Challenge: 50 Books discussion

Well I've started this list a little late because I spent the beginning of the year finishing War and Peace so I've got a little catching up to do but so far I've read:
War and Peace
The Name of the Wind
The Road to Ruin
Captiva
London Holiday
Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington

As you can see, my list ranges from love stories to fantasy. I'll read anything! So the rest of my list will consist of books people give me, books I have on my reading lists, and books I stumble upon and can't resist.

Emily wrote: "Well I've started this list a little late because I spent the beginning of the year finishing War and Peace so I've got a little catching up to do but so far I've read:
War and Peace..."

I'm wrapping up War & Peace myself right now. Probably another couple of weeks before I'm done. It has put my list on the skids but I'd say it is well worth it. Great storyteller, that Tolstoy.

Emily wrote: "Well I've started this list a little late because I spent the beginning of the year finishing War and Peace so I've got a little catching up to do but so far I've read:
War and Peace..."

Yeah and I have Anna Karenina on my "to-read" list as well. One Tolstoy classic a year might be it for me though...

Finished The Secret Life of Bees today!

Emily wrote: "Yeah and I have Anna Karenina on my "to-read" list as well. One Tolstoy classic a year might be it for me though..."

I read AK last year - I found it much easier to read - not all those history lessons to absorb - though he did give a lot of thoughts on politics and society. But basically, like W&P, it was all about the characters (of which there are only 7 or 8 to keep track of) - love, adultery, tragedy...You'll get through AK much more quickly - another great book. But as you mentioned, I took it one Tolstoy per year - no need to overload!

8. Bone Island Mambo: An Alex Rutledge Mystery

9. The Lost Symbol

10. Breathless

11. Pirate Latitudes

12. Shoe Addicts Anonymous

13. Saturday

14. My Sister's Keeper

15. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

16. The Fellowship of the Ring

17. The French Lieutenant's Woman

18. The Two Towers
19. Cold Sassy Tree
20. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

21. The Angel Experiment
22. The Castaways

23. Dracula
24. The Girl Who Played with Fire

25. Breaking Dawn
26. Siddhartha

27. Dead Until Dark
28. Living Dead in Dallas

29. Outlander
30. Strange Bedpersons
31. Witch & Wizard
32. For The Love of Pete (The Rose Cottage Sisters 4)
33. The Help

34. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
35. The Last Song
36. Dear John
37. The Lucky One
38. Ain't She Sweet?

39. Vision in White
40. Swimsuit
41. The Choice

42. Big Girl
43. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
44. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

45. To Kill a Mockingbird
46. Dragonfly in Amber

47. Eat, Pray, Love

48. Club Dead
49. Dead to the World

50. Dead as a Doornail

Well I did it!!!!! I thought 50 books would be easy and I'd finish it in no time but I barely made it. Granted, some of these books were over 800 pages which slowed me down but my job allowed me a lot of free time to do reading which I won't have in the future. I'll probably try to read 50 again next year but without all my free time for reading, I don't know if I'll make it... But woo hoooooo!

Woo hoooo indeed!