101 books 1,001 days

I must be going crazy... but after browsing through several bookaholics's websites, I realize how many challenges there are out there. Who knew?!

I especially liked the '101 books in 1,001 days' one - a twist off of the '101 things to do in 1,001 days' non-book challenge.

This way, I'll decrease the number of books on my TBR - and be committed. (These books are all off of my "To Read Before I Die" list. Can you tell I love lists?)

Alice's 101 books in 1,001 days booklist:

Start: June 2, 2008
End: Feb 28, 2011

1. Margaret George: Memoirs of Cleopatra

2. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

3. Francois Rabelais: Pantagruel

4. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

5. Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

6. Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo

7. Tom Godwin: The Space Barbarians

8. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 Years of Solitude

9. Anton Chekhov: The Three Sisters

10. Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary

11. Sophacles: Antigone

12. Homer: The Iliad (unabridged)

13. Jane Austen: Sense & Sensibility

14. Jane Austen: Persuasion

15. Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind

16. William Golding: Lord of the Flies

17. Marie de France: Chevrefoil

18. Victor Hugo: Les Miserables

19. Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

20. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

21. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

22. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

23. Jonathon Swift: Modest Proposal

24. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime & Punishment

25. John Steinbeck: Of Mice & Men

26. “”: East of Eden

27. “”: Tortilla Flats

28. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

29. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

30. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

31. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter

32. Anne Proulx: Shipping News

33. William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying

34. Shakespeare: A Much Ado About Nothing

35. “”: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

36. George Orwell: 1984

37. Franz Lizst: Hungarian Rhapsody

38. Lorraine Hansbury: Raisin in the Sun

39. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

40. Andrew Jackson: A Century of Dishonesty

41. Elizabeth Gaskell: Wives & Daughters

42. Joseph Heller: Catch-22

43. John Knowles: A Separate Peace

44. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

45. Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

46. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange

47. Alice Walker: The Color Purple

48. Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club

49. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale

50. “”: The Robber Bride

51. “”: The Blind Assassin

52. Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie

53. James Baldwin: Blues for Mister Charlie

54. Alan Lightman: Einstein’s Dreams

55. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

56. Stephen King: The Shining

57. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

58. Ruth Gendel: The Book of Qualities

59. Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried

60. Melina Marchetta: Looking for Alibrandi

61. Joanne Harris: Chocolat

62. Barbara Ehrerreich: Nickel and Dimed

63. Yann Martel: Life of Pi

64. Ann Patchett: Bel Canto

65. Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

66. S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders

67. Jodi Picoult: My Sister’s Keeper

68. Colleen McCullough: The Thornbirds (Nance)

69. Barbara Taylor Bradford: Woman of Substance (Nance)

70. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

71. Elizabeth Vaughan: Warlord

72. Sandra Brown: The Alibi

73. Catherine Anderson: Phantom Waltz

74. Susan Wiggs: The Firebrander

75. Lavyrle Spencer: Home Song

76. Sidney Sheldon: Bloodline

77. Julia Quinn: Minx

78. Glenna McReynolds: The Chalice & the Blade

79. Johanna Lindsey: Love Only Once

80. Jill Marie Landis: Summer Moon

81. Lisa Kleypas: Mine Till Midnight

82. Lisa Kleypas: Again the Magic

83. Joanna Bourne: The Spymaster’s Lady

84. Mary Balogh: Simply Love

85. Linda Berdoll: Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife

86. Janet Chapman: Charming the Highlander

87. Tasha Alexander: And Only to Deceive

88. Jacquelyn Frank: Jacob (Nightwalker’s 1)

89. Catherine Delors: Mistress of the Revolution

90. Jude Deveraux: Sweet Liar

91. Kathleen Escehnburg: Seen By Moonlight

92. Georgette Heyer: Venetia

93. John Milton: Paradise Lost

94. Laura Kinsale: Flowers From the Storm

95. Nalini Singh: Caressed by Ice

96. Thomas Hardy: Return of the Native (Nance)

97. Emily Giffen: Something Blue (Nance)

98. Robin Schone: The Lady’s Tutor

99. Brenda Joyce: Deadly Kisses

100. Judith McNaught: Someone to Watch Over Me

101. Judith Krantz: Princess Daisy

Alice's Amazing Ten!

Referred by Booklogged and created by Renay, I'm joining my very first book challenge!

I primarily read romances, usually for the escapist factor, but this sounds like a great way to read fabulous books and to read other people's critiques as well. Excitingggg...

So, this is my list of Alice's Amazing Ten. Fear not, they're not all romances.. (though I was tempted, wouldn't that have been hilarious? No? Oh, okay....)

1. Paradise by Judith McNaught
-contemporary romance. (This baby is a romance, but a great one at that.)

2. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
-fiction, love story, time traveling, amazing, will-be-released-as-movie-in-November (with Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams. I'm expecting fabulousity.)

3. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
-fiction, very short (one hundred and twenty pages at most), fantasy, philosophical

4. Gravity by Tess Gerritsen
-sci-fi-ish, medical thrillers, a little graphic, outer space, love story, fiction, adventure

5. Tell No One by Harlan Coben
-thriller, love story, mystery, fiction

6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
-classic literature, love story, Mr. Darcy, witty, regency England, annoying moms

7. The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
-saga, love story, WWII in Leningrad, war, intensely emotional

8. Like Water, For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
-book with recipes, love story, fiction, so good

9. In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
-tearjerker, fiction, love story, sisters, revolution!

10. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
-classic literature, gothic love story, Heathcliff!

Okay, so maybe I lied. It looks like all of the books have a love story in it... though that may not be the purpose of the book. Hey, don't hate. Love is what makes the world go 'round.

I will edit and add what I am choosing to read later!


Edit:

And the six books I chose to read from the other participants' lists: (I randomly chose my 'requirements' and made my own rules - you can just pick whatever 3 books you like)

From the most-starred books that I haven't read:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
2. Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte

Heard of but have yet to read:
3. Flowers for Algernon: Daniel Keyes

Random:
4. The Goose Girl: Shannon Hale
5. Mort: Terry Pratchett

Book #283
6. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks: E. Lockhart

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