Classics Club #1

UPDATE:  I started this with a list of 50 books.  When I came up with that list, I inadvertently forgot several books and did not include any books that I'd like to read again.  So, I revised my list.  I fully intend on reading 50 books from this list by March 7, 2017....  but will give myself checkpoints after that point (1 additional year per 10 books on the list).  I have also rewritten the list so that it is in alphabetical order by author's last name. And I just keep adding books....  the list is never-ending, but I must hit my goal dates!

Start Date:  March 7, 2012

End Date:    March 7, 2017 (for 50 out of total books)
2nd End Date:  March 7, 2018 (for 60 out of total books)
3rd End Date:   March 7, 2019 (for 70 out of total books)
4th End Date:   March 7, 2020 (for 80 out of total books)
5th End Date:   March 7, 2021 (for 90 out of total books)
6th End Date:  March 7, 2022 (for 100 out of total books)

Total Read to Date:  42 of first 50 

The List:

  1.  Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy   review
  2.  Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
  3.  Aristophanes - Lysistrata
  4.  Austen, Jane - Emma  review
  5.  Austen, Jane - Persuasion
  6.  Austen, Jane - Sense & Sensibility   review
  7.  Baum, L. Frank - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  review 
  8.  Behn, Aphra - Oroonoko
  9.  Bronte, Anne - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
10.  Burroughs, William - Junky
11.  Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood
12. Cather, Willa - O Pioneers!   review

13. Cather, Willa - One of Ours
14. Chang, Jung - Wild Swans
15. Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre - Dangerous Liaisons
16. Collins, Wilkie - The Woman in White
17. DeFoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
18. Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
19. Dickens, Charles - Bleak House
20. Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations
21. Dickens, Charles - Oliver Twist    review
22. Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot
23. Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
24. Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
25. du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
26. Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
27. Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
28. Ellroy, James - The Black Dahlia
29. Eugenides, Jeffrey - Middlesex
30. Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying   review
31. Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
32. Forster, E.M. - A Room With A View  review
33. Gaskell, Elizabeth - North and South
34. Gibbons, Stella - Cold Comfort Farm
35. Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
36. Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon  review
37. Hemingway, Ernest - In Our Time
38. Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises  review
39. Hemingway, Ernest - To Have and Have Not
40. Hamsun, Knut - Hunger
41. Henry, O - Collected Stories  review
42. Hesse, Hermann - Steppenwolf
43. Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God  review
44. Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Remains of the Day
45. James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
46. Joyce, James - The Dubliners
47. Juster, Norton - The Phantom Tollbooth   review
48. Keller, Helen - The Story of My Life
49. Kerouac, Jack - Visions of Cody
50. Keyes, Daniel - Flowers For Algernon   review
51. Lawrence, D.H. - Women in Love
52. Lee, Harper - To Kill A Mockingbird     review
53. Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
54. Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With The Wind   review
55. Orczy, Baroness - The Scarlet Pimpernel
56. Orwell, George - Animal Farm    review
57. Orwell, George - Nineteen Eighty-Four
58. Pamuk, Orhan - Snow
59. Poe, Edgar Allen - The Fall of the House of Usher review
60. Poe, Edgar Allen - The Pit and The Pendulum  review
61. Pushkin, Alexander - Eugene Onegin
62. Puzo, Mario - The Godfather
63. Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
64. Radcliffe, Ann - The Mysteries of Udolfo
65. Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
66. Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea  review
67. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Confessions
68. Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The Little Prince  review

69. Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
70. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich  review
71. Stein, Gertrude - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
72. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island   review
73. Stoker, Bram - Dracula
74. Swift, Jonathan - A Modest Proposal   review
75. Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
76. Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit    review
77. Trumbo, Dalton - Johnny Got His Gun
78. Twain, Mark - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court  
79. Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  review
80. Twain, Mark - Pudd'nhead Wilson  review
81. Verne, Jules - Around The World in Eighty Days   review
82. Voltaire - Candide    review
83. Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five   review
84. Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine
85. Wells, H.G. - War of the Worlds    review
86. Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth review (DNF)
87. Wilde, Oscar - An Ideal Husband
88. Wilder, Thornton - The Bridge of San Luis Rey  review
89. Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway   review
90. Washington, Booker T. - Up From Slavery  review

Let's make it an even 100, shall we?

