2012 Reading Challenges

The Book Addicts 2012 Reading Challenge

The Stand - Stephen King
Dragonfly in Amber - Diana Gabaldon
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
The Bonsetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
Little Children - Tom Perrotta

Alternates:
Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler

Back to the Classics Challenge 2012

19th Century Classic:
Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoyevsky
20th Century Classic:
Native Son - Richard Wright
Reread a Classic:
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Classic Play:
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Classic Mystery/Horror:
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier 2/12/2012
Classic Romance:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Classic that has Been Translated from its Original Language:
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Classic Award Winner:
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
Classic Set in a Country that You Will Not Visit in Your Lifetime:
One Hundred Years of Solitutde - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What's In A Name Reading Challenge 2012

A Book with a Topographical Feature in the Title:
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
A Book with Something You'd See in the Sky in the Title:
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
A Book with a Creepy Crawly in the Title:
Little Bee - Chris Cleave
A Book with a type of House in the Title:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
A Book with Something You'd Carry in your Pocket, Purse or Backpack in the Title:
The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt
A Book with Something You'd Find on a Calendar in the Title:
March - Geraldine Brooks

Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2012

Bloodroot - Amy Greene
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink 3/12/2012
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Falling Man - Don DeLillo
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
The March - E.L. Doctrow
Run - Ann Patchett 3/10/2012
The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Life of Pi - Yann Martel 1/18/2012
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates