NOT COMPLETED

Wow – the last time I checked, this challenge was only for 100 books – and I thought I was laughing. BUT, this year Amy at My Overstuffed Bookshelf has upped the ante to 150. GULP!

But since I’ve read over 120 books in each of the past two years, I’m going to try it: 150 – pure and simple.

1. Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bentock
2. Sabine’s Notebook by Nick Bantock
3. The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock
4. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
5. Dove Creek by Paula Marie Coomer
6. Northwest Corner by John Burnham Schwartz
7. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield
8. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
9. The Virgin Cure by Ami MacKay
10. The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett
11. Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 by Sally M. Walker
12. The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
13. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
14. A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare
15. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
16. Trixie Belden and the Red Trailer Mystery by Julie Campbell
17. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
18. Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville
19. A Prairie Boy’s Winter by William Kurelek
20. A Shortage of Bodies by Dr. Gary D. McKay
21. Seeing Trees by Nancy Ross Hugo and Robert Llewellyn
22. Chickens, Mules, and Two Old Fools by Victoria Twead
23. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock
24. The Return of Captain Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
25. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
26. A Small Furry Prayer by Steven Kotler
27. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyen
28. The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
29. Broken Music by Marjorie Eccles
30. White River Junctions by Dave Norman
31. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
32. The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe
33. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
34. A Suitable Boy by Bikram Seth
35. The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
36. Winnie & Gurley: The Best-Kept Family Secret by Robert G. Hewitt
37. Gillespie & I by Jane Harris
38. A Place for Johnny Bill by Ruth Juline Bishop
39. The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen
40. Oxford Messed Up by Andrea Kayne Kaufman
41. Promise Me Eternity by Ian Fox
42. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
43. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
44. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
45. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
46. Notes to My Mother-in-Law by Phyllida Law
47. African Love Stories edited by Ama Ata Aidoo
48. Murder: A Crafty Business by Lila Philips
49. Manners for Women by Mrs. Humphrey
50. The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
51. One Lonely Night by Mickey Spillane
52. The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard
53. A Dog’s Journey by W. Bruce Cameron
54. Lonesome Hero by Fred Stenson
55. Murder at Hazelmoor by Agatha CHristie
56. UContent by Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo
57. Falling Into Green by CHer Fischer
58. 419 by Will Ferguson
59. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
60. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
61. The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesay
62. An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
63. A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
64. The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn
65. Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie
66. Heading Home by Lawrence Scanlan
67. The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
68. The Absolutist by John Boynr
69. A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
70. The Tragedy of Z by Ellery Queen
71. Firmin by Sam Savage
72. Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
73. At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie
74. Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
75. QBI (Queen’s Bureau of Investigation) by Ellery Queen
76. Practical Jean by Trevor Cole
77. The Dolls’ House by Rumer Godden
78. A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence
79. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
80. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
81. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
82. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
83. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
84. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
85. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
86. Yellowthread Street by William Marshall
87. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
88. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
89. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
90. The Canadian Food Guide by Pierre and Janet Berton
91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
92. The Divine Ryans by Wayne Johnston
93. Kilmeny of the Orchard by Lucy Maud Montgomery
94. Moon Over Manifest by Claire Vanderpoole
95. Twenty-Six by Leo McKay Jr.
96. Fistful of Collars by Spencer Quinn
97. The Museum of Dr. Moses by Joyce Carol Pates
98. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
99. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
100. The Stranger by Albert Camus
101. Three Junes by Julia Glass
102. Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes
103. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
104. The Beggar’s Garden by Michael Christie
105. The Birth House by Ami McKay
106. Holes by Louis Sachar
107. Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
108. Memoirs by Pierre Elliott Trudeau
109. Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
110. Halfway House by Ellery Queen
111. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
112. Mr. Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
113. The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
114. The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
115. The Old Man & the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
116. Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran
117. Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton

Picture Books:
118. Dog in Boots by Greg Gormley, illustrated by Roberta Angaramo
119. I Want My Hat Back written & illustrated by Jon Klassen
120. Coyote Sings to the Moon by Thomas King, illustrated by Johnny Wales
121. Giraffe & Bird written & illustrated by Rebecca Bender
122. The Market Square Dog by James Herriot, illustrated by Ruth Brown
123. Madeline written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans
124. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert
125. There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen by Sheree Fitch, illustrated by Sydney Smith
126. Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? written and illustrated by Susan A. Shea
127. One Winter Night by Jennifer Lloyd, illustrated by Lynn Ray
128. Curious George by Margret Rey, illustrated by H.A. Rey
129. Fuddles written and illustrated by Frans Vischer
130. Horton Hears a Who written & illustrated by Theodore Seuss
131. Gimme Jimmy by Sherrill S. Cannon
132. A Few Blocks written & illustrated by Cybele Young
133. Harry, the Dirty Dog written by Gene Zion, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham
134. Eloise written by Kay Thompson, illustrated by Hilary Knight
135. What’s Wrong with Rosie? by Pippa JAgger, illustrated by Gavin Rowe
136. No Roses for Harry written by Gene Zion, illustrated Margaret Bloy Graham
137. Danny’s First Snow written & illustrated by Leonid Gore
138. Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening written Robert Frost & illustrated by Susan Jeffers
139. Jillian Jiggs and the Great Big Snow written & illustrated by Phoebe Gilman