The Book Challenge discussion

I aim to read 100 books this year.

Books 1-5:

1. Else Homelund Minarik. Little Bear. Children's Literature 5*/5
2. Shelley Jackson. Half Life A Novel. Fiction 3*/5
3. John Connolly. The Book of Lost Things. Fantasy 4*/5
4. Mervyn Peake. Titus Groan. Fantasy 3*/5
5. Charles Stross. The Merchants' War

Books 6-10:

6. Alexander Irvine. The Narrows. Urban Fantasy 3*/5
7. Raymond E. Feist. The King's Buccaneer. Fantasy 3*/5
8. Michael J. Fox. Lucky Man A Memoir. Memoir 3*/5
9. Michael Dirda. Book by Book Notes on Reading and Life Nonfiction 3*/5
10. Jonathan Stroud. The Amulet of Samarkand. Fantasy 3*/5

Books 11-15:

11. James Alan Gardner. Gravity Wells Speculative Fiction Stories. SF 3*/5
12. Charles Atkins. The Cadaver's Ball. Thriller 3*/5
13. Diane Ackerman. A Natural History of the Senses. Nonfiction 4*/5
14. Howard Norman. In Fond Remembrance of Me A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic. Memoir 3*/5
15. Chuck Palahniuk. Invisible Monsters. Fiction 3*/5

Books 16-20:

16. Mark Nykanen. Hush. Thriller 3*/5
17. Alice Hoffman. Practical Magic. Fantasy 3*/5
18. Markus Zusak. The Book Thief. Fiction 4*/5
19. Chris Mooney. Deviant Ways. Thriller 3*/5
20. Jim Crace. The Gift of Stones. Fiction 4*/5

Books 21-25:

21. Sheri S. Tepper. Six Moon Dance. SF 3*/5
22. Bob Edgar. Middle Church Reclaiming the Moral Values of the Faithful Majority from the Religious Right. Nonfiction 3*/5
23. E.B. White. Stuart Little. Children's Literature. 4*/5
24. Jefferson Bass. Carved in Bone. Mystery 3*/5
25. Robin McKinley. Spindle's End. Fantasy 4*/5

Books 26-30:

26. Jennifer Lee Carrell. Interred with Their Bones. Thriller 3*/5
27. Julie Andrews Edwards. Mandy. Children's Literature 3*/5
28. Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball. Acorna The Unicorn Girl. SF 3*/5
29. The Stranger Beside Me (Revised and Updated) 20th Anniversary. Nonfiction 3*/5
30. Margalit Fox. Talking Hands What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind. Nonfiction

Books 31-35:

31. Eoin Colfer. Artemis Fowl The Arctic Incident. Fantasy 3*/5
32. Mary Gentle. A Sundial in a Grave 1610. Historical Fiction 3*/5
33. Lloyd Alexander. The Book of Three. Fantasy 3*/5
34. Russell Hoban. The Mouse And His Child. Children's Literature. 4*/5
35. Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden. Children's Literature. 4*/5

Books 36-40:

36. Sir Francis Chichester. Gipsy Moth Circles the World Nonfiction/Adventure 4*/5
37. Barbara Hambly. Renfield Slave of Dracula. Horror 3*/5
38. Jack Olsen. The Climb Up to Hell. Nonfiction 3*/5
39. Joe McKinney. Dead City. Horror 3*/5
40. Robert A. Metzger. Picoverse. SF 3*/5

Books 41-45:

41. Linda Greenlaw. The Lobster Chronicles Life On a Very Small Island. Memoir 3*/5
42. Robert A. Heinlein. Have Space Suit-Will Travel. SF 4*/5
43. Bill Bryson. A Short History of Nearly Everything. Nonfiction 4*/5
44. Keith Ablow. Denial. Mystery 3*/5
45. Kristen Britain. Green Rider. Fantasy 4*/5

Books 46-50:

46. China Mieville. Un Lun Dun Fantasy 4*/5
47. Fred Rosen. Body Dump. Nonfiction 3*/5
48. Jon Krakauer. Into the Wild. Nonfiction 3*/5
49. David Maine. Fallen. Fiction 4*/5
50. C.J. Cherryh. Foreigner. SF 3*/5

51. Kate Mosse. Labyrinth. Historical Fiction 3*/5
52. Travis Holland. The Archivist's Story. Fiction 4*/5
53. Tim Cahill. A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg. Nonfiction 3*/5
54. Carol O'Connell. Find Me. Mystery 3*/5
55. Graham Joyce. Dreamside. Fantasy 3*/5

Books 56-60:

56. Agatha Christie. The Sittaford Mystery. Mystery 3*/5
57. Sara Gruen. Water for Elephants. Fiction 4*/5
58. Nancy Atherton. Aunt Dimity Snowbound. Mystery 3*/5
59. Jane Yolen, ed. 2041 Twelve Short Stories About the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers. SF 3*/5
60. John Burdett. Bangkok Haunts. Mystery 3*/5

61. H.P. Lovecraft. The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft The Road to Madness. Horror 3*/5
62. John Twelve Hawks. The Traveler. Urban Fantasy 3*/5
63. Jim Butcher. Fool Moon. Urban Fantasy 3*/5
64. Agatha Christie. Five Little Pigs. Mystery 3*/5
65. Agatha Christie. A Murder Is Announced. Mystery 3*/5