Books of the Century Challenge

 

***Challenge not active*** 

Dates: This is a perpetual challenge, beginning in 2010
Hosted by: Tim (A Progressive on the Prairie)

Guidelines:

• This challenge is based on Daniel Immerwahr's Books of the Century website.
• The challenge provides an opportunity to "combine some excellent and classic reading from the history of popular American reading."
• Given the number of books, this will be a perpetual challenge.
• Crossovers with other challenges are allowed.

At least for the first year, the levels of participation will be:

• Popular Literary Culture 101 -- Five books from the entire list.
• Popular Literary Culture 201 -- Ten books from the entire list.
• Popular Literary Culture 301 -- One book from any of five different decades on the list.
• Popular Literary Culture 401 -- One book from each decade on the list.
• Master's in Popular Literary Culture -- Twenty books from the entire list, with at least each decade represented once.
• Doctorate in Popular Literary Culture -- Two or more books from each decade on the list.

See my original post about the challenge here.
See the challenge announcement page here.
See the challenge blog here.
See Daniel Immerwahr's Books of the Century website here.

I'm going to start off at the first level: Popular Literary Culture 101; so I'll be reading a total of five books from the list.

MY READING LIST:

1. Contact. Carl Sagan (published 1985) [See Review]
2. Animal Farm. George Orwell (published 1945) [Review to come]
3. The Man in Lower Ten. Mary Roberts Rinehart (published 1906) [See Review]

List of Possibilities:

• 1900-1909:
  The Golden Bowl. Henry James
  The House of Mirth. Edith Wharton
  The Man in Lower Ten. Mary Roberts Rinehart
  The Old Wives' Tale. Arnold Bennett
  The Wings of the Dove. Henry James
  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum
  
• 1910-1919:
  The Ambassadors. Henry James
  The Magnificent Ambersons. Booth Tarkington
  Swann's Way. Marcel Proust
  The Window at the White Cat. Mary Roberts Rinehart
  Winesburg, Ohio. Sherwood Anderson
  
• 1920-1929:
  Babbitt. Sinclair Lewis
  The Bishop Murder Case. S.S. Van Dine
  The Enchanted April. "Elizabeth"
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Anita Loos
  Good-bye to All That. Robert Graves
  The Greene Murder Case. S.S. Van Dine
  The Hotel. Elizabeth Bowen
  Jalna. Mazo de la Roche
  The Magic Mountain. Thomas Mann
  Main Street. Sinclair Lewis
  
• 1930-1939:
  Appointment in Samara. John O'Hara
  The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler
  Call It Sleep. Henry Roth
  Invitation to the Waltz. Rosamond Lehmann
  Seven Gothic Tales. Isak Dinesen
  
• 1940-1949:
  Animal Farm. George Orwell
  Father of the Bride. Edward Streeter
  The Human Comedy. William Saroyan
  Mistress Masham's Repose. T.H. White
  Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Eric Hodgins
  Random Harvest. James Hilton
  
• 1950-1959:
  The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Sloan Wilson
  Peyton Place. Grace Metalious
  
• 1960-1969:
  Portnoy's Complaint. Philip Roth
  Rabbit, Run. John Updike
  
• 1970-1979:
  Angle of Repose. Wallace Stegner
  The Best and the Brightest. David Halberstam
  Captains and the Kings. Taylor Caldwell
  Condominium. John D. MacDonald
  The Day of the Jackal. Frederick Forsyth
  The Dead Zone. Stephen King
  Evergreen. Belva Plain
  The Greek Treasure. Irving Stone
  How to Save Your Own Life. Erica Jong
  If on a winter's night a traveler. Italo Calvino
  The Passions of the Mind. Irving Stone
  Play It As It Lays. Joan Didion
  Rabbit Redux. John Updike
  Time and Again. Jack Finney
  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. John Le Carre
  Touch Not the Cat. Mary Stewart
  Travels With My Aunt. Graham Greene
  
