45th Bookworms Carnival - Series

Welcome to the 45th edition of the Bookworms Carnival!

I had picked series as my theme - and I was refering not to a specific series, but to each and every series you can come up with. In case you're wondering why I picked this theme: I have been hosting the Series Challenge for the past 3 years and we're now in the 4th year. In case you want to sign up, it's not too late, even though the challenge has been going for about a month already.

To get everyone in the mood for series, Samantha from Bookworms and tea lovers wrote a wonderful post on her love for series. And I can sign each point she brings up!
On top of this, she also has a post with each of the series she's reading at this point - and keeps adding the links to her reviews.

Let's start the series themselves with some posts on the first books in new series, the books with which it all begins.

Jackie at Literary Escapism submitted a review for Nancy Holzner's Deadtown, a paranormal mystery starring a young demon slayer. The second book is already in the editorial process.
Then, Jackie also sent in a review for The Better Part of Darkness by Kelly Gay, another new urban fantasy series for which the second book is already in the making.
Two other reviews Jackie submitted are for Anya Bast's Wicked Enchantment and for Tiger by the Tail by Kaye Chambers

Jo of Ink and Paper sent in a few books that are first in a series - series which she will continue (so check out her blog later on, for more reviews!). Forgive me if I don't say something to each of these books!
Magic Bites (Kate Daniels Book 1) by Ilona Andrews
The Summoning (Dark Powers Book 1) by Kelley Armstrong
The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments Book 1) by Cassandra Clare
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Night Rising (Vampire Babylon Book 1) by Chris Marie Green
Dead Witch Walking (Rachel Morgan Book 1) by Kim Harrison
Fallen by Lauren Kate
The Sweet Scent of Blood (Spellcrackers.com Book 1) by Suzanne McLeod
Wake (Dream Catcher Book 1) by Lisa McMann
Some Girls Bite (Chicagoland Vampires Book 1) by Chloe Neill
Evermore (The Immortals Book 1) by Alyson Noёl
Red-Headed Stepchild by Jaye Wells
Prophecy of the Sisters (Prophecy of the Sisters Trilogy Book 1) by Michelle Zink
And from her YA blog, Once Upon a Bookcase, Jo submitted the review for Split by a Kiss by Luisa Plaja
Wow, that's a wealth of first in series books! Admittedly, I only know one of the books Jo reviewed, City of Bones, and I can tell you it is a great YA series, and I also have a few of the books either on Mt. TBR or on my wish list.

And Monica of Monniblog submitted two first books in a series:
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs, a series about a group of women of different ages, different backgrounds and very different personalities who regularly meet at a yarn shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris, a series many of you already know and a book I'm in fact reading right now. Sookie Stackhouse is a psychic who, by chance, gets drawn into the world of vampires and murder.

Of course, the first book in a series is only the beginning of a story. In the later installments we learn even more about the characters and the world created by the author.

Jackie at Literary Escapism sent in a review for Smolder by Melina Morel. This is the third in the series revolving around the Institut Scientifique.

Monica of Monniblog has a review up for the final installment of Terry Goodknd's Sword of Truth series, Confessor.

Swapna Krishna offered up a great review for Small Favor by Jim Butcher, the tenth in the series revolving around Harry Dresden, a wizard who investigates cases that link to the paranormal world.

Beth of BethFishReads has a wonderful review for the 10th installment in MC Beaton's Hamish Macbeth, Death of a Charming Man. This is indeed a wonderful series and if you haven't checked it out yet, do so!

I also got some submissions for full series or bigger parts of series.

Jodie from Book Gazing has reviews for the first two books in the Temeraire series:
Temeraire by Naomi Novick
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novick

Heather from Age 30+ ... A Lifetime of Books reviewed all 8 books of Laurie R. King's Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes series. In order the books are:
The Beekeper's Apprentice
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
A Letter of Mary
The Moor
O Jerusalem
Justice Hall
The Game
Locked Rooms
The Language of Bees

And then Jo of Ink and Paper also sent me a long e-mail with lots and lots of reviews for series she read, and I'm not going to keep any to myself.

