Fall Into Reading 2011

Well it's that time of the year again! The Fall Into Reading Challenge is here! Katrina at Callapidder Days is issuing out the command to get our reading lists out and done!

I started these twice-yearly challenges because I thought it would be fun to share my love of reading with other bloggers and to push myself to read some books I might not otherwise read, or to finish some books I had started and then abandoned & stashed under my bed. I thought there were probably others out there who would appreciate the accountability and encouragement that a challenge can provide. And along the way, I discovered there were lots of people who — whether they needed the extra push or not — loved to share what they planned or hoped to read during the upcoming months.

So that’s the point: sharing some reading goals with all the other participants and doing it in a way that works for you. If you want to push yourself, go for it! Or if you just want to share what you’re hoping to get around to reading before winter, that works too. The most important thing is to read this fall, to enjoy it, and to share that enjoyment with others.

I have been doing Katrina's challenges for FIVE years (my first one was just a few days after starting my blog!) and I look forward to them every time. This year I'm doing things a bit differently than how I normally do these challenges. I usually use just my library books for the challenge, either by using what I already had checked out or getting a bunch of new ones specifically for this challenge. However, since one of my reading goals in 2011 was to read less library books in order to read more of my own books, I only have 3 books from the library checked out. Therefore my list for this challenge consists of the review books that I need to read/review from now until 12/21. Reading has slowed down quite a bit since I started working full time earlier this year. And as I learned from the last challenge in the spring, other books WILL come up forcing me to adjust my schedule. It'll be interesting to see how many books I won't be reading that are originally on the list and how many I will be adding.

Now...to the list! All 62 books of reading goodness.

Chick Lit

• To the Moon and Back by Jill Mansell
• Original Sin by Beth McMullen
• The Popularity Rules by Abby McDonald
• If You Were Here by Jen Lancaster
• Here Come the Girls by Milly Johnson
• Fly Away Home by Jennifer Wiener
• Promises, Promises by Erica James
• Love Always by Harriet Evans

Christian Fiction

• The Wounded Heart by Adina Senft
• Dancing on Glass by Pamela Binnings Ewen
• Deeply Devoted by Maggie Brendan
• The Mercy by Beverly Lewis
• Hello Hollywood by Janice Thompson
• House of Secrets by Tracie Peterson
• Kiss of Night by Debbie Viguie
• A Wedding Invitation by Alice Wisler
• The Measure of Katie Calloway by Serena Miller
• Reclaiming Lily by Patti Lacy
• Love on the Line by Deeanne Gist
• A Necessary Deception by Laurie Alice Eakes
  
• Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin
• Broken Wings by Carla Stewart
• She Makes It Looks Easy by Marybeth Whalen
• Bridge to a Distant Star by Carolyn Williford
• Canary Island Song by Robin Jones Gunn
• The Heiress by Susan May Warren
• A Vision of Lucy by Margaret Brownley
• Nobody's Child by Austin Boyd
• Day of War by Cliff Graham
• Falling to Pieces by Vannetta Chapman
• The Opposite of Art by Athol Dickson
• The Christmas Shoppe by Melody Carlson
  

Contemporary Women's Fiction

• Her Sister's Shadow by Katharine Britton
• The Art of Saying Goodbye by Ellyn Bache
• Things We Didn't Say by Kristina Riggle

General/Historical/Literary Fiction

• Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay
• Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington
• The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
• The Little Women Letters by Gabrielle Donnelley
• Tassy Morgan's Bluff by Jim Stinson
• A Stranger Like You by Elizabeth Brundage
• Best Kept Secret by Amy Havatny

Memoirs

• Maman's Homesick Pie by Donia Bijan
• Holy Ghost Girl by Donna Johnson
• The Most Beautiful Walk in the World by John Baxter
• Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams
• Jesus, My Father, the CIA and Me by Ian Morgan Cron
• Season to Taste by Molly Birnbaum

Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

• Forbidden by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee

Non-Fiction

• You are So Not Smart by David McRaney
• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
• The Greatest Music Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer
• Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth C. Davis

YA/MG

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• Salvaged by Stefne Miller
• Reasons to be Happy by Katrina Kittle
• Are You Going to Kiss Me Now? by Sloane Tanen
• Rise by Stefne Miller
• Ten Things We Did (and probably shouldn't have) by Sarah Mlynowski
• Shattered by Melody Carlson
• Family by Mical Ostow
• Ingenue by Jillian Larkin