SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

Here you can plan and ultimately cross of your tasks completed.

Read 25 books out of the 50 oldest books on your to-read list on goodreads. (You can clear your to-read list before this challenge starts, but not after - Lu is watching you :P)

Have fun :)

Ninja spot holder (I know very unfair as I was here first, but I'll make up for it!) *throws marshmallows around*

1. The Luxe Nr 32
2. The Princess Diaries Nr 25
3. Marked Nr 6
4. Déjà Dead Nr 9
5. Shiver Nr 45
6. Tomorrow, When the War Began Nr 44
7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Nr 15
8. Angels & Demons Nr 3
9. Blue Bloods Nr 7
10. Fallen Nr 31
11. The Ghost and the Goth Nr 42
12. City of Bones Nr 10
13. Some Girls Bite Nr 16
14. Masquerade Nr 11
15. The Body Finder Nr 24
16. Evernight Nr 46
17. The Lost World Nr 41
18. Halo Nr 49
19. To Kill a Mockingbird Nr 1
20. The Great Gatsby Nr 4
21. Jaws Nr 8
22. Kushiel's Dart Nr 21
23. Kissing Kate Nr 50
24.
25.

6/25

I will probably be reading most of them anyway.
Lu you're really starting to mess the place up, if this keeps going on we need a cleaning crew.

My 50 books are:
Flaunting, Extravagant Queen (French Revolution, #3)
The Royal Road to Fotheringhay (Stuart Saga, #1)
The Road to Compiegne (French Revolution, #2)
Louis the Well Beloved (French Revolution, #1)
The Captive Queen of Scots (Stuart Saga, #2)
Defenders of the Faith
The Scarlet Cloak
Children of England
Blondel's Song: The Capture, Imprisonment and Ransom of Richard the Lionheart
Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced the West
Koningsdrama in Mexico
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Beyond the Heather Hills (Little House: The Martha Years, #4)
Q-In-Law (Star Trek: The Next Generation, #18)
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek Mirror Universe: Obsidian Alliances
Glass Empires
Constellations
Twist of Faith
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
Strange New Worlds 10
Creative Couplings
Grand Designs
Aftermath
Star Trek: Seven Deadly Sins
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Infinity's Prism (Star Trek: Myriad Universes #1)
Star Trek: Mere Anarchy
Star Trek
Shakespeare's Kings
The Third Witch: A Novel
Nebula Awards Showcase 2006
The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
Catherine the Great
Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen
A Brief History of Henry VIII
A Daughter's Love Thomas and Margaret More
The Eagle and the Wolves (Eagle, #4)
Pocahontas
The Aeneid
Histories

I am not sure yet which I am going to read. But we'll see.

I have read:
1) The King's Secret Matter (Tudor Saga, #4)
2) Murder Most Royal (Tudor Saga, #5)
3) The Sisters Who Would be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey
4) Saint Thomas's Eve (Tudor Saga, #6)
5) The Sixth Wife (Tudor Saga, #7)
6) The Thistle and the Rose (Tudor Saga, #8)
7) Mary, Queen of France (Tudor Saga, #9)
8) Lord Robert (Tudor Saga, #10)

This should be an easier challenge (I hope) :)




1. Mile 81 by Stephen King (#46)
2. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (#45)
3. The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors #2) by Susan Beth Pfeffer (#5)
4. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (#12)
5. Uglies (Uglies #1) by Scott Westerfeld (#25)
6. Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari (#26)
7. The Master (Sons of Destiny #3) by Jean Johnson (#29)
8. Zero Day by Mark Russinovich (#31)
9. Ascension (The World of Ascension #1)by Caris Roane (#36)
10. The Line by Teri Hall (#16)
11. Gone by Michael Grant (#24)

The dreaded list of doom:
2.The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1)
3.Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
5.Rot & Ruin (Benny Imura, #1)
7.Terrier (Beka Cooper, #1)
11.Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
12.The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
14.Geist (Book of the Order, #1)
17.A Discovery of Witches
20.Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
21.Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)
22.Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)
23.The City in the Lake
24.The Heir of Night (The Wall of Night, #1)
25.The Gray Wolf Throne: A Seven Realms Novel
26.The Floating Islands
32.The Abhorsen Chronicles (The Abhorsen Trilogy, #1-3)
34.Elizabeth I
36.Phoenix Rising (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, #1)
37.Ganymede (The Clockwork Century, #4)
39.Purge
42.The End Specialist
44.The Bone House
45.Anna Dressed in Blood
46.Roil (The Nightbound Land, #1)
47.Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, #1

Books I managed to read, finally :

1.Dark Eden (43)
2.The Last Temptation (15)
3.The Passage (4)
4.Touch of Power (48)
5.The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (1)
6.The Torment Of Others (16)
7.Prospero Lost (19)
8.Prospero in Hell (28)
9.Prospero Regained (49)
10.Steal Across the Sky (41)
11.Please Ignore Vera Dietz (50)
12.Dreaming the Bull (13)
13.Willow (18)
14.Fire (38)
15.Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath (33)
16.Legend of Drizzt Collector's Edition, Vol II (31)
17.Mercy (40)
18.Divergent (35)
19.Chainfire (8)
20.Phantom (9)
21.Confessor (10)
22.A Song of Ice and Fire 4-Book Boxed Set (30)
23.The Omen Machine (6)
24.Heaven's Needle (27)
25.The Map of Time (29)

(25/25)

DONE!!

Read:

Oldest 50
1. Burning Chrome by William Gibson
2. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
3. Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
4. A Brief History of the Future by Oona Strathern
5. Why Should I Cut Your Throat by Jeff Vandermeer
6. Secret Lives by Jeff Vandermeer
7. No Present Like Time by Steph Swainston
8. Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff
9. Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
10. Things That Never Happen by M. John Harridon
11. Viriconium by M. John Harrison
12. Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
13. A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
14. Anathem by Neal Stephenson
15. Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff Vandermeer
16. The Etched City by K.J. Bishop
17. First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
18. Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
19. The Past by Alan Pauls
20. The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
21. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
22. City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer
23. Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
24. Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
25. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
26. The Aeneid by Virgil
27. Lust by Geoff Ryman
28. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
29. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
30. The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir by Emily R. Grosholz
31. Sideshow by Sheri S. Tepper
32. The Drought by J.G. Ballard
33. The Centaur by John Updike
34. Demon Box by Ken Kesey
35. Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood
36. The World and Other Places by Jeanette Winterson
37. Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
38. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
39. The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
40. The Rise of Edymion by Dan Simmons
41. Edymion by Dan Simmons
42. The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories edited by T.A. Shippey
43. Black Man by Richard K. Morgan
44. The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
45. Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
46. Consider Phlebus by Iain M. Banks
47. Memory: An Anthology
48. Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard
49. Century Rain by Alistair Reynolds
50. The Brightonomicon by Robert Rankin

Progress: 1/25

I guess this means I actually have to look at my TBR list....

1. Hush Hush
2. Crescendo
3. Entwined
4. The Way of the Shadows
5. Shadow's Edge
6. Beyond the Shadow's
7. Before I Fall
8. Room
9. Unearthly
10. Angelfire
11. The Iron Witch
12. XVI
13. Timeless
14. Haven
15. Beastly
16. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
17. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
18. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
19. The Lightning Thief
20. The Sea of Monsters
21. The Peach Keeper
22. The Passage
23. Wake
24. Huntress
25. The Titan's Curse

Total 25/25

Booking my space
I nominated this one and I'm already feeling sorry for myself lol

Here goes:

1. The Joy Luck Club
2. Murder on the Orient Express
3. 1984
4. Fees van die ongenooides
5. The First Queen of England, The myth of bloody Mary
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray
7. Dead until Dark
8. Coraline
9. Portrait of a killer: Jack the Ripper
10. Catch ME a killer
11. The Shining
12. The Devil in the White City
13. Uglies
14. The Ruins
15. The memory keepers Daughter
16. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
17. Moxyland
18. Spud
19. Wicked Lovely
20. Burned (House of Night #7)
21. Along Came a Spider
22. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
23. Water for Elephants
24. Lolita
25. A Great and Terrible Beauty

1. 3001: The Final Odyssey
2. Snow Blind
3. The Increment
4. Strike Back
5. Firefight
6. The Outback Stars
7. Watchers
8. Immoral
9. The Face of Fear
10. Fear Nothing
11. Breeding Ground
12. Eyes of Prey
13. Day of Reckoning
14. Toll for the Brave
15. Thunder Point
16. Bad Company
17. The Killing ground
18. Rought Justice
19. Year's Best SF 6
20. Tick Tock
21. Servant of Twilight
22. The Timer Game
23. Infamous Murderers
24. The Cairo Diary
25. Hannibal

Alternate:
A Fire on the Moon
Job
Contact Zero
Executive Power
Immoral
Watchers
Whispers

TOTAL: 9/25

1. Immortal Beloved
2. Magic Bites
3. Original Sin
4. Sin and Sensibility
5.Possess
6. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
7. Graceling
8. Sing Me to Sleep
9.Anna and the French Kiss
10. Pride Mates
11.The Adoration of Jenna Fox
12. Angelfire
13. A Beautiful Dark
14. Enclave
15.The Liar Society
16. The Summer I Turned Pretty
17. Vanish
18. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
19. Nevermore
20. Silence
21. 13 to Life
22. Die for Me
23. The Girl in the Steel Corset
24. The Ghost and the Goth
25. After Obsession

25/25

Sounds fun!

My oldest 50 are:

1. Life of Pi
2. The Lord of the Rings
3. 1984
4. The God of Small Things
5. Paradise Lost
6. The Wife of Bath
7. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
8. Frankenstein
9. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
10. Great Expectations
11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
12. The Poisonwood Bible
13. Dracula
14. Anna Karenina
15. A Tale of Two Cities
16. One Hundred Years of Solitude
17. Lord of the Flies
18. Alice in Wonderland
19. Through the Looking Glass
20. The Power of One
21. Disgrace
22. Cry the Beloved Country
23. Things Fall Apart
24. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
25. The Wasteland etc
26. Mrs. Dalloway
27. The Great Gatsby
28. The Hobbit
29. We Need to Talk About Kevin
30. Mort
31. The Plague
32. A Dry White Season
33. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
34. On the Black Hill
35. Bleak House
36. Oliver Twist
37. Moll Flanders
38. Robinson Crusoe
39. Edgar Allan Poe - Stories and Poems
40. Germinal
41. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
42. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
43. Northanger Abbey
44. Mansfield Park
45. The Pilgrim's Progress
46. Gulliver's Travel's
47. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
48. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
49. Kidnapped
50. Possession: A Romance

Sounds like a list of books you must read before you die. You have some great books on there. Might even read some of them myself next year :)

Yes, a ton of them are from that list, possibly even all of them? I suppose I'm in for a year of great reading :)

Well my own reading last year has shown that a lot of classics and books you must read before you die really deserve that distinction. However.... there are a lot of books that are classified as such and are absolutely not worth the paper they're printed on. But I must say it is always fun discovering which book is which.

My TBR list is a mess so I need a bit of advice. Do we go by the number assigned by Goodreads or the date added? I added loads of books on the same days so I'm confused as to which would count or not.

You click date added and then the oldest have a number from 1-50. Those :) If it is 51 it loses out :(

That's where mine is a bit messed up. If you sort by date the TBR# includes books with number 139 under the first 50.

I'll just go with TBR#

Oh I know what you mean, I went with the ones on the left in the white block - if that makes sense :)

Lu wrote: "Oh I know what you mean, I went with the ones on the left in the white block - if that makes sense :)"

Makes complete sense, and that's what I was referring to.

Good stuff :)

You can change the # manually (so the first book added can be #200 and the last #4 or whatever). But you cannot change the date added - so that's the one I used instead of the #. :)

*Runs of to change numbers*

I've never changed them, so I guess they should be pretty accurate in any case.

Lol you can't change numbers now, you had to do everything before the challenge starts :(

Yeah and that sucks, because I am reading a lot of books that have been on my physical to read pile and even several that were on the to read list here on goodreads, but somehow hardly any of the books selected for this challenge.

:( I though you guys would have sorted it out before the challenge started - now I feel bad

I did. I put up a list of 50 books that were the first 50 on my to read list here on goodreads. I didn't change anything on that list before we started because I felt that would be cheating. That means there is a lot of non-fiction on that list and some books which I won't read now because I first want to read some others to have some background knowledge to understand those books better. Since I read a lot of classics and non-fiction last year I am in the mood for a lot of light-hearted books and they are not on the list. But that is ok. I don't mind. The rules are the rules and I am still planning on completing this challenge one way or the other :)

I'm fine too. Didn't change anything on the list since that would mean that the oldest stuff would be ignored in any case. It only means that now I have to delve into my non-scifi shelve which might be a good thing.

Funny thinhg about this challenge is that it will be the first challeneg I won't finish, but that I have read about 30 books during the last year that have been on my physical to read pile longer than the books that have been on my to read shelf on Goodreads and were eligible to be read for this challenge. So if they would have counted I would have finished this challenge easily.