Books About Books

Wendy is hosting the Themed Reading Challenge, which runs from January 1 through June 30, 2008. Participants must read at least four books that share a theme, any theme. This is the "long list" of my picks:

• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (This would be a re-read from my college days.)


• Book Crush: For Kids and Teens - Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl


• Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl


• The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them edited by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannessen


• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak


• Booked to Die (the first in the Cliff Janeway series) by John Dunning


• Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman


• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (This would be a re-read from my high school days.)


• Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak


• How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen


• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke


• Inkspell by Cornelia Funke


• Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen


• Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World by Lawrence Goldstone


• The Readers' Choice: 200 Book Club Favorites by Victoria Golden McMains

One of my categories for the Triple 8 Challenge is "Books About Books" - so I am cross-listing these picks to that challenge and because I have to read eight books in each category for that challenge, I will be reading at least eight of these books in 2008.