2015 Challenges: Birthday Month Reading Challenge

Host: You, Me, and a Cup of Tea
Name: 2015 Birthday Month Reading Challenge (sign up here)
Dates: January - December 2015
# of Books: 12
Note to self: remember to leave links to reviews on her linkies post. 

January:
Zora Neale Hurston.
Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston. 1937. Harper Perennial Modern Classics. 256 pages. [Source: Bought]
Wilkie Collins
Jezebel's Daughter. Wilkie Collins. 1880. 304 pages. [Source: Bought]
February:
Charles Dickens
Hard Times. Charles Dickens. 1854/1992. Everyman's Library. 336 pages.  [Source: Library]
Laura Ingalls Wilder
On the Banks of Plum Creek. Laura Ingalls Wilder. 1937. 340 pages. [Source: Library]
March:
Dr. Seuss
The Cat In the Hat. Dr. Seuss. 1957. Random House. 61 pages.  [Source: Library]
Lois Lowry
The Giver. Lois Lowry. 1993. Houghton Mifflin. 180 pages. [Source: Library]  
April:
Beverly Cleary
Ramona the Pest. Beverly Cleary. 1968. HarperCollins. 208 pages. [Source: Library] 
May:
Irene Hunt
Up A Road Slowly. Irene Hunt. 1966. 208 pages. [Source: Bought]
June:
Sarah Dessen
Saint Anything. Sarah Dessen. 2015. Penguin. 432 pages. [Source: Library]
July:
Josephine Tey
The Daughter of Time. Josephine Tey. 1951/1995. Simon & Schuster. 208 pages. [Source: Bought] 
August:
David Baldacci
Wish You Well. David Baldacci. 2000/2007. Grand Central Publishing. 432 pages. [Source: Library]September:
Jon Scieszka
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs. Jon Scieszka. Illustrated by Lane Smith. 1989. 32 pages. [Source: Library]  
October:
Julie Andrews (Edwards)
The Great American Mousical. Julie Andrews Edwards. 2006. HarperCollins. 160 pages. [Source: Library]
November:
Louisa May Alcott
Eight Cousins. Louisa May Alcott. 1874. 224 pages. [Source: Bought]
December: Connie Willis
Doomsday Book. Connie Willis. 1992. Random House. 592 pages.  [Source: Book I Bought]

Ideas for each month:
January

• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Wilkie Collins

February

• Charles Dickens
• Victor Hugo
• Mo Willems

March

• Dr. Seuss
• Lois Lowry

April

• Margaret Oliphant
• Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Anthony Trollope
• Beverly Cleary
• Charlotte Bronte
• Ngaio Marsh

May

• Jerome K. Jerome
• Pat Frank (Alas, Babylon)
• Arthur Conan Doyle

June

• Dorothy Sayers
• Thomas Hardy

July

• Josephine Tey
• Erle Stanley Gardner
• Candice F. Ransom
• Joan Bauer

August

•  Georgette Heyer
• Orson Scott Card
• E. Nesbit
• Kenneth Oppel
• Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
• P.L. Travers
• Diana Wynne Jones

September

• Elizabeth Gaskell
• Agatha Christie
• Roald Dahl
• Gail Carson Levine

October

• Julie Andrews Edwards
• Karen Cushman
• Lois Lensky
• Shel Silverstein
• Jessica Day George
• Laurie Halse Anderson
• Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
• Katherine Paterson

November

• C.S. Lewis
• Neil Gaiman
• Astrid Lindgren
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Mark Twain
• George Eliot
• L.M. Montgomery
• Louisa May Alcott
• Neal Shusterman

December

• Avi
• Connie Willis
• Carol Ryrie Brink
• Rudyard Kipling
• Mercer Mayer
• Rex Stout
• George MacDonald

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