Missy's Book Challenges

Rory's Book Club (Gilmore Girls)

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Rory's Book Club (Gilmore Girls)

Books In Red are books that I have read.

Books in BLUE are books that are TBR

Book list to date:

Modern Reads:

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Songbook by Nick Hornby
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzel
How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Extravagance by Gary Krist
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
A Month Of Sundays by Julie Mars
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Property by Valerie Martin
Quattrocento by James McKean
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Unless by Carol Shields
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
Old School by Tobias Wolff
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Classic Reads:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Emma by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
1984 by George Orwell
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Sybil by Flora Schreiber
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse

TBR Lite Challenge 2009

2008-12-28T15:14:00.001-08:00

CHALLENGE STARTS: January 1st, 2009
CHALLENGE ENDS: December 31st, 2009

For those who love the original TBR Challenge, but need a little less “pressure” on their reading, the TBR Challenge *LITE* offers you that option!

You have your choice of ONE of the 3 options:

OPTION A: read 6 books in 12 months ~ your list of books CANNOT be changed, but you are allowed to have an “Alternates” list to choose from (like in the Original TBR Challenge).

OPTION B: read 6 books in 12 months ~ you CAN change your reading list throughout the year

OPTION C: make up a list of however many books you think you could get read in 12 months, as long as they are from your TBR stack/list, and then read them between January 1st and December 31st. You must have at least 3 books on your list.

Some Other General Guidelines:
- You are allowed to overlap with other challenges
- Audiobooks are allowed
- e-Books are allowed, but must still be books that you’ve wanted to read for at least 3, or more, months
- You should still have a list of books posted somewhere for others to see
- You don’t have to read your books in the order you put them on your list

Buttons, like the one above, have been created for your use! Check out the Buttons page!

A Yahoo! Group has been set up for this challenge ~ feel free to join!

TBR Challenge *LITE* Yahoo! Group

1. Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories By Robert Haining 4-26-09

2. Choke By Chuck Palahniuk

3. Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean

4.Prince Caspin Book2 of the Chronicles of Narina By C. S. Lewis 1-10-09
5.Stolen Innocence By Elissa Wall 2-05-09
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Read Your Own Books Challenge

2008-12-28T14:53:00.001-08:00

RYOB 2009

The rules for this challenge are very simple…

* set a goal for how many of your OWN books you’d like to read in 2009

* read from your own collection between January 1st and December 31st, 2009

And, that’s basically it! You don’t have to create a list beforehand (’cause we all know that our reading preferences change as the year progresses), and you can even read books that come into your possession (that will be yours to keep) during the year!

Some other helpful hints…

- you CAN overlap with other challenges

- eBooks and Audiobooks count AS LONG AS they are from your own collection

- Optional: Join the Yahoo! group started for this challenge to discuss what you’re reading with other participants! Remember, though, the challenge doesn’t officially begin until January 1st.

2008-12-28T14:38:00.000-08:00

Welcome!

Hi, I am Victoria (a.k.a. Phantom Inkheart) and this is my first challenge that I am hosting. I thought of it in pure boredom, and for that matter I hope I am not accidentally copying someone else's idea. So, if you've heard of this challenge or a similar one someplace else, please let me know so I can link them!

Anyhoo, the challenge is to read your name in book title first letters, ultimately spelling out your name. That means:

1. Using your first name, or blogger name, or your pets name, or even your favorite literary character's name; whichever you like, choose books with first title letters that spell out your name. (Audio books and eBooks are also okay.) Such as my name: Victoria. the first book's title would start with the letter V, then the next book title begins with I, etc. Make sense? (I hope so!) :p
2. Bloggers and non-bloggers alike are free to join. If you do not have a blog and would like to post your reviews/titles that spelled your name somewhere, you may do so here at the group blog. Just send me an e-mail (phantombibliophile [at] gmail [dot] com), or leave a comment letting me know you'd like to use this blog.

3. If you have your own blog, come back here every month and leave a comment containing the link to your challenge page containing the books you've read or each review you've written for books that count for this challenge. (Crossovers with other challenges are okay.) I will make a new post for this on the first of every month.

4. The challenge runs from Jan. 1st 2009, to Dec. 31st 2009. You may join at any time.

5. Last but not least, be sure to sign up using Mister Linky Below! & Leave a comment with what name you're going to use, and the name itself of course! Oh, and don't forget to link back to the challenge from your blog (if you have one of course) to show you're participating!
http://namereading.blogspot.com/

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