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I have taken on this challenge with a passion , or I am either a fool reading or a reading fool.

The following are the catagories and books I have finished. I now have 9 catagories, and I may not finish the Animal friends.

 

Jane Austen

1, Pride and Prejudice (what a way to start the year)

2. A Walk with Jane Austen

3. Austenland

4. Persuasion

5. Lost in Auten (wonderful a great read for Austen fans or P&P)

6. Mansfield Park

7. Jane Austen Book Club

8. Northanger Abbey

 

1600's American History (this is where we are in history)

1. Surviving Jamestown

2. The Serpent Never Sleeps

3. Eating the Plates

4. Landing of the Pilgrims

5. Potomac Captive

6. The World of Captain John Smith

7. Troubles Daughter

8. King Philip and his War

 

1600's World History

1. Iron Peacock

2. Isaac Newton by John Tiner

3. Traitor in the Tower by Neta Jackson

4. Master Cornhill (we really enjoyed this one)

5. Escape Across the Wide Sea

6. Madeleine Takes Command

7. When London Burned by Henty

8. Terror of the Spanish Main by Albert Marrin (wonderful!)

 

The following are catagories that I have started on but have not complete. The books with an * in the front have not been read.

 

Jane Austen Part 2 ( I am enjoying Jane Austen so much I had to add a sequel, I had never read Austen before , shocking I know)

 

1. Becoming Jane

2. Emma

3. Mr. Darcy's Story

4. Sense and Sensibility

5.

6

7

8

 

Sea Adventures

1. Iron Peacock

2. Cavalier's Adventure

3. Terror of the Spanish Main

4. When London Burned Henty

5. Landmark Captain Cook

6. Escape Across the Wide Sea

7. Blackthorn Winter

*8. Treasure Island (currently reading this)

 

Going Green

1. My Side of the Mountain

2. $64 Tomato

3. Animal Vegetable Miracle

4. The Inconvient Truth

5. The Autoimmune Epidemic

*6. Organic Gardening

*7. Green Clean

*8. Walden

 

Books Gone to the Movies

1. Bridget Jone's Diary

2. Jane Austen Book Club

3. Persuasion

4. Sense and Sensibility

* 5. PS I Love You (currently reading this)

* 6. Atonement

* 7. Eragon

* 8. Jacob Have I Loved

 

Animal Friends

1. Riding Lessons

2. Dog Song

3. Dog Days

* 4. Beardance

* 5. Incident at Hawk's Hill

* 6. Lad a Dog

* 7. Dog Story Herriot

* 8. All Creature Great and Small Herriot

 

1700's History

 

1. A Heat Strangely Warmed Vernon

2. Blackthorn Winter

3. The Ravenmater's Secret

4. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

* 5. Calico Captive (currently reading this aloud)

* 6. Struggle for the Contient by Albert Marrin (currently reading this for history

* 7. The World of George Washington by Foster

* 8. With Wolfe in Canada by Henty

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Curiosity got the better of me and I had to figure out what 888 was. I like the challenge and have added my list to my elegantlion blog.

 

How is everyone else doing with their 888? I'd love to see your reading lists.

 

Your list looks great...

Here's mine (subject to change :D)

 

General Fiction

1. Darkmans by Nicola Barker

2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (finished)

3. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

4. The Known World by Edward P. Jones

5. Falling Man by Don Delillo (finished)

6. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

7. Darkly Dreaming Dexter

8. God of Animals by Aryn Kyle (finished)

 

Thrillers

1. What Dead Men Know by Laura Lippman (finished)

2. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay by Michael Chabon (finished)

4. Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell (finished)

5. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano

6. Raven Black by Ann Cleeves

7. Shelter by Susan Palwick

8. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (finished)

 

Juvenile Fiction

1.May Bird Among the Stars by Jodi Lynn Anderson (finished)

2.May Bird Warroir Princess by Jodi Lynn Anderson (finished)

3.The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech & David Diaz (finished)

4.The Garden of Eve by K.L. Going

5.The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

6.The Penderwicks by Jane Birdsall (finished)

7.The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

8.The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going

 

Young Adult Fiction

1.I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak (finished)

2.The Absolutely True Diary of a Partime Indian by Sherman Alexie

3.The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson

4.Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (finished)

5.Schooled by Gordan Korman

6.Getting the Girl by Markus Zusak (finished)

7.Fighting Ruben Wolf by Markus Zusak (finished)

8. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (finished)

9. Twilight (finished)

 

Non Fiction

1.God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (finished)

2.Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (finished)

3.Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (finished)

4.Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (finished)

5.The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

6.The Nine by Jeffery Toobin

7.The World Without Us by Allen Weisman

8.The Book of General Ignorance by Mitchinson & Lloyd

9.Riddled with Life by Marlene Zuk

10.Skin: A History by Nina Jablonski (finished)

 

Historical (fiction and non)

 

1.The Nature of Monster by Clare Clark (finished)

The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber

2.The Savage Garden by Mark Mills

3.1776 by David McCullough

4.I Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis

5.Green Darkness by Anya Seton

6.The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

7.The African & Middle Easter World 600-1500 by Randall Pouwels (finished)

8.Our Island Story byH.E. Marshall

9.The Vicious Vikings & The Measly Middle Ages T. Deary & M. Brown (finished)

 

 

Books I need to re-read

 

1.Catch 22 Joseph Heller

2.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by P.K. Dick

3.Slaughter House 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

4.The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

5.Beowulf translation by Burton Raffel (finished)

6.Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (finished)

7.Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (finished)

8.I Claudius by Robert Graves (finished)

9. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (finished)

10. Naked by David Sedaris (finished)

 

Biographies

 

1.Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gelbert (finished)

2.Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

3.Into the Wild by John Krakauer

4.I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max

5.Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

6.Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

7.Gonzo -The Life with Hunter S. Thompson by Jann Wenner, Corey Seymour & Johnny Depp

8.Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama

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Thanks for posting your lists! I love your "hyped books" category SolaMichella:D

 

I had never read Austen either until last fall. (gasp!) I made it through "Pride & Prejudice", but it took a few months. I started it right after we had finished "Witch of Blackbird Pond" for school. It took me a few weeks to adjust my thinking, going from early American work ethic to British society.

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I have finished:

 

Swiss Family Robison

Treasure Island

Around the World in Eighty Days

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Desiring God

The Language Police

Freedomnomics (and Freakonomics)

Heart of Anger

Feminine Appeal

Home-Making

Mere Christianity

Economics in One Lesson

 

I am currently reading The Hobbit and the Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, along with the Reformation Study Bible.

 

Several of the ones I have read so far were re-reads, and I hesitated to put them on my list for the year. I have been greatly rewarded by re-reading them, though.

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I keep adding books to mine, over and above the 888. LOL! I just finished The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney and loved it. Costa (formerly Whitbread) award winner in 2006. Good stuff!

 

I need to STOP reading other people's lists, though, because it makes me change or add to mine too much!! heehee :D

 

You know, I love the motivation aspect of the 888, so whether I finish all or not, if I end up reading *better* books and savoring them more, then I don't care if I "complete" this thing in the way it was intended. It's fun! I feel like I'm reading more of what I want to (and have wanted to, but kept forgetting about) by doing this!

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You know, I love the motivation aspect of the 888, so whether I finish all or not, if I end up reading *better* books and savoring them more, then I don't care if I "complete" this thing in the way it was intended. It's fun! I feel like I'm reading more of what I want to (and have wanted to, but kept forgetting about) by doing this!

 

How true, thanks for the reminder. I like to digest my books for a few days after finishing. I'm still pondering on "Huckleberry Finn". I read "Devil's Arithmetic" in two days and had to explain to my dh why I was bawling my eyes out when he came home from work.

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Jenny, how did you like The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay?

 

I have The Yiddish Policemen's Union on my list but I've heard better things of the other one...

 

I liked both, but they are very different. Amazing Adventures, is just that... Adventures (magical), while YPU is gritty, almost a tribute to 50's crime novels. His writing is amazing, really pulls you in and takes you for a great ride. Enjoy!

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