How did you do with your Summer reading? Where did Summer go?? I read 16 books .. but not near as much as I would have liked! I read some from my original list but I think I added a few! I will be adding a Fall Reading Challenge to keep myself going!
Classic
Gone With the Wind byMargaret Mitchell- Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (read a few stories)
Historical Novels
- John Adams by David McCullough
1776 byDavid McCullough- Devil's Dream (A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest) by Madison Smartt Bell
- Shades of Gray (Novel of the Civil War in Virginia) by Jessica James
- Gods and Generals (Novel of the Civil War) by Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara
The Killer Angels byMichael Shaara
Crime /Mystery
7th Heaven byJames Pattersonand Maxine Paetro8th Confession byJames Pattersonand Maxine PaetroThe 9th Judgment byJames Pattersonand Maxine PaetroCross byJames PattersonDouble Cross byJames PattersonCross Country byJames PattersonAlex Cross’s Trial byJames PattersonI. Alex Cross byJames Patterson- Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
- Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
- The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
- Knitting Bones by Monica Ferris
Thriller
- The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
- The Camel Club by David Baldacci
- The Collectors by David Baldacci
- Stone Cold by David Baldacci
- Divine Justice by David Baldacci
- Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci
Odd Thomas byDean KoontzForever Odd byDean KoontzBrother Odd byDean Koontz- Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
- Rain Gods by James Lee Burke
The Lions of Lucerne byBrad Thor- Path of the Assassin by Brad Thor
- State of the Union by Brad Thor
- Blowback by Brad Thor
- Takedown by Brad Thor
- The First Commandment by Brad Thor
- The Last Patriot by Brad Thor
- The Apostle by Brad Thor
- Foreign Influence by Brad Thor
- The Athena Project by Brad Thor
- By Order of the President by W.E.B. Griffin
Black Wind byClive Cussler
Fantasy
- Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
My list was pretty short so I did pretty good. I had to make a substitution for my last book as I needed to read a book for college and had always wanted to read Walden..but I'm about 70 pages from the end still. But close :)
ReplyDeleteHere is my new, book dedicated blog with my original challenge post:
http://theshabbyrabbit.blogspot.com/2010/05/page-turners-i-hope.html
So all in all I read
Will Grayson Will Grayson - John Green
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle -Haruki Murakami
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Sweetness at the bottom of the pie - Alan Bradley
3/4 of Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Putting my list together for Winter!! :)
Thanks for hosting this and I can't wait!! :)
Laura
hmmm... I like these challenges - going to have to think on it. I read the Killer Angels last spring when my daughters 6th grade class was assigned to read it. Wow. Really wonderful book. My brother's college major was military history and he highly recommended it when I asked him what he thought.
ReplyDeleteI posted my results here: http://susan-aworkinprogress.blogspot.com/2010/09/seasons-readings.html
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