Book Awards 3 Reading Challenge

I'm in! This time it's five books from five different awards from July 1 to Dec. 1, 2009. I recently finished Books Awards II and I still have award winners lined up to read, so I'm ready! I'll fill them in as I go along, because I don't know exactly which ones I want to read. I only know there are a lot!

Completed: 5/5 as of September 29, 2009
**FINISHED**

1. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Pulitzer Prize)
2. Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee (Nobel Prize)
3. Finn by Jon Clinch (Athenaeum Literary Award)
4. The Hours by Michael Cunningham (PEN/Faulkner Award)
5. In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Commonwealth Writers' Prize)

Don't miss this mini-version of the Book Awards Challenge! It will make a good training run, because next year Michelle will be upping the ante. Fun! Sign up here!

2009 1% Well-Read Challenge

Yay! With all the classics I'm reading this year for my "classes", this should be a breeze! There are three choices for participation, and I'm going for Option Three: Thirteen books from the combined lists of the original and 2008 editions of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. So, will that make me 1.3% well-read? :-) I won't make my list now but will fill it in as I go along.

Complete: 13/13 as of Aug. 10, 2009
**FINISHED**

1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
4. Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi (Original title: If This Is A Man)
5. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
6. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
7. The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius
8. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
9. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
10. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
11. Ulysses by James Joyce
12. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
13. Bleak House by Charles Dickens


Check out the rules and sign yourself on up here.

2009 Chunkster Challenge

Here is one I was waiting for! There are a number of choices for participation this year, and I'm going for the wimpy one. I don't have too many Chunksters about the house, and I tend to shy away from the few I have even though they are wonderful books. I want to make sure I get at least a couple of them read this year. Therefore, I am going for The Chubby Chunkster level, which only requires two books of over 450 pages. I can do that!

Completed: 2/2 as of April 10, 2009 **COMPLETED**

1. The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Hollis Robbins
2. Revelation by C.J. Sansom

For rules and sign-up, click here. And thanks to Dana for hosting again this year!

2009 Essay Reading Challenge

I'd like to read more short works in 2009 including stories and essays, so I'm adding this challenge to my ever-expanding list. I'm committing to 10 essays for the year. That shouldn't be too difficult, right?

Completed: 10/10 as of November 30, 2009
**FINISHED**

1. "Werner" by Jo Ann Beard
2. "The Freedom To Offend" by Ian Buruma
3. "Why I Am Not A Christian" by Bertrand Russell
4. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal (Complete Book)
5. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby (Complete Book)
6. Dress You Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Complete Book)
7. Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman (Complete Book)
8. The Grotesque edited by Harold Bloom (Complete Book)
9. Burn This Book edited by Toni Morrison (Complete Book)
10. "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell

Thanks to Carrie at Books and Movies for hosting this challenge! And if any of you would like to join in, click here.

2009 Buy A Book and Read It Challenge

Another one I can't pass up. In an effort to assist our favorite bookstores in this time of economic nastiness, Amy from My Friend Amy is hosting the Buy A Book And Read It Challenge. I've taken option #2: Buy one book each month and, well, read it. I can do that! I'm leaving my list open to whatever options sound good each month, but I will list them all here as I finish and review them.

Completed: 12/12 as of December 12, 2009
**FINISHED**

Jan. -- Dawn by Elie Wiesel
Feb. -- The Woman In The Dunes by Kobo Abe
Mar. -- Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Apr. -- Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
May -- The Penguin State of the World Atlas by Dan Smith
June -- Renegade by Richard Wolffe
July -- The Devil's Queen by Jeanne Kalogridis
Aug. -- The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Sept. -- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Oct. -- Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Nov. -- Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
Dec. -- The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer

If you'd like to join in, click here to check out the information post on Amy's blog.

2009 Dewey Decimal System Reading Challenge

Like so many others, I don't read enough non-fiction. This Challenge is a perfect way to remedy that! The goal is to read 1 book from each Dewey Century per month from 000 to 999. (Since there are 10 catagories and 12 months, I'm not sure if the total we're aiming for is 10 or 12, but I've got a question in regarding that. I'll assume 10 for now.) All I needed was a really good excuse to get out of the fiction sections of my library and check out all the other things I'm missing! I will be posting my choices as I go along, because that exploration is going to be a big part of the fun all year long.

Completed: 10/10 as of December 9, 2009
**FINISHED**

000 - Generalities

081 A23H
How To Think About The Great Ideas: From The Great Books Of Western Civilization
by Mortimer J. Adler

100 - Philosophy and Psychology

150.195 F83M
Man's Search For Meaning
Victor Frankl

200 - Religion

225.486 E33M
Misquoting Jesus
by Bart D. Ehrman

300 - Social Sciences

302.234 P85A
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman

400 - Language

423.09 W75M
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester

500 - Natural Sciences + Math

500 B562 2008
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009
edited by Elizabeth Kolbert

600 - Technology

647.95092 D81W
Waiter Rant
by Steve Dublanica

700 - The Arts

796.323092 S55C
Can I Keep My Jersey?
by Paul Shirley

800 - Literature and Rhetoric

808.042 Z78W
Writing To Learn
by William Zinsser

900 - Geography and History

940.547243 L66S
Survival In Auschwitz
by Primo Levi

If you'd like to join in or even just check out the rules, click here.

To see a complete Dewey Decimal System Classification Summary, click here.

2009 TBR Challenge

Since I'm already signed up for the Read Your Own Books Challenge, I was going to pass this one up this year. However, I have no will power. I do have a very rational reason outside of that. If I've already committed to reading 50 of my own books in 2009, why not list a few that I want to read for certain, right? :-)

Here is the list for 2009:

Completed: 12/12 as of December 18, 2009
**FINISHED**

(Linked or bolded books are the ones read for the challenge.)

Main List:

Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
White Noise – Don DeLillo
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Junky – William S. Burroughs
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
Was – Geoff Ryman
Bedlam – Greg Hollingshead
Schindler’s List – Thomas Keneally
After Dachau – Daniel Quinn
Augustus – John Williams
Claudius The God – Robert Graves
Finn – Jon Cinch

Alternates:

War Trash – Ha Jin
Beowulf – Anonymous
Grendel – John Gardner
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea – Jules Verne
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
The Borgia Bride – Jeanne Kalogridis
In The Country of Men – Hisham Matar
Outer Dark – Cormac McCarthy
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
The Praise Singer – Mary Renault


Official rules and sign up can be found here.

2009 War Through The Generations Challenge

OK. I've explored some ideas for this one, and I'm in. The link to the official rules and signup for this Challenge can be found here. And here are some of the books I'm thinking about:

The Splendor of Silence by Indu Sundaresan
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Skeletons At The Feast by Chris Bohjalian
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
Plot Against America by Phillip Roth
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
After Dachau by Daniel Quinn (Alternative History)

COMPLETED: 5/5 as of May 6, 2009
**COMPLETED**

1. Skeletons At The Feast by Chris Bohjalian
2. Day by Elie Wiesel
3. Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi
4. Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield
5. The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle

War Through The Generations Reading Challenge

Here's another new Challenge that looks great! If you're interested in checking out the rules and/or signing up, click here. I'm not signing myself up quite yet, but at the rate I'm going, it's only a matter of time. :-) If you'd like to see other Challenges that are out there just waiting to tempt you, click here. Go on. Try it. You'll like it!

2009 Art History Reading Challenge

I have to do it. How can I not? It's just too interesting. If you would like to join in, click here.

Completed: 6/6 as of October 10, 2009
**FINISHED**

1. The Raphael Affair by Iain Pears
2. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
3. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
4. The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
5. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
6. Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

Ideas:

Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex
The God of Spring by Arabella Edge
Needle In The Blood by Sarah Bower
The Agony & The Ecstasy or Lust For Life by Irving Stone
The Raphael Affair by Ian Pears
Something by Tracy Chevalier
Somthing by Susan Vreeland

2009 What's In A Name Challenge

I'm in. I missed out on this one last year, so this year I'll give it a whirl. The categories are listed below. If I have ideas for what I might read, I've listed those, too. Finished books have links to the review.


Completed: 6/6 as of October 12, 2009
**FINISHED**

1. A book with a "profession" in its title

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

2. A book with a "time of day" in its title.

Dawn by Elie Wiesel

3. A book with a "relative" in its title.

Native Son by Richard Wright

4. A book with a "body part" in its title.

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

5. A book with a "building" in its title.

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

6. A book with a "medical condition" in its title.

Dr. Haggard's Disease by Patrick McGrath


Want to play along? Click here.

Happy Reading, Everyone!

2nds Challenge

J. Kaye of J. Kaye's book blog is hosting this Challenge to read 12 books by authors by whom you have only read one previous work, be it book or short story. It's a great excuse to get back to those authors you've been meaning to revisit! I don't know for certain who or what I will read, but here is a partial list of authors from which I am looking forward to a second helping:

Julian Barnes
Margaret Campbell Barnes
Lewis Black
Clare Clark
Edwidge Dandicat
Catherine Delors
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Kazuo Ishiguro
Marcel Proust
Jeane Kalogridis
C.W. Gortner
Sandra Gulland
Robert Graves
Barbara Kyle
Haruki Murakami
Chuck Palahniuk
Sharon Kay Penman
Elie Wiesel

I'm thinking I'll be able to find something here to cover this Challenge. :-)

To join in, click here.


Completed: 12/12 as of July 12, 2009
** FINISHED **

1. Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
2. Thomas L. Friedman -- Hot, Flat and Crowded
3. Elie Wiesel -- Dawn
4. Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
6. Bart D. Ehrman -- Misquoting Jesus
7. Ernest J. Gaines -- Catherine Carmier
8. Chuck Palahniuk -- Choke
9. Phillip Roth -- American Pastoral
10. Jeanne Kalogridis -- The Borgia Bride
11. Christi Phillips -- The Devlin Diary
12. The Great Stink by Clare Clark

2009 Read Your Own Books Challenge

I'm in! Peter will be happy about this one, as it requires me to read the books I have piling up everywhere. I'll challenge myself to read 50 books from my own collection in 2009. The rules are simple. You set your own goals and read your own books! If you'd like to join in, click here.

Completed: 50/50 as of December 12, 2009
**FINISHED**

1. Poems From Guantanamo edited by Marc Falkoff
2. Dawn by Elie Wiesel
3. What Is The What by Dave Eggers
4. How To Think About The Great Ideas by Mortimer J. Adler
5. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
6. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
7. Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman
8. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
9. Day by Elie Wiesel
10. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
11. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
12. How To Read A Poem And Fall In Love With Poetry by Edward Hirsch
13. The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spencer
14. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
15. The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis
16. Bedlam by Greg Hollingshead
17. Madonna of the Seven Hills by Jean Plaidy
18. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
19. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
20. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
21. Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
22. Finn by Jon Clinch
23. The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. II by The Paris Review
24. Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
25. Can I Keep My Jersey? by Paul Shirley
26. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
27. In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
28. Dr. Haggard's Disease by Patrick McGrath
29. Junky by William S. Burroughs
30. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
31. The Grotesque edited by Harold Bloom
32. The Praise Singer by Mary Renault
33. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
34. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 edited by Elizabeth Kolbert
35. Burn This Book edited by Toni Morrison
36. Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman
37. Dawn by Elie Wiesel
38. The Woman In The Dunes by Kobo Abe
39. Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi
40. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
41. The Penguin State of the World Atlas by Dan Smith
42. Renegade by Richard Wolffe
43. The Devil's Queen by Jeanne Kalogridis
44. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
45. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
46. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
47. Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
48. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
49. Waiter Rant by Steve Dublanica
50. The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer

2009 New Author Challenge

I'm in. The New Author Challenge asks you to choose a number of new-to-you authors to read in 2009. The recommended amount is 25 or 50, but you can name your own goal. I'm going for 50. Why not? The Challenge runs from Jan. 1, 2009 - Dec. 31, 2009. Lots of time!! :-) I thinking this will go well with the Support Your Local Library Challenge, not to mention the 100+ Reading Challenge.

If I read more than one book by one of my "new to me" authors, the link will be to the first one I read.

If you would like to check out the rules and maybe join in, click here.

Completed: 50/50 as of Sept. 26, 2009
**FINISHED**

1. Lloyd Jones (Mister Pip)
2. Iain Pears (The Raphael Affair)
3. Dave Eggers (What Is The What)
4. Mortimer J. Adler (How To Think About The Great Ideas)
5. Philip Roth (Indignation)
6. Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)
7. Richard Wright (Native Son)
8. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
9. Ernest J. Gaines (A Lesson Before Dying)
10. Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders)
11. Kobo Abe (The Woman In The Dunes)
12. Wilkie Collins (The Woman In White)
13. Chris Bohjalian (Skeletons At The Feast)
14. Simon Winchester (The Meaning of Everything)
15. William Styron (The Confessions of Nat Turner)
16. Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
17. Susan Vreeland (Luncheon of the Boating Party)
18. Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)
19. Primo Levi (Survival In Auschwitz)
20. Tracy Chevalier (Girl With A Pearl Earring)
21. Michael Gruber (The Forgery of Venus)
22. William Zinsser (Writing To Learn)
23. Edward Hirsch (How To Read A Poem And Fall In Love With Poetry)
24. J.M. Coetzee (Waiting for the Barbarians)
25. Pierre Boulle (The Bridge Over the River Kwai)
26. Cynthia Ozick (The Shawl)
27. Julie Otsuka (When The Emperor Was Divine)
28. Edmund Spencer (The Faerie Queene)
29. Alessandro Baricco (An Iliad)
30. Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
31. James Joyce (Ulysses)
32. Gore Vidal (Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace)
33. Greg Hollingshead (Bedlam)
34. Richard Wolffe (Renegade)
35. Andre Aciman (Call Me By Your Name)
36. Christopher Hibbert (The Borgias and Their Enemies)
37. Lawrence Goldstone (The Anatomy of Deception)
38. Dara Horn (All Other Nights)
39. Barbara Ehrenreich (This Land is Their Land)
40. Lawrence Wright (The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11)
41. Charles P. Pierce (Idiot America)
42. Nick Hornby (The Polysyllabic Spree)
43. Louise Murphy (The True Story of Hansel and Gretel)
44. Elizabeth Gaskell (Cranford)
45. Jon Clinch (Finn)
46. Nick Reding (Methland)
47. Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris)
48. Viktor Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)
49. Michael Cunningham (The Hours)
50. Paul Shirley (Can I Keep My Jersey?)

2009 Support Your Local Library Challenge

There's no way I can pass this one up. I'll even go for the 50 library book option! This challenge runs from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2009. If you'd like to see the rules and sign on up, click here.

Completed: 50/50 as of Aug. 5, 2009
**FINISHED**

1. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
3. The Raphael Affair by Iain Pears
4. Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
5. Indignation by Philip Roth
6. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
7. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. Native Son by Richard Wright
9. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
10. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
11. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
12. The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
13. Skeletons At The Feast by Chris Bohjalian
14. The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
15. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
16. Catherine Carmier by Ernest J. Gaines
17. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
18. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
19. Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield
20. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
21. The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
22. Revelation by C.J. Sansom
23. Writing To Learn by William Zinsser
24. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
25. Grave Goods by Ariana Franklin
26. Divine Justice by David Baldacci
27. Everyman by Philip Roth
28. The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
29. A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire
30. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
31. Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
32. The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
33. When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
34. An Iliad by Alessandro Baricco
35. Dave Barry's Money Secrets by Dave Barry
36. Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
37. Wicked Prey by John Sandford
38. Bones of Betrayal by Jefferson Bass
39. The Devlin Diary by Christi Phillips
40. Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
41. Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
42. The Borgias and Their Enemies by Christopher Hibbert
43. The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
44. The Great Stink by Clare Clark
45. The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone
46. The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer
47. All Other Nights by Dara Horn
48. This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich
49. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
50. Idiot America by Charles P. Pierce

2009 100+ Book Challenge

I'm in for the next round! Since I'm too chicken to actually commit to 150 books, I've decided to set various levels of success to shoot for:

Bronze Level: Read 100 Books -- Completed September 13, 2009

Silver Level: Read 125 Books

Gold Level: Read 150 Books


There. Now I can feel successful no matter what the outcome.
:-) The same as 2008, my list of books read during 2009 will be found at the bottom of my blog.

If you'd like to join in, click here to sign up!

Countdown Challenge

I'm feeling optimistic about reading a ridiculous number of books next year. I'm signing up for The Countdown Challenge! I'm not making a list now, but I will fill this chart in as I go along. If you'd like to see the rules and join the challenge, click on over to the Official Countdown Challenge Site.

Completed: 45/45 as of September 6, 2009 (This challenge begins Aug. 2008 and ends Sept. 9, 2009)
**FINISHED -- Yahoo! I did it!!**

Published in 2009
(This section will most likely be the same books as I read for the Pub Challenge.)

1. Revelation by C.J. Sansom
2. Grave Goods by Ariana Franklin
3. Wicked Prey by John Sandford
4. Bones of Betrayal by Jefferson Bass
5. The Devlin Diary by Christi Phillips
6. Renegade by Richard Wolffe
7. The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
8. Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson
9. All Other Nights by Dara Horn

Published in 2008

1. Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black
2. Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn
3. The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver
4. The King's Daughter by Sandra Worth
5. Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
6. Indignation by Philip Roth
7. Skeletons At The Feast by Chris Bohjalian
8. Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield

Published in 2007

1. The Intellectual Devotional: American History by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim
2. Poems From Guantanamo edited by Marc Falkoff
3. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
4. Call My By Your Name by Andre Aciman
5. Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
6. Finn by Jon Clinch
7. The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. II by The Paris Review

Published in 2006

1. The Book of Samson by David Maine
2. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
3. What Is The What by Dave Eggers
4. Everyman by Philip Roth
5. Dave Barry's Money Secrets by Dave Barry
6. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

Published in 2005

1. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
2. Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman
3. The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis
4. The Great Stink by Clare Clark
5. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Published in 2004

1. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
2. An Iliad by Alessandro Baricco
3. Bedlam by Greg Hollingshead
4. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

Published in 2003

1. The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
2. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
3. Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee

Published in 2002

1. When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
2. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster

Published in 2001

1. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

2009 Reading Challenges

This is a quick post to track all the Challenges in which I plan on participating, and a list of Official Sites for them and others that you may be interested in investigating. It will be linked in my sidebar under "Reading Challenges - 2009" for future reference:

My 2009 Reading Challenges

Official 2009 Challenge Sites

My 2009 Reading Challenges

I can't resist these things. Here is my list for 2009, which will be growing as time marches on. Let's see how many ultimately end up on here and how many I actually finish. :-)


SUMMARY: Updated December 18, 2009


Challenges Completed:


Chunkster Challenge

Completed April 10, 2009: 2/2

Book Awards II Challenge

Completed April 30, 2009: 10/10

War Through The Generations Challenge

Completed May 6, 2009: 5/5

The Faerie Queene Challenge

Completed May 19, 2009: 7/7 Parts

Decades Challenge

Completed July 2, 2009: 9/9

2nds Challenge

Completed July 12, 2009: 12/12

Pub Challenge

Completed July 29, 2009: 9/9

Support Your Local Library Challenge

Completed August 5, 2009: 50/50

1% Well-Read Challenge

Completed August 10, 2009: 13/13

Countdown Challenge (Aug. 8, 2008 - Sept. 9, 2009)

Completed September 6, 2009: 45/45

100+ Reading Challenge

Completed September 17, 2009: 100 (The rest of the year is gravy!!)

New Author Challenge

Completed September 26, 2009: 50/50

Book Awards 3 Challenge (July 1, 2009 to December 1, 2009)

Completed September 29, 2009: 5/5

Art History Reading Challenge

Completed October 10, 2009: 6/6

What's In A Name Challenge

Completed October 12, 2009: 6/6

Essay Reading Challenge

Completed November 30, 2009: 10/10

Dewey Decimal Reading Challenge

Completed December 9, 2009: 10/10

Buy A Book And Read It Challenge

Completed December 12, 2009: 12/12

Read Your Own Books Challenge

Completed December 12, 2009: 50/50

TBR Challenge

Completed December 18, 2009: 12/12

WOO HOO!! I finished them all!!

2009 Decades Challenge

This was the first Challenge I ever signed up for and the first one I actually finished. I'm excited to do it again for 2009. I'm not going to pick an exact plan, but in the spirit of "9", I'm going to cover 1910-1990. I'll decide the specific books as I go along. Click on the year for a list of potential reads. So many great ones to choose from!!

Finished: 9/9 as of July 2, 2009
** COMPLETED **

1910's

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce

1920's

This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald

1930's

To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway

1940's

Native Son
Richard Wright

1950's

The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Pierre Boulle

1960's

Dawn
Elie Wiesel

1970's

Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien

1980's

The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro

1990's

A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines

If you'd like to join in the fun, you can find the rules and sign-up here.