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Alicia's Reading Goals for 2011
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"Currently Reading" Shelf:*
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*Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
*The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
*Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
*Paradise Regained: The Regreening of Earth by Les Johnson
*Physics by Aristotle
*Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon by Rosamond Smith
Literature of Lost:*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
*After All These Years: A Novel by Susan Isaacs
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*Animal Farm by George Orwell
*Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
*Bad Twin by Gary Troup
*Bluebeard (Perrault's Fairy Tales) by Charles Perrault
*The Book of Laws (The Laws of Manu) By Manu
*Holy Bible - King James Version
*A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking
*The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*Caravan of Dreams by Idries Shah
*Carrie by Stephen King
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*A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
*The Chosen by Chaim Potok
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*The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam
*Dark Horse by Tami Hoag
*The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
*The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
*The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands by Stephen King
*The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by Stephen King
*Deep River by Shusaku Endo
*Dirty Work by Stuart Woods
*Dune by Frank Herbert
*The Epic of Gilgamesh
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*Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
*Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
*Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
*Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
*The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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*Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
*High Hand by Gary Phillips
*Hindsight
*The Holy Qur'an / القرآن الكريم
*Hotel by Arthur Hailey
*Taoist I Ching
*The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
*My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
*Island by Aldous Huxley
*Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
*Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
*Kings of Love: The Poetry and History of the Ni'Matullahi Sufi Order by Nasrollah Pourjavady and PL Wilson (translators)
*Lancelot by Walker Percy
*Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
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*The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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*Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
*Moby Dick by Herman Melville
*The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
*Mysteries Of The Ancient Americas
*The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
*Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*The Oath by John Lescroart
*An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
*The Odyssey by Homer
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*On the Road by Jack Kerouac
*On Writing by Stephen King
*Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
*O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
*The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
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*Perfume
*Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
*Roots by Alex Haley
*A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
*The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells
*The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
*The Shining by Stephen King
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*The Stand by Stephen King
*The Stone Leopard by Colin Forbes
*Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
*The Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne
*A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
*The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
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*The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
*Ulysses by James Joyce
*Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler
*VALIS by Philip K. Dick
*Watership Down by Richard Adams
*What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
*The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
*A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Steinbeck's Complete Works:*Cup of Gold
*The Pastures of Heaven
*The Red Pony
*To a God Unknown
*Tortilla Flat
*In Dubious Battle
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*The Long Valley
*The Grapes of Wrath
*The Forgotten Village
*Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
*The Moon Is Down
*Bombs Away
*Cannery Row
*The Wayward Bus
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*A Russian Journal
*Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form
*The Log from the Sea of Cortez
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*Sweet Thursday
*The Short Reign of Pippin IV
*Once There Was a War
*The Winter of Our Discontent
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*America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
*Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
*Zapata
*The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
*Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath
Palahniuk's Works to Date:*
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*Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
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*Haunted
*Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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*Pygmy
*Tell-All
*Damned (Sept. 2011)
Reading Challenge: COLLEGE STUDENTS SPRING/SUMMER 2011 CHALLENGE
5.1 - Luck of the Irish: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
5.4 - Spring Cleaning: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5.5 - Most Read Authors: Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
5.6 - New Beginnings: The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1)
5.7 - Choose Your Friends Wisely: The Outsiders
5.8 - You Haven't Read This?: Memoirs of a Geisha
10.1 - National Poetry Month:
10.2 - Blockbusters: On the Road
10.3 - Just the Two of Us:
10.4 - Earth Day: Paradise Regained: The Regreening of Earth
10.7 - Oh, Canada: Life of Pi
10.8 - Must Read Books: Heart of Darkness
15.1 - Bridging the Gap: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster ('98 Winner)
15.2 - Iconic Images:
15.3 - Couch Potato: The Mysterious Island (LOST)
15.4 - Pulitzer Prize List: To Kill a Mockingbird
15.5 - Medieval Times:
15.6 - The Feminine Mystique: The Vagina Monologues
15.7 - Justice League: Roots
15.8 - This Day in History:
20.1 - Group Read: A Christmas Carol
20.2 - Fall/Winter Challenge Winner's Task (Erin): Cup of Gold AND Watership Down
25.1 - Read and Review: The Third Policeman (TB&TB) AND
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (NY Times)
25.2 - Delving Into a Genre: A) Jurassic Park AND B) Fever Crumb
25.3 - It's a Mad, Mad World: Island (Utopian) AND Fahrenheit 451 (Dystopian)
25.4 - Marathon Reader: The Brothers Karamazov
25.5 - Two Become One: The Shape of Things to Come AND After All These Years: A Novel
25.6 - Past and Present Reading: Unfinished Business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things (Present - do) AND What Katy Did (Past - did)
25.7 - Obey Thy Mother and Father: Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom (Mother) AND
25.8 - Take a Vacation: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1-N. America, 1-History&Culture)
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (336 pages, 4*)**Lost Lit
3. Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and How They Made the Biggest Decision of Their Lives (288 pages, 3*)
ooh, I love your Lost lit idea. I would love to do something like that. I've read a few of these already. I did go out and read Bad Twin, but I thought it was a very boring book. A really run of the mill mystery type of thing. I also read some of the Lost novels, you know the stories of people on the Island that aren't really "in" the series. These were also quite terrible.
For some reason, to me, it seems the "extra" stuff outside of Lost isn't even remotely as good as Lost! Although, I did read a book called "Living Lost", which I thought was very good and very interesting!
7. First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life by Eve Brown-Waite (320 pages, 4*)**First-reads, Reading Challenge
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Goals:
*Clear off the books on my "currently reading" shelf
*Literature of Lost
*Read at least half of Steinbeck's complete works (15/30)
*Read the remainder of Palahniuk's works
*Complete one reading challenge