Perpetual Reading
100+ Reading Challenge 2010
progress: 98/100
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Chunkster Challenge 2010
Morbookly Obese
COMPLETED! 6/6
- Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah (528 pgs)
- The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (705 pgs)
- To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (493 pgs)
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (576 pgs)
- The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley (480 pgs)
- The Blessings of the Animals by Katrina Kittle (464 pgs)
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New Authors Challenge 2010
COMPLETED 25! UPPED and COMPLETED 50!
- Rohinton Mistry (A Fine Balance)
- Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
- Christopher McDougall (Born to Run)
- Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)
- Kristin Hannah (Firefly Lane)
- Walter Dean Myers (Monster)
- Meg Rosoff (How I Live Now)
- Julie Kagawa (The Iron King)
- David Sedaris (When You Are Engulfed In Flames)
- Jacqueline Novogratz (The Blue Sweater)
- Octavia Butler (Kindred)
- Dave Barry/Ridley Pearson (Peter and the Starcatchers)
- Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl (Beautiful Creatures)
- Murray Tillman (Meet Me on the Paisley Roof)
- Maria Semple (This One Is Mine)
- Connie Willis (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
- Mary E. Pearson (The Adoration of Jenna Fox)
- Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)
- Stieg Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
- Patrick Doud (The Hunt for the Eye of Ogin)
- Julie Anne Peters (Luna)
- Jeanette Ingold (Paper Daughter)
- Chris Killen (The Bird Room)
- Josh Berk (The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin)
- Gayle Forman (If I Stay)
- Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games)
- Kathi Mills-Macias (No Greater Love)
- Libba Bray (Going Bovine)
- Craig Silvey (Jasper Jones)
- Ekaterina Sedai (The Alchemy of Stone)
- Elise Blackwell (An Unfinished Score)
- Hillary Jordan (Mudbound)
- Isabel Allende (Daughter of Fortune)
- Carla Buckley (The Things That Keep Us Here)
- China Mieville (The City and The City)
- John Green (Looking for Alaska)
- Emma Larkin (Everything is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma)
- Joe Hill (Horns)
- Gene Luen Tang (American Born Chinese)
- Frank McCourt (Angela’s Ashes)
- Assaf Gavron (Almost Dead)
- Debbie Williamson (Stand)
- Michele Young-Stone (The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors)
- Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)
- Pamela Samuels Young (Buying Time)
- Angela Johnson (The First Part Last)
- Peg Kingman (Original Sins)
- Robin McKinley (Sunshine)
- Ian McEwan (On Chesil Beach)
- Emily St. John Mandel (The Singer’s Gun)
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Speculative Fiction Challenge 2010
COMPLETED! 24/24
- The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
- The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
- Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
- The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
- To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
- The Hunt for the Eye of Ogin by Patrick Doud
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Going Bovine by Libba Bray
- The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedai
- The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
- The City and The City by China Mieville
- Horns by Joe Hill
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
- The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
- Sunshine by Robin McKinley
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Flight by Sherman Alexie
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
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Thriller/Suspense Challenge 2010
COMPLETED! 12/12
- To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- Paper Daughter by Jeannette Ingold
- The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
- The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
- The City and The City by China Mieville
- Horns by Joe Hill
- Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron
- Buying Time by Pamela Samuels Young
- Original Sins by Peg Kingman
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eBook Challenge 2010
COMPLETED! 20/20
- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
- Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
- The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
- Luna by Julie Anne Peters
- Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman
- Hypnotizing Maria by Richard Bach
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Going Bovine by Libba Bray
- The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedai
- An Unfinished Score by Elise Blackwell
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
- The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
- Horns by Joe Hill
- The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone
- The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
- Scent of the Missing by Susannah Charleson
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Audiobook Challenge 2010
progress: 7/12
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Peter Ridley
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
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A to Z Book Challenge 2010
progress: 20/26
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Reading Groups
English 101: The Harper Perennial Classics
January – A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
February – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
March – The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
April – Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
May – The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
June – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
July – So Big by Edna Ferber
August – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
September – The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
October – Native Son by Richard Wright
November – The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
December – Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
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Calico Reaction
January – The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
February – Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
March – To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
April – The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
May – Natural History by Justina Robson (DNF)
June – Sunshine by Robin McKinley
July – Summon the Keeper by Tanya Huff
August – Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
September – So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Nalo Hopkinson
October – Feed by Mira Grant
November – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
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<div style=”padding-left: 30px;”>B – <em><a title=”The Book Thief” href=”http://littlereader.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/the-book-thief/” target=”_self”>The Book Thief</a> </em>by Markus Zusak</div>
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<div style=”padding-left: 30px;”>E – <a href=”http://thelittlereader.net/2010/01/31/the-eye-of-the-world/” target=”_self”><em>The Eye of the World</em></a> by Robert Jordan</div>
<div style=”padding-left: 30px;”>F – <a title=”A Fine Balance” href=”http://littlereader.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/a-fine-balance/” target=”_self”><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”> </span><em>A Fine Balance</em></a> by Rohinton Mistry</div>
<div style=”padding-left: 30px;”>G – <em>The Great Hunt</em> by Robert Jordan</div>
<div style=”padding-left: 30px;”>H – <a href=”http://thelittlereader.net/2010/02/07/review-how-i-live-now/” target=”_self”><em>How I Live Now</em></a> by Meg Rosoff</div>
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join me in my adventures and bookish encounters as a born-again english student. non-fiction to literary fiction, some YA and a dabbling of things in between. i'm adding books to the to-read pile faster than they can be read! 
Wow, that’s a lot of challenges! Best of luck with them all! (I’m tempted to sign up for that Wheel of Time one myself.)
yeah, i definitely went a little challenge happy! thankfully, a lot of my reading overlaps between challenges.
if you’re interested in the WoT challenge, you should definitely hop over and check it out. it’s a good group of people that are participating, so the discussions have been pretty interesting so far.
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