Bookcrossing stuff for 2005

Reading Goals for 2005:
*Read a large percentage of registered and unregistered Mount TBR = Estimated 69 books read this year (towards the end of this year I stopped keeping track of what I had read on my BX prfile hence the estimated figure)
*Read more non-fiction books that aren't for university = 9
*Read some pre-twentieth century classics as most of my reading taste deals with twentieth century fiction = 1

Hmmm, did OK as far as reading targets and goals go this year. Towards the end of this year I stopped keeping note of what books I had and had not read. I think I've probably read closer to 75 books this year. This year I have also come to the conclusion that classical books are not for me. I struggled with the one I read this year so I might leave this challenge for another year.

I think I'll continue with the effort concerning reading more non-fiction. I'll keep away from history books though as I found it difficult reading history books when doing history things for uni. Quite pathetic really. So the challenges for 2006 at the moment stand at:
*Read more non fiction books.
*Re-read all the current Harry Potter books.
*Re-read and finish the Chronicles of Narnia books. I have never got past Voyage of the Dawntreader and I would like to read the series in full.
*Read at least 100 books.



The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Sleepyhead - Mark Millingham
Eating Chinese Food Naked - Mei Nng
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides
The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
The Storyteller's Daughter - Saria Shah (Non-fiction challenge)
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger - Nigel Slater (Non-fiction challenge)
Carrie - Stephen King (re-read)
Past Mortem - Ben Elton
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (Classics challenge)
Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith
The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
Sliver - Ira Levin
Hard Work: Life in Low Pay Britain - Polly Toynbee (Non-fiction challenge)
LA Confidential - James Ellroy
Buffalo Soldiers - Robert O'Connor
Bodily Harm - Margaret Atwood
The American Boy - Andrew Taylor
The Honey Thief - Elizabeth Graver
No War: American's Real Business in Iraq - Namoi Klein et al. (Non-fiction challenge)
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
Submission - Marthe Blau
The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory
The Five People you Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
High Society - Ben Elton</option>
Time out of Joint - Philip K. Dick
The Bhagdad Blog - Salam Pax (Non-fiction challenge)
Call Me Elizabeth - Dawn Annadale (Non-fiction challenge)
Where do we go from here? - Rosie Rushton (re-read)
Not on the Label - Felicity Lawrence(Non-fiction challenge)
The Secret Seven - Enid Blyton
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
I'm A Teacher Get Me Out of Here! - Francis Gilbert (non-fiction challenge)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J.K Rowling
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
The Little House - Philippa Gregory
Shopped - Joanna Blythman (non-fiction challenge
The Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Smith
One More River - Lynne Reid Banks
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Bitter Fruit - Achmat Dangor
The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Inside Hitler's Bunker - Joachim Fest (Non-fiction challenge)
Big Fish - Danny Wallace
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Cobsky
The Pact - Jodi Picoult
Morven Caller - Alan Warner
Negative Space - Zoe Strachan
When the Kissing had to stop - Constantine Fitz Gibbons
Death and a Penguin -
The Coma - Alex Garland
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith
Be Afraid....The Scary Book of Urban Legends - Arvand
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck</option>
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
Watership Down - Richard Sharpo
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
One Night @ The Call Centre
Sanctum - Denise Mina