Reading Challenges

*
I have included links to Amazon on this page so that you can look at the books I have read, if you follow the link and purchase a product I may earn a small commission via the Amazon Associates Affiliate Program.

52 Books in 52 Weeks - 2018

1. 7 Habits of Highley Effective People, Stephen Covey
2. How to Write a Personal Statement, Stephen Covey
3. Wicca for Beginngers, Lisa Chamberlain
4. Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert (Audio)
5. She Means Business, Carrie Green
6. You are a Badass at Making Money, Jen Sincero
7. The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan
8. Eclipse, Stephanie Meyer
9. Gangsta Granny, David Williams
10. This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay
11. Faking Friends, Jane Fallon
12. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
13. Friend Request, Laura Marshall
14. Ikigai - The Japanese Secret to a Long & Happy Life, Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles
15. A Skinful of Shadows,  Frances Hardinge
16. Awaken the Giant Within, Anthony Robbins
17. Tell Tale, Jeffrey Archer
18. Summary of the 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins
19. GTD in 15 Minutes, Erlend Hamberg
20. Take your shot, Robin Waite
21. 18 Steps to Own your life, Keith McArthur
22. How my blog got 1 million visits in 7 months, Patric Morgan
23. I am That Girl, Alexis Jones
24. Tarot for Beginners, Lisa Chamberlain
25. How to make money blogging, Bob Loitch
26. The Family Board Meeting, Jim Sheila
27. Mindset, Benjamin Smith
28. Kitchen Witchery, Lisa Chamberlain 
29. Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert (Audio: second time)
30. Wicca Moon Magic, Lisa Chamberlain
31. The Green Witch, Arin Murphy-Hiscock (Audio)
32. Crushing it!, Gary Vaynerchuk
33.  

A-Z of Authors 

A:  Adelaide, Debra - The Household Guide to Dying
B: Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange
C:  Crichton, Michael - Pirate Latitudes
D:  Davies, Melanie - Never Say Die
E:
F:  Fitzgerald, Scot F. - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
G:  Gimenez, Mark - The Common Lawyer
H:  Harris, Charlaine - Dead Until Dark
I:  Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
J:  James, E. L. - Fifty Shades of Grey
K:  Kelly, Erin - The Poison Tree
L: Lewis, C.S. - The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
M:  Meyer, Stephanie - The Host
N:  North, Freya - Home Truths
O: Orwell, George - 1984
P: Picoult, Judi - My Sister's Keeper
Q:
R:  Russell, Craig - Brother Grimm
S:  Sebold, Alice - The Lovely Bones
T:
U:
V:  Vaynerchuk, Gary - Crushing It!
W:  Winman, Sarah - When God was a Rabbit
X:
Y:
Z:

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge 

Books I've Read - Books I might have Read or Started - Books to Read - Books I probably won't Read - * = Seen an adaptation Read 15 / 341

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll *
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
9. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
13. Atonement by Ian McEwan
14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
16. Babe by Dick King-Smith *
17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
21. Beloved by Toni Morrison
22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
23. The Bhagava Gita
24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
30. Candide by Voltaire
31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
32. Carrie by Stephen King
33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White *
36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
37. Christine by Stephen King
38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens *
39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess *
40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
41. The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
48. Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac
49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
52. Cujo by Stephen King
53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
57. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown *
58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
61. Deenie by Judy Blume
62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
64. The Divine Comedy by Dante
65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
66. Don Quixote by Cervantes
67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
73. Eloise by Kay Thompson
74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
75. Emma by Jane Austen
76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
79. Ethics by Spinoza
80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
83. Extravagance by Gary Krist
84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
89. The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo *
107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
112. The Graduate by Charles Webb *
113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald *
115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
116. The Group by Mary McCarthy
117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling *
119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling *
120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 
122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
125. Henry V by William Shakespeare
126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby *
127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr)
131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss *
134. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
135. Howl by Allen Gingsburg
136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
137. The Iliad by Homer
138. I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres
139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
140. Inferno by Dante
141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence
154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
161. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis *
162. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
163. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
164. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
165. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
166. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
167. Lord of the Flies by William Golding *
168. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
169. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold *
170. The Love Story by Erich Segal
171. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
172. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
173. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
174. Marathon Man by William Goldman
175. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
176. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
177. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
178. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
179. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
180. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken
181. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
182. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
183. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
184. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
185. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
186. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
187. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
188. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
189. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
190. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
191. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
192. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
193. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
194. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
195. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
196. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
197. Myra Waldo's Travel & Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
198. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult *
199. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
200. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
201. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
202. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
203. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
204. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
205. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
206. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
207. Night by Elie Wiesel
208. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
209. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
210. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
211. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
212. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 
213. Old School by Tobias Wolff
214. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
215. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
216. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
217. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
218. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
219. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
220. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
221. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
222. Othello by Shakespeare
223. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
224. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
225. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
226. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
227. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
228. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
229. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
230. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
231. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde *
232. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
233. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi *
234. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
235. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
236. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
237. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
238. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
239. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
240. Property by Valerie Martin
241. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
242. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
243. Quattrocento by James Mckean
244. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
245. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers *
246. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
247. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
248. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
249. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
250. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
251. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
252. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
253. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien
254. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
255. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
256. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
257. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
258. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare *
259. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
260. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
261. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
262. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003
263. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
264. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
265. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
266. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
267. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
268. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
269. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
270. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
271. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
272. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
273. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
274. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
275. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
276. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
277. Sexus by Henry Miller
278. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
279. Shane by Jack Shaefer
280. The Shining by Stephen King
281. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
282. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
283. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
284. Small Island by Andrea Levy – on my book pile
285. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
286. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
287. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
288. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
289. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
290. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
291. Songbook by Nick Hornby
292. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
293. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
294. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
295. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
296. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
297. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
298. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
299. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
300. Stuart Little by E. B. White
301. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
302. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
303. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
304. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
305. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
306. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
307. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
308. Time and Again by Jack Finney
309. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger *
310. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
311. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
312. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
313. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
314. The Trial by Franz Kafka
315. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
316. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
317. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
318. Ulysses by James Joyce
319. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
320. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
321. Unless by Carol Shields
322. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
323. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
324. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
325. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
326. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
327. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
328. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
329. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
330. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
331. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
332. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
333. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
334. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
335. Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
336. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
337. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
338. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum *
339. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
340. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
341. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion