| Participant | Goal(s) | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Nu-Knees | • 3 classics – 1 per month (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne; The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope; Mr Harrison's Confession and My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell) • 3 non-fiction books – 1 per month (Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry; Nathaniel's Nutmeg by Giles Milton; Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox) |
Finished: Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne; The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope; Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton; Mr Harrison's Confessions by Elizabeth Gaskell; My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell;
Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox Total: Non-fiction: 3 of 3; Classics: 3 of 3 (reported March 15th) |
| janey-canuck | • 10 books from TBR |
Finished: Dear Undercover Economist by Tim Harford; Still Alice by Lisa Genova; The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews; How to Run a Meeting by Antony Jay; Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker; L'Affaire by Diane Johnson; More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman; Evenings at Five by Gail Godwin; Trade-off by Kevin Maney; The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes; The Good Nanny by Benjamin Cheever Total: 10 of 10 (reported March 30th) |
| nancynova | 25 books: |
Finished: Right Next Door by Debbie Macomber; Virgin River by Robyn Carr; Shelter
Mountain by Robyn Carr; Who Moved My Blackberry by Lucy Kellaway; Sun at Midnight by Rosie Thomas; The Bridal Quest by Candace Camp; Yours, Mine or Ours by Karen Templeton; Weekends at Bellevue by Julie Holland; Suddenly One Summer by Barbara Freethy; Baby’s First Christmas by Cathy Gillen Thacker; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Ann Barrows; The Runaway Bridesmaid by Kaitlyn Rice; The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory; The Bridegroom by Linda Lael Miller;
The Traveler’s Gift by Andy Andrews; When Christmas Comes by Debbie Macomber; The Convenient Wife by Betty Neels; Isabel’s Daughter by Judi Hendricks; Comfort and Joy by Kristin Hannah; Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres; An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Anne Vanderhoof; Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall; Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult; The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski; Their Small Town Love by Arlene James Total: Romance: 10 of 10; Other: 11 of 11; Biographies: 2 of 2; 1001: 1 of 1; Non-fiction: 1 of 1 (reported March 13th) |
| Ibis3 | • Finish 2 CanLit Challenge books in progress (They Shall Inherit
the Earth by Morley Callaghan; Antoinette de Mirecourt by Rosanna
Leprohon) |
Finished: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie; Antoinette de Mirecourt by Rosanna Leprohon; The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket; War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells; They Shall Inherit the Earth by Morley Callaghan; Candide by Voltaire; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne; Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff Total: Other: 2 of 2; CanLit: 2 of 4; Classics: 3 of 4; Other BCers: 1 of 2 Current Books: Paradise Lost by John Milton @Book V, p.116 of 303; The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco @p.292 of 502 (reported March 31st) |
| Neuilly | 4 books • 3 TBRs • Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts |
Finished: Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman; Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro; Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman; Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear Total: TBRs: 4 of 3 Current Books: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts @p.256 of 933 (reported March 11th) |
| Geileis | 6 books (Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad; The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge; Christmas Books by Charles Dickens; Land Below the Wind by Agnes Keith; The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch; Nostromo by Joseph Conrad) |
Finished: The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins; Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad; The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge; Nostromo by Joseph Conrad; Land Below the Wind by Agnes Keith Total: 4 of 6 Current Books: The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch @p. 65 of 352 (reported March 29th) |
| bluenoser | 26 TBRs | Finished: The Bookman's Promise by John Dunning;
To Kill or Cure by Susanna Gregory;
The Optimist by Lawrence Shorter; The Road by Cormac McCarthy; The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell;Satan's Fire- Paul Doherty First Light by Peter Ackroyd; Bon Appétit! by Peter Mayle; The Poisoned Chalice by Bernard Knight; Strip Jack by Ian Rankin; Blood Rain by Michael Dibdin; A Conspiracy of Violence by Susanna Gregory; Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen;
Call the Dead Again by Anne Granger; Sword of Shame by The Medieval Murderers; Easy Meat by John Harvey; A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory; As Good as Gold by Colin Dexter;
The Sticklepath Strangler by Michael Jecks;
The Caliph's House by Tahir Shah; The Fairies of Fryfam by M. C. Beaton; The Hyde Park Headsman by Anne Perry; Murder in Grub Street by Bruce Alexander; Sea Glass by Anita Shreve; Gone for Good by Harlan Coben; Blood on the Strand by Susanna Gregory Total: TBRs: 26 of 26 (reported March 19th) |
| MaryZee | • 4 books registered by BCers • 3 pre-2005 books |
Finished: London by Edward Rutherfurd; The Great Indoors: Favorites 1987-1996 by Eric Broder; What's a Girl Gotta Do? by Sparkle Hayter; Sugar and Spite by G.A. McKevett; California Dreamin' by Michelle Phillips; A Night to Remember by Walter Lord; Treacherous Beauties by Cheryl Emerson Total: BCers: 4 of 4; pre-2005: 3 of 3 (reported March 19th) |
| Neige49 | 13 books |
Finished: The Pact by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins & Rameck Hunt; 100 Cupboards by N. D. Wilson; A Story Like the Wind by Laurens Van Der Post; Bed in a Tree by Bettina Kowalewski; The Middle Heart by Bette Bao Lord; Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland; The Dangerous World of Butterflies by Peter Laufer; Fishboy by Mark Richard; The Lady in Blue by Javier Sierra; The Lottery by Patricia Wood; A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer; Journey to the Outermost House by Nan Turner Waldron; Fallam's Secret by Denise Giardina Total: TBRs: 6 of 6; Others: 7 of 7 (reported March 31st) |
| nicolesinger | 12 books • 6 TBRs • 6 from“want list” |
Finished: Ironman by Chris Crutcher;
Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris; A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell; The Help by Kathryn Stockett; Coyotes by Ted Conover; My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery by Belinda Hurmence, ed.; P.S. You're Not Listening by Eleanor Craig; Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik; Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger; Under the Dome by Stephen King; The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley; True Detectives by Jonathan Kellerman Total: TBRs: 6 of 6; Want List: 6 of 6 (reported March 6th) |
| Heaven150 | 10 Books: • 3 1001 books (Vanishing Point by David Markson; Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh; Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro) • 3 new authors (The Absence of Nectar by Kathy Hepinstall; She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb; The Vulture Fund by Stephen Frey) • 2 true crime (The Evil Mother by Fred Rosen; A Woman Scorned by Lisa Pulitzer) • 2 others (U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton; Thinner by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)) |
Finished: U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton; The Absence of Nectar by Kathy Hepinstall; Vanishing Point by David Markson; The Evil Mother by Fred Rosen; Thinner by Richard Bachman (Stephen King); She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb; Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh; The Vulture Fund by Stephen Frey; A Woman Scorned by Lisa Pulitzer; The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Total: Others: 2 of 2; New: 3 of 3; 1001: 3 of 3; True Crime: 2 of 2 (reported March 11th) |
| mrsgaskell | 5 books |
Finished: The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope; The Time Machine by H.G. Wells; The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope; Villette by Charlotte Brontë; The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins Total: 5 of 5 (reported March 25th) |
| FeistyPom2Love | 12 books |
Finished: Mona Lisa Blossoming by Sunny; Espresso Shot by Cleo Coyle; Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott; Our Purpose: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2007; Thirty-Three Swoons by Martha Cooley; Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks; Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma; Oysters & Chocolate by Jordan LaRousse & Samantha Sade, eds. Total: 9 of 12 Current Books: (reported March 15th) |
| lane1088 | 33 books
|
Finished: Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg; Way Station by Clifford Simak; The Eye of the Heron by Ursala LeGuin; The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry; Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley; Hunting Party by Elizabeth Moon; Fantasy & Science Fiction (August 2005); The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella; Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters; The Queen of the Big Time by Adriana Trigiani; STNG: The Romula Prize by Simon Hawke; A Place of Execution by Val McDermid; The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King; The Man-Kzin Wars by Larry Niven; The Man-Kzin Wars II by Larry Niven; The Man-Kzin Wars IV by Larry Niven; The Man-Kzin Wars VI by Larry Niven; The Man-Kzin Wars X by Larry Niven; N or M? by Agatha Christie; Murder in the Solid State by Wil McCarthy; Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry; The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry; A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters; Magic Kingdom--For Sale/SOLD by Terry Brooks; Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson; The Illearth War by Stephen R. Donaldson; The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson; Wounded Land by Stephen R. Donaldson; The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson; White Gold Wielder by Stephen R. Donaldson; The Fire by Katharine Neville; A Rare Benedictine by Ellis Peters; A Holiday for Murder by Agatha Christie; They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie; One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters Total: TBRs: 32 of 30; Bookclubs: 3 of 3 (reported March 30th) |
| sshahid | 10 TBRs | Finished: Animal Farm by George Orwell; Truckers by Terry Pratchett; Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Quiet Game by Greg Iles; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; Protagoras by Plato; The Woman in Black Susan Hill; Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Total: 10 of 10 (reported March 14th) |
| CynthiaA | 6 TBRs (The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur; Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott; The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton; Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels) | Finished: The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott; Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels; The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell; The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton Total: 6 of 6 Current Book: The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory (reported March 22nd) |
| Chania | 20 TBRs • 10 among the oldest • 10 others |
Finished: Salamanterisota by Karel Capek; Journey to the South by Annie Hawes; Petturin muisti by Elizabeth George; The Catsitters by James Wolcott; Curtain of Green and Other Stories by Eudora Welty; Syyllisyys by Iain Banks; The Northern Exposure Book by Louis Chunovic; The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing; Mistään kotoisin by Marjaneh Bakhtiari; Where Have All the Boys Gone? by Jenny Colgan; Onnen kiertotie by Tony Parsons; Tutkimuskohteena kuolema by Elizabeth Ferraras; Nurinkurin by Umayya Abu-Hanna; Luodetuulen maa by Tapio Koivukari; Monday the Rabbi Took Off by Harry Kemelman; My Life on a Plate by India Knight; Romeo ja Julia by William Shakespeare; The Cat Who Played Brahms by Lilian Jackson Brown; The Cat Who Played Post-Office by Lilian Jackson Brown; Tulppaanikuume by Deborah Moggach Total: Others: 10 of 10; Older: 10 of 10 (reported March 11th) |
| tqd | 25 books | Finished: The Broken Shore by Peter Temple; At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft; The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies; A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle; Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg; The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry; Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta; Ransom by David Malouf; Dissolution by C.J. Sansom; The Boat by Nam Le; Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane; The Mislaid Magician by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer; Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear; All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque;
Girls Like Funny Boys by Dave Franklin; Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick;
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson; The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy; Cotillion by Georgette Heyer; We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson; Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski; Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde; A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson; Sleepless by Charlie Huston Total: 25 of 25 (reported March 31st) |
| Miss-Owl | 6 1001 books (TBD) | Finished: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka; Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks; A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift; The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett; The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe; The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Total: 6 of 6 (reported March 13th) |
| mysticcat | 10 2009 TBRs • 2 from Sandwood • 8 others |
Finished: Zwei zarte Lämmchen weiss wie Schnee by Hans Fallada; Schönes aus Stoff- gemalt, gefärbt, genäht by Moewig Verlag; Das Geheimnis des roten Zimmers by Paul Twoman; Affäre Nina B. by Johannes Mario Simmel; Signale aus dem Jenseits Total: Others: 4 of 8; Sandwood: 1 of 2 Current Book: (reported January 15th) |
| dutch-book | 15 books: |
(reported December 29th) |
| Ladybug768 | 16 books that aren't for school • 8 TBRs • 8 others |
(reported December 30th) |
| Megi53 |
4 books (Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene; The Headmaster by John McPhee; Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon; Four Past Midnight by Stephen King) |
Finished: Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene; The Headmaster by John McPhee Total: 2 of 4 Current Book: Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (reported March 16th) |
| klaradyn | 20 books (Ways of Staying by Kevin Bloom; My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan; The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang; The Theban Plays by Sophocles; A Short History of Modern Philosophy by Roger Scruton; Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami; Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto; Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh; Nijinsky by Romola Nijinsky; Markova: The Legend by Maurice Leonard; How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers; The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters; Children of the Storm by Elizabeth Peters; The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters; Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters; Paris: Biography of a City by Colin Jones; The Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko; Charlemagne's Tablecloth by Nichola Fletcher) | Finished: The Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko; Ways of Staying by Kevin Bloom Total: 2 of 20 Current Book: My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan (reported January 8th) |
| gypsysmom | 16 books (The Bookwoman's Last Fling; Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner; The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy; Revelation by C. J. Sansome; Killing in Kluane by Jim Lotz; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson; Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan; Angels and Insects by A. S. Byatt; An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon; Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott; Strip Jack by Ian Rankin; City of Ice by John Farrow; Neuromancer by William Gibson; Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones; A Superior Death by Nevada Barr; The Bird Artist by Howard Norman) | Finished: The Bookwoman's Last Fling by John Dunningby; Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner; Revelation by C. J. Sansome; The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy; Killing in Kluane by Jim Lotz; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson; Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan; Angels and Insects by A. S. Byatt; Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott; An Echo in the Bone Diana Gabaldon; Strip Jack by Ian Rankin; City of Ice by John Farrow; A Superior Death by Nevada Barr Total: 13 of 16 Current Book:(reported March 31st) |
| NICNIC2 | 11 books | Finished: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster; Beloved by Toni Morrison; The American Boy by Andrew Taylor; Call for the Dead by John Le Carre; The Beacon by Susan Hill; Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson; The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill Total: 7 of 11 Current Books: Middlemarch by George Eliot; Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (reported March 29th) |
| blackwidow1971 | 16 books • 5 fiction TBRs • 5 non-fiction TBRs • 5 unspecified TBRs • Period Piece by Gwen Raverat |
Finished: 84 Charing Cross Road / The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff; The Pampas and The Andes by Major W. T. Blake; Alexandria by Lindsey Davies; The Courage Consort by Michel Faber; Period Piece by Gwen Raverat; Moving Through The Streets by Joseph C Veramu; The Immaculate Deception by Iain Pears; Yemen by Tim Mackintosh-Smith; Between The Woods and Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor; Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd; The Harlot's Progress by David Dabydeen; Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson; A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Shaffer & Burrows; Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer; Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym; A Stranger's Supper by Zorka Milich Total: Non-fiction: 5 of 5; Fiction: 5 of 5; Period Piece; Unspecified: 5 of 5 (reported March 21st) |
| Nauris | 15 books • 3 BookCrossing books • 4 comics/graphic novels (Ester Pärbergin tarinoita; Twisted Sisters: A Collection of Bad Girl Art by Diane Noomin, ed.; [1 from Helsinki Comics Festival 2009]; [1 bought a long time ago]) • 4 vocational books (Kunnosta, kultaa ja verhoile Mestareiden opissa by Hannu Tähtinen, Kimmo Oksanen, Laura Carlborg & Taina Hietavuo; Chairs Through the Ages by Harold H. Hart, ed.; Pihka by Harri Metsälä; Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, ed.) • 4 Others (The Memory of Earth (Homecoming, Vol 1) by Orson Scott Card; Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David Levy; Hashiksenkäyttäjä: eli katkelmia pythagoralaisen elämästä by Fitz Hugh Ludlow; Järvinen:Tunne itsesi, suomalainen by Liisa Keltikangas) |
Finished: Salka Valka by Halldor Laxness; Ester Pärbergin tarinoita; The Memory of Earth (Homecoming, Vol 1) by Orson Scott Card; Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, ed.; The Call of Earth (Homecoming, Vol 2) by Orson Scott Card; The Ships of Earth (Homecoming, Vol 3) by Orson Scott Card; Twisted Sisters: A Collection of Bad Girl Art by Diane Noomin, ed.; Chairs Through the Ages by Harold H. Hart, ed.; Sarastus ja muita sarjakuvia Kemin pohjoismaisesta sarjakuvakilpailusta 2007 by Ilpo Koskela, ed.; Pihka by Harri Metsälä; Kunnosta, kultaa ja verhoile Mestareiden opissa by Hannu Tähtinen; The Best American Comics 2006 by Anne Elizabeth Moore & Harvey Pekar, eds. Total: BookCrossing: 3 of 3; Graphic: 4 of 4; Others: 1 of 4; Vocational: 4 of 4 Current Book: Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David Levy, Kimmo Oksanen, Laura Carlborg & Taina Hietavuo (reported April 1st) |
| bookguide | 24 books • 3 1001 books • 3 thick books • 9 books set in different countries • 6 old TBRs • 3 non-fiction |
Finished: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood; Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival; Transit by Hella S. Haasse; Ruby Fruit Jungle: the Adventures of Molly Bolt by Rita Mae Brown; The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama; Open House by Jill Mansell; Sushi & Chardonnay by Yoyo van Gemerde; Behaving Badly by Catherine Heath; The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes; Aardappelsalade per post by Lena Gorelik; Silences of the Heart by Elizabeth Latham; Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell; Friends Like These by Victoria Routledge; The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks; The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over by Geraldine Brooks; The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield; Korte metten by Renate Dorrestein Total: 1001: 2 of 3; Different Countries: 7 of 9; Old TBRs: 6 of 6; Thick: 2 of 3; Non-fiction: 1 of 3 Current Book: The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell; (reported February 1st) |