I’ll be participating in the 50 book challenge this year. Even though I love to read, I don’t always get the chance to read what I want whenever I want. So here goes!

JANUARY:

1. Fathers and Sons, by Turgenev

2. Fortune and Fate, by Sharon Shinn

3. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (in progress)

FEBRUARY:

4. The Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnette

5. With Malice Toward None, by Stephan Boates (in progress)

MARCH:

6. Anne of Windy Poplars (#4 in series)

7. The Dragon’s Village (Yuan-tsung Chen, an autobiographical novel of revolutionary China)

8. My Sister’s Keeper (Jody Picoult)

9. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)

10. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

APRIL:

11. Brisingr

12. The Pale Assassin

13. The Whispering Road

14. Lavinia

15. The Kitchen God’s Wife

MAY:

16. Book of a Thousand Days (Shannon Hale)

17. Daughter of Xanadu (Dori Jones Yang)

18. The Cup of the World (John Dickinson)***

JUNE:

19. The Widow and the King (John Dickinson)***

20. Sisters of the Sword—Chasing Secrets (Maya Snow)

21. Sisters of the Sword—Journey Through Fire

22. This side of paradise (?)—(Scott Fitzgerald)

JULY

23. Left to Tell—Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Immaculee Ilibagiza, with Steve Erwin)

24. The Reluctant Heiress (by Eva Ibbotson)

25. Keeper of the Night (Kimberly Willis Holt)

26. Eon (Alison Goodman)

27. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)

AUGUST:

28. I, Mona Lisa (Jeanne Kalogridis)

29. Ellis Island (?)

SEPTEMBER:

30. The Greatest Knight (Elizabeth Chadwick)

NOVEMBER:

31. Before Versailles (Karleen Koen)