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That time of year again! To start my quest to read 50 books all over again.
Rereads in purple
Everything is in the order they were read (with dates this time!)
Books I've read this year
1. Moon Called (Mercedes Thompson, Book 1) - Patricia Briggs started - 1/1 finished - 1/1
2. Blood Bound (Mercedes Thompson, Book 2)- Patricia Briggs started - 1/2 finished - 1/3
3. Iron Kissed (Mercedes Thompson, Book 3)- Patricia Briggs started - 1/3 finished - 1/3
4. Inkheart (Inkheart, Book 1)- Cornelia Funke started - 1/3 finished - 1/8
5. Inkspell (Inkheart, Book 2)- Cornelia Funke started - 1/9 finished - 1/25
6. Why We Suck - Dr. Denis Leary started - 1/19 finished 1/19
7. Inkdeath (Inkheart, Book 3)- Cornelia Funke started - 1/26 finished - 1/28
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick started - 1/28 finished - 2/6
9. Bone Crossed (Mercedes Thompson, Book 4)- Patricia Briggs started - 2/3 finished - 2/3
10. Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury started - 2/8 finished - 2/23 (vacation ruined me)
11. Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister - Gregory Maguire started - 3/2 finished - 3/4
12. Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, Book 4)- Naomi Novik started - 4/16 finished - 4/17
13. Victory of Eagles (Temeraire, Book 5)- Naomi Novik started - 4/18 finished 4/19
14. Tales of Beedle the Bard - J K Rowling started - 4/28 finished 4/28
15. Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
16. World War Z - Max Brooks
17. Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
18. Multireal (Jump 225, Book 2)- David Louis Edelman
19. Alanna - the First Adventure (Alanna, Book 1)- Tamora Pierce
20. In the Hand of the Goddess (Alanna, Book 2)- Tamora Pierce
21. The Woman Who Rides Like A Man (Alanna, Book 3) - Tamora Pierce
22. Lioness Rampant (Alanna, Book 4)- Tamora Pierce
23. Strange Brew - P N Elrod
24. Homecoming - Patricia Briggs
25. Cry Wolf - Patricia Briggs
26. Hunting Ground - Patricia Briggs
27. Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie
28. My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding - P N Elrod
29. Wages of Sin - Jenna Maclaine
30. Skinwalker - Faith Hunter
31. My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon - P N Elrod
31 / 50 books read. 62% done!
62.74% through the year
Books Coming Out This Year/Books I Want To Get
1. A Dance with Dragons (Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5)- George R. R. Martin
2. Bone Crossed - Patricia Briggs. Fev. 3rd
3. MulitReal - David Louis Edelman
4. Lord Sunday (Keys to the Kingdom, Book 7)- Garth Nix - June
5. Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
6. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
7. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
Books I Have That I Need to Read/Reread
1. The Algebraist - Banks
2. Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2)- Cornish
3. History of Time - Hawking
4. The Universe in a Nutshell - Hawking
5. Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
6. Victory of Eagles - Naomi Novik
7. 1984 (in French) - George Orwell
8. Tales of Beedle the Bard - J K Rowling
9. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
10. Do Androids Dream of Sleep - Philip K Dick
11. Anathem - Neal Stephenson
12. Neuromancer - William Gibson
13. Invasive Procedures - Orson Scott Card
14. Downbelow Station - C. J. Cherryh
15. Pride, Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
16. Simplexity - Jeffrey Kluger
17. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
2008 - 80%
BBCs Top 100 Books
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma- Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (why is this on the list?)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo