101 Books Challenge

Back in October, I discovered the 101 in 1001 project (full credit for the brilliant 101 in 1001 idea goes to Day Zero) and was completely captivated. Here was a plan both cool and practical. I started tweaking the idea to fit my own needs.

While Rachel from Balance and Blueberries and I started the 101 Recipes Challenge, I also started compiling a list of 101 books.

The list for my 101 Books Challenge includes books that I've always wanted to read and never had time to tackle, books that I started and never finished, books recommended by friends and family, books by authors that just seem important, books on business, books on writing, novels, non-fiction, and poetry.

Essentially, it's a massive random conglomeration of titles that are linked only by their participation in this project. I'll probably drop a few current titles as time goes on and I find other books that I want to add.

My starting line is a bit fuzzy, but I'm setting an arbitrary goal of August 12, 2013 (a convenient date, since that is also the 101 Recipes Challenge deadline). Join the challenge! (If you would like to be added to the 101 Books Challenge blogroll, e-mail your link to emilyadams829 at hotmail dot com and place a link to this page on your home-page.)

Any suggestions for my list? What's on your book list?



The List
  1. 1984 - George Orwell
  2. 4 – Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
  3. 48 Days to the Work You Love – Dan Miller and Dave Ramsey
  4. A Chance to Die - The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael - Elisabeth Elliot
  5. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  6. A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter - William Deresiewicz 8/13/12
  7. A Streetcar Named Desire - Thornton Wilder
  8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- Betty Smith*
  9. Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis 5/8/2012
  10. An American Childhood – Annie Dillard
  11. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  12. As I lay dying – William Faulkner
  13. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
  14. At the Back of the North Wind - George MacDonald
  15. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell 9/23/11
  16. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  17. City of God by Augustine
  18. Chicago Poems - Carl Sandburg
  19. Confessions - Augustine
  20. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  21. Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury
  22. Death by Love - Mark Driscoll 9/21/11
  23. Desiring God – John Piper 2/?/12
  24. Enchantment - Guy Kawasaki
  25. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  26. Essays of E.B. White - E. B. White
  27. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
  28. Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography - Hans Christian Anderson
  29. Father Fiction - Donald Miller
  30. Fire by Sebastian Junger
  31. Good to Great- Jim Collins
  32. Graceful - Seth Godin 3/16/12
  33. Great Son - Edna Ferber
  34. Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in a Digital Age - William Power  3/12/12
  35. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
  36. Holy the Firm – Annie Dillard
  37. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  38. In the Grip of Grace - Max Lucado 5/18/2011
  39. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
  40. Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 6/5/2011
  41. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  42. Let Me Be A Woman- Elisabeth Elliot 10/27/11
  43. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  44. Linchpin by Seth Godin
  45. Living by Fiction – Annie Dillard
  46. Louder than Words - Andy Stanley
  47. My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
  48. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  49. Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
  50. No Room at the Inn - Edna Ferber
  51. Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton 3/22/12
  52. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
  53. Our Town - Thornton Wilder
  54. Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis 
  55. Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
  56. Peril at End House - Agatha Christie
  57. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard  4/17/11
  58. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 9/10/11
  59. Quitter - Jon Acuff 6/15/12
  60. Radical - David Platt
  61. Renovations of the Heart – Dallas Willard
  62. Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki 5/5/12
  63. Rivers to the Sea - Sara Teasdale
  64. Sandition - Jane Austen
  65. Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosney
  66. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
  67. Silas Mariner- George Eliot
  68. Show Boat - Edna Ferber
  69. That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis
  70. The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  71. The Brothers Karamakazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  72. The E-Myth Revisited - Samuel Gerber
  73. The Everlasting Man - G.K. Chesterton
  74. The Forsythe Saga – John Galsworthy
  75. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
  76. The Go-Getter - Peter Kyne
  77. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
  78. The Joys of Love Madeleine L’Engle
  79. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  80. Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
  81. The Murder of Roger Ackaroyd by Agatha Christie
  82. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  83. The Question Behind the Question – John Miller
  84. The Reason for God - Tim Keller
  85. The Spirit of the Disciplines –Dallas Willard
  86. Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell 2/6/11
  87. Integrity - Henry Cloud
  88. The War of Art - Stephen Pressfield 4/3/12
  89. The Writing Life – Annie Dillard 8/20/11
  90. Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
  91. Tribes - Seth Godin 10/6/11
  92. Velvet Elvis - Rob Bell 2/27/11
  93. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  94. Weird: Because Normal Isn't
  95. What's So Amazing About Grace? - Philip Yancy  4/26/12
  96. When I don’t Desire God - John Piper
  97. Who You Are When No One's Looking - Bill Hybels
  98. William and Mary Trilogy, Volume I: I will Maintain - Marjorie Bowen
  99. William and Mary Trilogy, Volume II: Defender of the Faith - Marjorie Bowen
  100. William and Mary Trilogy, Volume III: For God and the King - Marjorie Bowen
  101. Zen in the Art of Writing – Ray Bradbury
*I am currently reading books in bold
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