Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

I learned last year that my obsession with to-do lists extends into my reading habits and the 2015 challenge allowed me to increase my reading by a huge amount. So I'm starting a ridiculous number of challenges this year. Quite of few of them will overlap with each other since they're more focused on broadening what I read rather than increasing the actual number.

Below: click for challenge details
✔2015 Popsugar Challenge
✔2016 Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge
2017 Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge
2018 Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge
2019 Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge
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✔16 in '16
✔17 in '17
✔18 in '18
19 in '19
20 in '20
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✔A-Z Title Challenge
Cover Colors Challenge [✔2016][✔2017][✔2018][✔2019][✔2020]
Series in Progress
Around the World in Books
Read Your Age
Stephen King Works
Joe Hill Works
Great American Read
Around the Year in 52 Movies 2019

[Complete] 2015 Popsugar Challenge
Credit: Popsugar

Started: January 19, 2015
Completed: December 22, 2015

Stats:
- 22 Female Authors, 18 male authors (not including repeats)
- 2-star books: 2
- 3-star books: 16
- 4-star books: 25
- 5-star books: 8

(view spoiler)[
✔1. a book with more than 500 pages
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King ★★★☆☆

✔2. a romance
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes ★★★★★

✔3. a book that became a movie
If I Stay by Gayle Forman ★★★★☆

✔4. a book published this year
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins ★★★½☆

✔5. a book with a number in the title
One Plus One by Jojo Moyes ★★★★☆

✔6. a book written by someone under 30
Red Rising by Pierce Brown ★★★☆☆

✔7. a book with nonhuman characters
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson ★★★☆☆

✔8. a funny book
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern ★★★½☆

✔9. a book by a female author
The Likeness by Tana French ★★★½☆

✔10. a mystery or thriller
In the Woods by Tana French ★★★★☆

✔11. a book with a one-word title
Descent by Tim Johnston ★★★★☆

✔12. a book of short stories
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill ★★★★☆

✔13. a book set in a different country
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami ★★★★☆

✔14. a nonfiction book
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld ★★★★☆

✔15. a popular author's first book
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon ★★★★★

✔16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet
Horns by Joe Hill ★★★★★

✔17. a book a friend recommended
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood ★★★★★

✔18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr ★★★★☆

✔19. a book based on a true story
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline ★★★★☆

✔20. a book at the bottom of your to read list
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve ★★★★½

✔21. a book your mom loves
Trapped by Jack Kilborn ★★★½☆

✔22. a book that scares you
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty ★★★★★

✔23. a book more than 100 years old
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe ★★★☆☆

✔24. a book based entirely on its cover
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica ★★★★☆

✔25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
Animal Farm by George Orwell ★★★½☆

✔26. a memoir
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed ★★★★★

✔27. a book you can finish in a day
Wolverton Station by Joe Hill ★★★★☆

✔28. a book with antonyms in the title
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty ★★★★★

✔29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
Where She Went by Gayle Forman ★★★½☆

✔30. a book that came out the year you were born (1989)
Midnight by Dean Koontz ★★½☆☆

✔31. a book with bad reviews
The Magicians by Lev Grossman ★★★☆☆

✔32. A trilogy: Book 1
The Selection by Kiera Cass ★★★★☆

✔33. A trilogy: Book 2
The Elite by Kiera Cass ★★★★☆

✔34. A trilogy: Book 3
The One by Kiera Cass ★★★★☆

✔35. a book from your childhood:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ★★★★☆

✔36. a book with a love triangle
The Heir by Kiera Cass ★★☆☆☆

✔37. a book set in the future
The Martian by Andy Weir ★★★★☆

✔38. a book set in high school
Falling into Place by Amy Zhang ★★★½☆

✔39. a book with a color in the title
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ★★★★☆

✔40. a book that made/makes you cry
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart ★★★★☆

✔41. a book with magic
The Magician's Lie by Greer Macallister ★★★★☆

✔42. a graphic novel
Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games by Joe Hill ★★★½☆

✔43. a book by an author you've never read before
The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood ★★★½☆

✔44. a book you own but have never read
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger ★★★★★

✔45. a book that takes place in your hometown
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng ★★★★☆

✔46. a book that was originally written in another language
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson ★★★½☆

✔47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday)
Wraith by Joe Hill ★★★★☆

✔48. a book written by an author with your same initials
The Piper by Lynn Hightower ★★★★☆

✔49. a play
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams ★★★☆☆

✔50. a banned book
Rage by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) ★★★½☆

✔51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show
Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman
★★★★☆

✔52. a book you started but never finished
Throttle by Joe Hill ★★★★☆
(hide spoiler)]

[COMPLETE] 2016 Around the Year Challenge

Started: February 14, 2016
Completed: January 4, 2019

(view spoiler)[✔1. A book you meant to read in 2015, but didn't
Ten by Gretchen McNeil ★★½☆☆

✔2. A book set in a different continent
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ★★★☆☆

✔3. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2015 (winner or nominated)
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter ★★★★★

✔4. A book by an author you discovered in 2015
Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica ★★★½☆

✔5. A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name
Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton ★★★★★

✔6. The highest rated on your TBR
November 9 by Colleen Hoover ★★★★☆

✔7. A book about books
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak ★★★★★

✔8. A classic book with less than 200 pages
Psycho by Robert Bloch ★★★☆☆

✔9. A book that was mentioned in another book
Come Closer by Sara Gran (A Head Full of Ghosts) (BPL) ★★★½☆

✔10. A book by an author you feel you should have read by now
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ★★★☆☆

