2011 Challenges

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I thought this list would just include the usual What's in a name challenge, but I couldn't resist the other two. I was going to read more books from my TBR pile and from the 1001 list, anyway (at least that's what I say to avoid guilt).
Challenges I'll be doing next year:

A. What's in a name 4

1. A book with a number in the title: Three Italian Chronicles by Stendhal
2. A book with jewelry or a gem in the title: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
3. A book with a size in the title: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
4. A book with travel or movement in the title: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
5. A book with evil in the title: Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
6. A book with a life stage in the title: The Child of the Cavern or The Underground City by Jules Verne

B. 2011 TBR Pile Challenge

1. Three Italian Chronicles by Stendhal
2. The Underground City by Jules Verne
3. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
4. Robin Hood by Walter Scott Pierce Egan, translated from English by Alexandre Dumas (*)
5. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
6. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
8. Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
9. The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
10. Maria by Jorge Isaacs
11. The Gods will have Blood by Anatole France
12. Quo Vadis? by Henry Sienkiewicz

C. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Challenge

1. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
2. A Heart So White by Javier Marías
3. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
4. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
5. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
6. Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
7. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
8. Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
9. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark