The Next Best Book Club discussion

I've decided to make a more reasonable reading goal this year. In 2008 and 2009 I broke 300, but due to crazy work-a-holic-ness I've been experiencing, I'm going to step down the goal to 200 this year.

In addition to doing a 200 book challenge, I'm going to do the A-Z author challenge only using my TBR pile in the hopes of it becoming shorter than me. Any books that acquired in 2010 are not going to be counted as a part of the TBR for the A-Z Author challenge.

this personal challenge has been abandoned. I moved from NJ back to MN at the end of June and a large portion of my TBR pile was left in storage in NJ indefinitely, and another section of it has been shipped to my parents for the time being.

AKiss of Crimson by Lara Adrian
BNotes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
CRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
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HDarker Angels - M.L.N. Hanover
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LUnleashedby John Levitt
MDemons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel by Cheyenne McCray
N Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
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PSurvivor by Chuck Palahniuk
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T Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
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VWelcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
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1. Kitty's House of Horrors - Carrie Vaughn
2. Unleased - John Levitt
3. Divine Misdemeanors - Laurell K. Hamilton
4. Vampire Sunrise - Carole Nelson Douglas
5. Fade Out - Rachel Caine
6. Street Game - Christine Feehan
7. Wicked Enchantment - Anya Bast
8. My Soul to Save - Rachel Vincent
9. Kiss of Crimson - Lara Adrian
10. Midnight Awakening - Lara Adrian
11. Midnight Rising - Lara Adrian
12. Darker Angels - M.L.N. Hanover
13. Veil of Midnight - Lara Adrian
14. Ashes of Midnight - Lara Adrian

15. Shades of Midnight - Lara Adrian
16. Demons Not Included - Cheyenne MCCray
17. Dark Lover - J.R. Ward
18. Lover Eternal - J.R. Ward
19. Lover Awakened - J.R. Ward
20. Lover Revealed - J.R. Ward
21. Lover Unbound - J.R. Ward
22. Lover Enshrined - J.R. Ward
23. Blood Ties - Kay Hooper
24. If Angel's Burn - Lynn Viehl
25. The Seventh Witch - Shirley Damsgaard
26. Lover Avenged - J.R. Ward
27. Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
28. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson

Hi fellow Liz! I'm impressed that you've managed to read 28 books already this year.

Thanks fellow Liz, I read fast, and am on the snowy east coast so I had a productive weekend! :)

I am way overdue for an update here...

29. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
30. Unperfect Souls - Mark Del Franco
31. The Good, The Bad, The Uncanny - Simon R. Green
32. The Laughing Corpse Vol. 1 - Laurell K. Hamilton
33. Sellevision - Augusten Burroughs
34. An Echo in the Bone - Diana Gabaldon
35. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
36. Rama II - Arthur C. Clarke
37. Confessions of a Demon - S.L. Wright
38. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
39. Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
40. Shift - Rachel Vincent
41. Born to be Wild - Christine Warren
42. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
43. The Little Prince - Antonie de Saint-Exupery
44. Ghouls Gone Wild - Victoria Laurie
45. The Call Me Naughty Lola - David Rose
46. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
47. Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
48. Dead and Dateless - Kimberly Raye
49. The Lightning Theif - Rick Riordan
50. The Borrowers - Mary Norton
51. Your Coffin or Mine - Kimberly Raye
52. Just One Bite - Kimberly Raye
53. Sucker for Love - Kimberly Raye
54. Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss
55. The Devil's Playground - Jenna Black
56. Wikinomics - Don Tapscott
57. Night World 1 - L. J. Smith
58. Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
59. Night World 2 - L. J. Smith
60. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang - Chelsea Handler
61. Night World 3 - L.J. Smith
62. Black Magic Sanction - Kim Harrison
63. Changes - Jim Butcher
64. Crimes by Moonlight - Charlaine Harris et al
65. Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
66. A Witch in Time - Madelyn Alt
67. Born of Night - Sherrilyn Kenyon
68. Born of Fire - Sherrilyn Kenyon
69. Born of Ice - Sherrilyn Kenyon
70. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
71. Silver Borne - Patricia Briggs
72. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
73. Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
74. The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
75. Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris
76. Haunted - Chuck Palahiuk
77. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
78. Blonde with a Wand - Vicki Lewis Thompson
79. Chick with a Charm - Vicki Lewis Thompson
80. New Rules - Bill Maher
81. The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
82. Lover Mine - J.R. Ward
83. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
84. Magic on the Storm - Devon Monk
85. The Stranger - Albert Camus
86. The Reckoning - Kelly Armstrong
87. The Things they Carried - Tim O'Brien
88. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
89. The Maze Runner - James Dashner
90. Running Scared - Shannon K. Butcher
91. Burned - P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
92. Neither Here Nor There - Bill Bryson
93. Bullet - Laurell K Hamilton
94. Tales of the Otherworld - Kelley Armstrong
95. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk

Wow!!! 95 books already!!! Keep it up!!! You're close to 200 already!!

:O

I only wish I could read that supernaturally fast
And I assume you have made a pretty good dent in your list, so congrats!

Thanks, unfortunately when you buy as many books as i tend to, very little progress seems to be made in to the tbr pile...

96. Infinity: Chronicles of Nick - Sherrilyn Kenyon
97. Early to Death, Early to Rise - Kim Harrison
98. Magic Bleeds - Ilona Andrews
99. My Soul to Keep - Rachel Vincent
100. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Steig Larsson
101. Succubus Shadows - Richelle Meade
102. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall-Smith
103. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
104. Glimmerglass - Jenna Black
105. Spirit Bound - Richelle Mead
106. Dead Matter - Anton Strout
107. The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
108. The Twilight Before Christmas - Christine Feehan
109. Retribution - Jeanne Stein
110. Voices of Dragons - Carrie Vaughn
111. Secondhand Spirits - Juliet Blackwell
112. Kiss of Death - Rachel Caine
113. From Hell With Love - Simon R. Green
114. Oceans of Fire - Christine Feehan
115. Dangerous Tides - Christine Feehan
116. Safe Harbor - Christine Feehan
117. Turbulent Seas - Christine Feehan
118. Hidden Currents - Chrstine Feehan
119. The Thief of Always - Clive Barker
120. Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel - Ronda Thompson
121. Dime Store Magic - Kelley Armstrong
122. Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater
123. Ever Since Darwin - Stephen Jay Gould
124. Magical Thinking - Augusten Burroughs
125. Industsrial Magic - Kelley Armstrong
126. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
127. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
128. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
129. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
130. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling

46497 pages total

131. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
132. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling
133. Cast off Coven - Juliet Blackwell
134. Lucinda, Darkly - Sunny
135. Kitty Goes to War - Carrie Vaughn
136. Wicked Ties - Shayla Black
137. Victorious Star - Morgan Hawke