| Participant | Goal(s) | Progress |
|---|---|---|
 Nu-Knees |
6 books • 3 classics – 1 per month (Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope; Bleak House by Charles Dickens; Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton) • 3 non-fiction books – 1 per month (A Day in Tuscany: More Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide by Dario Castagno; The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer; Holy Smoke: Religion and Roots: A Personal Memoir by Libby Purves) |
Finished: A Day in Tuscany: More Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide by Dario Castagno & Robert Rodi; Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope; The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer; Bleak House by Charles Dickens; Holy Smoke: Religion and Roots: A Personal Memoir by Libby Purves; Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton Total: Non-fiction: 3 of 3; Classics: 3 of 3 (reported December 11th) |
 Neige49 |
10 books |
Finished: Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce; The Bradbury Report by Steven Polansky; Eclipse by Alan Moorehead; Violin by Anne Rice; Conversations With Myself by Nelson Mandela; Tell Me A Tale by James McEachin; An Amish Christmas by Cynthia Keller; The Magicians by Lev Grossman; The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech Total: YA: 1 of 1; Other: 5 of 5; TBRs: 2 of 3; Children's: 1 of 1 Current Books: Game of Thrones by George R. Martin @p. 339 (reported December 30th) |
 sshahid |
(reported August 29th) | |
 mrsgaskell |
8 books from the following (Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy; The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis; Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger; The Prophet by Khalil Gibran; The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope; Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell; Crackpot by Adele Wiseman; The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke; Crewe Train by Rose Macauley; Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot; The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham; Consequences by Penelope Lively) |
Finished: Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger; Crackpot by Adele Wiseman; The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke; Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy; Crewe Train by Rose Macauley; The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope; Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell Total: 7 of 8 Current Book: (reported January 1st) |
| CynthiaA | 8 books • 3 longest owned (The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler; The Autobiography of Henry VIII: A Novel by Margaret George; Sisterchicks on the Loose by Robin Jones Gunn) • 3 from other BCers (Children of God by Mary Doria Russell; The Well of Lost Plots by Jaspar Fforde; Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones) • 1 Classic (Great Expectations by Charles Dickens) • 1 Borrowed (The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson) |
Finished: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Sisterchicks on the Loose by Robin Jones Gunn; Children of God by Mary Doria Russell Total: Longest Owned: 2 of 3; Classic: 1 of 1; BCers': 1 of 3 Current Book: The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (reported November 27th) |
 Katethegreyt |
13 books by Timothy Findley (Stones; Inside Memory; Headhunter; The Stillborn Lover; The Trials of Ezra Pound; The Piano Man's Daughter; You Went Away; Dust To Dust; From Stone Orchard; Pilgrim; Elizabeth Rex; Spadework; Timothy Findley: Journeyman Travels of a Writer) | Finished: Stones; Elizabeth Rex; Inside Memory; The Stillborn Lover; The Trials of Ezra Pound; Headhunter Total: 6 of 13 Current Book: (reported December 20th) |
 Caroley |
10 Big Read List books | Finished: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz; I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Atonement by Ian McEwan; Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett; Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett; Holes by Louis Sachar; The Secret History by Donna Tartt; Kim by Rudyard Kipling; A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Total: 10 of 10 (reported December 18th) |
 babydoll857 |
8 books |
Finished: King John by William Shakespeare Total: Shakespeare: 1 of 2 Current Books: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (reported November 14th) |
 NMReader |
13 already owned TBRs | (reported August 29th) |
| minesayn | 13 books • 3 library book group books (And You Know You Should Be Glad by Bob Greene; The Syringa Tree by Pamela Glen; Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb) • 5 own TBRs to be released (Love is Where it Falls by Simon Callow; Real Life and Liars by Kristina Riggle; 47 Roses by Peter Sheridan; Married Lovers by Jackie Collins; Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver) • 4 books from other BCers (The Fifth Estate by Robin Moore; High Noon by Nora Roberts; How to be Good by Nick Hornby; The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood) • 1 formerly abandoned book (Etidorpha by John Uri Lloyd) |
Finished: And You Know You Should Be Glad by Bob Greene; The Fifth Estate by Robin Moore; 47 Roses by Peter Sheridan; Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver; The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood; Married Lovers by Jackie Collins; Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb; The Syringa Tree by Pamela Glen; Real Life and Liars by Kristina Riggle; High Noon by Nora Roberts; How to be Good by Nick Hornby; Love is Where it Falls by Simon Callow; Etidorpha by John Uri Lloyd Total: Library: 3 of 3; BCers': 3 of 4; TBRs: 3 of 5; Abandoned: 1 of 1 (reported December 31st) |
 varykino |
3 books (Loyalties: A Son's Memoir by Carl Bernstein; Justice Not Vengence by Simon Wiesenthal; The 10,000 Day War by Michael McLear) |
Finished: Loyalties: A Son's Memoir by Carl Bernstein Total: 1 of 3 Current Book: (reported October 22nd) |
 nancynova |
21 TBRs |
Finished: The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; A Coal Miner’s Daughter by Susan Campbell Bartoletti; Lucky Child by Loung Ung; Angels at Christmas by Debbie Macomber; Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman; A Man of His Word by Merline Lovelace; Housekeeper at his Beck and Call by Susan Stephens; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins; Finally a Family by Carolyne Aarsen; The Impostor by Elaine Fox; With Christmas in His Heart by Gail Gaymer Martin; Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott; Jingle All the Way by Fern Michaels, Linda Lael Miller, Theresa Alan, and Jane Blackwood; A South Texas Christmas by Stella Bagwell; Sun and Candlelight by Betty Neels; Brides for Brothers by Debbie Macomber; Marriage of Inconvenience by Debbie Macomber; The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad; Mistletoe and Miracles by Marie Ferrarella; First Impressions by Nora Roberts; The Perfect Christmas by Debbie Macomber Total: 21 of 21 (reported December 28th) |
 janey-canuck |
15 TBRs: • 5 from 2006 • 10 from any year |
Finished: The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B by Sandra Gulland Total: Other: 1 of 10 Current Books: Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra Gulland (reported October 2nd) |
 Ibis3 |
16 books: |
Finished: Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie; The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson; The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket; A Killing Kindness by Reginald Hill; The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins; King John by William Shakespeare; Firestorm by L. A. Graf; The Garden Party & Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield; Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood; Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler; The Man From Glengarry by Ralph Connor; Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor Total: Other: 3 of 4; Audiobooks: 3 of 3; Shakespeare: 1 of 2; BCers': 2 of 2; CanLit: 3 of 3 Current Books: Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act IV of V@p. 126 of 210 (reported December 26th) |
 bluenoser |
21 books | Finished: The Mad Monk of Gidleigh by Michael Jecks; Every Good Girl by Judy Astley; The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri; Corpse Candle by Paul Doherty; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer & Barrows; Running Scared by Ann Granger; Crowner's Quest by Bernard Knight; The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell;
The Black Book by Ian Rankin; The Olive Season by Carol Drinkwater; The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears; The Masquerade by Nicholas Griffin;
The Death Ship of Dartmouth by Michael Jecks; The Jigsaw Maker by Adrienne DinesThe Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters; A Five Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens; A Quartet of Cornish Cats by A. L. Rowse; Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel; The Savage Garden by Mark Mills; Figure of Hate by Bernard Knight; Shakespeare by Bill Bryson Total: 21 of 21 (reported December 1st) |
 Heaven150 |
10 Books: • 6 1001 books (The Immoralist by Andre Gide; Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte; Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett; Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence; August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien; A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burges) • 1 True Crime (Cannibal Killers by Moira Martingale) • 1 New Author (The Lake Ching Murders by David Rotenberg) • 2 Others (Gone for Good by Harlan Corben; Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman) |
Finished: Cannibal Killers by Moira Martingale; The Immoralist by Andre Gide; The Lake Ching Murders by David Rotenberg; Gone for Good by Harlan Corben; Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence; August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien; Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte; Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman; A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burges Total: True Crime: 1 of 1; Others: 2 of 2; 1001: 5 of 6; New Authors: 1 of 1 Current Book:(reported January 2nd) |
 Geileis |
6 books (The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood; The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies; The Spuddy by Lilian Beckwith) |
Finished: The Halloween Party by Agatha Christie; Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell; The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie; Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell; The Spuddy by Lilian Beckwith; The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies Total: 6 of 6 (reported December 31st) |
 tqd |
20 TBRs • 6 from other BCers • 14 others |
Finished: Room by Emma Donoghue; A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess; Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway by Mike Carey;
Lucifer: Children and Monsters by Mike Carey;
Lucifer: A Dalliance with the Damned by Mike Carey;
Lucifer: The Divine Comedy by Mike Carey;
Lucifer: Inferno by Mike Carey; Remake by Connie Willis; Not Untrue and Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin; The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller; Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski; The Poet by Michael Connelly; Quicksand by Nella Larsen; Truth by Peter Temple; Monster Blood Tattoo 2: Lamplighter by D.M. Cornish; Cold Earth by Sarah Moss; Lucifer: Exodus by Mike Carey; The Warden by Anthony Trollope; A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle; Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer Total: Others: 14 of 14; BCers': 6 of 6 (reported November 27th) |
 gypsysmom |
18 books: |
Finished: The Help by Kathryn Stockett; The Linnet Bird by Linda Holeman; Elizabeth and After by Matt Cohen; A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin; The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy; Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster; The Big Ask by Shane Maloney; Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley; The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff; Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky; Beggar's Banquet by Ian Rankin; The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock; Something Fishy by Shane Maloney; Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; Sucked In by Shane Maloney; Flashback by Nevada Barr Total: Bookclub: 3 of 3; Mutford's: 2 of 3; BCers': 6 of 7; 1001: 2 of 2; Borrowed: 1 of 2; Nevada Barr: 1 of 1 Current Book:(reported January 1st) |
 ladilee24 |
10 TBRs • 6 Fiction • 4 Non-Fiction |
Finished: By Reason of Insanity by James Neal Harvey; Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Marin Dugard; North River by Pete Hamill; The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey; Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By by Anna Jane Grossman; The Art of Breaking Glass by Matthew Hall; Dreaming in Libro: How a Good Dog Tamed a Bad Woman by Louise Bernikow; The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra; The Origin of Evil by Ellery Queen; Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson Total: Fiction: 6 of 6; Non-Fiction: 4 of 4 (reported December 16th) |
 MaryZee |
10 books • 5 registered by BCers • 5 pre-2005 TBRs |
Finished: Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand; Heaven and Earth by Nora Roberts; For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most by Ronald B. Shwartz; Path of the Eclipse by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; Return to Thrush Green by Miss Read; The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson; You Again by Peggy Nicholson; Dream a Deadly Dream by Allie Harrison; The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith; Digital Fortress by Dan Brown Total: BCers': 5 of 5; pre-2005: 5 of 5 (reported December 12th) |
 dutch-book |
13 books: |
(reported September 21st) |
 kirstykat |
12 books (Vanishing Act by Jodi Picoult; Other Times by Leslie Thomas; Strangers by Rosie Thomas; The Golden Cup by Marcia Willett; The Prodigal Daughter by Marcia Willett; In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent; Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult; Keep on Dancing by Sally Warboyes; The Pumpkin Coach by Susan Sallis; Come Rain or Shine by Susan Sallis; Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier; The Virgin Blue by Tracey Chevalier) | Finished: Come Rain or Shine by Susan Sallis; Keep on Dancing by Sally Warboyes; The Virgin Blue by Tracey Chevalier Total: 3 of 12 Current Book: Vanishing Act by Jodi Picoult (reported November 23rd) |
 Megi53 |
5 books (Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac; The Founding Fish by John McPhee; The Mexican Night by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick; Airborn by Kenneth Oppel) |
