Julia's 2013 Book Challenges

This morning I finished my 65th book for the year.

A-Z

A:

B: Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol

C: Sphere by Michael Crichton

D: The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

E: The Changeling Garden by Winifred Elze

F:

G:

H: One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

I:

J: Lost Boy by Brent Jeffs with Maia Szalavitz

K:

L:  The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth Laban

M: Shine by Lauren Myracle

N: Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri, illustrated Jesse Joshua Watson

O:

P: Operation Oleander by Valerie O. Patterson

Q:

R: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

S: Who Done It? An Investiagtion of Murder Most Foul: Alibis by Authors with Motives Conducted by Jon Scieszka and YOU, the Reader

T: Love and Leftovers by Sarah Tregay

U:

V:

W: Funny How Things Change by Melissa Wyatt

50 states+ YA challenge

1. What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt, Massachusetts

2. Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson, Mississippi

3. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly, New York

4. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt, Maine

5. Tilt by Ellen Hopkins, Nevada

6. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth, Montana

7. Love and Leftovers by Sarah Tregay, New Hampshire

8. One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Connecticut

9. Sweetly by Jackson Pearce, South Carolina

10. The Walking Dead Compendium Two by Robert Kirkman & others, Georgia

11. A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce, Kansas

12. Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage, North Carolina

13. Lost Boy by Brent Jeffs with Maia Szalavitz, Utah

14. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin, Florida

15. Under the Blood- Red Sun by Graham Salisbury, Hawaii

16. The Beet Fields: Memories of as Sixteenth Summer by Gary Paulson, North Dakota

17. Fated by Alyson Noel, New Mexico

18. Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri, illustrated Jesse Joshua Watson, Pennsylvania

19. The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher, Delaware

20. The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton, Ohio

21. The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks, Kansas

22. Funny How Things Change by Melissa Wyatt, West Virginia

23. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, Virginia

24. Jip His Story by Katherine Paterson, Vermont

25. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, France

26. The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd, England

27. Ashfall by Mike Mullin, Iowa

28. Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, South Africa

29. Hollow Earth by John Barrowman and Carole E. Barrowman, Scotland

30. Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate, Sudan

Science Fiction

1. What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt

2. The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold

3. Star Trek: the Next Generation  Doctor Who Assimilation2 Volume 2 by Scott Tipton…

4. The Telling by Ursula K. LeGuin

5. Sphere by Michael Crichton

6. Ashfall by Mike Mullin

7. Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

New

1. What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt

2. Tilt by Ellen Hopkins

3. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

4. Who Done It? An Investiagtion of Murder Most Foul: Alibis by Authors with Motives Conducted by Jon Scieszka and YOU, the Reader

5. Love and Leftovers by Sarah Tregay

6. Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz

7. One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

8. The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth Laban

9. The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons by Barbara Mariconda

10. Operation Oleander by Valerie O. Patterson

11. The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher

12. Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs

13. Gold by Chris Cleave

14. Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors edited by Susannah Carson

15. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

ARCs

1. What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt

2. Who Done It? An Investigation of Murder Most Foul: Alibis by Authors with Motives Conducted by Jon Scieszka and YOU, the Reader

3. The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth Laban

4. The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons by Barbara Mariconda

5. Operation Oleander by Valerie O. Patterson

6. Gold by Chris Cleave

7. Back in the Game by Charles Holdefer

8. The World Without You by Joshua Henkin

9. Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors edited by Susannah Carson

UF/ YA Challenges

1. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

2. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

3. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

4. The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold

5. The Telling by Ursula K. LeGuin

6. Thirteen Orphans by Jane Lindskold

7. Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri, illustrated Jesse Joshua Watson

8. Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs

9. The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks

10. I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer- Purcell

11. Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones

12. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

13. Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

14. Hollow Earth by John Barrowman and Carole E. Barrowman

15. Other by Karen Kincy

16. Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

Fiction/ non-fiction with autistic characters

1. Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz

2. The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd

3. Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Cholodenko

Worst Books:

1. The Sweet Potato Queen’s Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne

2. Fated by Alyson Noel

Books about racism/ Messy Housekeepers Book Club:

1. The Sweet Potato Queen’s Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne (MHBC)

2. The Cruisers by Walter Dean Myers

3. The Cruisers: Checkmate by Walter Dean Myers

4. Under the Blood- Red Sun by Graham Salisbury

5. The Telling by Ursula K. LeGuin (MHBC)

6. Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri, illustrated Jesse Joshua Watson

7. The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

8. The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks

9. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (MHBC)

10. Jip His Story by Katherine Paterson

11. The Changeling Garden by Winifred Elze (MHBC)

12. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Set in Upstate New York

1. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

2. The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth Laban

Banned/ Challenged

1. Shine by Lauren Myracle

Did not finish

1. Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

2. Fated by Alyson Noel

3. Sphere by Michael Crichton

4. Gold by Chris Cleave

Rereads

1. The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold

2. Bone: Volume One Out From Boneville by Jeff Smith

Award winners

1. A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce

2. Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri, illustrated Jesse Joshua Watson

3. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award winner

4. Shine by Lauren Myracle, Nominated for a National Book Award for two days

5. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, won 2012 Edgar, A Michael L. Printz Award Honor book,

6. Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, won Arthur C. Clarke award

Plays

1. Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors edited by Susannah Carson

2. “Tidy Endings” by Harvey Fierstein

Graphic novels/ anime

1. The Walking Dead Compendium Two by Robert Kirkman

2. Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol

3. Star Trek: the Next Generation  Doctor Who Assimilation2 Volume 2 by Scott Tipton…

4. Bone: Volume One Out From Boneville by Jeff Smith

5. The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West by Steve Sheinkin

Non- fiction/ Biographies/ Memoirs

1. Lost Boy by Brent Jeffs with Maia Szalavitz

2. I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer- Purcell

3. Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors edited by Susannah Carson

TBR shelves

1. Thirteen Orphans by Jane Lindskold

2. Jip His Story by Katherine Paterson

3. Shine by Lauren Myracle

Classics

1. The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks