Thursday, January 21, 2010

Unfinished challenges 2009

Non-Fiction 5 Challenge
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
Pictures of a Revolution: 5 Movies and the Birth of new Hollywood by Mark Harris
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of Hell's Angels by Jay Dobyns
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students who took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamine by Nick Sheff
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through his Son's Addiction by David Sheff
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
Escape by Caroline Jessop
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind he Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
Infidel by Ayaan Hirisi Ali
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Bush At War by Bob Woodward
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan
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End of the World Challenge II
Uglies by Scott Westerfield (and maybe a couple of the others in the series)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Rising by Brian Keene
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Classics II Challenge
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Doestoevesky
Far from the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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The 2nd Canadian Challenge
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Time in Between by David Bergen
Runaway by Alice Munroe
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
Fall on Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald
Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
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Dewey's Reading Challenge
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichu
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
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What's in a Name II Challenge
Profession: The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perotta
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Time of day: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Relative: American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Body Part: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Building: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Medical Condition: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier

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