BookCrossing 100 BOOK CHALLENGE
JANUARY
1. "The Battle of Britain" by Richard Overy
2. "Doctor in the House" by Richard Gordon
3. "A Few
Minutes Past Midnight" by Stuart M. Kaminsky
4. "Death and the Dancing Footman" by Ngaio Marsh
5. "My Sergei: A Love
Story" by Ekaterina Gordeeva & E.M Swift
6. "Never and Again" by Susan Ramskill
7. "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller
8. "Goodbye, Mr, Chips" by James Hilton
9. "Free Love" by Annette Meyers
10. "The Broken Mirror" by Kirk Douglas
11. "The Snowman's Children" by Glen Hirshberg
12. "Murder Me Now" by Annette Meyers
13. "The Lovely Bones" by
Alice Sebold
FEBRUARY
1. "Reporting America At War (An Oral History)" by Michelle Ferrari & James Tobin
2. "Great Speeches" by Abraham Lincoln
3."The Prisoner of Zenda" by Anthony Hope
4. "International Stars at War" by James E. Wise, Jr. & Scott Baron
5.
"Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" by Eric Hodgins
6. "Palestine and the Middle East: A Chronicle of Passion
and Politics" by Jaffer Ali
7. "Familiar Lullaby" (Harlequin Intrigue #614) by Caroline Burnes
8. "Bogart: A
Life in Hollywood" by Jeffrey Myers
MARCH
1."To Catch a Spy" by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2. "Doctor in Love" by Richard Gordon
3."Great
Speeches" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. "The Game" by Laurie R. King
5. "And So to Murder" by Carter Dickson
6.
"Captains Courageous" by Rudyard Kipling
7. "Without A Trace" by Greg Aunapu & Susan Billig
8. "A Separate
Peace" by John Knowles
9. "Summer of My German Soldier" by Bette Greene
APRIL
1. "The Second
Mark" by Joy Goodwin
2. "Stiff:: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach
3. "Chips
Off the Old Benchley" by Robert Benchley
4. "Let Your Mind Alone!" by James Thurber
5. "The Bielski Brothers"
by Peter Duffy
6. "'Tis Herself" by Maureen O'Hara
7. "Justice" by Dominick Dunne
MAY
1.
"Condemmed: Inside the Sing Sing Death House" by Scott Christianson
2. "Dark Passage" by David Goodis
3.
"I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" by Joanne Greenberg
4. "The Other Side of the Mountain" by E.G. Valens
5.
"Which Reminds Me" by Tony Randall
6. "Flags of Our Fathers" by James Bradley with Ron Powers
7. "Mildred
Pierced" by Stuart M. Kaminsky
8. "Masterpiece Theatre" by Terrence O' Flaherty
JUNE
1. "The
Stars of Hollywood Forever" by Tony Luke Scott
2. "What a Way to Go: Fabulous Funerals of the Famous and Infamous"
by Adele Q. Brown
3. "The Vision of Ernie Kovacs" (Essays by Various Authors) from The Museum of Broadcasting
4.
"Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography" by Dave Zimmer & Henry Diltz
5. "Doris Day: Her Own Story" by A.E.
Hotchner
6. "Meet Me in St. Louis" by Sally Benson
7. "Behind the Screen: How Gays & Lesbians Shaped
Hollywood: 1910-1969" by William J. Mann
JULY
1. "Nova 57 Minor" by Jon L. Lellenberg
2. "4 Way Street: The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader" by Dave Zimmer
3. "The Complete Mission: Impossible Dossier" by Patrick J. White
4. "Sherlock Holmes in Portrait and Profile" by Walter Klinefelter
5. "How I Broke into the Movies" as told by 60 stars of the Silent Screen to Hal C. Herman
6. "The Goon Show Companion" by Roger Wilmut & Jimmy Grafton
7. "Musical Highlights from the White House" by Elise K. Kirk
AUGUST
1. "Sergei Rachmaninoff" by Antoni Gronowicz
2. "Jonathan Frid: An Actor's Curious Journey" by Malia Howard
3. "Meant to Be" by Walter Anderson
4. "Risen" by J. Knight
5. "Golden Earrings" by Yolanda Foldes
6. "James Mason: A Personal Biography" by Diana de Rosso
7. "1066 & All That" by W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman
8. "Hidden Evidence" by David Owen
SEPTEMBER
1. "The Manchurian Candidate" by Richard Condon
2. "Airport" by Arthur Hailey
3. "Taps--Notes from a Nation's Heart" by Richard H. Schneider
4. "On the Beach" by Nevil Shute
5. "A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves" by Suzann Ledbetter
6. "The Whitechapel Conspiracy" by Anne Perry
7. "Hitler and the Vatican" by Peter Godman
OCTOBER
1. "Killer Asylum" by David R. Williams
2. "Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce"
3. "The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle"
4. "Kilroy Was Here" Edited by Charles Osgood
5. "Honoring Sergeant Carter: Redeeming a Black World War II Hero's Legacy" by Allene Carter
& Robert L. Allen
6. "The World War II Quiz & Fact Book" by Timothy B. Benford
NOVEMBER
1. "The Grouchy Grammarian" by Thomas Parrish
2. "A Cold Case" by Philip Gourevitch
3. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
4. "Up the Down Staircase" by Bel Kaufman
5. "Yiddish With Dick and Jane" by Ellis Weiner & Barbara Davilman
6. "A Christmas Visitor" by Anne Perry
7. "We Almost Lost Detroit" by John G. Fuller
8. "Hidden Secrets" by David Owen
9. "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne DuMaurier
DECEMBER
1. "The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition through World War II" by Marc McCutcheon
2. "The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England (from 1811-1901)" by Kristine
Hughes
3. "An Actor and a Rare One--Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes" by Tony Earnshaw
4. "The Daily Telegraph/Arvon International Poetry Competition Anthology 2002"
5. "Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Lost Himself" by Val Andrews
6. "The Hyde Park Headsman" by Anne Perry
7. "To Play the King" by Michael Dobbs
8. "Sherlock Holmes and the Theatre of Death" by Val Andrews
9. "Arthur Kennedy: Man of Characters" by Meredith Macksoud, Craig R. Smith & Jackie Lohrke
10. "Great Pianists on Piano Playing" Edited by James Francis Cooke
11. "The Bedford Incident" by Mark Rascovich (this is book #100--I made my goal!)
12. "A Bouquet of Flowers" by Barbara Milo Ohrbach
13. "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn (Edited by Robert Gellately)
JANUARY 2005
1. "The Final Solution: A Story of Detection" by Michael Chabon
2. "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
FEBRUARY 2005
1. "Groucho Marx: Secret Agent" by Ron Goulart
2. "Law & Order: Dead Line" by J. Madison Davis
3. "Biko" by Donald Woods
MARCH 2005
1. "The GI's Rabbi: World War II Letters of David Max Eichhorn" edited by Greg Palmer & Mark
S. Zaid
2. "The 3 Faces of Eve" by Corbett H. Thigpen, MD, & Hervey M. Cleckley, MD
3. "All the President's Men" by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
4. "To Serve Them All My Days" by R.F. Delderfield
5. "The African Queen" by C.S. Forester
6. "BookCrossing Through Middle Earth" by 'Skyring'
7. "Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders" by John Mortimer
8. "A Season in Purgatory" by Dominick Dunne
9. "Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam" by Paul Clayton
10. "Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich" by Joachim Fest
APRIL 2005
1. "The Vampire Hound" by Jim Kraft
2. "Valley of the Dolls" by Jacqueline Susann
3. "Reversal of Fortune" by Alan Dershowitz
4. "Nicaragua Diary" by Paul Kantner
5. "Dead Reckoning" by Michael Baden, MD & Marion Roach
6. "Girl Singer" by Rosemary Clooney
MAY 2005
1. "Haven" by Ruth Gruber
2. "Southampton Row" by Anne Perry
3. "Sharing Good Times" by Jimmy Carter
4. "Don't Kiss Them Goodbye" by Allison DuBois
5. "Gold on Ice--The Sale and Pelletier Story" by Beverly Smith
6. "Heifetz As I Knew Him" by Ayke Agus
7. "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
JUNE 2005
1. "Lucky Man" by Michael J. Fox
2. "Soldiers and Slaves" by Roger Cohen
3. "The Films of Alan Ladd" by Marilyn Henry & Ron DeSourdis
4. "The Women in Lincoln's Life" by H. Donald Winkler
5. "They Passed This Way: The United States of America, The States of Australia and World War
II" by Barry Ralph
JULY 2005
1. "Locked Rooms" by Laurie R. King
2. "Accidental Journey: A Cambridge Internee's Memoir of World War II" by Mark Lynton
3. "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Style" by Laurie E. Rozakis, Ph.D.
AUGUST 2005
1. "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" by Capt. Ted W. Lawson
2. "Great Monsters of the Movies" by Edward Edelson
3. "Twilight of the Wagners" by Gottfried Wagner
SEPTEMBER 2005
1. "Ida Lupino: A Biography" by William Donati
2. "The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank" by Ellen Feldman
OCTOBER 2005
1. "He Ran All the Way: The Life of John Garfield" by Robert Nott
2. "We'll Always Have Murder: A Humphrey Bogart Mystery" by Bill Crider
3. "Some More Trifling Monographs" by Bud Livingston
NOVEMBER 2005
1. "Brian Piccolo: A Short Season" by Jeannie Morris
2. "The Medic: Life and Death in the Last Days of World War II" by Leo Litwak
DECEMBER 2005
1. "Lost Stories" by Dashiell Hammett
2. "Pearl Harbor Betrayed" by Michael Gannon
3. "A Christmas Guest" by Anne Perry
JANUARY 2006
1. "Marley & Me" by John Grogan
2. "Spook" by Mary Roach
3. "Frozen in Time: The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team" by Nikki Nichols
FEBRUARY 2006
1. "The American Way of Death Revisited" by Jessica Mitford
2. "The Italian Secretary" by Caleb Carr
MARCH 2006
1. "Figure Skating: A History" by James R. Hines
2. "On Burning Ground: A Son's Memoir" by Michael Skakun
APRIL 2006
1. "Notes of a Soviet Actor" by Nikolai Cherkasov
2. "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton
3. "Your Guide to Cemetery Research" by Sharon De Bartolo Carmack
4. "Fritz Kreisler" by Louis P. Lochner
MAY 2006
1. "Memories Are Made of This" by Deana Martin
2. "Ashkenazy: Beyond Frontiers" by Vladimir Ashkenazy & Jasper Parrott
3. "A Nearly Normal Life: A Memoir" by Charles L. Mee
4. "Sergei Rachmaninoff" by Sergei Bertensson & Jay Leyda
5. "Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig" by Jonathan Eig
JUNE 2006
1. "Where Are They Buried? And How Did They Die?" by Tod Benoit
2. "The Longest Winter" by Alex Kershaw
3. "The Hidden Life of Otto Frank" by Carol Ann Lee
4. "A Simple Act of Murder" by Mark Fuhrman
5. "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
JULY 2006
1. "Presidential Inaugurations" by Paul Boller, Jr.
2. "The Million Dollar Mermaid" by Esther Williams
3. "Encyclopedia Mysteriosa" by William L. DeAndrea
4. "Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch" by Lara Parker
5. "Laura" by Vera Caspary
AUGUST 2006
1. "By Myself And Then Some" by Lauren Bacall
2. "Call Me Anna: The Autobiography Of Patty Duke"
3. "Arc of Justice" by Kevin Boyle
4. "The Cases That Haunt Us" by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
5. "Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie" by Barbara Goldsmith
SEPTEMBER 2006
1. "The Death of Innocents" by Sister Helen Prejean
2. "Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life" by Lynn Haney
3. "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis" by Jimmy Carter
4. "Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy" by Tom Wicker
5. "Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends and Curses" by R. Gary Patterson
OCTOBER 2006
1. "The Monster Within--Fibromyalgia" by Sandra Ellen Lefcoe
2. "In A Lonely Place" by Dorothy B. Hughes
3. "Anatomically, My Dear Watson" by Bud Livingston
NOVEMBER 2006
1. "State of Denial" by Bob Woodward
DECEMBER 2006
1. "The Dogs of Sherlock Holmes" by William S. Dorn
2. "Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy" by Thomas Mallon
3. "The Iraq Study Group Report" by James A. Baker III & Lee H. Hamilton
4. "Body Brokers" by Anne Cheney
JANUARY 2007
1. "True Stories of Law & Order" by Kevin Dwyer & Jure Fiorello
2. "A Christmas Secret" by Anne Perry
3. "Rumpole and the Reign of Terror" by John Mortimer
FEBRUARY 2007
1. "Alive on the Andrea Doria" by Pierette Domenica Simpson
2. "The Science of Sherlock Holmes" by E.J. Wagner
MARCH 2007
1. "The Thrill of It All: The Story of Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music" by David Buckley
2. "My Story" by Marilyn Monroe & Ben Hecht
3. "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Police Officer's Report" by L. Ken Rogers (Ret.)
APRIL 2007
1."We Band of Brothers: The Sullivans and World War II" by John R. Satterfield
2. "Scary Nuns"
3. "Night" by Elie Wiesel
MAY 2007
1. "John Garfield" by George Morris
2. "Kindred Souls: The Devoted Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. David Gurewitsch" by Edna P.
Gurewitsch
June -- December 2007
(I'm not certain in which order these books were read -- the pile fell over -- so I am just listing
all the titles)
1. "The Gettysburg Gospel" by Gabor Boritt
2. "Ivan's War" by Catherine Meridale
3. "It's My
Turn -- Now Where Was I?" by Julie Felicelli
4. "Don't Blame Me!" by Larry Cole
5. "Veronica -- The Autobiography
of Veronica Lake"
6. "Images of America: Allen Park" by Sharon Broglin
7. "Images of America: Detroit Woodlawn
Cemetery" by A. Dale Northrop
8. "Images of America: Detroit Woodmere Cemetery" by Gail Hershenzon
9. "Images
of America: Arlington National Cemetery" by George W. Dodge
10. "The Unusual Sherlock Holmes" by Jerry "B-P" Riggs
11.
"Clapton: The Autobiography"
12. "Now, Voyager" by Olive Higgins Prouty
13. "A Christmas Beginning" by Anne
Perry
JANUARY 2008
1. "A Dog About Town" by J.F. Englert
2. "William Powell" by Roger Bryant
3. "In All Sincerity
-- Peter Cushing" by Christopher Gullo
4. "New Orleans Noir" edited by Julie Smith
5. "Rumpole Misbehaves"
by John Mortimer
6. "When Satan Wore A Cross" by Fred Rosen
7. "Images of America: Mt. Elliott Cemetery"
by Cecile Wendt Jensen
8. "Images of America: Catholic Churches of Detroit" by Roman Godzak
9. "Images of
America: Michigan Memorial Park" by Gail Hershenzon
10. "Pickin' Up The Pieces" by Richie Furay
11. "Images
of America: Mt. Olivet Cemetery" by Cecile Wendt Jensen
12. "In Defense of Our America" by Anthony D. Romero
& Dina Temple-Reston
13. "Movie Icons: Humphrey Bogart" by Taschen Books
FEBRUARY 2008
1. "Songbird: Eva Cassidy, Her Story by Those Who Knew Her"
2. "Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution" by Isabel Vincent
3. "Boom!" by Tom Brokaw
