Reading with Style discussion

Post your ABC plans here! (You do not need to post your ABC plan prior to the start of the challenge, nor do you need to adhere to a posted plan).

the plan (consists of max bonus points; 1995- 2004 publishing range) as long as the libraries play along. And you know, that the other challenges don't ask for the books ;-)
Aspe, Pieter Het vierkant van de wraak
Baldacci, David Absolute Power
Cornwall, Patricia Unnatural Exposure
Deaver, Jeffery The Coffin Dancer
Erikson, Steven Gardens of the Moon
Feist, Raymond E. Krondor: Tear of the Gods
Gaiman, Neil American Gods
Hearn, Lian Across the Nightingale Floor
Ignatieff, Michael Charlie Johnson in the Flames: A Novel
Jordan, Robert Knife of Dreams

I had so much fun doing this! I was amazed when I found I could do most of it (8/10) from my TBR :)

K: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King, lexile 1100, 1994
L: I'll go to the library and pick one published between 1995-2000
M: The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean, lexile 900, 2001
N: Abhorsen by Garth Nix, lexile 890, 2003
O: The Greenhouse by Audur Ava Olafsdottir, 2007
P: Triskellion by Will Peterson, lexile 910, 2008
Q: The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong, 2009
R: Tigerlily's Orchids by Ruth Rendell, 2010
S: Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum by Mark Stevens, 2011
T: Nobody's Fault by Terry Tyler, 2012

I can't wait to get started! I was able to fit in some favorite author's books I have missed over the years and also end with the new Kingsolver coming out in early November.

B: Boyle, T C World's End 1987
C: Carey, Peter Oscar and Lucinda 1988
D: Djebar, Assia Fantasia 1990
E: Eugenides, Jeffrey The Virgin Suicides 1993
F: Fossum, Karin He Who Fears the Wolf 1997
G: Gaiman, Neil Smoke and Mirrors 1998
H: Harris, Joanne Jigs & Reels: Stories 1999
I: Irving, John Until I Find You 1995
J: John, Antony Five Flavors of Dumb 2011, 890 Lexile
K: Kingsolver, Barbara Flight Behavior 2012

I had way too much fun looking at books to read for this sub-challenge. I can't wait to start reading.

I have created two lists as I am hoping to read all 20 books. Updated lists so that no publication year is repeated.

Group One
A: Adams, Douglas Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 1987
B: Blake, Michael Dances with Wolves 1988
C: Card, Orson Scott The Abyss 1989
D: Davidson, Diane Mott Catering to Nobody 1990
E: Evanovich, Janet Naughty Neighbor 1992
F: Fowler, Earlene Fool's Puzzle 1994
G: Graves, Sarah The Dead Cat Bounce 1997
H: Harris, Charlaine Shakespeare's Christmas 1998
I: Isenberg, Jane The M Word 1999
J: Jackson, Melanie Moving Violation 2010

Group Two
M: Meier, Leslie Trick or Treat Murder 1996
N: Neggers, Charla The Waterfall 2000
O: Olson, Karen The Missing Ink 2009
P: Palahniuk, Chuck Stranger Than Fiction 2004
Q: Quick, Amanda Scandal 1991
R: Reichs, Kathy Bones Are Forever 2012
S: Sefton, Maggie Knit One, Kill Two 2005
T: Thayer, Terri Wild Goose Chase 2008
U: Unsworth, Barry Pascali's Island 1980
V: Viets, Elaine Shop Till You Drop 2003

Okay had to re work the second reading list but I think I have everything covered without any years repeated.

Not sure if I will stick with this or opt instead for some books that were already on my TBR list but will break the "chronological order" pattern...but this is a tentative list! I'm excited; there are some books/authors on here I'd never heard of, but they look great!

J: Joyce, Graham The Tooth Fairy (1996)
K: King, Stephen The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
L: Larsson, Stieg The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2000)
M: Mitchell, David number9dream (2001)
N: Needham, Jake Laundry Man (2002)
O: Ogawa, Yoko The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003)
P: Perrotta, Tom Little Children (2004)
Q: Quindlen, Anna Rise and Shine (2006)
R: Richman, Alyson The Lost Wife (2011)
S: Smith, Zadie NW (2012)

I might sub in Dark Sister or Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters for "J" (the first published in 1992, the second in 1997), Lost for "M" (published in 2001), or Nemesis for "N" (published in 2002).

D: I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story by Glen Duncan, 2002
E: Original Fire: Selected and New Poems by Louise Erdrich, 2003
F: Snobs by Julian Fellowes, 2004
G: The Legend Of The Wandering King by Laura Gallego García, 2005
H: A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon, 2006
I: Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, 2007
J: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson, 2008
K: Great House by Nicole Krauss, 2010
L: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson, 2011
M: To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal, 2012

Can't wait!! Been wanting to read several of these for a very long time :-)

Christine wrote: "OK, I think I have a plan that works. I wanted to center it around Dickens Bleak House, which is a book that's been on my list for a long time, but couldn't find enough books to fill in the rest of..."

Impressive! I wanted to only use books from the 1001 Book to Read Before You Die list, but haven't been able to get both alphabetic and chronological order to work yet.

I'm excited to come back to this challenge after two seasons off. Now to start sorting books!

Here is my tentative plan:

A - Amis, Martin - Time's Arrow - 1991
B - Bauby, Jean-Dominique - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - 1997
C - Coelho, Paulo - Veronika Decides to Die - 1998
D - Dorfman, Ariel - Blake's Therapy: A Novel - 2001
E - Eco, Umberto - On Literature - 2002
F - Fforde, Jasper - The Well of Lost Plots - 2003
G - Gelbspan, Ross - Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster - 2004 (or Gibbons, Kaye - The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster - 2005)
H - Horan, Nancy - Loving Frank - 2007
I - Irving, John - Last Night in Twisted River - 2009
J - Jackson, Joshilyn - A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty - 2012

I'm not even going to attempt to do chronological order...just the ABC's for me. ;)


B: Brennan, Allison Silenced
C: Cain, Chelsea - Kill You Twice
D: Diamant, Anita - The Red Tent
E: Eco, Umberto - The Name of the Rose
F: Flynn, Jillian - Gone Girl or Fford, Jasper -The Eyre Affair or Fuentes, Carlos -
The Death of Artemio Cruz
G: Golding, Lord of the Flies or Gregory, PhilippaThe White Queen or Goodwin, Daisy The American Heiress
H: Hrabal, B. - Too Loud a Solitude
I:
J:
Kaaberbol, Lene - lThe Boy in the Suitcase

I think I have figured out a list to meet both the 25yr and chronological requirements.

K: Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
L: Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies (1999)
M: Sharyn McCrumb - The Song Catcher (2001)
N: Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife (2003)
O: Carol O'Connell - Winter House (2004)
P: Robert Parker - School Days (2005)
Q: Amanda Quick - Second Sight (2006)
R: Kathy Reichs - Devil Bones (2008)
S: Alexander McCall Smith - Tea Time for the Tranditionally Built (2009)
T: Victoria Thompson - Murder on Fifth Avenue (2012)

I don't thing I'm going to try for chronological order as I have so many to-read books that I own that I want to try and do those first ^_^

A: Aeschylus - The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides
B: Butcher, Jim - Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files
C: Caine, Rachel - Ill Wind
D: Dawson, Delilah S. - Wicked as They Come
E: Euripides - Ten Plays by Euripides
F: Franklin, Ariana - The Serpent's Tale
G: Gaughen, A.C. - Scarlet
H: Hearne, Kevin - Tricked
I: Ivey, Eowyn - The Snow Child
J: Johnson, Alayna Dawn - Wicked City


Except for a couple I own all of these books as they're part of series or by authors I've read previously. I hope I can get to do another round after this but as I am starting another degree this Fall (this week even!) I don't know what my time constraints are going to be

Christine wrote: "Christin wrote: "I don't thing I'm going to try for chronological order as I have so many to-read books that I own that I want to try and do those first ^_^

A: Aeschylus - The Oresteia: Agamemnon ..."

Thanks for seeing this Christine. You are correct, that book is not eligible for ABC.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Christine wrote: "Christin wrote: "I don't thing I'm going to try for chronological order as I have so many to-read books that I own that I want to try and do those first ^_^

A: Aeschylus - The Or..."

ooh, darn - thanks for catching that! I'll have to figure something else out for that letter then ^_^

my second list (which I'm going to be doing first) is:
Kipling, Rudyard Captains Courageous 1897 (lex 1020)
Louys, Pierre The Woman and the Puppet 1898 (this may be replaced by an unknown book)
Mirbeau, Octave The Diary of a Chambermaid: A Naughty French Novel 1990
Norris, Frank The Octopus: A Story of California 1901
Ober, Frederick Old Put the Patriot 1904
Parry, David M. The Scarlet Empire 1906
Quiller-Couch, Mabel Kitty Trenire 1909
Rinehart, Mary The Window At The White Cat 1910
Stoker, Bram Lair of the White Worm 1911
Tolstoy, Leo Hadji Murad 1912 (which has exactly 100 pages, that's allowed right?)

I hope I have time to read them all. It might be a struggle seeing as I have exams at the end of November.

Bea wrote: "I think I have figured out a list to meet both the 25yr and chronological requirements.

K: Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
L: Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies (1999)
M: Sha..."

Bea, I just answered Rebekah's question about Alexander McCall Smith, and he apparently is alphabetized under McCall, not Smith. You probably want to rethink your list.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Bea, I just answered Rebekah's question about Alexander McCall Smith, and he apparently is alphabetized under McCall, not Smith. You probably want to rethink your list."

Thanks for the heads up, Elizabeth.

Substituting The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater. Lexile score 840. Will that work?

Bea wrote: "Substituting The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater. Lexile score 840. Will that work?"

Looks good! ;-)

I'm new to all this, but I think I have two lists that work, in case I have time to read both. Here's the first; I can't deal with typing the second on my iPad right now.

1969 - Angelou, Maya - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1070 Lexile)
1976 - Butler, Octavia - Patternmaster (listed as part of the omnibus Seed to Harvest at BPL as Sci-Fi, as opposed to some others Butler has written that have YA designations at some branches and low Lexile scores)
1978 - Colwin, Laurie - Happy All the Time
1980 - Doctorow, E.L. - Loon Lake
1982 - Eddings, David - Pawn of Prophecy (900 Lexile)
1983 - Foster, Alan Dean - For Love of Mother-Not
1984 - Gemmel, David - Legend
1985 - Hambly - Dragonsbane
1989 - Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day (1210 Lexile)
1990 - Johnson - Middle Passage (1150 Lexile)

Bea wrote: "I think I have figured out a list to meet both the 25yr and chronological requirements.

K: Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
L: Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies (1999)
M: Sha..."

some of my favorites are on your list. I hope you enjoy them!

Rosemary wrote: "I had so much fun doing this! I was amazed when I found I could do most of it (8/10) from my TBR :)

K: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King, lexile 1100, 1994
L: I'll go to the library and..."

Rosemary, Lorna Landvik and Laura Lippman have books published during that time frame. Hey Lois Lane, why do I feel like I'm in a Superman comic? (smile)

Rosemary wrote: "L: I'll go to the library and..."

Rosemary, I just finished reading The Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik. It was published in 1999. I would classify it as a character study as it is about the residents of a small town. Good story.

Thanks! I'll look out for those!

I will knock out some of my chick lit shelf on this challenge!

Ahern, Cecilia-A Place Called Here
Ballis, Stacey-Inappropriate Men
Chabon, Michael-The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Dunant, Sarah-The Birth of Venus
Evanovich, Janet-Finger Lickin' Fifteen
Furnivall, Kate-The Russian Concubine
Green, Jane-The Other Woman
Horn, Ariel-Help Wanted, Desperately
Ireland, Liz-How I Stole Her Husband
Jewell, Lisa-Thirtynothing

All books published in last 25 years.

I'm just going to go from A through J. Right now I don't really feel like trying for any of the other parts of the challenge.

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J

I'm looking forward to this challenge.

15.1 “O” 1984
Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984) by Joyce Carol Oates

15.2”P” 1987
Equal Rites (1987) by Terry Pratchett

15.3 “Q” 1990
Northern Edge (1990) by Barbara Quick (Goodreads Author)

15.4 “R” 1991
The White Mists of Power (1991) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

15.5 “S” 1994
Hot Sky at Midnight (1994) by Robert Silverberg

15.6 “T” 1998
Night of Many Dreams: A Novel (1998) by Gail Tsukiyama

15.7 “U” 1999
Losing Nelson (1999)Barry Unsworth

15.8 “V” 2000
Stardoc (Stardoc #1) (2000) by S.L. Viehl

15.9 “W” 2003
Death Gets a Time-Out (A Mommy-Track Mystery #4) (2003) by Ayelet Waldman

15.10 “X” 2007
Miss Chopsticks (2007) by Xinran