Pop Sugar's Annual Ultimate Reading Challenge discussion

Six months are almost gone! According to Goodreads, I am five books behind. So far I have read:

More than 500 pages - Dragonfly in Amber
A book with a number in the title - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
A book with non-human characters - The Island of Dr. Moreau
Female author - Bad Feminist: Essays
One-word title - Unbecoming
Book of short stories - Zombies Vs. Unicorns
Book set in a different Country - Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
A non-fiction book - The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
Book from a favourite author - The Casual Vacancy
Book based on cover - Ticker
Book you were meant to read in school but didn't - Brave New World
Book you can read in a day - The Mermaid's Sister
Setting that you have always wanted to visit - The Martian
Published year I was born - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Bad reviews - The Astronaut Wives Club
Colour in the title - 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Graphic novel - Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
Author you've never read before - Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Based/ turned into a TV show - Outlander
...and I've made progress in Clear and Present Danger for my "started but never finished" entry.

I've really enjoyed most of my selections, and, like everyone keeps saying, appreciate the variety. The Martian is probably my favorite, Good Omens is the one I most wish I'd read years ago, and Drunken Botanist is the one (that I don't already own) I most want to add to my personal library.

What have you enjoyed? Anything I HAVE to add to my list for the rest of the year?

So I am sure I am behinde but I am determined to fininsh even if i go past the year deadline (though I am going to try not to) This is where I am so far:
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Book that was turned into a movie :Here be Monsters (Box Trolls)
Book published this year: Darker Shade of Magic
Author under 30: Wuthering Heights
Book with non human characters :Ape House
Females Author: Thirtheenth Tale
Book set in a different country: The Tower, the Zoo and The Tortosie
Book you were suppose to read in school: the Giver
Book you can read in a day : The Graveyard Book
Book with antonyms in the title: The Great and Terrible Beauty
Published the Year you were born: Maus 1
Trilogy: Cinder, Scarlett,Cress
Book from Childhood: Alanna: The First Test
Set in High School: Spanking Shakespeare
Color in the title: Red Riding Hood
Book with magic: Darkest Seduction
Graphic novel: Kill Shakespeare
Author never read before: Shakespeare Undead
Originally weritten in a diffrent Language; The Count of Monte Cristo
Play: No Exit
Started but never finished: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

So I absolutley loved A Darker Shade of Magic and was super excited to find out it was the start to a series. other than that the Graphic Novel Kill Shakespeare was amazing, but if you look at my list you'll see that im kind of a Shakespeare junkie so I'm not sure how much everybody else would like it. More that anything I have read some books that were not that good at all. So if anyone is looking for a book with bad reviews may I suggest : Wuthering Heights (I gave it one star) and The Thritheenth Tale also not good.

I am truly enjoying the challenge and have moved on to reading Madame Bovary (well listening to it) to use for a classic romance and I'm going to start a Christopher Moore book to use for a book I own but havent read yet. I'm having a lot of fun planning out my next to read and going througth the books I own that I keep meaning to read that will fit in the catagories.

Ooh, lots of Shakespeare books! Have you read Sarah A. Hoyt's Shakespeare series? The first one is Ill Met By Moonlight.

8 books behind for me! Hopefully summer will be a good opportunity for catching up. :)
Book with 500 pages: Cibola Burn
Book published this year: Nemesis Games
Book with female author: Cold Copper
Book from author you love: The Abyss Beyond Dreams
Pulitzer Prize winner: The Goldfinch
Book >100 years old: The Tale of Genji
Book based on cover: Passion Play
Book I can finish in a day: The Giver
Book with love triangle: Artemis Awakening
Book set in future: Abaddon's Gate
Color in the title: Green Mars
Book with magic: Queen's Hunt
Author never read: Leviathan Wakes
Book I own but haven't read: Singularity Sky
Book turned into TV show: Caliban's War
Started but never finished: Lord of Light

Lots of sci-fi, per usual. :) It's nice to read other peoples' read list - The Drunken Botanist especially sounds interesting!

Nicole wrote: "Ooh, lots of Shakespeare books! Have you read Sarah A. Hoyt's Shakespeare series? The first one is Ill Met By Moonlight."

I haven't yet but I will deffinatley will check them out thank you :)

Seven books ahead:

1) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - A book that became a movie

2) The Crucible - A Play.

3) Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s - A book based on or turned into a TV show

4) The Picture of Dorian Gray - A book more than 100 years old

5) Kitchen - - A book you were suppose to read in school but didn't

6) Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft - Graphic Novel

7) The Song of Bernadette - A book that was originally written in a different language

8) Interpreter of Maladies - A book of short stories.

9) The Witches of Eastwick - Book from the year you were born

10) The Hours - A Pulitzer Prize-winning book

11) 1984 - A book with a number in the title

12) Anna Karenina - Classic Romance

13) Coraline - A book you started but never finished

14) Bastard Out of Carolina - A book based on a true story

15) The Miniaturist - A book by a female author

16) The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - A book you can finish in a day

17) The Gathering - A book with bad reviews (2.99)

18) Gone Girl - A mystery or thriller

19) Born with Teeth - A book that made you cry

20) Bird Box - A book that scares you

21) The Girl on the Train - A book published this year

22) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story - A book with antonyms in the title

23) The Bell Jar - A book written by someone under 30

24) Gone with the Wind - A book with a love triangle

25) Station Eleven - A book set in the future

26) Lolita - A book with a one-word title

27) Tell No One - A book written by an author with your same initials

28) The Martian - A book at the bottom of your to-read list

29) White Oleander - A book with a color in the title

30) Brave New World - A Banned Book

31) Wolf Hall - A book with more than 500 pages

32) Bring Up the Bodies - A book set in a different country

33) Oryx and Crake - Trilogy Part 1

Will finish part two of the trilogy (The Year of the Flood) tonight. So, almost 34.

Hello,
I'm new to the group, but have been doing this challenge already from Pinterest. Unfortunately, I'm behind 14 books! Yikes!
1)#8 A funny book-Bossypants
2)#11 A book with a one-word title-Katherine
3)#13 A book set in a different country-Memoirs of a Geisha
4)#18 A Pulitzer Prize-winning book-The Pearl
5)#26 A memoir-Eat Pray Love
6)#27 A book you can finish in a day-A Message to Garcia
7)#37 A book with a color in the title-Blue Stars
8)#38 A book that made you cry-Tuesdays with Morrie
9)#44 A book that was original written in a different language-Adultery
10)#47 A play-A Streetcar Named Desire
11)#48 A banned book-My Sister's Keeper
12)#50 A book you started but never finished-On the Island

I only have two books left. And I just can't seem to finish! The Old Man and the Sea finally came in at the library so I can get the Pulitzer winner out of the way. And then I'll finally force myself to read a book I own but have never read. Really not liking that one because if I liked it, I would have read it!

Honestly, I got down to 6 books and it's been a drag ever since. Next year, I'm doing the hardest ones first :)

Stacy wrote: "I only have two books left. And I just can't seem to finish! The Old Man and the Sea finally came in at the library so I can get the Pulitzer winner out of the way. And then I'll finally force mys..."

I started with the hardest ones myself, though I left the 500 page one for the summer. I now have only ONE book left, and that is it. I am about 20% through it, and I am certain I will have it finished before the end of the year. Not sure if I will have it before the end of the summer...as it is a slow read for me. I like it, but it is not holding my attention, so I keep going back and forth. I have other challenges, and I tend to put it down to go to them.

Do you own any other books that you might enjoy? I found one that I had been reading last year, and enjoyed, but suddenly stopped (it was on my Kindle, and I just forgot I was reading it). I have LOTS on Kindle that I would love to read...so, that was a category that was really easy for me.LOL. I would check around to see if you have another book. I would not read a book you really did not enjoy. Not worth it. Too many other good books that should be taking up your time. And, this should not be the Bataan Death March. It is suppose to be fun.

A book with more than 500 pages - Anna Karenina*
A book that became a movie - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
A book published this year - Bring on the Dusk
A book with a number in the title - One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
A book written by someone under 30 - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall* (age 28)
A book with non-human characters - Cole's Redemption
A funny book - Hard Eight*
A book by a female author - Whispers in the Dark
A mystery or thriller - Belgrave Square*
A book with a one-word title - Ivanhoe*
A book of short stories - Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
A book set in a different country - However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph (Senegal, Africa)
A popular author’s first book - Treasure Island* (first published novel)
A book from an author you love but haven’t read yet - Heart's Blood
A book a friend recommended - The Hound of the Baskervilles(recommended by my librarian friend Kim)
A Pulitzer Prize winning book - The Old Man and the Sea (Pulitzer Prize 1953)
A book that scares you - When the Wind Blows
A book more than 100 years old - Wuthering Heights*
A book based entirely on its cover - Slay It with Flowers
A book you can finish in one day - Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe
A trilogy - The Wilde Sisters Trilogy
A book from your childhood - The Island Stallion
A book with a love triangle - Return to Longbourn
A book set in the future - Strangers in Death*
A book with a color in the title - Amanda's Blue Marine
A book with magic - The Charmed Sphere
A book by an author you’ve never read before - Mrs. Queen Takes the Train
A book that takes place in your hometown - Delayed Penalty (Not the whole book, but parts of it)
A banned book - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Several of mine are audiobooks(*) I listened to but I make sure to get the unabridged versions. I'm really actually enjoying this challenge and it is definitely opening up my interest in different genres.