A few years ago I did a summer reading challenge with myself which (I thought) went pretty well, even though I didn't finish (hey, I'll admit 30 books in two months was a teensy bit ambitious, but I got, like, 15 read!). Starting this year I thought I'd do another challenge with myself. 50 Books over the course of 12 months! It won't be easy, but I picked a list of only books I'm pretty sure I'll like (and a few I've already read.... you don't own me) so hopefully I can manage.
These are all books to be read for pleasure on my own time (no school books allowed!) so I guess I'll start making my way through them, and probably posting review and recommendations for the ones I feel warrant a read! I hope you enjoy my list in no particular order!
Books To Read 2015
1.
The Little Friend – Donna Tartt
2.
Trickster’s Queen – Tamora Pierce
3.
Twelve Angry Men – Reginald Rose
4.
The Island of the Day Before – Umberto Eco
5.
Silence – Shusaku Endo
6.
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
7.
Orthodoxy – G.K. Chesterton
8.
The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak
9.
Alanna – Tamora Pierce
10.
In the Hand of the Goddess – Tamora Pierce
11.
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man – Tamora Pierce
12.
Lioness Rampant – Tamora Pierce
13.
Rebecca – Daphne de Maurier
14.
A Little Princess – Francis Hodgett
15.
Inferno – Dante
16.
Purgatorio – Dante
17.
Paradiso – Dante
18.
The Haunted Bookshop – Christopher Morley
19.
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan le Fanu
20.
The Children of Hurin – J.R.R. Tolkien
21.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K.
Rowling
22.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K.
Rowling
23.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K.
Rowling
24.
The Idiot – Dostoevsky
25.
The Samurai – Shusaku Endo
26.
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
27.
Vathek – William Beckford
28.
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
29.
The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
30.
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
31.
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
32.
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
33.
A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula L. Guin
34.
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
35.
Graceling – Kristin Cashore
36.
The Castle of Llyr – Lloyd Alexander
37.
Taran the Wanderer – Lloyd Alexander
38.
The High King – Lloyd Alexander
39.
Strong Poison – Dorthy Sayers
40.
The Curiosity Shop – Charles Dickens
41.
The Song of Talesin - Talesin
42.
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
43.
The Charwoman’s Shadow – Lord Dunsany
44.
The Labyrinth – A.C.H. Smith
45.
The Blue Fairy Book – Andrew Lang
46.
Til We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
47.
The Faerie Queene Books 2-7 – Edmund Spenser
48.
The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
49.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories –
Washington Irving
50.
Jane Eyre – Emily Bronte
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