| Participant | Goal(s) | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| mrsgaskell | 16 books • 2 classics • 2 CanLit • 2 re-reads • 2 new authors • 2 other countries • 6 others |
Finished: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins; The Sunflower (On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness) by Simon Wiesenthal; The Good Mayor by Andrew Nicoll; Hunger by Knut Hamsun; The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester; The Reader by Bernhard Schlink; The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins; Twenty Chickens for a Saddle by Robyn Scott; The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan; Settlers of the Marsh by Frederick Philip Grove; Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas; The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym; Le scaphandre et le papillon by Jean-Dominique Bauby; Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope; Lost Horizon by James Hilton; A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn Total: Re-reads: 1 of 2; Others: 6 of 6; New Authors: 2 of 2; Other Countries: 1 of 2; Classics: 1 of 2; CanLit: 2 of 2 (reported September 21st) |
| Geileis | 9 books |
Finished: A Dark Night's Work and Other Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell; Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Total: TBRs: 2 of 3; Current Books: The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester (reported September 30th) |
| Miss-Owl | 10 books • 7 1001 books (TBD) • 3 Others |
Finished: Junky by William S. Burroughs; On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan; Amsterdam by Ian McEwan; After Dark Haruki Murakami; On Love by Alain de Botton; God Bless You, Mr Rosewater; The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri;'s Maus by Art Speigelman Total: 1001: 5 of 7; Other: 3 of 3 Current Book: (reported September 28th) |
| janey-canuck | • 10 books from TBR |
Finished: The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester; In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner; Doing Honest Work in College by Charles Lipson; Death With Interruptions by Jose Saramago; Kokology 2 by Tadahiko Nagao & Isamu Saito; Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Total: 6 of 10 Current Books:(reported September 21st) |
| MaryZee | • 5 books registered by BCers • 5 bookish books |
Finished: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo; The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato; A Little Local Murder by Robert Barnard; Booked to Die by John Dunning; They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels by Jim Huang (ed.); The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning; The Book Thief by Markus Zusak; The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes by Chuck Zerby; Death of the Party is by Carolyn Hart; Deception Point by Dan Brown; Death of the Party by Carolyn Hart Total: BCers: 5 of 5; Bookish: 5 of 5 (reported September 13th) |
| bluenoser | 25 books • 5 books with more than 400pp • 20 others |
Finished: Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet by M. C. Beaton; Back Spin by Harlan Coben; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro; The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester; Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell; At Risk by Patricia Cornwell; House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III; The Tainted Relic by The Medieval Murderers; Strange Legacy by Felicity Fixsen;
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd; Complicity by Iain Banks; Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff;
The Traitor of St Giles by Michael Jecks;
That Certain Age by Elizabeth Buchan; Voyageurs by Margaret Elphinstone; The Last Templar by Michael Jecks;
Slave by Mende Nazer & Damien Lewis;
Miss Seaton Draws the Line by Heron Carvic;
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith; As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann; The Reader by Bernhard Schlink; Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor by M. C. Beaton; A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter; No Birds Sing by Jo Bannister; The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton Total: 400+pp: 5 of 5; Others: 20 of 20 Current Books: London by Peter Ackroyd (reported September 28th) |
| jneni | 15 books • 6 1001 books/classics • 9 others |
Finished: The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo; A Room with A View; Crime and Punishment; Unseen; People of The Book; Ritual and Legacy; Trick of The Eye; Queen of The Orcs Book 1 Total: 1001: 2 of 6; Other: 6 of 9 Current Books: (reported August 15th) |
| FeistyPom2Love | 12 books ("R" is For Ricochet by Sue Grafton; The Gangster of Love by Jessica Hagedorn; Night by Elie Wiesel; The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander; Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith; 7 others TBD) | Finished: Back to the Bedroom by Janet Evanovich; Naughty Neighbor by Janet Evanovich; Wife For Hire by Janet Evanovich; Night by Elie Wiesel; Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia S. Ginzberg; "R" Is For Ricochet by Sue Grafton; A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George; The Female of The Species by Joyce Carol Oates; The Gangster of Love by Jessica Hagedorn; The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander; Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland; Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith Total: 12 of 12 (reported September 21st) |
| Neige49 | 11 books |
Finished: The Baritone Wore Chiffon by Mark Schweizerut; Chicken Every Sunday by Rosemary Taylor; Back From Africa by Corinne Hofmann; If God Wanted Us to Travel by David Brenner; Snow Falcon by Craig Thomas; The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan; Never After by Rebecca Lickiss; The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale; The Size of the World by Jeff Greenwald; The Starry Rift by James Tiptree, Jr Total: Others: 5 of 6; TBRs: 5 of 5 Current Books: The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen (reported September 30th) |
