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100+ Reading Challenge
2008 at 9am Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
I’ve been reading 10-11 books per month since I started blogging back in July, and since I didn’t track my reading before, but I’m pretty sure the rate has stayed relatively constant, I think it’s safe to say I will end 2008 having read more than 100 books. This is definitely the first year that that will have happened, since it is my first full year out of graduate school, when all of my reading has been for pleasure…and what a pleasure it’s been!
So, I figured if I’m going to keep reading 100+ books per year, why not keep track of them and participate in the challenge at J. Kaye’s Book Blog? Here are the rules.
- You can join anytime as long as you don’t start reading your books prior to 2009.
- This challenge is for 2009 only. The last day to have all your books read is December 31, 2009.
- You can join anytime between now and December 31, 2009.
- All books count: children’s, YA, adults, fiction, non-fiction, how-tos, etc.
Click the icon above to join the challenge. I’ll be updating this post each time I finish and review a book, and I’ll probably add a tab for challenges at the top of the site.
Books Read in 2009
1. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
2. The List : 100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life by Gail Belsky
3. Love and Other Natural Disasters by Holly Shumas
4. Reading the OED by Ammon Shea
5. A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
6. Corner Shop by Roopa Farooki
7. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
8. The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson
9. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
10. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
11. Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin by Norah Vincent
13. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
14. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Diana Joseph
15. American Rust by Philipp Meyer
16. The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks
17. Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg
18. Captain Freedom by G. Xavier Robillard
20. My Little Red Book edited by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
21. The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti
22. The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
23. Supergirls Speak Out: Inside the Secret Crisis of Overachieving Girls by Liz Funk
24. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
25. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
26. The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley
27. Hold Love Strong by Matthew Aaron Goodman
28. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
29. First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria by Eve Brown-Waite
30. Life’s That Way by Jim Beaver
31. Who is Mark Twain? from HarperStudio
32. The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller
33. The Blue Notebook by James Levine
34. The Little Book by Selden Edwards
35. Lost Boy by Brent W. Jeffs
36. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
37. The Center of the Universe by Nancy Bachrach (discussed here)
38. Annie’s Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg
39. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White
40. Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
41. Happens Every Day by Isabel Gillies
42. Purge: Rehab Diaries by Nicole Johns
43. Beowulf on the Beach by Jack Murnighan
44. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (read for work; not reviewed)
45. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
46. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
47. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
48. The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
49. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
50. The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan (audio book)
51. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell (audio book)
52. The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha
53. This Will Kill You by H.P. Newquist and Rich Maloof
54. How to Buy a Love of Reading by Tanya Egan Gibson
55. Honey, It’s All in the Shoes by Phyllis Norton Hoffman
56. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
57. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
58. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
59. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (not reviewed, but discussed here)
60. The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances by Mark Millhone
61. The Believers by Zoe Heller
62. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
63. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
64. American Nerd by Benjamin Nugent
65. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
66. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
67. Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson (not reviewed)
69. Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk
71. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
72. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
73. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
74. Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
75. Laid edited by Shannon T. Boodram
76. The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery
77. Vera and the Ambassador by Vera and Donald Blinken
78. Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
79. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (completed for the Horrible Dare Challenge)
80. Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent
81. Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman
82. Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont
83. Two is Enough by Laura S. Scott
84. In the Woods by Tana French
85. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman (audio book)
86. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
87. What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van der Berg
89. Double Take by Kevin Michael Connolly
90. Decoding The Lost Symbol by Simon Cox
91. Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
92. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
93. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (audio book)
94. The Guinea Pig Diaries by A. J. Jacobs
95. The Likeness by Tana French
96. The Lost City of Z by David Grann
97. Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow
98. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
99. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
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I’m doing several challenges that start in 2009 and I think I’ll do this one too. My circumstances allow me to read as much as I want so I average a lot more than 100 in a year. I don’t review most of them because it’s difficult for me sitting at the computer (and I’d rather read instead) but I do rate them and talk about them on my litblog. Entering challenges helps me to keep track of what I’ve read and I don’t crossover from one reading challenge list to another which adds to the challenge. I also love comparing lists and I’m a sucker for a great icon. I love this one.
I’m in 14 challenges. Most run all of next year. They’re all listed on my blog’s sidebar if you want to check them out. I think most of the books I’ll read will cover 2 or 3 challenges so it shouldn’t be too bad.
Greetings! Just wanted to drop by and officially welcome you to the challenge. I am so glad you decided to join us!!
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