2011 Book Blogger Recommendation Challenge

Oh, yes, I found yet another one! Challenges keep reading even more fun, help me to push myself a little, but also to keep in touch with what I love. Translation: I’ve been reviewing so much that I’ve not had a chance to read certain books that I’ve been wanting to read (example: the Twilight books, to name a few), and I’m hoping that participating in these challenges will help me to make more time for the books I WANT to read simply for fun. With that said, let’s talk about this particular (and, I think quite exciting) challenge!

This one is hosted by Reading with Tequila (another favorite book blog), and is one I’m quite excited about. She has compiled a HUGE list of more than 400 books that other bloggers recommend people read. And, well, these are my cyber-peers, and I’m psyched to take part in this challenge. The list is 100 books long. I will refrain from posting the whole long list here (even though I am quite tempted). The list posted on the challenge post is only 25 long, and that’s so not enough. But, first, the basic rules (for the full rules, check out the main post HERE). This challenge starts January 1 and goes through December 31, 2011. Participants choose whatever books they want off whatever part of the list they want. (Meaning, just the first 25 listed in the challenge post, or any from the whole list, or something in between.) Rereads don’t count, which is fine because I don’t think I have time for any of those! LOL And, best of all, reviews aren’t required. I like that a LOT, because a lot of the books on my to-read list are things I might not feel like reviewing when I’m finished.

There are levels, too. And, well, given that I’ve read 100+ books this year, I’m shooting for the top, Level V (20+ books off the list). You can check the levels on the post linked above.

And now, part of the list (crossed out books have been read; bold books are first to be read; italics are maybes):

1. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins READ
   
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Dealthy Hallows – J.K. Rowling
4. The Stand – Stephen King
5. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
6. Paranormalcy – Kiersten White READ
   
7. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
8. The Host – Stephenie Meyer
9. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
10. City of Bones – Cassandra Clare
11. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
12. Watership Down – Richard Adams
13. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
14. DreamFever – Karen Marie Moning
15. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
16. Alanna: The First Adventure – Tamora Pierce
17. Darkfever – Karen Marie Moning
18. Jellicoe Road – Melina Marchetta
19. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
20. Good Omens – Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
21. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
22. Rot & Ruin – Jonathan Maberry
23. The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
24. Unholy Ghosts – Stacia Kane
25. Atonement – Ian McEwan
26. Clockwork Angel – Cassandra Clare
27. The Sky Is EverywhereJandy Nelso
28. Bitten – Kelley Armstrong
29. Seize the Night – Sherrilyn Kenyon
30. If I Stay – Gayle Foreman
31. Blood Oath – Christopher Farnsworth
32. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
33. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
34. My Soul to Take – Rachel Vincent
35. Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater READ
36. The Fellowship of the Ring – J. R. R. Tolkien
37. Touched by an Alien – Gini Koch
38. Will Grayson, Will Grayson – John Green & David Levithan
39. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
40. The Girl Who Chased the Moon – Sarah Addison Allen
41. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. Wake – Lisa McMann
43. Hex Hall – Rachel Hawkins
44. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
45. Angel Star – Jennifer Murgia
46. April and Oliver – Tess Callahan
47. Beyond the Gardens – Sandra C. Lopez
48. Crescendo – Becca Fitzpatrick
49. Crocodile on the Sandbank – Elizabeth Peters
50. Danann Frost Falls From Grace – Joanne Valiukas
51. Desert Solitaire – Edward Abbey
52. Dibs in Search of Self – Virgina M. Axline
53. Graceling – Kristin Cashore
54. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
55. I Know This Much Is True – Wally Lamb
56. Juliet – Anne Fortier
57. Kitchen Chinese – Ann Mah
58. Kushiel’s Dart – Jacqueline Carey
59. Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
60. Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow – Peter Hoeg
61. Practical Magic – Alice Hoffman
62. Scarlett – Alexandria Ripley
63. Soulless – Gail Carriger
64. Swan Song – Robert McCammon
65. The Birth of Venus – Sarah Dunant
66. The Bourne Identity – Robert Ludlum
67. The Girl With Silver Eyes – Willo Davis Roberts
68. The Giver – Lois Lowry
69. The Pardaillan – Miguel Zevaco
70. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
71. The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte – Syrie James
72. Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
73. Before I Fall – Lauren Oliver
74. Fallen – Lauren Kate
75. Hush, Hush – Becca Fitzpatrick
76. Becoming Americana – Lara Rios
77. Blood and Chocolate – Annette Curtis Klaus
78. Boys and Girls Together – William Goldman
79. City of Ghosts – Stacia Kane
80. Cosmos – Carl Sagan
81. Demon from the Dark – Kresley Cole
82. Forgive My Fins – Tera Lyn Chils
83. Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak
84. Halo – Alexandra Adornetto
85. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
86. Heaven – Randy Alcorn
87. It – Stephen King
88. Kingdom Under Glass – Jay Kirk
89. Linger – Maggie Stiefvater READ
90. Midnight Kiss – Lara Adrian
91. Modesty Blaise – Peter O’Donnell
92. Of Witches and Warlocks – Lacey Weatherford
93. Silent in the Grave – Deanna Raybourn
94. Sleepless – Terri Clark
95. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
96. Still Missing – Chevy Stevens READ
97. The Age of Misrule – Mark Chadbourn
98. The Awakening – Kelley Armstrong
99. The Cater Street Hangman – Anne Perry
100. The Darkest Night – Gena Showalter
101. The Distant Hours – Kate Morton
102. The Greenlanders – Jane Smiley
103. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
104. The Hotel New Hampshire – John Irving
105. The Iliad – Homer
106. The Iron King – Julie Kagawa
107. The Manufactured Identity – Heath Sommer
108. The Neverending Story – Michael Ende
109. The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
110. The Poison Throne – Celine Kiernan
111. The Thief – Megan Whalen Turner
112. The Viscount Who Loved Me – Julia Quinn
113. Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
114. Twenty Boy Summer – Sarah Ockler
115. Wicked – Gregory Maguire
116. The DUFF – Kody Keplinger
117. A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami
118. Acheron – Sherrilyn Kenyon
119. Adam & Eve – Sena Jeter Naslund
120. Adios, Nirvana – Conrad Wesselhoeft
121. Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
122. Comfort Food – Kitty Thomas
123. Curfewed Night – Basharat Peer
124. Daughter of the Blood – Anne Bishop
125. Dreaming of You – Lisa Kleypas
126. Finding Sky – Joss Stirling
127. Fire – Kristin Cashore
128. Grave Witch – Kalayna Price
129. Havah: The Story of Eve – Tosca Lee
130. Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
131. Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
132. Lucky Chica – Berta Platas
133. Perk of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
134. Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult
135. Poison Study – Maria V. Snyder
136. Revolution Jennifer Donnelly
137. Sabre, the Horse from the Sea – Kathleen Herald
138. Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
139. Sharp Teeth – Toby Barlow
140. Sin Undone – Larissa Ione
141. Sounds Like Crazy – Shana Mahaffey
142. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
143. The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
144. The Lady in Red – Karen Hawkins
145. The Prophecy of the Sisters – Michelle Zink
146. The Reality Dysfunction – Peter F Hamilton
147. The Sheik – E.M. Hull
148. The Summoning – Kelley Armstrong
149. The Thing Around Your Neck – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
150. Vampire Academy – Richelle Mead
151. Washington – A Life – Ron Chernow
152. What Do You Care What Other People Think – Richard Feynman
153. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
154. A Time To Kill – John Grisham
155. Across the Universe – Beth Revis
156. Alpha – Rachel Vincent
157. An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
158. Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
159. Arcadia Falls – Carol Goodman
160. Changes – Jim Butcher
161. Dark Lover – J.R. Ward
162. Dune – Frank Herbert
163. Enchantment – Orson Scott Card
164. Famila – Donna Del Oro
165. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
166. Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
167. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
168. Jpod – Douglas Coupland
169. Kingdom Come – Mark Waid and Alex Ross
170. Kiss of Shadows – Laurell K Hamilton
171. Laid Bare – Lauren Dane
172. Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott – Kelly O’Connor McNees
173. Mind Games – Carolyn Crane
174. Misery – Stephen King
175. Mountains Beyond Mountains – Tracy Kidder
176. Nightschool volume 1 – Svetlana Chmakova
177. Paper Towns – John Green
178. Peeps – Scott Westerfeld
179. Prison and Chocolate Cake – Nayantara Sahgal
180. Season of Passage – Christopher Pike
181. Shadow of Swords – Kamran Pasha
182. Shadowland – Meg Cabot
183. Single White Vampire – Lynsay Sands
184. Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli
185. Still Alice – Lisa Genova
186. Stray – Rachel Vincent
187. The Case for a Creator – Lee Strobel
188. The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle
189. The Legend of Eli Monpress – Rachel Aaron
190. The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
191. The Return of the King – J. R. R. Tolkien
192. The Secrets of Truth and Beauty – Megan Frazer
193. The Stainless Steel Rat – Harry Harrison
194. Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr
195. Witches – Kathryn Meyer Griffith
196. Persuasion – Jane Austen
197. The Forest of Hands and Teeth – Carrie Ryan
198. Annabel – Kathleen Winter
199. Child 44 – Tom Rob Smith
200. Count of Monte Cristo – Alejandro Dumas
201. Emma – Jane Austen
202. Gaudy Night – Dorothy Sayers
203. Glass Houses – Rachel Caine
204. Good Grief – Lolly Winston
205. High Five – Janet Evanovich
206. Homeland – R.A. Salvatore
207. I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
208. Invisible Touch – Kelly Parra
209. Lust – Charlotte Featherstone
210. Mockingbird – Kathryn Erskine
211. Nightshade – Andrea Cremer READ
212. Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake – Sarah MacLean
213. Princess – Joe Richards
214. Rise Again – Ben Tripp
215. Shadow Hills – Anastasia Hopcus
216. Simply Irresistible – Jill Shalvis
217. South of Broad – Pat Conroy
218. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
219. Tender Warrior – Linda Lang Bartell
220. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
221. The Great Indian Novel – Shashi Tharoor
222. The House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer
223. The Language of Secrets – Dianne Dixon
224. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
225. The Thirteenth Chime – Emma Michaels
226. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffennegger
227. The Virgin Blue – Tracy Chevalier
228. The Wish List – Eoin Colfer
229. Tintin and the Black Island – Herge
230. Turbulant Sea – Christine Feehan
231. Uncertain Magic – Laura Kinsale
232. Victoria – Knut Hamsun
233. Wuthering High – Cara Lockwood
234. Youth in Revolt – C.D Payne
235. Beautiful Creatures – Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
236. Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
237. A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick
238. A Song of Ice and Fire – George RR Martin
239. Ain’t She Sweet? – Susan Elizabeth Phillips
240. Alice I Have Been – Melanie Benjamin
241. Archangel – Sharon Shinn
242. Black – Ted Dekker
243. Blood Crazy – Simon Clark
244. Can You Keep a Secret? – Sophie Kinsella
245. Dirty Little Secrets – CJ Omolulo
246. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
247. Hand of Isis – Jo Graham
248. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
249. Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
250. Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
251. I Heart You, You Haunt Me – Lisa Schroeder
252. Magic Bites – Ilona Andrews
253. Midnight Awakening – Lara Adrian
254. More Than This – Margo Candela
255. On Folly Beach – Karen White
256. Penelope and Prince Charming – Jennifer Ashley
257. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
258. Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
259. Return the Heart – TK Richardson
260. Scandal Bound – Anita Mills
261. Sinful – Charlotte Featherstone
262. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
263. So Vast the Prison – Assia Djebar
264. Swordspoint – Ellen Kushner
265. The Demon’s Lexicon – Sarah Rees Brennan
266. The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
267. The Group – Mary McCarthy
268. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much – Allison Hoover Bartlett
269. The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
270. The Passage – Justin Cronin
271. The Two Princesses of Bamarre – Gail Carson Levine
272. Torment – Lauren Kate
273. Vampire Mistress – Joey W Hill
274. Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
275. A Certain Wolfish Charm – Lydia Dare
276. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
277. Austenland – Shannon Hale
278. Black Magic Sanction – Kim Harrison
279. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
280. Cirque du Freak – Darren Shan
281. Dealing With Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede
282. Die Trying – Lee Child
283. Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
284. Just Listen – Sarah Dessen
285. Lover Avenged – J.R. Ward
286. Magic Lost, Trouble Found – Lisa Shearin
287. Marked – PC Cast and Kristin Cast
288. Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English – Natasha Solomons
289. Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
290. Relic – Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
291. Room – Emma Donaghue
292. She’s So Dead to Us – Kieran Scott
293. Sofia Mendoza’s Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico – Malin Alegria
294. Ten Things I Love About You – Julia Quinn
295. The BFG – Roald Dahl
296. The Exiled Queen – Cinda Williams Chima
297. The Girl Who Fell From The Sky – Heidi Durrow
298. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
299. The Iron Queen – Julie Kagawa
300. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane – Katherine Howe
301. The Plague of Doves – Louise Erdrich
302. The Rag and Bone Shop – Robert Cormier
303. The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
304. The Undomestic Goddess – Sophie Kinsella
305. The Vast Fields of Ordinary – Nick Burd
306. The Watchers – Dean Koontz
307. The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson
308. The Wisdom of Whores – Elizabeth Pisani
309. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
310. Vampyres of Hollywood – Adrienne Barbeau
311. Walk of the Spirits – Richie Tankersly Cusick
312. Weaveworld – Clive Barker
313. 600 Hours Of Edward – Craig Lancaster
314. A Secret Love – Stephanie Laurens
315. Adios to My Old Life – Caridad Ferrer
316. After You – Julie Buxbaum
317. Andra – Louise Lawrence
318. Assassins Apprentice – Robin Hobb
319. Ballads of Suburbia – Stephanie Kuehnert
320. Berenstain Bears and the Dress Code Stan – Jan Berenstain
321. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
322. Destined for an Early Grave – Jeaniene Frost
323. Dime Store Magic – Kelley Armstrong
324. Galway Bay – Mary Pat Kelley
325. Girl Overboard – Justina Chen Hedley
326. Hothouse Flower – Margot Berwin
327. Hourglass – Myra Mcentire
328. Ice Land – Betsy Tobin
329. Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married – Marian Keyes
330. Marcello in the Real World – Fransisco Stork
331. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
332. Mesmerized – Candace Camp
333. Night Play – Sherrilyn Kenyon
334. Ozma of Oz – L. Frank Baum
335. Passion Unleashed – Larissa Ione
336. Roofworld – Christopher Fowler
337. Some Girls Bite – Chloe Neill
338. Taiko – Eiji Yoshikawa
339. Thank You For Not Reading – Dubravka Ugresic
340. The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
341. Unwind – Neal Shusterman
342. Wings – Aprilynne Pike
343. A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True – Brigid Pasulka
344. A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray
345. Beautiful Darkness – Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
346. Beautiful Lies – Lisa Unger
347. Chocolate – Joanne Harris
348. Conspirata – Robert Harris
349. Crank – Ellen Hopkins READ
350. Dare to Surrender – Lilli Feisty
351. Daughter of the Forest – Juliet Marillier
352. Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris
353. Delirium – Lauren Oliver
354. Dogsbody – Diana Wynne Jones
355. Emily of New Moon – LM Montgomery
356. Friday Night Chicas – Mary Castillo
357. Gods Behaving Badly – Marie Phillips
358. Infinite Days – Rebecca Maizel
359. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
360. Mistborn – Brandon Sanderson
361. Pariah – Bob Fingerman
362. Personal Demons – Lisa Desrochers
363. Secret Vampire – L. J. Smith
364. Seven Daughters, Seven Sons – Barbara Cohen and Bahija Lovejoy
365. Silver Borne – Patricia Briggs
366. Size 12 is Not Fat – Meg Cabot
367. Spells – Aprilynne Pike
368. Tell-Tale – Sam Hayes
369. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
370. The Awakening – Shannon Drake
371. The Demon in Me – Michelle Rowen
372. The Financial Lives of Poets – Jess Walter
373. The Hero and the Crown – Robin McKinley
374. The Lost World – Arthur Conan Doyle
375. The Politics of Bones – Timothy Hunt
376. The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
377. The White Mare – Jules Watson
378. Wild Cards – George RR Martin
379. Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson
380. 1984 – George Orwell
381. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea – Jules Verne
382. A Map of the World – Jane Hamilton
383. A Rose For The Crown – Anne Easter Smith
384. An Echo in the Bone – Diana Gabaldon
385. Angel’s Blood – Nalini Singh
386. Demonglass – Rachel Hawkins
387. Dog’s Colorful Day – Emma Dodd
388. Dracula – Bram Stoker
389. Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
390. Ecstasy in Darkness – Gena Showalter
391. Fat Cat – Robin Brande
392. Frostbite – Richelle Mead
393. Gabriel’s Ghost – Linnea Sinclair
394. Houston, We Have a Problema – Gwendolyn Zepeda
395. Inside Out – Maria V. Snyder
396. Leaving Paradise – Simone Elkeles
397. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
398. Only Forward – Michael Marshall Smith
399. Out of my Mind – Sharon Draper
400. Purge – Sofi Oksanen
401. Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
402. Searching for Shona – Margaret J. Anderson
403. Stolen – Lucy Christopher
404. The Christmas Train – David Baldacci
405. The Devil Wears Prada – Lauren Weisberger
406. The Doomsday Book – Connie Willis
407. The Highest Tide – Jim Lynch
408. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
409. The Spellman Files – Lisa Lutz
410. The Tenth Circle – Jodi Picoult
411. The Witching Hour – Anne Rice
412. Undead and Unwed – MaryJanice Davidson
413. Willow – Julia Hoban

I really wasn’t planning on posting the whole list, but I changed my mind because I decided it would make things easier for me. Instead of having to go back to that list again and again and try to remember what I’d decided I probably can do, I can just find this post. So, sorry it is so long. Again, this list is from Reading with Tequila.

FTC Disclosure: All items reviewed were either obtained by me for my own enjoyment or sent (from the author, publisher, publicist, via tour sites, etc.) in exchange for an honest review. I receive no monetary compensation for my posts. All opinions expressed are my own.

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