| nicolesinger | 10 TBRs (TBD) | Finished: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Shadows 8 by Charles L. Grant (ed.); Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey; Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett; How to Get Along With Difficult People by Florence Littauer; The Mirror of Infinity by Robert Silverberg (ed.); Silverlock by John Myers Myers; Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison Total: 8 of 10 Current Books: Word Play by Peter Farb (reported September 16th) |
| Chania | 16 books • 3 Scarpetta books • 4 children's classics • 2 1001 books • 7 TBRs |
Finished: From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell; McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy; Ignorance is the Enemy of Love by Faarax M. J. Cawl; Ansaittu kuolema by Patricia Cornwell; Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster; Tuhat ja yksi taikaa by Tahar Ben Jelloun; Ruokaa amore by Anthony Capella; Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke; Luonnoton surmaaja by Patricia Cornwell; Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro; The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry; The Master Quilter by Jennifer Chiaverini; Toivomuspuu by William Faulkner; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark; The Railway Children by E.Nesbit; The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon Total: Scarpetta: 3 of 3; TBRs: 7 of 7; Children's: 4 of 4; 1001: 2 of 2 (reported August 28th) |
| Megi53 |
• 1 1001 book (Metamophoses by Ovid) |
Finished: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas
Pynchon Total: TBRs: 1 of 9 Current Book: (reported September 21st) |
| tqd | 25 books | Finished: Gilgamesh by Joan London; One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna; What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt; Small Island by Andrea Levy; The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox; Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel by Anthony Horowitz; Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin; The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon; The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen; Affinity by Sarah Waters; Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes; Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz; The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis; Fables: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham; Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi; Faceless Killers by Henning Mankel; The Twits by Roald Dahl; The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide; Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik; Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World; Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis; The Other Hand by Chris Cleave; Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier Total: 26 of 25 (reported September 14th) |
| Nu-Knees | • The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive; Clea) • 3 non-fiction books (1 per month from these: The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman; Istanbul, Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk; Several Strangers by Claire Tomalin; The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester) |
Finished: The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester; Justine by Lawerence Durell; Balthazar by Lawerence Durell; Foreign Correspondence by Geraldine Brooks; Mountolive by Lawerence Durell; Clea by Lawerence Durell; Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk Total: Non-fiction: 3 of 3; Alexandria: 4 of 4 (reported September 9th) |
| NICNIC2 | 5 1001 books | Finished: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Total: 1 of 5 Current Books: (reported July 20th) |
| lane1088 | 33 books
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Finished: Other Worlds by Barbara Michaels; Blue Heaven by C. J. Box; Between a Wok and a Hard Place by Tamar Myers; Asimov (March 1992); The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to AC by Dick Riley & Pam McAllister; On the Damned Human Race by Mark Twain; Easy Prey by John Sandford; Get a Life by William Shatner; The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; 1984: Spring/A Choice of Futures by Arthur Clarke; To Seek out New Life: The Biology of ST by Athena Andreadis; Play It Again, Spam by Tamar Myers; Gruel & Unusual Punishment by Tamar Myers; Neuromancer by William Gibson; Sons of Fortune by Jeffery Archer; Pyro by Earl Emerson; Custard's Last Stand by Tamar Myers;
Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais; The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett; The Best Science Fiction of the Year (#3) by Terry Carr; Starfire by Charles Sheffield; Sharp North by Patrick Cave; Lyoness by Jack Vance; Mission Child by Maureen Mchugh; Starshield Sentinels by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman; Demolition Angel by Robert Crais; Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris; The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry; Secret Prey by John Sandford; Mortal Prey by John Sandford; Twisted by Johnathan Kellerman; At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon; The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva Total: TBRs: 30 of 30; Bookclubs: 3 of 3 Current Book: (reported September 30th) |
| Ibis3 | • 4 CanLit Challenge books (Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie; They Shall Inherit the Earth by Morley Callaghan; Antoinette de Mirecourt by Rosanna Leprohon; The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence) |
Finished: The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa; Erewhon by Samuel Butler; The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry; Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare; Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages by Etienne Gilson; Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie; Only a Theory by Kenneth R. Miller Total: Other: 2 of 4; BCers': 2 of 3; Shakespeare: 1 of 2; TBRs: 1 of 2; CanLit: 1 of 4 Current Books: Selected Stories from the Canadian Magazine @186 of 235; Possession by A. S. Byatt @249 of 511; The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins @236 of 437 (reported September 30th) |
| Nagwan | 5 Books: • 3 religious books • 2 self-help books |
(reported August 23rd) |
| wibba | 4 Books: • 3 books from wishlist (December; The Welsh Girl;) • 1 TBR (No Time For Goodbye) |
Finished: The Welsh Girl; December; No Time For Goodbye Total: 3 of 4 Current Book: (reported September 2nd) |