;3; I'll try and attempt this but I've been neglecting my books recently.
Besides, it's almost mid-year, so... unless I aim for 50 books for this time next May... yeah, let's go with that. >.>
Does manga count? ;P I'll only put in a few. >.> [she says]

satsu's book list

1) Death Note vol. 2
2) Ceres Celestial Legend vol. 2
3) Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden vol. 2
4) Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden vol. 3
5) Guru Guru Pon-chan vol. 1
6) Da Vinci Code; Dan Brown
7) Scaredy Cat; Mark Billingham
8) Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, Guilty Pleasures; Laurrel K. Hamilton
9) Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, The Laughing Corpse; Laurrel K. Hamilton
10) Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, Circus of the Damned; Laurrel K. Hamilton
11) The Hobbit; J. R. R Tolkien
12) Twilight, Stephanie Meyer
13) New Moon, Stephanie Meyer
14) Eclipse, Stephanie Meyer
15) Battle Royale, Koushun Takami
16) Growing Pains, Billie Piper
17) Witch: A Magickal Journey; Fiona Horne
18) Demon Thief; Darren Shan
19) Slawter; Darren Shan
20) Bec; Darren Shan
21) Blood Beast; Darren Shan
22) Demon Apocalypse; Darren Shan
23) Death's Shadow; Darren Shan
24) Koyasan; Darren Shan
25) Bloody Chamber & short stories; Angela Carter
26) Vampire Beach: Blood Lust; Alex Duval
27) Heretic; Sarah Singleton
28) The Colour of Magic; Terry Pratchett
29) Guards, Guards; Terry Pratchett
30) Reaper Man; Terry Pratchett
31) Sister of the Dead; Barb & JC Hendee
32) The Secret Lives of Elves and Faeries; John Matthews
33) The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic; Sophie Kinsella
34) Shopaholic Abroad; Sophie Kinsella
35) Shopaholic Ties the Knot; Sophie Kinsella
36) Shopaholic and Baby; Sophie Kinsella
37) The Last Vampire; Christopher Pike
38) Undead and Unwed; MaryJanice Davidson
39) The Naughty Girl's Guide to Life; Tara Palmer-Tomkinson & Sharon Marshall
40) Jordan: Pushed to the Limit; Katie Price
41) Sourcerer's of the Nightwing: Hellhole; Geoffrey Huntington
42) Betwixt; Tara Bray Smith
43) The Chocolate Run; Dorothy Koomson
44) Dracula; Bram Stoker
45) The Fellowship of the Ring; J. R. R Tolkien
46) The Two Towers, J. R. R Tolkien
47) The Return of the Kind, J. R. R Tolkien
48) The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
49) Across the Nightingale Floor; Lian Hearn
50) Grass For His Pillow; Lian Hearn

Oh God... I think I may just faint from that list.
Especially considering more than half of them are actually sitting, gathering dust on my bookcase/floor.
And that doesn't even include my classics treasury. @___@

@ satsuki:
-twitch-
Only a few? o0;;

Manga counts if you want it to. :3
You're the rulekeeper of your own list. ^^

Just want to say hello - I have FINALLY updated my book list...
looks like I might make 30.000 pages this year...

*screams at satsuki's list* OH MY GOD! @_@

I didn't know manga counted... I read lots of online manga. :drool:

Well, I'm being a good girl-- fanfiction doesn't count. Nope!

Anyhoo:

Reading Austen's Emma, and I've isolated the element of Austen's writing style which fails to intrigue me. At the beginning of every exposition, she lists the characteristics, faults, and thought-processes of each character almost as though in a laundry list. I like having the nature of a character established by that character's own actions. This fashion of prose isn't working for me.

I am pretty much enjoying the book though-- mostly thanks to Mr. Knightley, who serves as a lovely character foil to the increasingly irritating Emma. Who is vapid, despite intellectual capability. I detest Emma.

Megh.

Mr. Woodhouse tickles me pink, though. :)


That is all. Hope you're all doing well with your reading lists. Yay for Manga! ... I won't count fanfiction. I'm a good girl, and I'm not going to count fanfiction...

Now that I'm home on vacation, I'll be able to do a lot more reading. I've got a whole stack of books just waiting to be opened.

First, I think I'm going to start another one of David McCullough's books. I love Truman, and I know that my father owns a whole collection of his writing, so I'll just have to figure out which one I want to start next.

I wanna join! One question, would I count the books I have already read this year or do I start from now?

Sounds like fun. I think I'll give it a shot.

[Runa]'s List of Stuff

1. Lost by Gregory Maguire ~ ¤ ~ 335 Pages
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin ~ ¤ ~ 375 Pages
3. Beauty's Punishment by Anne Rice ~ ¤ ~
4. Beauty's Release by Anne Rice ~ ☼ ~
5. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas ~ ¤ ~ 1462 Pages
6. The Unexpected Dragon by Mary Brown ~ ♥ ~ 852 Pages
7. Black Trillium by Marion Zimmer Bradly, Julian May, & Andre Norton ~ ¤ ~ 410 Pages
8. Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis ~ ¤ ~ 612 Pages

¤ - Currently reading
☼ - To be read
♥ - Finished reading

I need to go through unread books I have and add them to the list....
Though that requires digging them out of the garage. What fun. Dx
I'm not adding my manga though because I have like... nearly two hundred volumes I think.
It would be way to easy if I just did that.

Originally Posted by serafim_azriel

I wanna join! One question, would I count the books I have already read this year or do I start from now?

You can count whatever you want to count.
If you can remember all the books you've already read this year, then by all means add them to your list!
Otherwise, it might be easier to start today and go until next May.

Oh, I remember most of them, but I'll go from this may to next May then. Jusr so I don't forget anything.

that sounds really great! i'm going to try and do 50 in one year starting now! but it's going to be hard! i go away to school in the fall but i think i can do it! <3

um, I've already read 70 thus far in the school year 0w0?
I'm shooting for 100 =P

I have two really unorganized reading lists X_x
neither of which I refer to very often, sadly ._.

Here's my list! And I'm counting Mangas.
Serafim's List
1.Return to the Labyrinth Vol. 2
2.RE: Play Vol. 2
3. The Essential Dalai Lama

I think that, in order to catch up on this year, I'm going to make my goal be about 170 pages a day. I think that I can make it, if I take to waking up early.

I'm really excited right now because I know the AP English assignment for this summer. I just went out to purchase the books; my friends and I are going to be competing for fastest completion/ best performance on the homework, and I want to make sure that I can start the moment our teacher officially assigns it.

Meanwhile, I also picked up a book on cognitive therapy. It looks quite interesting.


I love buying books. :heart:


(Note: the 170 goal is only until August. Thereafter, I'm going to make the goal 100 a day. That should take care of the AP Eng./ AP Gov. necessities. )

Fifty books, eh? If Manga count do Graphic novels and trade paperbacks (American Comics) count too? They're usually longer than your average manga GN...

If not, I'll just count twenty five issues of comics as graphic novels...25 issues times 30 pages per issue...that's like...seven hundred and fifty pages of comics!! (ZOMG) I read too much I think...

=D This looks like so much fun! I love reading, so I'm going to aim for 100 ^_^

Bishielurfer/Kitty's Books List

^=Read for School

1. Macbeth^
2. Middlesex
3. Rainbow Boys
4. To Kill A Mockingbird^
5. Twilight
6. New Moon
7. Eclipse
8. Sexwise
9. Most Evil Men and Women in History
10. Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography
11. The Old Man and the Sea^
12. Life 2
13. Life 3
14. X-Day 1
15. X-Day 2
16. Godchild 7
17. Godchild 8
18. The Host
19. Promise Not to Tell
20. Breaking Dawn
21. Huckelberry Finn^
22. Model 1-7
23. Great Expectations^
24. Haunted
25. Go Ask Alice
26. Watchmen (Jesus Christ, that was a depressing comic!)
27. Sunshine Sketch
28. Fight Club
29. 1984
30. Brave New World

Books: 30/100 (30%)
Pages: 14,610/30,000 (48%)

Currently Reading: Farenheit 451

Gosh, it feels like everyone in here's read Jane Austen's books...
I know they're really popular, though, so... P:
Maybe I should add them to my to-read list...

Gosh, I'm so glad summer's going to be here soon~
With the break, I can tackle my to-read list! >D

I haven't added anything recently because I never finish my books!
Dx
I was like, three chapters away from finishing High Fidelity, but then my brother took it back, and I'll never see it again. ; o ;

I'm almost done with the book list!

1. Heart of Darkness (done)*
2. Hamlet (done)*

Presently reading:

The Uglies - Scot Westerfeld
Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer - 494/629
Velocity - Dean Koontz - 69/458
The Time Machine/The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells - 18/255
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wetzel - 242/362
Prince Caspian - CS Lewis - 94/216

Stats:

2/50 = 4%

Code:

* = For school

SO I just finished reading 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' by Mohsin Hamid, and I wasn't much impressed. I really wouldn't recommend it to any of you guys - The story has potential, but the entire thing just fell flat. I expected it to be much better.

