2011 Reading Challenge

a list of all books read in this year

JANUARY – DECEMBER 2011 READING CHALLENGE

January

  1. Skinny Bitch – Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin – audio – fun
  2. Arctic Approach – OU Environmental Studies – pbk- Uni

February

  1. Nile River Basin – OU Environmental Studies – pbk – Uni
  2. The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life – pbk – fun
  3. Viva Vegan – Toni Romero – pbk – fun
  4. At Grave’s End – Night Huntress 03 – Jeaniene Frost
  5. The Passage – Justin Cronin
  6. Child of Fire – Harry Connolly

March

  1. Game of Cages – Harry Connolly
  2. Darkest Mercy – Melissa Marr
  3. To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis
  4. River Marked – Patricia Briggs
  5. Pale Demon – Kim Harrison
  6. Green-Eyed Demon – Jaye Wells
  7. Life in Amazonia (environment course book)
  8. A Hard Day’s Knight – Simon R Green
  9. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
  10. The Leopard – Jo Nesbo
  11. The Gallows Curse – Karen Maitland

April

  1. Lover Unleashed – JR Ward
  2. Etched in Bone – Adrian Phoenix
  3. The Fallen – Thomas Sniegoski
  4. The Crimson Petal and the White – Michel Faber
  5. Cold Granite – Stuart MacBride – Logan McRae 01
  6. Dying Light – Stuart MacBride – Logan McRae 02
  7. The Last Werewolf – Glen Duncan
  8. Broken Skin – Stuart MacBride – Logan McRae 03
  9. Flesh House – Stuart MacBride – Logan McRae 04
  10. Blind Eye – Stuart MacBride – Logan McRae 05
  11. Dark Blood – Stuart MacBride – Logan McRae 06
  12. Shatter the Bones – Stuart MacBride – Logan McRae 07
  13. Changing China – OU course textbook

May

  1. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  2. Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart
  3. Dead Boring Reckoning – Charlaine Harris
  4. A Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness
  5. The Small Business Start-up Workbook
  6. Make it your business
  7. Spare Room start up
  8. Regretsy – April Winchell
  9. Smashing WordPress Themes – Thord Daniel Hedergren

June

  1. Cities and Sustainability
  2. The Watchers – Jon Steele
  3. Magic Slays – Ilona Andrews
  4. How to be a Social Entrepreneur – Make Money and Change the World
  5. Making is Connecting – the social meaning of creativity from DIY and Knitting to Youtube and Web 2.0
  6. I’m Feeling Lucky – Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

July

  1. Graveminder – Melissa Marr
  2. Deeper than Midnight – Lara Adrian
  3. Darkfever – Karen Marie Moning
  4. Slave to Sensation – Nalini Singh
  5. The Hangman’s Daughter – Oliver Pötzsch
  6. The Stylist’s Guide to NYC – Sibella Court
  7. What the Buddha Taught – Walpola Sri Rahula
  8. Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovich (finished 25/7)
  9. Dead I Well May Be – Adrian McKinty (finished 30/7)

August

  1. The Silent Girl – Tess Gerritsen (finished 2/8)
  2. Unperfect Souls – Mark del Franco (finished 3/8)
  3. Moon Over Soho – Ben Aaronovich (finished 4/8)
  4. Uncertain Allies – Mark del Franco (finished 5/8)
  5. Ghost Story – Jim Butcher (finished 8/8)
  6. The Dead Yard – Adrian McKinty (finished 13/8)
  7. Bloomsday Dead – Adrian McKinty (finished 15/8)
  8. The Hidden River – Adrian McKinty (finished 26/8)

September

  1. Falling Glass – Adrian McKinty
  2. Hounded – Kevin Hearne (Iron Druid series)
  3. Hexed – Kevin Hearne (Iron Druid series)
  4. Hammered – Kevin Hearne (Iron Druid series)
  5. The Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (reread for book group)
  6. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov – nearly finished
  7. Circle of Enemies – Harry Connolly
  8. The White City – Elizabeth Bear – still not finished
  9. Headhunters – Jo Nesbo – still not finished
  10. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury – still not finished

October

  1. Never be fat again! – Raymond Francis
  2. The Impossible Dead – Ian Rankin
  3. Anno Dracula – Kim Newman

November

  1. The Retribution – Val McDermid
  2. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Raw
  3. Rawvolution
  4. Going Raw
  5. Live Raw
  6. Jessica’s Raw Chocolate Recipes
  7. Raw Food Made Simple
  8. Cake Angels – amazing gluten free, wheat free, dairy free cakes

December

  1. Birthdays for the Dead – Stuart MacBride
  2. The Black Banners – Ali Soufan
  3. Red Mist – Patricia Cornwell
  4. Feast Day of Fools – James Lee Burke
  5. Aloha from Hell – Richard Kadrey
  6. Bloodlines – Richelle Mead
  7. Visible Darkness – Michael Gregorio