50 book challenge list
I decided to join in on the 50 book challenge. My year will be from October 2007 to October 2008 because that is right before my birthday & the holidays. I'm hoping that I can save folks (mostly my family) some time & cash by giving them the option of cleaning out their bookshelves for old titles that they have long since read rather than running to the mall. I'm also hoping to avoid running to the mall myself.
07-08 selections are mostly neglected reads, only one or two are re-reads that have been too long. I believe I have The Hitchhiker's Guide and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I just have to find them in the book boxes(?!)
50 Book challenge October 2007-2008
1. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (*****)
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (*****)
3. 1984 - George Orwell
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (*)
5. Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
6. His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman
7. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (****)
8. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
10. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
11. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
12. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
13. East Of Eden - John Steinbeck
14. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
15. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore
16. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
17. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
18. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
21. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
22. Rebel Angels - Libba Bray
23. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
24. White Oleander - Janet Fitch
25. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
26. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
27. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
28. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
29. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
30 Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
31. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
32. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
33. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
34. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
35. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
36. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Johathan Safran Foer
37. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
38. Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
39.The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
40. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
41. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
42. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
43. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
44. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
45. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
46. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
47. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
48. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
49. Night - Elie Wiesel
50. Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
And Graphic Novels
1. BLANKETS by Craig Thompson
2. MOUSE GUARD: FALL 1152 by David Petersen (***)
3. JIMMY CORRIGAN: THE SMARTEST KID ON EARTH by Chris Ware
4. WE3 by Grant Morrison
5. STARDUST by Neil Gaiman
6. V FOR VENDETTA by Alan Moore
7. PERSPOLIS, Book 1, Marjane Satrapi
8. PERSPOLIS, Book 2, Marjane Satrapi
9. Y: THE LAST MAN, Book 1, UNMANNED, by Brian K Vaughn
10. FABLES, Book 1, LEGENDS IN EXILE, by Bill Willingham
(Thanks David)
07-08 selections are mostly neglected reads, only one or two are re-reads that have been too long. I believe I have The Hitchhiker's Guide and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I just have to find them in the book boxes(?!)
50 Book challenge October 2007-2008
1. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (*****)
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (*****)
3. 1984 - George Orwell
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (*)
5. Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
6. His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman
7. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (****)
8. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
10. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
11. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
12. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
13. East Of Eden - John Steinbeck
14. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
15. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore
16. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
17. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
18. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
21. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
22. Rebel Angels - Libba Bray
23. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
24. White Oleander - Janet Fitch
25. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
26. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
27. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
28. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
29. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
30 Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
31. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
32. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
33. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
34. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
35. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
36. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Johathan Safran Foer
37. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
38. Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
39.The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
40. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
41. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
42. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
43. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
44. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
45. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
46. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
47. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
48. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
49. Night - Elie Wiesel
50. Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
And Graphic Novels
1. BLANKETS by Craig Thompson
2. MOUSE GUARD: FALL 1152 by David Petersen (***)
3. JIMMY CORRIGAN: THE SMARTEST KID ON EARTH by Chris Ware
4. WE3 by Grant Morrison
5. STARDUST by Neil Gaiman
6. V FOR VENDETTA by Alan Moore
7. PERSPOLIS, Book 1, Marjane Satrapi
8. PERSPOLIS, Book 2, Marjane Satrapi
9. Y: THE LAST MAN, Book 1, UNMANNED, by Brian K Vaughn
10. FABLES, Book 1, LEGENDS IN EXILE, by Bill Willingham
(Thanks David)