Monday, June 16, 2008

The 888 challenge

I decided to do the 888 challenge. These are my categories:

Jane Austins I haven't read:
  1. Persuasion
  2. Mansfield Park
  3. Northanger Abbey
  4. Emma
  5. Lady Susan
  6. The Watsons
  7. Sanditon
  8. Love and Friendship
Non Fiction:
  1. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  2. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  3. Nerds by David Anderegg
  4. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
  5. The elements of style by William Strunk Jr.
  6. American Nerd by Benjamin Nugent
  7. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
  8. The Self-Healing Personality by Dr. Howard S. Freidman
David/Leigh Eddings:
  1. Guardians of the West
  2. King of the Murgos
  3. Demon Lord of Karanda
  4. Sorceress of Darshiva
  5. The Seeress of Kell
  6. Belgarath the Sorcerer
  7. Polgara the Sorceress
  8. The Rivan Codex
Recomended to me:
  1. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
  2. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  3. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
  4. The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
  5. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
  6. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  8. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Madeline L'Engle
  1. A Wrinkle in Time
  2. A Wind in the Door
  3. A Swiftly Tilting Planet
  4. Many Waters
  5. The Arm of the Starfish
  6. Dragons in the Water
  7. A house like a Lotus
  8. An Acceptable Time
Banned books:
  1. The Giver by Lois Lowery
  2. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  3. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  4. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
  5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  6. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  7. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Brothers Grimm
  8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Classics
  1. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
  2. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  4. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  5. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  7. Notre-Dame of Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) by Victor Hugo
  8. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Movie Books
  1. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
  2. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
  3. Howl's Moving Castle by Diane Wynne Jones
  4. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
  5. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  6. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
  7. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
  8. Mimzy Were the Borogroves by Lewis Padgett
Books Read: 20
Left to Read: 42

3 comments:

raidergirl3 said...

welcome to the 888 challenge. Your lists look great. You have some long books on there (Hugo)
If you want to be able to post to the site, send us your email address, in the comments. I dont' have to publish it if you don't want, just let me know.

Stacie Lou said...

This looks pretty cool. I think I'm going to try it!

Marcindra LaPriel said...

I'm impressed. You're such a bookworm!