[Originally posted in September 2010.]
I am doing a lot better on my 10/10/10 challenge than I thought I was; however, because of my extreme dilly-dallying in the first two-thirds of the year—wherein I created an entire “miscellaneous” category to make some of my outside reading count toward the challenge—I have to be a lot more focused in these last few months. No more extras, for the most part, so if it doesn’t fit into the challenge, it has to wait. Here’s what I’ve got:
Recommended
Finished:
Abarat–Clive Barker (Joseph)
The Alchemyst–Michael Scott (Nathalie)
Running with the Demon–Terry Brooks (Mike)
Storm Front–Jim Butcher (Mike)
Wicked–Gregory Maguire (Talia)
Same Kind of Different as Me–Ron Hall and Denver Moore (Lori)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake–Aimee Bender (Lori)
Inferior–Piadar O Guilin (Joseph)
Coming Up:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close–Jonathan Safran Foer (Megan)
A Thousand Splendid Suns–Khaled Hosseini (Meredith)
10/10
Adult Fiction
Finished:
The Gathering Storm–Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson
The Lacuna–Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer–Barbara Kingsolver
Empire–Orson Scott Card
Bridget Jones’s Diary–Helen Fielding
Shanghai Girls–Lisa See
The Alchemist–Paolo Coehlo
Towers of Midnight–Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson
Coming Up:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog–Muriel Barbery
9/10
Nonfiction
Finished:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle–Barbara Kingsolver
Going Rogue–Sarah Palin
NurtureShock–Po Bronson and Ashely Merryman
Dreams from My Father–Barack Obama
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America–Bernard Goldberg
Fast Food Nation–Eric Schlosser
Female Chauvinist Pigs–Ariel Levy
The Omnivore’s Dilemma–Michael Pollan
Lies My Teacher Told Me–James W. Loewen
9/10
Authors I’ve Never Read
Finished:
The Road–Cormac McCarthy
Mrs. Dalloway–Virginia Woolf
The Handmaid’s Tale–Margaret Atwood
The Catcher in the Rye–J.D. Salinger
On the Road–Jack Kerouac
After Dark–Haruki Murakami
6/10
International Authors
Finished:
Say You’re One of Them–Uwem Akpan
Pandora in the Congo–Albert Sanchez Pinol
The Alchemist–Paolo Coehlo (3/10)
Coming Up:
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman–Haruki Murakami
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
5/10
Award-Winners
Finished:
March–Geraldine Brooks
The Good Earth–Pearl S. Buck
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie–Alan Bradley
The Bridge of San Luis Rey–Thornton Wilder
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things–Carolyn Mackler
Interpreter of Maladies–Jhumpa Lahiri
Confederacy of Dunces–John Kennedy Toole
7/10
Underway:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay–Michael Chabon
8/10
MML (Megan, Lindsey and me)
Finished:
The Enchantress of Florence–Salman Rushdie
The Book Borrower–Alice Mattison
The Perks of Being a Wallflower–Stephen Chbosky
3/10
Books I Own But Haven’t Read
Finished:
1984–George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-Five–Kurt Vonnegut
Agnes Grey–Anne Bronte
3/10
Underway:
Jane Eyre–Emily Bronte
4/10
Books Adapted to Movies
Finished:
Cyrano de Bergerac–Edmond Rostand
Twelve Angry Men–Reginald Rose
Fight Club–Chuck Palahniuk
Memoirs of a Geisha–Arthur Golden
The Handmaid’s Tale–Margaret Atwood
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason–Helen Fielding
Slaughterhouse-Five–Kurt Vonnegut (7/10)
Underway:
Jane Eyre–Emily Bronte
8/10
Miscellaneous
Finished:
I Capture the Castle–Dodie Smith
Mockingjay–Suzanne Collins
Inferior–Peandar O Guilin
ttyl–Lauren Myracle
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner–Stephenie Meyer
America: the Book (the Audiobook)–Jon Stewart
The Bluest Eye–Toni Morrison
East–Edith Pattou
The Boyfriend List–E. Lockhart
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination–Helen Fielding
10/10