I'll come back here and update the master list as soon as I have time, I promise! But with the event going on, my hands are pretty busy.

tentenpuff:: Read Pride and Prejudice. :yes:

Its one of my favorite books of all time.

Ooh how fun! I love reading and do it all the time (even at work) so this will be a lovely challenge.

Moiraine's List

1. Jane Eyre - 480 pages
2. Fahrenheit 451 - 208 pages
3. I Am Legend - 320 pages
4. Wizard's First Rule - 576 pages
5. Stone of Tears - 992 pages
6. Blood of the Fold - 640 pages
7. Temple of the Winds - 528 pages
8. Soul of the Fire - 508 pages
9. Faith of the Fallen - 704 pages
10. Pillars of Creation - 736 pages
11. Naked Empire - 752 pages
12. Dark Harvest - 176 pages
13. Twilight - 544 pages
14. New Moon - 608 pages
15. Eclipse - 640 pages


15/50 completed
8,412/15,000 completed

I'd count mangas but I read them last year too so it isn't anything new and not worth adding to the list of stuff I'm reading this year.

Mel's Reading List 2012
(Titles in bold I highly recommend.)

Dash and Lilies Book of Dares
Homer's Odyssey
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl who Played with Fire
The Fault in Our Stars
Shiver
Trusting a Stranger (Harlequin Intrigue #1170)
The Lover's Dictionary
The Missing Ink (Tattoo Shop Mystery, #1)
Fair Game (Alpha and Omega #3)
Green Witch (Green Angel #2)
Supergirl Vol. 6: Who is Superwoman?
Fables: Witches (Fables, #14)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Spider's Bite (Elemental Assassin, #1)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol.1
Grimspace (Sirintha Jax #1)
Wanderlust (Sirintha Jax #2)
Doubleblind (Sirintha Jax #3)
Killbox (Sirintha Jax #4)
Aftermath (Sirintha Jax #5)
Sabriel
Lirael
Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants #5)
Abhorsen
Batwoman, Vol. 1: Hydrology



Books I want to read this year :

The Last Summer (of you and me) - Ann Brashares
Paper Towns - John Green
Knit Two - Kate Jacobs
Harry Potter books 3-7 - J.k. Rowling (reread)
Batman - The Long Halloween - Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale
The Romance Readers' Book Club - Julie L. Cannon
The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Bedder
The Resident Evil Archives
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find them & Quidditch Through The Ages - J.K. Rowling
Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
If I Stay - Gayle Forman

2011X

Mel's Reading List 2011
(Titles in bold I highly recommend
and I recommend all Laurell K. Hamilton so I didn't bold them all.)

1. The Year of Secret Assignments - Jaclyn Moriarty
2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum (graphic novel)
3. 13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson
4. The Tycoon Takes A Wife - Cathrine Mann
5. Mercy Thompson - River Marked - Patricia Briggs
6. Just Listen - Sarah Dessen
Not sure what happened in 2011...I read more books than this but forgot to update my list XD

2010X

Mel's Reading List 2010
(Titles in bold I highly recommend
and I recommend all Laurell K. Hamilton so I didn't bold them all.)
1. The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
2. Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
3. Where The Sidewalk Ends - Shel Sliverstein
4. Chew - John Layman & Rob Guillory
5. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
6. His Darkest Hunger - Juliana Stone
7. One For The Money - Janet Evanovich
8. Silver Borne - Patricia Briggs
9. Flirt - Laurell K Hamilton
10. Cry Wolf - Patricia Briggs
11. Moon Called -Patricia Briggs (reread)
12. Blood Bound - Patricia Briggs (reread)
13. Savvy - Ingrid Law
14. Hunting Ground - Patricia Briggs
15. Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton (reread)
16. The One Minute Manager - Ph.D. Kenneth Blanchard & M.D. Spencer Johnson
17. Fish! - Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., Harry Paul, & John Christensen
18. Forever in Blue -The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants - Anne Brashures
19. Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 vol. 1 - Joss Weadon
20. Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 vol. 2- Joss Weadon
21. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
22. Two For The Dough - Janet Evanovich
23. Madame Xanadu : Exodus Noir (vol. 2) - Matt Wagner
24. The Tattoo Chronicles - Kat Von D
25. Bullet - Laurell K. Hamilton
26. The Cat Who Played Post Office - Lillian Jackson Braun
27. Torchwood - Almost Perfect - James Goss
28. The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare - Lillian Jackson Braun
29. Princess Daires part 1 - Meg Cabot
30. Fables - Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love
31. Goodnight Tweetheart - Teresa Medeiros
32. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
33. Mouse Guard : Legends of the Guard - David Petersen & various
34. Batgirl : Batgirl Rising
35. Batwoman : Elegy
36 -41. No Bra vol. 1-5
42 -52. Kimi no Todoke vol. 1-10

