For 2011 I had three reading goals:
Complete unfinished novel series.
- DONE - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) - Rowling, J.K.
- DONE -Â Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)Â -Â Rowling, J.K.
- DONE -Â Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)Â -Â Rowling, J.K.
- DONE -Â Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)Â -Â Rowling, J.K.
- DONE -Â Chainfire (Sword of Truth, #9)Â -Â Terry Goodkind
- DONE -Â Phantom (Sword of Truth, #10)Â -Â Terry Goodkind
- DONE -Â Confessor (Sword of Truth, #11)Â -Â Terry Goodkind
- DONE -Â Children of the Mind (Ender’s Saga, #4)Â -Â Orson Scott Card
- DONE -Â A War of Gifts (Ender’s Saga, #5)Â -Â Orson Scott Card
- DONE -Â Ender in Exile (Ender’s Saga, #6)Â -Â Orson Scott Card
- DONE -Â Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow Series, #2)Â -Â Orson Scott Card
- DONE -Â Shadow Puppets (Shadow Series, #3)Â -Â Orson Scott Card
- DONEÂ -Â Shadow of the Giant (Shadow Series, #4)Â -Â Orson Scott Card
- DONE - The Harsh Cry of the Heron (Tales of the Otori, #4) - Hearn, Lian
- DONE - Heaven’s Net is Wide (Tales of the Otori, #5 Prequel) - Hearn, Lian
- DONE -Â Prelude to Foundation (Foundation: Prequel, #1)Â -Â Asimov, Isaac
- DONE -Â Forward the Foundation (Foundation: Prequel, #2)Â -Â Asimov, Isaac
- DONE – Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2) - Asimov, Isaac
- DONE -Â Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)Â Â -Â Asimov, Isaac
- DONE -Â Foundation’s Edge (Foundation, #4)Â -Â Asimov, Isaac
- DONE -Â Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)Â -Â Asimov, Isaac
- DONE -Â The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #2)Â -Â Douglas Adams
- DONE -Â Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #3)Â -Â Douglas Adams
- DONE -Â So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #4)Â -Â Douglas Adams
- DONE -Â Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #5)Â -Â Douglas Adams
Complete the first 25 of the BBC The Big Read Top 100.
- DONE - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- DONE - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- DONE -Â Catch-22Â -Â Joseph Heller
- DONE - Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
- DONE - Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- DONE - Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
- DONE - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- DONE - The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- DONE - Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- DONE – Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- DONE - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
GAVE UP - War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy- DONE - Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Goodreads 2011 Reading Challenge: Read 52 books.  (Raised from 50 to 52 on Oct 21) Read 56.
Not Your Oprah’s Book Club (Facebook, Goodreads) selections:
(Facebook page for Athens book club)
- DONE January- True Grit - Charles Portis
- DONE February - As She Climbed Across the Table - Jonathan Lethem
- DONE March - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
- DONE March - Then Again, Maybe I Won’t - Judy Blume
- DONE April - No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
- DONE May - Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story - Isabel Gillies
- July also in BBC list above Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- DONE August - And Then There Were None - Christie, Agatha
- DONE September - The Floatplane Notebooks - Clyde Edgerton
- DONE November - The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
Offlist:
- A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
- DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education - Anya Kamenetz
- Being Geek - Michael Lopp
- The Next Fifty Years - Brockman, John
- The Road - McCarthy, Cormac
- Native Son - Richard Wright
- Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
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