2012 Challenges
*overlapping challenge book
Hosted by The Book Vixen
Level: Out of Breath (6-10 more books)
*overlapping challenge book
Hosted by The Book Vixen
(11/62+ books)
Level: Out of Breath (6-10 more books)
List of books I read in 2012 can be found under Books Read by Year.
Hosted @ Literary Escapism
New Authors Read to Date: (6)
Ellen DeGeneres, Charlotte Bronte, George Bernard Shaw, A.E. Hotchner (with Paul Newman), Carl Sagan, Jasper Fforde
Hosted by Sarah @ Sarah Reads Too Much
(2/9 books)
(2/9 books)
19th Century Classic: Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte*
20th Century Classic: My Antonia- Willa Cather
Classic Re-Read: Pride & Prejudice- Jane Austen
Classic Play: Pygmalion- George Bernard Shaw
Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction: The Hound of the Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle*
Classic Romance: Lady Chatterley's Lover- D.H. Lawrence*
Classic in Translation: The Reader- Bernhard Schlink (Swiss)
Classic Award Winner: The Shipping News- E. Annie Proulx (Pulitzer Prize)
Classic in a Country I'll Never See: Gulliver's Travels- Jonathan Swift (Liliput)*
Hosted by Beth @ What's in a Name 5
(2/6 books)
Book Title With a Topographical Feature: A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
Book Title With a Creepy Crawly: On the Origin of Species- Charles Darwin*
Book Title With Something in the Sky: Cloud Atlas- David Mitchell
Book Title With a Type of House: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium series, #3)- Stieg Larsson
Book Title With Something You Carry in Your Pocket, Purse or Backpack: Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson*
Book Title With Something on the Calendar: 11/22/63- Stephen King
Hosted by Ellie @ Musings of a Bookshop Girl
(4/16 books)
Level: All the Trimmings & a Cherry on Top (16 books)
Classics: Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte*
Biography: A Lotus Grows in the Mud- Goldie Hawn
Cookery, Food & Wine: Shameless Explotations in Pursuit of the Common Good- Paul Newman & A.E. Hotchner
History: Profiles in Courage- John F. Kennedy
Modern Fiction: The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium series, #2)- Stieg Larsson
Graphic Novels/Manga: Coraline- Neil Gaiman
Crime/Mystery: The Hound of the Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle*
Horror: Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
Romance: Lady Chatterley's Lover- D.H. Lawrence*
Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Oryx & Crake- Margaret Atwood
Travel: Gulliver's Travels- Jonathan Swift*
Poetry/Drama: The Road Not Taken- Robert Frost
Journalism/Humour: Seriously...I'm Kidding- Ellen DeGeneres
Science/Natural History: On the Origin of the Species- Charles Darwin*
Children/YA: Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson*
Social Sciences/Philosophy: The God Delusion- Richard Dawkins
