Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion
Member's Reading List
>
Lahni's Challenges and Goals
date
newest »


1.
2. The Other Boleyn Girl
3. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
4.
5.
6. Blindness
7. The Bell Jar
8.
9. The Road
10. A Dirty Job
11.
12.
13. The Raw Shark Texts
14. Shantaram
15.
16. The Cider House Rules
17. A Great and Terrible Beauty
18. House of Leaves
19. Dracula
20. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
21.
22.
23. A Christmas Carol
24. Stardust
25.
26. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
27.
28. Love in the Time of Cholera
29.
30.
31.
32. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
33. Fool
34.
35.
36. The Woman in White
37. Pride and Prejudice Zombies
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45. The Poisonwood Bible
46.
47. The Girl Who Played With Fire
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
53. Lolita
54.
55. The Picture of Dorian Gray
56.
57.
58. One Hundred Years of Solitude
59. Gone With the Wind
60. The Count of Monte Cristo
61.
62.
63. The Case of the Missing Servant
64.
65.
66.
67.
68.
69. Fingersmith
70. The Remains of the Day
71. The Art of Devotion
72.
73. Let the Right One In
74.
75.
76.
77.
78.
79.
80. Wuthering Heights
81.
82.
83.
84.
85.
86. The Children's Book
87.
88.
89. The Ghost Trap
90.
91.
92. The Bird Sisters
93.
94.
95. And Yet They Were Happy
96.
97.
98. Sense and Sensability
99. Her Fearful Symmetry
100. The Princess Bride
101. Middlesex
102. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
103. Jamaica Inn
104. The Paris Wife
105. To the Lighthouse
106. The Windup Bird Chronicle
107. Still Alice
108. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
109. Skinny
110. Love on the Big Screen
111. The Bee Loud Glade
112. Damascus
113. Volt
114. Bill Warrington's Last Chance
115. In the King's Arms
116. A Tale of Two Cities
117. The Night Circus
118. Kafka on the Shore
119. The Great Gatsby
120. The Ruins of Us
121. Banned For Life
122. American Gods
123. Agnes Grey
124. The Baker's Daughter
125.
126. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
127. The Sovereignties of Invention
128. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
129. The Descendants
130. The Lifeboat
131. The Time Machine
132. The Adults
133. Boleto
134.
135. And Then There Were None
136. Threats
137. My Only Wife
138. Watership Down
139. Sharp Objects
140. Mad Hope
141. Little Century
142. Taft 2012
143. Cloud Atlas
144. Anna Karenina
145. The Casual Vacancy
146. The Haunting of Hill House
147. How to Get into the Twin Palms
148.
149. Lonesome Dove
150. Shout Her Lovely Name
151. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
152. Tess of the D'Ubervilles
153. Wool Omnibus
154. Dark Places
155. Mrs. Dalloway
156. A Pretty Mouth
157. Northanger Abbey
158. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
159. Grey Cats
160. Emma
161. The Round House
162. The Fridgularity
163. Defending Jacob
164.
165. Fight for Your Long Day
166. The Taker
167. The Wonder Bread Summer
168. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
169. Life of Pi
170. The Great Lenore
171. Happy Talk
172.
173. Dead Letter Office
174. The Waiting Tide
175. A Christmas Memory
176. Julie and Julia
177. Outlander
178. The Library at Night
179. A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst
180. Stupid Children
181. Ireland
182. Hyperbole and a Half
183. Romance for Delinquents
184. Burn This House
185. There Is No End to This Slope
186. The Rosie Project
187.
188. 8-Bit Christmas
189. Above All Men
190.
191. The Martian
192. Love Water Memory
193. The Last Good Halloween
194. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
195. Chocolat
196. Cloud Pharmacy
197. A Red Woman Was Crying
198. Bridget Jones's Diary
199. Hercule Poirot's Christmas
200. Winterswim
201. Beatitude

Sep 2010 Latin America:
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Oct 2010 Biography:
Homer's Odyssey
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Nov 2010 Time Travel:
Kindred
Dec 2010 Contemporary Fiction:
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
The Beautiful Between
A Redbird Christmas
Let the Great World Spin
Jan 2011 Coming of Age:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Speak
The Secret Life of Bees
The Giver
Norwegian Wood
I Capture the Castle
The Book Thief
I Am the Messenger
Feb 2011 Science:
Brave New World
Carrie
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
The Time Traveler's Wife
March 2011 Mythology:
The Graveyard Book
Zombies Vs. Unicorns
The Book of Lost Things
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Shadow of the Wind
April 2011 Midieval:
The Cellist of Sarajevo
The Gargoyle
May 2011 American History:
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
June 2011 World Lit
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Reader
Oedipus Rex
Ender's Game
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Invisible Bridge
The Little Prince
July 2011 Western:
Cold Mountain
Aug 2011 Sociology:
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Hiding Place
Sept 2011 Graphic Novels:
Bake Sale
The Indispensable Calvin And Hobbes
Oct 2011 Anthology:
Revolting Rhymes
Full Dark, No Stars
Nov 2011 Childhood:
Treasure Island
A Clockwork Orange
Dec 2011 Suspense:

Chaos Walking
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Monsters of Men
The Ask and the Answer
The Dark Divine
The Savage Grace (2012)
Dreamhouse Kings
Watcher in the Woods
Gatekeepers
Timescape
Whirlwind
Frenzy
Earth's Children
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Valley of Horses
The Mammoth Hunters
The Plains of Passage
The Shelters of Stone
The Land of Painted Caves
The Giver
Gathering Blue
Messenger
??? (2012)
His Dark Materials
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Millennium
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Ruth Galloway
The House at Sea's End (Jan 12)
The Seven Kingdoms
Fire
Bitterblue (2012)
Soul Screamers
Reaper
If I Die
Before I wake (2012)
The Wolves of Mercy Falls
Shiver
Linger
Forever

Start 1/1/11
End 9/26/11
1) Girl with a Pearl Earring
2) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
3) The School of Essential Ingredients
4) The Hobbit
5) Maus I
6) Maus II
7) The Fairy-tale Detectives
8) The Perks of Being a Wallflower
9) Speak
10) The Secret Life Of Bees
11) The Giver
12) Whiter Than Snow
13) HP Order of the Phoenix
14) HP Half-Blood Prince
15) HP Deathly Hallows
16) The Rebellion of Jane Clarke
17) Through Black Spruce
18) Rebecca
19) Norwegian Wood
20) The Book Thief
21) I Capture the Castle
22) I Am the Messenger
23) Secret Daughter
24) Brave New World
25) Lady Chatterley'ls Lover
26) Snowbound
27) In Defense of Food
28) Graceling
29) Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
30) Revolution
31) Musicophilia
32) Carrie
33) The Time Traveler's Wife
34) The Kite Runner
35) The Art of Racing in the Rain
36) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
37) Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English
38) The Rice Mother
39) Sea Glass
40) The Graveyard Book
41) Catch-22
42) Zombies Vs. Unicorns
43) The House on Mango Street
44) Heart of a Samurai
45) The Book of Lost Things
46) The Janus Stone
47) The Shadow of the Wind
48) The Namesake
49) The Jungle
50) Outside Wonderland
51) The Red Tent
52) The Scent of Rain and Lightning
53) Everything is Illuminated
54) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
55) The Forgotten Garden
56) The Kitchen House
57) The Cellist of Sarajevo
58) Neverwhere
59) The Sun Also Rises
60) The Invisible Bridge
61) Dead Until Dark
62) Howl's Moving Castle
63) Shutter Island
64) The Map of True Places
65) Son of Eden
66) The Gargoyle
67) The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe
68) Olive Kitteridge
69) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
70) Interpreter of Maladies
71) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
72) The Reader
73) Ender's Game
74) The Invisible Bridge
75) A Midsummer Night's Dream
76) Moon Over Manifest
77) The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
78) Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
79) Geisha: a Life
80) Room
81) Out of the Silent Planet
82) Real World
83) Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
84) Sold
85) The Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeZoet
86) The Hiding Place
87) Freakonomics
88) The Thirteenth Tale
89) The Alchemist
90) The Call of the Wild
91) Cold Mountain
92) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
93) Born at Midnight
94) The Pillars of the Earth
95) The Glass Castle
96) Tumbler
97) Nothing to Envy
98) Where the Sidewalk Ends
99) Bake Sale
100) The Handmaid's Tale

Start 9/26/11
End
101) Civil War on Sunday
102) Revolutionary War on Wednesday
103) Oh the Places You'll Go
104) The Lost Saint
105) How High the Moon
106) It's Raining Pigs and Noodles
107) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
108) Oedipus Rex
109) We Are In a Book
110) A Wrinkle in Time
111) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
112) Unbearable Lightness
113) The Eyre Affair
114) Cows that Type
115) Harold and the Purple Crayon
116) Truth and Beauty
117) Never Let Me Go
118) Rifles For Watie
119) The Indispensible Calvin and Hobbes
120) Bloody Jack
121) Full Dark No Stars
122) The Heretic's Daughter
123) Berinstein Bears Trick or Treat
124) Revolting Rhymes
125) Pirates Past Noon
126) A Clockwork Orange
127) These is My Words
128) Treasure Island
129) To Kill a Mockingbird
130) Otto
131) Tears of the Giraffe
132) The Abstinence Teacher
133) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
134) Dove
135) The Scarlet Pimpernel
136) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
137) East of Eden
138) Mango Season
139) Little Diva
140) Tentacles
141)
142)
143)
144)
145)
146)
147)
148)
149)
150)
151)
152)
153)
154)
155)
156)
157)
158)
159)
160)
161)
162)
163)
164)
165)
166)
167)
168)
169)
170)
171)
172)
173)
174)
175)
176)
177)
178)
179)
180)
181)
182)
183)
184)
185)
186)
187)
188)
189)
190)
191)
192)
193)
194)
195)
196)
197)
198)
199)
200)

Start 10/1/11
End 9/30/12
A. The Abstinence Teacher
B. Bloody Jack
C. A Clockwork Orange
D. Dove
E. East of Eden
F. Full Dark No Stars
G.
H. The Heretic's Daughter
I.
J.
K.
L.
M. The Mango Season
N.
O.
P. Peace Like a River
Q.
R.
S. The Scarlet Pimpernel
T. To Kill a Mockingbird
U.
V.
W.
X.
Y.
Z.

If there is a book on the list I have absolutely no interest in reading I have left that space blank.
Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009
1.
2. Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
3. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
4. And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
5.
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
7. Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
8. His Dark Materials (series), by Philip Pullman
9. ttyl; ttfn; l8r g8r (series), by Myracle, Lauren
10.
11. Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers
12. It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
13.
14.
15.
16. Forever, by Judy Blume
17.
18.
19. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
20. King and King, by Linda de Haan
21.
22. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar
23.
24.
25.
26. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
27. My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier
28.
29. The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline B. Cooney
30. We All Fall Down, by Robert Cormier
31. What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
32. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
33. Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
34. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
35. Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging, by Louise Rennison
36.
37. It’s So Amazing, by Robie Harris
38. Arming America, by Michael Bellasiles
39. Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane
40. Life is Funny, by E.R. Frank
41. Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher
42. The Fighting Ground, by Avi
43. Blubber, by Judy Blume
44. Athletic Shorts, by Chris Crutcher
45. Crazy Lady, by Jane Leslie Conly
46. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
47. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, by George Beard
48. Rainbow Boys, by Alex Sanchez
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
50.
51.
52. The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson
53. You Hear Me?, by Betsy Franco
54. The Facts Speak for Themselves, by Brock Cole
55. Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Green
56. When Dad Killed Mom, by Julius Lester
57. Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause
58. Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
59. Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
60.
61. Draw Me A Star, by Eric Carle
62. The Stupids (series), by Harry Allard
63. The Terrorist, by Caroline B. Cooney
64. Mick Harte Was Here, by Barbara Park
65. The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
66. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor
67. A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
68. Always Running, by Luis Rodriguez
69.
70. Harris and Me, by Gary Paulsen
71.
72. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
73. What’s Happening to My Body Book, by Lynda Madaras
74. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
75. Anastasia (series), by Lois Lowry
76. A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
77. Crazy: A Novel, by Benjamin Lebert
78.
79. The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss
80. A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck
81. Black Boy, by Richard Wright
82. Deal With It!, by Esther Drill
83. Detour for Emmy, by Marilyn Reynolds
84. So Far From the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Watkins
85. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Crutcher
86. Cut, by Patricia McCormick
87. Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
88.
89. Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissenger
90.
91. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
92. The Boy Who Lost His Face, by Louis Sachar
93. Bumps in the Night, by Harry Allard
94.
95. Shade’s Children, by Garth Nix
96. Grendel, by John Gardner
97. The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
98. I Saw Esau, by Iona Opte
99.
100. America: A Novel, by E.R. Frank
ALA List of Banned and Challenged Classics
1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3.
4.
5.
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
10. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
11.
12.
13.
14. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
15.
16. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
17. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
18. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
19. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
20. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
21. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
22. Native Son, by Richard Wright
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
24. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
25. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
26.
27. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
28. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
29. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
30.
31.
32.
33. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
34. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
35. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
36. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
37. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
38. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
39.
40. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
41. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
42. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
43. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
44. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
45. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
46. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike

2010
The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset
The Help
2011
Apr- The Day the Falls Stood Still
May- The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
June- Son of Eden
July- Moon Over Manifest
Aug- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Sep- The Thirteenth Tale
Oct- The Glass Castle
Nov- The Heretic's Daughter
Dec- Book Club Party
2012 - Literary Genres
Jan - Historiographic Metafiction - The Blind Assassin
Feb - Steampunk -
Mar - Romance -

Start: Oct 1
End: Oct 31
B- Bet Me
L- To Kill a Mocking Bird (Harper Lee)
O-
B-

Short Challenges
NRC- October: Creature Feature End Date: Oct 31
NRC- November - Feast of Flavor End Date: Nov 30
3-6 Month Challenges
Chunksters-Pillars of the Earth End Date: Oct 29
SRC Fall 2011 End Date: Nov 30
Long Challenges
No Deadline
Monthly Reading Lists
October 2011 Reading List

To Kill a Mockingbird
Bet Me
A Clockwork Orange

Start: Nov 1
End: Nov 30
R-
O-
L-
L-
S-

The Girl Who Played With Fire
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Peace Like a River

A Tale of Two Cities
Peace Like a River
The Blind Assassin
The Winter Sea
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Shack
Fire

Start: Dec 1
End: Dec 31
1. The Winter Sea - Winter Wonderland - word in title
2. The Shack - White Christmas - Snowy pic
3. Fire - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - red cover
4. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Rudolph - red cover
5. Peace Like a River - Blue Christmas - blue cover
6.
7. A Tale of Two Cities - My Two Front Teeth - word in title
8. The Blind Assassin - Blue Christmas - blue cover
9. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - O Christmas Tree - tree on cover
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Mr. Grinch - Grinch goes from evil to good
Books mentioned in this topic
The Blind Assassin (other topics)A Clockwork Orange (other topics)
Treasure Island (other topics)
Full Dark, No Stars (other topics)
The Blind Assassin (other topics)
More...
Pick-a-Shelf: Monthly Shelf
SLCLS - Short Stories End Date: Dec 31
NRC - December: Singing in the Snow End Date: Dec 31
3-6 Month Challenges
Chunksters - East of Eden End Date: Dec 11
SRC Winter 11-12 End Date Mar 31
Long Challenges
Pick-a-Shelf: LOST 2011 End Date: Dec 31
Pick-a-Shelf: ROAR 2011 End Date: Dec 31
Serious Readers- Level 1 End Date: Dec 31
Serious Readers- Level 2 End Date: Dec 31
Read The Alphabet - Titles End Date: Sept 30, 12
No Deadline
TNBBC Monthly Reads List
AtWi 80 Books: Countries
AtWi 80 Books: US States
Never Ending Series Challenge
Banned Books Challenge
Past Challenges Archive
December Reading List
Group Reads
December:
Book Club - The Blind Assassin