thatbooksmell's 888

1. Classics
1. Middlemarch by George Eliot
2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
4. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
5. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
6. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
7. The Illiad by Homer
8. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

2. First in a Series
1. Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus) by Ian Rankin
2. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael) by Ellis Peters (I've NEVER finished this!)
3. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
4. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (first Poirot book)
5. Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
6. Killing Floor (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child
7.When the Day of Evil Comes by Melanie Wells
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3. Christian Living and Study
1. The Confessions by St. Augustine
2. Jesus Among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias
3. The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel
4. Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow
5. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? by Philip Yancey (for women's group at church)
6. A Mom After God's Own Heart by Elizabeth George
7. Having a Mary Spirit by Joanna Weaver
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4. Recommended by Friends and Family
1. The Christ Clone Trilogy (1st: In His Image) by James BeauSeigneur
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4. something by M.M. Kaye, probably Far Pavilions
5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
6. The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
7. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
8. something recommended by my mom

5. New Author, Never Read
1. Daniel Silva--The Messenger? The Faithful Spy? The English Assassin?
2. P.G. Wodehouse--Carry On, Jeeves!
3. Gillian Flynn--Sharp Objects
4. Julia Spencer-Fleming--In the Bleak Midwinter
5. David Lodge--Changing Places
6. Arturo Perez-Reverte--The Flanders Panel?
7. Mary Doria Russell--The Sparrow
8. Robert Liparulo--Germ

6. General/Popular Fiction
1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
3. The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
4. In the Pond by Ha Jin
5. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (Oh phooey, this isn't fiction! lol)
6. The Apostate's Tale by Margaret Frazer
7. The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
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7. Educational Non-Fiction (varied subjects & biographies)
1. Uncle Tungsten: Memoir of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
2. Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen
3. Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
4. American Gospel by Jon Meacham
5. Educating the Whole-Hearted Child by Clarksons
6. Parenting with Love & Logic
7. Boundaries with Teens by Townsend
8. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose

8. Short Fiction & Poetry
1. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2. collection of short stories (which?) by L.M. Montgomery
3. Beowulf
4. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
5. The Best American Short Stories (2006 or 2007 volume), Edited by Stephen King
6. Hangman's Holiday (short story collection) by Dorothy Sayers
7. The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
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So far I've read:

1. Northanger Abbey (which I read in place of Persuasion)
2. Beowulf
3. Calm My Anxious Heart
4. My Sister's Keeper
5. Twilight

Plus 3-4 other titles that are not on my list. :o)

Next update, finally! I've read half a dozen more, but have gotten off of my list for some enjoyable fluff reading as well. :o)

6. Never Let Me Go
7. The Wheel of Darkness
8. In the Bleak Midwinter
9. Best American Short Stories 2007
10. Shakespeare: The World as Stage
11. The Death of Ivan Ilych

My book total (888 + others) for the year right now is at 24.

Boy, I need to update!

12. The Kite Runner
13. When the Day of Evil Comes
14. Things Fall Apart
15. Germ
16. A Morbid Taste for Bones
17. Having a Mary Spirit
18. The Meaning of Night
19. The Tenderness of Wolves