
All told, I have finished 26 books from my list thus far. Here they are:
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (9/12)
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (1/13)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (6/12)
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (6/12)
- The Twits by Roald Dahl (5/12)
- The Witches by Roald Dahl(3/12)
- Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt (5/12)
- One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde (8/12)
- The Woman Who Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde (2/13)
- Deadline by Mira Grant (3/13)
- Hallowed by Cynthia Hand (8/12)
- Boundless by Cynthia Hand (3/13)
- Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb(6/12)
- Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb(5/12)
- New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb (6/12)
- Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb (7/12)
- Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb (12/12)
- Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb (5/13)
- Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (2/13)
- The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson (4/13)
- The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (6/13)
- Beekeeping for Beginners (Short Story) by Laurie R. King (9/12)
- All-Of-A-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (2/13)
- Being Billy by Phil Earle (2/13)
- The Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger (1/13)
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (6/13)
Not too shabby but still a bit embarrassing. Several other bloggers were inspired by my list and made lists of their own but I'm not going to link to them because they all seem/ed to be far more successful than I was thus far and this is the part of the internet where I can pretend I kick ass even when I am just meh at something...like completing this list of books to read. Lately (read: since about two months into this challenge until now), I've been thinking about revisiting this list and amending it. I think it would be better for fickle ol' me to have a list, yes, but a list that has some fluidity to it. Therefore, I am going to nix these 26 off the list as well as about 20-30 more that I have an inkling I will never want to get to in the time period and those I don't want to read anymore at all. Also, I think it was optimistic (read: delusional) of me to include long series to finish. Sometimes series go horribly wrong midway (Anita Blake, Sookie Stackhouse, & the Undead series, anyone?) and I need at least the first book in a series to see whether it will be a good fit so I have deleted the remaining books in series that are new to me and only left on the first books.

1. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
4. Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth
5. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
6. It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
7. Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I chose most of these because they are movies I have seen so many times that I know them nearly by heart. Several of them I have read before but want to read anew to compare them to their respective movie/s. This is particularly true for Little Women because I signed up for Classics Retold, a feature coming up in September hosted by Alyssa at Books Take You Places, Alison at The Cheap Reader, and a few other bloggers in which tons of different bloggers tackle all the versions (book, movie, tv show, etc.) of a classic and compare the retellings. I've chosen Little Women for that event and I'm excited to get started on all of it. What are your favorite books that have been made into movies? I have so, so many that I don't even know where to begin.

9. Bronze Gods by A.A. Aguirre
10. Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield
11. Pivot Point by Kasie West
12. Golden by Jessi Kirby
13. A Brief History of Montmoray by Michelle Cooper
14. The Amber Amulet by Craig Silvey
15. Wildlife by Fiona Wood
16. The Book of Broken Hearts by Sarah Ockler
17. Girl, Defective by Simmone Howell
18. All This Could End by Steph Bowe
19. A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty
20. The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
21. The ZigZag Effect by Lili Wilkinson
And a few arcs (of the many) that I really want to read:
22. Vortex by S.J. Kincaid
23. Raven Flight by Juliet Marillier
24. Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
25. 15 Days Without A Head by Dave Cousins
26. The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand by Gregory Galloway
27. The 100 by Kass Morgan
28. This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
29. Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce

30. The Watchmen by Alan Moore
31. Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughan (read the first, at least 1 more)
32. The Transmetropolitan series by Warren Ellis (at least 1)
33. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
34. Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
35. The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman (at least 1)
While perusing my shelves, I found a lot of books I bought with the intention of reading them because I loved something else I read by that author. With that in mind, here are a few additions to the list that are around because I love the author (for one reason or another):
36. A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson
37. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
38. Hold Still by Nina LaCour
39. Stories of My Life and Others by Ted Chiang
40. The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
- Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- All The King's Men by Robert Penn
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Earthseed by Pamela Sargent
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
- Green Rider by Kristen Britain
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
- The Boy by Roald Dahl
- The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
- Going Solo by Roald Dahl
- Danny and the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
- George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
- The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl
- Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
- The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
- Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre
- Doubleblind by Ann Aguirre
- Killbox by Ann Aguirre
- Aftermath by Ann Aguirre
- Endgame by Ann Aguirre
- Blackout by Mira Grant
- The Hidden Star by M.K. Hobson
- The Likeness by Tana French
- Faithful Place by Tana French
- Broken Harbour by Tana French
- Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
- Soulless by Gail Carriger
- The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
- As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgalov
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Madapple by Christina Meldrum
- Between Shades of Gray by Rita Sepetys
- Kristin Lavransdattar by Sigrid Undset
- The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge
- The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Taste of a Man by Slavenka Drakulic
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Chime by Franny Billingsley
- Burn Bright by Marianne de Pierres
- The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
- How To Save A Life by Sara Zarr
- Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor
- The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
- Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
So, what do you think? Did you start your original list after me and then LEAVE ME IN YOUR DUST? (*cough*BONNIE*cough*) Are you still working on a list of your own? If so, leave me a link in the comments and I'll swing by and harass you about it every once in a while. Feel free to do the same for me. Or maybe start a list of your own and link me to that! I LOVE lists, especially goal lists of books to read.