, I felt that it was average, I did not absolutely hate it, and it did have its good points, but there were some things about it which annoyed me. I was not as enchanted by it as it seems some people have become.

63. Watership Down by Richard Adams****

That's interesting, I would love to discuss more after I read it.

64. Candide by Voltaire***

65. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell****