50 Book Challenge

Click the link to read the review for each book. The completion date follows the book title in parentheses.

1. Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman’s Quest for an Orgasm by Mara Altman (January 3, 2010)
2. Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco (January 6, 2010)
3. Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm by Percy Carey & Ronald Wimberly (January 13, 2010)
4. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje (January 18, 2010)
5. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (January 23, 2010)
6. Belinda by Anne Rice as Anne Rampling (January 30, 2010)
7. Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat (February 3, 2010)
8. Chokecherry by Norma Hawkins (February 12, 2010)
9. Alibi Junior High by Greg Logsted (February 16, 2010)
10. Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher (February 25, 2010)
11. Memory Book by Howard Engel (February 25, 2010)
12. The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley (March 5, 2010)
13. Open Arms by Marina Endicott (March 5, 2010)
14. Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak by Deborah Ellis (March 11, 2010)
15. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (March 19, 2010)
16. The Sinner’s Guide to Confession by Phyllis Schieber (March 21, 2010)
17. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (March 29, 2010)
18. Stuffed by Eric Walters (March 31, 2010)
19. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan (April 3, 2010)
20. Bone, Volume 1: Out of Boneville by Jeff Smith (April 6, 2010)
21. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro (April 10, 2010)
22. Iqbal by Francesco D’Adamo (April 10, 2010)
23. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (April 10, 2010)
24. November Blues by Sharon Draper (April 11, 2010)
25. Food Rules by Michael Pollan (April 11, 2010)
26. The Deep End Gang by Peggy Dymond Leavey (April 12, 2010)
27. Batman: Year One by Frank Miller, with David Mazzucchelli, Richmond Lewis, and Todd Klein (April 13, 2010)
28. The Lit Report by Sarah Harvey (April 14, 2010)
29. You Can Run by Norah McClintock (April 19, 2010)
30. Last Chance by Norah McClintock (April 20, 2010)
31. Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman by Sheema Khan (April 22, 2010)
32. The Shepherd’s Granddaughter by Anne Laurel Carter (April 25, 2010)
33. The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (April 27, 2010)
34. Watchmen by Alan Moore (April 30, 2010)
35. Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (May 1, 2010)
36. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (May 2, 2010)
37. Locavore: From Farmers’ Fields to Rooftop Gardens – How Canadians are Changing the Way We Eat by Sarah Elton (May 7, 2010)
38. Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner (May 9, 2010)
39. Avril Lavigne’s Make 5 Wishes, Volume 1 by Camilla D’Errico and Joshua Dysart (May 10, 2010)
40. Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron (May 15, 2010)
41. Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper (May 17, 2010)
42. Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled Water by Peter H. Gleick (May 24, 2010)
43. Little Blog on the Prairie – by Cathleen Davitt Bell (May 26, 2010)
44. The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew – Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner (June 2, 2010)
45. Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov’s Little Girl All Over Again by Graham Vickers (June 4, 2010)
46. Lovely by Kris Starr (June 6, 2010)
47. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (June 8, 2010)
48. Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat by Temra Costa (June 10, 2010)
49. i.d.: Stuff That Happens to Define Us by Kate Scowan (June 15, 2010)
50. Purge by Sarah Darer Littman (June 16, 2010)