Here’s where I’ll record books read, in the appropriate challenge category.

2013 Middle East Reading Challenge COMPLETED

1. A Sky So Close / Betool Khedairi
2. Women Without Men / Shahrmush Parsipur
3. Snow / Orhan Pamuk
4. West of the Jordan / Laila Halaby
5. The Liberated Bride / A.B. Yehoshua
6. The Conversion / Aharon Appelfeld
7. The Blind Man’s Garden / Nadeem Aslam
8. Girls of Riyadh / Rajaa Alsanea
9. The Cairo House / Samia Serageldin
10. I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman / Joumana Haddad
11. The Arabian Nights / Husain Haddawy, trans.
12. The Committee / Sun’allah Ibrahim
13. Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith / Gina B. Nahai
14. An Arab Melancholia / Abdellah Taia
15. The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie / Malu Halasa
16. The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini
17. The New Lion of Damascus / David W. Lesch

2013 Literary Exploration Challenge

Insane Level

Adventure: Boy Nobody / Allen Zadoff

Auto-biography or Biography / An American Bride in Kabul, Phyllis Chesler

Chick Lit: The Sweetness of Forgetting / Kristin Harmel

Children’s Book: Bridge to Terabithia / Katherine Paterson

Classic: The Postman Always Rings Twice / James M. Cain

Drama: 4000 Miles / Amy Herzog

Dystopian: Allegiant / Veronica Roth

Educational: The Runner’s World Big Book of Marathon and Half-Marathon Training

Erotica: Look Homeward, Erotica / The Kensington Ladies’ Erotica Society

Espionage: The Prague Cemetery  / Umberto Eco

Fantasy: The Aware / Glenda Larke

Gothic: The Castle of Otranto  / Horace Walpole

Hard-boiled: The Thin Man / Dashiell Hammett

Historical Fiction: The Third Son / Julie Wu

Horror: Blood Oranges / Caitlin Kiernan (writing as Kathleen Tierney)

Humor: Apocalypse Cow / Michael Logan

Literary Fiction: Tell the Wolves I’m Home / Carol Rifka Brunt

Mystery: A Rule Against Murder / Louise Penny

Noir: Crashed / Timothy Hallinan

Non-fiction: Downscaling / Dave and Kathy Babbitt

Paranormal: Joyland / Stephen King

Philosophical: Sabbath Keeping: Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Rest / Lynne M. Baab

Poetry: Only the Senses Sleep / Wayne Miller

Romance: Letters From Skye / Jessica Brockmole

Science Fiction: Kraken / China Mieville

Steampunk: The Hunter / Theresa Meyers

Supernatural: White Tiger / Kylie Chan

True Crime: Quiet Dell / Jayne Anne Phillips

Urban Fantasy: Chicks Kick Butt / Rachel Caine, ed.

Young Adult: Shadow and Bone / Leigh Bardugo

2013 Witch’s Reading Challenge COMPLETED–initiate level

1. Spellcasters / Pauline Bartel
2. Her Hidden Children / Chas S. Clifton
3. In Praise of the Crone / Dorothy Morrison
4. Witchcraft: An Alternative Path / Ann Moura
5. Witchcraft From the Inside / Raymond Buckland
6. The Rosicrucians / Christopher McIntosh

Books and Movies 2013 Essay Challenge COMPLETED

1. The Chicken Chronicles / Alice Walker
2. Sugar In My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex / Erica Jong, ed.
3. Free Will / Sam Harris
4. No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood / Henriette Mantel, ed.
5. One Hundred Great Essays / Robert Diyanni

Dive Into Poetry Challenge 2013 COMPLETED

1. Metaphysical Dog / Frank Bidart
2. The Exchange / Sophie Cabot Black

Embarrassment of Riches TBR Reading Challenge 2013

COMPLETED–Bronze level

1. This Creature Fair / Wayne Wise
2. Dr. Susan Love’s Menopause & Hormone Book / Susan M. Love, M.D.
3. Life After Life / Kate Atkinson
4. White Jacket Required / Jenna Weber
5. An Ideal Bookshelf / Thessaly la Force, ed.
6. Tiny Beautiful Things / Cheryl Strayed
7. Everyday Food Light / Martha Stewart Living
8. Bust DIY Guide to Life / Laurie Henzel and Debbie Stoller
9. The Ocean at the End of the Lane / Neil Gaiman
10. The American Yoga Association’s Beginners Manual / Alice Christensen
11. Slow Time / Waverly Fitzgerald
12. Readers’ Advisory Service in the Public Library / Joyce G. Saricks
13. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause / The Boston Women’s Health Collective
14. Drift / Rachel Maddow
15. Main Street Vegan / Victoria Moran
16. Choosing Me Before We / Christine Arylo

Graphic Novel Challenge 2013 COMPLETED–Level 1

1. Drama / Raina Telgemeier (children’s category)
2. Missed Connections / Sophie Blackall
3. Nemo: Heart of Ice / Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill
4. Devi #1 / Shekhar Kapur
5. 7 Against Chaos / Harlan Ellison
6. Dragon Puncher / James Kochalka
7. The Sandman: Overture / Neil Gaiman
8. The Blonde, Vol. 1 / F. Saudelli
9. Antique Bakery, Vol. 1 / Fumi Yoshinaga
10. Hyperbole and a Half / Allie Brosh
11. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For / Alison Bechdel
12. Goth / Otsuichi
13. Boxers / Gene Luen Yang
14. van helsing’s night off / nicolas mahler

Library Books Reading Challenge 2013 COMPLETED

1.  American Gypsy / Oksana Marafioti
2. 40 Days to Personal Revolution / Baron Baptiste
3. Dream More / Dolly Parton
4. The Information Diet / Clay A. Johnson
5. Light On Yoga / B.K.S. Iyengar

6. Frontera / Rick Bayless

7. Digital Barbarism /Mark Helprin

8. Salvage and Demolition /

   Tim Powers

9. The City of Devi /

   Manil Suri

10. Future Scenarios / David Holmgren
11. Learned Optimism /Martin Seligman
12. The Searchers / Glenn Frankel
13. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia / Mohsin Hamid
14. The Next Time You See Me / Holly Goddard Jones
15. Give Me Everything You Have / James Lasdun
16. The Dinner / Herman Koch
17. Primal Leadership / Daniel Goleman
18. Banished / Lauren Drain
19. Tenth of December / George Saunders
20. Quick and Easy Vegan Slow Cooking / Carla Kelly
21. The Woman Upstairs / Claire Messud
22. Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating / Erik Marcus
23. Sugar in the Blood / Andrea Stuart
24. Ordinary Genius / Kim Addonizio
25. Being Vegan / Joanne Stepaniak
26. Sapphire Blue / Kerstin Gier
27. The Humanity Project / Jean Thompson
28. More or Less / Jeff Shinabarger
29. Digital Disconnect / Robert W. McChesney
30. The Handheld Library / Thomas A. Peters and Lori Bell, eds.
31. Go Big Or Go Home / Kat Von D
32. Snapper / Brian Kimberling
33. The Other Typist / Suzanne Rindell
34. Vital Yoga / Meta Chaya Hirschl
35. My Life as a White Trash Zombie / Diana Rowland
36. Bird by Bird / Anne Lamott
37. 11/22/63 / Stephen King
38. Writing Without Teachers / Peter Elbow
39. Balance Your Life, Balance The Scale / Jennifer Tuma-Young
40. Red-Headed Stepchild / Jaye Wells
41. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock / Matthew Quick
42. The Shining Girls / Lauren Beukes
43. For A Song and a Hundred Songs / Liao Yiwu
44. Wartime Kiss / Alexander Nemerov
45. The Dark Side of the Enlightenment / John V. Fleming
46. Incarnadine / Mary Szybist
47. 12 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn / James Proimos
48. Geek Wisdom / Stephen H. Segal, ed.
49. Vegan Deli / Joanne Stepaniak
50. Report From Planet Midnight / Nalo Hopkinson

Peek-A-Book 2013 Women Challenge — Wonder Woman Level (16+ books) COMPLETED

1. Arcadia / Lauren Groff
2. How Should A Person Be? / Sheila Heti
3. Ruby Red / Kerstin Gier
4. Alice Bliss / Laura Harrington

5. Healing Spaces / 

   Esther M. Sternberg, M.D.

6. Calling Me Home / 

   Julie Kibler

7. Yoga Bitch / Suzanne Morrison

8. What Kids Really Want That Money Can’t Buy / Betsy Taylor

9. You Can Buy Happiness (And It’s Cheap) / 

   Tammy Strobel

10. The Selection / Kiera Cass

11. Code Name Verity / Elizabeth Wein
12. There Once Lived A Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband and He Hanged Himself / Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
13. Simple Days / Marlene A. Schiwy
14. Counter Clockwise / Ellen Langer
15. We Can Cook / Jessica Fishman Levenson
16. Revenge / Yoko Ogawa

Wishlist Challenge 2013 COMPLETED

1. Crash Course in Cataloging for Non-Catalogers /Allison G. Kaplan
2. Frugal Luxuries / Tracey McBride
3. An Enlarged Heart / Cynthia Zarin
4. Detroit / Charlie LeDuff
5. The Fault in Our Stars / John Green
6. Pound Foolish / Helaine Olen
7. Sticks and Stones / Emily Bazelon
8. To Save Everything, Click Here / Evgeny Morozov
9. Vegan Family Meals / Ann Gentry
10. What is Stephen Harper Reading? / Yann Martel
11. Is It Me or My Adrenals? / Marcelle Pick
12. Clockwork Princess  / Cassandra Clare

Other Books Read in 2013

1. The First Part Last / Angela Johnson
2. Skinny Bitch Bakery / Kim Barnouin
3. The Nutritional Yeast Cookbook / Joanne Stepaniak
4. Authentic Chinese Cuisine / Bryanna Clark Grogan
5. The New Soy Cookbook / Lorna Sass
6. Mug’ems: Soups & Breads / CQ Products
7. Tofu Cookery / Louise Hagler
8. The Boy in the Suitcase / Lene Kaaberbol and Agnette Friis
9. In the Bleak Midwinter / Julia Spencer-Fleming
10. A Fountain Filled With Blood / Julia Spencer-Fleming
11. After Iris / Natasha Farrant
12. Reign of Error / Diane Ravitch
13. Longbourn / Jo Baker
14. At the Wall of the Almighty / Farnoosh Moshiri
15. Servants / Lucy Lethbridge
16. The Odyssey / Homer, trans. Stephen Mitchell
17. Sweet Debbie’s Organic Treats / Debbie Adler
18. The Flying Brownie / Shirley Fan
19. Vegan Slow Cooking / Kathy Hester
20. The First Muslim / Lesley Hazleton
21. Gourmet Gifts / Dinah Corley
22. Mug ‘Ems: Sweet Things
23. The Apartment / Greg Baxter
24. Daughter / asha bandele
25. Out of the Deep I Cry / Julia Spencer-Fleming
26. Eleanor and Park / Rainbow Rowell
27. This is How You Lose Her / Jumot Diaz
28. Make Me Do Things / Victoria Redel
29. Spider Woman’s Daughter / Anne Hillerman
30. Vegan Slow Cooking for Two, or Just For You / Kathy Hester