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January:
1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer - READ
2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
February:
1. The Audacity of Hope Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
2. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez - READ
March:
1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - READ
2. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - READ
April:
1. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - READ 11/24/2009
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. Fool A Novel by Christopher Moore
May:
1. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
2. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
June:
1. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
2. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith - READ 10/27/2009
July:
1. The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
August:
1. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - READ
2. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - READ
September:
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - READ
2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - READ
October:
1. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver - READ
2. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - READ 10/18/2009
November:
1. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
2. Olive Kitteridge A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout
January:
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd - READ
February:
Emma by Jane Austen - READ
March:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
April:
1984 by George Orwell - READ
May:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
June - August:
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
September:
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin - READ
October:
The Lottery And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
November:
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - READ 11/24/2009
December:
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
January:
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
February:
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
March:
The Hobbit Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien - READ
April:
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
May:
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak - READ
June:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
July:
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
August:
Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
September:
Identical by Ellen Hopkins - READ 10/15/2009
October:
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater - READ 10/19/2009
November:
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
December:
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
May:
1. Anne of Green Gables - READ
2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - READ
June:
1. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
2. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
July:
1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - READ
2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Multiple Critical Perspectives by Harper Lee - READ
August:
1. Maus I A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
September:
1. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater - READ 10/19/2009
2. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
October:
1. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - READ
2. Coraline by Neil Gaiman - READ
3. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
November:
1. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
2. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
January:
1. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
2. Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
February:
1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2. Watchmen by Alan Moore - READ
March:
1. The Suicide Collectors by David Oppegaard
2. Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip
April：
1. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
2. The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J. Sullivan
May:
1. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
2. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
June:
1. The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
2. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
July:
1. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
2. Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett
August:
1. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - READ
September:
1. The Briar King by Greg Keyes
2. Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
October:
1. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
2. The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
November:
1. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - READ
2. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
September - Historical Fiction
1. World Without End by Ken Follett - READ 09/20/2009
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - READ 09/30/2009
3. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
4. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - READ 09/14/2009
5. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - READ 09/19/2009
* When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park - READ 09/07/2009
* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer - READ 09/09/2009
* A Separate Peace by John Knowles - READ 09/22/2009
* His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik - READ 09/24/2009
October - Paranormal
1. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - DISCOUNTED (not appropriate to shelf) READ 10/01/2009
2. Dracula by Bram Stoker
3. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith - READ 10/27/2009
4. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater - READ 10/19/2009
5. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror, The by Robert Louis Stevenson - READ 10/09/2009
November - Asian
1. Gai-Jin by James Clavell
2. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
3. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
4. American Shaolin Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch An Odyssey in the New China by Matthew Polly
5. Shanghai Girls A Novel by Lisa See
6. The Painter From Shanghai A Novel by Jennifer Epstein
7. The Rape of Nanking The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
8. The Art of War by Sun Tzu - READ 11/07/2009
9. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cáo Xuěqín
10. The Elephant Vanishes Stories by Haruki Murakami - READ 11/21/2009
*Digging to America by Anne Tyler - READ 11/01/2009
*PLUTO PLUTO 1 by Naoki Urasawa - READ 11/22/2009
January:
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February:
1. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - READ
March:
1. The Zookeeper's Wife A War Story by Diane Ackerman
April:
1. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - READ
May:
1.
June:
1. Middlemarch by George Eliot
2. The Edge of Winter by Luanne Rice
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer - READ
4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
5. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
July:
1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
2. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - READ
August:
1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2. Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning
3. Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - READ 11/17/2009
September:
1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - READ
2. Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
October:
1. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
November:
1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
2. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - READ
1. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - READ 10/01/2009
2. What the Witch Left by Ruth Chew - READ 10/03/2009
3. Magic Elizabeth by Norma Kassirer - READ 10/04/2009
4. Gossamer by Lois Lowry - READ 10/04/2009
5. Coraline by Neil Gaiman - READ 10/03/2009
6. Dracula by Bram Stoker
7. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - READ 10/06/2009
8. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde & Other Tales; Kidnapped; Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Reading the other tales) - READ 10/09/2009
9. Inferno by Dante Alighieri - READ 11/14/2009
10. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith - READ 10/27/2009
11. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater - READ 10/19/2009
1. Gai-Jin by James Clavell
2. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
3. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
4. American Shaolin Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch An Odyssey in the New China by Matthew Polly
5. Shanghai Girls A Novel by Lisa See
6. The Painter From Shanghai A Novel by Jennifer Epstein
7. The Rape of Nanking The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
8. The Art of War by Sun Tzu - READ 11/07/2009
9. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cáo Xuěqín
10. The Elephant Vanishes Stories by Haruki Murakami - READ 11/21/2009
*Digging to America by Anne Tyler - READ 11/01/2009
* PLUTO PLUTO 1 by Naoki Urasawa
Others:
1. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
2. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
4. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - READ 11/17/2009
* A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie - READ 11/24/2009
Rules:
8 Regions (North America, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Oceania/Australia)
80 Countries
1 Year (September 15, 2009 to September 15, 2010)
1. The Serpent's Children Golden Mountain Chronicles 1849 by Laurence Yep
Asia (1): China (1) Read 09/21/2009
2. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
North America (2): United States of America (2) Read 09/22/2009
3. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Europe (3): Great Britain (3) Read 09/24/2009
4. The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Europe (3): Spain (4) Read 10/14/2009
5. Daisy Miller by Henry James
Europe (3): Switzerland (5) Read 10/16/2009
6. Eat, Pray, Love One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Asia (3): Indonesia (6) Read 10/21/2009
7. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Hell (3): Hell (6) Read 11/14/2009
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Latin America (4): Columbia (7) Read 11/17/2009
9. The Elephant Vanishes Stories by Haruki Murakami
Asia (4): Japan (8) Read 11/21/2009
10. PLUTO PLUTO 1 by Naoki Urasawa
Europe (4): Germany (9) Read 11/22/2009
11. A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
Caribbean (5): West Indies (10) Read 11/24/2009
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2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
3. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
4. Bad Twin
5. Book of Laws
6. Holy Bible, The
7. A Brief History of Time
8. The Brothers Karamazov
9. Carrie
10. Catch-22
11. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
12. Dark Horse
13. The Dark Tower
14. Dirty Work
15. Dune
16. The Epic of Gilgamesh
17. Evil Under the Sun
18. The Fountainhead
19. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
20. Heart of Darkness
21. Hindsight
22. Holy Qur'an, The
23. Hotel
24. I Ching
25. The Invention of Morel
26. Island
27. Julius Caesar
28. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
29. Kings of Love
30. Lancelot
31. Laughter in the Dark
32. Left Behind by Tim LaHaye
33. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
34. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
35. The Moon Pool
36. The Mysterious Island
37. Oath, The
38. Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
39. The Odyssey by Homer
40. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
41. On Writing
42. Our Mutual Friend
43. O Pioneers!
44. The Outsiders
45. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
46. Perfume
47. Rainbow Six
48. Rick Romer's Vision Of Astrology
49. The Shape of Things to Come
50. The Shining
51. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
52. Stand, The
53. Stranger in a Strange Land
54. The Survivors of the Chancellor
55. A Tale of Two Cities
56. The Third Policeman
57. Through the Looking-Glass
58. To Kill a Mockingbird - Multiple Critical Perspectives by Harper Lee
59. The Turn of the Screw
60. VALIS
61. Watership Down
62. The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum
63. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
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64. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
65. The Iliad by Homer
66. A Seperate Reality
67. Everything That Rises Must Converge