Challenge: 50 Books discussion

Here it goes:

1. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
2. Atonement - Ian McEwan
3. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
4. Pretty Little Mistakes- Heather McElhatton
5. Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes (reread)
6. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
7. Hyperion - Dan Simmons (reread)
8. I am Not Myself These Days - Josh Kilmer Purcell
9. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons (reread)
10. Memorial - Bruce Wagner
11. Whitethorn Woods - Maeve Binchy
12. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova (reread)


More to come!

13. World Without End - Ken Follett
*wow, this one took me AGES

What did you think of World Without end? I am reading Pillars of the Earth now and loving it and then I have World Without End to read.

Hi Nan, I didn't think WWE's storyline was as riveting as Pillars but I always love a good epic and if you do as well, then it's definitely worth it to give WWE a shot.

14. The Bright Forever - Lee Martin

15. My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, From Chekhov to Munro - compiled by Jeffrey Eugenides

16. The Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs

I just put that on my mooch list...how is The Friday Night Knitting Club?

It was a quick read...great characters, interesting plot but just a little too fantastical for me. It'd make a good beach read (if summer ever makes it way this year!)

17. Now Face to Face - Karleen Koen

18. Heart of Light - Sarah Hoyt

19. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky

What did you think of Suite Francaise, Rowena? I've read a lot of reviews and they seem a bit mixed - but it's been on my "to read" list for a while.

Suite Francaise was fantastic. Beautiful, bitter, heartwrenching. You can read my review on my homepage if you'd like.

20. The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem

21. The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella

22. Nerfertiti - Michelle Moran

23. Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

24. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

25. The Golden Tulip - Rosalind Laker

26. High Lonesome - Joyce Carol Oates

27. This Charming Man - Marian Keyes

28. London - Edward Rutherfurd

I reeeeally need to stop reading 1,000-page books if I'm going to reach this goal...

29. Him Her Him Again The End of Him - Patricia Marx

30. Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins

Still Life is one of my favorites! Who knew disecting a Camel cigarette pack could be so hilarious!

Haha, I know! A good friend of mine recommended this book to me and at first I was skeptical but I got hooked pretty fast. Would you recommend another one of his books?

31. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell

32. Anybody Out There? - Marian Keyes

33. The Alienist - Caleb Carr

34. The Boleyn Inheritance - Phillipa Gregory

35. Duma Key - Stephen King

36. Homecoming - Bernhard Schlink

37. Still Life with Husband - Lauren Fox

38. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

39. Light a Penny Candle - Maeve Binchy (reread)

40. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

41. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
42. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk

43. Mahfouz Trilogy: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt - Naguib Mahfouz

44. Then we Came to the End - Joshua Ferris

I'm almost there!!

45. The Given Day - Dennis Lehane

46. The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov - Vladimir Nabokov

47. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

48. 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion - Morgan Llywelyn

49. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

one more!!

Go Rowena!!!

50. Endymion - Dan Simmons


haHA...I did it!!