Bucketyell's 250-book challenge

I was doing the 999 challenge but since I am now well into the third round, I think I just might hit 250 this year. I just hit 213 today so I am getting close!

1. Thanks for the Memories by Ahern
2. Monster of Florence by Preston/Spezi
3. Three Cups of Tea by Mortenson
4. Artic Drift by Cussler
5. Inside Out Girl by Cohen
6. Loving Frank by Horan
7. Waiting to Surface by Listfield
8. Righteous Men by Bourne
9. PS I Love You by Ahern
10. The Smart One and The Pretty One by LaZebnik
11. Hurry Down Sunshine by Greenberg
12. The Zookeeper's Wife by Ackerman
13. Charlemagne Pursuit by Berry
14. After River by Milner
15. Coventry by Humphreys
16. The Hour I First Believed by Lamb
17. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by Wroblewski
18. The Reader by Schlink
19. Certain Smile by Michael
20. A Thousand Days in Venice by de Blasi
21. Deafening by Itani
22. The Bodies Left Behind by Deaver
23. Barefoot by Hilderbrand
24. The Night Villa by Goodman
25. Almost Moon by Sebold
26. The Lost Recipe for Happiness by O'Neal
27. The Ruins by Smith
28. The Gift by Ahern
29. Ego Boom by Maich/George
30. Still Alice by Genova
31. Divine Justice by Baldacci
32. Town House by Cohen
33. Beside a Burning Sea by Shors
34. Goldengrove by Prose
35. Ask Again Later by Davis
36. Q & A by Swarup
37. Size 12 is not Fat by Cabot
38. The Invisible Wall by Bernstein
39. Mudbound by Jordan
40. Brass Verdict by Connelly
41. Almost Archer Sisters by Gabriele
42. Resistance by Shreve
43. Dive From Clausen's Pier by Packer
44. Practically Perfect by Fforde
45. Twilight by Meyer
46. What I Did For Love by Phillips
47. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Young
48. Book of Negroes by Hill
49. Run for Your Life by Patterson
50. No Time for Goodbye by Barclay

51. Interpretation of Murder by Rubenfeld
52. How to be Lost by Ward
53. She Went all the Way by Cabot
54. Revolutionary Road by Yates
55. Where Rainbows End by Ahern
56. Not Buying It by Levine
57. The Historian by Kostova
58. Terminal Freeze by Child
59. Disappeared by Echlin
60. Winter Sea by Kearsley
61. Handle with Care by Picoult
62. Girls in Trucks by Crouch
63. Midwives by Bohjalian
64. Last Summer of You & Me by Brashares
65. The Dream by Bernstein
66. Atonement by MacEwan
67. Double Bind by Bohjalian
68. Still Life by Fielding
69. Skeletons at the Feast by Bohjalian
70. Strange Fits of Passion by Shreve
71. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by See
72. Time Travelers Wife by Niffennegger
73. Very Valentine by Trigiani
74. Vanished Smile by Scotti
75. Remembering the Bones by Itani
76. Promises in Death by Robb
77. Before I Wake by Wiersma
78. A Black Englishman by Slaughter
79. Marshmallows for Breakfast by Koomson
80. Run by Patchett
81. A Little Princess by Burnett
82. The Diary by Goudge
83. Obedience by Lavender
84. True Detectives by Kellerman
85. Complicated Kindness by Toews
86. The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Maxwell
87. While My Sister Sleeps by Delinsky
88. What the Dead Know by Lippman
89. Dead Man Walking by Prejean
90. The Indian in the Cupboard by Banks
91. Got You Back by Fallon
92. Thirteenth Tale by Setterfield
93. Angels and Demons by Brown
94. Sad Truth About Happiness by Giardini
95. Megiddo's Shadow by Slade
96. Trans-Sister Radio by Bohjalian
97. Girls in Trouble by Leavitt
98. Girl Sleuth by Rehak
99. There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom by Sachar
100. All You Need is Love by Matthews

101. Outlander by Adamson
102. Cemetery Dance by Preston
103. Happenstance by Shields
104. Welsh Girl by Davies
105. The Story of a Marriage by Greer
106. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Jackson
107. Addition by Jordan
108. New Moon by Meyer
109. Lost Hours by White
110. Stardust by Gaiman
111. Paths of Glory by Archer
112. Wake by Sawyer
113. Devlin Diary by Phillips
114. Short History of Tractors in the Ukraina by Lewyka
115. Kindness of Strangers by Kittle
116. As Good as it Got by Sharpe
117. Eclipse by Meyer
118. Once in a Lifetime by Kelly
119. Birth House by McKay
120. 8th Confession by Patterson
121. Candymaking in Canada by Carr
122. Shanghai Girls by See
123. Before You Know Kindness by Bohjalian
124. Piano Teacher by Lee
125. The Wednesday Sisters by Clayton
126. Breaking Dawn by Meyer
127. True Colors by Hannah
128. Finger Lickin Fifteen by Evanovich
129. Department of Lost and Found by Scotch
130. Do No Harm by Hurwitz
131. Unless by Shields
132. Glassblower of Murano by Fiorato
133. Songs Without Words by Packer
134. Lace Makers of Glenmara by Barbieri
135. How to Talk to a Widower by Tropper
136. The BFG by Dahl
137. Hope in a Jar by Harbison
138. Crying Tree by Rakha
139. Knock Out by Coulter
140. Leaning, Leaning Over Water by Itani
141. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Ford
142. Summer House by Thayer
143. The Monk Downstairs by Farrington
144. Now You See Me by Murphy
145. Dear Canada: Orphan at My Door by Little
146. Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Wells
147. Good Things I Wish You by Ansay
148. Devil's Punchbowl by Iles
149. Swann by Shields
150. Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith

151. Divided Loyalties by Scanlan
152. Dismantled by McMahon
153. Prairie Bridesmaid by Salamon
154. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie
155. Veil of Roses by Fitzgerald
156. The Giver by Lowry
157. Random Acts of Heroic Love by Scheinmann
158. Just Jane by Lavender
159. The Girl She Left Behind by Brichoux
160. Saint of Lost Things by Castellani
161. Bell Jar by Plath
162. Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle
163. A Fine Balance by Mistry
164. Pillars of the Earth by Follett
165. Scarecrow by Connelly
166. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Bradley
167. Best Friends Forever by Weiner
168. Geography of Bliss by Weiner
169. Frankenstein by Shelley
170. Villa Serena by de Rosa
171. Bride Island by Enders
172. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Doyle
173. World Without End by Follett
174. Six Suspects by Swarup
175. Galore by Crummey
176. The Wishbones by Perrotta
177. Altared by Curran
178. Strange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde by Stevenson
179. Flowers for Algernon by Keyes
180. The Godmother by Adams
181. The Monk Upstairs by Farrington
182. Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Howe
183. We Know What You Are Thinking by Bricker
184. Plague of Secrets by Lescroart
185. A Year Without Made in China by Bongiorni
186. War of the Worlds by Wells
187. Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury
188. Now and Then by Sheehan
189. The Girl at the Lion D'or by Faulks
190. Roadside Crosses by Deaver
191. Factoring Humanity by Sawyer
192. Doomsday Key by Rollins
193. 100-Mile Diet by Smith
194. Passage to India by Forster
195. The Color of Light by White
196. Another Mother's Life by Coleman
197. Jericho's Fall by Carter
198. Twenties Girl by Kinsella
199. Deluxe by Thomas
200. Native Son by Wright

201. Bird in Hand by Kline
202. Lost Symbol by Brown
203. Nurtureshock by Bronson
204. How Sex Works by Moalem
205. Clockwork Orange by Burgess
206. While I'm Falling by Moriarty
207. Losing You by French
208. Letters From Yellowstone by Smith
209. Guinea Pig Diaries by Jacobs
210. Julie and Julia by Powell
211. Sway by Brafman
212. Day After Night by Diamant
213. The Drunkard's Walk by Mlodinow

214. Alex Cross's Trial by Patterson
215. Last Temptation by McDermid
216. Children of my Heart by Roy
217. The Day the Falls Stood Still by Buchanan
218. Fear the Worst by Barclay
219. Certainty by Thien
220. Birdsong by Faulks

221. Year of the Flood by Atwood
222. The Buffalo Soldier by Bohjalian
223. Amy and Isabelle by Strout
224. The Wife's Tale by Lansens
225. Felicia's Journey by Trevor

226. 206 Bones by Reichs
227. Intervention by Cook
228. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Oates
229. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams
230. Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Adams
231. Life, the Universe and Everything by Adams
232. So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Adams
233. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Bartlett

234. People of the Book by Brooks
235. Ragtime by Doctorow
236. Fire and Ice by Jance
237. Herland by Gilman
238. Her Fearful Symmetry by Niffenegger
239. April and Oliver by Callahan
239a. 84, Charing Cross Road by Hanff (I am not counting this one because it was just too short but I am listing it just to be consistent)

240. Hiding Place by Azzopardi
241. Remains of the Day by Ishiguro
242. A Love of Reading by Adams
243. No Great Mischief by MacLeod

Slow week but I finished my third 999 challenge so I am a happy camper :)

244. Superfreakonomics by Levitt
245. Suddenly by Burnard

Another slow week... too busy work overtime and planning a 40th birthday party. Hopefully I can now get some real reading done this week.

246. Snoop: What You Stuff Says About You by Gosling
247. High Chicago by Shrier
248. Nine Dragons by Connelly
249. Meaning of Liff by Adams
250. This is Where I Leave You by Tropper (Yah! A milestone!)

251. Idiot America by Pierce
252. The Angel's Game by Zafon
253. The House on Tradd Street by White
254. Once in a Blue Moon by Goudge
255. Silver Linings: Travels Around Northern Ireland by Fletcher

256. The Help by Stockett
257. House of Reckoning by Saul
258. Sonata for Miriam by Olsson
259. The Hadrian Memorandum by Folsom
260. Number Freak by Niederman
261. A Christmas Carol by Dickens
262. Winter Ghosts by Mosse

263. Difference a Day Makes by Matthews
264. Week in December by Faulks
265. A Change in Altitude by Shreve
266. That Old Cape Magic by Russo
267. Deja View by Armstrong

268. House Lust by McGinn
269. Last Day by Kleier
270. Ishmael by Quinn
271. Modigliani Scandal by Follett
272. The Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway
273. Geisha, a Life by Iwasaki
274. The Sound of No Hands Clapping by Young
275. Ever is a Long Time by Eubanks

276. Children of Men by James
277. Dead Pan by Trent
278. The Bishop's Man by MacIntyre
279. The Zigzag Way by Desai
280. Feathered Serpent: A Novel by Xiaobin
281. A Quiver Full of Arrows by Archer
282. Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do by Vanderbilt
283. Frozen Thames by Humphreys
284. Beautiful Lies by Unger
285. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Kingsolver
286. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Gilman

287. Joe College by Perrotta
288. Notes on a Scandal by Heller
289. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Larsson
290. X-Rated! The Power of Mythic Symbolism in Popular Culture by Danesi
291. Interred with their Bones by Carrell
292. Vinyl Cafe Diaries by McLean
293. Under the Tuscan Sun by Mayes
294. Bella Tuscany by Mayes
295. Running with Scissors by Burroughs

296. Lord of the Flies by Golding
297. Fireworks over Toccoa by Stepakoff
298. Poached Egg on Toast by Itani
299. Killing Time by Carr
300. Talking About Detective Fiction by James

And with that, I reached my goal with a few hours to spare. Perhaps next year I will focus more on quality and less on quantity. My new year's resolution is be a little less obsessive and competitive when it comes to these challenges :)