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Kristina’s List
Tuesday, January 8, 2008

I would also like to participate in this reading challenge. I’ve never participated in a reading challenge before, but I would like to try it. I’m going to read all the books in English – except one category – although my mother tongue is German. Usually I just read chick-lit but I for the New Year I would like to read something more challenging.

Fantasy:

1. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone – J. K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J. K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J. K. Rowling
5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
6. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
8. The Anvil of the World – Kage Baker
   

Chick-lit:

1. Can you keep a secret? – Sophie Kinsella
2. Perfect Strangers – Robyn Sisman
3. Playing Away – Adele Parks
4. Front Row – Lisa Armstrong
5. Vince & Joy – Lisa Jewell
6. A Friend of the Family – Lisa Jewell
7. Straight Talking – Jane Green
8. Bookends – Jane Green
   

Female Authors:

1. Act of Faith – Erica James
2. Gardens of Delight – Erica James
3. Quentins – Maeve Binchy
4. The Glass Lake – Maeve Binchy
5. Lipstick Jungle – Candace Bushnell
6. 4 Blondes – Candace Bushnell
7. I don’t know how she does it – Allison Pearson
8. The good Wife – Elizabeth Buchan
   

Male Authors:

1. Funny that way – Jool Perry
2. Fierce People – Dirk Wittenborn
3. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4. Summer Things – Joseph Connolly
5. The Family Way – Tony Parksons
6. The List – Steve Martini
7. How to be good – Nick Hornby
8. Ash Wednesday – Ethan Hawke
   

Classics:

1. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
2. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
3. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
4. Little Lord Fountleroy – Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. 20’000 Leages under the Sea – Jules Verne
6. The Catcher in the Rye – J.P. Salinger
7. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
8. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
   

Books in German:

1. Lucilla – Wilkie Collins
2. Laras letzte Party – Christopher Pike
3. Der alte Garten – Marie Kaschnitz
4. Small World – Martin Suter
5. Siddharta – Hermann Hesse
6. Die Versuchung – David Baldacci
7. Der weisse Wolf – Käthe Recheis
8. Louisa Elliott – Ann Victoria Roberts
   

Donna Leon Books:

1. Fatal Remedies
2. Death at la Fenice
3. The death of Faith
4. Acqua alta
5. A Venetian reckoning
6. The anonymous Venetian
7. Death in a strange country
8. A noble radiance
   

More than 6 month on my bookshelf:

1. Song of the Cuckoo Bird – Amulya Malladi
2. The Mineral Palace – Heidi Julants
3. Gene – Stel Pavlou
4. Perfect Picture – Jodi Picoult
5. Firebird – Janice Graham
6. The 13^th Tale – Diane Setterfield
7. Martha Peake – Patrick Mc Grath
8. The glass Palace – Amitav Ghosh

Posted by Kristina at 1/08/2008 03:06:00 PM  

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