The Basics Challenge ~ books read

The Basics Challenge ~ books read list.

Finally an update – after almost a year! Titles link to Layers of Thought’s post for the books.

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2012

1. A Long Long Sleep ~ by Anna Sheehan
2. Darkfever; Bloodfever; and Faefever ~ by Karen Marie Moning (review coming)
3. Jamrach’s Menagerie ~ Carol Birch (review coming)
4. Other Kingdoms ~ by Richard Matheson (review coming)
5. Oryx and Crake ~ by Margaret Atwood (review coming)
6. The First Days (As the World Dies #1) ~ by Rhiannon Frater
7. The Whisperer ~ by Donato Carrisi
8. “The Women of Nell Gwynne’s” ~ by Kage Baker

2011

1. Blue ~ Lou Aronica
2. Changeling Moon ~ by Dani Harper
3. Delirium ~ by Lauren Oliver
4. Eddie - The Lost Youth of Edgar Allan Poe ~ written and illustrated by Scott Gustafson
5. Electric Ant ~ by Philip K. Dick (adapted by David Mack; illustrated by Pascal Aline)
6. Feed (audio) ~ by M. T. Anderson
7. Galore ~ by Michael Crummey
8. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (Audio) ~ by Margaret Atwood
9. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (in audio) ~ by Susanna Clarke
10. Kafka on the Shore ~ by Haruki Marakami
11. Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 ~ edited by Kevin J. Anderson
12. Possession ~ by A.S. Byatt (in audio)
13. Promises to Keep ~ by Charles De Lint
14. Shadow Bound ~ by Erin Kellison
15. Spellwright (Spellwright, #1) ~ by Blake Charlton
16. The Afflicted Girls ~ by Susy Witten
17. The Conference of the Birds ~ by Peter Sis
18. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making ~ by Catherynne M. Valente
19. The Hermetica of Elysium ~ by Annmarie Banks
20. The Hobbit ~ by J.R.R. Tolkien; adapted by David Wenzel
21. The Oracle of Stamboul ~ by Michael David Lukas
22. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (in audio) ~ by Margaret Atwood
23. The Picture of Dorian Gray (in audio) ~ by Oscar Wilde; read by Simon Vance
24. The Sandman - The Dream Hunters ~ by Neil Gaiman; illustrated by Yoshitak Amano
25. The Uncertain Places ~ by Lisa Goldstein
26. Those Across the River (audio) ~ by Christopher Buehlman
27. Trouble and Her Friends ~ by Melissa Scott
28. Warm Bodies ~ by Isaac Marion
29. Willy ~ by Robert Dunbar
30. Wither (Chemical Garden Trilogy # 1) ~ by Lauren DeStefano
31. Wuthering Heights ~ by Emily Brontë

2009 ~ 2010

1. Alone ~ by Marissa Farrar (vamp horror/uf)
2. Cursed ~ by Jeremy Shipp (horror- bizarro)
3. Dracula ~ by Bram Stoker
4. Haunted Legends ~ edited by Datlow and Mamatas
5. Hothouse Flower ~ by Margot Berwin (magical realism)
6. Inside Out ~ by Maria Snyder (young adult – girls science fiction)
7. Keeper ~ by Kathi Appelt (young adult/tween, mythic - slipstream)
8. Life As We Knew It;
9. This World We Live In; and
10. The Dead and The Gone ~ by Susan Beth (all linked here in one post) – (apocalyptic, young adult)
11. My Name is Memory ~ Ann Brashares
12. One Bloody Thing After Another ~ by Joey Comeau (lgbt horror)
13. Our Tragic Universe ~ Scarlett Thomas
14. Pathfinder ~ by Orson Scott Card
15. Post-Human ~ by David Simpson (sci fi)
16. RELEASE ~ by Nicole Hadaway – (horror, vampire)
17. Soulless ~ by Gail Carrigan – (urban fantasy, steam punk, vampire, werewolf)
18. Tender Morsels ~ by Margo Lanagan – (dark fantasy, fairytale retelling )
19. The Arrival ~ (a wordless novel) by Shaun Tan
20. The Handbook for Lightening Strike Survivors ~ by Michele Young Stone
21. The Healer's War ~ by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
22. The Magic Warble ~ by Victoria Simcox (children’s fantasy)
23. The Metamorphosis ~ by Frank Kafka (horror, classic, literature)
24. The Passage ~ by Justin Cronin (horror)
25. The Reincarnationist;
26. The Memorist;
27. and The Hypnotist ~ by MJ Rose (all three books in one post) (paranormal)
28. The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight ~ by Gina Ochsner (slip stream, literary)
29. The Song of The Whale ~ by Uri Orlev (fant/myth)
30. The Stupidest Angel - by Christopher Moore (horror, humor, zombie)
31. The Tempest ~ rewritten by Ann Keay Beneduce
32. The Things That Keep Us Here ~ by Carla Buckley (adult apocalyptic)
33. The Unit ~ by Ninni Holmqvist (dystopian sci fi)

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For a total of 74 books read in a less than a 3 year period. I have 26 more books to read to reach my 100 goal.

Here’s to hoping that lists of books don’t bore your to pieces cause I have a few more coming up. I am still playing catch-up for our “real-life event” filled 2011. Not the best year, but what can one do? “Have a cup of tea, and get on with it!” as the English say.