I have the best of intentions — but don’t always have the chance to wrap everything up! Below are the reading challenges in which I participated in 2009 and 2010 but did not complete. Better luck next time!
Goal: Four pre-selected books (Sept. 22 – Dec. 20, 2009) (unfinished)
1. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer, Barrows
3. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
4.
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Goal: 105 books (unfinished)
1. Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead by Saralee Rosenberg
2. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
3. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
4. The Princess Diaries X: Forever Princess by Meg Cabot
5. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
6. Scot On The Rocks by Brenda Janowitz
7. Secrets Of A Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
8. Milkrun by Sarah Mlynowski
9. March by Geraldine Brooks
10. Bring On The Blessings by Beverly Jenkins
11. The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death by Laurie Notaro
12. Forever In Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
13. The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
14. Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
15. A Body At Rest by Susan Petrone
16. The Anglophile by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
17. Meeting Mr. Wrong by Stephanie Snowe
18. It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas
19. Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
20. Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
21. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
22. Everyone Is Beautiful by Katherine Center
23. Looking For Alaska by John Green
24. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
25. A Certain Strain of Peculiar by Gigi Amateau
26. Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
27. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
28. Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton
29. Best Intentions by Emily Listfield
30. Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
31. Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty
32. The 30-Second Commute by Stephanie Dickison
33. Frenemies by Megan Crane
34. Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty
35. Me & Mr. Darcy by Alexandra Potter
36. Fitness 9 to 5 by Shirley Archer
37. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
38. The Penny Pinchers Club by Sarah Strohmeyer
39. The Embers by Hyatt Bass
40. Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty
41. Along For The Ride by Sarah Dessen
42. Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
43. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
44. Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
45. Rude Awakenings Of A Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
46. Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange
47. Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
48. Evermore by Alyson Noel
49. Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty
50. Away by Amy Bloom
51. Up For Renewal by Cathy Alter
52. Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman
53. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
54. The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
55. Millie’s Fling by Jill Mansell
56. My Big Nose And Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter
57. After You by Julie Buxbaum
58. Sundays At Tiffany’s by James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet
59. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
60. Darcy And Anne by Judith Brocklehurst
61. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
62. Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
63. How To Take Over Teh Wurld by Professor Happycat
64. Bitter Is The New Black by Jen Lancaster
65. North Of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
66. Sea Change by Aimee Friedman
67. Artichoke’s Heart by Suzanne Supplee
68. Only Milo by Barry Smith
69. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
70. Holly’s Inbox by Holly Denham
71. The Sleeping Beauty Proposal by Sarah Strohmeyer
72. The Return by Victoria Hislop
73. The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer
74. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer, Barrows
75. In A Perfect World by Laura Kasischke
76. According To Jane by Marilyn Brant
77. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
78. The House On Tradd Street by Karen White
79. The Opposite Of Love by Julie Buxbaum
80. The Foundling by Georgette Heyer
81. Nanny Returns by McLaughlin and Kraus
82. Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern
83. Walking Backward by Catherine Austen
84. Over The Holidays by Sandra Harper
85. The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
86. Searching For Pemberley by Mary Lydon Simonsen
87. A Painter’s Life by K.B. Dixon
88. When It Happens by Susane Colastani
89. The Girl On Legare Street by Karen White
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Option B; Read titles A to Z (unfinished)
A: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
B: Bring On The Blessings by Beverly Jenkins
C: Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
D: Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead by Saralee Rosenberg
E: Everyone Is Beautiful by Katherine Center
F: Forever In Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
G: The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
H: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
J:
K:
L: Looking For Alaska by John Green
M: Milkrun by Sarah Mlynowski
N: North Of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
O: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
P: The Princess Diaries X: Forever Princess by Meg Cabot
Q:
R: The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
S: Scot On The Rocks by Brenda Janowitz
T: Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
U: Up For Renewal by Cathy Alter
V: Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
W: The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
X:
Y:
Z:
Previous Debs Challenge!
Goal: Read two books by previous Debs in 2010; list is up here.
1. Good Things by Mia King
2.
AL = Looking For Alaska by John Green
AK = Raven Stole The Moon by Garth Stein
AZ = The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death by Laurie Notaro
AR =
CA = Rude Awakenings Of A Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
CO =
CT =
DE =
FL = Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
GA = Sea Change by Aimee Friedman
HI =
ID =
IL = The Anglophile by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
IN = Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
IA = A Body At Rest by Susan Petrone
KS = Bring On The Blessings by Beverly Jenkins
KY = Land of A Hundred Wonders by Lesley Kagen
LA =
ME =
MD = Forever In Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
MA = Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
MI = The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan
MN =
MS = Joy School by Elizabeth Berg
MO =
MT =
NE =
NV = My Big Nose And Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter
NH =
NJ = Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
NM =
NY = Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead by Saralee Rosenberg
NC = Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
ND =
OH = Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
OK =
OR = A Little Ray of Sunshine by Lani Diane Rich
PA = Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
RI =
SC = The Girl On Legare Street by Karen White
SD =
TN = An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
TX = The Evolution Of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
UT =
VT =
VA = March by Geraldine Brooks
WA = North Of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
WV =
WI = Thank You For All Things by Sandra Kring
WY =
DC = Party Favors by Nicole Sexton & Susan Johnston
Overall, I think you did a great job!
But WOW, Meg! Your read 89 books in the past year–I’m awed!! (And honored, of course, that my debut was one of the ones you chose…
Really, what you did was quite an accomplishment.
I didn’t finish the ONE challenge I signed up for either. LOL.
I don’t think I like challenges. I feel like it limits my book choices and puts pressure on me that isn’t necessary!
You clearly did a great job though!
I think you did great even though you didn’t finish these challenges…you came pretty close and that’s good!
I didn’t finish the A to Z challenge either, but yet I signed up for it again this year. I never learn!!