My 50-Book Challenge

One of my 2012 resolutions is to read more. It came to me with the realization that in the past year, I have read around, if not less than, ten books. That is a downright measly number for a self-proclaimed book lover (working at Chapters no less)! Luckily, as the realization came right at the end of the year, it can then become an excellent resolution; so here it is, in 2012 I resolve to read more. A lot more. 

The idea of a 50-book challenge was one I saw floating around Tumblr for a while, and it seemed too good to pass up. Generally the challenge is meant to last one full year, complete with a month-by-month schedule, however I will give myself an additional four months to complete it (so, until April 2013), due to the black-hole-esque nature of the last four months of school - during which I may or may not be doing any reading at all.

And now, without further ado, my 50 BOOK CHALLENGE: (in no particular order) 

READING 1. A Song of Fire and Ice SAGA – George R. R. Martin
2. Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
3. A Fine Balance – Rhinton Mystry
4. Year of The Flood – Margaret Atwood
5. The Hunger Games Trillogy – Suzanne Collins
6. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K. Dick
7. True Prep – Lisa Birnbach & Chip Kidd
8. Just My Type – Simon G.
9. World war Z – Max brooks
10. Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Saks
11. A movable feast/The sun also rises – Ernst Hemmingway
12. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
13. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
14. The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
15. Interview With a Vampire – Anne Rice
16. Muses, Madmen and Prophets - Daniel Smith
17. Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradburry
18. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
19. The Golden Bowl/The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
20. The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
21. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler
22. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kasey
23. The Bell Jar – Sylvia plath
24. Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
25. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
26. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
27. Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
28. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
29. All the Pretty Horses – Cormac Mcarthy
30. Saturday – Ian Mcewan
31. The Great Gatsby -  F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
33. In the Skin of a Lion – Michael Ondatjee
34. Beloved – Toni Morrison
35. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiel Hammett
36. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
37. An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
38. Into The Wild/Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
39. On the Road / Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac
40. A Confederancy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
41. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler  - Italo Calvino  
42. Looking for Alaska– John Green
43. Burry me Standing – Isabel Fonseca
44. The Global Soul – Pico Iyer
45. An Underachiever’s diary – Benjamin Anastas
46. Planet Walker – John Francis
47. Places in Between – Rory Stewart
48. The other – Ryszard Kapuscinski
49. Wayfinders – Wade Davis
50. The Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux

Completed: 5/50