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!
- 19th Century Classic – The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
- 20th Century Classic –
Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks) - Reread a Classic of your Choice – A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
- A Classic play –
Hamlet (William Shakespeare) - Classic mystery – The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)
- Classic romance – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- Classic translated into your language – Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Classic award winner – Goodnight Mr. Tom (Michelle Magorian)
- Classic set in a country that you will (probably) not visit – Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
The Sir Terry Pratchett Reading Challenge for 2012
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!
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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
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8. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – David Wroblewski
9. Sea Glass – Anita Shreve
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11. The Smoke Jumper – Nicholas Evans
12. Sons of Fortune – Jeffrey Archer
13. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
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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
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23. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel – Louise Rennison
24. Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants – Louise Rennison
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26. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers – Louise Rennison
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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
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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