Showing posts with label Books about Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books about Books. Show all posts

raidergirl3's list of 888 lists
Saturday, November 22, 2008

November 22 - Whew, this one is done. It was so much fun picking the lists and crossing them off as completed. Great list of books. Thanks Michelle, for hosting this one, and making us all join in the madness.

As I complete a book or two, I'll link to my review, date it, and bold it.
running total: 64/64 (because I read six books that overlap!)
8/8 categories completed.

Aaah, lists, beautiful lists. I like the flexibility of this idea. Commence:

8 Canadian Books finished as of July 30
1. Yellowknife - Steve Zipp Mar 24
2. The End of East - Jen Sookfong Lee Mar 7
3. The Ravine - Paul Quarrington Apr 8
4. Latitudes of Melt - Joan Clark April 5
5. How to Be a Canadian - Will and Ian Ferguson May 25
6. The Birth House - Ami McKay July 30
7. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen July 4
8. Crow Lake - Mary Lawson July 12

8 Bookers (Man Booker Challenge: 4 winners, 4 shortlisted) finished as of July 10
1. Atonement - Ian McEwan sl Feb 17
2. The Remains of the Day - Kazou Ishiguru Jan 12
3. The Life and Times of Michael K - JM Coetzee Mar 8
4. Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner June 30
5. The Night Watch - Sarah Waters sl July 10
6. The Gathering - Anne Enright Apr 23
7. Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones sl Apri 19
8. In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar sl May 20

8 Books About Books (goes with the themed challenge) finished as of Feb 13
1. The Book Thief Markus Zusak Jan 11
2. 84 Charing Cross Road Helene Hanff Jan 12
3. Housekeeping vs the Dirt Nick Hornby Jan 8
4. Booked to Die John Dunning Feb 3
5. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader Anne Fadiman Jan 28
6. The Case of the Missing Books Ian Sansom Jan 16
7. Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi Feb 13
8. The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde Jan 25

8 More from the Something About Me Challenge finished as of June 8
1. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde Jan 25
2. 84 Charing Cross Road - Helen Hanff Jan 12
3. Booked to Die - John Dunning Feb 3
4. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd May 30
5. The Awakening - Kate Chopin June 8
6. Angry Housewives Eating BonBons - Lorna Landvik Mar 3
7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith May 3
8. The Remains of the Day - Kazou Ishiguro Jan 12

8 Mysteries from Around the World finished as of Nov 17
1. Terra Cotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri (Italy) March 10
2. Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason (Iceland) Feb 23
3. The Snack Thief - Andrea Camilleri (Italy) July 6
4. Shadow Family - Miyuki Miyabe (Japan) May 31
5. Flying Too High - Kerry Greenwood (Australia) August 20
6. Who Killed Palomino Molero? - Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Oct 4
7. The Xibalba Murders - Lyn Hamilton (Mexico) Nov 17
8. All She Was Worth - Miyuki Miyabe (Japan) Nov 2

8 Nonfiction (goes with the In Their Shoes challenge) finished as of July 20
1. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed - Alan Alda Feb 11
2. Running With Scissors - Augustus Burrows July 15
3. Persepolis 1, and 2 - Marjane Satrapi Jan 30
4. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson May 17
5. Maus I and II - Art Spiegelman July 20
6. Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi Feb 13
7. Brainiac - Ken Jennings Jan 6
8. A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah June 21


8 Young Adult Books (goes with Joy's YAC) finished as of Mar 23
1. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson Mar 14
2. Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell Feb 4
3. The Princess Academy - Shannon Hale Mar 16
4. Vegan Virgin Valentine - Carolyn Mackler Mar 21
5. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan Mar 8
6. Zel - Donna Jo Napoli Mar 23
7. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler Feb 19
8. So Long, Jackie Robinson - Nancy Russell Feb 15

8 books published in 2008. (In the Pub Challenge) finished as of June 24
1. Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella Feb 26
2. The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space - Jim Lebans Feb 24
3. The Bleeding Dusk - Colleen Gleason Mar 21
4. The Ravine - Paul Quarrington Apr 8
5. An Exploding Case of Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif June 23
6. The Outcast - Sadie Jones Apr 27
7. Mudbound - Hillary Jordan June 24
8. The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway June 5

Posted by raidergirl3 at 11/22/2008 10:00:00 AM 3 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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888 List for Tressa/An Infinitude of Books
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Hi all! This is my first reading challenge, and I’m thrilled to be here.

Here’s my list for the 888 Challenge without overlaps. I’ll only do overlaps if I’m in trouble around November of 2008. Who knows what the year will bring, right? But I’m going to try to do the full 64.


I. Non-Fiction:

1. Ghosts of Vesuvius by Charles Pellegrino
2. The Female Thing by Laura Kipnis
3. Body Brokers : Inside America's Underground Trade In Human Remains by Annie Cheney
4. Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz
5. Dumbing Us Down : the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling by John Taylor Gatto
6. Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves
7. Working by Studs Terkel
8. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

II. Young Adult Fiction:

1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
2. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
3. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
4. The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
5. Deerskin by Robin McKinley
6. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
7. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1 by Diana Wynne Jones
8. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 2 by Diana Wynne Jones

III. Books from the 1001 books To Read Before You Die List:

1. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
2. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
3. Saturday by Ian McEwan
4. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
5. In A Glass Darkly by Sheridan le Fanu
6. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
7. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill

IV. Books About Books:

1. Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
2. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
3. So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson
4. Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama. and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore- Susan Shea
5. Sixpence House by Paul Collins
6. Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
7. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
8. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

V. Women Writers:

1. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
4. The Children of Men by P.D. James
5. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
6. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
7. Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
8. Topdog/Underdog by Suzan Lori-Parks

VI. Not-Yet-Read Classics:

1. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
2. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
3. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
4. Jazz by Toni Morrison
5. The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
6. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
7. A Maggot by John Fowles
8. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

VII. The 1700s and 1800s:

1. She by Rider Haggard
2. A Woman’s Life by de Maupassant
3. Silas Marner by George Eliot
4. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
5. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
6. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe
7. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
8. The Marble Faun by Hawthorne

VIII. Selections From My TBR Pile:

1. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
2. Black Jack by Leon Garfield
3. A Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela Regis
4. The Complete Sandman: Volume Two by Neil Gaiman
5. I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak
6. The Curse of Chalion by Lois M. Bujoid
7. A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
8. Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Posted by An Infinitude of Books at 12/04/2007 05:30:00 PM 1 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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