For 2011 I had three reading goals:
Complete unfinished novel series.
- DONE – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) – Rowling, J.K.
- DONE – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) – Rowling, J.K.
- DONE – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) – Rowling, J.K.
- DONE – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) – Rowling, J.K.
- DONE – Chainfire (Sword of Truth, #9) – Terry Goodkind
- DONE – Phantom (Sword of Truth, #10) – Terry Goodkind
- DONE – Confessor (Sword of Truth, #11) – Terry Goodkind
- DONE – Children of the Mind (Ender’s Saga, #4) – Orson Scott Card
- DONE – A War of Gifts (Ender’s Saga, #5) – Orson Scott Card
- DONE – Ender in Exile (Ender’s Saga, #6) – Orson Scott Card
- DONE – Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow Series, #2) – Orson Scott Card
- DONE – Shadow Puppets (Shadow Series, #3) – Orson Scott Card
- DONE – Shadow of the Giant (Shadow Series, #4) – Orson Scott Card
- DONE – The Harsh Cry of the Heron (Tales of the Otori, #4) – Hearn, Lian
- DONE – Heaven’s Net is Wide (Tales of the Otori, #5 Prequel) – Hearn, Lian
- DONE – Prelude to Foundation (Foundation: Prequel, #1) – Asimov, Isaac
- DONE – Forward the Foundation (Foundation: Prequel, #2) – Asimov, Isaac
- DONE – Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2) – Asimov, Isaac
- DONE – Second Foundation (Foundation, #3) – Asimov, Isaac
- DONE – Foundation’s Edge (Foundation, #4) – Asimov, Isaac
- DONE – Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5) – Asimov, Isaac
- DONE – The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #2) – Douglas Adams
- DONE – Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #3) – Douglas Adams
- DONE – So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #4) – Douglas Adams
- DONE – Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #5) – Douglas Adams
Complete the first 25 of the BBC The Big Read Top 100.
- DONE – Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- DONE – Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
- DONE – Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- DONE – Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
- DONE – Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
- DONE – Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
- DONE – The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- DONE – The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
- DONE – Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- DONE – Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- DONE – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières
GAVE UP – War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy- DONE – Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Goodreads 2011 Reading Challenge: Read 52 books. (Raised from 50 to 52 on Oct 21) Read 56.
Not Your Oprah’s Book Club (Facebook, Goodreads) selections:
(Facebook page for Athens book club)
- DONE January- True Grit – Charles Portis
- DONE February – As She Climbed Across the Table – Jonathan Lethem
- DONE March – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume
- DONE March – Then Again, Maybe I Won’t – Judy Blume
- DONE April – No One Belongs Here More Than You – Miranda July
- DONE May – Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story – Isabel Gillies
- July also in BBC list above Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- DONE August – And Then There Were None – Christie, Agatha
- DONE September – The Floatplane Notebooks – Clyde Edgerton
- DONE November – The Book of Lost Things – John Connolly
Offlist:
- A Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
- DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education – Anya Kamenetz
- Being Geek – Michael Lopp
- The Next Fifty Years – Brockman, John
- The Road – McCarthy, Cormac
- Native Son – Richard Wright
- Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
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