Beth’s Comments (group member since Jan 12, 2009)

Beth’s comments from the The Book Challenge group.

Ive read 31. Some I am sure are very worthy reads. But they are so hard to get going in.

*1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
*2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
*4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
*5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
*6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
*8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
*9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
*11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
*15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
*16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
*19 The Time Traveler’s Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - maybe
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
*25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
*29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
*33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
*36 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
*39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
*40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
*41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
*42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
*49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
*50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
*52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
*57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
*58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
*64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
*65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
*68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
*73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
*87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
*88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad started but never finished
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I am in! Here goes!

one book by an author of the opposite gender.
John Scalzi - Old Mans War

Read one book by a living author. Pattern recognician - william gibson

Read one book by deceased author.
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish - Douglas Adams

Read one book which was originally written in a language other than English. (Translated or not, your choice)

Read one book which is non-fiction.
Look me in the Eye- John Elder Robinson

Read one genre book. (Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Western, Romance, Horror)
Sci-Fi - The Ghost Briggade - John Scalzi
Fantasy -
Mystery -
Western -
Romance -
Horror - alien - Allen Dean Foster

Read one work of literary fiction.
The mermaids chair - Sue Monk Kidd

Read one book classified as "Young Adult"
Naughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman

Read a short story collection or anthology.

Read a poetry collection, poetry anthology, or an epic poem.

Read a graphic novel.

Read a banned book.

I am so in. This looks like a lot of fun!!

A: Douglas Adams - So long and thanks for all the fish
B: Malorie Blackman - Naughts and Crosses
Brooks, Max - World War Z - Oral history of the Zombie War
Bauby, Jean-Dominique The divinf bell and the butterfly
Browne, S.G - Breathers
C: Card, Orson Scott - The shadow of the Hegemon
D: Phillip K. Dick - The man who Japed
E:
F: Allen Dean Foster - Aliens
Fielding - Helen - Olivia Joules and the Overactive imagination
G: Gibson, William - pattern recognician
H: helinlen - Citizens of the galaxy
harris - Charlaine - The whole stackhouse series
I:
J: Stan Jones - Graphic Guide to Site Construction
K: Sue Monk Kidd - The Mermaids Chair
Sherilyn Kenyon - Acheron
Koontz, Dean - The Taking
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M: Moore, Christopher - Fool
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R: John Elder Robinson - Look me in the eye
S: John Scalzi - Old Mans War
Scalzi, John - Agent to the Stars
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