2012-01-01

 A fatty, a thinny, a golden oldy, a "meant to read" - any kind of book you like can be your challenge for 2012.  Start your engines then!  Some hangovers from 2011, which is quite acceptable, some of us have way too many books to handle - but please do re-list, I notice that some of you are carrying forward last year's challenge to 2012.  Its entirely up to you to add yourself to the thread.  I'll do all the rest, but you have to do something else except read!

Janetandjohn

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak + The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen

1

Pennyt

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas + 12 Agatha Christies

9 x

Tolly18

20 Scobie Malone books by John Cleary  and and  X Dornford Yates!

43 x

Deefer

Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Moghull - Alan Savage
Stonehenge - Bernard Cornwell
Crowning Glory - Bernard Cornwell
The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory
Shield of Thunder - David Gemmell
Lord of The Silver Bow - David Gemmell
Fall of Kings - David and Stella Gemmell
The Religion - Tim Willocks
Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man - Claudia Carroll
The Last Sinhala Lions - Colin de Silva
World Without End - Ken Follett
Anthony and Cleopatra - Colleen McCullough
The Lost Throne - Chris Kusneski

6 x

Suzann2

An absolute scandal by Penny Vincenzi + Raven Black, White nights, Red bones  & Blue lightning Anne Cleeves

3 x

Alison44

Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, & The Amber Spyglass – Phillip Pullman +  Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert

2 x

Jobar

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens  and Bleak House

1

Nutty_mum_33

22 of the Alex Delaware series

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Vickyc

The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela + Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling

1 x                  and one withdrawn

hippystick

Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake

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Rosemary3

No Name by Wilkie Collins + Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

2 x

sazzymch

Game Of Thrones by George RR Martin  + Live & Let Die and Moonraker by Ian Fleming

2 x

natsplatt

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth + 12 Piers Anthony Xanth series one a month starting with A Spell for Chameleon

6 x

Princess3290

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll+ another 11 classics listed on page 6

wyres

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse, The Life of Pi by Yann Martel + all 7 Harry Potter books

1

7 withdrawn

Eightlegs

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

Scarlet21

The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot, Villette - Charlotte Bronte , The Go-Between - L.P Hartley, Portrait of the Artist - James Joyce, Tender is the Night -      F.Scott Fitzgerald, Candide – Voltaire, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, The Well-Beloved - Thomas Hardy, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde,Portrait of a Lady - Henry James, Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens + The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

11 x

Emzbez1

28 different books by favourite authors, listed on page two of this thread

18 x

josette

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Littlereader

Peter James series of novels featuring Roy Grace

Theresa22

The da vinci code, Angels&Demons and The Lost symbol – Dan Brown + Twilight,New Moon,  Eclipse and  Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer

1 x

Jessieloo22

The Chronicals of Narnia books 3-7 by C S Lewis +  Discworld Series (Books 4 -10) by Terry Pratchett

Frangipani

Any R J Ellory book

Froglady

Any two Charles Dickens

Scoots

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen+ 12 Non-Fiction

7 x

Belletinker

War and Peace by Tolstoy

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Sam1978

A Place of Secrets, The Glass Painter's Daughter, A Gathering Storm - Rachel Hore + Rebecca by Daphne De Maurier

4  x

YAY Sam!

Aileen11

Chaireas and Kallirhoe by Chariton, Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, Absolum, Absolum by William Faulkner

3 x Magnificent effort, Aileen!

Mcapindale

10 Inspector Banks novels by Peter Robinson (see list page 4)

Pattigee

The Crimson Petal and the White - Michael Faber and The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens

1

Kat2011

Anna Travis series by Lynda La Plante (see list page 5)

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Scottishreader

The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

peppercricket

The Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson, Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss,

Wilful Behaviour  by Donna Leon and  Perfect match by    Jodi Picoult

2 x

seanat

One of  Charles Dickens, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  and Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

Julie73

Finishing Anna Karenina,  Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

1 x

Alison10

2 x Charles Dickens

Alisondavina

The Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella

6 x   well done Alison!

Dramioneforever

The Morganville Vampires series – Rachel Caine

3 x

Shanzi

Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell, Knots and crosses by Ian Rankin and An absolute scandal by Penny Vincenzi

1 x   one withdrawn

Orlando

The crimson petal and the white by Michael Faber

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Mort – Terry Prachett; A Tiny Bit Marvelous – Dawn French; How to be a Woman, the Psychopath Test, Dark Matter, My colourful life – Ginger Macain; When God was a Rabbit; Before I go to Sleep – S J Watson; Farm Boy – Michael Morporgo and Horseplay – Jo Carnagie.

hippystick

1 each of books by the following authors:  George Eliot, Anthony Trollope and Emile Zola.

x 2

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