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This is a place to keep all my challenges corralled.

Word Ladders

Duration: 12/20/14 until ?
Level: � Space and Beyond - 21+ Books
Progress: 14/21+

� 1. Black Flagged 2/11/15
� 2. The Black Dahlia 1/30/16
� 3. Blue Dahlia 2/27/15
� 4. Blue Hole 9/22/15
� 5. Devils Hole 9/24/15
� 6. Devil's Lake 1/15/15
� 7. Green Lake 9/28
8. Green Mansions
9. Many Mansions
10. Many Waters
11. Chill Waters
� 12. Chill Factor
13. Burn Factor
� 14. Burn Out
� 15. Fallen Out 1/17/15
� 16. Fallen Angels
� 17. Snow Angels
� 18. Snow Blind
� 19. Running Blind
20. Running Scared
21. Dead Scared
22. Dead Center

50 States Challenge -- Read a book that is set in each of the 50 states.

Duration: 1/6/2015 - ?
Progress: 46/50

� Alabama (AL) - To Kill a Mockingbird 8/1/15
� Alaska (AK) - Starry Night 11/10/15
� Arizona (AZ) - These Is My Words 7/13/16
� Arkansas (AR) - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 7/27/15
� California (CA) - Landline 4/27/15
� Colorado (CO) - Our Souls at Night 6/22/16
� Connecticut (CT) - The Witch of Blackbird Pond 3/24/16
� Delaware (DE) - The Book of Unknown Americans 2/9/16
� Florida (FL) - Fallen Out 1/17/15
� Georgia (GA) - Lost Lake 2/8/15
� Hawaii (HI) - Diamond Head 2/8/16
Idaho (ID) -
� Illinois (IL) - The Good Girl 2/7/15
� Indiana (IN) - The Fault in Our Stars 1/6/15
� Iowa (IA) - Home 7/8/15
� Kansas (KS) - Green Lake 9/28/15
� Kentucky (KY) - The Sisters 1/21/15
� Louisiana (LA) - The Awakening 7/24/15
� Maine (ME) - The Wolf in Winter 3/3/15
� Maryland (MD) - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2/5/16
� Massachusetts (MA) - The Heretic's Daughter 10/25/15
� Michigan (MI) - Middlesex 3/16/16
� Minnesota (MN) - Orphan Train 4/19/15
� Mississippi (MS) - Absalom, Absalom! 3/22/15
� Missouri (MO) - The Weight of Blood 3/13/15
� Montana (MT) - Montana 10/25/15
� Nebraska (NE) - Armada 4/11/16
� Nevada (NV) - Devils Hole 9/24/15
� New Hampshire (NH) - While My Sister Sleeps 12/7/15
� New Jersey (NJ) - The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League 4/27/15
� New Mexico (NM) - Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography 1/28/16
� New York (NY) - I Shall Be Near to You 1/5/15
� North Carolina (NC) - Mean Streak 4/29/15
� North Dakota (ND) - The Plague of Doves 7/21/15
� Ohio (OH) - Sula 4/8/15
Oklahoma (OK) -
� Oregon (OR) - A Clearing in the Wild 2/11/15
� Pennsylvania (PA) - Boy21 3/5/15
� Rhode Island (RI) - The Marriage Plot 11/5/15
� South Carolina (SC) - Brown Girl Dreaming 8/15/15
� South Dakota (SD) - Picture Perfect 7/10/16
� Tennessee (TN) - Blue Dahlia 2/27/15
� Texas (TX) - 11/22/63 11/18/15
� Utah (UT) - The 19th Wife 10/29/15
� Vermont (VT) - Devil's Lake 1/15/15
� Virginia (VA) - Sisters of Shiloh
� Washington (WA) - The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender 4/28/15
� West Virginia (WV) - Freedom 1/20/16
Wisconsin (WI) -
Wyoming (WY) - Angels Fall

It's All In the Title -- Find books with certain words or types of words in their titles.

DURATION: 12/26/14 - until
GOAL: Level Difficult 8-12 books per category
PROGRESS: 123/80+

Categories
� 1. Color
1. A Beautiful Blue Death 1/30/15
2. Black Flagged 2/11/15
3. Blue Dahlia 2/27/15
4. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender 4/28/15
5. Scarlet 7/13/15
6. The Scarlet Letter 7/15/15
7. The White Tiger 8/5/15
8. Brown Girl Dreaming 8/15/15
9. Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes 11/21/15
10. The Black Dahlia 1/30/16
11. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1/31/16

� 2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
1. The Fault in Our Stars 1/6/15
2. Cloud Atlas 9/4/15
3. The Girl Who Chased the Moon 9/13/15
4. Snow Angels 10/1/15
5. The Night Circus 10/8/15
6. All the Light We Cannot See 10/21/15
7. Snow Blind 10/23/15
8. Number the Stars 10/26/15
9. Starry Night 11/10/15
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1/4/16

3. Food or Drink
1. Cress 7/17/15
2. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 8/2/15
3. Water for Elephants 8/8/15
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 9/23/15
5. The Sugar Queen 11/26/15
6. Fortunately, the Milk 12/6/15
7. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 12/7/15

4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
1. Devil's Lake 1/15/15
2. Lost Lake 2/8/15
3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane 5/15/15
4. Blue Hole 9/22/15
5. Devils Hole 9/24/15
6. Green Lake 9/28/15
7. The Sea 11/10/15

� 5. Person’s First or Last Name
1. My Name Is Resolute 2/20/15
2. Anna Karenina 3/12/15
3. The Great Gatsby 3/13/15
4. Absalom, Absalom! 3/22/15
5. Sula 4/8/15
6. A Pretty Mess (Celeste Pretty) 4/8/15
7. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League 4/27/15
8. Silas Marner 5/6/15
9. Agnes Grey 6/29/15
10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 7/23/15
11. Lucky Jim 8/7/15
12. Mr. Mercedes 11/2/15

6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
1. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 7/8/15
2. Beloved 7/30/15
3. The Pearl that Broke Its Shell 8/12/15
4. The Marriage Plot 11/5/15
5. Honeymoon 11/23/15
6. Second Honeymoon 11/24/15
7. Diamond Head 2/8/16

� 7. One Word Title
1. Euphoria 2/25/15
2. Landline 4/27/15
3. Dracula 5/18/15 (Re-read)
4. Oroonoko 6/21/15
5. Cranford 6/27/15
6. Cinder 7/9/15
7. Cataloochee 7/11/15
8. Atonement 7/30/15
9. Speak 9/28/15
10. Montana 10/25/15
11. Legend 11/7/15
12. Frankenstein 2/3/16

� 8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
1. Boy21 3/5/15
2. Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard 4/3/15
3. Around the World in Eighty Days 4/18/15
4. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore 6/16/15
5. Four: A Divergent Story Collection 7/28/15
6. The Fourteenth Goldfish 8/21/15
7. Top Secret Twenty-One 9/28/15
8. The Five People You Meet in Heaven 10/16/15
9. A Thousand Pieces of You 10/20/15
10. 11/22/63 11/18/15
11. Six of Crows 1/21/16
12. Cheaper by the Dozen 1/26/16

� 9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
1. The House of Hades 1/3/15
2. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 1/15/15
3. The House of the Seven Gables 7/3/15
4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 7/7/15
5. Home 7/8/15
6. The House of Doctor Dee 8/5/15
7. The Kitchen House 9/10/15
8. The House of Mirth 10/13/15
9. The Shack 1/31/16

10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
1. The Sisters 1/21/15
2. Sisters of Shiloh 4/13/15
3. The Son 10/3/15
4. The Heretic's Daughter 10/25/15
5. What Is Left the Daughter 10/28/15
6. The 19th Wife 10/29/15
7. While My Sister Sleeps 12/7/15

Bonus - Optional
1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
1. Suite Française 3/29/15
2. The Book of Unknown Americans 2/9/16

2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
1. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 4/3/15
2. The Postman Always Rings Twice 8/19/15
3. The Collector 9/9/15
4. Go Set a Watchman 9/17/15
5. God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story 10/14/15
6. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 12/6/15

� 3. Animal
1. The Wolf in Winter 3/3/15
2. The Thorn Birds 2/2/15 (Reread)
3. Bird Box 1/23/15
4. The Year of the Hare 3/30/15
5. The Goldfinch 5/30/15
6. The Plague of Doves 7/21/15
7. The Hound of the Baskervilles 7/20/15
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 7/27/15
9. To Kill a Mockingbird 8/1/15
10. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 8/22/15
11. The Nightingale 10/11/15
12. Lord of the Flies 10/15/15

� 4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
1. The Bone Room 12/26/14
2. The Blood of Olympus 1/5/15
3. The Weight of Blood 3/13/15
4. Blood and Guts in High School 4/28/15
5. Heart of Darkness 5/19/15
6. Eyes on You 6/18/15
7. Freckles 6/20/15
8. I've Got You Under My Skin 11/11/15

5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)
1. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2/2/15

New 2 U Author Challenge 2015
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015
Level: Come What May = Let's see how many I read.

Progress: 125
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January
1. John Green - The Fault in Our Stars 1/6/15
2. Orly Krauss-Winer - Almost Perfect 1/13/15
3. Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 1/15/15
4. Aaron Paul Lazar - Devil's Lake 1/15/15
5. Wayne Stinnett - Fallen Out 1/17/15
6. Nancy Jensen - The Sisters 1/21/15
7. Josh Malerman - Bird Box 1/23/15
8. Charles Finch - A Beautiful Blue Death 1/30/15
9. Erin Lindsay McCabe - I Shall be Near to You 1/31/15

February
10. John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2/2/15
11. Kate Mosse - The Winter Ghosts 2/5/15
12. Mary Kubica - The Good Girl 2/7/15
13. Steven Konkoly - Black Flagged 2/11/15
14. Jane Kirkpatrick - A Clearing in the Wild 2/11/15
15. Nancy E. Turner - My Name Is Resolute 2/20/15
16. Lily King - Euphoria 2/25/15
17. Nora Roberts - Blue Dahlia 2/27/15

March
18. John Connolly - The Wolf in Winter 3/3/15
19. Matthew Quick - Boy21 3/5/15
20. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina 3/12/15
21. Laura McHugh - The Weight of Blood 3/13/15
22. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 3/18/15
23. William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom! 3/22/15
24. Irène Némirovsky - Suite Française 3/29/15
25. Arto Paasilinna - The Year of the Hare 3/30/15

April
26. Laura Bates - Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard 4/3/15
27. Carla Caruso - A Pretty Mess 4/8/15
28. Toni Morrison- Sula 4/8/15
29. Bernhard Schlink - The Reader 4/11/15
30. Kathy Hepinstall - Sisters of Shiloh 4/13/15
31. Christina Baker Kline - Orphan Train 4/19/15
32. Rainbow Rowell - Landline 4/27/15
33. Jeff Hobbs - The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League 4/27/15
34.Leslye Walton - The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender 4/28/15
35. Kathy Acker - Blood and Guts in High School 4/28/15
36. Sandra Brown - Mean Streak 4/29/15

May
37. James Dashner - The Maze Runner 5/6/15 and The Scorch Trials 5/13/15 and The Death Cure 5/24/15
38. George Eliot - Silas Marner 5/6/15
39. Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane 5/15/15
40. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness 5/19/15
41. Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch 5/30/15

June
42. Robin Sloan - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore 6/16/15
43. Kate White - Eyes on You 6/18/15
44. Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest 6/18/15
45. Jennifer McMahon - The Winter People 6/20/15
46. Gene Stratton-Porter - Freckles 6/21/15
47. Aphra Behn - Oroonoko 6/21/15
48. Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford 6/27/15
49. Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey 6/29/15

July
50. Cary Elwes - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 7/8/15
51. Marilynne Robinson - Home 7/8/15
52. Marissa Meyer - Cinder 7/9/15 and Scarlet 7/13/15
53. Wayne Caldwell - Cataloochee 7/11/15
54. Noël Coward - Fallen Angels 7/14/15
55. Amy Poehler - Yes Please 7/18/15
56. Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad 7/19/15
57. Erdrich, Louise - The Plague of Doves 7/21/15
58. Kate Chopin - The Awakening7/24/15
59. Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 7/27/15
60. Erika Swyler - The Book of Speculation 7/28/15
61. Ian McEwan - Atonement 7/30/15

August
62. Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird 8/1/15
63. Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 8/2/15
64. Saint-Exupery Antoine de - The Little Prince 8/3/15
65. Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger 8/5/15
66.Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee 8/5/15
67. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim 8/7/15
68. Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants 8/8/15
69. Genevieve Cogman - The Invisible Library 8/10/15
70. Nadia Hashimi - The Pearl that Broke Its Shell 8/12/15
71. Grace McCleen - Land of Decoration, The: A Novel 8/14/15
72. Jacqueline Woodson - Brown Girl Dreaming 8/15/15
73. James M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice 8/19/15
74. Philip Roth - American Pastoral 8/20/15
75. Jennifer L. Holm - The Fourteenth Goldfish 8/21/15
76. Horace McCoy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 8/22/15

September
77. David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas 9/4/15
78. John Fowles - The Collector 9/9/15
79. Kathleen Grissom - The Kitchen House 9/10/15
80. Michelle Knight - Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings 9/13/15
81. Rolland Love - Blue Hole 9/22/15
82. Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 9/23/15
83. Annie Barrows - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 9/23/15
84. Bill Branon - Devils Hole 9/24/15
85. Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business 9/25/15
86. Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak 9/26/15
87. S.K. Epperson - Green Lake 9/28/15
88. Janet Evanovich - Top Secret Twenty-One 9/28/15
89. Alan Bradley - The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches 9/28/15
90. Gillian Flynn - Dark Places 9/30/15

October
91. James Thompson - Snow Angels 10/1/15
92. Kristi Helvig - Burn Out 10/2/15
93. Jo Nesbø - The Son 10/3/15
94. Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You 10/5/15
95. Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire 10/8/15
96. Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus 10/8/15
97. Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train 10/11/15
98. Kristin Hannah - The Nightingale 10/11/15
99. Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth 10/13/15
100. James McIvor - God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story 10/14/15
101. Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet in Heaven 10/16/15
102. Claudia Gray - A Thousand Pieces of You 10/20/15
103. Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See 10/21/15
104. P.J. Tracy - Snow Blind 10/23/15
105. Kathleen Kent - The Heretic's Daughter 10/25/15
106. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep 10/25/15
107. Gwen Florio - Montana 10/25/15
108. Lois Lowry - Number the Stars 10/26/15
109. M.R. Carey - The Girl with All the Gifts 10/27/15
110. Howard Norman - What Is Left the Daughter 10/28/15
111. David Ebershoff - The 19th Wife 10/29/15

November
112. Lee Child - Running Blind 11/4/15
113. Jeffrey Eugenides - The Marriage Plot 11/5/15
114. Marie Lu - Legend 11/7/15
115. Debbie Macomber - Starry Night 11/10/15
116. John Banville - The Sea 11/10/15
117. Mary Higgins Clark - I've Got You Under My Skin 11/11/15
118. Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North 11/14/15
119. Karin Slaughter - Pretty Girls 11/21/15
120. James Patterson - Honeymoon 11/23/15 & Second Honeymoon 11/24/15
121. Howard Roughan - Co-authored Honeymoon 11/23/15 & Second Honeymoon 11/24/15

December
122. Rosamund Hodge - Cruel Beauty 12/2/15
123. Helen Simonson - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 12/6/15
124. Barbara Delinsky - While My Sister Sleeps 12/7/15
125. Lauren Willig - The Mischief of the Mistletoe 12/22/15
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Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards (2014) Reading Challenge

Level
� A Little Bit of Everything - Moderate (1 Book from 10 different categories)
� Come What May: See how many you can finish!

Progress: 52
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Fiction
� Lost Lake 2/8/15
� Landline 4/28/15

Mystery & Thriller
� The Good Girl 2/7/15
� The Weight of Blood 3/13/15
� Mean Streak
� Mr. Mercedes 11/2/15
� Top Secret Twenty-One 9/28/15
� The Son 10/3/15
� The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches 9/28/15

Historical Fiction
� I Shall Be Near to You 1/31/15
� My Name Is Resolute 2/20/15
� Euphoria 2/25/15
� All the Light We Cannot See
� The Narrow Road to the Deep North 11/14/15

Horror
� The Wolf in Winter 3/3/15
� Bird Box 1/23/15
� The Winter People 6/20/15
� The Girl with All the Gifts 10/27/15

Humor
� Yes Please 7/18/15

Memoir & Autobiography
� As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 7/8/15
� Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings 9/13/15

History & Biography
� The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League 4/27/15

Debut Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author
� The Pearl that Broke Its Shell 8/12/15
� Cruel Beauty 12/2/15
� Everything I Never Told You 10/5/15

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
� Cress 7/17/15
� Hollow City 3/25/15
� The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender 4/28/15
� Four: A Divergent Story Collection 7/28/15

Middle Grade & Children
� Winner - The Blood of Olympus 1/5/15
� Brown Girl Dreaming 8/15/15
� The Fourteenth Goldfish 8/21/15

Previous Years' Winners and Nominees
� The House of Hades (2013) 1/2/15
� The Fault in Our Stars (2012) 1/6/15
� Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011) 1/15/15
� Orphan Train (2013) 4/19/15
� The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013) 5/15/15
� The Goldfinch (2013) 5/30/15
� Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012) 6/16/15
� Cinder (2012) 7/9/15
� Scarlet (2013) 7/13/15
� A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) 7/19/15
� The Kitchen House (2010) 9/10/15
� The Girl Who Chased the Moon (2010) 9/13/15
� The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (2012) 9/25/15
� Gone Girl (2012) 10/23/15
� The Marriage Plot (2011) 11/5/15
� Legend (2012) 11/7/15
� 11/22/63 (2011) 11/18/15
� Fortunately, the Milk (2013) 12/6/15
� Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (2010) 12/6/15
� The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (2009) 12/7/15
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - 2015
Duration: 1/15/15 until 12/31/2015
Progress: 52
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1. Anna Karenina 3/12/15
2. The Great Gatsby 3/13/15 (Re-read)
3. Never Let Me Go 3/18/15
4. Absalom, Absalom! 3/22/15
5. Suite Française 3/29/15
6. The Year of the Hare 3/30/15
7. The Time Machine 4/1/15
8. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 4/3/15 (Re-read)
9. The Call of the Wild 4/3/15 (Re-read)
10. Sula 4/8/15
11. The Reader 4/11/15
12. The War of the Worlds 4/12/15
13. Around the World in Eighty Days 4/18/15
14. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 4/21/15 (Re-read)
15. Blood and Guts in High School 4/28/15
16. Silas Marner 5/6/15
17. Dracula 5/18/15 (Re-read)
18. Heart of Darkness 5/19/15
19. Treasure Island 6/20/15 (Re-read)
20. Oroonoko 6/21/15
21. Cranford 6/27/15
22. Agnes Grey 6/29/15
23. The House of the Seven Gables 7/3/15 (Re-read)
24. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 7/7/15
25. Home 7/8/15
26. The Scarlet Letter 7/15/15 (Re-read)
27. A Visit from the Goon Squad 7/19/15
28. The Hound of the Baskervilles 7/20/15 (Re-read)
29. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 7/23/15 (Re-read)
30. The Awakening 7/24/15
31. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 7/27/15
32. Beloved 7/30/15
33. Atonement 7/30/15
34. To Kill a Mockingbird 8/1/15
35. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 8/2/15
36. The Little Prince 8/3/15
37. The White Tiger 8/5/15
38. The House of Doctor Dee 8/6/15
39. Lucky Jim 8/7/15
40. The Postman Always Rings Twice 8/19/15
41. American Pastoral 8/20/15
42. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 8/22/15
43. Cloud Atlas 9/4/15
44. The Collector 9/9/15
45. Interview with the Vampire 10/8/15
46. The House of Mirth 10/13/15
47. Lord of the Flies 10/15/15 (Re-read)
48. The Big Sleep 10/25/15
49. The Marriage Plot 11/5/15
50. The Sea 11/10/15
51. Farewell, My Lovely 12/1/15
52. Sense and Sensibility 12/21/15 (Re-read)
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - 2016
Duration: 1/1/2016 until 12/31/2016
Progress: 14 for 2016 ; 66 overall

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1/4/16
2. Freedom 1/20/16
3. The Black Dahlia 1/30/16
4. Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus 2/3/16
5. Journey to the Center of the Earth 2/17/16
6. Brave New World 3/24/16
7. Middlesex 3/16/16
8. Love in the Time of Cholera 4/12/16
9. Things Fall Apart 4/18/16
10. I'm Not Scared 4/24/16
11. The New York Trilogy 5/5/16
12. Of Mice and Men 5/15/16
13. The Picture of Dorian Gray 5/19/16
14. I, Robot 6/16/16

Around the World in 80 Days

Level: Gold 9-12 books
Duration: January 13 - April 3, 2015
Completed (80 Days): 11 authors / 9 countries
Continued: 46 authors / 54 books / 18 countries
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1. Israel
Orly Krauss-Winer - Almost Perfect 1/13/15

2. Ireland
John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2/2/15
John Connolly - The Wolf in Winter 3/3/15
Bram Stoker - Dracula 5/18/15
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest 6/18/15
John Banville - The Sea 11/10/15

3. Australia
Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds 2/2/15
Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North 11/14/15

4. England
Kate Mosse - The Winter Ghosts 2/5/15
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine 4/1/15
George Eliot - Silas Marner 5/6/15
Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane 5/15/15 & Fortunately, the Milk 12/6/15
Aphra Behn - Oroonoko 6/21/15
Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford 6/27/15
Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey 6/29/15 & The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 7/7/15
Cary Elwes - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 7/8/15
Noël Coward - Fallen Angels 7/14/15
Ian McEwan - Atonement 7/30/15
Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 8/2/15
Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee 8/5/15
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim 8/7/15
Genevieve Cogman - The Invisible Library 8/10/15
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas 9/4/15
John Fowles - The Collector 9/9/15
William Golding - Lord of the Flies 10/15/15
Lee Child - Running Blind 11/4/15
Helen Simonson - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 12/6/15
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility 12/21/15

5. Russia 7/7/15
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina 3/12/15

6. Japan
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 3/18/15

7. Ukraine
Irène Némirovsky - Suite Française 3/29/15

8. Finland
Arto Paasilinna - The Year of the Hare 3/30/15

9. Scotland
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 4/3/15 & Treasure Island 6/19/15
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 4/21/15 & The Speckled Band 4/21/15 & The Red Headed League 4/21/15 & The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk 4/21/15 & The Hound of the Baskervilles 7/20/15

10. Germany
Bernhard Schlink - The Reader 4/11/15

11. France
Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days 4/18/15
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince 8/3/15

12. Poland
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness 5/19/15

13. India
Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger 8/5/15

14. Canada
Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants 8/8/15
Kathleen Grissom - The Kitchen House 9/10/15
Alan Bradley - The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches 9/29/15 & The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 12/7/15

15. Wales
Grace McCleen - Land of Decoration, The: A Novel 8/14/15

16. Norway
Jo Nesbø - The Son 10/3/15

17. Zimbabwe
Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train 10/11/15

18. China
Marie Lu - Legend 11/7/15

UPDATE
I completed the original 80-day challenge on April 3 with 11 authors representing 9 countries of birth. I'd initially set a goal of Silver 8-12 books, and was pleasantly surprised to end up in the Gold range.

I'll continue to track this beyond the original 80 days as I "visit" more countries. I'm curious how many I might end up with by year's end. :)
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Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards (2015) Reading Challenge
Duration: 1/1/2016 - 12/31/2016
Combination & Come What May
� Hard - 40 books
Progress: 23

2015 Winners and Nominees Results

Fiction
Go Set a Watchman 2015 Winner, read in 2015
Freedom 2010
The Book of Unknown Americans 2014
Our Souls at Night 2015
Leaving Time 2014
Me Before You 2013

Mystery & Thriller
The Girl on the Train 2015 Winner, read in 2015
Pretty Girls 2015 Nominee, read in 2015
The Secret Place 2014
Luckiest Girl Alive 2015

Historical Fiction
The Nightingale 2015 Winner, read in 2015
At the Water's Edge 2015

Fantasy

Romance

Science Fiction
The Martian 2014
Armada 2015

Horror

Humor
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography 2014

Nonfiction
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010

Memoir & Autobiography
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 2013

History & Biography

Science & Technology

Food & Cookbooks

Graphic Novels & Comics

Poetry

Debut Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author

Young Adult Fiction
Out of the Easy 2013

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
Library of Souls 2015 Nominee, read in 2015
Six of Crows 2015
Winter 2015
The Infinite Sea 2014
The 5th Wave 2013

Middle Grade & Children's

Picture Books

Relay Race Reading Challenge - Our FIRST Million Pages for 2016