Ruthbie's challenge

Categories:

1. Award winners
2. Non-Fiction
3. Classics
4. Writers that are new to me
5. 1001 Books to read before you die
6. Favourite Re-reads
7. Reading Groups
8. Books on my TBR pile for ages

1. AWARD WINNERS

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Vanish - Tess Gerritsen
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Shipping News - E.Annie Proulx
The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld

2. NON - FICTION

The Pope's Children - David McWilliams
The Wives of Henry VIII - Antonia Fraser
Mixed Fancies - Brenda Blethyn
Catherine de Medici - Leonie Frieda
American Prometheus - Kai Bird
Marie Antoinette - Antonia Fraser
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
Europe: A History - Norman Davies

3. CLASSICS

Emma - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensiblity - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4. WRITERS THAT ARE NEW TO ME

The Russian Concubine - Kate Furnivall
The Girls - Lori Larson
A French Affair - Susan Lewis
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
Winter in Madrid - C.J. Samsom
Disordered Minds - Minette Walters
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Luis Zafon

5. 1001 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU DIE

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
The Idiot - Fyodor Doestoyevsky
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

6. RE-READS

Carrie - Stephen King
Crescendo - Mary McCarthy
The Shining - Stephen King
Salem's Lot - Stephen King
Strangers - Dean R. Koontz
Night Shift - Stephen King
Near Darkness - Dean R. Koontz
Sands of Time - Sidney Sheldon

7. BOOK CLUB READS

Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood

8. BOOKS ON MY TBR PILE FOR AGES

The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
A Gathering Light - Jennifer Donnelly
The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
L.A. Confidential - James Ellroy
The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
An Absolute Scandal - Penny Vincenzi