2013 Read-a-thon Wrap-up
What a great year it has been! Remember this post I made about the challenges I was going to be a part of? I posted it unsure if I will get the targets. I did successfully complete all the challenges and instead of randomly reading books I planned, covered a variety of genres and authors. It has been an absolute amazing journey.
I challenged myself to read 75 books on GoodReads and without counting re-reads I hit the target by mid-November. Again I surprised myself. It made me wonder if I should have set higher targets. I end the year with 90 books read (+15 re-reads). I have a couple of books I picked from the library and a couple I started but have not managed to complete. I guess they will be pushed to 2014 as I don’t plan to read much the next 4 days of the year.
I also managed to read 6 Australian Women Writers (AWW 13) for another challenge I am a part of. The books with a * next to them are my reads for AWW 13.
I am also set for 2014 challenges.
Here is a list of all the books I read for Anne & Kristilyn’s 2013 Book Bingo Reading Challenge.
Books from the TBR pile column
Q2
Q1
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- The Color Purple
- Love and Longing in Bombay
- English August
- A farewell to Arms
- Arranged Love
- The Wandering Falcon
- Pleasure seekers
- Games at Twilight
- The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction
- The Secret Wishlist
Books that are a part of a series column
Q4
- Tears of the Giraffe (No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, #2)
- The Kalahari Typing School for Men ((No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, #4)
Q3
- Bury your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #6)
- The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #3)
- A Trick of Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #7)
- The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #8)
Q2
- Midnight in Austenland (Austenland #2)
- The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency (No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, #1)
Q1
- Austenland #1
- The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy #1)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter #1)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter #5)
Books Released in 2013 column
Q4
- Inferno
- Visitation Street
- How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #9)
- The Longest Ride
- We are Water
Q3
Q2
Free Square
Persuasion
Books everyone has read by me column
Q4
- Gone with the wind
- The Thorn Birds*
- The Book Thief
- Tuesdays with Moorie
- The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants
- The Handmaid’s Tale
Q3
- The Great Gatsby
- The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Q2
- Pride and Prejudice
- Wuthering Heights
- The Kite Runner
- Oliver Twist
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (I have never read this book before and it was quite a pleasure to finally read it )
- The Diary of Anne Frank
Re-read books Column
Q4
- Eat, Pray, Love
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Q3
- The Sea of Poppies
- Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1)
- Never Let Me Go
- Julie and Julia
- The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon #2)
- The Lovely Bones
- To Kill a Mocking Bird
- Memoirs of a Geisha
Q2
- Harry Potter (Book 6)
- White Tiger
- The Palace of Illusions
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- East Wind: West Wind
Additional Books read in 2013
- Wanderlove
- The Krishna Key
- Water for Elephants
- The Submission
- Mrs.Dalloway
- The Bee’s Kiss (Joe Sandilands #5)
- Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo #2)
- No one writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
- Bitter Sweets
- A Monsoon Feast
- Naomi
- The House on Mango Street
- Angels and Demons (Robert Langdon #1)
- Running from Love
- The Bell Jar
- The Secret River*
- Picnic at Hanging Rock*
- India Black (Madam of Espionage Mysteries #1)
- The Joy Luck Club
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Q and A
- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
- Where’d You Go, Bernadatte
- The Boy Who Fell to Earth*
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- The Hope Factory
- The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Sex, Lies and Bonsai*
- Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes
- Addition*
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