Becky's List & Updated Links
Monday, March 31, 2008
Eight books by Asian and/or Asian-American authors
1. Revolution is not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
2. The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa
3. Yellow Umbrella by Jae soo Liu
4. Year of the Rat by Grace Lin
5. The Fold by An Na
6. The Mats by Francisco Arcellana
7. Guji, Guji by Chih-Yuan Chen
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For a list of potential books please see this post.
Eight audio books.
I thought long and hard about this category. A challenge is supposed to be challenging. And since I rarely listen to audio books, I thought this might be a good chance to expand my comfort zones and grow as a listener :)
1. Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
2. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I own a few titles--the Little House books and the Chronicles of Narnia and both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. But the library may prove invaluable here as well as iTunes podcasts of classics. For example, almost all of Jane Austen's books are available as podcasts one chapter at a time.
8 classics by women writers (any time period pre-1950)
1. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. Persuasion by Jane Austen
3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
4. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
6. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Right now, I'm thinking Zora Neale Hurston, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, etc. I'm sure my list will change as I explore. But I know this is something I'd like to do for 2008.
8 Award-Winning Children's Books (Caldecott, Newbery, Printz, etc.)
1. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Newbery, 1930)
2. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Newbery Honor, 1938)
3. By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Newbery Honor, 1940)
4. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Newbery Honor, 1941)
5. Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Newbery, 1943)
6. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brian (Newbery, 1972)
7. The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman (Sidney Taylor Book Award, 2008)
8. My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (Newbery Honor, 1949)
Extras: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Newbery Winner, 1998)
For the record, honor books count as well in my book.
8 Nonfiction Books
1. The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
2. I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
3. The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
4. In My Hands: Memories of A Holocaust Rescuer
5. Alicia My Story: Alicia Appleman-Jurman
6. Night by Elie Wiesel
7. I Will Plant You A Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman
8. To Life by Ruth Minsky Sender
My list may change, but this is what I'm planning at the moment. No promises though. :)
8 Childhood Favorites
1. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
2. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Alternates:
8 by Beverly Cleary
1. Beezus and Ramona
2. Ramona the Pest
3. Ramona the Brave
4. Ramona and her Father
5. Ramona and her Mother
6. Ramona Quimby Age 8
7. Ramona Forever
8. Ramona's World
8 by L.M. Montgomery
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3M's List
I decided NOT to have any overlaps.
8 Award Winners
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (Whitbread)
- Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee (Booker)
- The Gathering by Enright (Booker)
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Nobel)
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Pulitzer)
- Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Booker)
- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (Newbery)
- Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Kertesz (Nobel)
8 New-to-me authors
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- After Dark by Haruki Murakami
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- Anthem by Ayn Rand
- Transformations by Anne Sexton
- The Only Road North by Erik Mirandette
- Maus I by Art Spiegelman
8 ZUQX (Hard to find letters of the alphabet)
- I Am the Messenger by Zusak
- Zenzele by ?
- Unless by Carol Shields
- Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife by Sigrid Undset
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- Blessings by Anna Quindlen
- X Stands for Unknown by Asimov
- Sky Burial by Xinran
8 diferent languages in translation
- Independent People by Halldor Laxness (Icelandic)
- Solaris by Lem (Polish)
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gardner (Norwegian)
- Silence by Shusaku Endo (Japanese)
- If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino (Italian)
- The Castle by Franz Kafka (German)
- Lolita (Russian)
- Embers by Sandor Marai (Hungarian)
8 different countries (Around the World)
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (Mexico)
- Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (Cuba)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini (Afghanistan)
- Things Fall Apart by Achebe (Nigeria)
- The Translator by Daoud Hari (Sudan)
- Strangers by Taichi Yamada (Japan)
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8 different Canadian authors
- Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
- Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson
- The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy
- Kanada by Eva Wiseman
- Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson
8 newly published in 2008
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
- Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
- Winter Haven by Athol Dickson
- Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
- The Sister by Poppy Adams
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
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8 Fantasy
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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This way when a challenge comes up, I'll be able to see if it fits with what I'm already planning on reading. Obsessive, I know. :-)
Posted by 1morechapter at 3/31/2008 08:43:00 AM 5 comments
Labels: 1800s, 3M, Around the World, Award Winners, Canadian authors, Fantasy, In Translation, Published in 2008, ZUQX
Challenge Rules
Sunday, March 30, 2008
1. Challenge runs from January 1 through December 31, 2008.
2. Choose 8 categories of your own that you would like to read 8 books EACH in.
3. You will be allowed 8 overlaps, for a total of 56 unique book titles.
4. You may overlap these 56 titles with any other challenge.
5. You may change your list or your categories at any time.
6. Post a comment here that you are participating, and I will add a link to the sidebar. Request an invite including your e-mail address if you want to post your list to this blog. However, we will NOT be writing reviews here! You may update your lists by providing the link to books read. Please use your name as a label, along with the book categories you're reading from.
7. Check back here to see who is participating and cheer others on.
8. Participants who complete all 56 books will be in the running for in-stock books from paperbackswap.com. (I have mucho credits.) Overseas is okay!
9. Have fun reading!
Posted by 1morechapter at 3/30/2008 12:22:00 PM 155 comments
Sarah's Choices
Thursday, March 27, 2008
I didn't know about this until a couple days ago, so I am probably not going to be able to finish. But I'll start! My list is ridiculously ambitious, anyway, so it's more of a to-read thing than something I expect to finish within the year. I don't have any overlaps, either. Someone slap me!
Blue is read, with a link to a review when I get round to writing it.
19th Century Women
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Emma, Jane Austen
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Villette, Charlotte Bronte
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Dystopias and Antiutopias1984, George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Trial, Franz Kafka
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Anthem, Ayn Rand
Island, Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Classic Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells
Dune, Frank Herbert
Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkein
By Brits I Already Love
Leave It to Psmith, Wodehouse
My Uncle Oswald, Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl: Collected Stories
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, A. C. Doyle
Brideshead, Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Moab is My Washpot, Stephen Fry
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
By Others I Already Love...maybe more Brits
Pale Fire, Nabokov
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
Something Happened, Joseph Heller
Closing Time, Joseph Heller
Collected Essays, George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
Pnin, Nabokov
A Moveable Feast, Hemingway
Things I've Avoided
Dubliners, James Joyce
Walden, Thoreau
Great Expectations, Dickens
East of Eden, Steinbeck
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
The Three Musketeers, Dumas
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of TitanSlaughterhouse-Five
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Mother Night
Player Piano
JailbirdBagombo Snuff Box
Galapagos
Started, but Haven't Finished [and by now will have to start over]
The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
David Copperfield, Dickens
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Notre-Dame de Paris, Hugo
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner
Candide, Voltaire
Posted by inktree at 3/27/2008 10:16:00 AM 0 comments
Rach's List
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
8 Books Recommended To Me:
1/ American Gods by Neil Gaimon
2/ Flatland by Edwin A Abbott
3/ The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
4/ Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson
5/ Pollen by Jeff Noon
6/ Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
7/ The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
8/ Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman - finished 1st Jan 08 - my thoughts
8 Biographies
1/ High Hopes by Billy Hopkins - currently reading
2/ My Booky Wook by Russel Brand - completed 21st Jan my thoughts
3/ On The Edge by Richard Hammond
4/Bigger Than Hitler: Better Than Christ by Rik Mayall
5/ Nicholas Cage by Ian Markham-Smith
6/ A Long Walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela - finished 26th February my thoughts
7/ If I am Missing or Dead by Janine Latus
8/ Paula Yates by Paula Yates
8 John Grisham books:
1/ The Testament
2/ Playing for Pizza
3/ The Appeal
4/ The Rainmaker
5/ The Client
6/ The Chamber
7/ Pelican Brief
8/ The Street Lawyer
8 Books that have been made into film:
1/ Memoirs of a Geisha
2/ Bridget Jones - Edge of Reason
3/ Hannibal Rising
4/ The Body (made into Stand by Me) - finished 2nd Jan 08 - my thoughts
5/ Da Vinci Code
6/ War of the Worlds
7/ Christine
8/ Bone Collector
8 Penguin Classics:
1/ Moonfleet - John Meade Falkner
2/ Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
3/ Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
4/ One flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
5/ Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
6/ Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
7/ Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
8/ Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
8 Travel Books:
1/ Fried Eggs With Chopsticks - Polly Evans - completed 13th Jan my thoughts
2/ Talk to the Snail - Stephen Clarke - completed 3rd March my thoughts
3/ Down Under - Bill Bryson
4/ Long Way Down - Ewan McGregor
5/ Blood River - Tim Butcher
6/ Happy Slapped by a Jellyfish - Karl Pilkington
7/ Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Macone
8/ Round Ireland With a Fridge - Tony Hawks
8 Trashy Novels
1/ The Man of my Dreams - Curtis Sittenfield
2/ Good at Games - Jill Mansell
3/ The Other Woman's Shoes - Adele Parks -completed 15th March- my thoughts
4/ The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho- - completed 9th March my thoughts
5/ Queen Mum - Kate Long
6/ Camberwell Beauty -Jenny Eclair
7/ It's Not You, It's Me - Helen Dunne
8/ Onwards and Upwards - Arabella Weir
8 from Amazon's 'Society, Politics and Philosophy' Section
1/ Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
2/ Reconcilation: Islam, Democracy and The West - Benazir Bhutto
3/ God is not Great - Christopher Hitchins
4/ Tribe: adventures in a Changing World- Bruce Parry
5/ Life in the UK: A Journey to Citizenship
6/ Six Thinking Hats: Edward De Bono
7/ Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife
8/ Playto and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar - Thomas Cathcart
Rach
Broken Down Angel
Posted by Rach at 3/19/2008 11:10:00 PM 1 comments
The Biblio Brat's Progress
Monday, March 17, 2008
Progress:
4/8 Women Writers
1/8 From TBR Shelf
0/8 Short Story Collections
0/8 Fantasy/Dark Fantasy
2/8 Award Winners
2/8 Banned Books
2/8 Historical Fiction
1/8 Books with a "Book" Theme
08/56 Completed (accounting for overlaps)
Posted by J.C. Montgomery at 3/17/2008 09:42:00 PM 0 comments
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Poodlerat's List
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
1: Juvenile and Young Adult Fantasy
- The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
- The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
- The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
- Freaks: Alive, on the Inside! by Annette Curtis Klause
- The Spell of the Sorcerer’s Skull by John Bellairs
- The Mansion in the Mist by John Bellairs
- The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
2: Direct Sequels to Books I’ve Read
(second books only—later books in a series don’t count)
- The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
- Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
- Scardown by Elizabeth Bear
- Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz
- The Demon and the City by Liz Williams
- Mollie Peer by Van Reid
- Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
- Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
3: From North Africa and the Middle East
- The Sand Child by Tahar ben Jelloun (Morocco)
- In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Libya)
- Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Sudan)
- The Yacoubian Building by Alaa el-Aswany (Egypt)
- Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
- I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti (Palestine)
- Look for Me by Edeet Ravel (Israel)
- The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmeena Khadra (Afghanistan)
4: Classic Works of Science Fiction
(x-over with Sci-Fi Classics Challenge)
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
- Ringworld by Larry Niven
- Gateway by Frederik Pohl
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
5: Books by Agatha Christie I’ve Never Read
(x-over with the Anything Agatha Challenge)
- Murder in Mesopotamia
- Sparkling Cyanide (or Remembered Death)
- Crooked House
- Ordeal by Innocence
- The Pale Horse
- Elephants Can Remember
- Come, Tell Me How You Live
- Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
6: The Mary Russell Series by Laurie R. King
(re-reads, in preparation for the release of #9, The Language of Bees, in 2009)
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women
- A Letter of Mary
- The Moor
- O Jerusalem
- Justice Hall
- The Game
- Locked Rooms
7: Contemporary Fantasy
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Widdershins by Charles de Lint
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
- Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Little, Big by John Crowley
- Blood Debt by Tanya Huff
8: Classic Works of Fantasy
(x-over with Fantasy Classics Challenge)
- Little, Big by John Crowley
- Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
- Beauty by Robin McKinley
- The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- The Dunwich Horror and Other by H.P. Lovecraft
- Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Posted by Poodlerat at 3/05/2008 09:38:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: Around the World, Fantasy, In a series, re-reads, Sci-fi, speculative fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult