sshahid
Age 36
Joined Monday, September 29, 2008
Recent Book Activity
The Fifth Elephant
Another Gulmohar Tree
The Rule of Four: A Novel
The Devil's Punchbowl
secrets
Koalas Australia
Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia #5)
The Associate: A Novel
The Innocent Man
The Professor
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Patrick Sskind
Her Fearful Symmetry
Under the Dome: A Novel
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Blue Hour, The
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Princess Diaries
The Romanov Prophecy: A Novel
Man and Boy
About a Boy
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Extended Profile
Books read in 2017:
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K.Rowling (re-read)
Books read in 2016:
1. The Enemy, Lee Child
2. 11.22.63, Stephen King
3. The Devil's Elixer, Raymond Khoury
Books read in 2015:
1. A Prisoner of Birth, Jeffrey Archer
2. Oath of Office, Michael Palmer
3. Micro, Michael Crichton and Richard Preston
4. The Templar Salvation, Raymond Khoury
Books read in 2014:
1. Sycamore Row, John Grisham
2. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
3. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
4. The Columbus Affair, Steve Berry
5. Rising Sun, Michael Crichton
6. Timeline, Michael Crichton
7. The Accused, John Grisham
8. The Racketeer, John Grisham
Books read in 2013:
1. The Devil's Punchbowl, Greg Iles
Books read in 2011:
1. A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
2. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
4. The Romanov Prophecy, Steve Berry
5. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
6. Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary
7. The Associate, John Grisham
8. The Litigators, John Grisham
Books read in 2010:
1. Animal Farm, George Orwell
2. Truckers, Terry Pratchett
3. Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
4. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Quiet Game, Greg Iles
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
7. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
8. Protagoras, Plato
9. The Woman in Black, Susan Hill
10. Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
11. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
12. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
13. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling (Re-read)
14. Diggers, Terry Pratchett
15. Waiting, Ha Jin
16. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
17. The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis
18. A Is for Alibi, Sue Grafton
19. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
20. Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
21. Pretend You Don't See Her, Mary Higgins Clark
22. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
23. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
24. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding
25. The Taking, Dean Koontz
26. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
27. The Girl who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
28. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, Stieg Larsson
29. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
30. While My Pretty One Sleeps, Mary Higgins Clark
31. The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
32. Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
33. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
34. Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
35. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
36. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
37. The Village by the Sea: An Indian family story, Anita Desai
38. The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
39. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
40. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
Books read in 2009:
1. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
2. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
3. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
4. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
5. The Winner Stands Alone, Paulo Coelho
6. Hell's Kitchen, Jeffery Deaver
7. The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury
8. The Constant Gardener, John Le Carré
9. Sleep No More, Greg Iles
10. Black Coffee, Agatha Christie
11. The Nanny Diaries, Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin
12. The Janson Directive, Robert Ludlum
13. The Innocent Man, John Grisham
14. Blood Memory, Greg Iles
15. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
16. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
17. War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
18. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
19. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
20. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
21. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
22. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
23. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
24. Prince Caspian, C. S. Lewis
25. The Stand, Stephen King
26. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
27. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
28. Lovely in Her Bones, Sharyn Mccrumb
TBR:
1. The Magicians, Lev Grossman
2. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
3. The Templar Revelation, Clive Prince and Lynn Picknett
4. I, Michael Bennett, James Patterson
5. 61 Hours, Lee Child
6. The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken, Tarquin Hall
7. Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantel
8. Khan el-Khalili, Naguib Mahfouz
9. 11.22.63, Stephen King
10. The Monk who Sold His Ferrari, Robin S. Sharma
11. The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz
12. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
13. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
14. Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson
15. Rogue Lawyer, John Grisham
16. The Patriot Threat, Steve Berry
17. The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan, Rafia Zakaria
18. The Columbus Affair, Steve Berry
19. The Pilgrimage, Paulo Coelho
Previous challenges
BBC's The Big Read "Top 200" Reading Challenge!!
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SIY Reading Challenge #13 (July to September 2010)
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Reduce Mount TBR Challenge 2010!
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Book of the Month Club
bcbookclub.webs.com
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Study-Free Summer Reading Challenge
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COMPLETED (13/13)
First Anniversary readathon! June 25th-2nd July 2010
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Finished at: 19 hours 30 mins
September readathon 2009
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Finished at 11 out of 24 hrs
SIY Reading Challenge #12 (April to June 2010)
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COMPLETED (10/10)
SIY Reading Challenge #11 (January to March 2010)
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COMPLETED (10/10)
SIY Reading Challenge #10 (Oct to Dec 2009):
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COMPLETED (10/10)
BBC's The Big Read "Top 200"
READ=83
HAVE BUT NOT YET READ OR CURRENTLY READING=22
DON'T HAVE=96
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie |
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome 102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett 103. The Beach, Alex Garland 104. Dracula, Bram Stoker 105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz 106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens 107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz 108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks 109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth 110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson 111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy 112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend 113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat 114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo 115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy 116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson 117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson 118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 119. Shogun, James Clavell 120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham 121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson 122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray 123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy 124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski 125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett 127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison 128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle 129. Possession, A. S. Byatt 130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov 131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl 133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck 134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl 135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett 136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett 138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan 139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson 140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson 141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque 142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson 143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 144. It, Stephen King 145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl 146. The Green Mile, Stephen King 147. Papillon, Henri Charriere 148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett 149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian 150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz 151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett 152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett 153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett 154. Atonement, Ian McEwan 155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson 156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier 157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey 158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling 160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon 161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 162. River God, Wilbur Smith 163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon 164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx 165. The World According To Garp, John Irving 166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore 167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson 168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye 169. The Witches, Roald Dahl 170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White 171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams 173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway 174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco 175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder 176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson 177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl 178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach 180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery 181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson 182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens 183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay 184. Silas Marner, George Eliot 185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis 186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith 187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh 188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine 189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri 190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence 191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera 192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons 193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett 194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells 195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans 196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry 197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett 198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White 199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle 200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews |
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