Some of you already know that I keep track of the books I read. I keep lists of the books by seasons and I've done this for the past... 2 years? I think it's been 2 years. I got tired of forgetting all the books I've read, so I started recording it. This year, I decided to see if I could read 50 books.
Starting with the first book I read in 2007, ending with the last.
1.Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink
2. Birthday Letters: Ted Hughes
3. She Had Some Horses: Joy Harjo
4. Fight Club: Chuck Palahniuk
5. My Antonia: Willa Cather
6. The Sound and the Fury: William Faulkner
7. Into Thin Air: John Krakauer
8. The Mother Tongue: English & How it got that way: Bill Bryson
9. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce
10. Little Children: Tom Perrotta
11. The Painted Drum: Louise Erdrich
12. Shalimar the Clown: Salman Rushdie
13. Seeing: Jose Saramago
14. Memories of My Melancholy Whores: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15. A Walk in the Woods: Bill Bryson
16. A Lesson Before Dying: Ernest J. Gaines
17. Lord of the Flies: William Golding
18. Snow Falling on Cedars: David Guterson
19. Lamb: The Gospel According to Bif, Christ's Childhood Pal: Christopher Moore
20. The Namesake: Jhumpa Lahiri
21. Haunted: Chuck Palaniuk
22. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Ken Kesey
23. The Golden Compass: Philip Pullman
24. Jesus Land: Julia Scheeres
25. A Prayer for Owen Meany: John Irving
26. The Subtle Knife: Philip Pullman
27. Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
28. The Amber Spyglass: Philip Pullman
29. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: J. K. Rowling
30. Geek Love: Katherine Dunn
31. Birds of America: Lorrie Moore
32. Sula: Toni Morrison
33. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain
34. Plainsong: Ken Haruf
35. Book of Ruth: Jane Hamilton
36. Going After Cacciato: Tim O'Brien
37. Slaughter-House Five: Kurt Vonnegut
38. Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen
39. 1984: George Orwell
40. Under the Banner of Heaven: John Krakauer
41. Love in the Time of Cholera: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
42. Death By Chick Lit: Lynn Harris
43. The Wedding: Dorothy West
44. Rant: Chuck Palahniuk
45. Blankets: Craig Thompson
46. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha: Roddy Doyle
47. The Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Only 3 short! Well, considering there were a few books that I started and never finished that I don't count on the list, I sort of got my challenge completed. And, now, there's 2008.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
challenge: 50 books in 52 weeks
written by: Alison around 5:28 PM
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