Year To Date: January - June 2018

Hello again!

Wow... Well, I definitely started writing this post before the end of June, but obviously I then forgot all about it, because here we are freshly into August... Oy.

So the plan for this post was to first give a quick summary of the books I read in June, then do a little reminiscing about the books I read during this first half of the year gone by, and then finish off with some goals/TBR list for the rest of the year. So, I might as well continue with that!


June 2018 reads
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi - 4.5 stars
The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro - 5 stars
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling (audio) - reread
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner - 5 stars
Legendary by Stephanie Garber - 5 stars
Relative Happiness by Lesley Crewe - 5 stars
Sold by Patricia McCormick - 3 stars


2018 Part One
So between January and June, I read/finished 41 books on Goodreads. Technically, it's 43 because The Hogwarts Library (Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard) only counts as one on there. We'll keep counting it as one, unless I need more books at the end of the year.;)

Favourites so far:
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris
Relative Happiness by Lesley Crewe

Pleasantly surprised by:
Trouble is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly
The Hearts We Sold by Emily Lloyd-Jones

Disappointed by:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell



2018 Part Two

For July and August, I am participating in a reading challenge called Summer Lovin' Book Camp hosted by the amazing admins of the TBR and Beyond Facebook group. They created a really cool board game where each square had a different genre/theme. I pre-rolled so that I could pick out a list of books ahead of time, and ended up with eleven. The squares I landed on, and the books I (originally) picked out, are below. I think I will write a separate post to discuss my progress with this challenge. Aside from this summer reading challenge, I have a few other books that have been on my shelves for a while that I would like to finally tackle, and Christmas gifts from this past year. I don't have any specific goals, except continuing toward my Goodreads challenge of 80 books.

1. Diverse: Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
2. Debut author: Beyond a Darkened Shore by Jessica Leake
3. Fae: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
4. TBR group read: Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
5. Paranormal: Our Dark Duet by V.E. Schwab
6. Tear jerker: Where She Went by Gayle Forman
7. Free space: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
8. Retelling: Fairest of All by Serena Valentino
9. All the feels: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
10. Purple: Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston
11. Summer: When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Winter TBR

Hey guys! I'm hoping that by starting early I will actually get this Top Ten Tuesday posted on time, and not forget about it... This week's Top Ten Tuesday theme (hosted by The Broke and the Bookish) is books that are on our winter TBR piles!

If you've visited my blog before when I've talked about TBR piles, you'll know that I don't really plan my reading. I mean, I'll pick out a bunch of books at the beginning of the month that I'd like to get to, but I most likely won't. I am very much a mood-reader, so when it comes around time to pick up the next book, that little pile for the month is often not very attractive anymore. So, all that to say that it is kind of difficult for me to do TBR posts like this, and actually read the books. But, if I were the type of person to plan my reading (and stick with it), these are the books I'd like to read this winter:

8. Winter by Marissa Meyer - I started reading this a few winters ago and simply could not get into it. It's been so long now since I've read the others that I'll probably have the same problem again, but I really would like to finally finish this series.

7. Heartless by Marissa Meyer - I am ashamed to admit that I still have not read many of the books that came in OwlCrate boxes in the past year, this being one of them. I love Alice in Wonderland, and I adored the box this book came in, so I'm really not sure why I've put this one off for so long...

6. Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore - Another OwlCrate book, this one was actually on my Goodreads TBR long before we got the box, so I am pretty excited about it!

5. The Last Star by Rick Yancey - Again, just really need to finish the series. It's been a while now since I read the others, but I feel like it will come back to me quickly enough.

4. Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman - I read A Man Called Over earlier this year and came across this other work of his at a used book sale, so I'm looking forward to seeing if all his books have the same feeling.

3. The Little Old Lady Strikes Again by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg - (alternate title, The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again) I enjoyed the first book, The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules, which was entertaining, so I'm looking forward to seeing what antics the League of Pensioners get into in this book.

2. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson - Again, I read his other book, The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, which was a bit different and darker than I was expecting, so I'm curious to see what this one will be like. Also, it has been sitting on my shelf for a very long time.

1. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly - I watched the movie when it came out in theatres and simply adored it, so I am very much looking forward to reading the book to find out how many liberties they took with it (aka, how much better the book is)!


Well... I could only come up with eight... I'm sorry! Haha, I left this on the weekend and didn't come back to it, and didn't feel like wracking my brains for more! :P

Fall TBR List

This was yesterday's Top Ten Tuesday theme, which I missed. Again. Every time I miss a theme that I wanted to participate in, I feel really annoyed with myself. Anyway...

 

I'm going to write the post anyway, because, there's really no reason not to! So, without further ado, I present to you my fall TBR list, which does not include books that I am currently reading, because it's not fall yet. So there. :P And I could only come up with 9 books anyway.

 

1. One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake - Got this one in the mail last week, and I'm super pumped to read it. The first book left us all in such a state, I'm really anxious to find out what happens to the sisters. Who will win the crown?
2. Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia - This was an OwlCrate book from a few months back. I've heard some really good things about it, so I'd like to give it a try.
3. The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson - Another OwlCrate book. This one actually piqued my interest because it is dystopian, and sounded like something I might have bought had I known anything about it prior to its release (which I did not). So I think I'd like to try this one.
4. Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco - I've finally got my hands on this one! I got the e-version on sale through Google Play for, I think, $1.99 USD. I was stoked. Definitely want to dive into this one.
5. A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro - I bought this one while on vacation! I had been lusting over it for ages, and while on vacation my bestie and I went to the bookstore, and it was on sale, so you know I couldn't leave without it! :)
6. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - People were raving about this one a while ago, and I found it at a big second-hand book sale (almost year ago!). I believe it was on my TBR for June or July, but I never got around to it. So I would definitely like to try to get to it this fall.
7. The Last Star  by Rick Yancey - I just really need to finish this series...
8. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han - Another one that I've heard lots of good things about, and I bought it a while back, and they're making it into a movie, so I need to get on to reading this and her other books!
9. Heartless by Marissa Meyer - This is another OwlCrate book. In all honesty, I should probably finish the Lunar Chronicles before reading this one, but maybe I don't care. We'll see... I just feel like I should finish up some more OwlCrate books.

So there you have it! We'll see how many of these I actually get through over the next couple of months. Reading is a very emotional thing for me, so it will totally depend on my mood, how tired I am, etc, which books I end up picking up. Hopefully at least a few of these, though!

READ ALL THE BOOKS!

Obviously, as you will have learned if you've spent any amount of time reading this blog, I love books; own loads of books; am constantly buying tons of books; have a TBR list that's really more of a bin system that would probably take up my whole room if I put them all together....

Just a little while ago, I shared a list of 14 books that I am hoping to read this year, which were mostly books from OwlCrate boxes and ones I started but didn't finish last year (or previously). And the more I think about - the more upcoming book releases I see, the more unfinished reads I find in my room, the more books I find in a corner that I forgot I owned, the more amazing reads I hear about on the OwlCrate Society... the more stressed out I get.

Allow me to explain... I love reading, so much, and the more I hear/read about amazing-sounding books (and see the covers, oh, the covers *swoon*) the more I want to READ ALL THE BOOKS! And then I'll finally get my hands on one of these amazing books, and I'll start to read it, and it's great, but unfortunately I can't read all day, nor can I read a whole book in a day if I could read all day. There are things that come up (like that recurring pesky "work" business), and other hobbies/interests that take my time, so that I really don't end up getting through books very quickly. Which either results in trying to read several books at once (because it's just not going fast enough!) or just feeling totally stressed out that I can't possibly READ ALL THE BOOKS!

Anyway, just felt like venting about that for a little bit. I realize that this is such a silly thing to stress about, so please don't lecture me, all you practical-thinking people out there. I just felt like sharing. And maybe I should refer to it as a frustration rather than a stress. Semantics...

So, am I alone in this? Does anybody else feel this way, or get stressed out frustrated by not being able to read as many books as they'd like to, or in the time frame they'd like to? Let me know in the comments!

TBR: Books I'm Hoping to Read/Finish in 2017

Hello dear readers. After reading a few posts and challenges floating around the blogosphere, I've decided to put in writing my own little To Be Read list of books I'd really like to read/finish in 2017, which should help to reduce my TBR pile *ahem* room a bit... So without further ado, and in no particular order, the books I would like to read in 2017 are as follows:

1. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - I'm planning to do a read-with-me challenge through a website I stumbled across, which will go through the whole series, plus a biography if L.M. Montgomery, and watch movies/TV shows, over the course of the year. I am a pretty big fan of the Anne of Green Gables miniseries (starring Megan Follows), but recently realized that I've never actually read the books (*shock and awe*), so it is beyond time that I did! And it just so happens that I found the box set at the thrift store this fall for a whopping $1!
2. Flawed by Cecelia Ahern - There are so many OwlCrate books which will appear on this list after this, but this one is a definite must (April 2016)! I've been wanting to read it for a couple months, but my bestie and I were hoping to read it together and compare notes, but we haven't been at a point yet where we could both read it at the same time. Hopefully early January...
3. Da Vinci's Tiger by L.M. Elliott - the second OwlCrate book I received (December 2015). I liked the other items in the box, but this book held absolutely no appeal to me. I'm still not that into it, but I'd like to try to read it before getting rid of it.
4. The Love That Split The World by Emily Henry - another OwlCrate book (February 2016). I've seen a few good reviews about this one, so I'm hoping it will be good.
5. Everland by Wendy Spinale - this is another OwlCrate book (May 2016) that I didn't have much interest in. It came in the Steampunk themed box, and I was kind of overall disappointed with the box's contents. The synopsis of the book is intriguing, I'm just a bit concerned that it will miss the mark.
6. This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab - this one came in the July 2016 OwlCrate Good vs. Evil box. I've heard really good things about this book and Victoria Schwab in general, so I kind of have high expectations for this book...
7. P.S. I Like You by Kasie West - I'm such a terrible person, but I absolutely judge books by their covers, and this one did not appeal to me in the slightest. The title and cover make it seem like the epitome of teenage high school romance, which I am very much over. But I will do my best to get through it before getting rid of it.
8. Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake - from the September 2016 OwlCrate box. It sounds like a good read, I just haven't got around to reading it yet, so hopefully next year!
9. Heartless by Marissa Meyer - from the November 2016 OwlCrate. I enjoyed the Lunar Chronicles, so I'm hoping this one lives up to Marissa's reputation. It's also a great synopsis, so... *fingers crossed*
10. Winter by Marissa Meyer - speaking of the Lunar Chronicles, I started reading this one in January 2016 and could not force myself through it. I'd like to give it another shot. Depending how I feel at the end of it will determine whether or not I will look for Fairest and Stars Above.
11. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George - I ordered this one through Indigo early in the summer because I'd seen it around a bit, the cover intrigued me, and let's be honest, the outline? A floating bookshop with a bookseller who "prescribes" books to his clients? Sounds perfect!! It is nothing as I imagined and I've been picking away at it for months. I'd like to finish it and be done with it. I could just DNF it (Did Not Finish) but my momma didn't raise no quitter! Unless I really can't force my way through it and just hate it, then I may give in and quit.
12. The Ingenious Edgar Jones by Elizabeth Garner - This is another book that I started early in the year but wasn't all that into so I never ended up finishing it. I'd like to finally get through and move on. :)
13. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling - Yet another book which I started this past year but didn't make it through. I want to read it simply because it is by J.K. Rowling, but I didn't like the writing all that much. I'm willing to give it a second chance, though.
14. United As One by Pittacus Lore - I finally picked up this final book of the Lorien Legacies (thank you, Indigo's Boxing Week sale), so I'm hoping to get through it next year as well, and finally put the series to rest. I haven't read the numerous complementary Lost Files, and don't really have any desire to at this point.
  

So anyway, wish me luck! I am planning to set a Goodreads goal of 40. I've read 29 so far this year (still need to double-check that there aren't a couple more I forgot to add), hopefully I will finish my current read in the next couple days. So I think that 40 is a reasonable and achievable goal (especially because I have achieved 52 in previous years, so I know I can do it!). Hopefully I will get caught up with 2016's reviews, and continue to review the books I read in 2017.

Edit: I did finish my book and therefore had a total of 30 books read in 2016. In the end, I decided to set my Goodreads goal at 35 for 2017. I will still aim for 40, but this gives me more wiggle room for those weeks and months where I don't feel like (or have time for) reading.

Top Ten Tuesday: Recent TBR List Additions

Hey everyone! This week's Top Ten Tuesday (as hosted by The Broke and the Bookish) is books I've recently added to my To-Be-Read list! This is a pretty easy one as I seem to be constantly picking up books, or reading about books I'd love to read!

If I haven't mentioned it before, my TBR is huge. And it's not so much a list or pile, as it is an ever-growing entity. But there are a few books that have migrated there in the last little while, so I've divided my list into books that are on my To Be Read list which I do not own, and books which were on that section of the list, but which I've recently acquired.

Five Books I Now Own & Must Read

Perfect by Rachel Joyce - It wasn't specifically on my TBR or To Buy list, but when I spotted it recently at a book sale and recognized the author, I couldn't leave without it.
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling - As I've mentioned often, I have been reading through the Harry Potter series this year, for the first time. I've basically just been reading the books as I bought them, and haven't really had the money lately to go buy the last 2 books new, so I've been waiting. But I managed to find The Deathly Hallows at a used book sale for $4, and my best friend found The Half-Blood Prince for $0.50!! This counts as one because... because I said so. :)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - I actually had an e-version of this book on an e-reader that was gifted to me, so when the poor thing died, I lost all the books that were on it. I happened upon it at a book sale recently. 
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson - I had seen this one on Indigo several months ago and added it to my wishlist, it just sounded interesting. The cover of this one caught my eye, and when I realized it was one of my wishlist books, again, had to have it!
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis - This book is among the first images I pinned on Pinterest a couple of years ago, but have only just now managed to find an actual copy.

5 Books I Do Not Yet Own

Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco - It seems as though everyone on The OwlCrate Society has been raving about this book and the cover is gorgeous and I just want to read it!!
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard - The cover of this book caught my eye when it came out in paperback this summer. I saw it in a display at Indigo and drooled a little, but I have yet to buy it.
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell - My best friend tells me this is one of her favourite books and that I must read it, so obviously I have had to add it to the list. :)
Miss Peregrine's trilogy by Ransom Riggs - It's not just because of the movie! But the movie coming out reminded me of my interest in these books. I actually didn't realize it was a series until everyone started talking about them in anticipation of the movie.
The Maze Runner series by James Dashner - I was recently looking into these as a potential gift idea for my (13 year old) nephew, and started thinking "Hey... maybe I'd like to read these..." And I did love the movies, so...

Rory Gilmore Book Challenge

List of the books Rory mentions reading in the Gilmore Girls series.

1. 1984 - George Orwell
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
3. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
5. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
6. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
7. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
9. Archidamian War - Donald Kagen
10. The Art of Fiction - Henry James
11. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
12. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
13. Atonement - Ian McEwan
14. Autobiography of a Face - Lucy Grealy
15. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
16. Babe - Dick King-Smith
17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women - Susan Faludi
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
19. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
20. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
21. Beloved - Toni Morrison
22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - Seamus Heaney
23. The Bhagava Gita
24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews - Peter Duffy
25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women - Elizabeth Wurtzel
26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays - Mary McCarthy
27. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
28. Brick Lane - Monica Ali
29. Bridgadoon - Alan Jay Lerner
30. Candide - Voltaire
31. The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
32. Carrie - Stephen King
33. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
34. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
35. Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White
36. The Children’s Hour - Lillian Hellman
37. Christine - Stephen King
38. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
39. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
40. The Code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse
41. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty - Eudora Welty
42. A Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
43. Complete Novels - Dawn Powell
44. The Complete Poems - Anne Sexton
45. Complete Stories - Dorothy Parker
46. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
47. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas père
48. Cousin Bette - Honor’e de Balzac
49. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
51. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
52. Cujo - Stephen King
53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
54. Daisy Miller - Henry James
55. Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
56. David and Lisa - Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
57. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
58. The Da Vinci -Code - Dan Brown
59. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
60. Demons - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Death of a Salesman -Arthur Miller
62. Deenie - Judy Blume
63. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson
64. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band - Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
65. The Divine Comedy - Dante
66. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
67. Don Quijote - Cervantes
68. Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhrv
69. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
70. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
71. Eleanor Roosevelt - Blanche Wiesen Cook
72. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
73. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters - Mark Dunn
74. Eloise - Kay Thompson
75. Emily the Strange - Roger Reger
76. Emma - Jane Austen
77. Empire Falls - Richard Russo
78. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective - Donald J. Sobol
79. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
80. Ethics - Spinoza
81. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 - Rick Steves
82. Eva Luna - Isabel Allende
83. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
84. Extravagance - Gary Krist
85. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
86. Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore
87. The Fall of the Athenian Empire - Donald Kagan
88. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World - Greg Critser
89. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
90. The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien
91. Fiddler on the Roof - Joseph Stein
92. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
93. Finnegan’s Wake - James Joyce
94. Fletch - Gregory McDonald
95. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
96. The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
97. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
98. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
99. Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger
100. Freaky Friday - Mary Rodgers
101. Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
102. Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
103. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President - Jacob Weisberg
104. Gidget - Fredrick Kohner
105. Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
106. The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels
107. The Godfather: Book 1 - Mario Puzo
108. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
109. Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Alvin Granowsky
110. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
111. The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford
112. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
113. The Graduate - Charles Webb
114. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
115. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
116. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
117. The Group - Mary McCarthy
118. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
119. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
120. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J. K. Rowling
121. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
122. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
123. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
124. Henry IV, part I - William Shakespeare
125. Henry IV, part II - William Shakespeare
126. Henry V - William Shakespeare
127. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
128. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
129. Holidays on Ice: Stories - David Sedaris
130. The Holy Barbarians - Lawrence Lipton
131. House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
132. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
133. How to Breathe Underwater - Julie Orringer
134. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Seuss
135. How the Light Gets In - M. J. Hyland
136. Howl - Allen Gingsburg
137. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
138. The Iliad - Homer
139. I’m with the Band - Pamela des Barres
140. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
141. Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
142. Iron Weed - William J. Kennedy
143. It Takes a Village - Hillary Clinton
144. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
145. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
146. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
147. The Jumping Frog - Mark Twain
148. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
149. Just a Couple of Days - Tony Vigorito
150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar - Robert Alexander
151. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
152. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover - D. H. Lawrence
153. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 - Gore Vidal
154. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
155. The Legend of Bagger Vance - Steven Pressfield
156. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
157. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
158. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
159. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
160. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
161. Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
162. The Little Locksmith - Katharine Butler Hathaway
163. The Little Match Girl - Hans Christian Andersen
164. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
165. Living History - Hillary Rodham Clinton
166. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
167. The Lottery: And Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
168. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
169. The Love Story - Erich Segal
170. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
171. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
172. The Manticore - Robertson Davies
173. Marathon Man - William Goldman
174. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Simone de Beauvoir
176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman - William Tecumseh Sherman
177. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
178. The Meaning of Consuelo - Judith Ortiz Cofer
179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy - H. R. Mencken
180. The Merry Wives of Windsro - William Shakespeare
181. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
182. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
183. The Miracle Worker - William Gibson
184. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion - Jim Irvin
186. Moliere: A Biography - Hobart Chatfield Taylor
187. A Monetary History of the United States - Milton Friedman
188. Monsieur Proust - Celeste Albaret
189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister - Julie Mars
190. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
191. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
192. Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath - Seymour M. Hersh
194. My Life as Author and Editor - H. R. Mencken
195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru - Tim Guest
196. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
197. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
198. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
199. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
200. The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin
201. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature - Jan Lars Jensen
202. New Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson
203. The New Way Things Work - David Macaulay
204. Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
205. Night - Elie Wiesel
206. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
207. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara . Johnson, John P. McGowan
208. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born - Dawn Powell
209. Notes of a Dirty Old Man - Charles Bukowski
210. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
211. Old School - Tobias Wolff
212. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
213. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
214. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
215. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
216. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
217. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life - Amy Tan
218. Oracle Night - Paul Auster
219. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
220. Othello - Shakespeare
221. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
222. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War - Donald Kagan
223. Out of Africa - Isac Dineson
224. The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
225. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
226. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition - Donald Kagan
227. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
228. Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
229. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
230. Pigs at the Trough - Arianna Huffington
231. Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
232. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
233. The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
234. The Portable Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker
235. The Portable Nietzche - Fredrich Nietzche
236. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill - on Suskind
237. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
238. Property - Valerie Martin
239. Pushkin: A Biography - T. J. Binyon
240. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
241. Quattrocento - James Mckean
242. A Quiet Storm - Rachel Howzell Hall
243. Rapunzel - Grimm Brothers
244. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
245. The Razor’s Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
246. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi
247. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
248. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin
249. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
250. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad - Virginia Holman
251. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien
252. R Is for Ricochet - Sue Grafton
253. Rita Hayworth - Stephen King
254. Robert’s Rules of Order - Henry Robert
255. Roman Fever - Edith Wharton
256. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
257. A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
258. A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
259. Rosemary’s Baby - Ira Levin
260. Sacred Time - Ursula Hegi
261. Sanctuary - William Faulkner
262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay - Nancy Milford
263. The Scarecrow of Oz - Frank L. Baum
264. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
265. Seabiscuit: An American Legend - Laura Hillenbrand
266. The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
267. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
268. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette - Judith Thurman
269. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 - Dawn Powell
270. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
271. A Separate Peace - John Knowles
272. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
273. Sexus - Henry Miller
274. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
275. Shane - Jack Shaefer
276. The Shining - Stephen King
277. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
278. S Is for Silence - Sue Grafton
279. Slaughter-house Five - Kurt Vonnegut
280. Small Island - Andrea Levy
281. Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
282. Snow White and Rose Red - Grimm Brothers
283. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
284. The Song of Names - Norman Lebrecht
285. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos - Julia de Burgos
286. The Song Reader - Lisa Tucker
287. Songbook - Nick Hornby
288. The Sonnets - William Shakespeare
289. Sonnets from the Portuegese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
290. Sophie’s Choice - William Styron
291. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
292. Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
293. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
294. The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
295. A Streetcar Named Desiree - Tennessee Williams
296. Stuart Little - E. B. White
297. Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
298. Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust
299. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals - Anne Collett
300. Sybil - Flora Rheta Schreiber
301. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
302. Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
303. Term of Endearment - Larry McMurtry
304. Time and Again - Jack Finney
305. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
306. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
307. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
308. The Tragedy of Richard III - William Shakespeare
309. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
310. The Trial - Franz Kafka
311. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters - Elisabeth Robinson
312. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship - Ann Patchett
313. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
314. Ulysses - James Joyce
315. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 - Sylvia Plath
316.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
317. Unless - Carol Shields
318. Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
319. The Vanishing Newspaper - Philip Meyers
320. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - in progress
321. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) - Joe Harvard
322. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
323. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
324. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
325. Walt Disney’s Bambi - Felix Salten
326. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
327. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited - Daniel Sinker
328. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 - Richard Nelson Bolles
329. What Happened to Baby Jane - Henry Farrell
330. When the Emperor Was Divine - Julie Otsuka
331. Who Moved My Cheese - Spencer Johnson
332. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee
333.  Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
334. The Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum
335. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
336. The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
337. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
338. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Tool

BBC Book Challenge

Found this list posted at my local new/used bookstore in December and got a copy - thought I'd see how many I've read, and how long it would take me to complete the list! :) (There's supposed to be 100, but there are only 99)

The BBC reckons most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. Let's prove them wrong.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. 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 May 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 - Sebastien Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler's Wife -
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. Persuasion - Jane Austen
35. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
59. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72. The Secret Garden - Grances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From a Small Island- Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - Thackeray - in progress
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte's Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Alborn
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine - de Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adam
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
99. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo