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Rules for the Fall/Winter Task Challenge:

1. This challenge will start September 6th 2011 (12:01 am EST) and will end at 11:59 pm on February 20th 2012.

2. All books read during the challenge dates, September through February, can count towards tasks. So, if you join in November, anything you read that FITS a task can count towards the challenge as long as you read it AFTER September 6th. If you are less than half way through a book BEFORE the challenge starts, you can use it for the challenge. If you are over the halfway point, you cannot use it for the challenge.

3. Books can only be used for one category. You can only do a task one time.

4. Re-reads are fine, except where stated otherwise.

5. All books should be over 150 pages unless otherwise stated. If you read a book that is not quite 150 pages, please make sure that it for a lower point task and you are only able to read an "under 150 pages book" once. Please get an "ok" from me before you try and count an "under 150 pages book" for a task.

6. To claim your points, you must post completed tasks in the "Leaderboard & Completed Tasks" thread. Please include the title, author, the task it was for, and your total number of points to date. DO NOT UPDATE YOUR TASK LIST. That is just for your records only. We WILL NOT be checking those anymore.

7. If you have any doubts as to whether a book fits a particular challenge, please feel free to ask.

8. Above all, remember this challenge is supposed to be FUN, a good way to tackle some of your TBR list, and to expand your horizons.

9. Those who finish/win the challenge will be able to pick a category for the Spring/Summer challenge 2012.

Also, feel free to post your task lists here to keep track of them for your own personal reference or to see what others are reading for a particular task. Points cannot be claimed in this thread. I will NOT be checking it for updates to your points.

5 points:

1. Judge a book by its cover: Read a book that’s cover represents Fall or Winter to you. This could be an obvious picture related to the season (snow, fall leaf, pumpkin, etc), or something like football or a fireplace or anything else that isn’t necessarily related just to these seasons, but reminds you of them.

2. Its all in the title: read a book with the month September, October, November, December, January or February in the title.

3. Presidents Day: Read a book about a president (or similar ruler for those outside the US like kings, queens, prime minister, etc.). This can be current or historical and fictional or non fiction. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter anyone?

4. Holiday Stress Relief: Read any book about anything at all just to beat the stress!

5. I LOVE HALLOWEEN! Read a book about the holiday, or with the typical Halloween related creature (witches, vampires, werewolves, monsters, etc.)

6. Alcoholics Anonymous: (Really not just for Richards Birthday) Read a book about alcohol, an alcoholic, or has some type of liquor in the title.

7. Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Proverb: read a book that has teeth or a tail on the cover.

8. Back to School Assignment: As you are entering this challenge, I will assign another participant to you. The two of you are assigned to check out each others read books, to read books, etc. and assign a book for the other to read. To keep this fair, please limit choices to under 500 pages, and please either choose something from their To Read lists or something you really think they will enjoy judging by their past entries. When you post your list under “Task List (AND RULES)�� I will start to assign partners.

10 Points:

1. Finish the To Do List: Go to the Random Number Generator here: Give it the parameters for how many books are on your To Read list and read the corresponding book.

2. College Bound: Read a book from the following list: Make sure to tell us if you think this book is great for those college bound or not.

3. Home for the Holidays: Read a book by a local author. This would be someone that lives or did live in your state for US peeps and your country or region for those outside the US.

4. Ahoy There Matey: Commemorate International Talk Like a Pirate Day (Sept. 19th) with a book about pirates, either fiction or nonfiction, or with "Pirate" or its cognates in the title.

5. Major Issues? Read a book related to your major or where the main character is studying or working in your field of study.

6. Bit by the Travel Bug: Read a book set in a country that you want to visit but haven’t gotten to yet.

7. Color is Joy ~ Ernst Haas: We all have a favorite color. Read a book with your favorite color in the title or where the cover is predominantly your favorite color.

8. What comes first? We tend to watch movies based on books after we read the book, then 99.99999% of the time we like the book better. Read a book that a movie you have seen was based on. This can’t be a re-read. Did you find you liked the movie better than the book.

15 points:

1. Military Awareness: There are many military related “holidays�� during Fall and Winter: Read a book that has soldiers in the story (past or present), is about a famous battle or war, or is a non fiction account of someones�� life as it is related to a war.

2. This is a challenge after all: Read a genre that you rarely or never read.

3. Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Lantern Festival and Mooncake Festival: All names for the festival celebrated in China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and the Phillipines. Read a book about one of these cultures, or where the people celebrate an Autumn festival as a main part of the book.

4. Winter Vacations: Read a book that is about your Dream Vacation to be taken in the winter. Mine, since I hate cold and winter, would be a book about going somewhere tropical for a warm vacation during the cold months. Others, that enjoy that white death that falls from the sky, can read about skiing, or sledding, or even just a trip to somewhere cold.

5. Historical Fiction: Choose an era and read a book set during that era. This website can help.

6. The Perfect Gift: Read a book about searching for something, (treasure, lost animal, keys, etc.) just not searching for a person.

7. Teacher Appreciation: Read a book about a terrific teacher or one that your favorite teacher in junior high or high school recommended that you never got around to reading.

8. Family Influences: Read a book written by an author that shares a first or last name to either of your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins or siblings.

20 Points:

1. Group Read: Read a past group read OR a group read that happens during one of the months of this challenge AND post to the discussion thread what you thought about the book.

2. To Be Continued..... Read either book 1 and 2 of a series or start on the next 2 books of a series you have already started.

25 points

1. ABC’s and 123’s: Read a book with a “A�� “B�� or “C�� starting the title and another book with a number in the title. To make it a bit easier, you may take the, a, if, etc. off the title to get to the A, B or C and the number can be any number, it doesn’t have to be 1, 2 or 3.

2. Proud of Your Name: Read two books: Each title must start with one of your initials. I was going to limit this to first and last names, but some of us may have difficulties with that, so if you have middle, maiden, whatever names, take your initials, and choose some books. May drop A or The at the beginning of the title in you need to.

3. Classic’s Revisited: Read a classic and a modern adaptation of that classic. Tell us which you liked better.

4. The beginning of the End: Read two books: The title of the first books�� last word should be the first word of the title to the second book. You may drop A, The, If, And, etc. Example: God on Trial by Peter Irons and The Trial of Socrates by IF Stone for God on Trial Trial of Socrates.

5. Time after Time: Read a book that takes place all in one day and read another book that spans over several years.

6. These 2 things are not the same: Read two books that have the same title. Discuss if they were similar, different or a mix. This may be a bit tricky, but I will allow things like Woods or The Woods to be the same. Or like Shiver and Shiver: A Novel. Try to keep them as similar as possible, but you can drop things like A Novel written after the main part of the title.

7. Keep your Friends Close: choose one of your friends on GoodReads and look at their read lists. Choose a book they gave 4 or 5 stars and one they gave 1 or 2 stars and read them both. Post whether you agree with their rating or disagree.

8. Job Satisfaction: read a book about your ideal job or where the main character has your ideal job, and read a book about a job you think would be lousy (again, or where the main character has a job your think would be lousy) Which do you like better? Any career changes coming?

5 points:

1. Judge a book by its cover: Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
2. Its all in the title: The October Country by Ray Bradbury
3. Presidents Day: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
4. Holiday Stress Relief: Switched by Amanda Hocking
5. I LOVE HALLOWEEN! Dark Passages by Kathryn Leigh Scott
6. Alcoholics Anonymous: Call Me When You Land by Michael Schiavone
7. Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Proverb: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
8. Back to School Assignment: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

10 Points:

1. Finish the To Do List: The Iron King by Julie Kagawa (#308)
2. College Bound: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
3. Home for the Holidays: Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton (North Carolina)
4. Ahoy There Matey: Steel by Carrie Vaughn (substituted Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie for this challenge)
5. Major Issues? Cassie Draws the Universe by P.S. Baber OR I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (main characters are writers--Literature major)
6. Bit by the Travel Bug: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean (Yes, I do want to visit Antarctica) :)
7. Color is Joy ~ Ernst Haas: The Bone People by Keri Hulme
8. What comes first? The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

15 points:

1. Military Awareness: Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. This is a challenge after all: Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol (graphic novel)
3. Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Lantern Festival and Mooncake Festival: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie OR The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
4. Winter Vacations: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by David Levithan & Rachel Cohn (NYC at Christmastime!)
5. Historical Fiction: 31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan (19th c America)
6. The Perfect Gift: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
7. Teacher Appreciation: The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
8. Family Influences: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (Mary was my grandmother's name)

20 Points:

1. Group Read: Bossypants by Tina Fey
2. Spring/Summer Challenge Winner's Task: Sloppy Firsts AND Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty


25 points:

1. ABC’s and 123’s: The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting AND Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
2. Proud of Your Name: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness AND Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
3. Classic’s Revisited: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum AND Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
4. The beginning of the End: Emily the Strange: The Lost Days by Rob Reger AND Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
5. Time after Time: After Dark by Haruki Murakami AND Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. These 2 things are not the same: Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine AND The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
7. Keep your Friends Close: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin (5 stars) AND Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (2 stars)
8. Job Satisfaction: The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman (main character is a librarian--ideal job) AND The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (main character is a teacher and amateur entomologist--lousy job. No offense to all the teachers out there. I just don't think that it's the job for me) :)

Total: 200

My spot!



