Burgesk's 75 Books Challenge for 2011

Setting up my thread for 2011. For 2010 I kept track of the books I've read in the first post. I think I'll have a individual post for each month of the year within this thread. So, that's what I'll do right now.

75 Book Challenge

January Reads:
1. Orson Scott Card: A War of Gifts
2. Orson Scott Card: First Meetings
3. Wilkie Collins: The Woman of White
4. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6. E.M. Forster: A Room With a View
7. Frank Herbert: Dune

February Reads:
8. Jane Leavy: Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
9. John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps
10. Leigh Montville: Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
11. Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
12. Leigh Montville: The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
13. George "Shotgun" Shuba: My Memories as a Brooklyn Dodger
14. Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility

March Reads:
15. Paul Dickson: The Joy of Keeping Score
16. Bernard Malamud: The Natural
17. Alexandre Dumas: Twenty Years After

April Reads:
18. William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland
19. Iain M. Banks: The Algebraist
20. Henry James: Washington Square

May Reads:
21. Scott Kelby: The Digital Photography Book - Volume 1
22. George Grossmith: Diary of a Nobody
23. Thomas Hardy: Far from the Maddening Crowd

June Reads:
24. Alexander O. Exquemelin: The Buccaneers of America
25. Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas
26. Iain M Banks: The Player of Games
27. Iain M Banks: Use of Weapons
28. Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan the Untamed
29. Jules Verne: The Mysterious Island
30. Dan Falk: In Search of Time

July Reads:
31. Johann David Wyss: Swiss Family Robinson
32. Louis L'amour: High Lonesome
33. Iain M Banks: The State of the Art
34. Baroness Emmuska Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
35. Zane Grey: Riders of the Purple Sage
36. H.G. Wells: The Island of Dr. Moreau
37. Louis L'amour: Sackett's Land
38. Louis L'amour: To the Far Blue Mountains
39. Louis L'amour: The Warrior’s Path
40. John Fox Jr.: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

August Reads:
41. Louis L'amour: Jubal Sackett
42. Louis L'amour: Ride the River
43. Louis L'amour: The Daybreakers

September Reads:
44. Louis L'amour: Lando
45. Louis L'amour: Sackett
46. Louis L'amour: Mojave Crossing
47. Louis L'amour: The Sackett Brand
48. Louis L'amour: The Skyliners
49. Louis L'amour: The Lonely Men
50. Louis L'amour: The Mustang Man
51. Louis L'amour: Galloway
52. Louis L'amour: Treasure Mountain
53. Louis L'amour: Ride the Dark Trail
54. Louis L'amour: Lonely on the Mountain
55. Louis L'amour: A Sackett Companion
56. Robert Jordan: The Great Hunt

October Reads:
57. Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
58. Zane Grey: The Last Trail
59. Larry McMurty: Lonesome Dove
60. Jack London: The Call of the Wild

November Reads:
61. Robert Jordan: The Dragon Reborn
62. Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House
63. Dave Ramsey: The Total Money Makeover
64. Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
65. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

December Reads:
66. E.M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread
67. Various: Beowolf
68. Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
69. Rick Reardon: Sea of Monsters
70. Louis L'amour: Kilkenny
71. Louis L'amour: Kiowa Trail
72. Louis L'amour: Down the Long Hills
73. Louis L'amour: Shalako
74. Charles Mann: 1491
75. David Christian: Maps of Time

Glad to see you back with us again!

Welcome back!

Thanks guys, I'm glad to be back!

Finished my first books of the year this week. Both books were part of the Ender's Saga by Orson Scott Card, A War of Gifts, and First Meetings.

I'm currently reading The Woman in White, A Room With a View, and Maps of Time. As soon as those are finished, or maybe sooner ;), I'll start on the two challenge books that I'm doing: Beowolf and Sense and Sensibility.

I'm thinking of a sub-challenge for myself and that is to read 30 books from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list. I'm also wondering if I might be able to read 100 books this year. I'll shoot for 75 but will have 100 as my stretch goal.

Good luck with both your goal and your stretch goal. Welcome back.

#16: Wow! Some great reading going on at your house!

Just finished book #3 for the year, A Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Going to finish reading A Room a View next then get started on Sense and Sensibility and Beowolf as soon as I get a copy of it.

I am enjoying Beowulf. I hope you like it too!

#20. I'm sure I will. I should have the book by this Wednesday, so will probably start reading it on either Wednesday night or Thursday.

Ok, finished a couple other books, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald (should I even count this as a book???).

I've read the introduction section of Beowolf and the first third of Dune and a little more than halfway through A Room With a View (I thought I would have finished by now but have only read during lunch at work). I have yet to start reading Sense and Sensibility.

#22: should I even count this as a book???

If it is between covers, it counts! I always figure the long ones even out the short ones.

#23 True, true. It will offset one of the D'artagnon books.

Finally finished A Room With a View.

Ok, I finally finished reading Dune. Now to finish Sense and Sensibility and Beowolf. Oh, and I still need to finish reading Maps of Time.

#25: I will be interested in seeing what you think of Maps of Time when you are done with it.

>24 burgesk:, What did you think of A Room with a View? I am listening to it on audio right now, and it's slow going, as I don't have the long commute I had last semester.

#27 - I honestly didn't care much for the book. IMHO it started slow and continued slow, but it wasn't a really long book so I went ahead and finished it.

Hi There

I'm compiling a list of birthdays of our group members. If you haven't done so already, would you mind stopping by this thread and posting yours.

Thanks.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/105833

#29 - Posted Thanks!

Read Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy and The Thirty-Nine Steps. Still working on Maps of Time, Sense and Sensibility, and Beowolf. I am almost finished with Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero.

I'm gearing up for baseball season!

#30: I am looking forward to baseball season too!

Been reading a couple baseball biographies the past couple weeks. Finished Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero and The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth.

Finished one non baseball related book as well, The Red Badge of Courage.

Still working on the others...should be able to finish them by month's end...I hope!

Good luck with your goal of finishing the books by month's end!

I do not think I have ever read The Red Badge of Courage. I really need to rectify that.

Just finished another baseball book, My Memories as a Brooklyn Dodger by George "Shotgun" Shuba. It was staring at me when I put up the Big Bam book, so I brought it down and read it. I had bought this book when I was visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown on the Thursday/Friday before the induction weekend in 2008. My family and I came out of a little diner in town and had our Dodger shirts and hats on. Who's sitting at the table right at the exit? George "Shotgun" Shuba, and he notices us and calls me over. We chat for a while and I decided to buy his book that was being sold as you walked into the diner. After I bought the book he had me go back over so that he could inscribe the inside of my copy. It was a really great experience for me, my wife, and my two boys. I'm planning on going back to Cooperstown within the next year so that I can spend more quality time inside the Hall of Fame.

I'm still working on Sense and Sensibility and Beowolf. Still on target to finish these by month's end. Also still working on Maps of Time.

Ok, I finally finished Sense and Sensibility. Need to finish up Beowolf now, not sure I'll be able to finish by today though.

It's been a slow reading month this month. My wife gave birth to my baby daughter on the 6th so that pretty much slowed down my reading for the month.

I did get to read The Joy of Keeping Score, The Natural, and Twenty Years After (a sequel to The Three Musketeers). Plan on reading a bit more this month if I can find the time.

Yeah, so I haven't updated my reading log in a while...

In April I read The House on the Borderland followed by a sci fi by Iain M. Banks...The Algebraist. Then Washington Square by Henry James.

In May I read The Digital Photography Book - Volume 1. I've been into photography for the past 10 years and now that I have a newborn figure I would both read some new books on the subject as well as re-read some of the books I've read in the past. Also read The Diary of a Nobody and Far from the Maddening Crowd.

So far in June I've finished two books, The Buccaneers of America and Remember Phlebas.

So, all in all April and May were slow reading months which is about what I expected given the sports activities for my two sons as well as having a new baby in the house. June is off to a much better start! Hope that continues.

Haven't posted much recently...busy reading and taking care of my now 9 month old baby!

Well, I successfully completed the 75 book challenge, but not my personal sub-challenge of reading 30 books from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list.

There's always 2012 to work on your goals!