Triple 8 Challenge

Last week, Mother Crone wrote about a reading challenge called the Triple 8 Challenge.

Here are the Rules...

1. Challenge runs from January 1 through December 31, 2008.

2. Choose 8 categories of your own that you would like to read 8 books EACH in.

3. You will be allowed 8 overlaps, for a total of 56 unique book titles.

4. You may overlap these 56 titles with any other challenge.

5. You may change your list or your categories at any time.

So as I do not take time to read for myself I am going to join this challenge to help motivate me. I definitely used the 8 overlaps (noted with a *). Here is my list....

Thomas Jefferson Education Book List

□ Little Britches- Ralph Moody

□ Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte

□ The Lonesome Gods- Louis L’Amour

□ Laddie – Gene Stratton- Porter

□ Les Miserable- Victor Hugo

□ The Chosen- Chaim Potok

□ The Abolition of Man – C.S. Lewis

□ Uncle Tom’s Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Christian Fiction

□ True Light- Terri Blackstock *

□ The Parting- Beverly Lewis

□ Levi’s Will – W. Dale Cramer

□ Shadowed- Jerry Jenkins

□ Silenced- Jerry Jenkins

□ The Bark of the Bog Owl- Jonathan Rogers*

□ Summer Hill Secrets Vol 1- Beverly Lewis

□ Summer Hill Secrets Vol 2- Beverly Lewis

Children’s Classics

□ Robin Hood - Pyle

□ The Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling

□ Winnie the Pooh- A.A. Milne

□ The Book of Virtues- William J. Bennett

□ Complete Fairy Tales- Brother Grimm

□ Fairy Tales- Hans Christian Anderson

□ The Children’s Book of Heroes- William J. Bennett

□ The Children’s Book of America- William J. Bennett

Collecting Dust on My Bookshelf

□ The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver*

□ The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath*

□ To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee*

□ Eragon- Christopher Paolini

□ Eldest- Christopher Paolini

□ The Bears of Blue River- Charles Major

□ The Dante Club- Matthew Pearl

□ The Jane Austen Book Club- Karen Joy Fowler

More Dust

□ Where the Sidewalk Ends- Shel Silverstein

□ Falling Up- Shel Silverstein

□ Night – Elie Wiesel

□ The Bark of the Bog Owl- Jonathan Rogers*

□ The Complete Poetic Works of James Whitcome Riley

□ The Quiet American- Grahme Greene*

□ The Power and the Glory- Grahme Greene*

□ A Girl Named Zippy- Haven Kimmel

Narnia

□ The Magician's Nephew

□ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

□ The Horse and His Boy

□ Prince Caspian

□ The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"

□ The Silver Chair

□ The Last Battle

□ The Narnia Trivia Book

Unread Books by Favorite Authors

□ Northanger Abby- Jane Austen

□ Persuasions- Jane Austen

□ Broker- John Grisham

□ Ya- Yas in Bloom- Rebecca Wells

□ The Quiet American- Grahme Greene*

□ The Power and the Glory- Grahme Greene*

□ True Light- Terri Blackstock*

□ Charlie & the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl

1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

□ The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho

□ The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver*

□ The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath*

□ To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee*

□ The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

□ Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs

□ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

□ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll