Friday, July 9, 2010

Library Challenge


Okay, somebody let me know if I'm going a bit crazy here (I know, that happened a long time ago--how will anybody know the difference)...but I'm signing up for another Book Challenge on Home Girl's Book Blog. This one is a challenge meant to support your local library. There are different levels and I've decided to aim for "Stepping It Up" (checking out and reading 75 library books by the end of 2010). I may make "Super-Size Me" (100 books) but since I also have piles of "To Be Read" books of my own, I'm not sure if I'll make it. Here's the library list so far:

1. No Honeymoon for Death by Mary Kruger (1/2/10)
2. Murder on a Midsummer Night Kerry Greenwood (1/4/10)
3. Written Out by David Armstrong (1/12/10)
4. Death & the Lit Chick by G. M. Malliet (1/14/10)
5. Death at the Alma Mater by G. M. Malliet (1/24/10)
6. Three Silent Things by Margaret Mayhew (1/25/10)
7. Old Soldiers Never Die by Margaret Mayhew (2/6/10)
8. A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch (2/15/10)
9. Do Butlers Burgle Banks? by P. G. Wodehouse (216/10)
10. The Scandal of the Season by Connie Willis (2/25/10)
11. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (2/25/10)
12. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (3/12/10)
13. Musical Mysteries: From Mozart to John Lennon by Albert Borowitz (3/13/10)
14. Oxford & Cambridge by Christopher Brooke (3/24/10)
15. Diary of an Amateur Photographer by Graham Rawles (4/1/10)
16. Belief or Non-Belief? A Dialogue by Umberto Eco & Cardinal Martini (4/5/10)
17. Murder Duet by Batya Gur (5/18/10)
18. The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien (5/22/10)
19. Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie (5/27/10)
20. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (6/11/10)
21. My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective edited by Michael Kurland (7/3/10)
22. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (7/9/10)
23. Classical Women Poets translated by Josephine Balmer (7/10/10)
24. In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey (7/11/10)
25. Hive of Suspects by Sheila Pim (7/18/10)
26. Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene (7/18/10)
27. I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury (7/19/10)
28. Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie (7/20/10)
29. The Green Man by Kingsley Amis (8/5/10)
30. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Knowles (8/8/10)

31. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton (8/10/10)
32. Cop Out by Ellery Queen (8/10/10)
33. Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock (8/11/10)
34. Monkey Puzzle by Paula Gosling (8/11/10)
35. Death of a Dude by Rex Stout (8/13/10)
36. The Big Bounce by Elmore Leonard (8/15/10)
37. Dress Her in Indigo by John D MacDonald (8/17/10)

38. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (8/19/10)
39. Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny (8/25/10)
40. Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury (8/26/10)
41. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (8/28/10)
42. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (8/30/10)
43. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (9/5/10)
44. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton (9/6/10)
45. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld (9/6/10)

46. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (9/7/10)
47. The Bohemian Girl by Kenneth Cameron (9/11/10)

48. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier (9/12/10)
49. The Thanksgiving Day Murder by Lee Harris (9/13/10)
50. The Deathday Letter by Shaun David Hutchinson (9/13/10)
51. Lady Fortescue Steps Out by Marion Chesney (9/14/10)
52. Soulless by Gail Carriger (9/22/10)
53. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (9/28/10)
54. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean (10/1/10)
55. The Essential Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Definitive Annotated Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Classic Novel by Leonard Wolf (ed) (10/3/10)
56. Changeless by Gail Carriger (10/4/10)
57. Miss Tonks Turns to Crime by Marion Chesney (10/4/10)
58. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (10/8/10)
59. Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman (10/9/10)
60. The Art of the Sonnet by Stephen Burt & David Mikics (10/16/10)
61. Blameless by Gail Carriger (10/17/10)
62. Lay On, Mac Duff! by Charlotte Armstrong (10/18/10)
63. The Conference of the Birds by Jean-Claude Carriere & Peter Brook [based on the poem by Farid Uddi Attar] (10/19/10)
64. Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn (10/24/10)
65. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin (10/29/10)
66. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (11/2/10
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67. The Agency: The Body at the Tower by Y. S. Lee (11/6/10)
68. One Step Behind by Henning Mankell (11/9/10)
69. Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood (11/12/10)
70. The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell (11/13/10)
71. Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin (11/14/10)
72. The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes by Barry Grant (11/15/10)
73. Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer (11/22/10)
74. A Blunt Instrument by Georgette Heyer (11/25/10)
75. A Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens (11/28/10) Challenge Complete!
76. A Christmas Grace by Anne Perry (11/29/10)
77. A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock (12/2/10)
78. Behold, a Mystery! by Joan Smith (12/3/10)
79. Dead Man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood (12/4/10)
80. Death in Hellfire by Deryn Lake (12/12/10)
81. Mrs. Hudson & the Malabar Rose by Martin Davies (12/21/10)
82. Angel With Two Faces by Nicola Upson (12/28/10)
83. The Agency: A Spy in the House by Y. S. Lee (12/30/10)
84. They Call Me Naughty Lola by David Rose (ed) (12/30/10)

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