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 ]

[Mazzie Bell]

Name/Username: Mazzie Bell
Goal: 35 new books
Date Started: January 1, 2010

Currently Reading:
-The Stone Rose (Rayner)
-Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
-Widdershins (de Lint)
-We Are the Ocean (Hau'ofa)
-Nemesis (Nesbø)

Finished Reading
18. The Devil's Star (Nesbø) ★★★★★
17. Child of God (McCarthy) ★★★★
16. Catching Fire (Collins) ★★★★★
15. Kanaky (Tjbaou) ★★★★
14. Metamorphosis (Kafka) ★★★★
13. The Violent Bear It Away (O'Connor) ★★?
12. Hawaii's Story (Lililuokalani) ★★★
April
11. The Hunger Games (Collins) ★★★★★
10. Flowers for Algernon (Keyes) ★★★★★★
9. Blood on the Forge (Attaway) ★★★★★
8. Borderlands (Anzaldua) ★★★★
7. Queer (Borroughs) ★★?*
6. Quicksand (Larsen) ★★★
5. M. Butterfly (Hwang) ★★★★★1/2
March
4. The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner) ★★★★★
3. The Ballad of Sad Cafe (McCullers) ★★★★
February
2. The Snowman (Nesbø) ★★★★★★
1. The Fault in Our Stars (Green) ★★★★★1/2
January

?= wtf did i just read

Total: 18/35

[Mazzie Bell]

Name/Username: Mazzie Bell
Goal: 35 new books
Date Started: January 1, 2010

Currently Reading:
-The Stone Rose (Rayner)
-Widdershins (de Lint)
-We Are the Ocean (Hau'ofa)
-Nemesis (Nesbø)

Finished Reading
19. Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri) ★★★★
18. The Devil's Star (Nesbø) ★★★★★
17. Child of God (McCarthy) ★★★★
16. Catching Fire (Collins) ★★★★★
15. Kanaky (Tjbaou) ★★★★
14. Metamorphosis (Kafka) ★★★★
13. The Violent Bear It Away (O'Connor) ★★?
12. Hawaii's Story (Lililuokalani) ★★★
April
11. The Hunger Games (Collins) ★★★★★
10. Flowers for Algernon (Keyes) ★★★★★★
9. Blood on the Forge (Attaway) ★★★★★
8. Borderlands (Anzaldua) ★★★★
7. Queer (Borroughs) ★★?*
6. Quicksand (Larsen) ★★★
5. M. Butterfly (Hwang) ★★★★★1/2
March
4. The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner) ★★★★★
3. The Ballad of Sad Cafe (McCullers) ★★★★
February
2. The Snowman (Nesbø) ★★★★★★
1. The Fault in Our Stars (Green) ★★★★★1/2
January

?= wtf did i just read

Total: 19/35

[Sriq]

Name/Username: Sriq
Goal: 150
Date Started: January 1st

Currently Reading:
Traveling Light by Tove Jansson
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Amsterdam Stories by Nescio
Who Has Been Tampering With These Pianos? by Montague O'Reilly

Finished Reading:
January
1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
3. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval
4. Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako
5. Contemplation by Franz Kafka
6. Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Moss Roberts
7. The Transformations of Mr. Hadliz by Ladislav Novak
8. One Hundred Poems From the Japanese
9. Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk
10. Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood: Modern Albanian Short Stories
11. The Passive Vampire by Gherasim Luca
12. House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
13. The House of Illnesse by Unica Zurn
14. Vegetation by Francis Ponge
February
15. The Chieko Poems by Kotaro Takamura
16. The Perpetual Motion Machine by Paul Scheerbart
17. Beside the Sea by Veronique Olmi
18. Land of Wooden Gods by Jan Fridegard
19. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
20. Edition 69 by Vitezslav Nezval and Jindrich Styrsky
21. The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy by Charles Fourier
22. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
23. Stone in a Landslide by Maria Barbal
24. The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns
March
25. The Dedalus Book of Absinthe by Phil Baker
26. The Sky Behind the Forest: Selected Poems of Liliana Ursu
27. The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns
28. Absinthe: History in a Bottle by Barnaby Conrad III
29. The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
30. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
31. The Amorous Exploits of a Young Rakehell by Guillaume Apollinaire
32. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
33. Irene's c**t by Louis Aragon
34. The Complete Works of Urmuz
35. Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Delius
36. On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Junger
37. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
38. Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
39. American Ghosts and Old World Wonders by Angela Carter
40. Whiskey: A Global History by Kevin Kosar
April
41. Tea: A Global History by Helen Saberi
42. AM/PM by Amelia Gray
43. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
44. The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop
45. Cake: A Global History by Nicola Humble
46. The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles Finney
47. In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki

Total: (47/150)

[Demon Days]

Currently reading:

gods and generals by jeff shaara

Finished reading 39/150:
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
6.)phaedo by plato (for my philosophy class)
7.)my antonia by willa cather
8.)the third policeman by flann o'brien
9.)scorpio races by maggie stiefvater
10.)the lover's dictionary by david levithan
11.)cinder by marissa meyer
12.)nectar in a sieve by kamala markandaya
13,)jack kennedy:elusive hero by chris matthews
14.)ragnorak: the end of the gods by a.s. byatt
15.)sophie's choice by william styron
16.)abraham lincoln: vampire hunter by seth grahame-smith
17.)pale fire by vladimir nabokov
18.)pure by julia baggott
19.)the saga of the volsungs
20,)a good american by alex george
21,) the awakening by kate chopin
22.) the prose edda by snorri surluson
23.)frank: the voice by james kaplan
24.)history of a pleasure seeker by richard mason
25.)if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino
26.)the flame alphabet by ben marcus
27.)the scrapbook of frankie pratt: a novel in pictures by carolina preston
29.)the lightning thief by rick riordan
30.)dracula by bram stoker
31.)the elder edda
32.)the sea of monsters by rick riordan
33.)the song of achilles by madeline miller
34.)the titan's curse by rick riordan
35.)bound feet and western dress by pang-mei chang
36.)the battle of the labyrinth by rick riordan
37.)the last olympian by rick riordan
38.)unholy night by seth grahame-smith
39.)true devotion to the holy spirit by luis martinez (for theology x__x)

[Winter_Kamiya]

Currently Reading:The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Twelfth Grade Kills Heather Brewer
Rereading:Nothing at the moment
Finished Reading: 1.Incarceron By Catherine Fisher
2.Vanish By Sophie Jordan
3.The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Tenth Grade Bleeds by Heather Brewer
4.Clair de Lune by Christine Johnson
5.The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern abridged by William Goldman
6.Full Tilt by Niel Shusterman
7.The Neverending Story by Michael Ende translated by Ralph Manheim
8.The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Eleventh Grade Burns By Heather Brewer
Finished Rereading: 1.The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer
2. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Ninth Grade Slays by Heather Brewer
Total: (8/100) reread: (2/0)

[So Sick of the Hobos]

So Sick of the Hobos

Name/Username: So Sick of the Hobos
Goal: 20
Date Started: January 13th, 2012

Currently Reading:
Fair Game - Patricia Briggs
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Hush Little Babies - Donald A. Davis

Finished Reading:
January
Size 12 Is Not Fat - Heather Wells
February
NONE
March
A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords - George R.R Martin
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Birth House - Ami McKay
April
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Total: (5/20)
Note: My number of books may vary throughout this year. I am starting my book challenge over COMPLETELY and not carrying on from the previous year. This shall be my year to complete a resolution.

[Nikomikiri]

Currently Reading: Night of Knives by Ian C. Esslemont
Finished Reading:

1. Children of Hurin by Tolkien
2. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
3. Mastiff by Tamora Pierce
4. Cujo by Stephen King
5. A Game Of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
6. The Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
7. Into The Wild by Erin Hunter

Total So Far: 5/70

[Mazzie Bell]

Name/Username: Mazzie Bell
Goal: 35 new books
Date Started: January 1, 2010

Currently Reading:
-The Stone Rose (Rayner)
-Widdershins (de Lint)
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)
-We Are the Ocean (Hau'ofa)
-Nemesis (Nesbø)

Finished Reading
20. The Mystery of Grace (de Lint) ★★★
19. Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri) ★★★★
18. The Devil's Star (Nesbø) ★★★★★
17. Child of God (McCarthy) ★★★★
16. Catching Fire (Collins) ★★★★★
15. Kanaky (Tjbaou) ★★★★
14. Metamorphosis (Kafka) ★★★★
13. The Violent Bear It Away (O'Connor) ★★?
12. Hawaii's Story (Lililuokalani) ★★★
April
11. The Hunger Games (Collins) ★★★★★
10. Flowers for Algernon (Keyes) ★★★★★★
9. Blood on the Forge (Attaway) ★★★★★
8. Borderlands (Anzaldua) ★★★★
7. Queer (Borroughs) ★★?*
6. Quicksand (Larsen) ★★★
5. M. Butterfly (Hwang) ★★★★★1/2
March
4. The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner) ★★★★★
3. The Ballad of Sad Cafe (McCullers) ★★★★
February
2. The Snowman (Nesbø) ★★★★★★
1. The Fault in Our Stars (Green) ★★★★★1/2
January

?= wtf did i just read

Total: 20/35

[Xxout_of_reachxX]

Currently Reading: Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck
Finished Reading: Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
Total: (14/75)

[Demon Days]

Currently reading:

house of leaves by mark z danielewski
oh my gods: a modern retelling of the greek and roman myths by philip freeman
Finished reading 40/150:
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
6.)phaedo by plato (for my philosophy class)
7.)my antonia by willa cather
8.)the third policeman by flann o'brien
9.)scorpio races by maggie stiefvater
10.)the lover's dictionary by david levithan
11.)cinder by marissa meyer
12.)nectar in a sieve by kamala markandaya
13,)jack kennedy:elusive hero by chris matthews
14.)ragnorak: the end of the gods by a.s. byatt
15.)sophie's choice by william styron
16.)abraham lincoln: vampire hunter by seth grahame-smith
17.)pale fire by vladimir nabokov
18.)pure by julia baggott
19.)the saga of the volsungs
20,)a good american by alex george
21,) the awakening by kate chopin
22.) the prose edda by snorri surluson
23.)frank: the voice by james kaplan
24.)history of a pleasure seeker by richard mason
25.)if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino
26.)the flame alphabet by ben marcus
27.)the scrapbook of frankie pratt: a novel in pictures by carolina preston
29.)the lightning thief by rick riordan
30.)dracula by bram stoker
31.)the elder edda
32.)the sea of monsters by rick riordan
33.)the song of achilles by madeline miller
34.)the titan's curse by rick riordan
35.)bound feet and western dress by pang-mei chang
36.)the battle of the labyrinth by rick riordan
37.)the last olympian by rick riordan
38.)unholy night by seth grahame-smith
39.)true devotion to the holy spirit by luis martinez (for theology x__x)
40.)gods and generals by jeff shaara

[Nikomikiri]

Currently Reading: Night of Knives by Ian C. Esslemont
The Warriors books by Erin Hunter
Finished Reading:

1. Children of Hurin by Tolkien
2. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
3. Mastiff by Tamora Pierce
4. Cujo by Stephen King
5. A Game Of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
6. The Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
7. Into The Wild by Erin Hunter
8. Fire and Ice by Erin Hunter
9. Perfect Shadow by Brent Weeks

Total So Far: 8/70

[Psychotic Maniacal Sanity]

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

Currently Reading:
Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein.
The Aeneid - Vergil.
Jerusalem - Jez Butterworth.

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.
Blood Knot and My Children, My Africa (two short plays) - Athol Fugard.
The Morgesons - Elizabeth Stoddard.
The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Rattigan.
April:
Look Back in Anger - John Osborne.
The Damnation of Thereon Ware - Harold Frederic.
The Lover - Marguerite Duras.

Total: (20/50)

[Ping of Death]

Currently Reading: Hero Tales of the Rhine by Lewis Spence

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
17.Invasions by Dean Koontz
18.Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
19.Olaf the Glorious by Robert Leighton
Total: (19/49): Reread: (0/1)

My Shelfari

This proofreading job is taking up too much of my time. Even during breaks I'm too exhausted to read some more.

[Demon Days]

Currently reading:

house of leaves by mark z danielewski
the norse myths by kevin crossley-holland

Finished reading 41/150:
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
6.)phaedo by plato (for my philosophy class)
7.)my antonia by willa cather
8.)the third policeman by flann o'brien
9.)scorpio races by maggie stiefvater
10.)the lover's dictionary by david levithan
11.)cinder by marissa meyer
12.)nectar in a sieve by kamala markandaya
13,)jack kennedy:elusive hero by chris matthews
14.)ragnorak: the end of the gods by a.s. byatt
15.)sophie's choice by william styron
16.)abraham lincoln: vampire hunter by seth grahame-smith
17.)pale fire by vladimir nabokov
18.)pure by julia baggott
19.)the saga of the volsungs
20,)a good american by alex george
21,) the awakening by kate chopin
22.) the prose edda by snorri surluson
23.)frank: the voice by james kaplan
24.)history of a pleasure seeker by richard mason
25.)if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino
26.)the flame alphabet by ben marcus
27.)the scrapbook of frankie pratt: a novel in pictures by carolina preston
29.)the lightning thief by rick riordan
30.)dracula by bram stoker
31.)the elder edda
32.)the sea of monsters by rick riordan
33.)the song of achilles by madeline miller
34.)the titan's curse by rick riordan
35.)bound feet and western dress by pang-mei chang
36.)the battle of the labyrinth by rick riordan
37.)the last olympian by rick riordan
38.)unholy night by seth grahame-smith
39.)true devotion to the holy spirit by luis martinez (for theology x__x)
40.)gods and generals by jeff shaara
41.)oh my gods: a modern retelling of the greek and roman myths by philip freeman