The 2012 Reading Challenge

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Week 1: The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Week 2: First Love And Other Novellas - Samuel Beckett
Week 3: A Closed Book - Gilbert Adair
Week 4: The Boys From Brazil - Ira Levin
Week 5: The Gunslinger - Stephen King

Week 6: The Darkest Room - Johan Theorin

Week 7: The Paris Wife - Paula McLain

Week 8: Hungry Hill - Daphne Du Maurier

Week 9: Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson

Week 10: The Family Fang - Kevin Wilson

Week 11: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Week 12: The Hound of Death - Agatha Christie

Week 13: Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater

Week 14: The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Week 15: Cures for love - Stendhal

Week 16: First Love - Ivan Turgenev

Week 17: A Mere Interlude - Thomas Hardy
 
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1)The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

2)The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

1)The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

2)The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

3) Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

1)The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

2)The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

3) Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

4) Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser

5) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
 
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1.) 11/22/63 - Stephen King (849 pp.)
2.) Room - Emma Donoghue (321 pp.)
3.) Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger ​(288 pp.)
 
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1. I Heart New York - Lindsay Kelk
2. I Heart Hollywood - Lindsay Kelk
3. I Heart Paris - Lindsay Kelk
4. I Heart Las Vegas - Lindsay Kelk
5. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
6. Molly's Millions - Victoria Connelly
7. The Ice Cream Girls - Dorothy Koomson

8. Their Newborn Gift - Nikki Logan
9. To the Moon and Back - Jill Mansen
10. Goodnight, Beautiful - Dorothy Koomson

11. The Dating Detox - Gemma Burgess
12. The Taming of the Bastard - L.A. Dale
13. The Revenge Date - Geraldine Fonteroy

14. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

15. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
16. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins

17. A Girl Like You - Gemma Burgess
18. The Great Escape - Fiona Gibson
19. Unlike A Virgin - Lucy-Anne Holmes
20. I've Got Your Number - Sophie Kinsella
21. The Woman He Loved Before - Dorothy Koomson
22. Marshmallows For Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson
23. The Chocolate Run - Dorothy Koomson
 
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1. The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas
2. Of Bees And Mist - Erik Setiawan
3. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
4. My Best Friend's Girl - Dorothy Koomson
5. Carrie - Stephen King

6. I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett

7. The Accidental Family - Rowan Coleman

8. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

9. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

10. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

11. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins

12. Life And Laughing - Michael Mcintyre

13. A Rag, A Bone And A Hank Of Hair - Nicholas Fisk

14. The Other Side Of The Story - Marian Keyes

15. Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett

16. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett

17. Maskerade - Terry Pratchett

18. Thief Of Time - Terry Pratchett
 
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1) Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (849 pages)
2) The Litigators by John Grisham (385 pages)
3) The Twelfth Imam by Joel Rosenberg (484 pages)
4) The Tehran Initiative by Joel Rosenberg (480 pages)

1) Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (849 pages)
2) The Litigators by John Grisham (385 pages)
3) The Twelfth Imam by Joel Rosenberg (484 pages)
4) The Tehran Initiative by Joel Rosenberg (480 pages)
5) Locked On by Tom Clancy (864 pages)

I've fallen behind, but I somewhat made up for it over the weekend...

1) Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (849 pages)
2) The Litigators by John Grisham (385 pages)
3) The Twelfth Imam by Joel Rosenberg (484 pages)
4) The Tehran Initiative by Joel Rosenberg (480 pages)
5) Locked On by Tom Clancy (864 pages)
6) The Appeal by John Grisham (496 pages)
7) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (384 pages)
8) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (391 pages)
9) Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (400 pages)

1) Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (849 pages)
2) The Litigators by John Grisham (385 pages)
3) The Twelfth Imam by Joel Rosenberg (484 pages)
4) The Tehran Initiative by Joel Rosenberg (480 pages)
5) Locked On by Tom Clancy (864 pages)
6) The Appeal by John Grisham (496 pages)
7) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (384 pages)
8) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (391 pages)
9) Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (400 pages)
10) Kill Shot by Vince Flynn (401 pages)
 
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1. High King's Tomb by Kristin Britian
2. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
3. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
4. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien

6. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
 
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1.) Age of Extremes - Eric Hobsbawm
2.) Numbers in the Dark - Italo Calvino
3.) Purgatorio - Damte
4.) A sentimental education - Gustave Flaubert

5.) Arthurian romances - Chretien de Troyes

6.) Ethics - Michele Foucault




I'm a bit behind.

7.) Gas light - Patrick Hamilton.

8.) The Kill - Zola
9.) The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins
10.) Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole

Adding some i read earlier in the year and forgot

11.) The path to the spiders' nests - Italo Calvino

12.) Difficult loves - Italo Calvino
13.) smog - Italo Calvino
14.) a plunge into real estate - Italo Calvino

15.) Italo Calvino - Martin McLaughlin

16.) Writers and Society - Caesar & Ainsworth

17.) Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

18.) She Came to Stay- Simone de Beauvior
 
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I cannot stand books for some reason. I loose concentration at the front page.... Even sometimes they result in me getting a headache :L.
 
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1.) The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky
2.) East of Eden- John Steinbeck
3.) Needful Things- Stephen King
4,5,6.) The Space Trilogy- C.S. Lewis
7.) Walking With God- J.C. Ryle
8.) Frankenstein- Mary Shelly
9.) Outliers- Malcom Gladwell
10.) The Count of Monte Cristo- James Earl Jones
11.) Our Town- Thornton Wilder
12.) Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
 
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just finished "Killing Lincoln"

Ignore who wrote it. It is straight history and not political spin. It is well written with a lot of info that many probably were unaware of.
 
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19. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

20. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
 
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24. Millie and the American Wedding - Anna Bell
25. The Yorkshire Pudding Club - Milly Johnson
26. I've Got Your Number - Sophie Kinsella
27. My Best Friend's Girl - Dorothy Koomson
28. The Fat Chance Guide to Dieting - Claudia Pattison
29. Croissants and Jam - Lynda Renham
30. Sing You Home - Jodi Picoult
31. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
 
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