Challenge History

2009

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RIP IV Challenge (finished)

Host: Carl
When: September 1st-October 31st 2009
Book Read:

• The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
  
• Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
  
• Wolf by Gillian Cross
  
• Cemetery Stories by Katherine Ramsland
  
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  
• Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
• The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor
• The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
• Come Closer by Sara Gran

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Japanese Literature Challenge (finished)

Host: Bellezza
When: August 2009-January 2010
Book To Read:

• Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
  
• Underground by Haruki Murakami
  
• Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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4 Rs Challenge (finished)

Hosts: Fyrefly and The Literate Housewife
When: Ongoing; Starts over every 3 months
Book To Read:

• The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
  

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GLBTQ Challenge (finished)

Host: Amanda
When: July- December 2009
Books To Read:

1. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
   
2. The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
   
3. The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie the Second by Drew Ferguson
   
4. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
   
5. Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block
   
6. Ash by Malinda Lo
   

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Non-Fiction Five (finished)

Host:Trish
When: May - September 2009
Books Read:

1. Feeling Like a Kid by Jerry Griswold
2. Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank
   
3. Reasonable Creatures by Katha Pollitt
   
4. Cheek by Jowl by Ursula K. Le Guin
   
5. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
   

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Herding Cats II - Attack of the Hairballs (finished)

Host:Renay
When: April - December 2009
Books Read:

1. Skellig by David Almond
   
2. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
   

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Once Upon a Time III (finished)

Host:Carl V.
When: March 21st - June 20th 2009
Books Read:

• Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
• Here, There be Dragons by James A Owen
• Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
• The Trygrine Cat by Inbali Iserles
  
• Flora Segunda by Ysabeu S. Wilce
• The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham
• Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
• The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
• Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller
• Bone by Jeff Smith
• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
• The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Classics Challenge (finished)

Host:Trish
When: April - October 2009
Books To Read:

1. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2. Howards End by E. M. Forster
3. Emma by Jane Austen
4. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

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Science Book Challenge (finished)

Host: Jeff
When: All of 2009
Books Read:

1. Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
   
2. An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
   
3. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
   

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Sci-Fi Experience (finished)

Host: Carl
When: Jan. and Feb. 2009
Books Read:

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Stories from The Norton Anthology of Science Fiction, edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Atterbery
• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
• Messenger by Lois Lowry
• Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
• Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
• Parasite Positive by Scott Westerfeld
• Old Man's War by John Scalzi
  

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Dream King Challenge (boo - failed)

Host: Jessi
When: All of 2009
Books To Read:

1. Comics: Violent Cases
   
2. Novels: Good Omens
   
3. Scripts: Mirrormask: The Illustrated Film Script
   
4. Short Story Collections: Smoke & Mirrors
   
5. Children's and YA: Blueberry Girl and The Dangerous Alphabet
   
6. Others: Who Killed Amanda Palmer
   

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Dewey's Books Challenge (finished)

Host:Chris and Robin
When: All of 2009
Books To Read:

1. The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot
2. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
3. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennet
4. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
   
5. We Are on Our Own by Miriam Katin
6. Black Hole by Charles Burns
7. The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron
8. How to be Good by Nick Hornby
9. What I Was by Meg Rosoff
   

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What's in a Name II ( failed)

Host: Annie
When: All of 2009
Books To Read:

• Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
  
• Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
  
• The Impostor's Daughter by Laurie Sandell
  
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  
• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
  
• The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor

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Rhinoa and Nymeth's Mutual Challenge (failed)
Host: None
When: All of 2009
Books To Read:

• Piece by Piece by Tori Amos
• Here, There be Dragons by James A Owen
• Death Note v1 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
• Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
• The Witches by Roald Dahl

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TBR Lite Challenge (failed)

Host: MizB
When: All of 2009
Books To Read:

• Fudoki by Kij Johnson
• Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
• How to be Good by Nick Hornby
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
• The Owl Service by Alan Garner
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

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Manga Challenge (finished)

Host:Rhinoa
When: All of 2009
Books To Read:

1. Death Note v1 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
   
2. Death Note v2 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
   
3. Death Note v3 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
4. Emma Vol 1-7 by Kaoru Mori
5. Dramacon: Ultimate Edition by Svetlana Chmakova

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World Citizen Challenge (finished)

Host:Eva
When:All of 2009
Books To Read:

1. My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
   
2. Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
3. Virginity or Death! by Katha Pollitt

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Lambda Award Challenge (finished)

Host:Book Chronicle
When: No time limit
Books To Read:

• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
  
• Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
  
• Hero by Perry Moore

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Support Your Local Library Challenge (failed)

Host:J. Kaye
When: All of 2009
Books To Read:12 Library Books

1. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
2. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
   
3. Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
   
4. An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
5. Ironweed by William Kennedy
6. The Hard Facts of the Grimm's Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
   
7. Feeling Like a Kid by Jerry Griswold
8. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
9. Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age edited by Martha Vicinus
10. Reasonable Creatures by Katha Pollitt
11. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
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Graphic Novels Challenge (finished)

Host:Laza
When: All of 2009
Books To Read:24 Comics/Graphic Novels

1. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
2. The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot
3. Fables: Sons of Empires by Bill Willigham, Mark Buckingham, et al
4. Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days) by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, et al
5. Fables: Wolves by Bill Willigham, Mark Buckingham, et al
6. Fables: The Good Prince by by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, et al
7. Fables: War and Pieces by by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, et al
8. We Are on Our Own by Miriam Katin
9. Black Hole by Charles Burns
10. Heartbreak Soup by Gilbert Hernandez
11. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now by Andre Jordan
12. Human Diastrophism by Gilbert Hernandez
13. Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs
14. Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley
15. Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham
16. Bone by Jeff Smith
17. Salamander Dream by Hope Larson
18. Slow Storm by Danica Novgorodoff
19. Bayou Vol 1 by Jeremy Love
    
20. Dramacon: Ultimate Edition by Svetlana Chmakova
21. The Impostor's Daughter by Laurie Sandell
22. Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda by J.P. Stassen
    
23. Fables: The Dark Ages by Bill Willingham et al
24. Wonderland by Tommy Kavoc and Sonny Liew

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2008

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R.I.P. III (finished)

Host: Carl V.
When: September 1st - October 31st 2008
Books Read:

• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston
  
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
• The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• lost boy lost girl by Peter Straub
• Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist
• Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop
• Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop
  
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
• The Vampyre by Tom Holland
• Nigthtmares and Fairy Tales by Serena Valentino
• Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
• Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• Gossamer by Lois Lowry
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
  

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New Classics Challenge (finished)

Host: Joanna
When: August 1st 2008 - January 31st 2009
Books to Read:

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
  
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
  
• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
  
• Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

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Japanese Literature Challenge 2 (finished)

Host: Bellezza
When: August 1st 2008 - January 30th 2009
Read so far:

• When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
  
• Strangers by Taichi Yamada
• Goodbye, Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
• Black Rain by Masuje Ibuse
• Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami
  

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100 Years of Anne Mini-Challenge (finished)

Host: Mrs S
When: June 7th - July 31st 2008
Books Read:

• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  
• Anne of Avonela by L.M. Montgomery
• Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
  

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A Well-Rounded Challenge (finished)
Host: Jan
When:July 1st - Dec 31st 2008
Books Read:

1. Looking for Alaska by John Green (Southern Reading Challenge)
   
2. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (What's in a Name?)
   
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Classics Challenge)
   
4. Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery (100 Years of Anne Mini-Challenge)
5. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (Orbis Terrarum Challenge)
   
6. When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka (Japanese Literature Challenge)
   

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Classics Challenge 2008 (finished)

Host: Trish
When: July 1st - Dec 31st 2008
Books To Read:

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
  
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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Southern Reading Challenge 2008 (finished)

Host: Maggie
When:May 15th - August 15th 2008
Books Read:

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
  
• Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician by Daniel Wallace
  

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Arthurian Challenge (finished)

Host:Becky
When: April 2008 - March 2009
Possible Books To Read:

• Arthur and the Lost Kingdom by Alistair Moffat
  
• Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
  
• The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
• Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
• The Grey King by Susan Cooper
• Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
  
• The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron
  
• I am Morgan Le Fay by Nancy Springer
  

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Orbis Terrarum Challenge (finished)

Host: B&B Ex-Libris
When: April 1st - Dec 31st 2008
Books Read:

• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• Strangers by Taichi Yamada
• The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• paddy clarke ha ha ha by Roddy Doyle
• Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
• Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

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Initials Challenge (finished)

Host:Becky
When: April 1st - Nov 30th 2008
Books Read:

• Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montegomery
• Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton
• The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byatt
• The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit

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Non-Fiction Five 2008 (finished)

Host: Joy
When: May 1st - Sep 30th 2008
Books Read:

• Going Solo by Roald Dahl
  
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  
• The Monsters by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
  
• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
  
• The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
  

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Once Upon a Time 2008 (finished)

Host: Carl V.
When: March 21st - June 20th 2008
Books Read:

• The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
  
• The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint
  
• Voice of Our Shadowby Jonathan Carroll
• The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin
  
• A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
  
• Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block
• Rusalka by C.J. Cherryh
  
• Chernevog by C.J. Cherryh
  
• The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other African Folk Tales by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
  
• Deerskin by Robin McKinley
  
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales edited by Kate Bernheimer

Extras:

• Scottish Fairy Belief by Lizanne Henderson and Edward J. Cowan
• Enna Burning by Shannon Hale
• River Secrets by Shannon Hale
• Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
• Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
• Witch Ember by John Lawson
• Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams
• The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
• The Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes
• Tigerheart by Peter David
• The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
• Transformations by Anne Sexton

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Margaret A. Edwards Challenge (finished)

Host: Becky
When: Feb 1st - June 1st 2008
Books Read:

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Powers by Ursula Le Guin
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

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Ya Challenge (finished)

Host: Joy
When: All of 2008
Books Read:

• Black Maria by Diana Wynne Jones
• Across the Wall by Garth Nix
• The Ruby in the Smoke by Phillip Pullman
• Voices by Ursula Le Guin
• One for Sorrow by Christopher Barzak
• Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madelaine L'Engle
• Pay the Piper by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
• Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
• The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
• The Bromeliad by Terry Pratchett

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Rhinoa and Nymeth's Mutual Challenge (finished)
Host: None
When: All of 2008
Books Read:

• The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop
  
• Waifs and Strays by Charles de Lint
  
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory
  
• Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
  
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov

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What's In a Name Challenge (finished)

Host: Annie
When: All of 2008
Books Read:

• The Green Man edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
  
• King Rat by China Mieville
  
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  
• The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia
  
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  
• Black Orchid by Neil Gaiman & Dave Mckean

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Themed Reading Challenge (finished)

Host: Wendy
When: Jan 1st to June 30th 2008
Theme: WWII
Books Read:

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
  
• The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
  
• Night by Elie Wiesel
  
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  
• If This is a Man by Primo Levi
• The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
  

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Mythopoeic Challenge (finished)

Host: Foxywriter
When: All of 2008
Books Read:

• Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
  
• Little, Big by John Crowley
  
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  
• Summerland by Michael Chabon
  
• The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
  
• Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
  
• Young Merlin Trilogy by Jane Yolen

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Chunkster Challenge (finished)

Host: Dana
When: Jan 7th - Dec 20th 2008
Books Read:

• The Bromeliad Trilogy by Terry Pratchett
  
• The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop
  
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory
  
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
  
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Little, Big by John Crowley
• Witch Ember by John Lawson
• The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
• Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
• The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint
• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
  

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Short Story Reading Challenge (finished)

Host: Kate
When: All of 2008
Stories Read:

By new to me authors:

• "The Child" by Roddy Doyle
• "Lisey and the Madman" by Stephen King
• "Reports of Certain Events in London" by China Mieville
• "The Devil of Delerey Street" by Poppy Z. Brite
• "Mr. Aickman's Air Riffle" by Peter Straub
• “The View from Castle Rock” by Alice Munro
• "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" by Alice Munro
• “The Green Children” by Kevin Brockmeier
• "The evolution of trickster stories among the dogs of North Park after the Change" by Kij Johnson.
• "Going Ironside" by Holly Black
  

Others:

• “Peter and the Wolf” by Angela Carter
• “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
• “The River Boy” by Tim Pratt
• “Queen of the North” by Eden Robinson
• “A Long Story” by Beth Brant
• “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
• “A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices” by Terry Pratchett
• “Born on the Edge of an Adjective” by Christopher Barzak
• “The Taste of Wheat” by Ekaterina Sedia
• "Hell-Heaven" by Jhumpa Lahiri
  

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The Sci~Fi Experience (finished)

Host: Carl V.
When: Jan 1st - Feb 29th 2008
Books Read:

• Slaughtherhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
• Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic by Terry Jones
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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Man Booker Challenge (finished)

Host: Dewey
When: All of 2008
Books Read:

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushie
• In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
  
• paddy clarke ha ha ha by Roddy Doyle
• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
  
• Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

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Graphic Novels Challenge (finished)

Host: Dewey
When: All of 2008
Books Read:

• The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
  
• Persepolis 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi
  
• Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
• Laika by Nick Abadizs
  
• The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
• A Contract with God by Will Eisner

Extras:

• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
• Black Orchid by Neil Gaiman & Dave Mckean
• Death: At Death's Door by Jill Thompson
  
• Spawn: Angela by Neil Gaiman
  
• Trese: Murder on Ballet Drive by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo
• Fables: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
• Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• Nigthtmares and Fairy Tales by Serena Valentino

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2007

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Four-Legged Friends Challenge (finished)

Host: Kailana
When: Sept. 20th 2007 - Feb 26th 2008
Books Read:

• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
  
• Varjak Paw by SF Said
  
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
  
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
  
• Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones

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R.I.P. II (finished)

Host: Carl V.
When: Sept. 1st - October 31st 2007
Books Read:

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs
  
• Tideland by Mitch Cullin
  
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  
• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
  
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
  
• The Mummy by Anne Rice
  
• From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
  
• Mirrormask by Neil Gaiman & Dave Mackean
  
• The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
  
• A few short stories from The Virago Book of Ghost Stories

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Book to Movie Challenge(finished)

Host: Calista
When: Sept 1st - Dec 1st 2007
Books Read:

• Tideland by Mitch Cullin
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• About a Boy by Nick Hornby

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Seconds Challenge (finished)

Host: Joy
When: Oct 1st - Dec 31st 2007
Books Read:

• The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
• Thraxas by Martin Scott
• Magic Street by Orson Scott Card

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Book Awards Reading Challenge (finished)

Host: 3M
When: July 1st 2007 - June 30th 2008
Books Read:

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (Pulitzer 2001)
  
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Pulitzer 1983)
  
• Beloved by Toni Morrison(Pulitzer 1988)
  
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (World Fantasy Award 2006)
  
• Little, Big by John Crowley (World Fantasy Award 1982)
  
• Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner (World Fantasy Award 1991)
  
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin (Hugo 1970 and Nebula 1969)
  
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushie (Booker Prize 1981)
  
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishuguro (Booker Prize 1989)
  
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize 1997)
  
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Newbery Medal 1978)
  
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Orange Prize 2006)
  

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Reading Across Borders (finished)
Host: Kate
When: All of 2007
Books Read:

• City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
  
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlöf
  
• Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
  
• The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
  
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
  
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  
• Miguel Street by V. S. Naipaul
  
• The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
  
• The Accidental by Ali Smith
  
• Rainbow by Banana Yoshimoto
  
• Obasan by Joy Kogawa
  
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  
• The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness

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Southern Reading Challenge 2007 (finished)

Host: Maggie
When: June 1st - August 31st 2007
Books Read:

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Watermelon King by Daniel Wallace
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic edited by F. Brett Cox and Andy Duncan

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Once Upon a Time 2007 (finished)

Host: Carl V.
When: March 21st - June 20th 2007
Books Read:

• Lendas Brasileiras by Luís da Câmara Cascudo
• Lendas do Índio Brasileiro by Alberto da Costa e Silva
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• Myths and Folk Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire
• The Book of Dragons by Joseph Nigg
• Contos Populares Portugueses by Adolfo Coelho
• Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
• Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
• Fables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
• City of Beasts by Isabel Allende
• Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
• Oriental Myths and Legends by W. W. Gibbings
• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlöf
• Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson by David Grossman
• Inside the Walls of Troy by Clemence McLaren
• Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
• Victorian Fairy Tales edited by Jack Zipes
• Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
• The Sandman: Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman
• Dream Angus by Alexander McCall Smith
• Norwegian Folktales by by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare