Challenge 2014
BOOKS
JANUARY
01. Hilary Mantel - A place of greater safety 4,5/5
02. E.M. Forster - Howards End 4/5
03. Philippa Gregory - The other queen 2/5
04. Rascha Peper - Handel in veren 4,5/5
05. Robert Galbraith - The cuckoo's calling 4,5/5
06. Mark Gatiss - Black butterfly (audio) 2,5/5
FEBRUARY
07. Alan Hollinghurst - The line of beauty 4,5/5
08. Muriel Barbery - The elegance of the hedgehog 4,5/5
09. Hilary Mantel - Beyond black 3/5
10. Charles Lewinsky - Tien-en-een-nacht 4/5
MARCH
11. Suzanne Collins - The hunger games 4,5/5
12. Suzanne Collins - Catching fire 4/5
13. Justin Cronin - The passage 4/5
14. Sue Townsend - The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 3,5/5
15. Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay 1,5/5
16. Jonas Jonasson - The hundred-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared 3,5/5
APRIL
17. Anne Rice - Interview with the vampire 5/5
18. Anne Rice - The vampire Lestat 4,5/5
19. Téa Obreht - The tiger's wife 4,5/5
MAY
20. Stephen Fry - The Fry chronicles 4,5/5
21. Margaret George - Helen of Troy 3,5/5
22. Jules Verne - Around the world in eighty days 4/5
JUNE
23. Alan Hollinghurst - The stranger's child 5/5
24. Eleanor Catton - The luminaries 4,5/5
25. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The autumn of the patriarch 3/5
26. William Boyd - Any human heart 4/5
JULY
27. Mark Haddon - The red house 2,5/5
28. Alan Hollinghurst - The swimming-pool library 3,5/5
29. Ruth Ozeki - A tale for the time being 4,5/5
30. Stephen King - Doctor sleep 4,5/5
31. Paul Torday - Salmon fishing in the Yemen 3,5/5
AUGUST
32. Anthony Horowitz - The house of silk 4/5
33. Jon McGregor - This isn't the sort of thing that happens to someone like you 2,5/5
34. Alan Bennett - The clothes they stood up in 4/5
SEPTEMBER
35. Justin Cronin - The twelve 4/5
36. John Greene - The fault in our stars 3,5/5
37. Gillian Flynn - Gone girl 4/5
38. Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are not the only fruit 2,5/5
39. Joanne Briscoe - Sleep with me 0/5
OCTOBER
40. Philippa Gregory - The lady of the rivers 3/5
41. Howard Jacobson - The Finkler question 4/5
42. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Heat and dust 3,5/5
43. Félix J. Palma - The map of time 5/5
44. William Boyd - Restless 5/5
NOVEMBER
44.5. Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton - De waanzinnige boomhut van 13 verdiepingen 3,5/5
45. P.D. James - Death comes to Pemberley 3,5/5
46. David Walliams - Camp David 3/5
47. Essie Fox - The somnambulist 2,5/5
48. Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre 5/5
DECEMBER
49. M.J. Hyland - Carry me down 2/5
50. William Boyd - Waiting for sunrise 3/5 --> 03 December 2014
51. George Orwell - 1984 4/5
52. Pascal Mercier - Night train to Lisbon 2,5/5
MOVIES
JANUARY
01. The Hobbit: The desolation of Smaug 5/5
--. Love actually 4,5/5
02. American hustle 3,5/5
03. Swinging with the Finkels 2/5
04. Argo 4,5/5
05. Thor 3/5
06. August: Osage County 4,5/5
07. Avengers assemble 3/5
FEBRUARY
08. The deep blue sea 2,5/5
09. Midnight in Paris 4/5
10. Her 4,5/5
--. Sleuth 4/5
11. Only lovers left alive 4/5
12. Thor 2: The Dark World 2,5/5
MARCH
13. The monuments men 3,5/5
14. The hunger games 4/5
15. The book thief 3,5/5
16. Catching fire 5/5
17. The wolf of Wall Street 3,5/5
APRIL
--. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl 4/5
18. Philomena 5/5
19. Mansfield park 4/5
MAY
20. Dallas buyers club 4/5
21. X-Men: Days of future past 5/5
--. X-Men: First Class 5/5
JUNE
22. About time 5/5
23. The Croods 5/5
JULY
24. Chef 5/5
25. Begin again 3,5/5
AUGUST
--. Shakespeare in love 5/5
SEPTEMBER
26. What's your number 3,5/5
27. Pride 4,5/5
OCTOBER
28. Frances Ha 4/5
29. The kids are alright 4/5
NOVEMBER
30. Frozen 4,5/5
31. The princess and the frog 3,5/5
32. The ides of March 4/5
33. The scapegoat 4/5
34. Horns 3,5/5
35. The imitation game 5/5
DECEMBER
36. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, part 1 3/5
37. One Direction: This is us 4/5
38. The hundred-foot journey 4/5
39. One day 4/5
40. Jane Eyre 4/5
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