91.  The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
92.  And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - review
93.  I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith   review
94.  The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio  review
95.  Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
96.  Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery  review
97.  The Giver by Lois Lowry  review
98.  The Art of War by Sun Tzu   review
99.  Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
100.  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad   review

#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks 2016

#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks

               Books Read:  29

               Books Purchased:  18

This is an effort to read the books I already own, as of December 1, 2015.  I've worked in a *tiny* loophole which will allow me to buy new books...  but just not as many.  Hopefully this will bring my TBR book piles down to a more acceptable number.  I'll list the books I read here (and keep myself honest with the count above):

1.  Emma by Jane Austen
2.  I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
3.  I Work at a Public Library by Gina Sheridan
4.  The Martian by Andy Weir
5.  Selected Stories of O. Henry
6.  All the Rage by Courtney Summers

7.  Easy by Tammara Webber
8.  Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
9.  Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) by Mindy Kaling
10.  The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
11.  Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
12.  The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
13.  100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith
14.  Forever... by Judy Blume

15.  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
16.  Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
17.  The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
18.  Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
19.  A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
20.  Fat Angie by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
21.  Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
22.  The Devil You Know by Trish Doller
23.  Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
24.  Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
25.  Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
26.  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
27.  738 Days by Stacey Kade
28.  Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
29.  All Played Out by Cora Carmack
30.  The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

50 States and more 2016

 'Just for fun' - Keep track of the states in which the books I'm reading are set:  (26/50)

I've done this for a couple of years now...  and this year, I'll try to track countries as well.

1. Alabama -  Up From Slavery                                                          
2. Alaska -
3. Arizona    -  P.S. I Like You
4. Arkansas
5. California  -   I'll Give You the Sun, When We Collided, 100 Sideways Miles, Thanks for the Trouble, Lady Midnight, Lick
6. Colorado  -   Breaking the Rules
7. Connecticut  - The Unexpected Everything
8. Delaware
9. Florida  - The Devil You Know
10. Georgia  - Gone with the Wind
11. Hawaii   
12. Idaho - Dirty
13. Illinois - Maternity Leave
14. Indiana   -
15. Iowa  - Ashfall
16. Kansas   - Seven Ways We Lie
17. Kentucky -  Walk the Edge
18. Louisiana 
19. Maine  - Orbiting Jupiter
20. Maryland  
21. Massachusetts - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, The Boston Girl, Boy Snow Bird, The Handmaid's Tale
22. Michigan - 
23. Minnesota
24. Mississippi - 
25. Missouri  - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
26. Montana  - The Flood Girls
27. Nebraska 
28. Nevada  - 
29. New Hampshire  
30. New Jersey - Forever . . . , 
31. New Mexico
32. New York  -  The Scar Boys, Someone, More Happy than Not,  The Grownup, Alexander Hamilton, Father's Day,Hamilton: The Revolution, A Walk in the Sun, Another Brooklyn, Mr. Splitfoot, It's All Your Fault, The Sun is also a Star,Snow White
33. North Carolina Serafina and the Black Cloak
34. North Dakota
35. Ohio  - Paper Girls vol. 1, The 5th Wave, Fat Angie
36. Oklahoma
37. Oregon  - Play, Lead, Housebroken
38. Pennsylvania  -  738 Days
39. Rhode Island  - 
40. South Carolina - 
41. South Dakota
42. Tennessee - Defending Taylor
43. Texas   - All Played Out
44. Utah 
45. Vermont  
46. Virginia - 
47. Washington - The Art of Racing in the Rain
48. West Virginia  
49. Wisconsin  - Two if by Sea
50. Wyoming

Countries:

• Africa
• Asia
• South Korea - The Vegetarian
• Europe
• England - Library of Souls, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Ireland - A Modest Proposal
• Norway - Out Stealing Horses
• Sweden - A Man Called Ove
• Yugoslavia - Murder on the Orient Express
• North America
• Canada - Anne of Green Gables, This One Summer
• South America
• South Pacific
• New Guinea - Euphoria

Other:

• Planet
• Mars - The Martian
• World
• Outer Space
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• A Wrinkle in Time
• Gemina

Women's Classic Literature Event 2016

Women's Classic Literature Event 2016

I'm participating in this event with The Classics Club.  I hope to focus some of my reading on classic literature written by women.  I'll list what I read here:

1.  Emma by Jane Austen
2.  Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
3.  Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
4.  Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
5.  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

POPSUGAR's Reading Challenge 2016

POPSUGAR's 2016 Reading Challenge  (37/40)

1. A book based on a fairy tale  Snow White
2. A National Book Award winner  The Underground Railroad
3. A YA bestseller  I'll Give You the Sun
4. A book you haven't read since high school  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5. A book set in your home state  The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
6. A book translated to English  Out Stealing Horses
7. A romance set in the future Gemina
8. A book set in Europe  - Library of Souls
9. A book that's under 150 pages - The Grownup
10. A New York Times bestseller - The Martian
11. A book that's becoming a movie this year  The 5th Wave
12. A book recommended by someone you just met  Ashfall
13. A self-improvement book  - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
14. A book you can finish in a day - I Work at a Public Library
15. A book written by a celebrity  Why Not Me?
16. A political memoir
17. A book at least 100 years older than you  A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
18. A book that's more than 600 pages  Alexander Hamilton
19. A book from Oprah's Book Club
20. A science-fiction novel  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
21. A book recommended by a family member
22. A graphic novel  Princeless Book 1:  Save Yourself
23. A book that is published in 2016  The Office Adventure
24. A book with a protagonist who has your occupation
25. A book that takes place during summer  More Happy than Not
26. A book and its prequel  Lick, Play
27. A murder mystery  Murder on the Orient Express
28. A book written by a comedian  Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns)
29. A dystopian novel  The Handmaid's Tale
30. A book with a blue cover  The Art of Racing in the Rain
31. A book of poetry  milk and honey
32. The first book you see in a bookstore  Thanks for the Trouble
33. A classic from the 20th century  Anne of Green Gables
34. A book from the library  The Scar Boys
35. An autobiography Up From Slavery
36. A book about a road trip  Breaking the Rules
37. A book about a culture you're unfamiliar with  The Vegetarian
38. A satirical book  Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
39. A book that takes place on an island Euphoria
40. A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy  Selected Stories of O. Henry

Back to the Classics 2016

Back to the Classics Challenge 2016  (7/12)
I started this challenge a few years ago, and this will be the second year that Books and Chocolate have taken it over.  I am so thrilled that this challenge lives on, and I love the changes Karen has made.  This year there are 12 categories, and you try to finish as many as you can to win entries into a drawing.  All books must have been originally published before 1966.




The Categories:

1.  A 19th Century Classic .
2.  A 20th Century Classic A Wrinkle in Time
3.  A classic by a woman author. Gone with the Wind
4.  A classic in translation.  
5.  A classic by a non-white author. Up From Slavery
6.  An adventure classic 
7.  A fantasy, science fiction, or dystopian classic. 
8.  A classic detective novel.  Murder on the Orient Express
9.  A classic which includes the name of a place in the title.   Anne of Green Gables 
10. A classic which has been banned or censored. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
11. Re-read a classic you read in school (high school or college).  
12. A volume of classic short stories.   Selected Stories of O. Henry