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50 Book Challenge!

Welcome to the 50-Book Challenge!
We are not listless. In fact, we love lists ...

Many of our lists can be found by using the link below:

http://astore.amazon.com/allencotrip-20

Our challenge is to read 50 books in one year. OR ... establish a goal for yourself more or less, it's up to you, just because we...more »

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  • Anna K

    Only 11 Books to go! (Anna's list so far)

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    January-

    Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
    Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
    A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan
    Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
    The Bridge to San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
    Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
    The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
    A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
    A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
    The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
    Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen

    February-

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
    The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago
    The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
    Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins
    Life of Pi by Yann Martel

    March-

    To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
    Dracula by Bram Stoker
    The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
    Buster Midnight's Cafe by Sandra Dallas
    Brunelleschi's Dome By Ross King
    A Short Autobiography by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Library: A Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
    The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
    Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames
    South of the Border West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

    April-

    Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
    The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    A Death in the Family by James Agee
    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
    Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
    The Leopard by Guiseppe di Lampedusa

    May-

    Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
    Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
    Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
    The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
    The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
    Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
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  • Nicole D (aka Coyotemusic)
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    and you started with a doozey!

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    • Anna K
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      Haha, yeah that's why a lot of the other books I read in Jan. were so short.

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  • Candice
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    Great list!

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  • Anna K
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    June-

    The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
    The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
    Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
    The Inner Circle by TC Boyle
    Planets by Dava Sobel
    Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
    Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh

    That makes 46 so far! (I'm pretty sure I can make it to 50 this year ;) )

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