One Million Pages Per Lifetime discussion

This will make keeping up with my challenges so much easier! And by "keeping up" I mean "realize how far behind I am"... :)

Decade Challenge: 11/11/11 to 12/12/12

2003
1. The Historian
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2004
1. The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting
2. Let the Right One In
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2005
1. Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
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2006
1. Empire
2. The Book Thief
3. The Savage Garden
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2007
1. 5 People Who Died During Sex: and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists
2. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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2008
1. The House at Midnight: A Novel
2. City of Thieves
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2009
1. Handle with Care
2. Dark Origins
3. The Girl Who Played With Fire
4. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
5. What Alice Forgot
6. In This Way I Was Saved: A Novel
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2010
1. Mister Slaughter
2. Catherine Of Aragon
3. Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps, Vol. 1
4. Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog
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2011 - COMPLETED 1/2/2012
1. Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein
2.Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
3. Don't Breathe a Word
4. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
5. The Tudor Secret
6. These Things Hidden
7. The Night Strangers
8. Ready Player One
9. The Submission
10. The American Heiress
11. The Language of Flowers




2012
1. Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives Of Katherine Of Aragon And Juana, Queen Of Castile
2. Silent Court
3. An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies
4. The Portrait of Doreene Gray
5. Monday Mornings: A Novel
6. Fifty Shades Freed
7. Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
8. Bond Girl
9. The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
10. Defending Jacob
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Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge
January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012
Difficulty: Moderate (11 of 20)

Best Book of 2011
1. Divergent
2. A Discovery of Witches
3. Delirium
4. The Night Circus



Best Fiction
1. 1Q84
2. The Language of Flowers
3. The Sense of an Ending




Best Mystery / Thriller
1. Before I Go to Sleep
2. A Red Herring Without Mustard



Best Historical Fiction
1. Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
2. The Second Duchess
3. The Soldier's Wife
4. Rules of Civility
5. The Lady of the Rivers
6. Doc
7. Becoming Marie Antoinette



Best Fantasy
1. The Night Circus
2. A Dance With Dragons



Best Paranormal Fantasy
1. A Discovery of Witches
2. Heartless



Best Science Fiction
1. 11/22/63
2. Robopocalypse
3. When She Woke



Best Horror
1. What the Night Knows
2. Graveminder



Best Nonfiction
1. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
2. Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way



Best History and Biography
1. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
2. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
3. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
4. A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown



Best Memoir and Autobiography
1. Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love
2. A Stolen Life



Best Graphic Novel or Comic
1. Locke & Key, Volume 4: Keys to the Kingdom

Never Ending Series Challenge
2012 Edition

Miss Marple Mysteries by Agatha Christie

01. Murder at the Vicarage
02. The Body in the Library
03. The Moving Finger
04. A Murder Is Announced
05. They Do It With Mirrors
06. A Pocket Full of Rye
07. 4:50 from Paddington
08. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
09. A Caribbean Mystery
10. At Bertram's Hotel
11. Nemesis
12. Sleeping Murder


Dulce Schwartz Mysteries by Clea Simon

01. Shades of Grey
02. Grey Matters
03. Grey Zone




The Girl... by Stieg Larsson

01. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
02. The Girl Who Played With Fire
03. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest




The Cousin's War by Philippa Gregory

01. The White Queen
02. The Red Queen
03. The Lady of the Rivers
04. The White Princess (pub. 2012)
05. The Kingmaker's Daughters (pub. 2013)




Flavia de Luce Series by Alan Bradley

01. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
02. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
03. A Red Herring Without Mustard
04. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
05. Seeds of Antiquity (pub. ?)
06. The Nasty Light of Day(pub. ?)

[bookcover:Seeds of Antiquity]

The decades challenge looks ever neat!

I might try that out. ;)

12x12 (Sort of) Challenge 2012
January 2012 through December 2012


Category 1: First in Series
1. Murder at the Vicarage
2. Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps, Vol. 1
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Category 2: Further in Series *COMPLETED 3/23/12*
1. A Red Herring Without Mustard
2. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
3. The Body in the Library
4. The Three Coffins
5. The Crooked Hinge
6. The Case of the Constant Suicides



Category 3: Stand-Alones
1. In This Way I Was Saved: A Novel
2. What You See in the Dark
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Category 4: New-To-You Authors *COMPLETED 8/11/12*
1. Before I Go to Sleep
2. The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
3. The Fifth Child
4. What You See in the Dark
5. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
6. An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies



Category 5: Dust-Reads
1. The House at Midnight: A Novel
2. City of Thieves
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Category 6: Plain Janes *COMPLETED 6/15/12*
1. The Historian
2. Micro
3. No Animals Were Harmed: The Controversial Line between Entertainment and Abuse
4. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
5. Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
6. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President



Category 7: Contemporary / Realistic Fiction
1. Defending Jacob
2. Monday Mornings: A Novel
3. Faith
4. Bond Girl
5.
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Category 8: Goodreads Choice Awards
1. Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love
2. A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
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Category 9: Published in 2012
1. Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives Of Katherine Of Aragon And Juana, Queen Of Castile
2. Silent Court
3. The Portrait of Doreene Gray
4. Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
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Category 10: Beautiful Covers
1. The Language of Flowers
2. What Alice Forgot
3. The Savage Garden
4. Let Me In
5.
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Category 11: Historical Fiction
1. The American Heiress
2. Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
3. The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
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Category 12: 1001 Books
1. Rebecca
2. The Martian Chronicles
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The Easy Challenge My Husband Came Up With Challenge
January 2012 through December 2012

My husband came up with this after seeing everything else I was doing. I've challenged him to do it with me. If he accepts my challenge, I'll post his choices alongside mine.

New(ish) Best-Sellers *COMPLETED 6/12/12*
1. T: The Language of Flowers
2. T: Before I Go to Sleep
3. T: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
4. T: What You See in the Dark
5. T: Defending Jacob
6. T: Micro
7. T: What You See in the Dark
8. T: The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
9. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
10. fifty shades of gray



The Classics (I haven't read)
1. Rebecca
2. The Martian Chronicles
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Books My Spouse Chooses For Me
1. T: Robopocalypse
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Whatever I Want
1. T: The American Heiress
2. T: A Red Herring Without Mustard
3. T: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
4. T: The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
5. T: Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
6. T: The Demon in the Freezer
7. T: Catherine Of Aragon
8. T: Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
9. T: The House at Midnight: A Novel
10. T: Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile



Books Recommended by Friends
1. Amanda:
2. Alison:
3. Stacy: Swamplandia! (I feel like I'm cheating a bit here...I quit 2/3 of the way through. I just couldn't take it any more.)
4. Eric:
5. Corey: History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life
6. Bree: City of Thieves
7. Autumn:
8. Nicole:
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That is fun making a challenge for each other! & doing it together.

Mad Scientist wrote: "The decades challenge looks ever neat! I might try that out. ;)"

Thanks! I can't claim credit for the idea...it's a challenge I'm doing with another group I belong to, "Nothing But Reading Challenges" (http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/3...). It's like the book version of crack to someone like me who just loves a good challenge. :)

But, yeah, the Decade Challenge is pretty easy in that it stretches your reading a little bit, but not so much that you can't easily do it alongside another challenge...or three, as the case may be. :)

Mad Scientist wrote: "That is fun making a challenge for each other! & doing it together."

It is! He had asked to see the challenges I had lined up for this year, and after looking them over, he said "You should just do a fun, easy challenge." I laughed a little bit, and he said "No, seriously - I've got one for you." So he suggested a slightly different version than the final version, and I said "I'll do it if you do it with me!" The game is on... :) (We're kind of a competitive family, in case you couldn't tell.)

It was fun, being able to hang out and talk about books, since he's not as big a reader as I am (he likes to read, but also likes to play video games, watch tv and movies, etc.). We've already started filling out the "Books My Spouse Chose for Me" list, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the list he makes for me is not filled with a TON of science fiction. :)

I was just going to say there are some books based on video games that are good.