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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!

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  

Labels: Around the World, Banned Books, Bookers, Classics, Non-fiction, Notables, Pulitzers, TBR stacks, Wendy

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  

Labels: Award Winners, Banned Books, Books about Books, Fantasy, Historical fiction, J.C. Montgomery, short story collections, TBR stacks, Women Writers

Scott's List
Monday, January 14, 2008

I'm a bit behind in posting this, but here they are. I'll update this with links every month or so. There are 3 doubles, I think. I'm already overextending myself, so fine. Incidentally, my book blog isn't on Blogger. It's here instead.

Thanks to 3M for hosting!

1. Books I've Been Avoiding Because They're Way Super Too Long
   
   • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell / Susanna Clarke
   • The Mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer Bradley
   • Dhalgren / Samuel R. Delany
   • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay / Michael Chabon
   • The Dragonbone Chair / Tad Williams
   • The Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu
   • The Name of the Rose / Umberto Eco
   • Infinite Jest / David Foster Wallace
2. Samuel R. Delany
   • Babel-17
   • Dhalgren
   • Hogg
   • Triton
   • Tales of Nevèrÿon
   • Neveryóna
   • Flight from Nevèrÿon
   • Return to Nevèrÿon
3. Getting Somewhere in My Serieses'ses's
   • Superior Saturday / Garth Nix
   • A Storm of Swords / George R.R. Martin
   • Mort / Terry Pratchett
   • The Shadow in the North / Phillip Pullman
   • Death of Riley / Rhys Bowen
   • The Grey King / Susan Cooper
   • The Lost City of Faar / D.J. MacHale
   • The Opal Deception / Eoin Colfer
4. Japanese Authors
   • Confessions of a Mask / Yukio Mishima
   • The Woman in the Dunes / Kobo Abe (13 Jan)
   • Norwegian Wood / Haruki Murakami
   • Coin Locker Babies / Ryu Murakami
   • The Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu
   • Spring Snow / Yukio Mishima
   • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle / Haruki Murakami
   • Kangaroo Notebook / Kobo Abe
5. Nonfiction About Pop Culture
   • The Lure of the Vampire / Milly Williamson
   • My Wicked, Wicked Ways / Errol Flynn
   • Burton on Burton / Tim Burton, et. al.
   • Reading Comics / Douglas Wolk
   • Why Buffy Matters / Rhonda Wilcox
   • The Art of Maurice Sendak / Selma Lanes
   • The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazake / Dani Cavallaro
   • Slayers and their Vampires / Bruce McClelland
6. Gay Fiction
   • Confessions of a Mask / Yukio Mishima
   • The Sluts / Dennis Cooper
   • Faggots / Larry Kramer
   • Martin and John / Dale Peck
   • A Boy's Own Story / Edmund White
   • Hard / Wayne Hoffman
   • Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada / Keith Hale
   • Giovanni's Room / James Baldwin
7. Small Press
   
   • Edition 69 / Vítěslav Nezval ; Jindřich Štyrský
   • The Sky Is a Well / Claudia Smith
   • Tony Takitani / Haruki Murakami
   • The Logogryph / Thomas Wharton
   • Eeeee Eee Eeee / Tao Lin
   • The Boy Detective Fails / Joe Meno
   • On Subbing / Dave
   • The Haunted Vagina / Carlton Mellick III
8. Books That Have Been Sitting on My Shelf For-Freaking-EVER!!!
   • Still Life with Woodpecker / Tom Robbins
   • The Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
   • The Shipping News / Annie Proulx
   • The Satanic Verses / Salman Rushdie
   • Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism / Georgia Byng
   • The Life of Elizabeth I / Allison Weir
   • Trainspotting / Irvine Welsh
   • Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden

Posted by Scottula at 1/14/2008 11:20:00 AM 0 comments  

Labels: gay fiction, Japanese authors, popular culture, samuel r delany, scary long books, scott, series, small press, TBR stacks

Alyson's 888
Saturday, December 15, 2007

Category 1: Austen-related books
1. Persuasion by Jane Austen
2. Northhanger Abbey by Jane Austen
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
5. Emma by Jane Austen
6. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
7. Austenland by Shannon Hale
8. Mr. Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange

Category 2: Woman Authors
1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2. Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
4. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
5. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier
6. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
7. Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott
8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Category 3: Margaret Atwood
1. Cat's Eye
2. Handmaid's Tale (completed 1/1/2008)
3. The Blind Assassin
4. Oryx and Crake
5. The Penelopiad
6. Alias Grace
7. The Robber Bride
8. The Edible Woman

Category 4: Terry Pratchett
1. The Colour of Magic
2. The Light Fantastic
3. Sourcery
4. Faust Eric
5. Interesting Times
6. The Last Continent
7. The Last Hero
8. Small Gods

Category 5: Made Into Movies
1. P.S., I Love You by Cecilia Ahearn
2. Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini
5. Emma by Jane Austen
6. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
8. Atonement by Ian McEwan

Category 6: Nora Roberts
1. Morrigan's Cross
2. Dance of the Gods
3.Valley of Silence
4. Key of Light
5. Key of Knowledge
6. Key of Valor
7. Blood Brothers
8. The Hollow
9. The Pagan Stone

