Announcing The LOST Books Perpetual Challenge

I was a LOST groupie, so I was very excited to stumble upon this challenge! It is being hosted by Amy and Heather on its own dedicated blog.

If you were a LOST fan, you know that the books featured in the show often played important parts of the story.

Here are the details of the perpetual challenge:

Now that LOST is over, we have more time than ever to reflect on what it all meant! Therefore, Heather and I are pleased to announce that we'll be keeping the LOST Books Challenge Blog and we're introducing the perpetual challenge.

LOST was a literary show. The writers and creators based so much of the show on the history of great stories as told through books. They named their characters and episodes after literary giants. They seamlessly wove books into many scenes and left us all to ponder what it all meant.

And while the show is over, the speculation around LOST lives. There's still so much to think about and many theories that can be formed...therefore we still find value in reading the many books mentioned on LOST.

Here are the details of the challenge:

1)This is a perpetual challenge--which means there's no end in sight! You have plenty of time to read the books mentioned on LOST. It starts for you the moment you sign up!

2) You can choose books from the LOSTpedia Book List, the LOST book club on ABC, or the LOST books list on DarkUFO. Feel free to look in other places as well!

3) Sign the Mister Linky below with your blog url if you have one, if not with just your name or twitter handle. You can follow us on Twitter at @LOSTreading. Please also consider posting about the challenge on your blog so that others can learn about it!

4) Email lostbookschallenge@gmail.com to be added as a contributor to this blog. You can post your reviews in their entirety here on this blog or a snippet with a link back to your blog.

5) You can also post other items and notes of interest to LOST fans.

6) Have fun! There's no end date so this should be a fun way to revisit our favorite show again and again!

If you want to join me in the LOST challenge, click HERE.

Here is the list of books:

1. Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The by Mark Twain
2. After All These Years by Susan Isaacs
3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
6. Bad Twin by Laurence Shames
7. Bluebeard by Charles Perrault
8. Book of Laws by Manu
9. Holy Bible, The
10. Brief History of  Time, A by Stephen Hawking
11. Brothers Karamazov, The by Fyodor Dostoevsky
12. Caravan of Dreams by Idries Shah
13. Carrie by Stephen King
14. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
15. Christmas Carol, A by Charles Dickens - read 4 Jan 2013
16. Chosen, The by Chaim Potok
17. Chronicles of Narnia, The by C.S. Lewis
18. Coalwood Way, The by Homer Hickam
19. Dark Horse by Tami Hoag
20. Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, The by Stephen King
21. Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, The by Stephen King
22. Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, The by Stephen King
23. Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, The by Stephen King
24. Dirty Work by Stuart Woods
25. Epic  of Gilgamesh, The by Gilgamesh
26. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
27. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
28. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
29. Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
30. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
31. Fountainhead, The by Ayn Rand
32. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
33. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
34. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salmon Rushdie
35. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
36. High Hand by Gary Phillips
37. Holy Qur’an, The
38. Hotel by Arthur Hailey
39. I Ching
40. Invention of Morel, The by Adolfo Bioy Casares
41. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
42. Island by Aldous Huxley
43. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
44. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
45. Kings of Love: The Poetry and History of the Ni’Matullahi Sufi Order by Nasrolla Pourjavady and P.L. Wilson (translators)
46. Lancelot by Walker Percy
47. Langoliers by Stephen King
48. Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
49. Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
50. Little Prince, The by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
51. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
52. Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
53. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
54. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
55. Moon Pool, The by A. Merritt
56. Mysteries of the Ancient Americas: The New World before Columbus by Robert Dolezal
57. Mysterious Island, The by Jules Verne
58. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
59. Oath, The by John Lescroart
60. Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The by Ambrose Bierce
61. Odyssey, The by Homer
62. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
63. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
64. On Writing by Stephen King
65. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
66. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
67. Outsiders, The by Susan E. Hinton
68. Pearl, The by John Steinbeck
69. Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
70. Rick Romer’s Vision of Astrology by Rick Romer
71. Roots by Alex Haley
72. Separate Reality, A by Carlos Castaneda
73. Shape of Things to Come, The by H.G. Wells
74. Sheltering Sky, The by Paul Bowles
75. Shining, The by Stephen King
76. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
77. Stand, The by Stephen King
78. Stone Leopard, The Colin Forbes
79. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
80. Survivors of the Chancellor, The by Jules Verne
81. Tale of Two Cities, A by Charles Dickens
82. Third Policeman, The by Flann O’Brien
83. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
84. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
85. Turn of the Screw, The by Henry James
86. Ulysses by James Joyce
87. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
88. Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler
89. Valis by Philip K. Dick
90. Watership Down by Richard Adams
91. What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
92. Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The by L. Frank Baum
93. Wrinkle in Time, A by Madeleine L'Engle

I am going to keep track of my progress below:

1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
2. The Gunslinger by Stephen King (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Christmas Books, Book #1)
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter, Book #1)  
5. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (Oz, Book #1)
6. The Shining by Stephen King (The Shining, Book #1)