| Participant | Goal(s) | Progress |
|---|---|---|
 Ibis3 |
16 books |
Finished: Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be by Daniel Loxton; What Would MacGyver Do? by Brendan Vaughan; The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie; The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum; The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare; The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins; Bang! How We Came to Be by Michael Rubino; Vimy by Pierre Berton; Henry VIII by William Shakespeare Total: Other: 5 of 8; Non-fiction: 1 of 2; Shakespeare: 2 of 2; CanLit: 1 of 4 Current Books: The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo @min. 861 of 1051; Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War by Gwendolyn Davies and Carole Gerson, eds. @p. 327 of 421 (reported December 30th) |
 Nu-Knees |
6 books • 3 classics – 1 per month (South Riding by Winifred Holtby; The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins; Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote) • 3 non-fiction books – 1 per month (Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House by Julie Myerson; House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty by Robert Hutchinson; Two Steps Backward by Susie Kelly) |
Finished: Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House by Julie Myerson; South Riding by Winifred Holtby; The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins; House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty by Robert Hutchinson; Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote; Two Steps Backward by Susie Kelly Total: Non-fiction: 3 of 3; Classics: 3 of 3 (reported December 14th) |
 Elizabeth101 |
30 books |
Finished: The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie; While the Light Lasts by Agatha Christie; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde;
The Rose Rent by Ellis Peters; Prophecy by S.J Parris; Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C Beaton; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; The Final Curtain by Agatha Christie; Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie; The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie; They Do It with Mirrors by Agatha Christie; The Second Messiah by Glenn Meade; Anne of Green Gables by L.M Montgomery; Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body by M.C Beaton; Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery; Elephants can Remember by Agatha Christie; The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie; Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskill;
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne;
First Rider's Call by Kirsten Britain;
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll; Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie; Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie; Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie; The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie; The Alchemist's Secret by Scott Mariani; Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery; Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie; Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie Total: Agatha Christie: 15 of 15; TBR: 15 of 15 (reported November 13th) |
| minesayn | 19+ books |
Finished: Vanished by Mary McGarry Morris; Lakeside Cottage by Susan Wiggs; The Innocent Man by John Grisham; The Cider House Rules by John Irving; The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck; Freedom by Jonathan Franzen; A Place of Execution by Val McDermid; The Beaufort Dairies by T. Cooper; Testimony by Anita Shreve; What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg; Perfect Family by Pam Lewis; The Senator and the Priest by Andrew Greeley; Jerusalem Springs by Fares Aoun; 31 Dream Street by Pam Lewis Total: Self-registered: 3 of 6; SIY17: 3 of 3; Book group: 3 of 3; Book Rings: 3 of 5; BCers': 1 of 6 Current Books: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (reported December 31st) |
 Katethegreyt |
18 books (Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel T. Willingham; 17 TBA) |
Finished: Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel T. Willingham; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling; The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny; Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom; Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh; Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi; Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris; Burned by Ellen Hopkins; Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; Countdown by Deborah Miles; The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder; Oogy by Larry Levin; The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore; Eragon by Christopher Paolini; A Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor; Hamlet by William Shakespeare; Stories of Christmas Time by Charles Dickens; A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Total: 18 of 18 (reported December 26th) |
 MaryZee |
12 books registered by BCers | Finished: A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict by John Baxter; People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks; Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas; The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett; The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson; The Swallows of Kabul by Yasminda Khadra; Tough Cookie by Diana Mott Davidson; The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan by Steven Gaines; Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky; The Goddess Queen by Nicole Vidal; The Reluctant God by Pamela Service; Red, White and Drunk all Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass by Natalie Maclean Total: BCers': 12 of 12 (reported December 10th) |
 neige49 |
10 books |
Finished: Barren Land Showdown by Luke Short; Turnip Blues by Helen Campbell; The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin; Antonietta by John Hershey; A Lovesome Thing by Prue Leith; The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper; A Flatland Fable by Joe Coomer; The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru; South of Eden by Earl Murray; Everything Christmas by David Bordon & Tom Winters Total: TBRs: 4 of 4; Other: 6 of 6 (reported December 24th) |
 kirstykat |
5 TBRs (The Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy; Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult; A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flag; Lipstick and Powder by Sally Worboyes; Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff) | Finished: Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult; The Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy; Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff Total: 3 of 5 Current Book: (reported December 16th) |
 NancyNova |
12 books |
Finished: Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende; Reunion in Death by J. D. Robb; Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr; My Reading Life by Pat Conroy; How Reading Changed my Life by Anna Quindlen; The Year of Fog by Michelle RichmondOne Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher; Ziabatsu by John Brown; Tales of the Tikongs by Epeli Hau'ofa; I Am Happier to Know You by Jeanne M. Eck; Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge by John Gimlette Total: 12 of 12 (reported December 26th) |
 Aberpeter |
15 books
|
Finished: High on Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips; Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo Total: BCers: 2 of 10 Current Book: The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd (reported October 17th) |
 lane1088 |
30 books
|
Finished: Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski; The World Inside by Robert Silverberg; The Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker; L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais; Brain Plague by Joan Slonczewski; Big Jack by J.D Robb; Death at Rottingdean by Robin Paige; Footfall by Larry Niven & Purnelle; Sporting Chance by Elizabeth Moon; Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen; Glory Season by David Brin; Cruel Intent by J. A. Jance; Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman; Busy Body by M. C. Beaton; Scared to Live by Stephen Booth; Quarrantine by Greg Egan; Killer Smile by Lisa Scottoline; Frameshift by Robert J. Sawyer; Dargon's Egg & Starquake by Robert L. Forward; The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; The Sauvignon Secret by Ellen Crosby; The Sentry by Robert Crais; Stone Cold by Robert Parker; Inside the World of Philip Pullman by Nicholas Tucker; Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg; Snow Angels by James Thompson; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Majipoor Chronicles by Robert Silverberg; Curtain by Agatha Christie; First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost; Aesop’s Fables by George Flyer Townsend; Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost Total: TBRs: 20 of 20; Bookclubs: 2 of 2; Other: 10 of 8 (reported December 19th) |
 bluenoser |
24 books • 3 books from other BCers • 21 TBRs |
Finished: Deadly Web by Barbara Nadel; Murder on the Brighton Express by Edward Marston; French Toast by Harriet Welty Rochefort; Several Strangers by Claire Tomlin; In a Dark Wood Wandering by Hella Haasse; Stray by A. N. Wilson;
The Silver Locomotive Mystery by Edward Marston;
Broken Silence by Danielle Ramsay; The Devil's Acolyte by Michael Jecks; The King's Evil by Edward Marston; Somebody Else by Reggie Nadelson;
Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore;
The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester; Treason of the Ghosts by Paul Doherty; A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler; Sunset Unlimited by James Lee Burke; A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny; The Amorous Nightingale by Edward Marston; The Poison Maiden by Paul Doherty;
The Sex Life of My Aunt by Mavis Cheek;
Living Proof by John Harvey; One Last Breath by Stephen Booth; Talking to Strange Men by Ruth Rendell; Close-up on Death by Maureen O'Brien Total: BCers': 3 of 3; TBRs: 21 of 21 (reported December 22nd) |
 gypsysmom |
16 books: |
Finished: The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence; The Road by Cormac McCarthy; Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy; The Ladies' Lending Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer; Running West by James Houston; Death Comes for the Fat Man by Reginald Hill; The House at Riverton by Kate Morton; My Kitchen Window by Edna Jaques; Fauna by Alissa York; A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy; The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski Total: Mutford's: 3 of 4; BCers': 5 of 7; Gifts: 1 of 3; Bookclub: 1 of 1; Hardy: 1 of 1 Current Books: (reported December 24th) |
 Diane-Fraser |
15 books |
Finished: Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart; Jinnie by Josephine Cox; Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes; The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James; The Killing Floor by Lee Child; Ringworld by Larry Niven; Laura's Handmade Life by Amanda Addison; A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam; Demon Seed by Dean Koontz; Mrs Presumed Dead by Simon Brett; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark; Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid Total: BC: 5 of 5; TBRs: 3 of 4; WBN: 3 of 5; Other: 1 of 1 Current Book: (reported December 31st) |
 dark-draco |
38 books |
Finished: The Broken Shore by Peter Temple; Bag of Bones by Stephen King; Arms of Nemisis by Steven Saylor; Sharpe’s Revenge by Bernard Cornwell; Sharpe’s Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell; Rage by Simon Conway; Animals in War by Jilly Cooper; Sharpe’s Devil by Bernard Cornwell; The Passage by Justin Cronin; Nocturnes by John Connolly; Riders by Jilly Cooper; Rivals by Jilly Cooper; Polo by Jilly Cooper; Mythology by Richard Cavendish; The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous by Jilly Cooper; Dark Fury by Joseph E Chipperfield; And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave; Rider at the Gate by CJ Cherryh; The Second Book Virago Book of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter; Cloud’s Rider by C.J. Cherryh; Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey Carver; Complete Works by Louis Carroll Total: RABCKs: 3 of 3; "C" TBRs: 19 of 35 Current Book: A General System of Horsemanship by William Cavendish; Appassionata by Jilly Cooper (reported December 22nd) |
 eparks4232 |
14 books for the 666 Challenge (Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe; The Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz; Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiongo; A Good Fall by Ha Jin; The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood; The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez; If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino; The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa; The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende; Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges; Genesis by Eduardo Galeano; The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy; The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafron; Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson) |
Finished: Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiongo; The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood; The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy; Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges; Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson; The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafron; If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino; A Good Fall by Ha Jin; The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende; Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe; The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa; The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez; Genesis by Eduardo Galeano; The Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz Total: 14 of 14 (reported December 29th) |
 Caroley |
12 Big Read List books (Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Ulysses by James Joyce; Bleak House by Charles Dickens; The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens; The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy; The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver; They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams; Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh; Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence; The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera; A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry | Finished: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver; A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry; Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh; Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence; The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Total: 6 of 12 Current Books: (reported November 30th) |
 FeistyPom2Love |
15 books |
Finished: Instant Gratification by Jill Shalvis; Mind Games by Cecilia Tan; Night Spell by Lucinda Betts; Big Holiday Packages by Eric Summers; The Montauk Steps by Diane Sawyer; Obsessed by Delilah Devlin; Banker's Alibi by Ilsa Mayr; A Deadly Silver Sea by Bob Morris; The Tomoka Mystery by Diane Sawyer; The Montauk Mystery by Diane Sawyer Total: Erotica: 5 of 5; Other: 5 of 5 Current Books: (reported December 7th) |
 NICNIC2 |
20 books • 10 TBRs • 10 1001 books |
Finished: Time and Tide by Shirley McKay; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre; Don't Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier; Kraken by China Mieville; The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth; V for Vendetta by Alan Moore; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë; Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James; The Botticeli Secret by Maria Fiorato; Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote; Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Hommans; The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett; Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd; The Gathering by Ann Enright Total: TBRs: 9 of 10; 1001: 5 of 10 Current Books: We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen; Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (reported December 19th) |
 mrsgaskell |
8 books from a previously compiled list | Finished: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke; Daniel Deronda by George Eliot; Absolute Honour by C.C. Humphreys; Consequences by Penelope Lively; Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo; An Advancement of Learning by Reginald Hill; The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett; Haweswater by Sarah Hall Total: 8 of 8 (reported December 22nd) |
 lizzyblack |
12 books | Current Book: Diario di una lady di provincia by E.M. Delafield (reported October 9th) |
 lamelemon |
18 books • 3 Oldest BC books (The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown; The Fermata by Nicholson Baker; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury) • 5 World Book Night books (Case Histories by Kate Atkinson; Life of Pi by Yann Martel; Northern Lights by Philip Pullman; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre) • 8 SIY17 Books (Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov; Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller; The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman; Chocolat by Joanne Harris; Scent of a Woman by Giovanni Arpino; Even Back Then, the Fox Was the Hunter by Herta Muller; Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean) • 2 Others |
Finished: Scent of a Woman by Giovanni Arpino; I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Northern Lights by Philip Pullman; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre; Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; Case Histories by Kate Atkinson; Chocolat by Joanne Harris; The Fermata by Nicholson Baker Total: SIY17: 5 of 8; Others: 2 of 2; WBN: 3 of 5; Oldest BC: 2 of 3 Current Books: (reported December 30th) |
 klaradyn |
25 books
|
Finished: Me, Myself and Prague by Rachael Weiss; The Long Song by Andrea Levy; Model Home by Eric Puchner; The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman; The Charming Quirks of Others by Alexander McCall Smith; Just My Type by Simon Garfield; Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts; The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley; For Esme, with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger; The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn; The Sheltering Desert by Henno Martin; The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost; Weeping Waters by Anne Maria Nicholson; Larry's Party by Carol Shields; Plaasmoord by Karin Brynard; The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri; How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers; A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Total: 2011 TBRs: 10 of 10; pre-2011 TBRs: 8 of 15 Current Book: A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell; A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White; Boplaas by Boerneef (reported December 31st) |
 geileis |
6 books
|
Finished: The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie Total: Christie: 2 of 2 Current Books: The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian @p. 1 (reported December 10th) |