I'm loving picking books for the tasks! :)

This will be my first time attempting a challenge of this sort.

Nice job, Tami!

I am so excited, I have really been looking forward to this! I will post my list as soon as I have it put together. These look like some really fun tasks.



There we go, I've hightlighted the ones that I haven't figured out yet.

Here's my spot.

Okay, I am really going to give it a shot this time!

This is my first time too! Let's see what happens!

5.1 Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers (Apple)
5.2 November 22, 1963
5.3 Theodore Rex
5.4 Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality
5.5 Breathers: A Zombie's Lament
5.6 Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
5.7 You Suck
5.8 Life of Pi (from Bianca)

10.1 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (#40)
10.2 Siddhartha
10.3 The Hours
10.4 The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
10.5 Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Sociology--this was a game-changing sociology text)
10.6 The Red Tent (Israel)
10.7 Writer of the Purple Rage
10.8 The Lovely Bones

15.1 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
15.2 The Hobbit (Fantasy)
15.3 The Good Earth
15.4 Whiteout: Lost in Aspen
15.5 Under Heaven (Tang Dynasty China)
15.6 Moby-Dick or, The Whale
15.7 Dead Poets Society
15.8 Misery (Stephen)

20.1 The Book Thief
20.2 The Magician's Nephew and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

25.1 Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life AND Slaughterhouse-Five
25.2 Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence AND I Am Ozzy
25.3 Pride and Prejudice AND Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
25.4 Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics AND Ways of Dying: A Novel
25.5 After Dark (One day) AND The Dance of the Dissident Daughter (Several years)
25.6 Innocence AND Innocence
25.7 Frankenstein (One star) AND Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Four stars)
25.8 The Abstinence Teacher (Sex educator) AND Microserfs (Office drone)

sounds like fun, sign me up!

I'm still working on the list, but count me in!

Here:

Have a lot of TBA but ready to get started :)

5.1 Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
5.2 February Flowers Fan Wu
5.3 TBA
5.4 TBA
5.5 Overbite by Meg Cabot
5.6 TBA
5.7 TBA
5.8 TBA
10.1 Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
10.2 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
10.3 Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
10.4 Pirates! By Celia Rees
10.5 TBA
10.6 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
10.7 Something Blue by Emily Giffin
10.8 Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
15.1 TBA
15.2 TBA
15.3 TBA
15.4 TBA
15.5 The Constant Princess (The Tudor #1) by Philippa Gregory
15.6
15.7
15.8 The Last Rustler by Lee Sage (funny because I found this old beat up book up at my moms just a couple weeks ago and she said I should read it. He was related to my grandma I guess. Have a reason to actually check it out now)
20.1 TBA
20.2 TBA
25.1 Between Here and Forever Elizabeth Scott
25.1 TBA
25.2 Bumped (Bumped, #1) McCafferty, Megan
25.2 Marked (House of Night, #1) Cast, P.C.
25.3 TBA
25.3 TBA
25.4 TBA
25.4 TBA
25.5 TBA
25.5 TBA
25.6 TBA
25.6 TBA
25.7 TBA
25.7 TBA
25.8 TBA
25.8 TBA

Still working on my list, but here we go! SO excited!

So far, I'm still working on it

Here it is! I've chosen all books except for the group read because I'll probably choose one of the upcoming books.

Still missing a few rows, but it seems as if it'll be a very busy fall.

Some of the tasks are a bit hard to find (might not know some of them until I've read some random books).

I need to come up with my list. I'll probably make it on Friday since I have a busy week. But, sign me on up for those partner reads!

Megan L.
Working on my list, but here's what I have so far...

Megan W

5 points:
1. Judge a book by its cover: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Although probably a British summer or something, this cover always makes me feel chilly, that is what New Zealand looks like in the cold.
2. Its all in the title: Come September by Arundhati Roy
3. Presidents Day: Check to your king by Robin Hyde set in early British New Zealand, before we had Prime Ministers I think, during struggles for power and control.
4. Holiday Stress Relief: Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed I'm really looking forward to this one.
5. I LOVE HALLOWEEN! Dracula by Bram Stoker
6. Alcoholics Anonymous: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
7. Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Proverb: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
8. Back to School Assignment: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender chosen by Kelly R

10 Points:
1. Finish the To Do List: A Passage to India by E.M. Forster number 36 on my to read list.
2. College Bound: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad I have been meaning to read this for ever.
3. Home for the Holidays: The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
4. Ahoy There Matey: The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates by Des Ekin about Baltimore in Ireland where almost an entire village was stolen by pirates.
5. Major Issues? Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones One of the characters is doing research in the museum.
6. Bit by the Travel Bug: Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez all to plan my next explore will be South America via New York and California. That makes this the easiest choice as every second book seems to be set in New York, kind of why I'd love to go there. But the actual destination will be South America so...
7. Color is Joy ~ Ernst Haas: Pastures of the Blue Crane by Hesba Fay Brinsmead Ok, a bit dated, 3/5
8. What comes first? Atonement by Ian McEwan

15 points:
1. Military Awareness: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
2. This is a challenge after all: The Torchlight List: Around the World in 200 Books by James R. Flynn I don't even remember when I last read non-fiction for fun but got this for my birthday so...4/5
3. Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Lantern Festival and Mooncake Festival: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 3/5
4. Winter Vacations: The end of the golden weather;: A voyage into a New Zealand childhood by Bruce Mason what could be better than childhood summer holidays by the beach when time seemed to stretch on forever.
5. Historical Fiction: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak set during WWII. 5/5 I loved this book.
6. The Perfect Gift: The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin searching for songlines in the Australian desert. Really enjoyed, though got a little sick of the extent of reproducing the main characters anthropological notebooks so 4/5
7. Teacher Appreciation: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee my highschool english teacher gave me a copy ten years ago when she was clearing out the storerooms. I still haven't read it.
8. Family Influences: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee J stands for John which was my Grandfather's name.

20 Points:
1. Group Read: The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
2. To Be Continued.....The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

25 points
1. ABC’s and 123’s: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
2. Proud of Your Name: Monkey Grip by Helen Garner for Megan - 4/5 and The Rose Grower by Michelle de Kretser for Rosemary. 4/5
3. Classic’s Revisited: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Hours by Michael Cunningham
4. The beginning of the End: On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta 4/5 and The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
5. Time after Time: After Dark by Haruki Murakami set in one day. And Intensive Care: A Novel by Janet Frame with two main time periods, years apart.
6. These 2 things are not the same: The Double by José Saramago and The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7. Keep your Friends Close: The Riders by Tim Winton Joanne rated it 2/5 and I agree, 2/5 And Eucalyptus by Murray Bail Joanne rated this one 4/5 but I only gave it 3/4.
8. Job Satisfaction: The Museum of Innocenceby Orhan Pamuk Although he is not really working in a museum he is still collecting one. And Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse Undertaker's clerk, can't be a good job.

Total Points: 275/480
Books Read: 21/43
Tasks Completed: 16/34

Megan W

*Kelly R

FALL/WINTER CHALLENGE (9/6/11-2/20/12) - Finished w/: Total Points: 440/480; Books Finished: 39/43; Tasks Completed: 30/34

5-1. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
5-2. The Battle of Britain by James Holland
5-3. Mary, Queen of Scots by Kathryn Lasky
5-4. The English Reader by Michael & Diane Ravitch
5-5. Down These Strange Streets by Martin & Dozois
5-6. Flash & Bones by Kathy Reichs
5-7. The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
5-8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
10-1. Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce
10-2. Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
10-3. Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
10-4. Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer
10-5. Supergods by Grant Morrison
10-6. The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon
10-7. Page by Tamora Pierce
10-8. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
15-1. Lord John & the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
15-2. Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner
15-3. Where Underpants Come From by Joe Bennett
15-4. Sixpence House by Paul Collins
15-5. Didn't read a book for this task
15-6. Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter
15-7. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
15-8. Columbine by Dave Cullen
20-1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
20-2. Queen of Babble in the Big City; Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot
25-1. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket; Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
25-2. Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly; The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
25-3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë; The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
25-4. Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce; Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
25-5. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson; Squire by Tamora Pierce
25-6. Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade; Before the Dawn by Max Allan Collins
25-7. The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket; The End by Lemony Snicket
25-8. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde; Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

There are now 2 Megan's so please put you last initial in you posts so we can tell you apart. Thanks.

