The Lainibop Challenge!!
Inspired by BookElfLeed's TBR challenge (here), Laini - one of our friends and occasional #MedusaLBC members - decided to gather up her own 'To Read' pile. She included every book that had been sat unread on her book shelves.
While I'm not entirely sure she expected for the total pile to comprise of 1 3 0 books - Laini isn't one to shirk from a challenge and so has set for herself the following mammoth task!
Lainibop will attempt to read all 130 books on the lower spreadsheet before she will allow herself to purchase or borrow any books(excluding her book club choices).
If you fancy dropping her a line of commiseration or inspiration, say hi on twitter - @Lainibop
So far, she off to a good start.
(We'll be updating these as she goes along.)
The Success Stories
Scorecard 02 - Books 6 - 10
Scorecard 01 - Books 1 - 5
The List of Intimidation
Books Still To Go
Books Still To Go
No. | TITLE AND AUTHOR |
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1 | 4th of July – James Patterson |
2 | Act of God – Graham Phillips |
3 | The Ambassadors – Henry James |
4 | The Angel of Darkness – Caleb Carr |
5 | The Arcadian Cipher – Peter Blake & Paul S. Blezard |
6 | As Time Goes By – Michael Walsh |
7 | The Best of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle |
8 | Billy Straight – Jonathan Kellerman |
9 | Black Camelot – Duncan Kyle |
10 | Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature – Alberto Manguel |
11 | Bleak House – Charles Dickens |
12 | Breaking Dawn – Stephanie Meyer |
13 | Candide – Voltaire |
14 | Carrie – Stephen King |
15 | The Castle – Franz Kafka |
16 | The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole |
17 | Catch 22 – Joseph Heller |
18 | Catching Fire (Hunger Games #2) – Suzanne Collins |
19 | Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell |
20 | Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
21 | The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham |
22 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K. Dick |
23 | Destiny – Louise Bagshawe |
24 | Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell |
25 | A Dublin Anthology – Douglas Bennett |
26 | Erewhon – Samuel Butler |
27 | The Falcon Queen – Catherine Gaskin |
28 | The Mammoth Book of Fantasy – Mike Ashley |
29 | Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy |
30 | Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said – Philip K. Dick |
31 | From the Earth to the Moon – Jules Verne |
32 | Full Dark, No Stars – Stephen King |
33 | Glitz – Louise Bagshawe |
34 | Great Expectations – Charles Dickens |
35 | The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald |
36 | Hamlet – Shakespeare |
37 | The Hippopotamus – Stephen Fry |
38 | The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova |
39 | A History of Medieval Europe – R.H.C. Davis |
40 | A History of Women: Silences of the Middle Ages – Christiane Klapisch-Zuber |
41 | Hombre – Elmore Leonard |
42 | The Illiad – Homer |
43 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo |
44 | The Hunger Games (Hunger Games #1) – Suzanne Collins |
45 | Hungry Hill – Daphne De Maurier |
46 | In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu |
47 | Inkdeath – Cornelia Funke |
48 | Inkspell – Cornelia Funke |
49 | Jamaica Inn – Daphne De Maurier |
50 | The Jewel of Seven Stars – Bram Stoker |
51 | A Kept Woman – Louise Bagshawe |
52 | Lady Chatterley's Lover – D.H. Lawrence |
53 | Lady Susan – Jane Austen |
54 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen – Laurence Sterne |
55 | Likely to Die – Linda Fairstein |
56 | The Return of the King – J.R.R Tolkien |
57 | Love's Labour's Lost – Shakespeare |
58 | Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquiz |
58 | Macbeth – Shakespeare |
60 | The Magdalene Legacy – Laurence Gardner |
61 | The Magician's Guild – Trudi Canavan |
62 | The Maltese Falcon – Dashiel Hammett |
63 | The Marian Conspiracy – Graham Phillips |
64 | Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell |
65 | Mary, Mary – Julie Parsons |
66 | The Mayor of Castorbridge – Thomas Hardy |
67 | A Midsummer Night's Dream – Shakespeare |
68 | The Mill on the Floss – George Elliot |
69 | Minority Report – Philip K. Dick |
70 | Mockingbird – Walter Tevis |
71 | Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3) – Suzanne Collins |
72 | Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe |
73 | Monday's Child – Louise Bagshawe |
74 | The Moses Legacy – Graham Phillips |
75 | The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins |
76 | Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf |
77 | Mutiny on the Bounty – John Boyne |
78 | New Tales of the Cthulu Mythos – Ramsey Campbell |
79 | Night of the Dragon – Richard A. Knaak |
80 | Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen |
81 | Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less – Jeffrey Archer |
82 | Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
83 | Oscar Wilde – Philippe Julian |
84 | Othello – shakespeare |
85 | The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory |
86 | Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens |
87 | Pamela – Samuel Richardson |
88 | Paradise Lost – Milton |
89 | Paradise Lost and it's Critics – A.J.A Waldock |
90 | The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux |
91 | The Pianist – Wladyslaw Szpilman |
92 | Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen |
93 | The Quest – Wilbur Smith |
94 | The Reader – Bernhard Schlink |
95 | Salem's Lot – Stephen King |
96 | Sandition – Jane Austen |
97 | Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson |
98 | The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
99 | The Shrinking Man – Richard Matheson |
100 | Snow Wolf – Glenn Meade |
101 | Sophie's Bakery of the Broken Hearted – Lolly Winston |
102 | A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens |
103 | The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith |
104 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy |
105 | The Giant Book of Terror – Stephen Jones |
106 | The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough |
107 | A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini |
108 | Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects – Christie Golden |
109 | The Time Machine – H.G. Wells |
110 | The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger |
111 | Trapped – Edmund Plante |
112 | Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stephenson |
113 | The Tudor Wife – Emily Purdy |
114 | Unnatural Exposure – Patricia Cornwell |
115 | Villette – Charlotte Bronte |
116 | Warlock – Wilbur Smith |
117 | The Watsons – Jane Austen |
118 | Wayward Girls and Wicked Women – Angela Carter |
119 | What Might Have Been – Benford & Greenberg |
120 | Wolfheart – Richard A. Knaak |
121 | Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence |
122 | Women of the Wild West – Dee Browne |
The Challenge!
The Long List
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Say Hello to @Lainibop
Her To Be Read Challenge - The Countdown Begins!
Book 30 - ?
Book 29 - ?
Book 28 - Sexing the Cherries by Jeanette Winterson
Book 27 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Book 26 - Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
Book 25 - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Book 24 - From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
Book 23 - Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Book 22 - Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffery Archer
Book 21 - Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Book 19 - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Book 18 - The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
Book 17 - A Falcon for a Queen by Catherine Gaskin
Book 16 - The Marian Conspiracy by Graham Philips
Book 15 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book 14 - Mary, Mary by Julie Parsons
Book 13 - Glitz by Louise Bagshawe
Book 12 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Book 11 - Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Book 10 - New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos editor Ramsey Campbell
Book 08 - Glamour by Louise Bagshawe
Book 06 - The Blue Hour by Jefferson Parker
Book 05 - The Drifters - Jim Thompson
Book 04 - The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Book 03 - Atonement - Ian McEwan
Book 02 - Waiting for Columbus - Thomas Trofimuk
Book 01 - Under the Dome - Stephen King
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