50 Book Challenge 2011
This year, i’m taking part of the 50 book challenge, in which the participant (me) reads fifty books over the year, and here’s a list of books I’ve read and perhaps a short summary and review.
beginning date: december 31, 2010.
currently reading:
January
A Miracle of Rare Design - Mike Resnick (256 pages)
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (256 pages)
My Father’s Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett (68 pages)
Cat’s Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut (304 pages)
Seinlanguage - Jerry Seinfeld (192 pages)
Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer (368 pages)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou (304 pages)
February
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley (466 pages)
Deadline- Chris Crutcher (320 pages)
March
The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins (384 pages)
Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins (400 pages)
Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoevsky (480 pages)
April
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski (709 pages)
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life - Wendy Mass (304 pages)
Catching Fire- Suzanne Collins (391 pages)
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austin (256 pages)
Long Quiet Highway Waking Up in America - Natalie Goldberg
(256 pages)
May
What Happened to Goodbye? - Sarah Dessen (402 pages)
June
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman (272 pages)
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (343 pages)
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (608 pages)
The Good Earth - Pearl Buck (448 pages)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling (320 pages)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling (352 pages)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling (448 pages)
July
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling (752 pages)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling (870 pages)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling (652 pages)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling (784 pages)
August
Pale Blue Dot -Carl Sagan (384 pages)
A Letter to America - David Boren (136 pages)
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (400 pages)
Make Lemonade - Virginia Euewer Wolff (208 pages)
September
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk (224 pages)
The Help - Kathryn Stockett (464 pages)
It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini (448 pages)
October
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (176 pages)
November
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (1182 pages)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Steven Chobosky (213 pages)
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk (304 pages)
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien - (320 pages)
December
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (576 pages)
Where We Are, What We See: The Best Young Writers and Artists in America - Edited by David Levithan (220 pages)
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (400 pages)
43/50 books
total length: 17,620 pages
average book length: 410 pages
Project is 86% complete.