Finished: The Mexican Night by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac Total: 2 of 5 Current Book: (reported November 29th) |
 lane1088 |
27 books
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Finished: Grass by Sherri Tepper; Godspeed by Charles Sheffield; Raising the Stones by Sherri Tepper; Sideshow by Sherri Tepper; The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling; The Crystal City by Orson Scott Card; The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh; Harry Potter and the Prisioner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling; The Dispossessed by Ursala LeGuin; The Patchwork Girl by Larry Niven; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling; The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoneix by J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling; The Visitor by Sherri Tepper; The Fresco by Sherri Tepper; Beyond the Fall of Night by Arthur Clarke & Grgory Benford; 13 Clues for Miss Marple by Agatha Christie; Simple Genius by David Baldacchi; Death at Gallow's Green by Robin Paige; Towards Zero by Agatha Christie; STNG: Chains of Command by Bill McCay & Eloise Flood Total: TBRs: 22 of 25; Bookclubs: 2 of 2 Current Book: (reported December 31st) |
 blackwidow1971 |
20 TBRs | Finished: Never The Bride by Paul Magrs; The Islands In Between by Annabel Sutton; The Girl of His Dreams by Donna Leon; Letters from Hav by Jan Morris; Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler; Death and the Penguin by Andrei Kurkov; Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri; Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer; The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor; Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn; One Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li; Dear Fatty by Dawn French; A Matter of Life and Death by Andrey Kurkov; The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera; The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt; Heatwave by Penelope Lively; Barbed Wire and Babushkas by Paul Grogan; Three Lives by Gertrude Stein; A Glassful of Blessings by Barbara Pym; Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym; Out of Africa by Karen Blixen Total: 20 of 20 (reported December 28th) |
 flewry |
7 books • 3 books from other BCers (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith; Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden; The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien) • 2 long time TBRs (Baudolino by Umberto Eco; Swann's Way by Marcel Proust) • 2 others |
Finished: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith; Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden; Anagrams by Lorrie Moore; The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Total: BCers: 2 of 3; Other: 2 of 2 Current Book: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (reported November 21st) |
 itsmejudy |
10 books • 2 classics (Bleak House by Charles Dickens; TBD by Jane Austen) • 3 Plum Crazy's themed books (Shelf Life by Suzanne Strempek Shea; TBD; TBD) • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson • 2 TBRs • 2 Others |
Finished: Shelf Life by Suzanne Strempek; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig LarssonThe Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler (off my TBR pile) The Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler (Plum Crazy challenge) Total: PlumCrazy's: 2 of 3; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; TBRs: 1 of 2 Current Book: Bleak House by Charles Dickens; Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris (reported November 30th) |
 LESEHEST |
5 books (Bluebird's Egg and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood; The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards; Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl; In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith; Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith ) | Finished: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith;
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Total: 2 of 5 Current Book: (reported December 8th) |
| bookguide | 13 books • 4 1001 books • 3 books set in different countries • 3 TBRs from 2008/2009 • 3 TBRs from other BCers |
Finished: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling; Simon's Night by Jon Hassler; The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin; Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani; The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell Total: Different Countries: 1 of 3; 2008-2009 TBRs: 3 of 3; BCers': 3 of 3 Current Book: John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins (reported November 23rd) |
 jagen |
5 books • 4 fiction (Enchantress of Florence; Cloud Atlas; The Imperfectionists; When We Were Orphans) • 1 non-fiction (Cleopatra: A Life) |
Finished: Enchantress of Florence by Total: Fiction: 1 of 4 Current Book: (reported Novrmber 25th) |