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Paula's Age 31 (2009) Self Challenge
My goal for this year is 75 books because several of them are YA. I am interested how many I actually do read in one birth year. Perhaps it'll inspire me toward more lofty goals in the future!Edit - goal is 125 books.
Books read so far (in no apparent order):1 Life, the Universe & Everything Douglas Adams
2 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Douglas Adams
3 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
4 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams
5 I, Robot Isaac Asimov
6 The Book of Illusions Paul Auster
7 Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach
8 Agnes Grey Anne Brontë
9 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
10 A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett
11 The Stranger Albert Camus
12 The Master of Petersburg J.M. Coetzee
13 Danny, the Champion of the World Roald Dahl
14 Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl
15 George's Marvelous Medicine Roald Dahl
16 The Twits Roald Dahl
17 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
18 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
19 Coraline Neil Gaiman
20 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon
21 Twilight Stephenie Meyer
22 Mort Terry Pratchett
23 Pyramids Terry Pratchett
24 Sourcery Terry Pratchett
25 Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett
26 The Plot Against America Philip Roth
27 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
28 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
29 Bad Girls Jacqueline Wilson
30 Girls in Love (1) Jacqueline Wilson
31 Girls in Tears (3) Jacqueline Wilson
32 Girls Out Late (2) Jacqueline Wilson
33 The Illustrated Mum Jacqueline Wilson
34 The Story of Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Wilson
35 The Suitcase Kid Jacqueline Wilson
36 Vicky Angel Jacqueline Wilson
37/75 - Dude, Where's My Country?; Michael More
38/75 - Guards! Guards!; Terry Pratchett
39/75 - Prey; Michael Crichton
40/75 - Confessions of a Shopaholic; Sophia Kinsella
41/75 - Mostly Harmless; Douglas Adams
42/75 - Stupid White Men; Michael More
43/75 - Bridget Jones's Diary; Helen Fielding
44/75 - The Feminine Mystique; Betty Friedan
45/75 - Beloved; Toni Morrison
46/75 - The Joy Luck Club; Amy Tan
47/75 - The Devil Wears Prada; Lauren Weisberger
48/75 - My Sister's Keeper; Jodi Picoult
49/75 - Rebecca; Daphne du Maurier
50/75 - Dreamcatcher; Stephen King
51/75 - Vathek; William Beckford
52/75 - Utopia; Sir Thomas More
53/75 - In a Sunburned Country; Bill Bryson
54/75 - Eric; Terry Pratchett
55/75 - Summer; Edith Wharton
56/75 - One for the Money; Janet Evanovich
57/75 - The Omnivore's Dilemna: A Natural History of Four Meals; Michael Pollan
58/75 - Stardust; Neil Gaiman
59/75 - Lady Audley's Secret; Mary Elizabeth Braddon
60/75 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (#7); J.K. Rowling
64/75 - The Woman in White; Wilkie Collins
65/75 - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Album
66/125 Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
67/125 The Client by John Grisham
68/125 - Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafied (good fun)
69/125 - The Fugitive by Phillip MargolinDefinitely not the one with hunky Harrison Ford!
70/125 - Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
71/125 - The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
72/125 - The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
73/125 - The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
74/125 - Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
75/125 - Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
77/125 - The Meaning of Night, A Confession by Michael Cox
78/125 - False Impression by Jeffrey Archer
79/125 - Rainbow's End by Martha Grimes
Loved the book, but am seriously losing motivation to continue tracking my books on this site...
80/125 - The Forsyte Saga by John Glasworthy
82/125 - The Queen's Mistake in the Court of Henry VIII by Diane Haeger
43 to go! I feel like the little engine that could... "I think I can; I think I can!"
83/125 - Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
84/125 - American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities by Devon A. Mihesuah
86/125 - The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
88/125 - The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
91/125 - The Vampire Lestat, #2 by Anne Rice
92/125 - The Princess Diaries, #2 by Meg Cabot
93/125 - The Princess Diaries, #3 by Meg Cabot
94/125 - The Princess Diaries, #4 by Meg Cabot95/125 - The Princess Diaries #4 1/2 by Meg Cabot
96/125 - The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
97/125 - No Way to Treat a First Lady by Christopher Buckley
98/125 - Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
99/125 - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
101/125 - Princess Diaries #5 by Meg Cabot
102/125 - A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquar
103/125 - Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
104/125 - The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin
21 books left and about 5 weeks to go. Hmm... doesn't seem quite possible. Down to $105 to donate out of my book-buying budget. Seems odd to have a goal where I give nothing ...
105/125 - The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Greogry
Thank God I made it past the Princess Diaries phase!
106/125 - Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers
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I doubled the list, as I included some other lists and some books that were recommended to me, given to me, were part of a group read, or just looked neat in the store and made their way home with me.
I should add my birthday is at the end of March, so as of this posting, I am almost at the half-way point of 'my' year.
Edit on 9/25/09:
After reading of other members goals, I decided to edit mine. I have increased the goal from 75 to 125. In addition, I need to finish two books from my own and TBR pile, before I can buy one more new book.
As incentive to finish my goal, and reduce my overall TBR pile, I am going to donate $5/book if I don't reach my goal, to come out of my book-buying budget.