5 points:

1. Judge a book by its cover: Shiver
2. Its all in the title:
3. Presidents Day:
4. Holiday Stress Relief: Pretty Little Liars
5. I LOVE HALLOWEEN! Awakened
6. Alcoholics Anonymous: Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America
7. Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Proverb:
8. Back to School Assignment:

10 Points:

1. Finish the To Do List: Hex Hall
2. College Bound: To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Home for the Holidays:
4. Ahoy There Matey:
5. Major Issues?
6. Bit by the Travel Bug:
7. Color is Joy ~ Ernst Haas:
8. What comes first? Gossip Girl

15 points:

1. Military Awareness:
2. This is a challenge after all:
3. Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Lantern Festival and Mooncake Festival:
4. Winter Vacations:
5. Historical Fiction:
6. The Perfect Gift:
7. Teacher Appreciation:
8. Family Influences:

20 Points:

1. Group Read: One Day
2. To be continued...: Blue Bloods and Masquerade

25 points:

1. ABC’s and 123’s:Beautiful Disaster and
2. Proud of Your Name:
3. Classic’s Revisited:
4. The beginning of the End:
5. Time after Time:
6. These 2 things are not the same:
7. Keep your Friends Close: Vampire Academy (rated 4/5 by Annalyse) and Evermore (rated 2/5)
8. Job Satisfaction:

I'm planning to participate. I'm working on my list now, and I'll post it here when I have some clue.

5 points:

1. Judge a book by its cover:
2. Its all in the title: Elie Wiesel - TRIAL OF GOD (As It Was Held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod : a Play in Three Acts) (I hope that title counts....?)
3. Presidents Day:
4. Holiday Stress Relief: Ann Aguirre - Enclave
5. I LOVE HALLOWEEN!: Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard book
6. Alcoholics Anonymous: Charles Bukowski - Ham on Rye
7. Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail.
8. Back to School Assignment:

10 Points:

1. Finish the To Do List: Ken Kesey - Sometimes a Great Notion (#29)
2. College Bound: Elie Wiesel - Night
3. Home for the Holidays: Arthur Schnitzler - Reigen
4. Ahoy There Matey: James Barrie - Peter Pan
5. Major Issues? Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
6. Bit by the Travel Bug:
7. Color is Joy: Lou Aronica - Blue
8. What comes first? Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club

15 points:

1. Military Awareness: Joseph Heller - Catch-22
2. This is a challenge after all:
3. Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Lantern Festival and Mooncake Festival:
4. Winter Vacations: A. Cherry-Garrard - The Worst Journey in the World
5. Historical Fiction:
6. The Perfect Gift:
7. Teacher Appreciation: Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Die Physiker
8. Family Influences: Albert Camus - The Stranger

20 Points:

1. Group Read: John Green - Will Grayson, Will Grayson
2. To be continued...: James Dashner - The Death Cure

25 points:

1. ABC’s and 123’s: Jamie McGuire - Beautiful Disaster; Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
2. Proud of Your Name:
3. Classic’s Revisited: Goethe - The Sorrows of young Werther; Daniel Glatauer - Gut gegen Nordwind
4. The beginning of the End:
5. Time after Time: Haruki Murakami - After Dark
6. These 2 things are not the same:
7. Keep your Friends Close:
8. Job Satisfaction: I'm a paramedic so... "Blood, sweat and tea: real life adventures in an inner city ambulance" by Tom REynold's
worst job for me: police officer, or a job at the military. i'm just no good at keeping my mouth shut and following oders without asking questions...

There are now 2 Rachels's so please put you last initial in you posts so we can tell you apart. Thanks.

Maria, I pretty much stole your format because I loved it. I've barely chosen any books and don't have all the details on some of them. I'll probably choose as I go.

My first time!! I'm excited to give this a go!! :) Please feel free to send me a message if you have any suggestions for any of my TBA's!!!

5.1 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
5.2 December 8, 1980: the day John Lennon died by Keith Elliot Greenberg
5.3 Abraham Lincoln : vampire hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
5.4 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
5.5 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5.6 Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
5.7 Outcome, A Novel: There's more than a hurricane coming ... by Barbara Ebel
5.8 TBA

10.1 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
10.2 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
10.3 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
10.4 The pirate captain's daughter by Eve Bunting
10.5 Without You: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp
10.6 My Life in France by Julia Child
10.7 Pink - Lili Wilkinson
10.8 Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

15.1 TBA
15.2 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
15.3 TBA
15.4 Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
15.5 TBA
15.6 Romancing the Stone by Joan Wilder
15.7 The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them by The Freedom Writers
15.8 Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close

20.1 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
20.2 Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

25.1 Bossypants - Tina Fey
25.1 One Day - David Nicholls
25.2 Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
25.2 Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
25.3 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
25.3 Withering Tights by Louise Rennison
25.4 The Secret Room by Beth Kanell
25.4 Room by Emma Donoghue
25.5 Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
25.5 Happy Accidents: My Gleeful Life by Jane Lynch
25.6 The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
25.6 The Painted Veil by Susan Carroll
25.7 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
25.7 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
25.8 Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
25.8 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

i'm in, although much of my list needs deciding...