• 1980-1989:
  ". . . And the Ladies of the Club." Helen Hooven Santmyer
  The Bourne Identity. Robert Ludlum
  Contact. Carl Sagan
  Lake Wobegon Days. Garrison Keillor
  The Parsifal Mosaic. Robert Ludlum
  The Pillars of the Earth. Ken Follet
  Texas. James A. Michener
  
• 1990-1999:
  The Celestine Prophecy. James Redfield
  The Hours. Michael Cunningham
  September. Rosamunde Pilcher

Themed Reading Challenge 2010

***Challenge ended. See my wrap-up post here.***

Dates: 14 February to 14 August, 2010
Hosted by: Caribousmom

Guidelines:

• This is a six month challenge designed to help readers clear books from their to-be-read stacks which center around a common theme or themes.
• Readers may join at ANY TIME between now and August 14th.
• Books should be chosen from the reader's TBR pile (this may be an actual physical pile or a virtual pile).
• The goal is to read AT LEAST 5 books linked by theme.
• Overlaps with other challenges are allowed.
• Readers may change their list of books or their theme(s) at any time.

There are three different levels of participation:

1. Read at least five books sharing the same theme.
2. Read at least five books sharing TWO themes.
3. Read at least five books sharing MORE than TWO themes.

Readers decide on their own themes, which can be geographic, genre, author, subject matter, or anything in between!

See my original post about the challenge here.
See my wrap-up post here.
See the challenge announcement page here.
See the list of reviews here.

I'm signing up for level one (at least five books that share a single theme). And for my theme, I'm choosing "Women of a Certain Age" (that is, books with older female protagonists).

MY READING LIST:

1. Mrs. Malory and Any Man's Death. Hazel Holt [Review to come]
2. A Stitch in Time (Needlework/Betsy Devonshire series). Monica Ferris [Review to come]
3. The Forgotten Garden. Kate Morton [See Review]
   
4. The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Cathleen Schine [Review to come]
   

List of Possibilities:

Alice I Have Been. Melanie Benjamin
All Passion Spent. Vita Sackville-West
Back When We Were Grownups. Anne Tyler
Eve's Daughters. Lynn Austin
For My Daughters. Barbara Delinsky
Heat Wave. Penelope Lively
July and August. Nancy Clark
Jumping the Queue. Mary Wesley
Kinds of Love. May Sarton
Last Lovers. William Wharton
Loop Group. Larry McMurtry
Lunch at the Piccadilly. Clyde Edgerton
Miss Bunting. Angela Thirkell
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind. Ann B. Ross
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont. Elizabeth Taylor
My House In Umbria. William Trevor
Not That Sort of Girl. Mary Wesley
Seek My Face. John Updike
Spiderweb. Penelope Lively
The Art of Mending. Elizabeth Berg
The Cranford novels. Elizabeth Gaskell
The Dorothy Martin mysteries. Jeanne M. Dams
The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Muriel Barbery
The Magnificent Spinster: A Novel. May Sarton
The Miss Silver mysteries. Patricia Wentworth
The Mrs. Bradley mysteries. Gladys Mitchell
The Mrs. Jeffries mysteries. Emily Brightwell
The Mrs. Malory mysteries. Hazel Holt
The Needlework (Betsy Devonshire) mysteries. Monica Ferris
Travels With My Aunt. Graham Greene
Walking Across Egypt. Clyde Edgerton

A to Z Challenge 2010

***Challenge ended. See my wrap-up post here.***

Dates: 1 January to 31 December 2010
Hosted by: Becky of Becky's Book Reviews

Guidelines:

Read 26 or 52 books:

• Authors - Read alphabetically by author. Commit to 26 books.
• Titles - Read alphabetically by title. Commit to 26 books.
• Authors & Titles - Commit to reading 52 books.

See my original post about the challenge here.
See my wrap-up post here.
See the challenge announcement page here.
See the Yahoo discussion group here.

I'll be reading 26 books, chosen alphabetically by title.

MY READING LIST:

A: (The) Anthologist. Nicholson Baker [See Review]
B: (The) Brontes Went to Woolworths. Rachel Ferguson [See Review]
C: Contact. Carl Sagan [See Review]
D: Damaged. Alex Kava [See Review]
E: (The) Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder [See Review]
F: (The) Forgotten Garden. Kate Morton [See Review]
G: (The) Good Psychologist. Noel Shpancer [See Review]
H: (The) House Next Door. Anne Rivers Siddons [See Review]
I: Innocent. Scott Turow [See Review]
J: Juliet. Anne Fortier [See Review]
K:
L: Live To Tell. Lisa Gardner [See Review]
M: (The) Map of True Places. Brunonia Barry [See Review]
N: Noah's Compass. Anne Tyler [Review to come]
O: Operation Terror. Murray Leinster [Review to come]
P: People of the Book. Geraldine Brooks [Review to come]
Q: Quattrocento. James McKean [See Review]
R: (The) Raphael Affair. Iain Pears [See Review]
S: (The) Swimming Pool. Holly LeCraw [See Review]
T: Tinkers. Paul Harding [See Review]
U
V: Venom. Joan Brady [See Review]
W: We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Shirley Jackson [Review to come]
X
Y:
Z:

Decades 2010

***Challenge ended. See my wrap-up post here.***

Dates: 1 January to 31 December 2010
Hosted by: Michelle at 1MoreChapter

Guidelines:

• Read a minimum of ten books in 2010, which were published in ten consecutive decades.
• Books published since 2000 don't count.
• Crossovers with other challenges are allowed.
• Lists can be changed at any time.

See my original post about the challenge here.
See my wrap-up post here.
See the challenge announcement page here.

I'll be reading books from the 20th Century, 1900-1999.

MY READING LIST (with links to reviews):

1. 1900-1909:
   
2. 1910-1919: The Thirty-Nine Steps. John Buchan
   
3. 1920-1929:
   
4. 1930-1939: The Brontes Went to Woolworths. Rachel Ferguson
   
5. 1940-1949: Animal Farm. George Orwell [Review to come]
   
6. 1950-1959:
   
7. 1960-1969: The Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
   
8. 1970-1979: The House Next Door. Anne Rivers Siddons
   
9. 1980-1989: Contact. Carl Sagan
   
10. 1990-1999: The Raphael Affair. Iain Pears
    

RYOB (Read Your Own Books) Challenge 2010

***Challenge completed. See my wrap-up post here.***

Dates: 1 January to 31 December 2010
Hosted by: MizB's Reading Challenges

Guidelines:

• Pick a number of books you'd like to read in one year; choose them from your OWN collection; read them between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2010.
• Audio-books and e-books are allowed, but re-reads are not.
• You don't need a blog to participate.

See my original post about the challenge here.
See my wrap-up post here.
See the challenge announcement page here.

I'm planning to read at least twenty books from my own collection for the challenge.

MY READING LIST:

1. Venom. Joan Brady (ARC) [See Review]
2. People of the Book. Geraldine Brooks [Review to come]
   
3. Mrs. Malory and Any Man's Death. Hazel Holt [Review to come]
   
4. The Brontes Went to Woolworths. Rachel Ferguson [See Review]
   
5. Heresy. S.J. Parris [Review to come]
   
6. A Stitch in Time. Monica Ferris [Review to come]
   
7. The Swimming Pool. Holly LeCraw [See Review]
8. An American Type. Henry Roth [See Review]
   
9. A River in the Sky. Elizabeth Peters [See Review]
10. Live To Tell. Lisa Gardner [See Review]
    
11. The Map of True Places. Brunonia Barry [See Review]
12. Innocent. Scott Turow [See Review]
    
13. The Forgotten Garden. Kate Morton [See Review]
    
14. The Spider Bites. Medora Sale [Review to come]
15. The Good Psychologist. Noam Shpancer [See Review]
    
16. Damaged. Alex Kava [See Review]
17. The Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder [See Review]
18. Think of a Number. John Verdon [Review to come]
19. All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Lan Samantha Chang [See Review]
20. The Convent. Panos Karnezis [See Review]
21. The House Next Door. Anne Rivers Siddons [See Review]
    
22. Animal Farm. George Orwell [Review to come - maybe]
    
23. After Claude. Iris Owens [See Review]
24. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Shirley Jackson [Review to come]
    
25. Juliet. Anne Fortier [See Review]
    
26. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden. Helen Grant [Review to come]
    
27. The Distant Hours. Kate Morton [Review to come]
    
28. The Weird Sisters. Eleanor Brown [See Review]
    
29. The Thirty-Nine Steps. John Buchan [See Review]
30. Operation Terror. Murray Leinster [Review to come]
    

The 2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge

***Challenge ended. See my wrap-up post here.***

Dates: 1 January to 31 December 2010
Hosted by: J. Kaye of J. Kaye's Book Blog

Guidelines:

• Read a set number of books from your local public library.
• Anyone can join; you don't need a blog to participate.
• Reviews are not required.
• Audio, e-books, young adult, young reader, re-reads are all allowed - anything counts as long as it's checked out from the library.
• There's no need to list your books in advance - you can choose as you go. If you do make a list, it can be changed at any time as necessary.
• Crossovers with other challenges are allowed.

Levels of Participation:

• The Mini - Check out and read 25 library books.
• Just My Size - Check out and read 50 library books.
• Stepping It Up - Check out and read 75 library books.
• Super Size Me - Check out and read 100 library books.

I'm signing up at the "Mini" Level (25 books).

See my original post about the challenge here.
See my wrap-up post here.
See the challenge announcement page here.

MY READING LIST:

1. The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy. Nick Bantock [See Review]
   
2. The Anthologist. Nicholson Baker [See Review]
   
3. The Raphael Affair. Iain Pears [See Review]
   
4. Quattrocento. James McKean [See Review]
5. Contact. Carl Sagan [See Review]
   
6. A Fair Maiden. Joyce Carol Oates [Review to come]
7. Before the Throne. Naguib Mahfouz [Review to come]
8. Tinkers. Paul Harding [See Review]
   
9. The Last Child. John Hart [Review to come]
   
10. The Hypnotist. M.J. Rose [See Review]
    
11. The Magicians. Lev Grossman [Review to come]
    
12. The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Cathleen Schine [Review to come]
    
13. Noah's Compass. Anne Tyler [Review to come]
    
14. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Alan Bradley [Review to come]
    
15. The Inheritance. Simon Tolkien [See Review]
    
16. Cards on the Table. Agatha Christie [See Review]
17. Book of Shadows. Alexandra Sokoloff [Review to come]
    
18. The Dark Half. Stephen King [Review to come]
    

Quick Guide Rehab for 2010

I'm working on a new format for my Quick Guide for 2010. Hopefully, it will be a little more useful and easier to update than the 2009 Guide.

More to come.

The 42 (Sci-Fi) Challenge 2010

***Challenge ended. See my wrap-up post here.***

Dates: 1 January to 3 December 2010
Hosted by: Becky of Becky's Book Reviews

Guidelines:

• Read, watch, or listen to (and possibly review) at least 42 science fiction items.
• Keep an ongoing list of your items on the challenge blog or on your on website.
• You can link to your reviews or not; and reviews are not required in order to participate.

See my wrap-up post here.
See my personal challenge blog here.
See the challenge announcement page here.
See the challenge blog here.
See my challenge blog posts here.

MY LIST:

1. Avatar (2009; film)
   
2. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953; film)
3. Contact. Carl Sagan (1985; novel; 432 pages)
4. Deja Vu (2006; film)
5. Doctor Who (David Tennant): "Planet of the Ood" (2008; TV series)
   
6. Doctor Who (David Tennant): "Partners in Crime" (2008; TV series)
7. Eureka: "Founder's Day" (2010; TV series)
   
8. Eureka: "A New World" (2010; TV series)
   
9. Eureka: "All the Rage" (2010; TV series)
10. Eureka: "Crossing Over" (2010; TV series)
11. Eureka: "Momstrosity" (2010; TV series)
12. Eureka: "Stoned" (2010; TV series)
13. Eureka: "The Ex-Files" (2010; TV series)
14. Eureka: "I'll Be Seeing You" (2010; TV series)
15. Eureka: "O Little Town" (2010; TV series)
16. Five Million Miles to Earth (1967; film)
    
17. Forbidden Planet (1956; film)
18. The Forgotten (2004; film)
19. Operation Terror (1962; novel)
    
20. Panic in Year Zero! (1962; film)
21. Star Trek (2009; film)
    
22. Star Trek: Generations (1994; film)
    
23. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Family" (1990; TV series)
24. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Future Imperfect" (1990; TV series)
25. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Reunion" (1990; TV series)
26. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "I Borg" (1992; TV series)
27. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Inner Light" (1992; TV series)
28. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Relics" (1992; TV series)
    
29. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Homeward" (1993; TV series)
    
30. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Sub Rosa" (1993-94; TV series)
    
31. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Emergence" (1994; TV series)
32. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Eye of the Beholder" (1994; TV series)
33. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Genesis" (1994; TV series)
34. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Journey's End" (1994; TV series)
    
35. Space Cowboys (2000; film)
    
36. The Island of Dr. Moreau. H.G. Wells (1895; novel; 245 pages)
37. X the Unknown (1956; film)
38. These Are the Damned (1962; film)
    

The Typically British Reading Challenge 2010

***Challenge completed. See my wrap-up post here.***

Dates: 1 January to 31 December 2010
Hosted by: Book Chick City

Guidelines:

• The challenge is to read a set number of fiction books by British authors.
• Challenge begins January 1, 2010. Anyone can join. You don't need a blog to participate.
• You don't have to make a list of books to read - just choose as you go. Or, if you do make a list, it can be changed at any time.
• Crossovers with other challenges are allowed.
• There will be a place to link your reviews, but reviews aren't mandatory.
  

Levels of Participation:

1. "Put the Kettle On" - Read 2 books
2. "Gordon Bennett" - Read 4 books
3. "Bob's Your Uncle" - Read 6 books
4. "Cream Crackered" - Read 8 books

See my original post about the challenge here.
See my wrap-up post here.
See the challenge announcement page here.
See the challenge review page here.

I'm signing up for Level 4 ("Cream Crackered") - read 8 books.

MY READING LIST (subject to change):

1. The Raphael Affair. Iain Pears [see review]
2. The Island of Dr. Moreau. H.G. Wells [see review]
   
3. The Brontes Went to Woolworths. Rachel Ferguson [see review]
   
4. Heresy. S.J. Parris [Review to come]
5. The Inheritance. Simon Tolkien [see review]
   
6. Cards on the Table. Agatha Christie [see review]
7. Animal Farm. George Orwell [Review to come]
   
8. The Thirty-nine Steps. John Buchan [see review]
   

Other Possibilities:

According to Mark. Penelope Lively
Afternoon of a Good Woman. Nina Bawden
All Passion Spent. Vita Sackville-West
The Ballad of Peckham Rye. Muriel Spark
The Black Prince. Iris Murdoch
The Camomile Lawn. Mary Wesley
Circles of Deceit. Nina Bawden
The Comforters. Muriel Spark
Consequences. Penelope Lively
The Driver's Seat. Muriel Spark
Family Album. Penelope Lively
Family Money. Nina Bawden
The Finishing School. Muriel Spark
The Go-Between. L.P. Hartley
The Heat of the Day. Elizabeth Bowen
Heat Wave. Penelope Lively
Judgment Day. Penelope Lively
Jumping the Queue. Mary Wesley
The Mandelbaum Gate. Muriel Spark
The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont. Elizabeth Taylor
Murder Must Advertise. Dorothy L. Sayers
The Public Image. Muriel Spark
The Road to Lichfield. Penelope Lively
The Sea, The Sea. Iris Murdoch
Treasures of Time. Penelope Lively
The Virgin in the Garden. A.S. Byatt
Symposium. Muriel Spark
In Chancery (Forstye Saga, book 2). John Galsworthy
To Let (Forsyte Saga, book 3). John Galsworthy
Mrs. McGinty's Dead. Agatha Christie
The Secret Adversary. Agatha Christie
Good Morning, Midnight. Jean Rhys
The Years. Virginia Woolf
The Children's Book. A.S. Byatt
Afternoon Men. Anthony Powell
Travels With My Aunt. Graham Greene
Party Going. Henry Green

The 2010 Bibliophilic Books Challenge

**Challenge completed. See my wrap-up post here.**

Dates: 1 January to 31 December 2010
Hosted by: Lesley of A Life in Books

Guidelines:

• Read a set number of books that focus on books or reading.
• Books can be fiction or nonfiction.
• Only books read during the challenge will count.
• Re-reads and crossovers with other challenges are allowed.
• No need to make a list of books to read.
• You can change your mind on any particular book selection throughout the challenge.

Levels of Participation:

• Bookworm: Read three books
• Litlover: Read six books
• Bibliomaniac: Read twelve books

See my original post about the challenge here.
See my wrap-up post here.
See the challenge announcement page here.
See the list of reviews here.

I'm signing up at the Bookworm level (three books), but hope to do better than that.

MY READING LIST:

1. The Anthologist. Nicholson Baker [See Review]
2. People of the Book. Geraldine Brooks [Review to come]
3. The Forgotten Garden. Kate Morton [See Review]
   
4. The Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder [See Review]
5. The Inheritance. Simon Tolkien [See Review]
   

OTHER POSSIBLE CHOICES:

• Fiction:
  The Book of Air and Shadows. Michael Gruber
  The Book of Lost Things. John Connolly
  The Bookwoman's Last Fling. John Dunning
  The Dante Club. Matthew Pearl
  Ex-Libris. Ross King
  The Geographer's Library. Jon Fasman
  Inkheart. Cornelia Funke
  The Last Dickens. Matthew Pearl
  The Secret of Lost Things. Sheridan Hay
  Sign of the Book. John Dunning
  
  
• Nonfiction:
  A Gentle Madness. Nicholas A. Basbanes
  A Passion for Books. Harold Rabinowitz
  Book Row. Marvin Mondlin
  Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader. Anne Fadiman
  Library: An Unquiet History. Matthew Battles
  The Library at Night. Alberto Manguel
  Old and Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern
  Old Books, Rare Friends. Madeleine B. Stern and Leona Rostenberg
  Sisters of the Sinai. Janet Martin Soskice
  Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore. Lawrence Goldstone
  The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop. Lewis Buzbee
  
  

The Art History Reading Challenge

***Challenge ended. See my wrap-up post here.***

Dates: 1 January to 31 December 2010
Hosted by: Nomadreader

Guidelines:

• Read at least 3 books about art in 2010
• Books can be either fiction or nonfiction, and can be from any genre (historical fiction, graphic novels, etc.)
• Young adult and children's books are allowed
• Crossovers with other challenges are allowed
• You can make your list of books in advance or choose as you go

Levels of Participation:

• Curious - Read at least 3 books about art, either fiction or nonfiction
  
• Fascinated - Read at least 6 books about art, either fiction or nonfiction
  
• Enamored - Read at least 9 books about art, either fiction or nonfiction
• Utterly enchanted - Read at least 12 books about art, either fiction or nonfiction
  

I'm signing up for the "Fascinated" level (at least 6 books).

See my original post about the challenge here.
See my wrap-up post here.
See the challenge announcement page here.
See the LibraryThing discussion group here.

MY READING LIST

1. The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy. Nick Bantock [See Review]
   
2. The Raphael Affair. Iain Pears [See Review]
   
3. Quattrocento. James McKean [See Review]
   
4. The Hypnotist. M.J. Rose [See Review]
   
5. The Forgery of Venus. Michael Gruber
6. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper. Harriet Scott Chessman

LIST OF POSSIBILITIES

Art-Related Fiction

A Curious Earth: A Novel. Gerard Woodward
A Killer Collection (Collectible Mysteries, No.1). J.B. Stanley
Afterimage. Helen Humphreys
An Artist of the Floating World. Kazuo Ishiguro
Cat's Eye. Margaret Atwood
Chasing Cezanne. Peter Mayle
Coast Road. Barbara Delinsky
Death and Restoration. Iain Pears
Depths of Glory. Irving Stone
Feint of Art (Annie Kincaid Mysteries No.1). Hailey Lind
Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Susan Vreeland
Girl with a Pearl Earring. Tracy Chevalier
Headlong. Michael Frayn
I Am Madame X. Gioia Dilberto
Leonardo's Swans. Karen Essex
Luncheon of the Boating Party. Susan Vreeland
Lust for Life. Irving Stone
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper. Harriet Scott Chessman
Modern Art: A Novel. Evenly Toynton
My Name Is Asher Lev. Chaim Potok
Pale as the Dead. Fiona Mountain
Quattrocento. James McKean
Seek My Face. John Updike
Stealing Athena. Karen Essex
Still Life. Louise Penny
Stone Virgin. Barry Unsworth
The Agony and the Ecstasy. Irving Stone
The Bone Vault. Linda Fairstein
The Brutal Art. Jesse Kellerman
The Calder Game. Blue Balliett
The Caves of Perigord. Martin Walker
The Cezanne Chase (Inspector Jack Oxby). Thomas Swan
The Chrysalis: A Novel. Heather Terrell
The DaVinci Deception. (Inspector Jack Oxby). Thomas Swan
The Danish Girl. David Ebershoff
The Final Faberge (Inspector Jack Oxby). Thomas Swan
The Forgery of Venus. Michael Gruber
The Illuminator. Brenda Rickman Vantrease
The Lady and the Unicorn. Tracy Chevalier
The Light Possessed. Alan Cheuse
The Light That Failed. Rudyard Kipling
The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals: A Novel. Michael Kernan
The Madonnas of Leningrad. Debra Dean
The Marble Faun. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Matisse Stories. A.S. Byatt
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre. Dominic Smith
The Moon and Sixpence. W. Somerset Maugham
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World. E.L. Konigsberg
The Needle in the Blood. Sarah Bower
The Painted Kiss. Elizabeth Hickey
The Painter from Shanghai. Jennifer Cody Epstein
The Painter. Will Davenport
The Raphael Affair. Iain Pears
The Second Mrs. Gioconda. E.L. Konigsberg
The Seventh Unicorn. Kelly Jones
The Underpainter. Jane Urquhart
The Wayward Muse. Elizabeth Hickey
The World to Come: A Novel. Dara Horn

Art-Related Nonfiction

Brunelleschi's Dome. Ross King
Sargent's Daughters: A Biography of a Painting. Erica S. Hirshler
Strapless. Deborah Davis
The Judgment of Paris. Ross King
The Lost Painting. Jonathan Harr
The Story of the Armory Show. Milton W. Brown

The Series Challenge Season Four

***Challenge ended. See my wrap-up post here.***

Dates: 1 December 2009 to 30 November 2010
Hosted by: Kathrin of Secret Dreamworld of a Bookaholic

Guidelines:

• Pick a couple series you already started and now want to finish (meaning, you'll be all up to date with the series when it ends).
• Read at least 4 books, more are also okay, of course!
• Crossovers with other challenges are always okay.
• Post your reviews on your blog or in the comments section of the challenge page, no matter how long. If you post the review on your blog, post a link to the review in the comments section so everyone else can check out your review.
• Have fun!
  

See my original post about the challenge here.
See my wrap-up post here.
See the challenge announcement page here.

I'll be working on these series in 2010:

• The Cliff Janeway series by John Dunning (2 books left to read)
• The Mrs. Malory series by Hazel Holt (6 books left to read)
  
• The Needlework (Betsy Devonshire) series by Monica Ferris (9 books left to read)
  
• The Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (7 books left to read)

MY READING LIST:

1. Crewel Yule (Needlework/Betsy Devonshire series). Monica Ferris [see review]
2. Mrs. Malory and Any Man's Death (Mrs. Malory series). Hazel Holt [Review to come]
3. A Stitch in Time (Needlework/Betsy Devonshire series). Monica Ferris [Review to come]
   
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