*I'm going to keep this at the top of my blog for now, just as a way for me to keep track of what I read. *

I always have lofty goals for my New Year, but I wanted to keep it a bit more simple this year.  So, in addition to the Home Sweet Home Challenge, I wanted to have some sort of reading goal.   There was a post over at the Homeschool Library  about something called the Triple 8 Challenge:  Read 8 books each in 8 different categories in 2008.  I love this idea!!   So, I spent much of my Christmas vacation putting together my list.  It still isn't complete, but I figure leaving some empty spaces in a few categories will allow for new books, etc.

So, without further ado, here is my list:

Classics

Gulliver's Travels - Swift
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Austen
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Dracula - Stoker
Frankenstein - Shelley
The Pearl - Steinbeck
The Three Musketeers - Dumas

Fantasy (still need 1 more here)

The Silmarillion - Tolkien
The Hobbit - Tolkien
The Children of Hurin - Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Rowling
Redwall - Jacques

History/Historical Fiction

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - See
Peony in Love - See
Helen of Troy - George
The Other Boleyn Girl - Gregory
1776 - McCullough
The Historian - Kostova
The Zookeeper's Wife - Ackerman
The Other Queen - Gregory

Non-Fiction

I Am America (and so Can You!) - Colbert
A Walk in the Woods - Bryson
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Nafisi
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium
The Trapp Family Singers - Trapp
Marley & Me - Grogan
The Year of Living Biblically - Jacob
Fast Food Nation - Schlosser

Young Adult/Children

Peter Pan - Barrie
The Tale of Despareaux - DiCamillo
Tuck Everlasting - Babbit
Eight Cousins - Alcott
Rose in Bloom - Alcott
Bridge to Terabithia - Patterson
Island of the Blue Dolphins - O'Dell
The Westing Game - Raskin

Religious/Vocation

Joan of Arc - Twain
We Pray: Living in God's Presence - Lukefahr
Imitation of Christ - Kempis
Passionate Housewives Desperate For God - Chancey
The Mom Walk - Clarkson
A Picture Perfect Childhood -  Gibson
Graced and Gifted - Biblical Wisdom for the Homemaker's Heart - Hahn
Audrey - Conde

Autobiography/Biography

Red Scarf Girl - Jiang
Falling Leaves: True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Mah
The Life of Elizabeth I - Weir
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Weir
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultry and Murder in Medieval England - Weir (Ok, so technically I didn't finish this--but I got 3/4 before I had to return it--so close enough, right? :P )
Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley - Weir
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life - Weir
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Books That Don't Fit Any of the Above Mentioned Categories

Before Green Gables - Wilson
Cell - King
The Eyre Affair - Fforde
The Well of Lost Plots - Fforde
Watership Down- Adams
The Society of S - Hubbard
Kite Runner - Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Hosseini

I intend to have a monthly post about how my challenge is going...maybe giving little reviews of the books, or at least rating what I've read.  

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