P.S. I Love You Book Club
In-person Group through my mommy group
- Eat, Pray, & Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
World Citzenship Challenge
First six, then one additional from remaining:
- China: Fragile Superpower by Susan L. Shirk (Politics)
- The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us by Robyn Meredith (Economics)
- Life along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield (History)
- The Children by David Halberstam (Culture)
- Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (Worldwide)
- River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler (Memoirs/Autobiographies)
- China Shakes the World: A Titan’s Rise and Troubled Future — and the Challenge for America by James Kynge (Economics) OR
- No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart: The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice by Tom Slee (Economics) OR
- Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway (Memoirs/Autobiographies) OR
- A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich (History)
My Year of Reading Dangerously Challenge
Will choose twelve from:
- Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- Wifey by Judy Blume
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson and Donna Diamond
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
TBR (To Be Read) Challenge
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home by Pamela Stone
- American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
- The Feminine Mistake, Are We Giving Up Too Much? by Leslie Bennetts
- The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama
- Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham
- The Two-Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi
- Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China by Sterling Seagrave
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
- ChiRunning by Danny Dreyer and Katherine Dreyer
- The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary by Joseph Michelli
- Selling Dreams: How to Make Any Product Irresistible by Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni and Kip Longinotti-Buitoni
Alternates
- The Concubine’s Children by Denise Chong
- Parenting From the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell
- Waiting for Daisy: The True Story of One Couple’s Quest to Have a Baby by Peggy Orenstein
- Good Dog. Stay. by Anna Quindlen
- You, Inc.: The Art of Selling Yourself by Harry Beckwith and Christine Clifford Beckwith
- I Am More Than My Infertility by Marina Lombardo and Linda J. Parker
- A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
- Michelangelo and The Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King
- Evening by Susan Minot
The Guardian’s 1000 Novels Challenge
- Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
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December 28th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Great list-thanks for joining in my challenge!
I’m doing the Reading Dangerously one as well.