When the challenge year started, I grouped the 50 and 100 Book Challenges together since they were basically the same. But, as of yesterday, I hit 50 books so now I’m splitting them off into their separate challenges.
Not counting plays read this year, I have finished my first 50 books.
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
- Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
- You Know You’re a Writer When by Adair Lara
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
- Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide by Holly Black
- Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers by Louise Rennison
- Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
- Persepolis I by Marjane Satrapi
- The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Seeing Stone by Holly Black
- C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
- The Spiderwick Chronicles: Lucinda’s Secret by Holly Black
- The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Ironwood Tree by Holly Black
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
- Startled by His Furry Shorts by Louise Rennison
- The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wrath of Mulgarath by Holly Black
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Have You Seen…? by David Thomson
- Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
- A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- Love is a Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Host by Stephenie Meyer
- Stop in the Name of Pants by Louise Rennison
- Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- The 1996 What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
- Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
- Maus II by Art Spiegelman
- Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
- Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
- The Writer’s Idea Book by Jack Heffron
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
- Sin City: The Hard Goodbye (Vol. 1) by Frank Miller
- Fool by Christopher Moore
- Roses are Red by James Patterson
- Twilight Director’s Notebook by Catherine Hardwicke
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Sex and the City: the Movie by Amy Sohn
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center