Honeythorpe

888 book challenge

italics are books I've started = read 8 books to make my teeth ache
Chocolate: a bittersweet saga of dark and light - Mort Rosenblaum
Sweets: a history of temptation - Tim Richardson
The emperor’s of chocolate - Joel Glenn Brenner
The lollipop shoes - Joanne Harris
Bon Bon voyage - Nancy Fairbanks
Icing on the cake - Laura Castoro
Candy Freak - Steve Almond
Chocolate lovers club - Carole Matthews
8 Diana Wynne Jones novels
Fire and Hemlock
Howl’s Moving Castle
Castle in the Air
Lives of Christopher Chant (Chrestomanci)
Magicians of Caprona (Chrestomanci)
Mixed Magics (Chrestomanci)
Conrad’s Fate (Chrestomanci)
The Pinhoe Egg (Chrestomanci)
8 bookish books
The bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
Solstice Wood - Patricia A McKillip
Secret of Lost things : a novel - Sheridan Hay
Applemere Summer - Harriet Hudson
The Christie Caper - Carolyn G. Hart
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
Love Letters - Cathleen Schine
Sixpence House: lost in a town of books - Paul Collins
8 escapist travel books
Girl at Sea - Maureen Johnson
Buried Treaasure: Travels through the jewel box - Victoria Finlay
Her fork in the road : women celebrate food and travel - Lisa Bach (ed)
American pie : slices of life (and pie) from America’s back roads : Pascale LaDraoulec
Paris in a basket: markets, the food, the people - Nicolle Aimee Meyer
Minnow on the Say - Philippa Pearce
Eating as I go : scenes from America and abroad - Doris Friedensohn
Weekend in Paris - Robyn Sisman
8 childhood faves
Sara Crewe/A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl
Samantha’s Secret Room - Lyn Cook
The Long Secret - Louise Fitzhugh
Eight Cousins (a.ka. The Aunt-Hill) - Louisa May Alcott
The Mystery of the Green Cat - Phyllis A. Whitney
Morris has a Cold - Bernard Wiseman
The World of Winnie the Pooh/The World of Christopher Robin - A.A. Milne
8 award winners
Dear Mr. Henshaw - Beverly Cleary (Newbery Medal, 1984)
Eve Green - Susan Fletcher (Whitbread First Novel, 2004)
The Haunting - Margaret Mahy (Carnegie Award, 1982)
I, Coriander - Sally Gardner (Nestle Gold Award, 2005)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Man Booker, 2002)
Hana’s Suitcase - Kevin Levine (CLA, 2003)
Harriet Spies Again - Helen Ericson (Edgar, 2003)
Village by the Sea - Paula Fox (Horn Book, 1989)
8 rewritten fairytales
Enchantment - Orson Scott Card (Sleeping Beauty)
Into the wild - Sara Durst (Rapunzel)
Before Midnight - Cameron Dokey (Cinderella)
Fairest - Gail Carson Levine (Snow White)
Beastly - Alex Flinn (Beauty and the Beast)
Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale (Maid Maleen)
The Frog Prince - Stephen Mitchell (The Frog Prince)
Deerskin - Robin McKinley (Donkeyskin)
8 Memoirs
A Girl from Yam Hill - Beverly Cleary
Life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
Dress your family in corduroy and denim - David Sedaris
Not a happy camper - Mindy Schneider
Tender at the Bone: growing up at the table - Ruth Reichl
She got up off the couch - Haven Kimmel
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
Garlic and Sapphires - Ruth Reichl