2009X

Mel's Reading List 2009
(Titles in bold I highly recommend
and I recommend all Laurell K. Hamilton so I didn't bold them all.)

1. The Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs
2. The Cat Who Played Brahms - Lilian Jackson Braun
3. Holes - Louis Sachar
4. Influences - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
5. Bone Crossed - Patricia Briggs
6. Harry Potter : The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J. K. Rowling
7. Looking For Alaska - John Green
8. Local - Brain Wood and Ryan Kelly
9. Harry, A History - Melissa Anelli
10. Blood Noir - Laurell K. Hamilton (reread)
11. Micah - Laurell K. Hamilton (reread)
12. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
13. The Sisterhood of the Travel Pants - Ann Brashares
14. Skin Trade - Laurell K. Hamilton
15. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood - Ann Brashares
16. Girls in Pants The Third Summer of the Sisterhood - Ann Brashares
17. The Cat Who Played Post Office - Lillian Jackson Braun
18. Fables vol 12 - The Dark Ages - Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham
19. Mercy Thompson - Homecoming - Patricia Briggs
20.Dark Nights, Dark Dreams - Sisterhood of the Sight - Savannah Russe
21. Mouse Guard vol 1 - Fall 1152 - David Petersen
22. Mouse Guard vol 2 - Winter 1152 - David Petersen
23. Cathy's Book : If Found Call (650) 266-8233 - Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman and Cathy Brigg
24. Cathy's Key : If Found Call (650) 266-8202 - Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman and Cathy Brigg
25. Cathy's Ring : If Found Call (650) 266-8263 - Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman and Cathy Brigg
26. Creatures of the Night - Neil Gaiman & Michael Zulli
27-30 Bakuman - Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata (vol 1-4)
31-40 The One - Lee Nicky (vol 1-9)
41. Madame Xanadu : Disenchanted (vol 1) - Matt Wagner, Amy Reeder Hadley, Richard Friend
42. An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
43-48. xxxHolic - CLAMP (vol 10-15)
49-55. Me and My Brothers (vol 4-10)
56. Divine Misdemeanors - Laurell K. Hamilton

2008X

Mel's Reading List 2008
Last updated - December 11th, 2008


1. The Killing Dance - Laurell K. Hamilton
2. Burnt Offerings - Laurell K. Hamilton
3. Blue Moon - Laurell K. Hamilton
4. Obsidian Bufferfly - Laurell K. Hamilton
5. Narcissus In Chains - Laurell K. Hamilton
6. Cerulean Sins - Laurell K. Hamilton
7. The Fountain - Darren Aronofsky
8. Fruits Basket vol 1
9. Fruits Basket vol 2
10. xxxHolic vol 1
11. xxxHolic vol 2
12. xxxHolic vol 3
13. Iron Kissed - Patricia Briggs
14. Me & My Brothers vol 1
15. Me & My Brothers vol 2
16. Me & My Brothers vol 3
17. xxxHolic 7
18. xxxHolic 8
19. Micah - Laurell K. Hamilton
20. Danse Macabre - Laurell K. Hamilton
21. The Harlequin - Laurell K. Hamilton
22. Blood Noir - Laurell K. Hamilton
23-41. Air Gear vols 1-19
42-61. Fruits Basket vols 3-23
62. Pride of Baghdad - Brian K. Vaughn
63. Fables vol 10 - The Good Prince - Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham
64. The Cat Who Saw Stars - Lilian Jackson Braun
65. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards - Lilian Jackson Braun
66. Larry and the Meaning of Life - Janet Tashjian
67. Heroes vol 1 - multiple authors
68. Swallowing Darkness - Laurell K. Hamilton
69. The Cat Who Turned On and Off - Lilian Jackson Braun
70. The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern - Lilian Jackson Braun
71. The Lost Files of Nancy Drew - Brainwaves Limited UK
72. Fables : War In Pieces - Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham
73. The Cat Who Saw Red - Lilian Jackson Braun

Lots of people joining us. ^ ^~

Im going to take the challenge thanks for the idea :)

THis sounds like a good challenge.
I kind of wish I had been keeping a record of the books I've already read this year...I guess I'll have to look through all my library receipts. I'll update and add the books I have read.

1.The Orc King (346 pgs)
2. Ride to Battle Mountain (185 pgs)
3. Creating Characters (250 pgs)
4. The Bonehunters (800 pgs)
5. Midnight Tides (624 pgs)
6. House of Chains (669 pgs)
7. Memories of Ice (781 pgs)
8. Gardens of the Moon (494 pgs)
9. Deadhouse Gates (604 pgs)
10. Cursor's Fury (442)
11. Captain's Fury (451)
12. Acaden;s Fury (472)
13.Furies of Calderon (440)
14. White Night (693)
15. T is for Trespass (387)
16. Comes A Horseman (485)
18. The Dandelion Killer (379)
19. The Book of Jane (294)
20. Emily Ever After (309)
21. The Mill House (320)
22. Castles in the Sand (333)
23. Deliver us From Evil (304)
24. The Power and the Glory (270)
25. A Season of Shadows (327)
26. Miss Match (365)
27. S is for Silence Lg Print (604)
28. The Legend of the FireFish (347)
29. Moon in the Mirror (389)
30. Little White Lies (312)
31. The stranger from Medina (192)
32. Long Road to La Rosa (192)
33. Thunder on the Dos Gatos (188)
34. Stallions at Burnt Rock (191)
35. Rainbow's End (251)
36. Glory Be (247)
37. Bloodline (384)
38. Infernal (351)
39. Crisscross (415)
40. Gateways (366)
41. 45 Master Characters (298)
42. Fire (377)
43. Storm (341)
44. So Wild A Dream (398)
45. Walking In Circles before Laying down (270)
46. The heart of Grace (247)
47. A Soul In a Bottle (82)
48. Beauty for Ashes (377)
49. The Boy Next Door (296)
50. The Sleeping Doll LgPr (620)
51. Fury (328)
52. Proof (358)
53. Shadowing Ivy (317)
54. Dancing with Dalton (219)
55. Bluegrass Peril (251)
56. Tested by Fire (250)
57. The Price of Redemption ( 247)
58. The sisterhood of the dropped Stitches (252)
59. Meeting her match (247)
60. Picket Fence Promises (251)
61. Sleeping Beauty (246)
62. Vendetta (245)
63. Wild Fire (216)
64. Her unlikely Family (247)
65. Frontier Courtship (277)
66. A dream to Share (247)
67. Military Daddy (217)
68. Masque (342)
69. Her Baby Dreams (213)
70. No more sad goodbyes (228)
71. Moose, a fat camp memoir (310)
72. Matchmaker, Matchmaker (252)
73. Hosts (383)
74. Amulet-the stonekeeper (185)
75. Extinction (371)
76. Ascendancy of the Last(308)
77. Knitted Toys(144)
78. A family in Full(316)
79. Slices of Life(277)
80. A merger of Marriage(216)
81. Lone Star Secret (215)
82. Her only Protector(215)
83. Hidden Treasures(217)
84. Grits & Glory(213)
85. Learning to Fly(354)
86. Finding Stefanie(355)
87. Seaside Cinderella (279)
88. A Holiday to Remember(239)
89. Her Reason to Stay (250)
90. Prodigal Daughter(253)
91. Heart of the Family(250)
92. The Color of Courage (246)
93. The Guardian's Mission (214)
94. MIA: Missing in Atlanta (217)
95. Lethal Deception (246)
96. Deep in the Heart (217)
97. To heal a Heart (252)
98. Die Before Nightfall (251)
99. Ecotopia (181)
100. London Calling (289)
101. Keepers (339)
102. Woodlands (326)
103. Reclaiming Nick (357)
104. Four little Blessings (247)
105. A mommy in Mind (247)
106. The Heart's choice (250)
107. Hidden MOtive (216)
108. River of Secrets (215)
109. Little Miss Matchmaker (249)
110. Tokyo Cancelled (383)

Book tally= 110/100
Page tally= 33771/30000 pages

I decided to double my goal. I found some more books that I have already read this year. I'll add more as I go.

Well Officially I finished. I'll keep adding until I finish the year out though!
Yeah!