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LibraryThing’s Top Unread Books

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on May 23, 2008
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Aarti at Book Lust posted this meme on her blog. It started at The Library Thing. I thought it would be fun to do it here.

These are the top 106 books most often marked “unread” (or the equivalent) by LibraryThing’s users. The rules are as follows: BOLD the books you have read, italicize the books you started but did not finish (DNF), *STAR* the books you’ve read more than once, underline books that are on your TBR pile, and cross out books that you hated.

Here’s mine:

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations

American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World

The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King

The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel

1984
Angels &Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-presentCryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything

Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter

Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon

Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion

Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
*In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences*
White Teeth

Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

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Book Awards II Reading Challenge

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on May 23, 2008
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Michelle over at 1morechapter.com is hosting this challenge.

I know what your thinking, dear readers. “This woman is crazy, another challenge, no impulse control.” I did warn all of you in the description of this blog that I am addicted to books. After all, don’t we all have some kind of addiction? I don’t drink, smoke, or do drugs. No, I read books and watch international film. I know it’s become “a bit” out of control, but at least I admit it.

Here are the rules:

1. Read 10 award winners from August 1, 2008 through June 1, 2009.

2. You must have at least FIVE different awards in your ten titles.

Overlaps with other challenges are permitted.

You don’t have to post your choices right away, and your list can change at any time.

‘Award winners’ is loosely defined; make the challenge fit your needs, keeping in mind Rule #2.

Have fun reading!

Here’s a my list, however I reserve the right to make changes:

The 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize:
The Golden Age by Tahmima Anam


Booker Award:
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner

The Orange Prize:

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie

Alex Awards:

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Governor General’s Award:

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

Man Booker Prize:

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

James Tait Black Memorial Prize:

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Pulitzer Prize:

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

2004 Original Voices Award:

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Possible back ups:

Spur Award:

The God of Animals By Aryn Kyle

Man BookerPrize:

The Gathering by Anne Enright

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Commonwealth Writers Prize:

The Hero’s Walk by Anita Rau Badami

Teddy’s Challenge Progress:

Governor General’s Award:
1. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

Pulitzer Prize:

2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction:
3. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Alex Award:

4. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

2004 Original Voices Award:

5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize:

6. The Golden Age by Tahmima Anam

The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Medal:

7. Amos’s Sweater by Janet Lunn

The Childrens Book Council- Children’s Choice Award:

8. Finklehopper Frog Cheers by Irene Livingson

The Canadian Council for the Arts Governor General’s Literary Award:

9.The Party by Barbara Reid

1972 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children:

10.Mary of Mile 18 by Ann Blades

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Raved-About Reads Challenge

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on May 19, 2008
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MizB (also known as Jenn) over at The Book Zone has created this new challenge. It starts on June 31, 2008 and will be perpetual.

This is how MizB explains the challenge:

The challenge is to create (and read) a list of books you’ve always heard people rave about and thought you should read yourself…but always put off reading “until later”.

*You can choose books that you’ve recently heard of IF a bunch of people are raving about how good they are and how everyone should read them.

* Your list has to have at least 3 books on it. Of course, you can make it much longer than just 3 books. But, you could also just read 3. That’s up to you.

* Yes, your list of books can overlap with other challenges.

* There are no limitations on genre… books can be fiction, nonfiction, religious, secular, etc.

* Audiobooks and E-books are allowed

* Your list can change at any time, but the books you add still have to be “raved about” reads

((There may, or may not, be more rules coming. Stay tuned!))

Since I have so many book loving friends, I am contantly hearing rave reviews of books and add them to my giant TBR, so this is a great challenge for me.

Here’s my started list, but I am sure I will be adding more in the future:

‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini
‘The Birth House’ by Ami Mckay
My Sister’s Keeper’ by Jodi Picoult
‘ Searching for the Secret River’ by Kate Grenville
‘Empress of Asia’ by Adam Lewis Schroeder
‘Bee Season’ by Myla Goldberg
‘The Horseman’s Graves’ by Jacqueline Baker
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

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