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2011

TBR Challenge 2011

1. Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
2. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
3. Blue Nude – Elizabeth Rosner
4. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
5. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
6. Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
7. Elixir (book 1) – Hilary Duff
8. Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy #1) – Richelle Mead
9. Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson
10. Trans-sister Radio – Chris Bohjalian
11. By What Authority – Mark P. Shea
12. Paper Towns – John Green
13. The Adoration of Jenna Fox – Mary Pearson
14. Marked (House of Night #1) – P.C. Cast
15. Simple Deceit – Nancy Mehl
16. Frostbite (Vampire Academy #2) – Richelle Meade
17. Looking for Alaska – John Green
18. Shine – Lauren Myracle
19. The Lipstick Laws – Amy Holder
20. The Host – Stephenie Meyer
21. Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy #3) – Richelle Meade
22. Blood Promise (Vampire Academy #4) – Richelle Meade
23. An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
24. Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy #5) – Richelle Meade
25. Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider’s Guide to the World of Uglies – Scott Westerfeld
26. How the Reformation Happened – Hilaire Beloc
27. Between, Georgia – Joshilyn Jackson
28. Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy #6) – Richelle Mead
29. Secret Vampire (Night World #1) – L.J. Smith
30. Daughters of Darkness (Night World #2) – L.J. Smith
31. Stuck in the Middle (Sister to Sister #) – Virginia Smith
32. Spellbinder (Night World #3) – L.J. Smith
33. Matched (Matched #1) – Allie Condie
34. Wither (Chemical Garden #1) – DeStefano
35. Firelight (Firelight #1) – Sophie Jordan
36. Betrayed (House of Night #2) – P.C. Cast
37. Bite Me (Demon Underground #1) – Parker Blue
38. Try Me (Demon Underground #2) – Parker Blue
39. Fang Me (Demon Underground #3) – Parker Blue
40. Numbers (Numbers #1) – Rachel Ward
41. The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness – Brianna Karp
42. Growing Up Amish – Ira Wagler
43. XVI (XVI #1) – Julia Karr
44. 13 Little Blue Envelopes (Little Blue Envelope #1) – Maureen Johnson
45. James Potter and the Hall of Elder’s Crossing (James Potter #1) – G. Norman Lippert
46. Walking on Broken Glass – Christa Allan
47. The Lens and the Looker (Verona Trilogy #1) – Lory S. Kaufman
48. Along for the Ride – Sarah Dessen
49. Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires #1) – Rachel Caine
50. After – Amy Efaw
51. The Imitation of Christ – Thomas a Kempis
52. Delirium – Lauren Oliver
53. Clean – Amy Reed
54. The Unwanteds – Lisa McMann
55. Before I Fall – Lauren Oliver
56. The Black Stiletto – Raymon Benson
57. Fallen (Fallen #1) – Lauren Kate
58. The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove – Lauren Kate
59. Uhh some book that I don’t know the name and isn’t a real book.
60. The Dead Girls’ Dance (The Morganville Vampires #2) – Rachel Caine
61. Midnight Alley (Morganville Vampires #3) – Rachel Caine
62. The Year of Living Biblically – A.J. Jacobs
63. Bumped (Bumped, #1) – Megan McCafferty
64. Girl Parts – John M. Cusick
65. Evermore (The Immortals, #1) – Alyson Noel
66. Warm Bodies – Isaac Marion
67. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems – Robert Frost
68. The Iron King (Iron Fey, #1) – Julie Kagawa
69. Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1) – Richelle Mead
70. Every Other Day – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
71. Torment (Fallen, #2) – Lauren Kate
72. Evernight (Evernight, #1) – Claudia Gray
73. Vixen (Flappers, #1) – Jillian Larkin
74. Passion (Fallen, #3) – Lauren Kate
75. Ingenue (Flappers, #2) – Jillian Larkin
76. Spellbound (Spellbound, #1) – Cara Lynn Shultz
77. Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, #1) – Laini Taylor
78. Blue Moon (The Immortals, #2) – Alyson Noel
79. Bossypants – Tina Fey
80. Vanish (Firelight, #2) – Sophie Jordan
81. Shadowland (The Immortals, #3) – Alyson Noel
82. Hollowland (The Hollows, #1) – Amanda Hocking
83. Divergent (Divergent, #1) – Veronica Roth
84. Hex Hall (Hex Hall, #1) – Rachel Hawkins
85. Dark Flame (The Immortals, #4) – Alyson Noel
86. Night Star (The Immortals, #5) – Alyson Noel
87. Lockdown (Escape From Furnace, #1) – Alexander Gordon Smith
88. The Callendar Papers – Cynthia Voigt

2010

1. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
2. Surprised By Truth – Patrick Madrid
3. 131 Christians Everyone Should Know – editors of Christian History Magazine
4. New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
5. Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
6. My Life Outside the Ring – Hulk Hogan
7. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
8. Teresa of Ávila : the book of my life – (translated by Mirabai Starr)
9. Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History – Andrew Napolitano
10. Mixed mania : recipes for delicious mixed-media creations – Debbi Crane
11. Learning to See Creatively – Bryan Peterson
12. Confessions of a Compact Camera Shooter – Rick Sammon
13. Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book – Brian Froud
14. Leaving Unknown – Kerry Reichs
15. Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art – Jennifer New
16. A Bad Day for Sorry – Sophie Littlefield
17. Starting Out in the Evening – Brian Morton
18. Dr. Neruda’s Cure for Evil – Rafael Yglesias
19. Taking Charge of Your Fertility – Toni Weschler
20. Making Babies – Sami S. David
21. The Complete Photo Guide to Sewing – Singer
22. Dubliners – James Joyce
23. Fury: A Memoir – Koren Zailckas
24. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
25. Ghostgirl: Homecoming – Tonya Hurley
26. Cop in the Hood: my year policing Baltimore’s eastern district – Peter Moskos
27. The Secret – Beverly Lewis
28. The Missing – Beverly Lewis
29. The Telling – Beverly Lewis
30. A Bad Day for Pretty – Sophie Littlefield
31. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling (reread)
32. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – Barbara Robinson
33. Insignificant Others – Stephen McCauley
34. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

2009

1. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming – Joshilyn Jackson
2. Lord Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession – Scott Hahn
3. It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News – Drew Curtis
4. When She Hollers – Cynthia Voigt
5. Homecoming – Cynthia Voigt
6. Dicey’s Song – Cynthia Voigt
7. Fix – Leslie Margolis
8. What Catholics Really Believe: Setting the Record Straight – Karl Keating
9. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
10. Live-Giving Love: Embracing God’s Beautiful Design for Marriage – Kimberly Hahn
11. Midwives – Chris Bohjalian
12. Eden – Olympia Vernon
13. Peeps – Scott Westerfeld
14. RX – Tracy Lynn
15. Refuse to Choose – Barbara Sher
16. Skin – Ted Dekker
17. A Sister’s Secret – Wanda Brunstetter
18. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood – Julie Gregory
19. The Fat Girl’s Guide to Life – Wendy Shanker
20. Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
21. Crossing Over – Ruth Irene Garrett
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
25. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
26. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
27. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
28. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
29. The Lamb’s Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth – Scott Hahn
30. Double Minds – Terri Blackstock
31. End the Fed – Ron Paul
32. Tales of Beedle the Bard – J.K. Rowling
33. Best Catholic Writing 2004 – (edited by) Brian Doyle
34. My Struggle With Faith – Joseph Girzone
35. The Pact – Jodi Picoult
36. So Yesterday – Scott Westerfeld
37. Bizarre Truth – Andrew Zimmern
38. Making Mischief – Gregory Maguire
39. Twenties Girl – Sophie Kinsella

