2o12 New Books Challenge *2013 Thread Up!*

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

Fifty Shades series by E.L. James	8.7%	[ 9 ]
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins	61.2%	[ 63 ]
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson	25.2%	[ 26 ]
Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer	4.9%	[ 5 ]
Total Votes:			[ 103 ]

[Xxout_of_reachxX]

Currently Reading: Life as we knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Finished Reading: Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Total: (9/75)

[Blue Eyed Wallflower]

Name/Username: Blue Eyed Wallflower
Goal: 31
Date Started: January 1, 2012

Currently Reading:
Prom Anonymous by Blake Nelson
Half-Minute Horrors by various authors

Finished Reading:
January
Pampered to Death by Laura Levine 5/5
Killer Blonde by Laura Levine 5/5
Killing Bridezilla by Laura Levine 5/5
Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty 5/5
Last Writes by Laura Levine 5/5
February
21 Proms by various authors 5/5
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern 5/5
March
Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler 3.5/5

Total: (8/31):

[Christhulhu]

Name/Username: Christhulhu
Goal: 24
Date Started: January 1, 2012

Currently Reading:
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (on hold)
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Half-Minute Horrors by various authors

Finished Reading:
January
February
March

Total: (*/*):

[Ping of Death]

Currently Reading: Invasions by Dean Koontz and German Folklore and Legends, writer anonymous

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
11.The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by James Knowles
12. Soft Come the Dragons by Dean Koontz
13.The Writer's Book of Hope by Ralph Keyes
14.Folklore and Legends: Scandinavian by Charles John Tibbits or CJT
15. The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle edition)
Total: (15/49): Reread: (0/1)

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[Blue Eyed Wallflower]

Name/Username: Blue Eyed Wallflower
Goal: 31
Date Started: January 1, 2012

Currently Reading:
Half-Minute Horrors by various authors

Finished Reading:
January
Pampered to Death by Laura Levine 5/5
Killer Blonde by Laura Levine 5/5
Killing Bridezilla by Laura Levine 5/5
Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty 5/5
Last Writes by Laura Levine 5/5
February
21 Proms by various authors 5/5
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern 5/5
March
Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler 3.5/5
Prom Anonymous by Blake Nelson 2.5/5

Total: (9/31)

[Infinity Outlaw]

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

Currently Reading:
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (audiobook)
Lovecraft: Tales ed. by Peter Straub (on hold)

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 (****)
33. Akira Vol. 2 by Katsuhiro Otomo (****)
34. Olympians: Hera by George O'Conner (***)
35. Olympians: Hades by George O'Conner (***)
36. Akira Vol. 3 by Katsuhiro Otomo (****)
37. Akira Vol. 4 by Katsuhiro Otomo (****)
38. Akira Vol. 5 by Katsuhiro Otomo (****)
39. Akira Vol. 6 by Katsuhiro Otomo (****)
40. Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott (****)
41. Heart of Veridon by Tim Akers (**)
March
42. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (****)
43. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (****)
44. Black Hole by Charles Burns (***)

Re-reads:
1. Neuromancer by William Gibson (audiobook) (*****)

Total: (44/100)
Each book rated out of five stars.

[Christhulhu]

Name/Username: Christhulhu
Goal: 24
Date Started: January 1, 2012

Currently Reading:
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (on hold)
Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Finished Reading:
January
February
March
Half-Minute Horrors by various authors

Total: (1/24)

[Blue Eyed Wallflower]

Name/Username: Blue Eyed Wallflower
Goal: 31
Date Started: January 1, 2012

Currently Reading:
Shrimp by Rachel Cohn

Finished Reading:
January
Pampered to Death by Laura Levine 5/5
Killer Blonde by Laura Levine 5/5
Killing Bridezilla by Laura Levine 5/5
Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty 5/5
Last Writes by Laura Levine 5/5
February
21 Proms by various authors 5/5
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern 5/5
March
Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler 3.5/5
Prom Anonymous by Blake Nelson 2.5/5
Half-Minute Horrors by various authors 5/5

Total: (10/31)

[Evelin333]

Username: Evelin333
Goal: 200 book
Date started: 15/03/2012

[Sithrynvoid]

Name/Username: Jorillaa
Goal: Mostly to actually find non-trash to read. But at least one book a week? 52.
Date Started: 3/14/2012 {I read a book yesterday, counting it.}

Currently Reading: Nicola and the Viscount, Meg Cabot
Next: Ready Player One, Ernest Cline

Finished Reading:
- False Princess, Eilis O'Neal
- Epic Fail, Claire LaZebnik
- Any Man of Mine, Rachel Gibson

Total: 3/52

[Ping of Death]

Currently Reading: Invasions
by Dean Koontz

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
11.The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by James Knowles
12. Soft Come the Dragons by Dean Koontz
13.The Writer's Book of Hope by Ralph Keyes
14.Folklore and Legends: Scandinavian by Charles John Tibbits or CJT
15. The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P. Lovecraft
16. Folklore and Legends: German, author anonymous
Total: (16/49): Reread: (0/1)

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[Psychotic Maniacal Sanity]

Name/Username: Psychotic Maniacal Sanity
Goal: 50 books
Date Started: 10/01/2012

Currently Reading:
Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link.
Blood Knot and My Children, My Africa (two short plays) - Athol Fugard.
The Morgesons - Elizabeth Stoddard.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein.


Finished Reading:
January:
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson.
Wieland - Charles Brockden Brown.
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
An Education - Lynn Barber.
Hippolytus - Euripides.
February:
Brick Lane - Monica Ali.
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Odyssey - Homer.
Oresteia - Aeschylus.
March:
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Medea - Euripides.
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf.
Moby d**k - Herman Melville.

Total: (14/50)

[Sithrynvoid]

Name/Username: Jorillaa
Goal: Mostly to actually find non-trash to read. But at least one book a week? 52.
Date Started: 3/14/2012

Currently Reading: Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
Next: ???

Finished Reading:
- False Princess, Eilis O'Neal
- Epic Fail, Claire LaZebnik
- Any Man of Mine, Rachel Gibson
- Nicola and the Viscount, Meg Cabot

Total: 4/52

I love my new Kindle...

[Blue Eyed Wallflower]

Name/Username: Blue Eyed Wallflower
Goal: 31
Date Started: January 1, 2012

Currently Reading:
Shrimp by Rachel Cohn
Nancy Drew: Girl Detective #19 The Orchid Thief by Carolyn Keene

Finished Reading:
January
Pampered to Death by Laura Levine 5/5
Killer Blonde by Laura Levine 5/5
Killing Bridezilla by Laura Levine 5/5
Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty 5/5
Last Writes by Laura Levine 5/5
February
21 Proms by various authors 5/5
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern 5/5
March
Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler 3.5/5
Prom Anonymous by Blake Nelson 2.5/5
Half-Minute Horrors by various authors 5/5

Total: (10/31)

[sweetari]

Name/Username: sweetari.
Goal: Fifty.
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
Indiana by George Sand (3.9 || 5)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (4.1 || 5)
Total: 5 || 5o.