451 Challenge

This challenge is being hosted by Elizabeth who created the 451 Challenge blog. Again, do to my extreme laziness I copied and pasted all important information.

Here is how it will work: between January 1, 2010 and November 30, 2010, participants are challenged to read books on the 451 master list. There will be several levels of participation:

Spark - read 1-2 books from the master list
Ember - read 3-4 books from the master list
Flame - read 5-6 books from the master list
Blaze - read 7 or more books from the master list

I will attempt the BLAZE level - let's hope I don't get burned ;)

451 MASTER LIST

• 1984 - George Orwell
• A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
• A Confederacy of Dunces - John O'Toole
• A Solitary Blue - Cynthia Voigt
• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
• Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
• Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
• Ashes in the Wind - Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• Atonement - Ian McEwan
• Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
• Blake's Poetry & Designs - William Blake
• Blindness - Jose Saramago
• Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
• Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson
• Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
• Centennial - James Michener
• Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
• Collected Poems - Robert Frost
• Collected Poems - William Butler Yeats
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
• Demonology - Rick Moody
• Devil in the White City - Erik Larsen
• Diaries of Anais Nin - Anais Nin
• Different Seasons - Stephen King
• Dr. Seuss's ABC - Dr. Seuss
• Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise - Ruth Reichel
• Geek Love - Katherine Dunne
• Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
• Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• Greengage Summer - Rumer Godden
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
• I Am America and So Can You! - Stephen Colbert
• I Am David - Ann Holm
• In This House of Brede - Rumer Godden
• Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
• Islandia - Austin Tappan Wright
• Izzy Willy Nilly - Cynthia Voigt
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
• Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
• Julius Ceasar - William Shakespeare
• Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
• Legends of Pensam - Mamang Dai
• Les Miserable - Victor Hugo
• Little Boy Lost - Marghanita Laski
• Little Women - Louise May Alcott
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
• Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill
• Love You Forever - Robert Munsch
• Macbeth - William Shakespeare
• Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers
• Maus - Art Spiegelman
• Maus II - Art Spiegelman
• Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
• Middlemarch - George Eliot
• My Invented Country - Isabel Allende
• Night - Elie Wiesel
• Night at the Circus - Angela Carter
• Nursery Rhymes - Mother Goose
• Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis
• Paco's Story - Larry Heinemann
• Paradise Lost - John Milton
• Parthian Stations - John Ash
• Peace Like a River - Leif Enger
• Perfume - Patrick Suskind
• Persuasion - Jane Austen
• Piercing the Darkness - Frank Peretti
• Pitch Dark - Renata Adler
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Quarantine - Jim Crace
• Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
• Rasero - Francisco Rebolledo
• River's End - Nora Roberts
• Roots - Alex Haley
• Sam Bangs and Moonshine - Evaline Ness
• Sea Glass - Anita Shreve
• Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 - Nathaniel Philbrick
• Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
• Silence - Shusaku Endo
• Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
• South Riding - Winifred Holtby
• St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves - Karen Russell
• Summer of my German Soldier - Bette Green
• Ten Tales Tall and True - Alasdair Gray
• Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights
• The Autograph Man - Zadie Smith
• The Awakening - Kate Chopin
• The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
• The Beginning and the End - Naguib Mahfouz
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson
• The Blindfold - Siri Hustvedt
• The Blue Castle - L.M. Montgomery
• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
• The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Complete Works of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
• The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court - Peter Irons
• The Double Helix - James D. Watson
• The Dragonridgers of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
• The Family from One End Street - Eve Garnett
• The Far Pavilions - M.M. Kaye
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• The Giver - Lois Lowry
• The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
• The Golems of Gotham - Thane Rosenbaum
• The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
• The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
• The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
• The Hiding Place - Corrie ten Boom
• The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
• The Hours - Michael Cunningham
• The Iliad - Homer
• The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
• The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
• The Joy of Cooking - Rombauer, Becker, and Becker
• The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
• The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
• The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
• The Magic of Ordinary Days - Ann Howard Creel
• The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
• The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
• The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
• The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
• The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
• The Ring and the Book - Robert Browning
• The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
• The Shadow of the WInd - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
• The Sleep Book - Dr. Seuss
• The Stand - Stephen King
• The Story Girl - L.M. Montgomery
• The Story of a Mariage - Andrew Sean Greer
• The Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
• The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffinegger
• The Way of Herbs - Michael Tierra
• The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon
• This Present Darkness - Frank Peretti
• Time and Again - Jack Finney
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
• Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
• Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
• We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
• We the Living - Ayn Rand
• We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates
• Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
• Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
• Women in the Wall - Julia O'Faolian
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig