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Which of these 'popular' book series would you be most likely to read?

Fifty Shades series by E.L. James 0.087378640776699 8.7% [ 9 ]
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins 0.61165048543689 61.2% [ 63 ]
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson 0.25242718446602 25.2% [ 26 ]
Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer 0.048543689320388 4.9% [ 5 ]
Total Votes:[ 103 ]
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Currently Reading: The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by James Knowles
Finished Reading:
1.Edda Vol.1 by Winifred Faraday
2.Edda Vol.2 by Winifred Faraday
3.Children of Odin by Padraic Colum
4.The Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest
5.Time Thieves by Dean Koontz
6.Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion by Beatrice Clay
7.Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding
8.The Haunted Earth by Dean Koontz
9.Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens
10.British Goblins by Wirt Sikes
Total: (10/49): Reread: (0/1)

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Goal: 100 books
Date Started: 1/1/2012

Currently Reading:
Lovecraft: Tales ed. by Peter Straub

Finished Reading:
January
1. Yotsuba&! Vol. 10 by Kiyohiko Azuma (****)
2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (***)
3. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Vol. 6 by Nagaru Tanigawa (***)
4. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (****)
5. All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson (****)
6. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (**)
7. Call for the Dead by John le Carre (***)
8. Coraline be Neil Gaiman (***)
9. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (**)
10. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (****)
11. The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (***)
12. Anathem by Neal Stephenson (*****)
13. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang (****)
14. Borderland edited by Terri Windling (***)
15. Habibi by Craig Thompson (***)
16. Cinder by Marissa Meyer (**)
17. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (****)
18. After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh (***)

February
19. The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases ed. by Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts(****)
20. Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson (*****)
21. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (****)
22. The Walking Dead: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman(***)
23. The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway (***)
24. Zombies vs. Unicorns ed. by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier(***)
25. Fables: Homelands by Bill Willingham (***)
26. Mechanique by Genevieve Valentine (****)
27. Forgotten Bookmarks by Michael Popek
28. Olympians: Zeus by Geroge O'Conner (***)
29. The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai (**)
30. Olympians: Athena by George O'Conner (***)
31. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (***)
32. Akira Vol. 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo (****)

Total: (32/100)
Each book rated out of five stars.

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Currently Reading: Last Breath by Rachel Caine

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Goal: 50
Date Started: 28 Jan 2012

Current and Potential Reads:
Rebecca Rasmussen - The Bird Sisters
Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart

Dan Abnett - Legion (Horus Heresy #7)
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Tara Kelly - Harmonic Feedback (I keep telling myself I should read this, but I'm a little wary...)

Finished Reading:
Iris Murdoch - The Flight from the Enchanter
Graham McNeill - Fulgrim (Horus Heresy #5)
Nury Vittachi - The Feng Shui Detective
Mitchell Scanlon - Descent of Angels (Horus Heresy #6)

Daniel J. Levitin - This is Your Brain on Music: Science of a Human Obsession

Total: 5/50

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Goal: 60 books not including manga or comics.
Date Started: January 1st.

Currently Reading:
On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Finished Reading:
January
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien (started in 2011).
The Unknown Masterpiece and Gambara by Honoré de Balzac
The Spanish Bow by Andromeda Romano-Lax
The Green Mile part 1: The Two Dead Girls by Stephen King
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

February
All That I Am by Anna Funder
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Boys From Brazil by Ira Levin
The Green Mile part 2: The Mouse on the Mile by Stephen King
The Green Mile part 3: Coffey's Hands by Stephen King
The Green Mile part 4: The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix by Stephen King
The Green Mile part 5: The Night Journey by Stephen King
The Green Mile part 6: Coffey on the Mile
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Total: (17/60)

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Name/Username: Chouryou
Goal: 50
Date Started: Jan. 1, 2012


Currently reading:
o1. History of the Philippine Islands Vol 1 & 2 by Antonio de Morga
o2. Soft Come the Dragons by Dean Koontz


Finished reading:
o1. Silverthorn by Raymond Feist (1/2)
o2. The Cold Commands by Richard Morgan (1/5)
o3. Philippine Folk Tales by Mabel Cole (1/7)
o4. A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond Feist (1/9)
o5. The Century Next Door by John Barnes (1/19)
o6. The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks (1/23)
o7. Shadow's Edge by Brent Weeks (1/27)
o8. Beyond the Shadows by Brent Weeks (1/29)
o9. Time Thieves by Dean Koontz (1/30)
1o. The Judging Eye by R. Scott Bakker (2/5)
11. Orb, Sceptre, Throne by Ian C. Esslemont (2/11)
12. The White-Luck Warrior by R. Scott Bakker (2/19)


Total: 12/50
Currently Reading: From bad to Cursed by Katie Alender
Finished Reading: Misery by Stephen King
Total: (5/75)
Currently reading:
ragnorak: the end of the gods by as byatt
pale fire by vladimir nabokov (for my studies in the novel class)

Finished reading 13/150:
1.) star wars: the black fleet crisis by michael p kube-mcdowell
2.) star wars: the new rebellion by kristine kathryn rusch
3.) star wars: the corellian trilogy by roger macbride allen(kind of read this while also reading the new rebellion. star wars books are usually fast paced)
4.) a history of the world in 100 objects by neil macgregor
5.)the sound and the fury by william faulkner (for my studies in the novel class)
6.)phaedo by plato (for my philosophy class)
7.)my antonia by willa cather (for my women's literature class)
8.)the third policeman by flann o'brien (for my studies in the novel class)
9.)scorpio races by maggie stiefvater
10.)the lover's dictionary by david levithan (for my studies in the novel class)
11.)cinder by marissa meyer
12.)nectar in a sieve by kamala markandaya
13,)jack kennedy:elusive hero by chris matthews

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Currently Reading: Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
Finished Reading: Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J.K. Rowling, Frostbite by Richelle Mead
Total: (2/80)
Currently Reading:
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (fiction)
Firehead - Venerao Armanno (fiction)
The Little Foxes - Lillian Hellman (play)




Finished Reading:
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb - Melanie Benjamin (fiction)
Love, War and Circuses - Eric Scigliano (non-fiction)
The Zookeepers Wife - Diane Ackerman (non-fiction)
Sweet Valley Confidential - Francine Pascal (fiction)
The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman (fiction)
Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen (fiction)
Chocolate Wars - Deborah Cadbury (non-fiction)
Wonder Cats - Ashley Morgan (non-fiction)
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi (biography)
Snow White and Rose Red - Patricia Wrede (fiction)
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This - Robin Black (fiction)

Total: (11/150)



Finished Re-Reading:
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (re-read) (fiction)
Love, War and Circuses - Eric Scigliano (non-fiction)
Total: (2/50)
Name/Username: Elda-Kun
Goal: 50 books
Date Started: 1/1/2012
GoodReads: Here


Currently Reading
Goliath -- Scott Westerfeld
The Godless Constitution -- Isaac Kramnick

Finished Reading
Overbite -- Meg Cabot
Abandon -- Meg Cabot
Claimed by the Highlander -- Jullanne Maclean
The Last Olympian -- Rick Riordan
The Baker Street Letters -- Michael Roberston
Wedding Girl -- Madeleine Wickham
Ascension (Water Book One) -- Kara Dalkey
Reunion (Water Book Two) -- Kara Dalkey
Transformation (Water Book Three) -- Kara Dalkey
Good Eats 3: The Latter Years -- Alton Brown
Fools Rush In -- Janice Thompson
Leviathan -- Scott Westerfeld
Behemoth -- Scott Westerfeld
The Princess and the Bear -- Mette Ivie Harrison
A Grown Up Kind of Pretty -- Joshilyn Jackson

Total
15/50

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Date Started: January 1st, 2o12.

I will be counting reread books.


Currently Reading:
            Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
            Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
            The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand


Finished Reading:
            Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (4.5 || 5)
            The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (4.9 || 5)
            The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (4.5 || 5) Reread
            Total: 3 || 5o.

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Also, why aren't more people doing this?

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Name/Username: zielins
Goal: 60 books not including manga or comics.
Date Started: January 1st.

Currently Reading:
Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen

Finished Reading:
January
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien (started in 2011).
The Unknown Masterpiece and Gambara by Honoré de Balzac
The Spanish Bow by Andromeda Romano-Lax
The Green Mile part 1: The Two Dead Girls by Stephen King
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

February
All That I Am by Anna Funder
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Boys From Brazil by Ira Levin
The Green Mile part 2: The Mouse on the Mile by Stephen King
The Green Mile part 3: Coffey's Hands by Stephen King
The Green Mile part 4: The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix by Stephen King
The Green Mile part 5: The Night Journey by Stephen King
The Green Mile part 6: Coffey on the Mile
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Total: (18/60)

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