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Wendy's Pick and Categories
Friday, December 26, 2008

December 26, 2008: UPDATE on Challenge

It is evident I will not complete this challenge - BUT, I am happy with how I did. Out of the 8 categories I chose to read from, I completed half of them (Books Around the World, Books on my TBR shelf for more than a Year, Non Fiction Books and Notables). For the other categories, I completed the following: 2 out of 8 Pulitzers, 5 out of 8 Bookers, 4 out of 8 Banned Books, and 5 out of 8 Classics. Next year I will be focusing more on the award winning books on my shelf. Many thanks to Michelle for hosting this complex, and rewarding challenge!

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Here are my current categories and picks for 2008 (overlaps are in red):

8 Pulitzers

  1. The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
  2. The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington
  3. So Big, by Edna Ferber (COMPLETED January 17, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
  4. Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler
  5. Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner (COMPLETED April 17, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
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8 Bookers

  1. The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (COMPLETED December 25, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  2. Hotel Du Lac, by Anita Brookner (COMPLETED July 22, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  3. G, by John Berger
  4. Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey
  5. Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth
  6. The Gathering, by Anne Enright (COMPLETED March 9, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  7. Life and Times of Michael K, by J.M. Coetzee (COMPLETED February 17, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
  8. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel (COMPLETED June 23, 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)

8 Books Around the World

  1. Independent People, by Halldor Laxness (COMPLETED May 5, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  2. The White Mary, by Kira Salak (COMPLETED July 16, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
  3. Atonement, by Ian McEwan (COMPLETED June 17, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
  4. The Colour, by Rose Tremain (COMPLETED August 25, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
  5. People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (COMPLETED July 4, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
  6. The Translator, by Daoud Hari (COMPLETED February 15, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
  7. Alentejo Blue, by Monica Ali (COMPLETED February 22, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  8. Laughing Without An Accent, by Firoozeh Dumas (COMPLETED May 17, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)

8 Books that have Sat on my TBR Shelf for More than a Year

  1. The World Below, by Sue Miller (COMPLETED April 26, 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
  2. Regeneration, by Pat Barker (COMPLETED December 14, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
  3. Lost and Found, by Jacqueline Sheehan (COMPLETED April 21, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  4. The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink (COMPLETED August 15, 2008; rated 1.5/5; read my review)
  5. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver (COMPLETED July 12, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
  6. The Eye in the Door, by Pat Barker (COMPLETED December 21, 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
  7. Before You Know Kindness, by Chris Bohjalian (COMPLETED May 31, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
  8. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (COMPLETED November 7, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)

8 Non Fiction Books

  1. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, by Elizabeth McCracken (Completed October 24, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
  2. Black Wave, by John and Jean Silverwood (Completed November 11, 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
  3. The Zookeeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman (COMPLETED May 12, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
  4. Laughing Without An Accent, by Firoozeh Dumas (COMPLETED May 18, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
  5. Gifts From The Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Completed October 28, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
  6. Have You Found Her: A Memoir, by Janice Erlbaum (COMPLETED January 14, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
  7. Ships Without A Shore, by Anne R. Pierce PhD (COMPLETED September 16, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
  8. Alpine Americas, by Olaf Soot and Don Mellor (COMPLETED November 2, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)

8 Banned Books

  1. The Women of Rome, by Alberto Moravia
  2. The Toilers of the Sea, by Victor Hugo
  3. Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
  4. The Giver, by Lois Lowry (COMPLETED January 1, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  5. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison (COMPLETED February 25, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  6. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (COMPLETED June 13, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (COMPLETED March 21, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
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8 Notables From This Site

  1. The Secret River, by Kate Grenville (Completed October 13, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
  2. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Moshin Hamid (Completed January 11, 2008, rated 4/5; read my review)
  3. The Gathering, by Anne Enright (COMPLETED March 9, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  4. After Dark, by Haruki Murakami (from NYT Most Notable - 2007) - Completed October 28, 2008; rated 2/5; read my review.
  5. Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name, by Vendela Vida (COMPLETED September 30, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  6. Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo (COMPLETED June 7, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
  7. On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan (from NYT Most Notable - 2007) - Completed August 11, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review.
  8. The View From Castle Rock, by Alice Munro (from NYT Most Notable - 2007) - Completed September 28, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review.

8 Classics

  1. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (Completed January 25, 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
  2. Home of the Gentry, by Ivan Turgenev (Completed June 19, 2008; rated 3/5; read my review)
  3. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (COMPLETED November 7, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
  4. The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (COMPLETED December 25, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  5. Emma, by Jane Austen
  6. Wuthering Heights, by Emil Bronte
  7. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
  8. Gifts From The Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Completed October 28, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)

Posted by Wendy at 12/26/2008 11:00:00 AM 2 comments

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alisonwonderland's progress
Thursday, July 3, 2008

completed books are linked to my reviews.

as of july 3: 28/64 (including four overlaps) with two categories completed
(since the year is half over, i ought to be at 32 books, i guess. but i'm still hopeful that i'll accomplish my goals for this challenge.)

as of may 2: 24/64 (including four overlaps) with one category completed

as of march 9: 15/64 (including two overlaps) with one category completed

as of january 26: 7/64 (including one overlap)

  1. Oh, To Be Young Again! (young adult or older children's novels)


  2. Escapism Reads (books from the genres of mystery, suspense thriller, science fiction, fantasy, chick lit, or maybe even romance)


  3. In Their Shoes (memoirs, biographies, or autobiographies)


  4. Bee Bonanza (books from the 2008 Beehive Book Nominees)

    • Bella at Midnight

    • Dairy Queen

    • Fairest

    • Library Lion*

    • Pieces of Georgia

    • The Rhyming Season

    • She's All That: Poems about Girls

    • Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon

  5. Salt Lake County Library Reader's Choice (books from either the 2008 nominees or past winners)


  6. Banned Books (books from the many that have ever been challenged or banned)


  7. IRL Book Club Picks (picks from those chosen for my in-real-life book clubs)


  8. Books about Books (books - fiction or non-fiction - about books or reading)
note: overlapping picks are marked with an asterisk.

Posted by alisonwonderland at 7/03/2008 10:00:00 AM 2 comments

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J.C. Montgomery's List
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Books which are overlaps are in bold.
Books I have already read and reviewed show as links back to my blog.

    Women Authors
    1. The Gathering by Anne Enright
    2. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
    3. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
    4. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
    5. Pilgrim At Tinker Creek by Anne Dillard
    6. What The Dead Know by Laura Lippmann
    7. Katherine by Anya Seton
    8. The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

    From My TBR Shelf
    1. The Declaration by Gemma Malley
    2. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
    3. Kept by D.J. Taylor
    4. Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
    5. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
    6. Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
    7. Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
    8. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld

    Short Story Collections
    1. Classic Ghost Stories - Ed. by John Grafton
    2. The Ebony Tower by John Fowles
    3. Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
    4. Later, At The Bar by Rebecca Barry
    5. Sunstroke: And Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
    6. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
    7. Dubliners by James Joyce
    8. Into The Dreamlands - Various

    Fantasy/Dark Fantasy (a whole new genre for me!)
    1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
    2. Unquiet Dreams by Mark Del Franco
    3. Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco
    4. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
    5. Into The Dreamlands - Various
    6. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
    7. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
    8. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

    Award Winners
    1. Independence Day by Richard Ford
    2. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
    3. The Gathering by Anne Enright
    4. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
    5. The Known World by Edward Jones
    6. Beloved by Toni Morrison
    7. Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
    8. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

    Banned Books
    1. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
    2. Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
    3. The House Of Spirits by Isabel Allende
    4. Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
    5. Beloved by Toni Morrison
    6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
    7. Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
    8. Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck

    Books with 'Book' Theme
    1. The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
    3. City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moer
    4. The Yellow-Lighted Bookstore by Lewis Buzbee
    5. An Alphabetical Life by Wendy Werris
    6. The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
    7. The Rule Of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
    8. The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland

    Historical Fiction
    1. Katherine by Anya Seton
    2. The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton
    3. Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
    4. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
    5. Snow Flower And The Secret Fan by Lisa See
    6. March by Geraldine Brooks
    7. Soul Catcher by Michael C. White
    8. The Commoner by John Burnham Scwartz

Posted by J.C. Montgomery at 2/12/2008 02:13:00 PM 0 comments

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BloggingMolly's lists
Saturday, January 5, 2008

Non-fiction - Family
1. Power of a Praying Parent by Omartian
2. The Fruit of Her Hands by Wilson
3. You Can't Make Me but I Can be Persuaded by Tobias
4. Peacemaking for Families by Sande
5. The Most Important Place on Earth by Wolgemuth
6. The Heart of Anger by Priolo
7. The Age of Opportunity by Tripp
8. Don't Make Me Count to Three by Plowman

Spiritual Growth
1. Starving Jesus by Gross
2. Quaker Summer by Sampson
3. Get Out of That Pit by Moore
4. Messy Spirituality by Yaconelli
5. The Ragamuffin Gospel by Manning
6. Soul Cravings by McManus
7. Jesus, the One and Only by Moore
8. The Prayer That Changes Everything by Omartian

Classics I Should Have Read a Long Time Ago
1. Pride and Predjudice by Austen
2. The Mysterious Stranger by Twain
3. Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
4. Animal Farm by Orwell
5. 1984 by Orwell
6. The Pearl by Steinbeck
7. The Yearling by Rawlings
8. Tom Sawyer by Twain

Banned Books
1. Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Twain
2. Farenheit 451 by Bradbury
3. Bridge to Terebithia by Paterson
4. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
5. The Giver by Lowry
6. My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier
7. All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
8. Mirandy and Brother Wind by McKissack

Newbery Winners
1. Johnny Tremain by Forbes
2. Rifles for Watie by Keith
3. The Slave Dancer by Fox
4. Number the Stars by Lowry
5. Jacob Have I Loved by Paterson
6. The Grey King by Cooper
7. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Taylor
8. Island of the Blue Dolphins by O'Dell

Young Adult Fiction
1. Stormbreaker by Harowitz 1-13-08
2. Daughter of Time by Tey
3. Byzantium by Lawhead
4. Court of the Stone Children by Cameron
5. Blue Ridge Billy by Lenski
6. Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Field
7. Moccasin Trail by McGraw
8. Little Britches by Moody

Historical Fiction
1. Across Five Aprils by Hunt
2. Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom by Paterson
3. Red Badge of Courage by Crane
4. Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Choi
5. Kiss the Dust by Laird
6. Under the Hawthorn Tree by Conlon-McKenna
7. Number the Stars by Lowry
8. Phoenix Rising by Hesse

Childhood Favorites
1. Little House in the Big Woods by Wilder
2. Winnie the Pooh by Milne
3. Alice in Wonderland by Carroll
4. Peter Pan by Barrie
5. Caddie Woodlawn by Brinks
6. Prince Caspian by Lewis
7. Ginger Pye by Estes
8. Runaway Ralph by Cleary

Posted by Molly at 1/05/2008 07:37:00 PM 0 comments

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alisonwonderland's categories
Saturday, November 3, 2007

after much deliberation, i have settled on these eight categories:

  1. Oh, To Be Young Again! (some cross-listing with the Young Adult Challenge)
    eight young adult or older children's novels.

  2. Escapism Reads (some cross-listing with the Series Challenge, the First in a Series Challenge, and the Cardathon)
    eight books from the genres of mystery, suspense thriller, science fiction, fantasy, chick lit, or maybe even romance.

  3. In Their Shoes (cross-listing with the "In Their Shoes" Challenge)
    eight memoirs, biographies, or autobiographies. the "long list" of my picks is here.

  4. Bee Bonanza
    eight books from the 2008 Beehive Book Nominees. (the Beehive Awards are sponsored by the Children's Literature Association of Utah (CLAU). awards are given in five categories: Children's Picture Book, Children's Fiction Book, Children's Informational Book, Young Adults' Book, and Children's Poetry Book. winners are chosen from the nominated books by the children of Utah, who vote for their favorite books. a list of the 2008 nominees can be found here.) these are my preliminary picks (in alphabetical order):

    • Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley*

    • Dairy Queen: A Novel by Catherine Gilbert Murdock*

    • Fairest by Gail Carson Levine*

    • Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen and illustrated by Kevin Hawkes*

    • Pieces of Georgia by Jennifer Bryant*

    • The Rhyming Season by Edward Averett*

    • She's All That: Poems about Girls by Belinda Hollyer

    • Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh

  5. Salt Lake County Library Reader's Choice
    eight books from either the 2008 nominees or past winners. (twice a year the Salt Lake County Library staff selects a group of recently published books that they enjoyed reading and that they think library patrons will like reading too. patrons vote for their favorites. a list of past winners is here.)

  6. Banned Books (in conjunction with the Banned Books Project)
    eight books from the many that have ever been challenged or banned.

  7. IRL Book Club Picks
    eight picks from those chosen for my main in-real-life book club. (we meet eleven times during the year, so hopefully there will be at least eight picks that i haven't previously read. if there aren't enough, then this category will be expanded to include some picks of the book club of my church women's group.)

  8. Books about Books (cross-listing with the Themed Reading Challenge)
    eight books (fiction or non-fiction) about books or reading. among the possibilities i'm considering are the following:

    • 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (this would be a re-read from my college days.)

    • Book Crush: For Kids and Teens - Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl

    • Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl

    • The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them edited by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannessen

    • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak*

    • Booked to Die (the first in the Cliff Janeway series) by John Dunning

    • Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

    • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (this would be a re-read from my high school days.)*

    • Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak

    • How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen

    • Inkheart by Cornelia Funke*

    • Inkspell by Cornelia Funke*

    • Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen*

    • Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World by Lawrence Goldstone

    • The Readers' Choice: 200 Book Club Favorites by Victoria Golden McMains
note: potentially overlapping picks are marked with an asterisk.

i've done the math, and if i'm going to be successful with this challenge, i'm going to need to read at least five of these books each month (or a little more than one book a week) throughout the year. as of today i've read almost sixty-seven books this year - which is at a pace for a total of about seventy-nine for the whole year, or about one-and-a-half books a week. even with the addition of a handful of additional books for other reasons, it seems do-able. (i think.)

Posted by alisonwonderland at 11/03/2007 08:05:00 PM 2 comments

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Callista's Choices
Friday, September 14, 2007

I've listed more than 8 for some which leaves me some extra in case I don't like a book I chose and can't finish it.

Non-fiction
1. The plug-in drug : television, computers, and family life by Marie Winn
2. The educated parent : recent trends in raising children by Joseph D. Sclafani
3. The elephant in the playroom : ordinary parents write intimately and honestly about the extraordinary highs and heartbreaking lows of raising kids with special needs by Denise Brodey
4. The Glass Castle: a memoir by Jeannette Walls
5. Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man? by Charles Barkley
6. Spare the child : the religious roots of punishment and the psychological impact of physical abuse by Philip J. Greven
7. The CSI Effect by Katherine M. Ramsland

Childrens/Young Adult
1. 24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley
2. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
3. Ida B . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World -- Katherine Hannigan
4. I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak
5. The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson
6. Looking at the Moon by Kit Pearson
7. The Third Eye by Lois Duncan
8. Daughters of Eve by Lois Duncan

Commonly Read And/Or Classics
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
4. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
7. The Stranger by Albert Camus
8. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
9. Emma by Jane Austen
10. The Plague by Albert Camus
11. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Education
1. School Starts at Home by Cheri Fuller
2. My First Year as a Teacher ed. by Pearl Rock Kane
3. Home-spun Schools by Raymond and Dorothy Moore
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Medical Mystery/Thriller
1. Isolation Ward by Joshua Spanogle
2. Critical Conditions by Stephen White
3. Manner of Death by Stephen White
4. Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook
5. Fatal by Michael Palmer
6. Life Support by Tess Gerritson
7. With a Vengence by Eileen Dreyer
8. Intensive Scare Unit by J.S. Borthwick

Parenting Books
1. Rattled by Trish Berg
2. Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
3. Spiritual Parenting by David Carroll
4. I Sleep at Red Lights by Bruce Stockler
5. The educated parent : recent trends in raising children by Joseph D. Sclafani
6. The plug-in drug : television, computers, and family life by Marie Winn
7. Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
8. __and one more__

Banned Books

1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
4. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
7. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
8. Grendel by John Gardner
9. Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
10. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle


Newbery Winners (With Newbery Project)
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Also for Back to History)
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Posted by Kathleen at 9/14/2007 09:54:00 PM 2 comments

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