2012 - Bucketyell's 250 Challenge

Last year was an epic fail so let's see what this year brings... :)

January

1) Sisters Brothers by DeWitt
2) Raven Black by Cleeves
3) Half-Blood Blues by Edugyan
4) Only Time Will Tell by Archer
5) Swamplandia by Russell
6) The Orange Girl by Gaarder
7) Fault Lines by Huston
8) Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie
9) The Blue Flower by Fitzgerald
10) We Need to Talk About Kevin by Shriver

It looks as though you and I are it for 250 in 2012 -- I hope we both make it this time!

August and September hit hard last year, and I decided to just wait and begin again in January. So far, the year is looking great! I'm looking forward to seeing what you read.

Welcome back! I slowed down quite a bit after September myself but hopefully this year will be better. Let's cheer each other on okay? :)

February

11) Number the Stars by Lowry
12) The Red Shoe by Dubosarsky
13) The Slave Dancer by Fox
14) Artemis Fowl by Colfer
15) The Chocolate War by Cormier
16) Dragonsong by McCaffrey
17) Tell it to the Trees by Badami
18) Reluctant Fundamentalist by Hamid
19) Tilt: A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa by Shrady
20) The Eyre Affair by Fforde
21) Something Fierce by Aguirre
22) From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjon
23) Lost in a Good Book by Fforde
24) The English Patient by Ondaatje
25) The Well of Lost Plots by Fforde
26) Jigsaw Puzzles by Williams
27) Something Rotten by Fforde
28) The Miracle Worker by Gibson
29) The Maltese Falcon by Hammett
30) Great Expectations by Dickens
31) First Among Sequels by Fforde
32) Our Town by Wilder
33) Perfect Mess by Abrahamson

I keep intending to read Swamplandia! but I keep not doing it. What did you think of it?

BTW, you've started the year with some great books!

I really can't say I liked it. It was just plain weird. That and The Blue Flower are my duds this month. But Fault Lines, Sisters Brothers, Half-Blood Blues and We Need to Talk About Kevin more than made up for them.

March

34) Death of a Salesman by Miller
35) Foundation by Asimov
36) Nadirs by Muller
37) Doctor Faustus by Marlowe
38) 2666 by Bolano
39) Lysistrata by Aristophanes
40) Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Taylor
41) Touch by Zentner
42) Bride of New France by Desrochers
43) Virgin Cure by McKay
44) Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
45) The Sealed Letter by Donoghue
46) Ficciones by Borges
47) The Cat's Table by Ondaatje

April

48) Cape Breton Road by MacDonald
49) The Moon is Down by Steinbeck
50) Cannery Row by Steinbeck
51) The Pearl by Steinbeck
52) Summer Gone by Macfarlane
53) I've Got Your Number by Kinsella
54) Travels with Charley by Steinbeck
55) Hello? Is There Anybody There? by Gaarder
56) Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose by Balfour
57) Elegance of the Hedgehog by Barbery
58) Dracula by Stoker
59) Kit's Law by Morrisey

May

60) Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Lam
61) The Knowledge of Good & Evil by Kleier
62) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous
63) Blue Monday by French
64) Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson
65) Corked by Borel
66) Gideon's Corpse by Preston/Child
67) Crome Yellow by Huxley
68) The Seduction of Water by Goodman
69) Ash Wednesday by Hawke
70) Leaning, Leaning Over Water by Itani
71) 100 Cats who Changed Civilization by Stall
72) The Outcast by Jones
73) The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
74) Charlotte au Chocolat by Silver
75) Literary Life: A Second Memoir by McMurtry
76) 11/22/63 by Stephen King

June

77) The Song of Achilles by Miller
78) Everything is Illuminated by Foer
79) A Mind of Winter by Nayman
80) The Green Man by Bedard
81) Surfacing by Atwood
82) Fifty Shades of Grey by James
83) The Mercury Fountain by Factor
84) The Free World by Bezmozgis
85) The 13 Clocks by Thurber
86) Celebrity in Death by Robb
87) Walden by Thoreau
88) The Wonderful O by Thurber
89) Better Living Through Plastic Explosives by Gartner
90) Around the World in 80 Days by Verne
91) A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne
92) Dear Joan by Ross
93) Antagonist by Coady
94) Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
95) A Town Like Alice by Shute
96) New Rules by Maher
97) Treasure Island by Stevenson

July

98) Fanny Hill by Cleland
99) Casino by Burnard
100) The Girls Who Went Away by Fessler
101) Is It Me Or Is Everything Shit by McArthur
102) A Spell of Winter by Dunmore
103) Road to Valor by McConnon
104) The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Buzbee
105) Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Orenstein
106) Ad Nauseam by McClaren

Yah 100! I have a looooooong way to go :)

August

107) Chocky by Wyndham
108) The Pigman by Zindel
109) Some of the Kinder Planets by Wynne-Jones
110) The Magician's Nephew by Lewis
111) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Lewis
112) The Horse and His Boy by Lewis
113) Prince Caspian by Lewis
114) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by Lewis
115) The Silver Chair by Lewis
116) The Last Battle by Lewis
117) The Good, The Bad and the Godawful by Loder
118) Icefields by Wharton
119) Bear by Engel
120) Maclean by Donaldson
121) Charlotte Gray by Faulks
122) A Crime in the Neighborhood by Berne
123) Gillespie and I by Harris
124) Agnes Grey by Bronte
125) Chess Story by Zweig
126) The Idea of Perfection by Grenville
127) When I Lived in Modern Times by Grant
128) That Reminds Me by Kurc
129) The Mermaid Chair by Monk
130) Garbology by Humes
131) I Am the Messenger by Zusak
132) Blood and Guts in High School by Acker
133) The Cake is for the Party by Selecky
134) Sarah Thornhill by Grenville
135) Before I Go To Sleep by Watson
136) Prisoner of Heaven by Zafon
137) Alligator by Moore

September

138) Book Business by Epstein
139) Reading Life: Books for the Ages by Birkerts
140) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Mishima
141) Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck's America by Barich
142) White Teeth by Smith
143) Cold Beer and Crocodiles by Smith
144) Contingency Plan by Allin
145) Travels as a Brussels Scout by Middleton
146) London Under by Ackroyd
147) Island of the Blue Dolphins by O'Dell
148) The Third Gate by Child
149) Polar Wives by Hebert
150) Buddha in the Attic by Otsuka
151) Ru by Thuy
152) Y by Celona (can't find the right touchstone)
153) Our Daily Bread by Davis
154) 419 by Ferguson
155) The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary by Westoll
156) What Money Can't Buy by Sandel
157) Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Bonnet
158) Heartbroken by Unger
159) Runaway by Munro
160) Dr. Brinkley's Tower by Hough
161) One Good Hustle by Livingston

Buddha in the Attic is an awesome little read. Definitely a good choice for my 150 milestone.

Sounds interesting. I added it to my Kindle wish list.

162) Imposter Bride by Richler
163) Flaubert's Parrot by Barnes
164) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Borroff
165) The Emperor of Paris by Richardson
166) The Sweet Girl by Lyon
167) Consumer Republic by Philp
168) Anna From Away by MacDonald
169) Middlemarch by Eliot
170) Blindness by Saramago
171) Little Shadows by Endicott
172) Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Hanff
173) Kissing the Witch by Donoghue
174) My Life Among Apes by Fagan
175) Stay Close by Coben
176) Female Chauvinist Pigs by Levy
177) Foreign Bodies by Ozick
178) Ready Player One by Cline
179) Where We Belong by Giffin
180) This is How You Lose Her by Diaz
181) Love Anthony by Genova
182) Painter of Silence by Harding
183) The Headmaster's Wager by Lam
184) Overdressed by Cline
185) Straphanger by Grescoe
186) Like a Virgin by Branson

187) The Juliet Stories by Snyder
188) The Thread by Hislop
189) The Vanishing Point by McDermid
190) The Night Circus by Morgenstern
191) Inside: Borzoi by Ohlin
192) Trust Your Eyes by Barclay
193) The Purchase by Spalding
194) One Last Thing Before I Go by Tropper
195) Vagina by Woolf
196) Deception by Kellerman
197) Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by Garner
198) Once Upon a More Enlightened Time by Garner
199) Politically Correct Holiday Stories by Garner
200) Casino Royale by Fleming - in honour of the new Bond movie, I decided to read this one. Good but 1950's sexism (or maybe it was just Fleming?) got on my nerves.

Oh so close and 59 days to go over the top. It will be a well deserved victory! :)

Thanks! Probably won't quite make it but at least I am closer than last year. And as always, I've had fun trying :)

I just posted # 93 and I am aiming for 205. If Amazon keeps putting up short stories in Kindle I will make that plus more. I will/do add them but feel it is a bit of a cheat Last year I padded my numbers by reading children's books to myself and now I am starting to read them to Eloise, my great-niece. That should put me past 205. Oh, reading is wonderful!

Hey, a book is a book!

201) Forest of Hands and Teeth by Ryan
202) The Princess of Burundi by Eriksson
203) Casual Vacancy by Rowling
204) Pan by Hamsun
205) Silent Gondoliers by Goldman
206) The Woman Who Died A Lot by Fforde
207) The Secret Keeper by Morton
208) Notorious Nineteen by Evanovich
209) The Black Box by Connelly
210) Clay by Harrison
211) Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
212) Everybody Has Everything by Onstad
213) It's Not an All Night Fair by Toer

Didn't quite make it but it's close enough! Happy 2013 to everyone!

Wow, you did come close!

I wish I'd kept up with logging my reading - I'm going to do better this year.

There seems to be a 250 group that's been started for 2013 - are you going to be here or over in the new group?

BTW, Happy New Year!