100 Books in a Year
Rules
1. Read 100 books or more in 2011.
2. Keep track of how many I read.
3. First time reads only.
4. Leave the entry public. If you want to recommend any of your favorites to me, please do so in the comments.
If people do want to recommend some books to me I'd love that! I like Science Fiction (soft psychological, space opera, superhero or cyberpunk), Fantasy (high, low, wacky), Paranormal (more horror/urban fantasy/dark less straight up horror) and Mysteries (just about any kind). I also enjoy Children/YA books especially ones more ground in fantasy/scifi/paranormal/spy/superhero/mystery than reality/slice-of-life. Anything retelling fairy tales, mythology, legends or nursery rhymes, and Gothic/Edwardian/Victorian literature is also fantastic.
For non-fiction I like mythology, fairy tales, legends and so forth and am interested in finding more sites/links recommendations for African, South American and Asian (non Japanese or Chinese) mythology and fairy tales.
I'm not especially fond of straight romance or erotica unless it's got genre (science fiction, fantasy, paranormal or mystery) elements to it. I don't mind and enjoy romantic or erotic elements in my normal (age appropriate) reading. I don't think that romance should be excluded in a book, even a genre one I just don't want it to be 350 pages of badly written softcore porn and 50 pages of detecting or hunting down the vampire.
Also I love anything that has LGBTQ or Asexual characters in it and people of color/other ethnic groups than white. Really I just like writing that doesn't fall into classic stereotypes that would be ridiculous or offensive by modern standards that are in a modern book. An Edwardian or Victorian book I'll wince and work past the amazing amounts of racism and only give myself a mild concussion slamming my head into the wall. I promise.
01. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories - Washington Irving
02. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre - Anthology
03. Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories - Sheridan Le Fanu
04. The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
05. The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder - W.H. Hodgson
06. Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer - Alice & Claude Askew
07. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
08. From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne
09. Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
10. Dracula - Bram Stoker
11. Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker
12. Jewel of the Seven Stars - Bram Stoker
13. Lady of the Shroud - Bram Stoker
14. Eloise - Catherine Jinks
15. Half Moon Investigations - Eoin Colfer
16. S.T.O.R.M. The Viper Club - E.L. Young
17. Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allen Crow - James Howe
18. Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles 01 The Nixie's Song - Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
19. Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles 02 A Giant Problem - Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
20. Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles 03 The Wyrm King - Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
21. Cirque du Freak - Darren Shan
22. The Vampire's Assistant - Darren Shan
23. Tunnels of Blood - Darren Shan
24. Vampire Mountain - Darren Shan
25. Trials of Death - Darren Shan
36. The Vampire Princes - Darren Shan
37. The Flight of the Phoenix - R.L. LaFevers
38. Evil Genius - Catherine Jinks
39. The Basilisk's Lair - R.L. LaFevers
40. The Wyverns' Treasure - R.L. LaFevers
41. The Unicorn's Tale - R.L. LaFevers
42. Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake - Jennifer Allison
43. More Two-Minute Mysteries - Donald J. Sobol
44. Still More Two-Minute Mysteries - Donald J. Sobol
45. Genius Squad - Catherine Jinks
46. Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos - R.L. LaFevers
47. Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris - R.L. LaFevers
48. Genius Wars - Catherine Jinks
49. Gilda Joyce: The Ghost Sonata - Jennifer Allison
50. Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus - R.L. LaFevers
51. The Wist List - Eoin Colfer
52. N.E.R.D.S. - Michael Buckley
53. M is for Mama's Boy - Michael Buckley
54. Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh - R.L. LaFevers
55. The Supernaturalist - Eoin Colfer
56. The Hunters of the Dusk - Darren Shan
57. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
58. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
59. Tom Sawyer Abroad - Mark Twain
60. Tom Sawyer Detective - Mark Twain
61. Dracula's Guest and Other Tales of Horror - Bram Stoker
62. Under the Sunset - Bram Stoker
63. Nutcracker and Mouse King - E.T.A. Hoffman
64. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
65. The Chimes - Charles Dickens
66. The Tale of the Nutcracker - Alexandre Dumas
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1. Read 100 books or more in 2011.
2. Keep track of how many I read.
3. First time reads only.
4. Leave the entry public. If you want to recommend any of your favorites to me, please do so in the comments.
If people do want to recommend some books to me I'd love that! I like Science Fiction (soft psychological, space opera, superhero or cyberpunk), Fantasy (high, low, wacky), Paranormal (more horror/urban fantasy/dark less straight up horror) and Mysteries (just about any kind). I also enjoy Children/YA books especially ones more ground in fantasy/scifi/paranormal/spy/superhero/mystery than reality/slice-of-life. Anything retelling fairy tales, mythology, legends or nursery rhymes, and Gothic/Edwardian/Victorian literature is also fantastic.
For non-fiction I like mythology, fairy tales, legends and so forth and am interested in finding more sites/links recommendations for African, South American and Asian (non Japanese or Chinese) mythology and fairy tales.
I'm not especially fond of straight romance or erotica unless it's got genre (science fiction, fantasy, paranormal or mystery) elements to it. I don't mind and enjoy romantic or erotic elements in my normal (age appropriate) reading. I don't think that romance should be excluded in a book, even a genre one I just don't want it to be 350 pages of badly written softcore porn and 50 pages of detecting or hunting down the vampire.
Also I love anything that has LGBTQ or Asexual characters in it and people of color/other ethnic groups than white. Really I just like writing that doesn't fall into classic stereotypes that would be ridiculous or offensive by modern standards that are in a modern book. An Edwardian or Victorian book I'll wince and work past the amazing amounts of racism and only give myself a mild concussion slamming my head into the wall. I promise.
01. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories - Washington Irving
02. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre - Anthology
03. Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories - Sheridan Le Fanu
04. The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
05. The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder - W.H. Hodgson
06. Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer - Alice & Claude Askew
07. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
08. From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne
09. Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
10. Dracula - Bram Stoker
11. Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker
12. Jewel of the Seven Stars - Bram Stoker
13. Lady of the Shroud - Bram Stoker
14. Eloise - Catherine Jinks
15. Half Moon Investigations - Eoin Colfer
16. S.T.O.R.M. The Viper Club - E.L. Young
17. Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allen Crow - James Howe
18. Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles 01 The Nixie's Song - Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
19. Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles 02 A Giant Problem - Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
20. Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles 03 The Wyrm King - Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
21. Cirque du Freak - Darren Shan
22. The Vampire's Assistant - Darren Shan
23. Tunnels of Blood - Darren Shan
24. Vampire Mountain - Darren Shan
25. Trials of Death - Darren Shan
36. The Vampire Princes - Darren Shan
37. The Flight of the Phoenix - R.L. LaFevers
38. Evil Genius - Catherine Jinks
39. The Basilisk's Lair - R.L. LaFevers
40. The Wyverns' Treasure - R.L. LaFevers
41. The Unicorn's Tale - R.L. LaFevers
42. Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake - Jennifer Allison
43. More Two-Minute Mysteries - Donald J. Sobol
44. Still More Two-Minute Mysteries - Donald J. Sobol
45. Genius Squad - Catherine Jinks
46. Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos - R.L. LaFevers
47. Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris - R.L. LaFevers
48. Genius Wars - Catherine Jinks
49. Gilda Joyce: The Ghost Sonata - Jennifer Allison
50. Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus - R.L. LaFevers
51. The Wist List - Eoin Colfer
52. N.E.R.D.S. - Michael Buckley
53. M is for Mama's Boy - Michael Buckley
54. Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh - R.L. LaFevers
55. The Supernaturalist - Eoin Colfer
56. The Hunters of the Dusk - Darren Shan
57. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
58. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
59. Tom Sawyer Abroad - Mark Twain
60. Tom Sawyer Detective - Mark Twain
61. Dracula's Guest and Other Tales of Horror - Bram Stoker
62. Under the Sunset - Bram Stoker
63. Nutcracker and Mouse King - E.T.A. Hoffman
64. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
65. The Chimes - Charles Dickens
66. The Tale of the Nutcracker - Alexandre Dumas
67.