Amazingly, I completed this one. Last year, I didn't quite make it, missing authors U and Y and titles X. And with no surprise, the U author was the last one I read this year. Apparently there aren't enough U authors that I am interested in reading. I had to use a children's picture book for X author, but it was very cute and I read it during the Olympics which was nice, culturally.
Thanks to Joy for hosting this; the official blog helped me find some authors and titles that I was getting stuck on. Next year Becky will host this one. I'm not going to attempt this one, I am going to stop on a successful note. My suggestions for readers attempting this one is to feel free to move titles and authors around, don't feel a books is locked into one slot. And try not to leave all the hard ones until the end.
Here is the list of books I completed in 2008
Authors
A - Anderson, Laurie Halse - Speak
B - Ben Jelloun, Tahar - This Blinding Absence of Light
C - Cook, Thomas H - The Chatham School Affair
D - Dunning, John - Booked to Die
E - Enright, Anne - The Gathering
F - Fforde, Jasper - The Eyre Affair
G - Gleason, Colleen - The Bleeding Dusk
H - Hale, Shannon - Princess Academy
I - Ishiguro, Kazou - The Remains of the Day
J - Jennings, Ken - Brainiac
K - Kinsella, Sophie - Remember Me?
L - Landvik, Lorna - Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons
M - Mitchell, David - Black Swan Green
N - Nafisi, Azar - Reading Lolita in Tehran
O - O'Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins
P - Phillips, Marie - Gods Behaving Badly
Q - Quarrington, Paul - The Ravine
R - Ross, Ann B - Miss Julia Takes Over
S - Sansom, Ian - The Case of the Missing Books
T - Toltz, Steve - A Fraction of the Whole
U - Updale, Eleanor - Montmorency: thief, liar, gentleman?
V - Vargas Llosa, Mario - Who Killed Palomino Molero?
W - Waters, Sarah - The Night Watch
X - Xiong, Blia - Nine-In-One Grr! Grr! (children's book)
Y - Yang, Gene Luen - American Born Chinese
Z - Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief
Titles
A - Atonement - Ian McEwan
B - Beauty - Robin McKinley
C - The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
D - Drive Like Hell - Dallas Hudgens
E - Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland
F - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler - EL Konisburg
G - The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
H - House of Meeting - Martin Amis
I - The Interloper - Antoine Wilson
J - The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
K - The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
L - Latitudes of Melt - Joan Clark
M - Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
N - Never Have Your Dog Stuffed - Alan Alda
O - The Outcast - Sadie Jones
P - Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Q - The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space
R - Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
S - Shakespeare's Trollop - Charlaine Harris
T - Terra Cotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri
U - The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
V - Vegan, Virgin, Valentine - Carolyn Mackler
W - Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
X - The Xibalba Murders - Lyn Hamilton
Y - Yellowknife - Steve Zipp
Z - Zel - Donna Jo Napoli
Congrats on finishing this HUGE challenge. It's a really difficult one to complete!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on finishing! There are some letters that I can't even remember if I have ever read, so I know about them being difficult! I would never be able to do a challenge like this, I am too picky in my reading!
ReplyDelete3m - thanks, it was very hard! I can't see doing it again, except I have Sky Burial here to read, and that would knock off an X author...
ReplyDeletekailana - thanks, it's just a matter of writing it all down. I love keeping lists, so that part wasn't hard. It was hard finding the weird letters.
Congrats!! I've tried to do this one 2 years in a row and not even come close....I keep reading authors with a last name that starts with P LOL! Good job!
ReplyDeleteHOORAY!!! I'm so glad you persevered and got those difficult letters read. I too had trouble with U.
ReplyDeleteIf you'd like, you can link your final list on the A ~ Z Challenge blog. The first post has the link.
Kristina - I had lots of W and S. It is a really hard one, and while it mostly works just by chance, the letters that don't fit seem so random to find. And they always seem like long books!
ReplyDeletejoy - thanks! I'll get that post linked soon.