updated Sunday, February 28, 2010

For information on challenges I’m hosting, please check my sidebar. 2010 Challenges:

Countdown Challenge 2010
9/9/2009 – 10/10/2010

2010:

1. Alice I Have Been – Melanie Benjamin
2. Sweet Dates in Basra – Jessica Jiji
3. Lunch in Paris – Elizabeth Bard
4. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt – Beth Hoffman
5. Shadow Princess – Indu Sundaresan
6. Possessed – Kate Cann
7. The Swan Thieves – Elizabeth Kostova
8. The Three Weissmanns of Westport – Cathleen Schine
9. The Brightest Star in the Sky – Marian Keyes
10. Small Wars – Sadie Jones

2009:

1. Crossing Washington Square – Joanne Rendell
2. Ice Land – Betsy Tobin
3. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
4. Love You Hate You Miss You – Elizabeth Scott
5. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much – Allison Hoover Bartlett
6. The Girl on Legare Street – Karen White
7. Juliet, Naked – Nick Hornby
8. The Last Will of Moira Leahy – Therese Walsh
9. Cleopatra’s Daughter – Michelle Moran

2008:

1. A Map of Home – Randa Jarrar
2. Rumors – Anna Godbersen
3. The Girl From Foreign – Sadia Shepard
4. Goldengrove – Francine Prose
5. Every Last Cuckoo – Kate Maloy
6. Mistress of the Vatican – Eleanor Herman
7. The Wordy Shipmates – Sarah Vowell
8.The Lost Recipe for Happiness – Barbara O’Neal

2007:

1. Learning to Breathe – Karen White
2. I Feel Bad About My Neck – Nora Ephron
3. Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr
4. Good Things – Mia King
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2006:

1. Soon I Will Be Invincible – Austin Grossman
2. The Oracle – William J. Broad
3. Pieces of the Heart – Karen White
4. Devil in Winter – Lisa Kleypas
5. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak 
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2005:

1. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See
2. Everyone Else’s Girl – Megan Crane
3. Sex, Murder, and a Double Latte – Kyra Davis
4. Going Home – Harriet Evans
5. Misquoting Jesus – Bart D. Ehrman

2004:

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Dead Witch Walking – Kim Harrison
3. The Big Love – Sarah Dunn
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2003:

1. The Cupid Effect – Dorothy Koomson
2. Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde

2002:

1. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
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2001:

1. Bombay Time – Thrity Umrigar

 

1. Commencement – J. Courtney Sullivan
2. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
3. Traveling With Pomegranates – Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor
4. When She Flew – Jennie Shortridge
5. Remarkable Creatures – Tracy Chevalier
6. The Palace of Illusions – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
7. Wench – Dolen-Perkins Valdez
8. The Last Bridge – Teri Coyne

January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010

1. The Palace of Illusions – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
2. Bombay Time – Thrity Umrigar 
3. One Amazing Thing – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4. Atlas of Unknowns – Tania James
5. Fury – Salman Rushdie
6. Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh
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January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010
Goal: 52 books – Authors & Titles

Authors

A: Addison Allen, Sarah – The Girl Who Chased the Moon
B: Boser, Ulrich – The Gardner Heist
C: Cernan, Gene and Don Davis – The Last Man on the Moon
D: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee – The Palace of Illusions
E: Ehrman, Bart – Misquoting Jesus
F: Flaming, Matthew – The Kingdom of Ohio
G: Ghosh, Amitav – Sea of Poppies
H: Hannah, Kristin – Winter Garden
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J: Jones, J. Sydney – Requiem in Vienna
K: Keyes, Marian – The Brightest Star in the Sky
L: Levin, Daniel – The Last Ember
M: Mawer, Simon – The Glass Room
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P: Pekkanen, Sarah – The Opposite of Me
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R: Raybourn, Deanna – The Dead Travel Fast
S: Schine, Cathleen – The Three Weissmanns of Westport
T: Takami, Koushun – Battle Royale
U: Umrigar, Thrity – Bombay Time
V: Verday, Jessica – The Hollow
W: Weir, Alison – The Lady in the Tower
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Z: Zusak, Markus – The Book Thief

Titles

A: Atlas of Unknowns – Tania James
B: Bought – Anna David
C: The Cougar Club – Susan McBride
D: Death By the Book – Lenny Bartulin
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F: The Forest of Hands and Teeth – Carrie Ryan
G: The Grey King – Susan Cooper
H: The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
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K: Keeping the Feast – Paula Butturini
L: The Language of Secrets – Dianne Dixon
M: Murder at Longbourn – Tracy Kiely 
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O: One Amazing Thing – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
P: The Piano Teacher – Janice Y. K. Lee
Q: Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter – A.E. Moorat
R: Rich Again – Anna Maxted
S: Some Girls Are – Courtney Summers
T: The Thistle and the Rose – Jean Plaidy
U: The Unwritten Rule – Elizabeth Scott
V: Very Valentine – Adriana Trigiani
W: When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead
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January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010

Young Adult
1. Some Girls Are – Courtney Summers
2. Beautiful Creatures – Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

TBR
1. The Big Love – Sarah Dunn
2. The Last Man on the Moon – Gene Cernan & Don Davis

Shiny & New
1. Bad Things Happen – Harry Dolen
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Bad Bloggers
1. The Forest of Hands and Teeth – Carrie Ryan
2. The Last Summer of Louisa May Alcott – Kelly O’Connor McNees

Charity
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New in 2010
1. The Brightest Star in the Sky – Marian Keyes
2. The Opposite of Me – Sarah Pekkanen

Older than You
1. The Thistle and the Rose – Jean Plaidy
2. Over Sea, Under Stone – Susan Cooper

Win! Win!
1. Very Valentine – Adriana Trigiani
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Who Are You Again?
1. Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
2. The Last Ember – Daniel Levin

Up To You – Graphic Novels
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January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010
Goal: 25 books

1. Some Girls Are – Courtney Summers
2. Beautiful Creatures – Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
3. The Unwritten Rule – Elizabeth Scott
4. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
5. All Unquiet Things – Anna Jarzab
6. Beautiful Dead, Book 1: Jonas – Eden Maguire
7. After – Kristin Harmel
8. The Forest of Hands and Teeth – Carrie Ryan
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January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010
Goal: 25 books

1. The Gardner Heist – Ulrich Boser
2. Hate List – Jennifer Brown
3. Don’t You Forget About Me – Jancee Dunn
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January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010
Current Debs Challenge
Goal: 3 books

1. The Opposite of Me – Sarah Pekkanen
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Previous Debs Challenge
Goal: 8 books

1. Bought – Anna David
2. Good Things – Mia King
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January 1 – December 31, 2010

1. A book with a food in the title: Sex, Murder, and a Double Latte – Kyra Davis
2. A book with a body of water in the title:
3. A book with a title (queen, president) in the title: Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter – A.E. Moorat
4. A book with a plant in the title: Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh
5. A book with a place name (city, country) in the title: The Kingdom of Ohio – Matthew Flaming
6. A book with a music term in the title: The Piano Teacher – Janice Y.K. Lee

 

 
February 1, 2010 – January 31, 2011

1. Angelology – Danielle Trussoni
2. Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh
3. The Scarlet Lion – Elizabeth Chadwich
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January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010

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January 1 – December 31, 2010

1. Bought – Anna David
2. The Last Man on the Moon – Gene Cernan & Don Davis
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January 1 – December 31, 2010
Goal: 20 Ebooks

1. Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
2. The Palace of Illusions – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
3. Superfreakonomics – Steven Levitt
4. Devil in Winter – Lisa Kleypas
5. Bad Things Happen – Harry Dolen
6. The Forest of Hands and Teeth – Carrie Ryan
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December 29, 2009 – December 29, 2010
Goal: 13 books, with 1 allowed from 2009

1. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
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January 1 – December 31, 2010
Progress: 0/5

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Progress: 5/15

2009:

1. Bad Things Happen – Harry Dolen
2. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
3. The Kingdom of Ohio – Matthew Flaming
4. Life’s That Way: A Memoir – Jim Beaver
5. The Marriage Bureau for Rich People – Farahad Zama
6. Remedies – Kate Ledger
7. Ten Degrees of Reckoning – Hester Rumberg
8. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way – Diana Joseph

2010:

1. The Book of Awesome - Neil Pasricha
2. The House of Tomorrow – Peter Bognanni
3. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott – Kelly O’Connor Nees
4. The Postmistress – Sarah Blake
5. This is Not the Story You Think It Is – Laura Munson
6. Where’s My Want? – Eric Poole
7. My Wife’s Affair – Nancy Woodruff

 

 

The Complete Booker: Shortlisted Books, 1990-Present
Progress: 13/119

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

 

January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010
Goal: 350 books
Current: 82 books

List of 2010 Books