Book Challenge 2014

[heelscatchfire]

Seeing as how the year is almost coming to an end, what was everyone's favorite book this year?

Mine is The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

 

[TanyaKiller]

So far, my favorite picks would be: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (feminist and brainy young adult read), How to Live by Sarah Bakewell (really well-written introduction to Montaigne's philosophy + a biography aswell) and Candide by Voltaire (incredibly witty with unforgettable quotes). My least favorite of all has got to be The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (so unoriginal and just plain meh).

 

[estela]

Did anyone else read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt? I felt transported to a totally different universe every time I cracked open the spine. Simply amazing.

Lena Dunham's book was a trip, too, but in a different kind of way.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

Seeing as how the year is almost coming to an end, what was everyone's favorite book this year?

Mine is The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Yes, I totally loved this book!

I feel bad because I stopped keeping track of what I was reading; besides which, I've watched way more films this year, which ate up some of my reading time.

Hope to do much better with this challenge next year.

 

[Belowen]

01: A Tap On The Window by Linwood Barclay
02: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
03: Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
04: How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
05: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
06: Beauty by Lauren Conrad
07: Intensity by Dean Koontz
08: Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
09: How To Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting To Kill You by The Oatmeal
10: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
11: 172 Hours On The Moon by Johan Harstad
12: The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh
13: John Dies At The End by David Wong
14: Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
15: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) by Mindy Kaling
16: Vitro by Jessica Khoury
17: On The Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
18: A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
19: Cell by Stephen King
20: The Three by Sarah Lotz
21: Monster Love by Carol Topolski
22: Eeny Meeny by MJ Arlidge
23: The Vanishing by Wendy Webb
24: Under Your Skin by Sabine Durrant
25: Not A Drop To Drink by Mindy McGinnes
26: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
27: The Shining by Stephen King
28: Black River by Dean Koontz
29: In The Blood by Lisa Unger
30: This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
31: Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
32: The Sky So Heavy by Claire Zorn
33: The Circle by Dave Eggers
34: Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
35: All The Summer Girls by Meg Donohue
36: The Returned by Jason Mott
37: Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
38: The Accident by Chris Pavone
39: Tampa by Alissa Nutting
40: The Vacationers by Emma Straub

 

[TanyaKiller]

I'm happy I finally made it but I wish I had read more quality books this year instead of so much fluff. There's always next year. I won't stop reading at all. This challenge helped me out to enjoy reading thoroughly. Before I had real trouble finishing books.

01. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion ***
02. Philosophy for Life by Jules Evans ****
03. Between Two Worlds by Roxana Saberi ***
04. It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han ****
05. Coming of Age on Zoloft by Katherine Sharpe ****
06. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell ***
07. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson ***
08. Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton ****
09. The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins ***
10. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan **
11. The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman ****
12. Wicked by Sara Shepard ***
13. Killer by Sara Shepard ****
14. Heartless by Sara Shepard ***
15. Wanted by Sara Shepard ****
16. How to Live by Sarah Bakewell *****
17. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson ****
18. When I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know that She Is Not Playing with Me? by Saul Frampton **
19. How Children Succeed by Paul Tough ****
20. Prato Sujo by Marcia Kedouk ****
21. Ética e Vergonha na Cara by Mario Sérgio Cortella and Clóvis de Barros Filho ****
22. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart *****
23. Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman ***
24. Deu no New York Times by Larry Rohter ****
25. The Wonderbox by Roman Krznaric ***
26. The DUFF by Kody Keplinger ***
27. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith ***
28. One and Only by Lauren Sandler ****
29. Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins ****
30. Candide by Voltaire ****
31. Diario de Classe by Isabela Faber ***
32. Dangerous Girls by Abgail Haas ***
33. Aprendendo Inteligência by Pierluigi Piazzi ***
34. The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen ****
35. Brazil's Dance with the Devil by Dave Zirin ****
36. The Spinoza Problem by Irvin Yalom ****
37. I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman **
38. Le Bleu est une Couleur Chaude by Julie Maroh ***
39. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë ***
40. 1 Litre of Tears by Aya Kito **
41. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott **
42. Jung to Live by by Eugene Pascal ****
43. The Unheard Cry for Meaning by Viktor Frankl ****
44. Jung's Map of the Soul by Murray Stein ****
45. Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden **
46. Kant by Luc Ferry ***
47. Curso de Filosofia by Antonio Rezende ****
48. Letter to his Father by Franz Kafka ***
49. Father Daughter, Mother Son by Verena Kast ****
50. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling ****

51. The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Kantor
__________________

 

[Candice89102]

Looks like my list will be as follows:

1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
3. Cress (Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer
4. Divergent by Veronica Roth
5. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
6. Allegiant by Veronica Roth
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
8. Adaptation by Malinda Lo
9. My First New York by the Editors of New York Magazine
10. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
11. Paper Towns by John Green
12. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
13. Veritas by MJ Duncan
14. The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
15. An Extraordinary Theory of Objects by Stephanie LaCava
16. In the Woods by Tana French
17. Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham

I wish I had read more, but with work and school it was really difficult this year. The majority of my reading was done on the subway, and I did read a crapload of fanfiction

My favorite book this year was definitely The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

 

[barbaraaa]

1. An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
2. The Man Who Was Thursday, by GK Chesterton
3. Ivanov, by Chekhov
4. The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. The Godfather, by Mario Puzo
6. A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby
7. Mr Palomar, by Italo Calvino
8. Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García Márquez
9. Ariel, by Sylvia Plath
10. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
11. Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen
12. Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
13. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
14. Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov
15. Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
16. Restless, by William Boyd
17. A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
18. Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
20. Boule de Suif, by Guy de Maupassant
21. The Seagull, by Chekhov
22. Uncle Vanya, by Chekhov
23. The Three Sisters, by Chekhov
24. The Cherry Orchard, by Chekhov
25. The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman
26. The Collected Short Stories of Saki
27. Big Sur, by Jack Kerouac
28. The White Guard, by Mikhail Bulgakov
29. Three Soviet Plays, by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Isaac Babel and Yevgeny Schwartz
30. Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand
31. Paper Towns, by John Green
32. Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green and David Levithan
33. The Fault in our Stars, by John Green
34. The Passion of New Eve, by Angela Carter
35. Running with Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs
36. Night, by Elie Wiesel
37. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by DH Lawrence
38. Hunger, by Knut Hamsun
39. O Crime do Padre Amaro, by Eça de Queirós
40. For Whom the Bells Toll, by Ernest Hemingway
41. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
42. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
43. Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins



The year's not over yet and I'm sure I'll still at least finish the Hunger Games trilogy before NYE, but my favourite book for this year was definitely Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. I've never read anything so inspiring, so incredibly powerful and lifechanging.

 

[barbaraaa]

43. The Unheard Cry for Meaning by Viktor Frankl ****

Could you tell me more about that one?

 

[Belowen]

01: A Tap On The Window by Linwood Barclay
02: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
03: Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
04: How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
05: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
06: Beauty by Lauren Conrad
07: Intensity by Dean Koontz
08: Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
09: How To Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting To Kill You by The Oatmeal
10: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
11: 172 Hours On The Moon by Johan Harstad
12: The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh
13: John Dies At The End by David Wong
14: Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
15: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) by Mindy Kaling
16: Vitro by Jessica Khoury
17: On The Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
18: A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
19: Cell by Stephen King
20: The Three by Sarah Lotz
21: Monster Love by Carol Topolski
22: Eeny Meeny by MJ Arlidge
23: The Vanishing by Wendy Webb
24: Under Your Skin by Sabine Durrant
25: Not A Drop To Drink by Mindy McGinnes
26: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
27: The Shining by Stephen King
28: Black River by Dean Koontz
29: In The Blood by Lisa Unger
30: This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
31: Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
32: The Sky So Heavy by Claire Zorn
33: The Circle by Dave Eggers
34: Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
35: All The Summer Girls by Meg Donohue
36: The Returned by Jason Mott
37: Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
38: The Accident by Chris Pavone
39: Tampa by Alissa Nutting
40: The Vacationers by Emma Straub
41: We Are The Goldens by Dana Reinhardt

 

[TanyaKiller]

Could you tell me more about that one?

Oh, it's a collection of a few essays of his. They are didactic and expose some of his main ideas. It was quite a pleasure to read through. I feel like most of his ideas are borrowed from philosophy though, which means his views aren't exactly original. I would still stick with Freud and Jung. I'm a Psychology student. Anyways, I'd read more of his work.

 

[Fantomette]

37: Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
38: The Accident by Chris Pavone
39: Tampa by Alissa Nutting
40: The Vacationers by Emma Straub
41: We Are The Goldens by Dana Reinhardt

Could you explain the meaning of your color system? (I feel like a dummy )

Did anyone else read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt? I felt transported to a totally different universe every time I cracked open the spine. Simply amazing.

It was one of my favorite reading this year! Sure it has it flaws but I thouroughly enjoyed the ride.


My other favorites this year:
x The Stranger by Albert Camus - The epilogue is one of my favorite passages from litterature, breathtaking.
x Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky - I had read something by this author years ago but I don't think I was able to truly appreciate his writing back then. Now I'm excited to discover the rest of his work.
x Some short stories by Maupassant - What I like the most in literature: a merciless outlook on humanity but still with humour.
x In Paise of the Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - An enlightening essay on aesthetics that changed the way I look at certain things.

 

[barbaraaa]

1. An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
2. The Man Who Was Thursday, by GK Chesterton
3. Ivanov, by Chekhov
4. The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. The Godfather, by Mario Puzo
6. A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby
7. Mr Palomar, by Italo Calvino
8. Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García Márquez
9. Ariel, by Sylvia Plath
10. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
11. Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen
12. Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
13. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
14. Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov
15. Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
16. Restless, by William Boyd
17. A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
18. Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
20. Boule de Suif, by Guy de Maupassant
21. The Seagull, by Chekhov
22. Uncle Vanya, by Chekhov
23. The Three Sisters, by Chekhov
24. The Cherry Orchard, by Chekhov
25. The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman
26. The Collected Short Stories of Saki
27. Big Sur, by Jack Kerouac
28. The White Guard, by Mikhail Bulgakov
29. Three Soviet Plays, by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Isaac Babel and Yevgeny Schwartz
30. Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand
31. Paper Towns, by John Green
32. Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green and David Levithan
33. The Fault in our Stars, by John Green
34. The Passion of New Eve, by Angela Carter
35. Running with Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs
36. Night, by Elie Wiesel
37. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by DH Lawrence
38. Hunger, by Knut Hamsun
39. O Crime do Padre Amaro, by Eça de Queirós
40. For Whom the Bells Toll, by Ernest Hemingway
41. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
42. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
43. Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
44. Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
45. Perfume, by Patrick Süskind
46. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

And I think that's 2014 for me

 

[ChristyLeReveur]

1. Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven
2. The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern
3. The Ivy: Secrets by Lauren Kunze & Rina Onur
4. The Ivy: Rivals by Lauren Kunze & Rina Onur
5. The Ivy: Scandal by Lauren Kunze & Rina Onur
6. On China by Henry Kissinger
7. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
8. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
9. Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank
10. The World of Suzie Wong by Richard Mason
11. Daughter of the East: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto
12. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
13. A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett
14. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes
15. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
16. Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family by Najla Said
17. Pakistan: A Personal History by Imran Khan
18. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
19. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life by Donald Spoto
20. Sugar and Spice by Lauren Conrad
21. The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda by Ali H. Soufan & Daniel Freedman (Contributor)
22. Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World by Jean Sasson
23. Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge by Eleanor Herman
24. The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power by Kim Ghattas
25. Maus, Vol. 2: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
26. Suddenly Royal by Nichole Chase
27. Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
28. The A-List: Hollywood Royalty by Zoey Dean
29. Sunset Boulevard by Zoey Dean
30. City of Angels by Zoey Dean
31. Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren
32. Princess on the Brink by Meg Cabot
33. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
34. Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton
35. Bared to You by Sylvia Day
36. Reflected in You by Sylvia Day
37. Entwined with You by Sylvia Day
38. Spain: The Inside Story of La Roja's Historic Treble by Graham Hunter
39. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo & Bagram Ibatoulline
40. The Style Diary of A Bollywood Diva by Kareena Kapoor & Rochelle Pinto
41. Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
42. Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir by Fatima Bhutto
43. Foreign Relations of the PRC: The Legacies and Constraints of China's International Politics Since 1949 by Robert G. Sutter
44. 国家间关系的典范--中巴建交后两国关系的回顾与展望 (A Model of State-to-State Relations: Retrospects and Prospects of the China-Pakistan Ties Since 1951) by 杜幼康 (Du Youkang)
45. Trespassing: A Novel by Uzma Aslam Khan
46. Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter Bergen
47. Shopaholic to the Stars by Sophie Kinsella
48. Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier by Aisha Ahmad & Roger Boase
49. World Order by Henry Kissinger
50. Uneasy Lies the Head by King Hussein of Jordan
51. Diplomatic Practice: Between Tradition and Innovation by Juergen Kleiner
52. The Shah's Last Ride by William Shawcross
53. Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign by Sherard Cowper-Coles
54. Explaining Pakistan's Foreign Policy: Escaping India by Aparna Pande
55. The Dancing Girls of Lahore by Louise Brown
56. In the Line of Fire by Pervez Musharraf

That's all for this year! I think it is beyond my original goal. Some of the books are really good and I hope 2015 will be even better!

 

[VersaceVixen009]

Unfortunately, I did not make my goal. I was so wrapped up in school and my crappy time management skills did not help. I got a ton of new books for Christmas, and this year I plan to change my time management skills so I can read! My favorite book this year I read though was Abroad by Katie Crouch.

 

[TanyaKiller]

This is it for this year.

01. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion ***
02. Philosophy for Life by Jules Evans ****
03. Between Two Worlds by Roxana Saberi ***
04. It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han ****
05. Coming of Age on Zoloft by Katherine Sharpe ****
06. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell ***
07. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson ***
08. Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton ****
09. The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins ***
10. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan **
11. The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman ****
12. Wicked by Sara Shepard ***
13. Killer by Sara Shepard ****
14. Heartless by Sara Shepard ***
15. Wanted by Sara Shepard ****
16. How to Live by Sarah Bakewell *****
17. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson ****
18. When I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know that She Is Not Playing with Me? by Saul Frampton **
19. How Children Succeed by Paul Tough ****
20. Prato Sujo by Marcia Kedouk ****
21. Ética e Vergonha na Cara by Mario Sérgio Cortella and Clóvis de Barros Filho ****
22. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart *****
23. Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman ***
24. Deu no New York Times by Larry Rohter ****
25. The Wonderbox by Roman Krznaric ***
26. The DUFF by Kody Keplinger ***
27. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith ***
28. One and Only by Lauren Sandler ****
29. Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins ****
30. Candide by Voltaire ****
31. Diario de Classe by Isabela Faber ***
32. Dangerous Girls by Abgail Haas ***
33. Aprendendo Inteligência by Pierluigi Piazzi ***
34. The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen ****
35. Brazil's Dance with the Devil by Dave Zirin ****
36. The Spinoza Problem by Irvin Yalom ****
37. I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman **
38. Le Bleu est une Couleur Chaude by Julie Maroh ***
39. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë ***
40. 1 Litre of Tears by Aya Kito **
41. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott **
42. Jung to Live by by Eugene Pascal ****
43. The Unheard Cry for Meaning by Viktor Frankl ****
44. Jung's Map of the Soul by Murray Stein ****
45. Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden **
46. Kant by Luc Ferry ***
47. Curso de Filosofia by Antonio Rezende ****
48. Letter to his Father by Franz Kafka ***
49. Father Daughter, Mother Son by Verena Kast ****
50. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling ****
51. The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Kantor ***
__________________

 

[Belowen]

My year in review -

01: A Tap On The Window by Linwood Barclay
02: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
03: Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
04: How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
05: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
06: Beauty by Lauren Conrad
07: Intensity by Dean Koontz
08: Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
09: How To Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting To Kill You by The Oatmeal
10: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
11: 172 Hours On The Moon by Johan Harstad
12: The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh
13: John Dies At The End by David Wong
14: Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
15: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) by Mindy Kaling
16: Vitro by Jessica Khoury
17: On The Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
18: A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
19: Cell by Stephen King
20: The Three by Sarah Lotz
21: Monster Love by Carol Topolski
22: Eeny Meeny by MJ Arlidge
23: The Vanishing by Wendy Webb
24: Under Your Skin by Sabine Durrant
25: Not A Drop To Drink by Mindy McGinnes
26: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
27: The Shining by Stephen King
28: Black River by Dean Koontz
29: In The Blood by Lisa Unger
30: This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
31: Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
32: The Sky So Heavy by Claire Zorn
33: The Circle by Dave Eggers
34: Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
35: All The Summer Girls by Meg Donohue
36: The Returned by Jason Mott
37: Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
38: The Accident by Chris Pavone (unfinished)
39: Tampa by Alissa Nutting
40: The Vacationers by Emma Straub
41: We Are The Goldens by Dana Reinhardt

My goal was to read 50 books, but 40 isn't so bad! I'd say my absolute FAVOURITE of the year (and it's a tough choice) would be Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. It's also my favourite of the three books she's released so far. Great work everyone, and here's to many more books read in 2015!

 

[Fantomette]

I intended to read different kinds of books, including the ones I would never have considered in the first place. I didn't like everything but i'm glad my reading was more diverse.
My initial goal was 25 books because I wanted to give a chance to a few lengthy novels. The challenge made me realize the more I read, the more I want to read. Now I'm less afraid to tackle 400+ pages novels.

1) 1Q84 - book 1 (Haruki Murakami)
2) The Marriage of Figaro (Beaumarchais)
3) The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)
4) The Stranger (Albert Camus)
5) L'Atelier (Jean-Claude Grumberg)
6) Colonel Chabert (Balzac)
7) La Place royale or the extravagant lover (Corneille)
8) Tangled (Emma Chase)
9) En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Edouard Louis)
10) All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (Maya Angelou)
11) White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
12) 1Q84 - book 2 (Haruki Murakami)
13) I am Zlatan Ibrahimović (Zlatan Ibrahimović, David Lagercrantz)
14) Eleanor & Park (Rainbow Rowell)
15) 1Q84 - book 3 (Haruki Murakami)
16) It (Stephen King)
17) Claude Gueux (Victor Hugo)
18) In Praise of Shadows (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki)
19) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzerald)
20) The Horla (Maupassant)
21) No and Me (Delphine de Vigan)
22) Caligula (Albert Camus)
23) Nineteen minutes (Jodi Picoult)
24) Demain j'arrête! (Gilles Lejardinier)
25) The Officer's Ward (Marc Dugain)
26) Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (Edith Hamilton)
27) We Were Liars (E. Lockhart)
28) Boule de Suif (translated variously as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat" or "Ball of Lard" according to wikipedia!) (Maupassant)
29) Lucrezia Borgia (Victor Hugo)
30) Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
31) Missing Person (Patrick Modiano)
32) Phèdre (Racine)

 

[kokobombon]

My humble goal was 12 books and I reached it so I´m happy
hopefuly I´ll be able to read at least the same amout, always hoping for more though...

001 Ender´s Game (Orson Scott Card, 1985)
002 Sharp Objects (Gillian Flynn, 2006)
003 Dark Places (Gillian Flynn, 2009)
004 Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Maria Semple, 2012)
005 The Wolf Gift (Anne Rice, 2012)
006 The Wolves of Midwinter (Anne Rice, 2013)
007 Sookie Stackhouse#13 Dead Ever After (Charlaine Harris, 2013)
008 Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn, 2012)
009 The Fault in our Stars (John Green, 2012)
010 The Saint (Tiffany Reisz, 2014)
011 Outlander (Diana Gabaldon, 1991)
012 Captivated By You (Sylvia Day, 2014)
013 The King (Tiffany Reisz, 2014)

 

[Niusity]

My goal for 2013 was 40 books, I managed to read 50 but that's only due to the fact that most books weren't that large and I did the most part of my reading in the first half of the year and in august too. After school started in September I didn't manage to read that much. I'll aim for 40 this year too but I'm pretty sure I won't manage to read that much. Maybe I can count Gray's anatomy as 20 books, this book is massive!

Well, well, 2014 was a very tough year for me physically and emotionally so did not have much time to read. I'll post here the list and pretend I was a part of the challenge.
YAY for 2015 though.

1. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart - this is the best YA I've read in my life.
2. Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins - not my cup of tea.
3. Broken by Daniel Clay - really good! Loved it!
4. Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder - that's a novel written in verse, didn't get it really.
5. The Year of the Rat by Clare Furniss - not what I expected, didn't like the ghost part so only gave it three stars.
6. Shopaholic to the Stars by Sophie Kinsella my favo chick lit series, but this book was the worst of them all.
7. Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected by Kelle Hampton - such a touching autobiography. Loved it even thoug my opinion isn't that popular.
8. J'ai épousé une poupée gonflable by Louis-Thomas Pelletier - found it in at a book sale. Was about 50 cents. Funny, crazy and very stupid.
9. Animal Farm by George Orwell - best of the best!
10. We Are the Goldens by Dana Reinhardt - didn't have big expectations with this one but it wasn't bad, really liked it.
11. The Giver by Lois Lowry - it was ok. Read it in order to watch the movie, never got around with it.
12. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell - laughed so hard!
13. Collected Short Stories by Aldous Huxley - some stories were gorgeous, the other not so much.
14. A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov - so good!
15. J'ai tué by Mikhail Bulgakov - even better than the previous one.
16. Ivan Vasilevich by Mikhail Bulgakov - this is a play and the thing with this one is that there is a very old russian comedy which was based off this play. I was very surprised to find out that actual replicas from the plays were used in the movie. So much fun!
17. If I Stay by Gayle Forman - read it to watch the movie. Again, never got around it.
18. Physical Chemistry by Peter Atkins
19. March's Advanced Organic Chemistry by Michael B. Smith
20. Organic Chemistry by John E. McMurry - awesome chem books!!! If you are interested in any chemistry aspect, those will be really helpful.