| Participant | Goal(s) | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Nu-Knees | 6 books • 3 classics – 1 per month ( A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant; Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope; Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe) • 3 non-fiction books – 1 per month (The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears by Juliet Barker; Seeking Rapture by Kathryn Harrison; The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf) |
Finished: A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant; The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears: The Story of Caring for Life by Juliet Barker; Seeking Rapture by Kathryn Harrison; Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope; The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empre and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf; Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Total: Classics: 3 of 3; Non-fiction: 3 of 3 (reported June 22nd) |
| Geileis | 6 books |
Finished: The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Total: Conrad: 1 of 2 Current Books: Trollope by Victoria Glendinning @p.330 of 513; The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope @p.712 of 762, c.94; Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad @p. 86 of 382 (reported July 1st) |
| Heaven150 | 11 Books: • 4 1001 books (The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow; The Magus by John Fowles; The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham) • 7 new authors (Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong; The Road to Ruin by Donald F. Westlake; The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Patterson; The Turning Hour by Shelley Fraser Mickle; Timb Bomb by Jonathan Kellerman; One of These Mornings by Betty Bernard; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows) |
Finished: Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows; Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow; The Road to Ruin by Donald F. Westlake; The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Patterson; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; The Turning Hour by Shelley Fraser Mickle; The Magus by John Fowles; The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham; Time Bomb by Jonathan Kellerman; One of These Mornings by Betty Bernard Total: New Authors: 7 of 7; 1001: 4 of 4 (reported June 24th) |
| Chania | 20 TBRs • 10 older TBRs • 10 others |
Finished: Puhdistus by Sofi Oksanen; Trace by Patricia Cornwell; The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini; The Cat Who Knew A Cardinal by Lilian Jackson Brown; Piironki joka näki murhan by Heleena Lönnroth; Punainen ja Musta (Le Rouge et le Noir) by Stendhal; Kansas Troubles by Earlene Fowler; Pedon leima by Patricia Cornwell; Sunshine and Shadow by Earlene Fowler; Shakeapeare & Company by Sylvia Beach; Onnellinen kotirouva by Heleen van Royen; Sokerisiskot by Ulla-Maija Paavilainen; What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt; The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun; By Bread Alone by Sarah-Kate Lynch; Timbuktu by Paul Auster; Cranfordin naiset by Elizabeth Gaskell; Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp; Hyvien ihmisten hotelli by Elizabeth Taylor; Breakfast with the Nikolides by Rumer Godden Total: Others: 10 of 10; Older: 10 of 10 (reported June 16th) |
| tqd | 25 books | Finished: Wanting by Richard Flanagan; Solar by Ian McEwan; Breath by Tim Winton; The Guards by Ken Bruen; Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh; Leviathan by Scott Westerfield; Death Masks by Jim Butcher; The Seventh Sinner by Elizabeth Peters; Passing by Nella Larsen; The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt; Soulless by Gail Carriger; Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami; The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness; The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness; On the Art of Making Up One's Mind by Jerome K. Jerome; A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey; Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich; The Act of Roger Murgatroyd Gilbert Adair; Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter; Graceling by Kristin Cashore; The City and the City by China Mieville; The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill; Love Among the Chickens by P.G. Wodehouse; The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas; 30 Days in Sydney Peter Carey Total: 25 of 25 (reported June 30th) |
| CynthiaA | 6 TBRs (Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre; Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith; Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro; Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro; Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens) | Finished: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre; Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith; Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro; Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro Total: 6 of 6 (reported June 8th) |
| nancynova | 25 books: |
Finished: A New Life by Dana Corbit; A Treasure of the Heart by Valerie Hansen; Can’t Wait for Heaven by Fannie Flag; A Father, Again by Mary J Forbes; A Gleam in His Eye by Terry Essig; A Home for Hannah by Pat Warren; A Man Like Mac by Fay Robinson; The Hand-Me-Down Family by Winnie Griggs; Baby Blues and Wedding Bells by Patricia McLinn; A Perfect Arrangement by Kay Gregory; A Quilter’s Holiday by Jennifer Chaverini; Drowning Girl by Margaret Leroy; A Love to Keep by Cynthia Rutledge;
A Mother’s Heart: Short Stories by Sharon Sala, Isabel Sharpe, and Linda Cardillo; The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver; Eden by Carolyn Davidson; Summer at Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs;
The Winter Lodge by Susan Wiggs; Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood; Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls; Driving Over Lemons in Andaluccia by Chris Stewart; All Things Considered by Debbie Macomber; Snow by Orhan Pamuk Total: "A" Titles: 10 of 10; Other: 5 of 5; pre-2010 TBRs: 6 of 7; Non-Fiction: 1 of 1; 1001: 1 of 2 Current Books: The Warlord by Malcolm Bosse; Howards End by E.M. Forster (reported June 23rd) |
| Ibis3 | 21 books: |
Finished: From the Depths by Victor Milan; O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton;
An April Shroud by Reginald Hill; Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins;
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; Bliss & Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield; Shakespeare by Bill Bryson; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows; Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell; The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré; The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Total: Other: 4 of 4; Classics: 2 of 3; Audiobooks: 4 of 4; BCers': 2 of 3 Current Books: Paradise Lost by John Milton @Book XI, p.269 of 303@p.96 of 134; Armand Durand by Rosanna Leprohon @p.56 of 192 (reported June 28th) |
| Neige49 | 11 books |
Finished: Beyond Sing the Woods by Trygve Gulbranssen; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner; People of the Raven by Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear; The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Patricia Vidgerman; Diamond Lies by Johann Sorenson; The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey; Wyatt Earp by Matt Braun; The Haunted Observatory by Richard Baum; Faith Under Fire by Roger Benimoff Total: Want-to-Read: 5 of 6; A Conspiracy of Kings: 1 of 1; TBRs: 4 of 4 Current Books: Sauce For the Goose by Peter Devries (reported June 25th) |
| bluenoser | 27 TBRs | Finished: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris;
The Sanctuary Seeker by Bernard Knight; March by Geraldine Brooks; Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard; The Merchant's Partner by Michael Jecks; The Copper Peacock by Ruth Rendell; The Elixir of Death by Bernard Knight; The Killing Game by Iris Johansen; Jester Leaps In by Alan Gordon;
Beastly Behaviour by Rolf Harris; The Outlaws of Ennor by Michael Jecks; Harem by Barbara Nadel; The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym;
The Grim Reaper by Bernard Knight;
Flowers for His Funeral by Ann Granger; The Templar, the Queen and Her Lover by Michael Jecks; Case Histories by Kate Atkinson; I, Coriander by Sally Gardner;
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler;
The Matisse Stories by A. S. Byatt;
S is for Silence by Sue Grafton; Elegy in a Country Graveyard by Audrey Peterson; A Friar's Bloodfeud by Michael Jecks; Unchained Melanie by Judy Astley;
Murder at Monticello by Rita Mae Brown;
The Awful Secret by Bernard Knight; 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith Total: 27 of 27 (reported June 19th) |
| Neuilly | 4 TBRs | Finished: River God by Wilbur Smith Total: 1 of 4 Current Books: (reported May 21st) |
| mrsgaskell | 12 TBRs |
Finished: Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin; Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott; Outlander by Diana Gabaldon; A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory; The Death Maze by Ariana Franklin; A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.; The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys; Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy; Welcome to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg; The Little Friend by Donna Tartt; The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley; Dancing Backwards by Salley Vickers Total: 12 of 12 (reported May 31st) |
| gypsysmom | 16 books: |
Finished: The Bird Artist by Howard Norman; The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan; The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon; Heartbreaker by Laurence Gough; The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery; Foul Deeds by Linda Moore; The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan; The Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton; The Complaints by Ian Rankin; The Known World by Edward P. Jones; Darkness at the Stroke of Noon by Dennis Richard Murphy; Black and Blue by Ian Rankin; Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant; Seeing is Deceiving by Suzanne North; A Tangled Web by L. M. Montgomery; Dead Souls by Ian Rankin Total: Mutford's: 6 of 6; Bookclub: 3 of 3; Friends': 1 of 2; Gifts: 1 of 2; Borrowed: 1 of 1; Rebus: 2 of 2 (reported June 27th) |
| sshahid | 10 TBRs | Finished: Diggers by Terry Prachett; Waiting by Ha Jin; Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer; The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis; A Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton;
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery; Playing for Pizza by John Grisham; Pretend You Don't See Her by Mary Higgins Clark; The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Total: 10 of 10 (reported June 28th) |
| Miss-Owl | 11 books: • 10 1001 books (TBD) • 1 non-fiction |
Finished: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery; Erewhon by Samuel Butler; Schooling by Heather McGowan; Fateless by Imre Kertesz; High School Confidential by Jeremy Iversen; The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton; Timbuktu by Paul Auster; The Sea by John Banville; Small Island by Andrea Levyl; We by Eugene Zamyatin; White Noise by Don De Lillo Total: 1001: 10 of 10; Non-Fiction: 1 of 1 (reported July 2nd) |
| MaryZee | • 10 books registered by BCers | Finished: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon; The Brethren by Beverly Lewis; Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame by Victoria Brooks, ed.; The Accidental Pope by Raymond Flynn and Robin Moore; Six Feet Under by Dorothy Simpson; Death on the Downs by Simon Brett; Made in America by Bill Bryson; Bookplate Special by Lorna Barrett; Black Coffee by Agatha Christie & Charles Osborne; The Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition by Leonard Guttridge Total: 10 of 10 (reported June 3rd) |
| janey-canuck | • 10 TBRs |
Finished: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji Total: 1 of 10 Current Books: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (reported April 25th) |
| FeistyPom2Love | 15 books |
Finished: The Hunt by Jennifer Sturman;
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks; Bizzare Books by Russell Ash & Brian Lake; Sushi For One? by Camy Tang; Saving Sailor by Renee Riva; Disgusting Things by Don Voorhees;
Love Yourself & Let The Have It Your Way by Lawrence Crane; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; Booth's Sister by Jane Singer; The Help by Kathryn Stockett; The WallFlowers by Dana Marie Bell; Tea & Bee's Milk: Our Year in a Turkish Village by Karen & Ray Gilden; The Bride's Baby by Liz Fielding; Mina: The Dracula Story Continues by Marie Kiraly; Cooking For Harry by Kay-Marie James; Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr; Shrink Rap by Robert B. Parker Total: 17 of 15 (reported June 24th) |
| blackwidow1971 | 13 books for the A-Z Authors Challenge | Finished: With Your Crooked Heart by Helen Dunmore; Ten Big Ones Janet Evanovich; The Sea House by Esther Freud; Saints and Adventurers by Frances Gapper; Strange Meeting by Susan Hill; Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Izner; Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones; Day by A. L. Kennedy; The Photograph" by Penelope Lively; The Woman Who Waited by Andrei Makine; Roads to Santiago by Cees Noteboom; The Bolter by Frances Osborne; Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Total: 13 of 13 (reported June 21st) |
| lane1088 | 23 books
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Finished: The Mirror of her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson; A Man Rides Through by Stephen R. Donaldson; The Revenants by Sherri Tepper; Dervish Daughter by Sherri Tepper; The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin; The Worthing Chronicle by Orson Scott Card; The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card; Mindstar Rising by Peter Hamilton; The Reality Dysfunction: Emergence by Peter Hamilton; The Reality Dysfunction: Expansion by Peter Hamilton; The Neutronium Alchemist: Consolidation by Peter Hamilton; Death Comes As The End by Agatha Christie; Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith; Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie; Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett; Pyramids by Terry Pratchett; First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde; The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters; The Confession of Brother Haluin by Ellis Peters; The Hermit of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters; Nemesis by Isaac Asimov; Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes; Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie; Half the Day is Night by Maureen Mchugh; Nekrololis by Maureen Mchugh; Vitals by Greg Bear; Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane; The Stars are Also Fire by Poul Anderson; Gone Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane; The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie; Everywhere that Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline; Nemesis by Jo Nesbo; The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais; The Will of the Wanderer by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman; The Paladin of the Night by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman; The Prophet of Akhran by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman; Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline; The Fool's Run by John Sanford; Edge of Evil by J. A. Jance; The Empress File by John Sanford; Death at Bishop's Keep by Robin Page; The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur Clarke; Mephisito Club by Tess Gerritsen Total: TBRs: 40 of 20; Bookclubs: 3 of 3 (reported June 28th) |
| Nauris | 12 books • 1 Swedish book/thesis • 1 fun book • 1 book by Philip K. Dick • 3 BookCrossing books • 1 vocational book • 2 comics/graphic novels • 3 Others |
Finished: Umbra by Leena Krohn; Kyä tässä jotain häikkää o by Sinikka Nopola; Ulvova mylläri by Arto Paasilinna; Kirjastokissa by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter; Miehet jotka vihaavat naisia by Stieg Larsson; Eila, Rampe ja elämän tarkoitus by Sinikka Nopola; Persepolis: iranilainen lapsuuteni by Marjane Satrapi; Persepolis 2: Kotiinpaluu by Marjane Satrapi; Matkalla tuulen kanssa by Abbas Kiarostami; The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick; Korjaa ja entisöi huonekaluja by Suvi Höglund; Kei-lin och draken by Elfreida Read Total: BookCrossing: 3 of 3; Fun: 1 of 1; Others: 3 of 3; Graphic: 2 of 2; PKD: 1 of 1; Vocational: 1 of 1; Swedish: 1 of 1 (reported June 30th) |
| NICNIC2 | 12 books | Finished: The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl; Sharpe's Fury by Bernard Cornwell; The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien; Sharpe's Battle by Bernard Cornwell; True Murder by Yaba Badoe Total: 5 of 12 Current Books: Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery by Jeff Goldberg (reported June 7th) |
| minesayn | 7 books • 2 non-fiction (Let's Not Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller; Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile) • 1 classic novel (Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger) • 1 TBR from a BCer • 2 other TBRs • The Great Molinas by N.D. Isaacs |
Finished: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller; The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd; The Great Molinas by N.D. Isaacs; The Double Bind; The Devil Went Down to Austin by Rick Riordan; Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile Total: Non-fiction: 2 of 2; BCers': 1 of 1; The Great Molinas: 1 of 1; TBRs: 2 of 2 (reported June 24th) |
| bookguide | 22 books • 3 1001 books • 1 thick books • 9 books set in different countries • 6 old TBRs • 3 non-fiction |
Finished: I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti; Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell; Het beloofde land by Adriaan van Dis; A Story Like the Wind by Laurens van der Post; Mr Toppit by Charles Elton; Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett; Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris; Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson Wright; De wraak van de kangoeroe (sagen uit het moderne leven) by Peter Burger; Daar komen de gekken by Kamran Nazeer Total: 1001: 2 of 3; Different Countries: 2 of 9; Old TBRs: 3 of 6; Non-Fiction: 3 of 3 Current Book: (reported May 30th) |