2011 Book Challenges

What a grand year of reading!  I signed up for three reading challenges...and here are the results!

Dana Huff's Challenge Books I Should Have Read in High School : I initially signed up to read twelve books.  Yes, aggressive!  However, I did read eight, achieving "graduate student."

1. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
4. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
5. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
6. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
8. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Vern

What's in a Name :  Uh, oh!  Missed this challenge by one!  I should have paid more attention and chosen a book for each category.

• A book with a number in the title:
• Fahrenheit 451
• The 360 Degree Leader
• Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25
• Slaughterhouse Five
• The 9th Judgement
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• A book with jewelry or a gem in the title:
• Hum...just cannot find a title from my list that fits within this category! 
• A book with a size in the title:
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (league is a size, right?!)
• A book with travel or movement in the title:
• The Walk
• The Sun Also Rises
• Miles to Go
• A book with evil in the title:
• The  Poisonwood Bible (poison!)
• Wicked
• The Book of Unholy Mischief
• City of Fallen Angels
• A book with a life stage in the title:
• Dead in Dallas
• The Christmas Wedding

RIP :  This was my second year to complete this challenge!  September and October are just the perfect times to read such novels!

• The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
• Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
• Cross Fire by James Patterson
• The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

Gillmore: More Reads in 2011 - This was a personal challenge to myself.  I won!

• 2010 = 30 books read
• 2011 = 59 books read!

All in all, this has been an excellent year of reading!  Yes, I had hoped to read more professional books, more classics, but again, all in all, a very good year!