Weather Wardens Series by Rachel Caine
Ill Wind (Weather Wardens Book 1)
Heat Stroke (Weather Wardens Book 2)

Cassie Palmer Series by Karen Chance
Touch the Dark (Cassie Palmer Book 1)
Claimed by Shadow (Cassie Palmer Book 2)
Embrace the Night (Cassie Palmer Book 3)
Curse the Dawn (Cassie Palmer Book 4)

Night Huntress Series by Jeaniene Frost
Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress Book 1)
One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress Book 2)
At Grave's End (Night Huntress Book 3)
Destined for an Early Grave (Night Huntress Book 4)

Wicked Series by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié
Witch & Curse (Wicked Omnibus 1) - Part 1: Witch
Witch & Curse (Wicked Omnibus 1) - Part 2: Curse

Wicked Lovely Series by Melissa Marr
Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely Book 1)
Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely Book 2)
Fragile Eternity (Wicked Lovely Book 3)

Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy Book 1)
Frostbite (Vampire Academy Book 2)

Raine Benares Series by Lisa Shearin
Magic Lost, Trouble Found (Raine Benares Book 1)
Armed and Magical (Raine Benares Book 2)
The Trouble with Demons (Raine Benares Book 3)

Shifters Series by Rachel Vincent
Stray (Shifters Book 1)
Rogue (Shifters Book 2)
Pride (Shifters Book 3)

Monica of Monniblog also has reviewed quite some chunks of series.

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire

Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
Uglies and Pretties
Extras
Specials

The Tudor Court novels by Philippa Gregory
The Constant Princess
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Boleyn Inheritance
The Queen's Fool

The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn

XYZ series by Karen Rivers
X in Flight
Y in the Shadows

Marg of ReadingAdventures wrote one long review for the books in Conn Iggulden's Conqueror series.

Gilion of Rose City Reader also reads a few series:
Cara Black's Aimee Leduc series, which is set in France.
James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series
Lee Child's Jack Reacher series featuring the famous former military police man turned PI.
John Lescroart's Dismas Hardy series
Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko series (We all have heard of Gorky Park, I believe?)
Julia Spencer-Fleming's Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne series starring a former army pilot turned Episcopalian priest and the local police chief.

And last, but certainly not least, Beth from BethFishReads has a good review of Chris Grabenstein's John Ceepack series featuring John Ceepak, a fromer MP serving in Iraq who retired from the army with PTSD.

Monica of Monniblog even sent in her answers to the questions I asked along with my call for submissions:

What is it about series you like most?
I think it's the continuation of the story. If it's a good story, you want to know more and more about the characters and continue on the journey with them.

And do you remember the first series you read?
To be honest, the first types of series I fell in love with were movies. I was in love with trilogies as a kid: original Star Wars, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones.

Do you prefer to have something on the covers that links the books (like the yellow background and the comic-style guy on the “for Dummies” books to give only one example) or don’t the covers matter to you that much?
After studying design, I find that I enjoy a similar style, especially in font. I think that Harry Potter managed this well.

Phew, that's it for the submissions! I hope you enjoyed all the series and maybe even found a few new ones you'd like to try.

Also check out the next editions of the Bookworms Carnival (and maybe submit some reviews):
Edition 46 hosted by: Beth at Beth Fish Reads
Deadline for submission: January 23, 2010
Theme: Books about food or books that feature food (I’d accept culinary mysteries for example or novels centered around food)
To submit a post, email: bfish.reads AT gmail DOT com

Edition 47 hosted by: Jessica at the Bluestocking Society
Deadline for submission: February 12, 2010
Theme: Books to Movies
To submit a post, email: thebluestockingsociety at gmail dot com

Bloggiesta - the first update

So, it's about time for my first Bloggiesta update.

So far I have taken care of the blog rolls both here and at my German blog. If you want to be on my blog roll and I have missed you (sorry, it's been a bit crazy with all the names), please let me know!

And then I finally got myself a gravatar! You can also see it in my profile on blogger and on twitter. (By the way, follow me on twitter, if you'd like!)

Now I'm off to write a review, before I have to really get back to my work for university (I have an essay due next Friday on travel lit and a book I haven't read in quite a while and four presentations on four very different subjects the week after.)

good or bad? I can't make up my mind...

Dang, sometimes living outside an English-speaking country can be annoying! I pre-ordered Courtney Summers' Some Girls Are a short while ago, and usually the pre-ordered books arrive at my place the day they're out, but not this time. This time, I will have to wait until the end of January, because the book is not even in Germany yet. I really wished they would have shipped a few copies at least, so that I wouldn't have to wait so long.

On the bright side, I don't have much reading time during the next two weeks (I have one essay due January 15 and four presentations the week after), so it would be really hard to have another new book lying around, knowing I'd feel very, very guilty if I started reading it before all the other things are done!

The 2nd Bloggiesta is coming up!

I can't begin to tell you how glad I am the 2nd Bloggiesta hosted by Natasha @ Maw Books Blog is coming up next weekend: January 8 through 10!

Now that I have started blogging both in English and German in early 2009, I have two blogs to maintain, which has been a bit tricky at times.

For this blog, I have to do the following:

• write reviews (or at least reviewlets for the older books) for the following books:




1. Robert Fate: Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption


2. Harry Kemelman: Sunday The Rabbi Stayed Home


3. Peter O'Donnell & Jim Holdaway: Modesty Blaise - The Gabriel Set-Up


4. Sam Savage: Firmin


5. Karen Tei Yamashita: Tropic of Orange


6. Cormac McCarthy: The Road


7. Rachel Caine: Glass Houses


8. MaryJanice Davidson: Undead and Unreturnable


9. Will Eisner: The Spirit


10. Alan Bennett: The Uncommon Reader


11. Martin Millar: Lonely Werewolf Girl


12. P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Marked


13. Agatha Christie: Star Over Bethlehem


14. Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese


15. Hester Browne: The Little Lady Agency


16. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar


17. Sarah Mayberry: She's Got It Bad


18. Vicki Lewis Thompson, Jill Shalvis & Rhonda Nelson: Better Naughty Than Nice


• update blog roll


• work on review template


• get gravatar (finally!)


• prepare template posts for future reads including picture & links

For my German blog:

• finally transfer old posts to new blog


• update blog roll


• work on review template

That should be far more than I can handle, so I'll leave it at that.

year's end summary - part 2: books bought

Now, this is the far too long list of books I acquired during the past 12 months. I can only hope 2010 will be a better year!

Striked through titles are those I already read AND reviewed or deleted from Mt. TBR for other reasons.

1) Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey and Other Works
2) Sheila Connolly: One Bad Apple
3) Laura Childs: Eggs In Purgatory
4) Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
5) Charlotte Bronte: The Professor
6) Elizabeth Young: Asking For Trouble
7) Merline Lovelace: A Question of Intent
8) Marie Ferrarella: Protecting His Witness
9) Dani Sinclair: Secret Cinderella
10) Charlotte Douglas: Mystique
11) Libba Bray: A Great and Terrible Beauty
12) Jim Butcher: Storm Front
13) Rhys Bowen: Her Royal Spyness
14) Meg Cabot: Jinx
15) Kathryn Lilley: A Killer Workout
16) Alice Kimberly: The Ghost and Haunted Mansion
17) Jin Xing: Shanghai Tango (audio)
18) John Katzenbach: The Analyst (audio)
19) Nalini Singh: Slave to Sensation & Vision of Heat
20) Rhys Bowen: Evan's Gate
21) John Sandford: Rules of Prey
22) Natalie Anderson: Bought - One Night, One Marriage
23) Suzanne Brockman: Prince Joe
24) Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 1 (gift card)
25) Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 2
26) Tohko Mizuno: In A Distant Time 10
27) Rutu Modan: Exit Wounds
28) Jill Shalvis: Instant Attraction
29) Rachel Gibson: Tangled Up In You
30) Cindy Gerard: Show No Mercy
31) Merline Lovelace: Devlin and the Deep Blue Sea
32) Marie Ferrarella: The Bride With No Name
33) Jill Shalvis & Jacquie D'Alessandro & Jame Sobrato: Heating up the Holidays
34) Maureen Child: An Officer And A Millionaire
35) Jennifer LaBrecque: Yule Be Mine
36) Cara Summers: Come Toy With Me
37) Lori Wilde: Lethal Exposure
38) Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road
39) Stephenie Meyer: New Moon
40) J.R. Ward: Dark Lover
41) Nancy Horan: Loving Frank
42) Holly Robinson Peete: Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching The Game! A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football
43) Rhys Bowen: Evans Above
44) Amy Tan: Hundred Secret Senses
45) Lorna Barrett: Murder Is Binding
46) Margaret Grace: Malice In Miniature
47) German book on ADD
48) Steve Mosby: The 50/50 Killer
49) Tess Gerritsen: The Mephisto Club
50) Janice Kay Johnson: Snowbound
51) Florentine Dame & Elizabeth Weydt: An Grenzen
52) Lora Leigh: Nauti Boy
53) Lisa Kleypas: It Happened One Autumn
54) Julie James: Practice Makes Perfect
55) Julie James: Just The Sexiest Man Alive
56) Jill Shalvis: Flashpoint
57) Bram Stocker: Dracula (for university)
58) Poppy Z. Brite: Lost Souls (for university)
59) Julia Hoban: Willow
60) Michael Karpin: Tightrope - Six Centuries Of A Jewish Dynasty
61) William Boyd: Restless (Bookcrossing)
62) Adriana Trigiani: Lucia, Lucia (Bookcrossing)
63) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half Of A Yellow Sun (Bookcrossing)
64) Philip Roth: American Pastoral (for university)
65) Cormac McCarthy: The Road (for university)
66) Karen Tei Yamashita: Tropic Of Orange (for university)
67) Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband
68) Italian language learning mystery: Dottor Bianchis Letzter Wille (Dottor Bianchi's Last Will)
69) Paul Robertson: Road To Nowhere (Bookcrossing)
70) Abby Gaines: Married By Mistake
71) Michail Bulgakov: The Master & Margerita (birthday gift from dear friends)
72) Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse (won during 24 Hour Read-A-Thon)
73) Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why (won during 24 Hour Read-A-Thon)
74) Emily Listfield: Best Intentions (review copy)
75) Alan Bennett: An Uncommon Reader
76) Sophie Kinsella: Remember Me?
77) Stephenie Meyer: Eclipse
78) Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture
79) John Boyne: The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
80) Emily Dickinson: Wilde Nächte (The Letters of Emily Dickinson) (gift)
81) Scott Sigler: Infected (gift certificate)
82) Sam Savage: Firmin (gift certificate)
83) Ann Aguirre: Grimspace (gift certificate)
84) Lisa Jackson: Twice Kissed
85) Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends & Influence People
86) Beth Andrews: A Not-So-Perfect Past
87) Jill Shalvis: Flashback
88) Scott Westerfeld: Uglies
89) Lawrence Kaplan: House Of Ghosts (review copy)
90) Tachibana Higuchi: Alice Academy Vol. 6
91) Tachibana Higuchi: Alice Academy Vol. 7
92) Natsuo Kirino: Real World
93) Jean Hager: Blooming Murder (Bookcrossing)
94) Nadine Dajani: Cutting Loose (review copy)
95) Sally Koslow: The Late, Lamented Molly Marx (review copy)
96) Susan Crosby: The Rancher's Surprise Marriage
97) Sarah Dunn: Secrets Of Happiness (won - thanks Beth)
98) Robert Fate: Baby Shark's Jugglers At The Border (review copy)
99) Allison Leigh: A Weaver Wedding
100) Jeanine Frost: Halfway To The Grave
101) Dirk Bernemann: Ich hab die Unschuld kotzen sehen Teil 2 (German)
102) Patricia Davids: A Military Match
103) Kristan Higgins: Fools Rush In
104) Jill Shalvis: Double Play
105) D.D. Barant: Dying Bites
106) Rachel Caine: Glass Houses
107) MaryJanice Davidson: Undead and Unpopular
108) MaryJanice Davidson: Undead and Uneasy
109) Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
110) Nick Sagan: Idlewild
111) Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase
112) MaryJanice Davidson: Undead and Unreturnable
113) Kristan Higgins: Too Good To Be True
114) Dan Brown: The Lost Symbol
115) Rhonda Nelson - The Hell-Raiser
116) Lisa Kleypas - Mine Till Midnight
117) Rachel Caine - Midnight Alley
118) Benyamin Cohen - My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
119) Tanya Huff - Blood Trail
120) Amanda Quick - I Thee Wed (Bookcrossing)
121) Jon Krakauer - Under The Banner Of Heaven
122) Jill Shalvis: Instant Gratification
123) Sara Orwig: Wyoming Marriage
124) Sarah Mayberry: She's Got It Bad
125) Patricia Davids: Speed Trap (can I blame the author? she told me about it and I couldn't resist LOL)
126) Tzipi Caton: Miracle Ride - A True Story of Illness, Fate, Humor - And Triumph
127) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Marked (review copy)
128) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Betrayed (review copy)
129) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast:Chosen (review copy)
130) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast:Untamed (review copy)
131) Josh Bazell: Beat the Reeper (review copy)
132) Nick Sagan: Edenborn
133) Alan Bradley: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
134) Melissa Marr: Wicked Lovely
135) Gareth P. Jones: The Thornthwaite Inheritance
136) Wolfgang Schorlau: Das München-Komplott (German mystery)
137) Ralf Schmitz: Schmitz' Katze (German book by comedian)
138) Eckard von Hirschhausen: Die Leber wächst mit ihren Aufgaben (German book by comedian)
139) Lernkrimi Italienisch: Mord in der Scala (Language Practice Italian: Murder at the Scala)
140) Jeffery Deaver: The Vanished Man
141) Melissa De La Cruz: Masquerade
142) Georges Simenon: Maigret et le clochard
143) Vicki Lewis Thompson, Jill Shalvis, Rhonda Nelson: Better Naughty Than Nice
144) Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
145) Michael Anthony: Mass Casualties (review copy)
146) Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code (in French, gift from a dear friend!)
148) Danielle Joseph: Shrinking Violet (German holiday swap - Buecherblogs)
149) Elizabeth Scott: Living Dead Girl (Holiday Swap)
150) Cindy Pon: Silver Phoenix (Holiday Swap)
151) Hester Browne: The Little Lady Agency
152) Haruki Murakami: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
153) Alyson Noel: Evermore (mixed up Evermore and Evernight, which I actually wanted to get - oh well!)
154) Charlaine Harris: Living Dead In Dallas
155) Kenneth Oppel: Silverwing (Christmas present from a dear friend)
156) Catherine Clément: Le voyage de Théo (for university)
157) Nick Sagan: Everfree
158) Joy Fielding: Still Life (another Christmas present)
159) Lev Grossman: The Magician
160) Laura Schaefer: The Teashop Girls (pre-ordered in May)
161) Janet Evanovich: Naughty Neighbor (Bookcrossing)
162) J.K Rowling The Tales Of Beedle The Bard (secret santa - Literaturschock)
163) Ally Carter: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (secret santa - Literaturschock, yes, I did get 2 books)


As a result, I added 107 books to Mt. TBR for 2010 *sigh*

year's end summary - part 1: books read

Wow, that was a close call... I can't believe I read so "few" books - compared to previous years...

A short note on the side: I will update the links as I write the reviews. I'm still waaay behind, sorry!

1) Oscar Wilde: A Woman of No Importance
2) Patricia Davids: Military Daddy
3) Linwood Barclay: No Time For Goodbye (audio)
4) Meg Cabot: Jinx
5) Vicki Myron: Dewey
6) Marie Ferrarella: Protecting His Witness
7) Natalie Anderson: Bought - One Night, One Marriage
8) Suzanne Brockmann: Prince Joe
9) Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 1
10) Johann Maier: Judentum & Judentum - Reader
11) Jill Shalvis & Jacquie D'Alessandro & Jamie Sobrato: Heating Up The Holidays
12) Merline Lovelace: Devlin and the Deep Blue Sea
13) Marie Ferrarella: The Bride With No Name
14) Rutu Modan: Exit Wounds
15) Naomi Alderman: Disobedience
16) MaryJanice Davidson: Undead and Unappreciated
17) Nalini Singh: Slave to Sensation
18) Agatha Christie: The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side
19) Robert Fate: Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues
20) Meg Cabot: How To Be Popular
21) Robert Fate: Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption
22) Marco von Münchhausen: Zeit gewinnen mit dem inneren Schweinehund (time management)
23) Lori Wilde: Lethal Exposure
24) Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 2
25) Eun-Ah Park: Sweet & Sensitive 4
26) Eun-Ah Park: Sweet & Sensitive 5
27) Tess Gerritsen: The Mephisto Club
28) Meg Cabot: The Princess Diares - To The Nines
29) Harry Kemelman: Sunday The Rabbi Stayed Home
30) Elie Wiesel: Night
31) Jill Shalvis: Flashpoint
32) Jennifer LaBrecque: Yule Be Mine
33) Cara Summers: Come Toy With Me
34) Leslie Kelly: Slow Hands
35) Abby Gaines: Married By Mistake
36) Peter O'Donnell & Jim Holdaway: Modesty Blaise - The Gabriel Set-Up
37) Beth Andrews: A Not-So-Perfect Past
38) Sam Savage: Firmin
39) Tachibana Higuchi: Alice Academy Vol. 4
40) Tachibana Higuchi: Alice Academy Vol. 5
41) Gosho Aoyama: Detective Conan 15
42) Maju Sakai: Rockin' Heaven Vol. 2
43) Gosho Aoyama: Case Closed Vol. 16
44) Gosho Aoyama: Case Closed Vol. 17
45) Gosho Aoyama: Case Closed Vol. 18
46) Tomoko Hayakawa: Perfect Girl Vol. 6
47) Maki Minami: Special A Vol. 1
48) Maki Minami: Special A Vol. 2
49) Maki Minami: Special A Vol. 3
50) Yuna Kagesaki: Cheeky Vampire Vol. 7
51) Lawrence Kaplan: House Of Ghosts
52) Yuna Kagesaki: Cheeky Vampire Vol. 8
53) Jong Eun Lee: Shi Hwa Mong Vol.1
54) Susan Crosby: The Rancher's Surprise Marriage
55) Jacqueline Baird: Marriage At His Convenience
56) Tomoko Hayakawa: Perfect Girl Vol. 7
57) Tomoko Hayakawa: Perfect Girl Vol. 8
58) Maju Shinjo: Kaikan Phrase Vol. 5
59) Tomoko Hayakawa: Perfect Girl Vol. 9
60) Kristan Higgins: Just One Of The Guys
61) Tachibana Higuchi: Alice Academy Vol. 6
62) Tachibana Higuchi: Alice Academy Vol. 7
63) Karen Tei Yamashita: Tropic Of Orange
64) Allison Leigh: A Weaver Wedding
65) Janice Kay Johnson: Snowbound
66) Cormac McCarthy: The Road
67) Jill Shalvis: Flashback
68) Merline Lovelace: A Question Of Intent
69) M. Reufsteck/J. Stoeckle: Die kleine House-Apotheke
70) Charlotte Douglas: Mystique
71) Elizabeth Young: Asking For Trouble
72) Jill Shalvis: Instant Attraction
73) Carly Phillips: Hot Property
74) Dani Sinclair: Secret Cinderella
75) Julie James: Just The Sexiest Man Alive
76) Donna Kauffman: The Cinderella Rules
77) Susan Elizabeth Phillips: Heaven, Texas
78) Susan Elizabeth Phillips: Lady Be Good
79) Nalini Singh: Visions Of Heat
80) Rachel Caine: Glass Houses
81) Patricia Davids: A Military Match
82) Nick Sagan - Idlewild
83) D.D. Barrant - Dying Bites
84) Jill Shalvis - Storm Front
85) Sara Orwig: Wyoming Marriage
86) Friedrich Duerrenmatt: Die Panne
87) MaryJanice Davidson: Undead and Unreturnable
88) Jay Asher: 13 Reasons Why
89) Will Eisner: The Spirit
90) Alan Bennett: The Uncommon Reader
91) a great book you'll hear more about as soon as possible!
92) a great book you'll hear more about as soon as possible! (not the same as #91 in October!)
93) Martin Millar: Lonely Werewolf Girl
94) Cassandra Clare: City of Bones
95) Gareth P. Jones: The Thornthwaite Inheritance
96) Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child: Reliquary (audio)
97) Yasushi Inoue: Memoirs of the Priest Honkaku
98) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Marked
99) Agatha Christie: Star Over Bethlehem
100) Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
101) Hester Browne: The Little Lady Agency
102) Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
103) Ralf Schmitz: Schmitz' Katze
104) Sarah Mayberry: She's Got It Bad
105) Vicki Lewis Thompson, Jill Shalvis & Rhonda Nelson: Better Naughty Than Nice

December summary

Added
148) Danielle Joseph: Shrinking Violet (German holiday swap - Buecherblogs)
149) Elizabeth Scott: Living Dead Girl (Book Blogger Holiday Swap)
150) Cindy Pon: Silver Phoenix (Book Blogger Holiday Swap)
151) Hester Browne: The Little Lady Agency
152) Haruki Murakami: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
153) Alyson Noel: Evermore (mixed up Evermore and Evernight, which I actually wanted to get - oh well!)
154) Charlaine Harris: Living Dead In Dallas
155) Kenneth Oppel: Silverwing (Christmas present from a dear friend)
156) Catherine Clément: Le voyage de Théo (for university)
157) Nick Sagan: Everfree
158) Joy Fielding: Still Life (another Christmas present)
159) Lev Grossman: The Magician
160) Laura Schaefer: The Teashop Girls (pre-ordered in May)
161) Janet Evanovich: Naughty Neighbor (Bookcrossing)
162) J.K Rowling The Tales Of Beedle The Bard (secret santa - Literaturschock)
163) Ally Carter: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (secret santa - Literaturschock, yes, I did get 2 books)

Read
98) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Marked
99) Agatha Christie: Star Over Bethlehem
100) Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
101) Hester Browne: The Little Lady Agency
102) Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
103) Ralf Schmitz: Schmitz' Katze
104) Sarah Mayberry: She's Got It Bad
105) Vicki Lewis Thompson, Jill Shalvis & Rhonda Nelson: Better Naughty Than Nice

DNF
7) Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife