2012 CHALLENGES

We’ve decided to create an accountability page to track the progress of our multiple 2012 Reading Challenges.  The books we plan to read are listed below and with any luck; we’ll have each title checked off well before the deadline.



Back to the Classics Challenge 2012
We’re heading back to the classics and we’re doing it in style… kind of.  Let us know what you think of our choices.  Click here to read our original post!
  1. 19th Century Classic – The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
  2. 20th Century Classic – Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
  3. Reread a Classic of your Choice – A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
  4. A Classic play – Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
  5. Classic mystery – The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)
  6. Classic romance – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
  7. Classic translated into your language – Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
  8. Classic award winner – Goodnight Mr. Tom (Michelle Magorian)
  9. Classic set in a country that you will (probably) not visit – Kim (Rudyard Kipling)

The Sir Terry Pratchett Reading Challenge for 2012

Ah, the wonderful Discworld... Click here to read our original post

1.  Reaper Man
2.  Wyrd Sisters
3.  Hogfather
4.  Men at Arms
5.  Soul Music

Mount TBR Reading Challenge 
We signed up for Mt. Arart level which means we have to read at least 40 novels from our own bookshelves.  Click here to read our original post!

1. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels – Jasper Fforde

2. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse

3. The Little Friend – Donna Tartt

4. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana – Umberto Eco

5. White Oleander – Janet Fitch

6. I Know This Much is True – Wally Lamb

7. Redeeming Love – Francine Rivers

8. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – David Wroblewski

9. Sea Glass – Anita Shreve

10. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

11. The Smoke Jumper – Nicholas Evans

12. Sons of Fortune – Jeffrey Archer

13. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt

14. The Girl who Stopped Swimming – Joshilyn Jackson

15. Insomnia – Stephen King

16. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel

17. Every Breath You Take – Judith McNaught

18. The Pilot’s Wife – Anita Shreve

19. The Sands of Time – Michael Hoeye

20. A Separate Peace – John Knowles

21. The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy

22. Code to Zero – Ken Follett

23. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel – Louise Rennison

24. Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants – Louise Rennison

25. Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas – Louise Rennison

26. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers – Louise Rennison

27. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo

28. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court – Mark Twain

29. The Awakening – Kate Chopin

30. End of the Spear – Steve Saint

31. Adelé – Emma Tennant

32. Pirate – Ted Bell

33. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

34. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

35. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

36. The Hours – Michael Cunningham

37. The Adventures of Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes

38. A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

39. The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton

40. The Little Balloonist – Linda Donn



Goodreads 2012 Reading Challenge

8.3 books a month, 1.9 books a week, .3 books a day. Check back often to track our progress! Click here to read our original post.

1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
2. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
3. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
4. Othello - Willima Shakespeare
5. Start Something that Matters - Blake Mycoskie
6. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming - Joshilyn Jackson
7. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
8. As You Like It - William Shakespeare
9. Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas - Louise Rennison
10. First Amoung Sequels - Jaspier Fforde
11. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
12. Pirate - Ted Bell
13. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
14. King Lear - William Shakespeare
15. Heaven is for Real - Todd Burpo
16. Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters - Meredith Zeitin
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers
19. Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Capture - Kathryn Lasky
20. Bad Girls - Jacqueline Wilson
21. Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Journey - Kathryn Lasky
22. The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
23. Code to Zero - Ken Follett
24. Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Rescue - Kathryn Lasky
25. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis