Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Basics Challenge ~ books read

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The Basics Challenge ~ books read list.

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


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

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)

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.