Challenge to all Reading Nerdfighters!
Some of you might've seen my thread calling for books? Well, Chomp and I got the list finalized, so instead of selfishly keeping all the fun to ourselves, we decided (at the suggestion of a very smart nerdfighter) to extend our challenge to you!
Welcome to the Reading Race Challenge '08!
The challenge is to read as many books as you can on a list of 138 books before the end of summer. The books are generally classic literature because we're both taking AP Literature next year.
The rules are as follows:
-No Cheating (which means no saying you read a book you didn't, watching the movie, sparknoting, reading a book you've already read, etc.)
That's pretty much it.
The challenge starts at 12:00:01am June 8th (as in the first second that it becomes June 8th) and ends August 4th at 11:59:59pm (as in the last second that it is August 4th).
And now comes the best part - the books! Here's our list of books we came up with. (The reason there are two sections separate from the actual list is because there are books one of us has read that the other hasn't, but wants/needs to.)
SUMMER READING RACE LIST
1) Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
2) Darker Than Midnight – Maggie Shane
3) Interview with a Vampire – Anne Rice
4) Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
5) Insomnia – Stephen King
6) Cell – Stephen King
7) Empress – Shan Sa
8) Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
9) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
10) Dracula – Bram Stoker
11) Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
12) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
13) Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
14) War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
15) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austin*
16) The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
17) A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
18) Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller (?)
19) Moby Dick – Herman Melville
20) Life of Pi – Yann Martel
21) Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo
22) For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
23) The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
24) Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
25) Macbeth – Shakespeare
26) Hamlet – Shakespeare*
27) A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare
28) War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
29) The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
30) Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
31) Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
32) Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
33) Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
34) Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein
35) Beowulf – Anonymous
36) Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
37) The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
38) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
39) Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
40) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens*
41) The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
42) Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
43) The Plague - Albert Camus
44) The Trial - Franz Kafka
45) A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
46) Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
47) Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) – Various
48) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
49) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
50) The Jungle – Upton Sinclair*
51) The Color Purple – Alice Walker
52) Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse*
53) Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
54) Feed – M.T. Anderson
55) East of Eden – John Steinbeck
56) A Time to Kill – John Grisham
57) The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
58) The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
59) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
60) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
62) Stardust - Neil Gaiman*
63) Plainsong – Kent Haruf*
64) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon*
65) The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne*
66) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
67) The Awakening – Kate Chopin
68) Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
69) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
70) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
71) As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
72) Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko
73) Billy Budd - Herman Melville
74) David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
75) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
76) Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austin
77) Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
78) The World According to Garp – John Irving
79) Cider House Rules – John Irving
80) The Great Santini – Pat Conroy
81) Old Man and the Sea – Hemingway
82) Walden – Henry David Thoreau
83) Story of My Life – Helen Keller
84) Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
85) Room with a View – E.M. Forster
86) The Sun Also Rises (in your pants) - Hemingway
87) Into Thin Air – John Krakauer
88) The Lost World – Arthur Conan Doyle
89) This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
90) The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brian
91) Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
92) Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
93) The Man Who mistook His Wife For a Hat - Oliver Sacks
94) The Odyssey – Homer
95) 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
96) In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
97) Beloved – Toni Morrison
98) The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
99) One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
100) The Book Thief – Marcus Zusack
101) The Illiad – Homer
Chip:
102) Cujo – Stephen King
103) Thinner – Stephen King
104) Firestarter – Stephen King
105) The Dead Zone – Stephen King
106) The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
107) Animal Farm – George Orwell
108) The Stranger – Albert Camus*
109) The Giver – Lois Lowry
110) The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka*
111) The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman*
112) Benito Cereno – Herman Melville*
113) A Doll’s House – Henrik Obsen*
114) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn*
115) Othello – Shakespeare*
116) Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams*
117) The Hours – Michael Cunningham*
118) Twelfth Night – Shakespeare*
119) A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry*
120) Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko*
121) The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)*
122) Chemistry Packet: The Mole – Krein*
123) A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
ChompChomp:
124) Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
125) To Kill A Mocking Bird – Harper Lee
126) 1984 – George Orwell
127) Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
128) Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
129) Lord of the Flies – William Golding
130) Looking for Alaska – John Green
131) An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
132) Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
133) Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water – Mark Reisner
134) Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
135) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values – Robert Pirsig
136) Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death & the Brink of the Millennium – Carl Sagan
137) Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
138) The Monkey Wrench Gang – Edward Abbey
139) Get A Life - William Shatner
140) Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
141)I Am Not Spock - Leonard Nimoy
142) Cheating Our Kids - Joe WIlliams
*=Either Chip's school reading or Chomp's school reading.
CHOMP! LOOK OVER THE LIST and tell me if everything's right.
So, my fellow book-loving nerdfighters, if you want to compete too, just read! (And sorry if there are books on the list that you've read, you can't count them/read them again. We did originally make this list for our own personal use.)
Ready, set, GO! (Wait! I was kidding! It's not June yet! COME BACK!)
PS - If you're bored, go through the list and add "in your pants" to all the titles. I particularly enjoyed 19 and 21 ;)
Welcome to the Reading Race Challenge '08!
The challenge is to read as many books as you can on a list of 138 books before the end of summer. The books are generally classic literature because we're both taking AP Literature next year.
The rules are as follows:
-No Cheating (which means no saying you read a book you didn't, watching the movie, sparknoting, reading a book you've already read, etc.)
That's pretty much it.
The challenge starts at 12:00:01am June 8th (as in the first second that it becomes June 8th) and ends August 4th at 11:59:59pm (as in the last second that it is August 4th).
And now comes the best part - the books! Here's our list of books we came up with. (The reason there are two sections separate from the actual list is because there are books one of us has read that the other hasn't, but wants/needs to.)
SUMMER READING RACE LIST
1) Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
2) Darker Than Midnight – Maggie Shane
3) Interview with a Vampire – Anne Rice
4) Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
5) Insomnia – Stephen King
6) Cell – Stephen King
7) Empress – Shan Sa
8) Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
9) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
10) Dracula – Bram Stoker
11) Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
12) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
13) Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
14) War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
15) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austin*
16) The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
17) A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
18) Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller (?)
19) Moby Dick – Herman Melville
20) Life of Pi – Yann Martel
21) Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo
22) For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
23) The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
24) Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
25) Macbeth – Shakespeare
26) Hamlet – Shakespeare*
27) A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare
28) War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
29) The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
30) Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
31) Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
32) Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
33) Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
34) Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein
35) Beowulf – Anonymous
36) Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
37) The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
38) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
39) Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
40) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens*
41) The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
42) Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
43) The Plague - Albert Camus
44) The Trial - Franz Kafka
45) A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
46) Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
47) Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) – Various
48) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
49) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
50) The Jungle – Upton Sinclair*
51) The Color Purple – Alice Walker
52) Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse*
53) Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
54) Feed – M.T. Anderson
55) East of Eden – John Steinbeck
56) A Time to Kill – John Grisham
57) The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
58) The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
59) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
60) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
62) Stardust - Neil Gaiman*
63) Plainsong – Kent Haruf*
64) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon*
65) The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne*
66) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
67) The Awakening – Kate Chopin
68) Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
69) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
70) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
71) As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
72) Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko
73) Billy Budd - Herman Melville
74) David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
75) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
76) Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austin
77) Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
78) The World According to Garp – John Irving
79) Cider House Rules – John Irving
80) The Great Santini – Pat Conroy
81) Old Man and the Sea – Hemingway
82) Walden – Henry David Thoreau
83) Story of My Life – Helen Keller
84) Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
85) Room with a View – E.M. Forster
86) The Sun Also Rises (in your pants) - Hemingway
87) Into Thin Air – John Krakauer
88) The Lost World – Arthur Conan Doyle
89) This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
90) The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brian
91) Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
92) Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
93) The Man Who mistook His Wife For a Hat - Oliver Sacks
94) The Odyssey – Homer
95) 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
96) In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
97) Beloved – Toni Morrison
98) The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
99) One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
100) The Book Thief – Marcus Zusack
101) The Illiad – Homer
Chip:
102) Cujo – Stephen King
103) Thinner – Stephen King
104) Firestarter – Stephen King
105) The Dead Zone – Stephen King
106) The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
107) Animal Farm – George Orwell
108) The Stranger – Albert Camus*
109) The Giver – Lois Lowry
110) The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka*
111) The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman*
112) Benito Cereno – Herman Melville*
113) A Doll’s House – Henrik Obsen*
114) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn*
115) Othello – Shakespeare*
116) Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams*
117) The Hours – Michael Cunningham*
118) Twelfth Night – Shakespeare*
119) A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry*
120) Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko*
121) The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)*
122) Chemistry Packet: The Mole – Krein*
123) A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
ChompChomp:
124) Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
125) To Kill A Mocking Bird – Harper Lee
126) 1984 – George Orwell
127) Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
128) Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
129) Lord of the Flies – William Golding
130) Looking for Alaska – John Green
131) An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
132) Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
133) Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water – Mark Reisner
134) Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
135) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values – Robert Pirsig
136) Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death & the Brink of the Millennium – Carl Sagan
137) Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
138) The Monkey Wrench Gang – Edward Abbey
139) Get A Life - William Shatner
140) Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
141)I Am Not Spock - Leonard Nimoy
142) Cheating Our Kids - Joe WIlliams
*=Either Chip's school reading or Chomp's school reading.
CHOMP! LOOK OVER THE LIST and tell me if everything's right.
So, my fellow book-loving nerdfighters, if you want to compete too, just read! (And sorry if there are books on the list that you've read, you can't count them/read them again. We did originally make this list for our own personal use.)
Ready, set, GO! (Wait! I was kidding! It's not June yet! COME BACK!)
PS - If you're bored, go through the list and add "in your pants" to all the titles. I particularly enjoyed 19 and 21 ;)
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Permalink Reply by Sara on -
It's been june 8th for 13,5 hours in Sweden...hehe...
but what time to u go after?
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Permalink Reply by Daniel found Alaska on -
THIS Is a really good idea!!!
i better get started
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Permalink Reply by purpleglovez on -
Beowulf was originally a saxon poem but was re-written and published by Rosemary Sutcliff, just to lett u know coz u said "Anonimous"
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Permalink Reply by ChompChomp on -
w00t I just finished An Abundance of Kathrines and it was really good... haha probably the funniest book I have ever read. One down more than 100 more to go.
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Permalink Reply by Chip, A Former Ningmaster on -
*checks off 'Salem's Lot* One down, one hundred twenty to go... in your pants.
"What do we want to poop in?"
"Hank's pants!"
"When do we want to poop in them?"
"NOW!"
"Hey hey, ho ho, into Hank's pants we gotta go. Hey hey, ho ho, into Hank's pants we gotta go... poop."
I just thought it felt like the right time for a cheer.
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Permalink Reply by Chip, A Former Ningmaster on
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The Yellow Wallpaper, while being really really short, is really really good. And did I mention finished? I like short and good.
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Permalink Reply by Chip, A Former Ningmaster on
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Journey to the Center of the Earth - done, and kinda disappointing.
Should I read Cujo next, or Firestarter? I think I'm going to go with Firestarter...
Ha, I just realized I finished two books in two days, plus a short story (but that doesn't really count). The weird thing is that I didn't spend both entire days reading. Sunday I went out to lunch and a move with my sister... today though was mostly reading and playing with the pups.
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Permalink Reply by ChompChomp on
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I think I liked Firestarter better...
Gah! Takes me forever to read a book.
Just finished Lord of the Flies. It was pretty good. Half the time I was really confused but the other half the time I was thoroughly entertained... or at least disturbed.
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Permalink Reply by Chip, A Former Ningmaster on
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Done with Firestarter. Didn't expect that to happen to him. Besides that though, pretty predictable. Poor Cap :(
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Permalink Reply by Chip, A Former Ningmaster on
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Finished Life of Pi. Onto Dr. Jekyll etc.
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