Like many readers out there, or those affiliated with Library Thing, I decided to keep pushing myself with the 888 Challenge, putting me at least reading 64 books a year. Of course, you have the option to overlap 8 titles within your 8 categories, but my hope is that I can have 8 original categories with 64 books, and then some.
Since I’ve never done a challenge as such, it’s been fun figuring out where all my books will go and also seeing what I read the most of.
(EX) = Extra Credit
Updated 10/14: The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra added to Shakespeare. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz added to Children/YA. Wicked added to TBR Pile.
Update 10/16: Moll Flanders added to People and Venus and Adonis added to Shakespeare.
Update 10/20: Merchant of Venice added to Shakespeare.
Updated 10/23: Finished out the challenge with A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Anne of Green Gables.
Here’s my list so far:
Classics (COMPLETE)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Orlando
- Jane Eyre
- Turn of the Screw
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Frankenstein
- Siddhartha
- War of the Worlds
1,001 Books to Read (COMPLETE)
- Sense and Sensibility
- Persuasion
- Through the Looking Glass
- War and Peace
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- The Age of Innocence
- The Time Machine
- The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Ethan Frome (EX)
- Notes From the Underground (EX)
- Treasure Island (EX)
Books Made Into Movies (COMPLETE)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Beowulf
- P.S. I Love You
- Cavedweller
- Loverboy
- The Jane Austen Book Club
- Great Expectations
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (EX)
- Little Women (EX)
James Patterson Novels (COMPLETE)
- Sam’s Letters to Jennifer
- 6th Target
- Suzanne’s Diary For Nicholas
- Jack and Jill
- 7th Heaven
- You’ve Been Warned
- Sundays at Tiffany’s
- The Quickie
Children and YA Fiction (COMPLETE)
- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
- A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
- Peter Pan
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- The Bad Beginning
- On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
- New Moon
- Eclipse
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (EX)
- The Marvelous Land of Oz (EX)
Non-Fiction (COMPLETE)
- Skinny Bitch
- It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken
- Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews
- The Wishing Year
- The Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration
- Stori Telling
- With Our Good Will
- On Writing
- Memoir of Jane Austen (EX)
- The Case for Christ (EX)
TBR Pile (COMPLETE)
- A Short Guide to a Happy Life
- Make Loneliness
- The Rum Diary
- Knocked Out By My Nunga Nungas
- Smoke Screen
- Friday Night Knitting Club
- Breaking Dawn
- Nights in Rodanthe
- My Sister’s Keeper (EX)
- Wicked (EX)
New Authors (COMPLETE)
- Dawn by V.C. Andrews
- The Green Mile by Stephen King
- The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
- Spanish Billionaire, Innocent Wife by Kate Walker
- Between Here and April by Deborah Copaken Kogan
- Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
- Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner
- One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
People in Titles (COMPLETE)
- Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
- Therese Raquin
- Adventures of Huck Finn
- Dracula
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Moll Flanders
- Anne of Green Gables
Shakespeare (COMPLETED)
- Macbeth
- Othello
- As You Like It
- The Tempest
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Venus and Adonis
- Merchant of Venice
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream