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Joined Monday, September 29, 2008
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I got wung! Thanks to glenystasmania, Davros-10, ashleyosbcam, ApoloniaX and Anny Mouse!! :D


Books read in 2017:
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K.Rowling (re-read)

Books read in 2016:
1. The Enemy, Lee Child
2. 11.22.63, Stephen King
3. The Devil's Elixer, Raymond Khoury

Books read in 2015:
1. A Prisoner of Birth, Jeffrey Archer
2. Oath of Office, Michael Palmer
3. Micro, Michael Crichton and Richard Preston
4. The Templar Salvation, Raymond Khoury

Books read in 2014:
1. Sycamore Row, John Grisham
2. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
3. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
4. The Columbus Affair, Steve Berry
5. Rising Sun, Michael Crichton
6. Timeline, Michael Crichton
7. The Accused, John Grisham
8. The Racketeer, John Grisham

Books read in 2013:
1. The Devil's Punchbowl, Greg Iles

Books read in 2011:
1. A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
2. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
4. The Romanov Prophecy, Steve Berry
5. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
6. Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary
7. The Associate, John Grisham
8. The Litigators, John Grisham

Books read in 2010:
1. Animal Farm, George Orwell
2. Truckers, Terry Pratchett
3. Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
4. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Quiet Game, Greg Iles
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
7. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
8. Protagoras, Plato
9. The Woman in Black, Susan Hill
10. Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
11. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
12. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
13. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling (Re-read)
14. Diggers, Terry Pratchett
15. Waiting, Ha Jin
16. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
17. The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis
18. A Is for Alibi, Sue Grafton
19. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
20. Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
21. Pretend You Don't See Her, Mary Higgins Clark
22. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
23. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
24. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding
25. The Taking, Dean Koontz
26. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
27. The Girl who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
28. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, Stieg Larsson
29. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
30. While My Pretty One Sleeps, Mary Higgins Clark
31. The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
32. Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
33. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
34. Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
35. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
36. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
37. The Village by the Sea: An Indian family story, Anita Desai
38. The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
39. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
40. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins

Books read in 2009:
1. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
2. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
3. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
4. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
5. The Winner Stands Alone, Paulo Coelho
6. Hell's Kitchen, Jeffery Deaver
7. The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury
8. The Constant Gardener, John Le Carré
9. Sleep No More, Greg Iles
10. Black Coffee, Agatha Christie
11. The Nanny Diaries, Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin
12. The Janson Directive, Robert Ludlum
13. The Innocent Man, John Grisham
14. Blood Memory, Greg Iles
15. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
16. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
17. War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
18. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
19. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
20. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
21. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
22. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
23. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
24. Prince Caspian, C. S. Lewis
25. The Stand, Stephen King
26. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
27. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
28. Lovely in Her Bones, Sharyn Mccrumb

TBR:
1. The Magicians, Lev Grossman
2. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
3. The Templar Revelation, Clive Prince and Lynn Picknett
4. I, Michael Bennett, James Patterson
5. 61 Hours, Lee Child
6. The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken, Tarquin Hall
7. Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantel
8. Khan el-Khalili, Naguib Mahfouz
9. 11.22.63, Stephen King
10. The Monk who Sold His Ferrari, Robin S. Sharma
11. The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz
12. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
13. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
14. Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson
15. Rogue Lawyer, John Grisham
16. The Patriot Threat, Steve Berry
17. The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan, Rafia Zakaria
18. The Columbus Affair, Steve Berry
19. The Pilgrimage, Paulo Coelho

Previous challenges
BBC's The Big Read "Top 200" Reading Challenge!!
www.bookcrossing.com/---/437885

SIY Reading Challenge #13 (July to September 2010)
www.bookcrossing.com/---/435304


Reduce Mount TBR Challenge 2010!
www.bookcrossing.com/---/429800
www.bookcrossing.com/---/433577

Book of the Month Club
bcbookclub.webs.com
www.bookcrossing.com/---/428286
www.bookcrossing.com/---/433720

Study-Free Summer Reading Challenge
www.bookcrossing.com/---/431119
COMPLETED (13/13)

First Anniversary readathon! June 25th-2nd July 2010
www.bookcrossing.com/---/433660
Finished at: 19 hours 30 mins

September readathon 2009
bookcrossing.com/---/6427653
Finished at 11 out of 24 hrs

SIY Reading Challenge #12 (April to June 2010)
www.bookcrossing.com/---/425166
COMPLETED (10/10)

SIY Reading Challenge #11 (January to March 2010)
bookcrossing.com/---/6579935
COMPLETED (10/10)

SIY Reading Challenge #10 (Oct to Dec 2009):
bookcrossing.com/---/6463830
COMPLETED (10/10)


BBC's The Big Read "Top 200"
READ=83
HAVE BUT NOT YET READ OR CURRENTLY READING=22
DON'T HAVE=96



1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot

28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King

147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri

190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews


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