S-e-v-e-n-t-y.
I shall be reading 70 not-for-work titles this year. 70! The emphasis is not for you, dear readers, but for me. I just love to challenge myself to no end.
Most of the books have been in my bookshelves or book piles for more than a year. As I read a book, I'll cross it off and maybe write a book review. Of course I'm not reading them in order!
Reading Challenges
To help motivate me, I've signed up for the following reading challenges: - Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge CCRC
- Foodie's Reading Challenge FRC
- Hometown Challenge HC
- Off the Shelf Challenge OTSC
- 2011 TBR Pile Challenge TBR
- What's in a Name Challenge! WINC
1/10/11 update: As I finish a book, I'll check it off √ and put a link to my book review should I happen to write one.
2/8/11 update: I've read 5 books so far. Hmmm.
3/23/11 update: Nine books. Three reviews to write.
6/11 update: 11 books. Six reviews to write. ha!
2/8/11 update: I've read 5 books so far. Hmmm.
3/23/11 update: Nine books. Three reviews to write.
6/11 update: 11 books. Six reviews to write. ha!
12/28 update: hahahahahahaha. . .what was I thinking that I would be able to read 70 books while doing research for my current projects. hahahahahahaha. . . .I will read all of these books. Eventually. Okay, I confess, I read several other books that were not on this original booklist. Like most readers, I wouldn't be me, if I hadn't.
FICTION
Bad-Ass Faeries edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Lee Hillman, and Jeff Lyman OTSC, WINC
The Demise of Luleta Jones by Mark Allen Boone OTSC
√ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte OTSC (my book review)
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey OTSC
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman OTSC
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving OTSC
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor OTSC
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent OTSC
The Octopus by Frank Norris HC, OTSC
At Swim–Two–Birds by Flann O'Brien OTSC, WINC
√ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows FRC, OTSC (my book review)
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan FRC, OTSC
√ A Little Too Much Is Enough by Kathleen Tyou OTSC, WINC (book review to come)
√ Behold the Many by Lois-Ann Yamanaka OTSC, TBR (book review to come)
√ Glazed Murder: A Donut Shop Mystery by Jessica Beck CCRC, FRC (my book review)NON-FICTION
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley CCRC, OTSC
√ The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown OTSC (my book review)
Size 14 is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot CCRC, OTSC, TBR
√ Homicide in Hardcover by Kate Carlisle CCRC, OTSC (my book review)
Next by Michael Crichton OTSC
√ Mr. Monk is Cleaned Out by Lee Goldberg CCRC, OTSC (book review to come)
Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood CCRC, OTSC
I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason by Susan Kandel CCRC, OTSC, WINC
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson OTSC, TBR
Cape Perdido by Marcia Muller CCRC, OTSC, TBR
Locked In by Marcia Muller CCRC, OTSC
Nightcrawlers by Bill Pronzini OTSC, TBR
A Night Too Dark by Dana Stabenow CCRC, OTSC
√ The Clovis Incident by Pari Noskin Taichert CCRC, OTSC, TBR (book review to come)
How to Crash a Killer Bash by Penny Warner CCRC, OTSC
Around the World with a King by William N. Armstrong OTSC, TBRMEMOIRS
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen OTSC
Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis OTSC
Gentleman Soldier: John Clifford Brown and the Philippine-American War edited, with an introduction by Joseph P. McCallus OTSC
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama OTSC, TBR
East of the Gabilans by Marjorie Pierce HC
Jane Austen, A Life by Claire Tomalin OTSC
Field Guide to Mysterious Places of the Pacific Coast by Salvatore M. Trento OTSC
Six Months in the Sandwich Islands by Isabella L. Bird OTSC, TBRHUMOR
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain FRC, OTSC
My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme FRC, OTSC
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic
Revolution by Sattareh Farman Farmaian with Dona Munker OTSC
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes FRC, OTSC, TBR
America and Americans by John Steinbeck OTSC, TBR
√ Travels with Zenobia, Paris to Albania by Model T Ford, A Journal by Rose Wilder Lane and Helen Dore Boylston, edited by William Holtz OTSC,WINC (my book review)
A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle OTSC
The Lives and Times of Archy & Mehitabel by Don Marquis OTSC
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris OTSC
Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart OTSC
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy in Action written and edited by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, and David Javerbaum OTSC
Roughing It by Mark Twain OTSC, TBR
Invisible Stanley by Jeff Brown
Trixie Belden and the Red Trailer Mystery by Julie Campbell
The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids: Mrs. Jeepers' Scariest
Halloween Ever by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Just Joking! by Andy Griffiths
√ The School is Driving Me Crazy by Nat Hentoff (book review to come)
Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman
√ The Clue of the Broken Locket by Carolyn Keene WINC (book review to come)
Miss Pickerell on the Moon by Ellen MacGregor and Dora Pantell
Day of the Dragon King by Mary Pope Osborne
Magic Tree House, A Merlin Mission: Night of the New Magicians by Mary Pope Osborne
The Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
Alice-by-Accident by Lynne Reid Banks
A to Z Mysteries: The Jaguar's Jewel by Ron Roy
Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry
The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid by Geronimo Stilton
Cherry Ames, Camp Nurse by Helen Wells
The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West
Here Come the Holidays! by Jack Prelutsky, et. al.
