Challenges
Reading with Sea
Goal: To read 100 books in one year.
Timeline: This challenge will be running from March 2010 through February 2011
Guidelines:
-Participants will read 100 novels during the challenge timeframe.
-Overlaps with other challenges are allowed as long as books are read during the period of the challenge.
-Post as you go or make a list of all the books you intend to read for this challenge.
Sign up: If you wish to “sign up” and participate in this challenge, you must email me the books you read and I will update your list on this page for you. Each participant will get their own list published on this challenge page, but due to the restrictions of the WordPress structure, I, as the moderator, must do the posting for you. Unless you have your own blog or website and wish to post your list of books on your own site yourself. In that case, sign below. Any questions, email me. Seabenjamin@gmail.com
Sign up here for fellow bloggers:
Otherwise, post a comment
Goal: To read classic and timeless novels.
Timeline: This challenge will be running for as long as it takes to make it through the list.
Guidelines:
-Participants will read the listed novels.
-Overlaps with other challenges are allowed.
-Post the books as you go and make your way down the list.
-Participants can read the novels listed below in any order they wish.
Books to be read:
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Victory by Joseph Conrad
The Hills Beyond by Thomas Wolfe
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Lord of the Rings (The full Series) by Tolkien
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Native Son by Richard Wright
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Sign up: If you wish to “sign up” and participate in this challenge, you must email me the books you read and I will update your list on this page for you. Each participant will get their own list published on this challenge page, but due to the restrictions of the WordPress structure, I, as the moderator, must do the posting for you. Unless you have your own blog or website and wish to post your list of books on your own site yourself. In that case, sign below. Any questions, email me. Seabenjamin@gmail.com
Sign up here if you already have a blog:
Goal: To read 12 long novels of 500+ during the challenge period
Timeline: This challenge will be running from March 2010 through February 2011
Guidelines:
-Participants will read as many books containing a minimum of 500 pages as they can during the given timeframe.
-Overlaps with other challenges are allowed as long as books are read during the period of the challenge.
-Post as you go or make a list of all the books you intend to read for this challenge.
Sign up: If you wish to “sign up” and participate in this challenge, you must email me the books you read and I will update your list on this page for you. Each participant will get their own list published on this challenge page, but due to the restrictions of the WordPress structure, I, as the moderator, must do the posting for you. Unless you have your own blog or website and wish to post your list of books on your own site yourself. In that case, sign below. Any questions, email me. Seabenjamin@gmail.com
Sign up here for fellow bloggers:
Goal: To keep a journal that lists your monthly book purchases and reads.
Timeline: This challenge will be running from March 2010 through February 2011
Guidelines: Participants will keep a journal, which is to include the minimum information:
Books bought and books read in each month. For an example below:
Or see this post for an idea:
https://readingwithsea.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/moleskines-notebooks-rickshaw-bags/
Sign up (for non-fellow bloggers): you must email me your monthly list and I will update your list on this page for you. Each participant will get their own list published on this challenge page, but due to the restrictions of the WordPress structure, I, as the moderator, must do the posting for you. Unless you have your own blog or website and wish to post your list of books on your own site yourself. In that case, sign below. Any questions, email me. Seabenjamin@gmail.com
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Goal: To read 50 books within the challenge timeline. This challenge is for those of us who cannot quite conquer 100 books in one year, but who still want to be motivated to continue reading and to read more.
Timeline: This challenge will be running from March 2010 through February 2011
Guidelines: Participants will read 50 books of their choosing, fiction or non-fiction, within the challenge timeframe.
Books can overlap with other challenges. Participants may also sign up for both the 50 and 100 book challenge at the same time. The first 50 books read will count towards completing both challenges.
Sign up: If you wish to “sign up” and participate in this challenge, you must email me the books you read and I will update your list on this page for you. Each participant will get their own list published on this challenge page, but due to the restrictions of the WordPress structure, I, as the moderator, must do the posting for you. Unless you have your own blog or website and wish to post your list of books on your own site yourself. In that case, sign below. Any questions, email me. Seabenjamin@gmail.com
Sign up for fellow bloggers:
Reading with Sea
1. Nicole B. (joined 2.14.2010)
Currently participating in: The Reading Journal challenge, 50 Book challenge, Heavy Reading challenge
Books counted for The Reading Journal challenge:
February 2010
Books bought:
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher
Books read:
American Psycho
The Savage Detectives
Lunar Park
Books counted for the 50 Books challenge:
1. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
2. The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
3. Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
4. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
5. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
6. Shampoo Planet by Douglas Copeland
7. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Copeland
8. Microserfs by Douglas Copeland
9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
10. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
11. Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
12. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
13 Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
14. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
15. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
16. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Books counted for the Heavy Reading challenge:
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
2. Robin Lai (joined 2.16.2010)
Currently participating in: 100 Books challenge
Books counted for the 100 Books challenge:
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Here in Harlem – Walter Dean Myers
Blue Eyed Devil – Robert B Parker
3. Paula Rairdan (joined 2.21.2010)
Currently participating in: 100 Books challenge, Goodies, but Oldies: Classics challenge, Reading Journal Challenge
4. Brett Cyprain (joined 2.19.2010)
Currently participating in: Reading Journal Challenge
5. Rachel Sumner (joined 2.25.2010)
Currently participating in: 100 Books Challenge
Books counted for the 100 Books challenge:
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
All The Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
Song For Night by Chris Abani
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
The Purity Myth: How Americas Obsession With Virginity is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti
Diary Of An Unlikely Call Girl by Belle De Jour
Born Standing Up: A Comics Life by Steve Martin
Female Chauvinists Pigs: Women and The Rise Of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
Kric? Krac! by Edwidge Danticat
Up Against The Wall Motherfucker: A Memoir of the Sixties With Notes For Time by Osha Nuemann
The Lolita Effect by Glgi Durham
Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
6. Jacky Dougherty (joined 3.4.2010)
Currently participating in: 100 Books Challenge, Goodies, but Oldies: Classic Challenge, Reading Journal Challenge
Books counted for 100 book challenge:
My Sister’ Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Dead Watch by John Sanford
Summer of the Red Wolf by Morris West
Dark Lady by Richard North Patterson
Do The Right Thing by Mike Huckabee
Going Rogue by Sarah Palin
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements... by Juan WIlliams
The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Books counted for Goodies, but Oldies:
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Reading With Sea 
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Daisy Chain
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hey sea,
one short question. Do Mangas count as “books” (regarding the 50 books challenge…) Read one in the bookstore today :D.
btw 10% done so far. good that holidays finally started :).
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Beth
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I cant wait to start this challenge. I was thinking about starting a book journal, then I found your challenge. I have also just found your blog, it’s great!
Hugs,
B
xxxx
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seabenjamin
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Welcome Beth! We are very glad to have you. I hope you enjoy the challenge and stick around for the discussion, as well.
-Sea
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The Book Mole
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Sea, I had inserted the wrong link in the Reading Journal Challenge Mr. Linky page. I have now attached the correct link. So sorry about that – hope it is possible for you to delete the wrong link.
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The Book Mole
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I just signed up for the Reading Journal Challenge. Thanks to you, I bought a Moleskine Reading Journal too, and I absolutely love it!
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Daisy Chain
said
Hi Sea,
is it relevant what languages the books are read in? (e.g. in the classics challenge)
Btw I’ll try a few of the challenges as I found myself reading too less lately. Besides I have to read a few books for uni anyway at the moment that match too.
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seabenjamin
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You may read literature in whichever language you’d like and are able. It makes no difference for the challenge. Good to have you.
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Daisy Chain
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looking forward to it! Just thinking that I don’t have a big chance to make it. but we’ll see.
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seabenjamin
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At least you will have an attempt, which is better than none.
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Nicole
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What other languages will you be reading in?
Also, I caught a glimpse at your blog, I want to start running this year as well (another personal challenge, aside from reading).
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Daisy Chain
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cool! I am native german-speaker, so… german :).
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Daisy Chain
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*german native-speaker
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Nicole
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haha, don’t worry I’m a Spanish native-speaker (although we start learning English at the age of 6), but I do most of my reading in English.
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Daisy Chain
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im about to really start now.. I only read blogs and stuff so far… but i have to read two books in english for uni atm anyway (one of them is jane eyre). Im finally confident enough to try :).
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Jacky Dougherty
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Hey there in re-reading the guidelines why are we only including novels? Some of the best works are non-fiction i.e. current affairs, biographapies, etc. Merely curious.
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seabenjamin
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Jacky,
non-fiction works just as well!
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Danielle
said
Just had a question on what we include on our challenge lists. I notice some have quite a list already. When do we start counting from? March? Beginning of 2010?
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seabenjamin
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Danielle,
Technically, the challenge runs from March 2010 to February 2011.
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Nicole
said
Come to think of it Sea, I think I’m going to start counting from March instead of January for your Challenge (maybe I’ll make it to 75 instead of the 50 I originally planned!).
I’ve been thinking about other possible Mini-Challenges we could throw in the mix. One that I personally would like to do is a sort of Around the World Challenge. I tend to read a lot of books by American writers, and I’ve seen this trend in my tbr list as well, so as part of my 2010 Challenge I’d like to break out of that pattern and incorporate some reading by international writers. I’m thinking something along the lines of 12 different nationalities. So far I’ve got a bunch of Americans, a Canadian, a Brit, a French and a Chilean. My tbr list includes books by Milan Kundera, Italo Calvino and Karuki Marukami, so I would be adding a Czech, an Italian and a Japanese. Is anybody interested in doing something like this?
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Danielle
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Sea, Ok thanks. I just wanted to be sure:)
Nicole- I would be interested in the mini around the world challenge. I too can get stuck reading certain authors .
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Pinar Celebi
said
Merhaba Sea,
I have just joined two of your challenges: the 50 book challenge and the heavy reading challenge. At the moment I’m reading Halide’s Gift by Frances Kazan. That’s gonna be my first book to register for the 50 book challenge then 🙂
Thanks for hosting it. I’ll add a link of your blog to mine at the weekend.
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Jacky Dougherty
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Sea – is the photo from Michaels Bookstore? or where? No carpet on floor so its not Hendersons. Its most inviting!
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seabenjamin
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Jacky,
The photo featured for the 100 books challenge is The Strand in nyc. One of my favorite place to be there!
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Danielle
said
Hi Sea,
I would like to sign up for The Heavy Reading challenge, The Reading Journal challenge, and The 50 book challenge. Also the Oldies but Goodies challenge, it’s been a while since I read some of those novels and I have never gotten to some. Thanks!
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Book Snob Wannabe
said
I found your blog from “Goodreads”. I was thinking about starting a reading journal and so your challenge is perfect for me. Can you add me to the “reading journal” challenge?
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seabenjamin
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Absolutely. I am delighted to add you. This is one of my favorite challenges. Just let me know your name and and I will add you right away.
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Melissa W.
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Count me in. Can I count books that were completed prior to the start date?
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seabenjamin
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Melissa,
I will leave that up to you. I suppose that depends on how serious you will want to be with the challenge. Naturally, I would think that books read within the year 2010 could count, but I will leave this decision up to you to be based on how much of a challenge you want to give yourself.
In any case, welcome. Very glad to have you here.
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Kelly
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I found your site and challenges through the I Love Challenges group at Shelfari. I’ve joined three of them – oldies but goodies, reading journal, and heavy reading. I have set up a page for each challenge on my blog. My homepage URL is http://kellysreadingdaydreamsandnightmares.blogspot.com/
Thanks for hosting these!
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seabenjamin
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Welcome, Kelly. Very glad to have you reading along with us!
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Cheryl "Mash"
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Stumbled onto your blog via A Novel Challenge. I am a new blogger of a few months and this is my first year of challenges. I did sign up for J.Kaye’s 100+ and was going to be happy if I could even get close. So when I saw that you were hosting a 50 book, I ran right over. Thank you for hosting. My site is here. I have didn’t areas on my blog as to what books are read.
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seabenjamin
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Welcome Cheryl “Mash”,
I am glad to hear you are excited about the 50 book challenge. Welcome, welcome!
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Nicole
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Hi Sea,
I want to join three of you challenges: the 50 book challenge, the reading journal challenge and the heavy reading challenge.
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seabenjamin
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Ok, Nicole!
I’ve added you to the challenge participants list. All you need to do now is start reading and as you finish books, email me or let me know some other way and I will update your list for you.
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