50 Book Challenge - 2009

[Gwendolyn Felton]

I've only added 20 books so far in hopes I could get a few recommendations. I enjoy mysteries, fantasty, fiction, etc...pretty much everything but horror books and would enjoy a few recommendations that are not well known. I love knowing I read a book before many of my mates have or before it becomes well known. I've left the last 30 spaces blank for your recommendations and for my own after-the-fact add.



My 2009 Fifty Book Challenge:

1 – Paper Towns – John Green - COMPLETE
2 – The Holcroft Covenant - Robert Ludlum - COMPLETE
3 – The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
4 – Water For Elephants – Sara Gruen
5 – Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
6 – The Davinci Code – Dan Brown
7 – Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
8 – Life of Pi – Yann Martel
9 – The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho COMPLETE
10 – A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
11 – Love In the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
12 – A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
13 – The Mercy Seller – Brenda Rickman Vantrease
14 – A Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
15 – Atonement – Ian McEwan
16 – Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
17 – The Reader –Bernhard Schlink COMPLETE
18 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
19 – I’m A Stranger Here Myself – Bill Bryson
20 - Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
21 - The Princess and the Hound - Mette Ivie Harrison
22 - Princess Ben - Catherine Murdock
23 - Nowhere - Neil Gaiman
24 - The Road - Cormic McCarthy
25 - Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
26 - Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
27 - Inkworld - Cornelia Funke
28 - Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke
29 - By A Lady – Amanda Elyot
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[Allison in Wonderland]

How far along are you? February was not a good month for me. Only 3 sad books.

[Allison in Wonderland]

I'm still stuck on Chalice. McKinley keeps saying Chalice over and over. It's a bit distracting. And I have about 5 awesome advance reading copies that I really want to read NOW. So...I've completed 1/3 of a book so far. Eck.

You having any more luck?

[Gwendolyn Felton]

I've heard much about those but never thought to add them. Thanks for the suggestion! ;D

[Anna B Good]

All of the Inkheart books (Inkheart, Inkworld, Inkdeath) by Cornelia Funke are amazing. Long, to be sure, but amazingly well written and beautiful. Inkheart is coming out this month as a movie, as well! :D I have my own list of over 50 books I want to read this year, so I'll add to this sometime soon. ;)

[Gwendolyn Felton]

Thanks so much for the suggestions! Those are exactly the type I was searching for :)

*Goes to add to list.

[Myles Berry]

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Ender's Game, and The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
All of these are good books.

[Mallory]

The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison is really good. It's a fantasy.
Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock is really good too.

[Allison in Wonderland]

Now we can all work on it together :-)
http://nerdfighters.ning.com/forum/topics/50-book-challenge-2009