Goal: read 110 books
The Goodreads Challenge 2011
Goal: read 100 books
Completed 102 (huzzah!)
The Complete Booker Challenge 2011
"Winner's Circle" level (read six Booker Prize-winning novels):I tried....not hard enough.
"Winners' Circle" level (read six Booker Prize-winning novels) and a little "Booker Devotee" mixed in if I have time (read all six shortlisted novels from a single year).
Troubles by JG Farrell
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Troubles by JG Farrell
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Women Unbound Challenge 2009-2010 (Challenge Met)
Read at least eight books, at least three of those non-fiction:
A Jury of Her PeersA Bookshelf of Our Own
Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Girls to the Front (bonus read)
Clear Off Your Shelves Challenge 2009 (Challenge Met)
Books that counted toward the challenge percent (goal: 50%):
The Invention of AirRoseanna
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
The Other
The Film Club
The Best American Science Writing 2009
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Harry Potter's Bookshelf
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Best American Essays 2009
The Post-American World
The Best American Essays 2008
And Then There Were None
A Beautiful Blue Death
Books that didn't count toward the challenge percent:
The Children's Book
Wolf Hall
Hush, Hush
The Mill on the Floss
17 out of 21 is 80.95%.
Banned Books Challenge 2009 (Challenge Unmet)
The Satanic Verses
The Naked and the Dead
American Psycho
Finished Challenge Books:
American Psycho
