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12 Books in 2006 Challenge

This is from a challenge posted at pour-soi.net. The idea is to read 12 books by the end of 2006; essentially one book a month. Up to the challenge?

  1. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
  2. Sunshine by Robin Mckinley
  3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
  4. Utopia by Sir Thomas More
  5. V for Vendetta novelization by Steve Moore
  6. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
  7. Ghosts I've Met by Hans Holzer
  8. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
  9. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
  10. The Viking Funeral by Stephen J. Cannell

Favorite Reads

On the Shelf

Sorted alphabetically by author's last name.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Anderson, Laurie Halse:
   Speak
   Catalyst

Austen, Jane:
   Pride and Prejudice

B

Bronte, Charlotte:
   Jane Eyre

C

Cannell, Stephen J.:
   The Viking Funeral

Clarke, Susanna:
   Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Cordingly, David:
   Under the Black Flag

D

Dickens, Charles:
   A Tale of Two Cities
   The Haunted House

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan:
   Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles
   The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Dumas, Alexandre:
   The Count of Monte Cristo

G

Gaiman, Neil:
   American Gods

Graff, Laurie:
   You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs

Grisham, John:
   The Street Lawyer

H

Hemingway, Ernest:
   For Whom the Bell Tolls
   The Snows of Kilimanjaro
   Sun Also Rises
   Farewell to Arms
   A Moveable Feast
   The Old Man and the Sea
   To Have and Have Not
   Death in the Afternoon
   Islands in the Stream
   Garden of Eden
   By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

Hugo, Victor:
   Les Miserables

Holzer, Hans:
   Ghosts I've Met

Homer:
   The Iliad
   The Odyssey

Howe, James and Deborah:
   Bunnicula

Huxley, Aldous:
   Brave New World

J

Jacques, Brian:
   Martin the Warrior
   Redwall
   The Bellmaker
   Salamandstron
   The Long Patrol
   Marlfox
   Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
   The Angel's Command
   Lord Brocktree

Juby, Susan:
   Alice, I Think

K

Kay, Susan:
   Phantom

King, Stephen:
   Four Past Midnight

Kostova, Elizabeth:
   The Historian

L

Laimo, Michael:
   The Demonologist

Lehr, Norma:
   The Shimmering Ghost of Riversend

Leroux, Gaston:
   The Phantom of the Opera

M

McKinley, Robin:
   Sunshine

Mitchell, Stephen:
   Gilgamesh (a new English translation)

Moore, Steve:
   V for Vendetta (film novelization)

More, Thomas:
   Utopia

Mori, Kyoko:
   Polite Lies

O

Orczy, Baroness:
   The Scarlet Pimpernel

Orwell, George:
   1984

P

Palliser, Charles:
   The Unburied

Poe, Edgar Allan:
   The Complete Works
   The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories

Pratchett, Terry:
   Carpe Jugulum
   Maskerade
   Night Watch
   Reaper Man
   Soul Music
   The Color of Magic
   Going Postal
   Monstrous Regiment
   Thud!

R

Rice, Anne:
   Interview with the Vampire
   The Vampire Lestat

Roth, Philip:
   The Plot Against America

Rowling, J.K.:
   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
   Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban
   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
   Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Ryan, Kevin:
   Van Helsing (film novelization)

S

Sansom, C.J.:
   Dissoultion
   Dark Fire

Scott, Sir Walter:
   Ivanhoe

Shakespeare, William:
   Hamlet
   Henry IV Part I
   Henry IV Part II
   A Midsummer Night's Dream
   Macbeth
   Much Ado About Nothing
   Othello
   Romeo & Juliet
   Sonnets
   The Tempest
   Twelfth Night
   Two Gentlemen of Verona
   The Winter's Tale
   The Merry Wives of Windsor
   As You Like It
   The Merry Wives of Windsor
   Measure for Measure
   The Comedy of Errors
   Love's Labour's Lost
   The Merchant of Venice
   The Taming of the Shrew
   All's Well That Ends Well

Shelley, Mary:
   Frankenstein

Silvis, Randall:
   Doubly Dead

Slater, Harrison Gradwell:
   Night Music

Stevenson, Robert Louis:
   Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
   Treasure Island
   Kidnapped

Stewart, Mary:
   The Crystal Cave

Stoker, Bram:
   Dracula

Stoppard, Tom:
   Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Stover, Matthew:
   Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Stowe, Harriet Beecher:
   Uncle Tom's Cabin

T

Tolkien, J.R.R.:
   The Hobbit
   The Lord of the Rings
   The Silmarillion
   (translations) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Pearl; Sir Orfeo

W

Wells, H.G.:
   The War of the Worlds

Wilder, Thornton:
   Our Town

Wilson, August:
   The Piano Lesson