Category 7: Wizards
1. HP and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. HP and the Chamber of Secrets
3. HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. HP and the Goblet of Fire
5. HP and the Order of the Phoenix
6. HP and the Half-Blood Prince
7. HP and the Deathly Hallows
8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Category 8: TBR (for a year or more)
1. Fahrenheit-451 by Ray Bradbury
2. The World According to Garp by John Irving
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini
6. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
7. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
8. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Posted by alethe16 at 12/15/2007 11:43:00 AM 0 comments  

Labels: Alyson, Atwood, Austen, Movies, Pratchett, Roberts, TBR stacks, Wizards, Women Writers

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  

Labels: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 1700s and 1800s, Books about Books, Classics, Non-fiction, TBR stacks, Tressa, Women Writers, Young Adult

Kristina's List
Thursday, October 4, 2007

Ok, it's done!!! Now I can't wait to get started!!


1. 1st in a series
-Rolling Thunder - Mark Mynheir
-Boo - Rene Gutteridge
-The Dark Hills Divide - Patrick Carman
-At Home in Mitford - Jan Karon
-Storm Front - Jim Butcher DONE
-Magyk - Angie Sage DONE
-Man With a Load of Mischief - Martha Grimes
-Black - Ted Dekker

2. Christian Fiction
-Sweet Treats - Wanda Brunstetter
-A Ship Possessed - Alton Gansky
-My Life as a Doormat - Rene Gutteridge DONE
-Heaven’s Wager - Ted Dekker
-Tilly - Frank Peretti DONE
-Premonition - Randy Ingermanson
-Redemption - Karen Kingsbury
-Thorn in my Heart - Liz Curtis Higgs

3. 8 Books from 8 Different States
-One For the Money - Janet Evanovich (NJ)
- Since You've Been Gone - Carlene Thompson (WV)
-Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler (CA)
-Second Glance - Jodi Picoult (VT)
-Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - Fannie Flagg (MO)
-Boo - Rene Gutteridge (IN)
-Widow of the South - Robert Hicks (TN)
-Haunted - Heather Graham (VA)

4. Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
-Man With a Load of Mischief - Martha Grimes
-I is for Innocent - Sue Grafton
-Shadow Man - Cody McFadyen
-The Virgin of the Small Plains - Nancy Pickard
-Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgins Clark
-The Lucifer Messiah - Frank Cavallo
-Stitches in Time - Barbara Michaels
-Monk - Matthew Lewis

5. Young Adult
-Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer DONE
-Coraline - Neil Gaiman DONE
-Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff DONE
-The Book of Story Beginnings - Kristin Kladstrup DONE
-The Prophet of Yonwood - Jeanne DuPrau DONE
-Magyk - Angie Sage DONE
-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling DONE
-Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher DONE

6. Hardbacks on my floor beside my shelf (LOL I said there was an overflow!)
-Post Secret - Frank Warren DONE
-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll DONE
-Undercover - Beth Kephart
-The Vanishing - Bentley Little
-Mary Modern - Camille De Angelis
-The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick DONE
-The Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill DONE
-The Dark Hills Divide - Patrick Carman

7. Newbery Award Winners
-Voyages of Dr. Doolittle - Hugh Lofting
-Tales from Silver Lands - Charles Finger
-The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Coatsworth DONE
-The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pene DuBois
-Invincible Louisa - Cornelia Meigs
-It's Like This Cat - Emily Neville DONE
-Bridge to Terebithia - Katherine Paterson
-The Giver - Lois Lowry DONE

8. Biographies/Memoirs
-In His Light - Danielle Steel
-A Paper Life - Tatum O'Neal
-Lucky Man - Michael J. Fox
-We Are Their Heaven - Allison DuBois
-Mosaic - Amy Grant DONE
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Posted by Anonymous at 10/04/2007 11:26:00 AM 2 comments  

Labels: biography/memoir, christian fiction, First-in-a-series, Kristina, newbery, states, Suspense/Thrillers, TBR stacks, Young Adult

Dew's categories
Saturday, September 1, 2007

Hi everyone! I'm excited about this challenge. I made my categories, but since 2008 is still 4 months away, I think I'll hold off on listing specific books yet.

Categories:

1. Children's literature. This can overlap my plan to continue reading Newbery winners as part of the Newbery Project.

2. Pulitzer Prize winners. This will go along with my plan to continue being part of the Pulitzer project.

3. New York Times Notable Books. This is in hopes that there'll be another Notable Books challenge like there was this year.

4. Printz Award winners or Honor books: This less well-known award is the equivalent of the Newbery for Young Adult literature. This can overlap my plan to host a Printz challenge sometime in the near future.

5. Booker Prize books: I want to read so many of these that I might want to host a challenge for them, too, or maybe I'll just read them on my own.

6. New in 2007/2008 books: So that I leave plenty of room for exciting new books I'll want to read.

7. TBR books: So I can keep working on taming that beast.

8. Graphic novels: My husband has the entire Sandman series, and I have criminally left them all unread except the first book. Plus I love graphic novels in general, and there'll be others I want to read.

Posted by Dewey at 9/01/2007 06:07:00 PM 5 comments  

Labels: Bookers, Dewey, Graphic Novels, kidlit, New in 07/08, NY Times Notables, Printz, Pulitzers, TBR stacks