2008

1. The Stolen Child – Keith Donahue
2. Blood Sisters – Melody Carlson
3. The Parting – Beverly Lewis
4. Teach Me – R.A. Nelson
5. Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl – Nancy Chan
6. The Nanny Diaries – Emma Mclaughlin
7. Life on the Refrigerator Door – Alice Kuipers
8. A Bad Beginning (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket
9. I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me – Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus
10. Wasted – Marya Hornbacher
11. She’s Out of Control – Kristin Billerbeck
12. The Atonement Child – Francine Rivers
13. Extras – Scott Westerfeld
14. The Magic Daughter – Jane Phillips
15. How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls – Zoey Dean
16. Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
17. Switching Time – Dr. Richard Baer
18. The Kiss – Kathryn Harrison
19. 72 Hour Hold – Bebe Campbell
20. Every Secret Thing – Lila Saara
21. Remember Me? – Sophie Kinsella
22. The Appeal – John Grisham
23. Off the Record – Elizabeth White
24. The Heroines – Eileen Favorite
25. The Revolution: A Manifesto – Ron Paul
26. Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century – Lauren Slater
27. The Double Bind – Chris Bohjalian
28. Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness — Pete Earley
29. Taming the Beast – Emily Maguire
30. Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic – David Currie
31. Case for Christ – Lee Strobel
32. Rome Sweet Home – Scott Hahn
33. Gossamer – Lois Lowry
34. Catholicism and Fundamentalism – Karl Keating
35. Wake Up, I’m Fat! – Camryn Manheim
36. My Life on the Rock: A Rebel Returns to the Catholic Faith – Jeff Cavins
37. Catholicism for Dummies – John Trigilio
38. Letters Between a Catholic and an Evangelical – James G. McCarthy and John R. Waiss
39. A Bright Red Scream: Self-mutilation and the Language of Pain – Marilee Strong
40. Fat!So? : Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size – Marilyn Wann
41. Bright Shiny Morning – James Frey
42. Goldengrove – Francine Prose
43. You Know Where to Find Me – Rachel Cohn
44. Par for the Course – Ray Blackston
45. Picture Perfect – Jodi Picoult
46. Salem Falls – Jodi Picoult
47. A Year of Living Famously – Laura Caldwell
48. Fat Chicks Rule – Lara Frater

2007

1. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
2. Uglies – Scott Westerfeld
3. Pretties – Scott Westerfeld
4. Specials – Scott Westerfeld
5. Beautiful Stranger: A Memoir of an Obsession With Perfection — Hope Donahue
6. Cranberry Queen – Kathleen DeMarco
7. Shadow Syndromes: Recognizing and Coping With the Hidden Psychological Disorders That Can Influence Your Behavior and Silently Determine the Course of Your Life – John J. Ratey
and Catherine Johnson
8. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
9. Flabbergasted – Ray Blackston
10. Hand-me-down – Lee Nichols
11. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
12. A Delirious Summer – Ray Blackston
13. Lost in Rooville – Ray Blackston
14. Pink Ghetto – Liz Ireland
15. Something Borrowed – Emily Giffin
16. At First Sight – Nicholas Sparks
17. Something Blue – Emily Giffin
18. Baby Proof – Emily Giffin
19. Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
20. The Alchemy of Mind – Diane Ackerman
21. The Jane Austen Book Club – Karen Joy Fowler
22. A Pagan’s Nightmare – Ray Blackston
23. The Devil Wears Prada – Lauren Weisberger
24. Prep – Curtis Sittenfeld
25. Blue Like Jazz – Donald Miller
26. Undomestic Goddess – Sophie Kinsella
27. Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities – Alexandra
Robbins
28. Babyville – Jane Green
29. Confessions of a Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella
30. Blue Shoe – Anne Lamott
31. Confessions of a Closet Catholic – Sarah Darer Littman
32. Blind Sighted – Peter Moore
33. The Secret Life of Becky Miller – Sharon Hinck
34. Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Neffenegger
35. Everyone Worth Knowing – Lauren Weisberger
36. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants – Ann Brashares
37. From Here to Maternity – Kris Webb & Kathy Wilson
38. Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
39. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
40. Glimpses of Paradise – James Scott Bell
41. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan – Sophie Kinsella
42. The Tenth Circle – Jodi Picoult
43. The Girls – Lori Lansens
44. Sheet Music – Dr. Kevin Leman
45. Vanishing Acts – Jodi Picoult
46. The Schopenhauer Cure – Irvin D. Yalom
47. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen – Dyan Sheldon
48. Vertigo – Lauren Baratz-Logsted
49. Jude – Kate Morgenroth
50. Conversing With the Planets: How Science and Myth Invented the Cosmos – Anthony F. Aveni
51. Thr3e – Ted Dekker
52. The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life – Peter Hyman
53. Shopaholic Ties the Knot – Sophie Kinsella
54. Shopaholic & Sister – Sophie Kinsella
55. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
56. Shopaholic & Baby – Sophie Kinsella
57. Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
58. Blue Angel – Francine Prose
59. Summer Sisters – Judy Blume
60. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness – Kay Redfield Jamison
61. Love Talk: Speak Each Other’s Language Like You Never Have Before – Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott
62. The Yada Yada Prayer Group – Neta Jackson
63. I, Isaac, Take Thee Rebekah – Ravi Zacharias
64. The V Club – Kate Brian
65. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
66. Reconstructing Natalie – Laura Jensen Walker
67. The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
68. Private – Kate Brian
69. Daniel Isn’t Talking – Marti Leimbach
70. The Clique – Lisi Harrison
71. The It Girl – Cecily von Ziegesar
72. I Don’t Want to be Crazy – Samantha Schutz
73. Untouchable – Kate Brian
74. Confessions – Kate Brian
75. He Chose You – Max Lucado
76. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax – Dorothy Gilman
77. The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax – Dorothy Gilman
78. Bee Season – Myla Goldberg
79. Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down – Neta Jackson
80. Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic – Donna Williams
81. Gods in Alabama – Joshilyn Jackson
82. Have You Seen Me – Laura Denham
83. First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple – Cameron West Ph.D.
84. A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture – Scott Hahn
85. Glamorous Disasters – Eliot Schrefer
86. Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
87. Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick – Rachel Resnick
88. Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
89. The Thrall’s Tale – Judith Lindbergh
90. The Prophet – Khalil Gibran
91. Walk in the Light While There is Light – Leo Tolstoy
92. Memoirs of Pontius Pilate – James R. Mills
93. Heaven – Anne Graham Lotz
94. Looking for Cassandra Jane – Melody Carlson
95. The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis
96. The Key to Personal Peace – Billy Graham
97. The Best is Yet to Come – Greg Laurie
98. First Fruits – Penelope Evans
99. A Higher Justice (Trials of Kit Shannon 2) – James Scott Bell
100. A Certain Truth (Trials of Kit Shannon 3) – James Scott Bell

2006

1. The Preacher’s Daughter – Beverly Lewis
2. Felicity (American Girls Collection)
3. Molly (American Girls Collection)
4. Samantha (American Girls Collection)
5. Get Me Out of Here – Rachel Reiland
6. A Bride Most Begrudging – Deeanne Gist
7. Icy Sparks – Gywn Hyman Rubio
8. A Million Little Pieces – James Frey
9. Finding Alice – Melody Carlson
10. Welcome to My Country – Lauren Slater
11. Three Weeks With My Brother – Nicolas & Micah Sparks
12. My Friend Leonard – James Frey
13. Cheaper by the Dozen – Frank B. Gilbreth & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
14. The Pilot’s Wife – Anita Shreve
15. The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
16. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
17. The Big Book of Misunderstanding – Jim Gladstone
18. The Witness – Dee Henderson
19. The Preacher’s Daughter – Lyn Cote
20. The Princess – Lori Wick
21. Lucky – Alice Sebold
22. Crystal Lies – Melody Carlson
23. Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
24. Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
25. Sadie’s Song – Linda Hall
26. Stop Pretending: what happened when my big sister went crazy – Sonya Sones
27. The Englisher – Beverly Lewis
28. One True Thing – Anna Quindlen
29. Sleeping with Schubert – Bonnie Marson
30. The Time Lottery – Nancy Moser
31. Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin
32. Last Light – Terri Blackstock
33. Gossip Girls – Cecily von Ziegesar
34. Boy Meets Boy – David Levithan
35. The Burn Journals – Brent Runyon
36. Cut – Patricia McCormick
37. The Night Light – Terri Blackstock
38. The Storekeeper’s Daughter – Wanda Brunstetter
39. The Quilter’s Daughter – Wanda Brunstetter
40. The Bishop’s Daughter – Wanda Brunstetter
41. True Believer – Nicholas Sparks
42. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
43. If You’re Missing Baby Jesus – Jean Gietzen
44. A Keepsake of Cats – Kate James
45. King of Torts – John Grisham
46. The Steadfast Surrender – Nancy Moser
47. The Experiment – Todd Temple
48. No Place Like Home – Mary Higgins Clark
49. Go Ask Alice – Anonymous
50. Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent – Anthony Rapp
51. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood – Koren Zailckas
52. You Don’t Know Me – David Klass
53. Elijah’s cup : a Family’s Journey into the Community and Culture of High-functioning Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome – Valerie Paradiz
54. The Brethren – Beverly Lewis
55. Starting From Square Two – Caren Lissner
56. Dreaming in Black and White – Laura Jensen Walker
57. Lambert’s Pride – Lynn Coleman
58. A Greater Glory – James Scott Bell
59. Dreaming in Technicolor – Laura Jensen Walker
60. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
61. Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll