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For this fall, I’m participating in the Fall into Reading Challenge. I’ve selected 38 books I want to read (though I have a feeling I won’t be very faithful to this list!).

Progress: 12/38 (finished).  Yeah, I didn’t do so well.  But I didn’t know when I made the list that I’d be doing NaNoWriMo.

In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Line by Teri Hall
My Hands Came Away Red by Lisa McKay
The Elegence of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Mandy by Julie Andrew Edwards
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lady in Blue by Javier Sierra
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Harriet by Erin Dionne
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganek
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
The Moviegoer by Walter Percy
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Rescuing Ambition by Dave Harvey
Love to Eat, Hate to Eat by Elyse Fitzpatrick
The Cross-Centered Life by C.J. Mahaney
Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren
In Christ Alone by Sinclair Ferguson
The Year That Changed the World by Michael Meyer
Be the Change: Your Guide to Freeing Slaves and Changing the World by Zach Hunter
Humanitarian Jesus: Social Justice and the Cross by Christian Buckley and Ryan Dobson
The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate
Dirty Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali and Delphine Minoui
The Woman Who Can’t Forget by Jill Price
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
Fat Girl: a True Story by Judith Moore
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

I’m kinda new to this whole challenge idea, but I like being challenge, so I thought I’d try it out.  For 2010 I’m doing a few open-ended challenges, and a couple with a more narrow focus.  I don’t want to be boxed in!  Book titles in bold have been completed.

Participation varies by month, but I hope to at least read 1 book each month.

Progress: 7/12

Books:

In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham
Dune by Frank Herbert
I Closed My Eyes: Revelations of a Battered Woman by Michele Weldon
World Hunger by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset
Wisdom of Whores by Elizabeth Pisani
The Translator: a Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur Daoud Hari
When Helping Hurts: How to Elevate Poverty without Hurting the Poor by Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett
The Blue Notebook by James Levine
Be the Change: Your Guide to Freeing Slaves and Changing the World by Zach Hunter
Humanitarian Jesus: Social Justice and the Cross by Christian Buckley and Ryan Dobson
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali and Delphine Minoui
War Child: a Child Soldier’s Story by Emmanuel Jal

Okay, so this challenge is a little more restrictive.  I’m going to do the “Shorties Rule” challenge for the YA fiction category, reading all the books on the short list in this category.

Progress: 7/7 (COMPLETED)

Books:
Blue Plate Special by Michelle D. Kwasney
Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers
How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
North of Beautiful by Justina Chen
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

I’ve only recently started reading YA books again. I’ll be doing the Mini YA Reading Challenge version: reading 12 YA novels.

Progress: 12/12 (COMPLETED)

Books:

The Other Side of Dawn by John Marsden
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers
How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
The Messenger by Lois Lowry
While I Live by John Marsden
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

My goal is to read a book starting with every letter of the alphabet (with some fudging for X).

Progress: 22/26

Books:

A – Angels by David Jeremiah
B – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
C – Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
D – Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
E – Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
F – Frankenstein: the Graphic Novel by Mary Shelley
G – Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
H – The Hidden Smile of God by John Piper
I – In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham
J
K – The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
L – Lord of the Flies by William Golding
M – The Messenger by Lois Lowry
N – Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
O – The One-Day Way by Chantel Hobbs
P – The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Q – Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
R – Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt
S – Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller
T – Tea with Hezbollah by Ted Dekker and Carl Medearis
U – Under the Dome by Stephen King
V
W – Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
X – Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork (hey, at least X is his middle initial, right?)
Y – The Year We Disappeared by Cylin Busby and John Busby
Z – The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

This challenge is simple in concept, but not so easy.  My goal is to read 100 books in 2010.  This is totally within my reach, but still a challenge (or at least I thought it’d be).

Progress: 100/100 (COMPLETED)

Instead of listing them all out here, check out my list of books read in 2010.

I’m choosing the “Stepping It Up” version of this challenge. The goal is to check out and read 75 library books during 2010. Since I’m addicted to the library, this works for me!

Progress: 75/75 (COMPLETED)

Books:

Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
The Other Side of Dawn by John Marsden
The Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
In the Presence of My Enemies by Marcia Burnham
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
The Year We Disappeared by Cylin Busby and John Busby
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Wounded by Claudia Mair Burney
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rusin
Frankenstein: the Graphic Novel by Mary Shelley
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
The Messenger by Lois Lowry
I Closed My Eyes by Michelle Weldon
The Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
Genesis by Bernard Beckett
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch
Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
Mouseguard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
Push by Sapphire
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Under the Dome by Stephen King
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Better Smith
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Girls Gone Wild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good by Wendy Shalit
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
The World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Translator by Daoud Hari
The City and the City by China Miéville
The Baby-Sitters Club: The Summer Before by Ann M. Martin
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton