2012 Challenges & Events

SCHEDULE:

SCHEDULE:

JANUARY:                JUVENILE FICTION

The Future of Us (Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler)
The Firefly Letters (Margarita Engle)
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You (Ally Carter)
Liesl and Po (Lauren Oliver)

FEBRUARY:             ROMANCE FICTION

MARCH:                    MYSTERIES

APRIL:                       ADULT FICTION

MAY:                          MEMOIRS

JUNE:                         JUST CHICK LIT

JULY:                         JUST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST BOOKS

AUGUST:                   AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

SEPTEMBER:            SOUTHERN FICTION

OCTOBER:                  OWN CHOICE

NOVEMBER:              NOTHING BUT INSPIRATIONAL

DECEMBER:               DEBUT AUTHORS

Off the Shelf Challenge – Hosted by Bookish Ardour (These are listed in no particular order. My goal is read at least half of the titles below.)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68

  • Lust for Life (Irving Stone)
  • Paris My Sweet (Amy Thomas)
  • Suite Française (Irene Nemirovsky)
  • In Pursuit of Silence (George Prochnik)
  • Swamplandia! (Karen Russell)
  • The Girl Who Fell From the School (Heidi Durrow)
  • When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Gail Collins)
  • Fly By Night (Frances Hardinge)
  • Riverbig (Aris Janigian)
  • The Hakawati (Rabih Alameddine)
  • Everything Bad is Good For You (Steven Johnson)
  • Reading Like A Writer (Francine Prose)
  • Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum (Tyler Anbinder)
  • Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789 (Anthony Brandt)
  • Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
  • The House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus III)
  • Wickett’s Remedy (Myla Goldberg)
  • Metropolis (Elizabeth Gaffney)
  • Ahab’s Wife or The Star Gazer (Sena Jeter Naslund)
  • Everything is Illuminated (Jonathon Safran Foer)
  • The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
  • Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
  • The Green Hills of Africa (Ernest Hemingway)
  • House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski)
  • Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
  • The Book of Emmanuel (Anthony Martinez)
  • Howard’s End (EM Forster)
  • The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
  • 100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
  • The Log from the Sea of Cortez (John Steinbeck)
  • The Winter of our Discontent (John Steinbeck)
  • The Agony & the Ecstasy (Irving Stone)
  • Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathon Swift)
  • The Dante Club (Matthew Pearl)
  • The Alienist (Caleb Carr)
  • The Sound & The Fury (William Faulkner)
  • The Spy (James Fennimore Cooper)
  • Childhood’s End (Arthur C Clarke)
  • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Douglas Adams)
  • A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Tom Standage)
  • Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood)
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)
  • Bel Canto (Ann Pratchett)
  • The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
  • Persuasion (Jane Austen)
  • Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)
  • A Feast for Crows (George R. R. Martin)
  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe)
  • Their Eyes Where Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
  • Lipstick Jihad (Azadeh Moaveni)
  • Love In the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
  • Forgotten Fire (Adam Bagdasarian)
  • Anne of Green Gables (LM Montgomery)
  • Anne of Avonlea (LM Montgomery)
  • Anne of the Island (LM Montgomery)
  • Anne’s House of Dreams (LM Montgomery)
  • Anne of Windy Poplars (LM Montgomery)
  • Anne of Ingleside (LM Montgomery)
  • Rainbow Valley (LM Montgomery)
  • Rilla of Ingleside (LM Montgomery)
  • How to Read Like A Professor (Thomas Foster)
  • The Sweet Life in Paris (David Lebovitz)
  • A Man in Uniform (Kate Taylor)
  • Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald)
  • Becoming Americans in Paris (Brooke Blower)

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