Beeker's Words

Last year I found J. Kaye’s Book Blog a little too late to join her reading challenge. I was determined this year to join the fun. I am challenging myself to read 100 books in the coming year.  I have decided to make the challenge a little more challenging by stating that they have to be books I have never read before. I have read some books 5 or 6 times a piece.  I am also not allowing serial romance novels to count.  I can read a 300 page serial romance novel in under two hours.  My husband seems to think I should up the challenge to 2oo books because he thinks 100 books for me is a breeze. I think I will take a look at my progress in July and consider upping the challenge but for the moment we will stick to 100 books in a year.

1.  A Bone To Pick by Charlaine Harris

2. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

3. Murder on the QE2 by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain

4. A Deadly Judgement by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain

5. Food Matters by Mark Bittman

6. Food Rules by Michael Pollan

7. Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison

8. The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe

9. Good Faries of New York by Martin Millar

10. Lover Mine by J. R. Ward

11. The President’s Daughter by Mariah Stewart

12.  Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

13. Burned by P.C. and Kristin Cast

14. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

15. The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox

16. The Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

I would like to note that I have reread about 20 books at this point in addition to the new titles above. I have got to get in gear if I am going to make 50 books by July!

17. The Summons by John Grisham

18. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

19. Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth

20.  Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo

21. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

22. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephanie Meyer

23. Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato

24. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

25. Rules by Cynthia Lord

26. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

27. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

28. Plantation by Dorothea Benton Frank

29. What Matters Most by Luanne Rice

30. Lowcountry Summer by Dorothea Benton Frank

31. Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand

32. Nantucket Nights by Elin Hilderbrand

33. Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child

34. The Art of Keeping Secrets by Patti Callahan Henry

35. Between the Tides by Patti Callahan Henry

36. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larson

37. Finger Lickin Fifteen by Janet Evanovich

38. The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima

39. The Genesis Secret by Tom Knox

40. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

At this point I am 10 books behind where I should be. I am having a hard time finding books that tell great stories. Arggggg.

41. Still Missing by Chevy Stevens

42. What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman

43. The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry

44. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

45. The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen

46. The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen

47. The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen

48.  Are you there Vodka? It’s me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

49. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

50. Graceling by Kristin Cashore