The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

What was/were your favorite book(s) of the Fall 2010 Challenge? Someone might want to read it/them for the Winter Challenge ;o)!

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My favorites were:
Doctor Zhivago (this was my favorite)
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
The Girls
Beat the Reaper
The Children's Book

I've got reviews in the "Petra's Fall Challenge Reviews" thread for these and others,if interested in more info. I don't put spoilers in my reviews.

I read several books for the Fall Challenge that ended up being 5-star reads for me. Here are the highlights:

First up, two from one of my favorite authors, Nora Roberts:
and - I'll definitely be reading the last book of the Bride's Quartet - - for the Winter Challenge.

Others that I really, really enjoyed include:
by Art Spiegelman - I ventured into graphic novels for the first time in the Fall Challenge. This one was my favorite.
by Khaled Hosseini - I loved The Kite Runner and I loved this one, too!
by Rebecca Skloot - This is one of the most fascinating popular science books I've read in a long time. Well worth the time.

Doing this instead of my project! Yay for procrastination!

In no particular order, my 5-star books for this season were:
Mockingjay*
Freeze Frame*
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Willow*
The Chosen One*
Fallout*
One Day
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Nevermore*
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Scott Pilgrim Bundle
The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter: Scenes de la Vie de Boheme
Ender's Game
The Positronic Man
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Wow, I read a lot of good books this season. Hopefully I find more awesome ones this season, too!

*YA Book

I really am enjoying the Harry Potter books for the first time. (3 more to go) And the Hunger Games books were great.

Petra wrote: "My favorites were:
Doctor Zhivago (this was my favorite)"

That's good to know since I'm planning to read this for the Group Read this season ;o).

Here are my five star reads from the fall challenge:
Memoirs of a Geisha
Sense and Sensibility
Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
Black Boy
City of Thieves
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Thirteenth Tale
Love in the Time of Cholera
Of Mice and Men
It was a great challenge and I read a lot of great books, and discovered some new authors that I will definitely read again!

Memoirs of A Geisha was a good book.

JenC. wrote: "Of Mice and Men ..."

Jen, you may like Blaze then. It reminded me a lot of Of Mice and Men.

Petra wrote: "JenC. wrote: "Of Mice and Men ..."

Jen, you may like Blaze then. It reminded me a lot of Of Mice and Men."

Thanks Petra! It's now on my TBR list.

Some of my front runners were:
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Ragtime
Glasshouse
When You Reach Me
Let the Right One In

All of which were by authors new to me, so now I have a ton of new authors to explore for the winter challenge!

Some of my 5 stars were

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. I read this on my kindle as a "treadmill" book - and it was a good one for that - I kept saying to myself that if they could struggle up Mt. Everest, I could SURELY go another 5 or 10 minutes, LOL! He was climbing in Nepal, which is on the list for 30.3A. Would also work for 5.6, 5.9, 10.2, 30.2A.

The Unit This would work for 30.3A, since it takes place in Scandinavia, and for 15.1B, since it's set in the future.

The Book Thief 5.6, 5.9, 15.1A, 15.3B

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Red!

Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood - both set in the future, so would work for 15.1B. Oryx and Crake also works for 5.6 and 5.9

Sandy wrote: "Some of my 5 stars were

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. I read this on my kindle as a "treadmill" book - and it was a good one for that - I kept sayin..."

and it would work for 25.2, which is what i'll be using it for! thanks! :)

JenC. wrote: "Petra wrote: "JenC. wrote: "Of Mice and Men ..."

Jen, you may like Blaze then. It reminded me a lot of Of Mice and Men."

Thanks Petra! It's now on my TBR list."

Mine, too! I loved Of Mice and Men (well, Steinbeck in general, really).

The best ones for me were:
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Hiroshima
Red-Headed Stepchild
The Tudor Wife
Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad
Blood Bound and the rest of the series
It
Infidel
Dead to the World and the rest of the series
Another One Bites the Dust
Haunted, Broken and No Humans Involved

Sandy wrote: "Some of my 5 stars were

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. I read this on my kindle as a "treadmill" book - and it was a good one for that - I kept sayin..."

I agree...Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster was a fantastic read, one of my top 5 of the challenge

My 5-star favorites:
Yours Until Dawn by Teresa Medeiros - a twist on the Beauty & the Beast story
Let Sleeping Vets Lie by James Herriot - non-fiction
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter - non-fiction
Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
Key of Light & Key of Valor by Nora Roberts
If You Deceive by Kresley Cole
Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning

Cutting for Stone was my favorite! I recommend it to everyone!

My 5 stars reads:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Night by Elie Wiesel

My 4 star reads:
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
The Women by T.C. Boyle
The Kids Are All Right by Diana Welch
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

My Favorites from the Fall Challenge were:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. If it were not for the SRC, I likely would never have found this book, nor read it. Really, really good.

WAR by Sebastian Junger (GoodReads Author) This was a real eye-opener for me.

Still Missing by Chevy Stevens (GoodReads Author) I was thoroughly creeped out for days while and after reading this. Gave me the goosebumps, which I greatly appreciated.

Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn (GoodReads Author) This was really good, too and I can't wait for her next to come out next spring. Will definitely need to find a place for it in the Spring Challenge. ^^

My favorites from the Fall Challenge were:

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