updated Sunday, February 12, 2012

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2012 Challenges:

Progress: 2/30

1. Tina’s Mouth - Keshni Kashyap
2. An Equal Music - Vikram Seth

1. A book with a topographical feature (land formation) in the title
2. A book with something you'd see in the sky in the title: The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
3. A book with a creepy crawly in the title
4. A book with a type of house in the title: The House at Sea’s End - Elly Griffiths
5. A book with something you'd carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title: Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
6. A book with a something you'd find on a calendar in the title: A Summer in Europe - Marilyn Brant

 

Progress: 0/12

 

 

Progress: 0/5

 

Progress: 3/25

1. The Calling of the Grave - Simon Beckett
2. Fragile Eternity - Melissa Marr
3. Secrets to the Grave - Tami Hoag

Progress: 5/40

1. French Leave - Anna Gavalda
2. An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
3. The Inheritance - Simon Tolkien
4. Carrying the Fire - Michael Collins
5. The Gates - John Connolly

1. Any 19th Century Classic
2. Any 20th Century Classic: The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
3. Reread a classic of your choice
4. A Classic Play
5. Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction
6. Classic Romance
7. Read a Classic that has been translated from its original language to your language
8. Classic Award Winner: A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle
9. Read a Classic set in a Country that you probably will not visit during your lifetime

1. Novel with a weapon in the title
2. Book published at least 10 years ago
3. Book written by an author from the state/province/etc. where you live
4. Book written by an author using a pen name: The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler
5. Crime novel whose protagonist is the opposite gender of the author
6. A stand-alone novel written by an author who writes at least one series

2009:

1. Bad Things Happen – Harry Dolen
2. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
3. The Kingdom of Ohio – Matthew Flaming
4. The Marriage Bureau for Rich People – Farahad Zama

2010:

1. The House of Tomorrow – Peter Bognanni
2. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott – Kelly O’Connor Nees
3. The Postmistress – Sarah Blake
4. This is Not the Story You Think It Is – Laura Munson 
5. My Wife’s Affair – Nancy Woodruff
6.  The Gendarme – Mark Mustian

2011:

1. The Weird Sisters - Eleanor Brown
2. What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty
3. Very Bad Men - Harry Dolan
4. If Jack’s in Love - Stephen Wetta
   

1. The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
2. Marriage and Other Acts of Charity - Kate Braestrup
3. Day for Night - Frederick Reiken
4. The Island - Elin Hilderbrand
5. The Messenger of Athens - Anne Zouroudi
6. The End of Everything - Megan Abbott
7. Silver Girl - Elin Hilderbrand
8. America Pacifica - Anna North
9. Bossypants - Tina Fey
10.  

The Complete Booker: Shortlisted Books, 1990-Present
Progress: 23/130

2011:

1. The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
2. Jamarach’s Menagerie - Carol Birch
3. The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt
4. Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan
5. Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman
6. Snowdrops - A.D. Miller

2010:

1. The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson
2. Room – Emma Donoghue
3. In a Strange Room – Damon Galgut
4. Parrot and Olivier in America – Peter Carey
5. The Long Song – Andrea Levy
6. C – Tom McCarthy

Best of the Booker:

1. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
2. The Siege of Krishapur – J.G. Farrell
3. The Conservationist – Nadine Gordimer
4. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
5. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
6. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee

2009:

1. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
2. Summertime – J.M. Coetzee
3. The Quickening Maze – Adam Foulds
4. The Children’s Book – A.S. Byatt
5. The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
6. The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters

2008:

1. The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
2. The Secret Scripture – Sebastian Barry
3. Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh
4. The Clothes on Their Backs – Linda Grant
5. The Northern Clemency – Philip Hensher
6. A Fraction of the Whole – Steve Toltz

2007:

1. The Gathering – Anne Enright
2. Darkmans – Nicola Barker
3. The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
4. Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones 
5. On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
6. Animal’s People – Indra Sinha

2006:

1. The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
2. The Secret River – Kate Grenville
3. Carry Me Down – M.J. Hyland
4. In the Country of Men – Hisham Matar
5. Mother’s Milk – Edward St. Aubyn
6. The Night Watch – Sarah Waters

2005:

1. The Sea – John Banville
2. Arthur and George – Julian Barnes
3. A Long, Long Way – Sebastian Barry
4. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
5. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
6. The Accidental – Ali Smith

2004:

1. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
2. Bitter Fruit – Achmat Dangor
3. The Electric Michelangelo – Sarah Faber
4. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
5. The Master – Colm Toibin
6. I’ll Go To Bed At Noon – Gerard Woodward

2003:

1. Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
2. Brick Lane – Monica Ali
3. Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
4. The Good Doctor – Damon Galgut
5. Notes on a Scandal – Zoe Heller
6. Astonishing Splashes of Color – Claire Morrall

2002:

1. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
2. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
3. Unless – Carol Shields
4. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
5. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
6. Dirt Music – Tom Winton

2001:

1. True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
2. Atonement – Ian McEwan
3. Oxygen – Andrew Miller
4. number9dream – David Mitchell
5. The Dark Room – Rachel Seiffert
6. Hotel World – Ali Smith

2000:

1. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
2. The Hiding Place – Trezza Azzopardi
3. The Keepers of the Truth – Michael Collins
4. When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro
5. English Passengers – Matthew Kneale
6. The Deposition of Father McGreevy – Brian O’Doherty

1999:

1. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
2. Fasting, Feasting – Anita Desai
3. Headlong – Michael Frayn
4. The Map of Love – Ahdaf Soueif
5. The Blackwater Lightship – Colm Toibin
6. Our Fathers – Andrew O’Hagan

1998:

1. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
2. Master Georgie – Beryl Bainbridge
3. England England – Julian Barnes
4. The Industry of Souls – Martin Booth
5. Breakfast on Pluto – Patrick McCabe
6. The Restraint of Beasts – Magnus Mills

1997:

1. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
2. Quarantine – Jim Crace
3. The Underground Man – Mick Jackson
4. Grace Notes – Bernard MacLaverty
5. Europa – Tim Parks
6. The Essence of the Thing – Madeleine St. John

1996:

1. Last Orders – Graham Swift
2. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
3. Every Man for Himself – Beryl Bainbridge
4. Reading in the Dark – Seamus Deane
5. The Orchard on Fire – Shena Mckay
6. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

1995:

1. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
2. In Every Face I Met – Justin Cartwright
3. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
4. Morality Play – Barry Unsworth
5. The Riders – Tim Winton

1994:

1. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
2. Beside the Ocean of Time – George Mackay Brown
3. Reef – Romesh Gunesekera
4. Paradise – Abdulrazak Gurnah
5. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
6. Knowledge of Angels – Jill Paton Walsh

1993:

1. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle
2. Under the Frog – Tibor Fischer
3. Scar Tissue – Michael Ignatieff
4. Remembering Babylon – David Malouf
5. Crossing the River – Caryl Phillip
6. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields

1992:

1. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
2. Sacred Hunger – Barry Unsworth
3. Serenity House – Christopher Hope
4. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
5. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
6. Daughters of the House – Michele Roberts

1991:

1. The Famished Road – Ben Okri
2. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
3. The Van – Roddy Doyle
4. Such a Long Journey – Rohinton Mistry
5. The Redundancy of Courage – Timothy Mo
6. Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives) – William Tevor

1990:

1. Possession – A.S. Byatt
2. An Awfully Big Adventure – Beryl Bainbridge
3. The Gate of Angels – Penelope Fitzgerald
4. Amongst Women – John McGahern
5. Lies of Silence – Brian Moore
6. Soloman Gursky Was Here – Mordecai Richler

 

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