Elspeth Reads - 2008 Book Challenge

One hundred seven.

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:41:20 GMT

The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel and Ruth L. Miller (464 pages)

Total Pages: 33386

One hundred six.

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:22:49 GMT

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles and Ruth L. Miller (208 pages)

Total Pages: 32922

One hundred five.

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:07:52 GMT

Bust: How I Gambled and Lost a Fortune, Brought Down a Bank--and Lived to Pay for It by Adam B. Resnick (288 pages)

Total Pages: 32714

One hundred four.

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:17:51 GMT

French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano (272 pages)

Total Pages: 32426

Two more.

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:22:16 GMT

Return to the Château by Pauline Réage (192 pages)

Astrologically Incorrect: Unlock the Secrets of the Signs to Get What You Want When You Want! by Terry Marlowe (224 pages)

Total Pages: 32154

Triple digits.

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:54:51 GMT

Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business by Jay Conrad Levinson (384 pages)

Sexual Bewitchery and Other Ancient Feminine Wiles by Barrie Dolnick, Julia Condon, and Donna Limoges (200 pages)

Total Pages: 31738

Ninety-nine.

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:17:39 GMT

The Rum Diary : A Novel by Hunter S. Thompson (204 pages)

Total Pages: 31154

Ninety-eight.

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:41:00 GMT

From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race by Andrew Collins (464 pages)

Total Pages: 30950

Ninety-seven.

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:37:54 GMT

Reading People: How to Understand People and Predict Their Behavior- -Anytime, Anyplace by Jo-Ellan Dimitrius and Mark C. Mazzarella (320 pages)

Total Pages: 30486

Ninety-six.

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:45:20 GMT

50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know by Russ Kick (128 pages)

Total Pages: 30166

Ninety-five.

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:02:24 GMT

Better Than Sex (Gonzo Papers, Vol 4) by Hunter S. Thompson (272 pages)

Total Pages: 30038

Ninety-four.

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:59:08 GMT

Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass,Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster (416 pages)

Total Pages: 29766

Ninety-three.

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:57:06 GMT

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (278 pages)

Total Pages: 29350

Two more books completed.

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:26:39 GMT

Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's by Hunter S. Thompson (336 pages)

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (272 pages)

Total Pages: 29072

Ninety.

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:38:16 GMT

Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus: A Novel by Jose Rodrigues Dos Santos (336 pages)

Total Pages: 28464

Eighty-nine.

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:20:14 GMT

Death Masks (The Dresden Files, Book 5) by Jim Butcher (378 pages)

Total Pages: 28128

A book meme (from dw876)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:15:34 GMT

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I started it in eighth grade but never finished it. I found it very dull.)

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (I've read all but the first 2)

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

The Bible

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (It's sitting right here waiting to be read. I *loved* the movie.)

Complete Works of Shakespeare

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (Again, started it but never finished. Boorrring.)

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Middlemarch - George Eliot

Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

Emma - Jane Austen

Persuasion - Jane Austen

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Atonement - Ian McEwan (It was terrible.)

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Dune - Frank Herbert

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

Ulysses - James Joyce

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

Germinal - Emile Zola

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

Possession - AS Byatt

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

Charlotte's Web - EB White (Read it in third grade. Hated it.)

The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

Watership Down - Richard Adams

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (Read it in fourth grade.)

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Eighty-eight.

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:06:22 GMT

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century by Hunter S. Thompson (384 pages)

Total Pages: 27750

Eighty-seven.

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:38:42 GMT

Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition) by William S. Burroughs (208 pages)

Total Pages: 27366

Eighty-six.

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:52:56 GMT

Fight Club: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk (208 pages)

Total Pages: 27158

Eighty-five.

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:38:01 GMT

The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis (224 pages)

Total Pages: 26950

Eighty-four.

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:37:44 GMT

What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News by Eric Alterman (322 pages)

Total Pages: 26726

Eighty-three.

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:57:19 GMT

The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure by James Redfield (246 pages)

Total Pages: 26404

Eighty-two.

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:00:47 GMT

Secret Societies...and How They Affect Our Lives Today by Sylvia Browne (224 pages)

Total Pages: 26158

Eighty-one.

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:35:06 GMT

Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh (288 pages)

Total Pages: 25934