Book Addiction

What’s In A Name Challenge:  —-> Completed 6/26/2008

1.  Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

2.  Female Chauvanist Pigs:  Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy

3.  Sarah - Marek Halter

4.  We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists - edited by Melody Berger

5.  Blood Orange - Druscilla Campbell

6.  Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer

2008 TBR Challenge —> Completed 5/8/08

1.  The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

2.  Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

3.  Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

4.  Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

5.  Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel

6.  In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

7.  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie

8.  Housekeeping _ Marilynne Robinson

9.  Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

10.  Gap Creek - Robert Morgan

11.  Cane River - Lalita Tademy

12.  ‘Tis - Frank McCourt

100+ Reading Challenge:

see Books Read 2008 tab for my progress on this challenge.

The Novella Challenge:

1.  Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

2.  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie

3.  Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

4.  Shopgirl - Steve Martin

5.  The Pearl - John Steinbeck

6.  Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane

Joy’s Nonfiction Five Challenge:

1. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools - Jonathan Kozol

2. Class Matters - correspondents of the New York TImes

3. Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion - edited by Karen E. Bender and Nina de Gramont

4. The Assault on Reason - Al Gore

5. We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists - edited by Melody Berger

6. Dispatches From the Edge - Anderson Cooper

342, 745 Ways to Herd Cats:

1. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

2. The Road - Cormac McCarthy

3. Atonement - Ian McEwan

4. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

5. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

6. The Girls - Lori Lassens

 The Classics Challenge:

1. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

2. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

3. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

4. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

5. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Raved-About Reads Challenge:

1. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman

2. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman

3. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman

4. The Sister - Poppy Adams

5. Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris

6. The Monsters of Templeton - Lauren Groff

7. Heart Shaped Box - Joe Hill

8. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

9. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

10. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

What an Animal! Challenge:

1. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Volume 1 - Diana Wynne Jones 

2. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

3. The Boys in the Trees - Mary Swan

4.  The God of Animals - Aryn Kyle

5.  And Sometimes Why - Rebecca Johnson

6.  God’s Politics - Jim Wallis