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ARCHIVE: Yearly Challenges > Recommended By Reading Challengers - 2014

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message 651: by Adriana (new)

Adriana | 3888 comments You can do it Marina!


message 652: by Charlotte (new)

Charlotte Finished Thirteen Reasons Why today. Found it quite a heavy book, but it was a page turner!

4/8...


message 653: by Adriana (new)

Adriana | 3888 comments Thirteen Reasons Why destroyed me when I first read it! Really great message.


message 654: by Marina (new)

Marina (sonnenbarke) Wow, I've done it :-)

Here's the complete list of books I've read for this challenge:

1. Emile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
2. Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
3. Khaled Hosseini, Mille splendidi soli (Italian version of A Thousand Splendid Suns)
4. Muriel Barbery, L'Élégance du hérisson (French version of The Elegance of the Hedgehog)
5. David Nicholls, One Day
6. Carlos Ruiz Zafón, L'ombra del vento (Italian version of The Shadow of the Wind)
7. Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
8. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
9. Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
10. Cormac McCarthy, The Road

My favourite was Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns.


message 655: by Adriana (new)

Adriana | 3888 comments Alright Marina! Congrats on completing your goal!


message 656: by Deedee (new)

Deedee | 50 comments Any plans to do this again in 2015?


message 657: by Cassandra (new)

Cassandra | 5832 comments Deedee, not this particular yearly challenge, but we do have the 2015 Listopia challenge which you could do and pick this listopia as the one you're picking from. Does that make sense?


message 658: by Cathy (new)

Cathy Galloway 2014 RECOMMENDED BY READING CHALLENGERS
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2014
Completed 5/5

1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green9/19/14
2. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak7/14/14
3. Longbourn by Jo Baker 12/21/14
4. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan12/15/14
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling4/28/14


message 659: by Dana (new)

Dana (elkins_88) | 458 comments I know I finished this challenge a while ago but I read a few more to add before the end of the year. My final list:

1. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (11/30/14)
2. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (2/7/14)
3. Divergent by Veronica Roth (6/26/14)
4. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (8/15/14)
5. The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne (11/26/14)
6. Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta (1/20/14)
7. How I Came to Sparkle Again by Kaya McLaren (6/19/14)
8. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (6/17/14)
9. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (12/14/14)
10. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (7/15/14)
11. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (10/25/14)
12. Wonder by R.J. Palacio (11/15/14)
13. The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore (currently reading- will finish before Christmas)

I surpassed my goal of 8 by 5 books! :)


message 660: by Deedee (new)

Deedee | 50 comments Cassandra wrote: "Deedee, not this particular yearly challenge, but we do have the 2015 Listopia challenge which you could do and pick this listopia as the one you're picking from. Does that make sense?"

Yes it makes sense, thanks!


message 661: by Adriana (last edited Dec 30, 2014 07:56PM) (new)

Adriana | 3888 comments Congratulations to all who completed and participated in this challenge!
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message 662: by Felicia (last edited Dec 31, 2014 06:21AM) (new)

Felicia (feliciajoe) Howl's Moving Castle read! With a nine hours left of 2014, my score is now 8/8! :D


message 663: by Melissa (last edited Dec 31, 2014 06:01AM) (new)

Melissa | 402 comments Okay...so I completely forgot to post on here all year! Below is my final result. I have to say that this list included some of my absolute favorite books I read this year so I fully put my trust in the Readers on this website!

YEARLY CHALLENGE
Recommended by 2014 Reading Challengers
Completed 9/10


The Night Circus
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Ender's Game
Joyland
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Knife of Never Letting Go
The Great Gatsby
Still Alice

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Wild From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet, #1) by Orson Scott Card Joyland by Stephen King Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) by Patrick Ness The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Still Alice by Lisa Genova


message 664: by Melissa (new)

Melissa | 402 comments Deedee wrote: "Cassandra wrote: "Deedee, not this particular yearly challenge, but we do have the 2015 Listopia challenge which you could do and pick this listopia as the one you're picking from. Does that make s..."

Where is this 2015 readers choice list? I couldn't pull it up when I put it in the search....is there a link somewhere or a specific title I could find it under? Thanks!


°ä³ó±ô´Çé (fullmetalclo) | 573 comments It's not a group's list. For this challenge, you pick any list you like on GoodReads, and choose how many books you want to read.


message 666: by Natalie (new)

Natalie | 325 comments So apparently my record keeping did not work as it should for this challenge and I read 11 instead of 10 :)

Completed 11 out of 10
1. Code Name Verity - 2/1
2. Paper Towns - 2/10
3. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - 3/11
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - 3/20
5. This Song Will Save Your Life - 3/30
6. Dairy Queen - 8/16
7. The Thirteenth Tale - 9/12
8. Neverwhere - 9/22
9. The Knife of Never Letting Go - 12/26
10. Blood Red Road - 12/26
11. A Monster Calls - 12/28

Also updated in post #17


message 667: by °ä³ó±ô´Çé (last edited Dec 31, 2014 08:56AM) (new)

°ä³ó±ô´Çé (fullmetalclo) | 573 comments Well I finish one book shy. I had The Book Thief and Cloud Atlas planned. I did start them, but didn't get to finish them for today.

12/13
Life of Pi by Yann Martel 5� The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 4� And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini 4� Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt 5� The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) by Robert Galbraith 5� The Help by Kathryn Stockett 5� The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 5� Beauty Queens by Libba Bray 4� Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin 4� How I Came to Sparkle Again by Kaya McLaren 5� A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout 5� A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin 5�


message 668: by Melissa (new)

Melissa | 402 comments °ä³ó±ô´Çé wrote: "It's not a group's list. For this challenge, you pick any list you like on GoodReads, and choose how many books you want to read."

Thanks Chloe. I was just hoping there was a 2015 Readers Challenge list like last year's:

/list/show/4...


°ä³ó±ô´Çé (fullmetalclo) | 573 comments Yeah I love this challenge to, and it was a safe one too. I was pretty sure I would like the books before reading it, because people in this groups have good taste.


message 670: by Adriana (new)

Adriana | 3888 comments Awesome job everyone getting those last books in (:


message 671: by Helena (last edited Jan 02, 2015 08:47PM) (new)

Helena (helenakyriakou) By the end I only managed to do 10 out of the 18 I listed. I'm continuing with this list this year in the hopes that I finish them all by the end.


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