✔11. A book from the Rory Gilmore challenge
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didian ★★★★½

✔12. A childhood classic
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★☆☆

✔13. Reader’s Choice
The Girl You Lost by Kathryn Croft ★★★½☆

✔14. A book with one of the five W’s -or H in the title
What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler ★★★★☆

✔15. A book set in the past
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix ★★★★★

✔16. A book from the top 100 mystery novels
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton ★★★★☆

✔17. A book with a beautiful cover
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda ★★★★★


✔18. A book on a summer/beach reading list
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware ★★★½☆

✔19. A non-fiction book
Columbine by Dave Cullen ★★★★★

✔20. A book with a first name in the title
Alice by Christina Henry ★★★☆☆

✔21. A book from the Goodreads Recommendations page
Thumbprint: A Story by Joe Hill ★★★½☆

✔22. The first book in a new to you series
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey ★★★★☆

✔23. The next book in a series you are reading
The Walking Dead, Vol. 03: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman ★★★★☆

✔24. A between-the-numbers book of a series
The Prince by Kiera Cass ★★★☆☆

✔25. A book whose main character is in a profession that interests you (actress)
Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham ★★★★☆

✔26. A book everyone is talking about
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline ★★★★☆

✔27. A book with a beautiful title (in your own opinion)
The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry ★★★☆☆

✔28. A biography, autobiography, or memoir
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold ★★★★☆

✔29. A book by an author who writes under more than one name
Mr. Mercedes ★★★★☆ by Stephen King

✔30. A fairytale from a culture other than your own
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang ★★★★★

✔31. A work of young adult fiction
Attachments Rainbow Rowell ★★★★☆

✔32. A historical fiction book
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead ★★★½☆

✔33. The 16th book on your TBR
The Blue: A Novel by Lucy Clarke ★★★★★

✔34. A book about mental illness
Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz ★★★½☆

✔35. An award winning book (Bram Stoker Award Best Novel- 2008)
Duma Key by Stephen King ★★★★☆

✔36. An identity book
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie ★★★★☆

✔37. A book that you've seen the movie of but haven't read
Carrie by Stephen King ★★★★☆

✔38. A book about an anti hero
Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas ★★★★★

✔39. A book picked for you by someone else (Sweeter Reads Recommendation Swap)
Variant by Robison Wells ★★★★☆

✔40. A novella from your favorite genre
The Mist by Stephen King ★★★★☆

✔41. A book about a major world event (fiction or non-fiction)
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys ★★★★☆

✔42. A top 100 fantasy novel
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson ★★★★☆

✔43. A book about a thing that goes bump in the night
Bird Box by Josh Malerman ★★★★★

✔44. A book you're embarrassed to read in public
Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny by Holly Madison ★☆☆☆☆

✔45. A book related to a hobby or passion you have
The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines ★★★★☆

✔46. A crime story
Faithful Place by Tana French ★★★★★

✔47. An indie book (wildcard)
This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp ★★★½☆

✔48. A dystopia
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey ★★★★☆

✔49. A book with a great opening line
The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens ★★★★½
"A person has to have lived a little to appreciate a survival story."

✔50. A book originally written in a language other than English
Night by Elie Wiesel ★★★★☆

✔51. A short story from a well-known author
In the Tall Grass by Stephen King ★★★★★

✔52. A book published in 2016
The Fireman by Joe Hill ★★★½☆ (hide spoiler)]

[COMPLETE] A-Z Title Challenge

Started: April 9, 2015
Completed: September 9, 2018

Stats:
- 9 Female Authors, 15 male authors (not including repeats)
- 3-star books: 9
- 4-star books: 12
- 5-star books: 5

(view spoiler)[↹ A: After You by Jojo Moyes ★★★☆☆
↹ B: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ★★★★☆
↹ C: Confess by Colleen Hoover ★★★★☆
↹D: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch ★★★★☆
↹ E: Endurance by Jack Kilborn ★★★★☆
✔F: The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian ★★★½☆
↹G: The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney ✢ ★★★★☆
↹ H: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay ★★★★☆
↹ I: I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak ★★★★☆
↹ J: Jaws by Peter Benchley ★★★★☆
↹ K: The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood ★★★☆☆
↹ L: Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira ★★★☆☆
↹ M: The Midwife's Confession by Diane Chamberlain ★★★½☆
↹N: Never Never by Colleen Hoover ★★★★☆
↹ O: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey ★★★★☆
↹ P: The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliot ★★★☆☆
↹ Q: The Queen by Kiera Cass ★★★☆☆
↹ R: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion ★★★½☆
↹ S: Still Alice by Lisa Genova ★★★★★
↹ T: The Troop by Nick Cutter ★★★★☆
↹U: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover ★★★★★
↹ V: Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann ★★★★★
↹ W: Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill ★★★½☆
↹ X: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit ★★★★☆
↹ Y: You by Caroline Kepnes ★★★★★
↹ Z: Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French ★★★★☆ (hide spoiler)]

[COMPLETE] 16 in ‘16

Started: June 26, 2016
Completed: August 5, 2017

Stats:
- 13 Female Authors, 2 male authors (plus one written by both)
- 3-star book: 1
- 3.5-star books: 6
- 4-star books: 7
- 4.5 star book: 1
- 5-star books: 2

(view spoiler)[1. ✔The Girl You Lost by Kathryn Croft ★★★½☆
2. ✔The Fireman by Joe Hill ★★★½☆
3. ✔This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp ★★★½☆
4. ✔All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda ★★★★★
5. ✔The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry ★★★☆☆
6. ✔The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware ★★★½☆
7. ✔A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold ★★★★☆
8. ✔The Magnolia Story by Chip & Joanna Gaines ★★★★☆
9. ✔The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison ★★★★☆
10. ✔Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris ★★★★☆
11. ✔It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover ★★★★★
12. ✔All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood ★★★★☆
13. ✔Dark Matter by Blake Crouch ★★★★☆
14. ✔The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena ★★★★☆
15. ✔The Last One by Alexandra Oliva ★★★½☆
16. ✔The Dry by Jane Harper ★★★★½ (hide spoiler)]

[COMPLETE] 17 in '17

Started: February 26, 2017
Completed: September 1, 2018

Stats:
- 12 Female Authors, 5 male authors
- 2.5 star books: 1
- 3-star book: 1
- 3.5-star books: 6
- 4-star books: 6
- 4.5 star book: 1
- 5-star books: 2

(view spoiler)[✔1. The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney ★★★★☆
✔2. The Dry by Jane Harper ★★★★½
✔3. Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia ★★★½☆
✔4. The Breakdown by B.A. Paris ★★★★★
✔5. Final Girls by Riley Sager ★★★½☆
✔6. Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King ★★½☆☆
✔7. Strange Weather by Joe Hill ★★★★☆
✔8. Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough ★★★★☆
✔9. One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus ★★★½☆
✔10. Without Merit by Colleen Hoover ★★★½☆
✔11. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ★★★★☆
✔12. The Whispering Room by Dean Koontz ★★★★☆
✔13. The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve ★★★½☆
✔14. Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney ★★★½☆
✔15. Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han ★★★★☆
✔16. The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine ★★★☆☆
✔17. Us Against You by Fredrick Backman ★★★★★ (hide spoiler)]

[COMPLETE] 18 in ‘18

Started: February 27, 2018
Completed: February 17, 2019

Stats:
- 13 Female Authors, 5 male authors
- 3-star books: 3
- 3.5-star books: 2
- 4-star books: 6
- 4.5 star book: 3
- 5-star books: 3

(view spoiler)[✔1. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks ★★★★½
✔2. Force of Nature by Jane Harper ★★★½☆
✔3. Still Me by Jojo Moyes ★★★★★
✔4. Believe Me by J.P. Delaney ★★★☆☆
✔5. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones ★★★★★
✔6. Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris ★★★★½
✔7. The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani ★★★☆☆
✔8. The Broken Girls by Simone St. James ★★★★☆
✔9. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn ★★★☆☆
✔10. When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger ★★★★☆
✔11. The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
✔12. In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It by Lauren Graham ★★★★☆
✔13. The Outsider by Stephen King ★★★★☆
✔14. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell ★★★★☆
✔15. All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover ★★★★½
✔16. The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager ★★★★★
✔17. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir ★★★★☆
✔18. A book with a dual timeline
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton ★★★½☆ (hide spoiler)]

2017 Around the Year Challenge

Started: January 22, 2017
Completed: 36/52

Stats: Coming Soon!

✔1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover ★★★★★

✔2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia ★★★★½

✔3. A book you meant to read in 2016
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel ★★★½☆

✔4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
Final Girls by Riley Sager ★★★½☆ ✢

5. A historical fiction
The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff ✢

✔6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin ★★★★★

✔7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison ♦ ★★★★☆

✔8. A book written by a person of color
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon ★★★★☆

✔9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
A Death by Stephen King ★★★☆☆

✔10. A dual-timeline novel
The Last One by Alexandra Oliva ♦
★★★½☆

✔11. A category from another challenge
A book that mentions its own title in the contents
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng ★★★★½

✔12. A second book by an author you loved Wildcard
The Breakdown by B.A. Paris ★★★★★

✔13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
Stephen King:
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough ★★★★☆

✔14. A book with a strong female character
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus ★★★★☆

✔15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
Beartown by Fredrik Backman

✔16. A mystery
Broken Harbor by Tana French ★★★½☆

✔17. A book with illustrations
The Walking Dead, Vol. 04: The Heart's Desire by Robert Kirkman ★★★★☆

18. A really long book (600+ pages)
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

✔19. A New York Times best-seller
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult ★★★½☆

20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

✔21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes ★★★★☆

✔22. A book by an author you haven't read before
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena ★★★★☆ ♦

23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

✔24. A book written by at least two authors
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King ✢ ★★½☆☆

25. A book about a famous historical figure
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders ✢

✔26. An adventure book
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton ★★★★☆

27. A book by one of your favorite authors
Finders Keepers by Stephen King

28. A non-fiction
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

✔29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris ♦ ★★★★★

✔30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han ★★★★☆

✔31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson ★★★★☆

✔32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood ♦ ★★★★☆

33. A magical realism novel
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

✔34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
The Dry ✢ ★★★★½

✔35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
The Crown by Kiera Cass ★★★☆☆

36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee
Coraline by Neil Gaiman

37. A book you choose randomly
TBD

38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd

✔39. An epistolary fiction
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

✔40. A book published in 2017
The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney ✢ ★★★★☆

✔41. A book with an unreliable narrator
The Wives by Tarryn Fisher ★★★½☆

✔42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ★★★★★

✔43. A book with a chilling atmosphere
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn ★★★½☆

44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
TBD

✔45. A book with a one-word title
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt ★★★☆☆

46. A time travel novel
Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

✔47. A past suggestion that didn't win
A book with an illuminated cover design
The Other People by C.J. Tudor ★★★☆☆

48. A banned book
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

✔49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris

50. A Penguin Modern Classic
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

✔51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
Strange Weather by Joe Hill (published 2017?) ✢ ★★★★☆

✔52. A book set in a fictional location
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling ★★★★☆

2018 Around the Year Challenge

Started: January 4, 2018
Completed: 45/52

Stats: Coming Soon!

✔1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys ★★★★☆

✔2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
The Deep by Nick Cutter ★★★½☆

✔3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards
Without Merit by Colleen Hoover
★★★½☆

✔4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
Force of Nature by Jane Harper ★★★½☆

✔5. A book about or inspired by real events
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent ★★★½☆

✔6. A book originally written in a language other than English
Dawn by Elie Wiesel ★★★½☆

✔7. A gothic novel
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern ★★★☆☆

✔8. An "own voices" book
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han ★★★★☆

9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

✔10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus ★★★½☆

✔11. A literary fiction ★★★★
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

12. A book set in Africa or South America
We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson

✔13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz ★★★☆☆

✔14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve ★★★½☆

✔15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
Gemina by Amie Kaufman ★★★★☆

✔16. A Chick-lit book Wildcard
When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger ★★★★☆

✔17. A book you expect to make you laugh
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between by Lauren Graham ★★★½☆

✔18. A book with a location in the title
The Whispering Room by Dean Koontz ★★★★☆

✔19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors)
The Outsider by Stephen King ★★★★☆

✔20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir ★★★★☆

✔21. A book written in first person perspective
Still Me by Jojo Moyes ★★★★★

✔22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones ★★★★★

✔23. A medical or legal thriller
The Alienist by Caleb Carr ★★★★★

✔24. A book with a map
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman ★★★★★

✔25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney ★★★½☆

✔26. A book with a text only cover
The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine ★★★☆☆

✔27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell ★★★★☆

✔28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman ★★★★☆

29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

✔30. A short book
Never Never: Part Two by Colleen Hoover ★★★★☆

✔31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani ★★★☆☆

✔32. An alternate history book
The Power by Naomi Alderman ★★★½☆

✔33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds ★★★½☆

✔34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call
A book with less than 2018 ratings
Believe Me by JP Delaney ★★★☆☆

✔35. A book featuring a murder
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn ★★★☆☆

✔36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks ★★★★½

✔37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie ★★★½☆

38. A science book or a science fiction book
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

✔39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han ★★★★☆

40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

✔41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ ★★★☆☆

42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
To The Bright Edge of the World

✔43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh ★★★★☆

✔44. A ghost story
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James ★★★★☆

✔45. A book that intimidates/scares you
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara ★★★★★

46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
Still Life with Tornado by A.S. King

✔47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ★★★★☆

✔48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James ★★★½☆

✔49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager ★★★★★

✔50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
One Day in December by Josie Silver ★★★★★

✔51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption:Hope Springs Eternal by Stephen King ★★★½☆

✔52. A book published in 2018
All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover ★★★★½

Cover Colors Challenge

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2021:
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Series in Progress
Credit: Nothing But Reading Challenges

(view spoiler)[Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
✔Jurassic Park ★★★★☆
The Lost World

Afraid Series by Jack Kilborn
✔Afraid ★★★★☆
✔Trapped ★★★½☆
✔Endurance ★★★★☆
Haunted House

Dublin Murder Squad by Tana French
✔In the Woods ★★★★☆
✔The Likeness ★★★½☆
✔Faithful Place ★★★★½
✔Broken Harbor ★★★½☆
The Secret Place
The Trespasser

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
✔Outlander ★★★★★
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
The Fiery Cross
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
An Echo in the Bone
The Space Between
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows
holy cow, this series is long...

Don Tillman by Graeme Simsion
✔The Rosie Project ★★★½☆
The Rosie Effect

Millenium Series by Stieg Larsson
✔The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ★★★★☆
✔The Girl Who Played with Fire ★★★½☆
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz

The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo del Toro
✔The Strain ★★★★★
The Fall
The Night Eternal

The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman
✔The Walking Dead, Vol. 01: Days Gone Bye ★★★★☆
✔The Walking Dead, Vol. 02: Miles Behind Us ★★★★☆
The Walking Dead, Vol. 03: Safety Behind Bars

Bill Hodges Trilogy by Stephen King
✔Mr. Mercedes ★★★★☆
Finders Keepers
End of Watch

The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel
✔Night ★★★★☆
✔Dawn ★★★☆☆
Day

Harry Potter Series
✔Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ★★★★☆
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

✔Beartown ★★★★★
✔Us Against You ★★★★★

Jane Hawk by Dean Koontz
✔The Silent Corner ★★★☆☆
✔The Whispering Room ★★★★☆
The Crooked Staircase
The Forbidden Door (hide spoiler)]

Around the World in Books
Map: Laura's Reading Map

Started: January 4, 2016
Completed:

Stats: Coming Soon!

« U.S. States »
(view spoiler)[✔Alabama: This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
✔Alaska: The Great Alone
Arizona:
Arkansas: The Stand
✔California: Psycho by Robert Bloch
✔Colorado: Columbine by Dave Cullen
✔Connecticut: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Delaware:
✔Florida: Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French
✔Georgia: Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
Hawaii:
Idaho: Pines
✔Illinois: Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica
✔Indiana: The Underground Railroad
✔Iowa: What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler
✔Kansas: In the Tall Grass by Stephen King
✔Kentucky: The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry
✔Louisiana: Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
✔Maine: The Mist by Stephen King
Maryland:
✔Massachusetts: Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
✔Michigan: Bird Box by Josh Malerman
✔Minnesota: Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia
Mississippi: Sing, Unburied, Sing
Missouri:
Montana:
✔Nebraska: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Nevada:
✔New Hampshire: The Fireman by Joe Hill
New Jersey: The Dark Half
✔New Mexico: Variant by Robison Wells
✔New York: Jaws by Peter Benchley
✔North Carolina: All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
North Dakota:
✔Ohio: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
✔Oklahoma: The Outsider by Stephen King
✔Oregon: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Pennsylvania:
Rhode Island:
South Carolina:
South Dakota:
✔Tennesse: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
✔Texas: Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
✔Utah: The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
✔Vermont: The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
✔Virginia: P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
✔Washington: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
✔West Virginia: Endurance by Jack Kilborn
✔Wisconsin: Afraid by Jack Kilborn
Wyoming: (hide spoiler)]

«World Countries»
(view spoiler)[Afghanistan: The Kite Runner
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina:
Armenia
✔Aruba: Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
✔Australia: I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Austria:
Azerbaijan
Bahamas, The
Bahrain
Bangladesh:
Barbados:
Belarus
Belgium:
Belize
Benin
Bermuda (part of the UK)
Bhutan
Bolivia:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil:
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Canada:
Cape Verde:
Central African Republic:
Chad:
Chechnya:
Chile:
China:
Colombia:
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Costa Rica:
Cote d'Ivoire:
Croatia:
Cuba:
Cyprus:
Czech Republic:
✔Denmark: The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup
Dijbouti:
Dominica:
Dominican Republic:
East Timor:
Ecuador:
Egypt:
El Salvador:
✔England: The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
Equatorial Guinea:
Eritrea:
Estonia:
Ethiopia:
Fiji:
Finland:
✔France: The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
Gabon:
Gambia:
Georgia:
✔Germany: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Ghana:
✔Greece: Circe by Madeline Miller
Grenada:
Guatemala:
Guinea:
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Guam:
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Haiti:
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Hungary:
✔Iceland: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
India:
Indonesia:
Iran:
Iraq:
✔Ireland: Faithful Place by Tana French
✔Israel: Dawn by Elie Wiesel
Italy:
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Latvia:
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Libya:
Liechtenstein
✔Lithuania: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
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Myanmar:
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Nepal:
Netherlands:
✔New Zealand: The Blue: A Novel by Lucy Clarke
Nicaragua:
Niger:
✔Nigeria: Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Niue:
North Korea:
✔Norway: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Oman:
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Peru:
✔Phillipines: The Blue: A Novel by Lucy Clarke
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Saudi Arabia:
✔Scotland (part of the UK): Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Senegal:
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Sierra Leone:
✔Singapore: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Slovakia:
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South Sudan:
Spain:
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✔Sweden: Beartown
Switzerland:
Syria:
Taiwan:
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Thailand:
Tibet:
Togo:
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Trinidad and Tobago:
Tunisia:
Turkey
Turkmenistan:
Tuvalu:
Uganda:
Ukraine:
✔United Arab Emirates: The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
✔United Kingdom: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican
Venezuela
Vietnam
✔Wales: I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe (hide spoiler)]

Read Your Age

Started: January 7, 2016
Completed:

Stats: Coming Soon!

(view spoiler)[✔1989: Midnight by Dean Koontz ★★☆☆☆
✔1990: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton ★★★★☆
1991: Ring by Kōji Suzuki
1992: Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
1993: Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
✔1994: The Alienist by Caleb Carr ★★★★★
1995: Rose Madder by Stephen King
1996: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
✔1997: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling ★★★½☆
1998: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
1999: Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
2000: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
2001: Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
✔2002: I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak ★★★★☆
✔2003: Come Closer by Sara Gran ★★★★☆
2004: Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
✔2005: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ★★★★★
✔2006: The Alienist by Caleb Carr ★★★★★
✔2007: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie ★★★★☆
✔2008: Afraid by Jack Kilborn ★★★★☆
✔2009: Last Night I Sang to the Monster Benjamin Alire Sáenz ★★★☆☆
✔2010: Faithful Place by Tana French ★★★★★
✔2011: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern ★★★☆☆
✔2012: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
✔2013: Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys ★★★★☆
✔2014: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel ★★★☆☆
✔2015: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon ★★★★☆
✔2016: Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris ★★★★★
✔2017: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng ★★★★½
✔2018: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks ★★★★½
✔2019: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★★ (hide spoiler)]

Stephen King Challenge
Credit: mentioned by MJ

Started: no clue
Finished:

« Novels »
(view spoiler)[Carrie
✔'Salem's Lot ★★★★☆
✔The Shining ★★★½☆
✔Rage
The Stand
✔The Long Walk ★★★★☆
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
Roadwork
Cujo
The Running Man
The Gunslinger
Christine
✔Pet Sematary ★★★★☆
Cycle of the Werewolf
The Talisman
Thinner
It
The Eyes of the Dragon
The Drawing of the Three
Misery
The Tommyknockers
The Dark Half
The Waste Lands
✔Needful Things ★★★★☆
✔Gerald's Game ★★★½☆
Dolores Claiborne
Insomnia
Rose Madder
The Green Mile
✔Desperation ★★★★☆
✔The Regulators ★★★★☆
Wizard and Glass
Bag of Bones
✔The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon ★★★☆☆
Dreamcatcher
Black House
From a Buick 8
Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower
The Colorado Kid
Cell
Lisey's Story
Blaze
✔Duma Key ★★★★☆
Under the Dome
✔11/22/63 ★★★★★
The Wind Through the Keyhole
Joyland
✔Doctor Sleep ★★★☆☆
✔Mr. Mercedes ★★★★☆
Revival
Finders Keepers
End of Watch
✔Sleeping Beauties ★★☆☆☆
✔The Outsiders ★★★★☆ (hide spoiler)]

« Collections »
(view spoiler)[Night Shift
Different Seasons
Skeleton Crew
Four Past Midnight
Nightmares And Dreamscapes
Hearts in Atlantis
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
Just After Sunset
Full Dark, No Stars
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (hide spoiler)]

« Non-fiction »
(view spoiler)[ Danse Macabre
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing (hide spoiler)]

May expand to other favorite authors

Joe Hill Challenge

Started: 2013
Finished:

« Novels »
(view spoiler)[✔Heart-Shaped Box ★★★★★
✔Horns ★★★★★
✔NOS4A2 ★★★★★
✔The Fireman ★★★★☆ (hide spoiler)]

« Collections »
(view spoiler)[✔20th Century Ghosts ★★★★☆
✔Strange Weather ★★★½☆
Full Throttle (hide spoiler)]

« Short Stories/Novellas »
(view spoiler)[The Lady Rests
The Collaborators
✔Thumbprint: A Story ★★★★☆
Jude Confronts Global Warming
Gunpowder
✔Throttle ★★★★☆
Twittering from the Circus of the Dead
The Devil on the Staircase
✔Wolverton Station ★★★★☆
✔In the Tall Grass ★★★★★
By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain
Snapshot, 1988 (hide spoiler)]

« Graphic Novels »
(view spoiler)[✔Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft ★★★½☆
✔Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games ★★★½☆
Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows
Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom
Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks
Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega

Kodiak
The Cape
The Cape: 1969
✔Wraith ★★★★☆ (hide spoiler)]

Looks like some great choices so far! Looking forward to seeing what else you decide on.

Glad to see that you are joining us in this personal age-based challenge! I like that we each have our own different approach! I’ll be curious what else you choose. It’s like an impossible task, since there are so many great books to choose from! I keep seeing authors that I think, “Oh, I should’ve added him/he to my list!” Have fun!

I think I've added all the books for now. I had to resist the urge to add a bunch of Stephen King, especially in the 80s, since I'm trying to read all his books. But in the end, I tried to add books that fit in that category of "I have to read it just to see what all the talk is about". I think there are just those books out there that you constantly hear about and I'd like to be part of that conversation.

It became more difficult to avoid strictly "popular books" once I hit the 2010s so hopefully it will become more clear once we hit the 2020s.

I know what you mean about the 2010s, I had that problem as well but I think your choices are great. I am reading The Night Circus now and am loving it!

We have several of the same books on our lists so I can't wait to hear what you think of them.

Oh this is very tempting!

I think it's a fairly comprehensive list of the major classic and just those books that you feel like you want to read to be a part of more conversations. It's a similar feeling that I get from my 40 by 40 list so I'm sure there will be overlap but that's probably a good thing.

Thank you Laura for creating the GAR list! I copied and pasted yours to create mine. I mainly started reading some of them so I could be a more informed voter for the tv show. It’s hard to say that one book is better than another if you haven’t read the others! I think it’s a great list, with just a few exceptions of rather obscure books. I’m sure you will find some good ones!

I did notice as I was adding my ratings that it was hard to directly compare the books to each other. For instance, I actually enjoyed the Fifty Shades series, for what it was. But I definitely wouldn't consider it anywhere near the quality of Gone with the Wind even though I rated both 5 stars.

I also think my ratings were really dependent on my age when I read them and it was interesting to see them together. I read the first two Fifty Shades books when I was about 21 and devoured them. Then I read the first one last year, at 28 and only gave it 3 stars.

I agree! It’s extremely hard to compare the books. So many of them I read back in the 70s! I remember loving them then but I might not today as much. I really think that some of people’s choices (voting) are purely nostalgic. My favorite is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, but unlike so many people who read it as a kid, I read it last year so it’s still fresh in my mind. The best thing about the show is that it has got people reading and talking about books!

2019 Around the Year Challenge

Started: February 17, 2019
Completed: 24/52

Stats: Coming soon!

1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy
Experimental Film by Gemma Files(Shirley Jackson Award - 2015)

2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, What, Where, When, Why)
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Was Taken by Charlie Donlea
That's Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden

✔3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y
No Exit by Taylor Adams ★★★★★

✔4. A book with a criminal character (i.e. assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel etc)
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing ★★★★☆

5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Just One Day by Gayle Forman
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Macbeth by Jo Nesbø
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

✔6. A book with a dual timeline
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton ★★★½☆

7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1
Dear Martin by Nic Stone

✔8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas ★★★★☆

✔9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres [Crime/Mystery]
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides ★★★★☆

10. A book featuring an historical figure
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray
Katherine of Aragón: The True Queen by Alison Weir

11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals (title, cover, subject)
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

✔12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager ★★★★☆

✔13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (Fiction - Summer 2020) ★★★★☆

14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

✔15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country
Circe by Madeline Miller ★★★☆☆

✔16. A book told from multiple perspectives
Any Man by Amber Tamblyn ★★★★★

17. A speculative fiction (i.e. fantasy, scifi, horror, dystopia)
Dry by Neal Shusterman

18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ania Ahlborn
John Ajvide Lindqvist
* Margaret Atwood
* Fredrik Backman
Sharon J. Bolton
John Boyne
Kealan Patrick Burke
M.R. Carey
John Connelly
* Tana French
Lisa Genova
* Kristin Hannah
Grady Hendrix
Kody Keplinger
* Stephen King
Dean Koontz
Mary Kubica
Kate Morton
Patrick Ness
Adam Nevill
Jodi Picoult
Adam Sternbergh
Wendy Walker
Ruth Ware

✔20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country
There There by Tommy Orange ★★★★½

✔21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes
A book in which faith/religion plays an integral role in the plot or the life of a main character
The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor ★★★½☆

22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster

✔23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old The Witch Elm by Tana French ★★★★☆

✔24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★★

25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue

Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

✔28. A book related to something cold (i.e. theme, title, author, cover, etc.)
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah ★★★★★

29. A book published before 1950
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery

30. A book featuring an elderly character
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

31. A children’s classic you’ve never read
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

32. A book with more than 500 pages
The Stand by Stephen King
It by Stephen King
The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch

✔34. A book with a person's name in the title
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman ★★★★★

✔35. A psychological thriller
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks ★★★☆☆

✔36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams ★★★★★

37. A book set in a school or university
Rush by Lisa Patton

✔38. A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel, etc)
Obsidio by Amie Kaufman ★★★★☆

✔39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens ★★★★★

✔40. A book you stumbled upon
The Craftsman by Sharon J. Bolton ★★★★☆

41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova

✔42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character
The Lost Man by Jane Harper ★★★★☆

43. A book related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) [fiction or nonfiction]

44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed (same topic, same era, book appeared in the show/movie, etc.)

✔45. A multi-generational saga
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza ★★★★★

✔46. A book with a (mostly) black cover
Verity by Colleen Hoover

✔ 47. A book related to food (i.e. title, cover, plot, etc.)
The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib ★★★★★

48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

✔49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan ★★★☆☆

50. A book that includes a journey (physical, health, or spiritual)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

51. A book published in 2019

52. A book with a weird or intriguing title
The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

I like all your challenges, Laura. Now I want to start my 2019 list!

Oh Laura for your list of authors with ATY in their name.... I definitely recommend The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. So many stars !!! I Loved that one this year!

My Blabbering review :
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Ha, I started mine a month ago on the community spreadsheet!

+1 to Tracy's rec of Evelyn Hugo.

Also, I hadn't started looking into the ATY authors but you just saved me some time since I really want to read more by Tayari Jones and Silver Sparrow is on my TBR. Who am I kidding, I'm sure I'll still do the research but that is definitely a top contender.

Around the Year in 52 Movies/TV Shows 2019
Started: January 5, 2019
Completed: 50/52

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✔1. A movie that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy
Joker by Todd Phillips

✔2. A movie with one of the 5 Ws in the title
When They See Us by Ava DuVernay

✔3. A movie where the director's name contains A, T, and Y
Unbreakable by M. Night Shyamalan

✔4. A movie with a criminal character
The Clovehitch Killer by Duncan Skiles

✔5. A movie inspired by Shakespeare
Midsommar by Ari Aster

✔6. A movie with a dual timeline
It: Chapter 2 by Andy Muschietti

✔7. Two related movies
He's Out There by Quinn Lasher

✔8. Two related movies
Ready or Not by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett

✔9. A movie from a top money making genre (drama, adventure, action, or drama for movies)
Cellular by David R. Ellis

✔10. A movie featuring an historical figure
Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992

✔11. A movie related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese animals
Riverdale by Gabriel Correa

✔12. A movie about filming, movies, or an actor or director
Jane the Virgin by Melanie Mayron

✔13. NYPL staff picks list (loose interpretation - "125 Books We Love for Adults")
The Shining by Stanley Kubrick

✔14. A movie related to an astronomical term
First Man by Damien Chazelle

✔15. A movie set in a Mediterranean country of with a director from a Mediterranean country
Aladdin by Guy Ritchie

✔16. Multiple perspectives
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

✔17. Speculative fiction
The Terminator by James Cameron

✔18. A movie related to an element on the periodic table
Rust Creek by Jen McGowan

✔19. A movie with a director or actor who has more than one movie on your watchlist
Annabelle Comes Home by Gary Dauberman

20. A movie featuring indigenous people of a country

✔21. A prompt that was polarizing or a close call: A book with at least one word in the title that can be found in our group name (scrambled)
Die Hard by John McTiernan

✔22. A movie with a number in the title
AHS: 1984 by Ryan Murphy

✔23. "something old"
St. Agatha by Darren Lynn Bousman

✔24. "something new"
El Camino by Vince Gilligan

✔25. "something borrowed"
Murder on the Orient Express by Kenneth Branagh

✔26. "something blue"
They Come Knocking (Into the Dark) by Adam Mason

✔27. 1001 books to read before you die
The Handmaid's Tale by Bruce Miller

✔28. A movie related to something cold
Home Alone by Chris Columbus

✔29. A movie released/set before 1950
Mad Men by Phil Abraham

✔30. A movie featuring an elderly character
The Mule by Clint Eastwood

✔31. Children's classic you've never watched
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by André Øvredal

✔32. A movie or mini-series that is 3 hours or longer
Unbelievable by Lisa Cholodenko

✔33. A movie you've owned/meant to watch for a year and have not watched or based on a book you've owned for over a year and have not read
Mad Max: Fury Road by George Miller

✔34. A movie with a person's name in the title
The House that Jack Built by Lars von Trier

✔35. Psychological thriller
Spinning Man by Simon Kaijser

✔36. NPR best movie of the year
Us by Jordan Peele

✔37. A movie set in a school or university
How to Get Away with Murder by Shonda Rhimes

✔38. A movie with a non traditional format
Fight Club by David Finch

✔39. A movie with a strong sense of place
Revenge by Coralie Fargeat

✔40. A movie you stumbled upon
Ben is Back by Peter Hedges

✔41. GR choice awards (any year as the ones from 2018 might not be made into movies yet)
The Hate U Give by George Tillman Jr.

✔42. A movie with a monster or monstrous character
Ma by Tate Taylor

✔43. A movie related to STEM
Upgrade by Leigh Whannell
- Bonus points that the technology in the movie is actually called "STEM" :P

✔44. A movie related to a book you enjoyed
Pet Semetary by Kevin Kölsch

✔45. A multi-generational saga
Game of Thrones by George RR Martin

✔46. (mostly) black cover
The Punisher by Steve Lightfoot

✔47. A movie related to food (/water)
Flint Town by Zackary Canepari;

48. National Book Award

✔49. Far east Asian director or setting
The Perfection by Richard Shepard

✔50. A movie that includes a journey
Escape Room by Adam Robitel

✔51. Released in 2019
Down (Into the Dark # 5) by Daniel Stamm

✔52. A movie with a weird or intriguing title
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile by Joe Berlinger (hide spoiler)]

19 in ‘19

Started: May 19, 2019
Completed:

Stats: Coming Soon!

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✔1. An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks ★★★☆☆
✔2. On the Come Up On the Come Up by Angie Thomas ★★★★☆
✔3. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★★
✔4. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides ★★★½☆
✔5. My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing ★★★★☆
✔6. The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib ★★★★★
✔7. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager ★★★★☆
✔8. Recursion by Blake Crouch ★★★★★
✔9. The Grace Year by Kim Liggett ★★★★★
✔10. The Whisper Man by Alex North ★★★★☆
✔11. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston ★★★★☆
✔12.The Chain by Adrian McKinty ★★★★☆
✔13. The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth ★★★★☆
✔14. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren ★★★★☆
✔15. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood ★★★★☆
✔16. Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus ★★★★☆
✔17. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson ★★★★☆
✔18. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid ★★★★☆
✔19. Dear Child by Romy Hausmann ★★★½☆ (hide spoiler)]

I'm so very behind on my reading this year and it's really about time I get my butt into gear. What's frustrating is that I actually have plenty of time to read, the "challenge" is staying awake when I have that time.

I was pretty shocked I didn't have any 2019 books read yet so I definitely need to pick that up too.

Oooh I like the 19 in '19 idea. I usually end up reading all the buzzed about books the year (or more) after the fact so I would like to actually have more read when those end of year lists come out.

20 in ‘20

Started: February 16, 2020
Completed:

Stats: Coming Soon!

The Searcher by Tana French
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
The Survivors by Jane Harper
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Malorie by Josh Malerman
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

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✔1. The Dilemma by B.A. Paris ★★★☆☆
✔2. Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney ★★★☆☆
✔3. You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks ★★★½☆
✔4. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins ★★★★☆
✔5. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell ★★★★★
✔6. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson ★★★★☆
✔7. In Five Years by Rebecca Serle ★★★★★
✔8. The Other People by C.J. Tudor ★★★☆☆
✔9. Home Before Dark by Riley Sager ★★★★☆
✔10. The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James ★★★★☆
✔11. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman ★★★½☆
12. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett ★★★★★
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I finally went through and added tv shows to my 2019 movie challenge and filled in the movies I had forgotten.

Right now I'm only two away from finishing (grrr....) so I may go ahead and watch those so I can check off the challenge. If I honestly would have realized that I was so close, I would watched those two in 2019 so I could fully finish it within the year.

I just need:
20. A movie featuring indigenous people of a country
48. National Book Award

My list: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

My husband bought me this awesome poster for Christmas that includes 100 "Epic Reads". It uses a scratch off style to track the books as you read them. My goal is to read at least one per month (tentatively) and I've already crossed off a handful of them.

Been There Done That Novelogue

1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
7. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
✔9. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
10. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

✔11. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
✔12. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
14. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
15. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
16. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
17. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
✔18. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
✔19. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
*20. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

21. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
22. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
✔23. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
24. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
25. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
26. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
27. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
28. The Giver by Lois Lowry
29. Dracula by Bram Stoker
30. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

31. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
*32. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
33. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
34. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
*35. The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
36. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
37. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
38. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
39. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
40. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

41. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
42. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
43. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
44. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
45. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
✔46. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
47. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
48. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
49. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
50. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

51. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
52. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
53. 1984 by George Orwell
54. The Odyssey by Homer
55. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
56. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
57. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
58. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
59. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
60. Ulysses by James Joyce

61. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
62. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
63. Beloved by Toni Morrison
✔64. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
65. Animal Farm by George Orwell
66. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
67. Emma by Jane Austen
68. The Stand by Stephen King
69. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
70. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

*71. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
72. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
73. Dune by Frank Herbert
74. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
75. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
76. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
77. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
78. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
79. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
80. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

81. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
82. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
83. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
84. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
85. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
86. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
87. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
*88. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
✔89. Atonement by Ian McEwan
90. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

91. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
92. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
93. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
94. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
95. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
96. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
97. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
98. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
99. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
100. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

I was definitely a bit stubborn when it came to reading books when I was school and often couldn't get interested in a book if I was forced to read it. Which means I haven't read most of those books that are the typical literary classics. There's also a few that I've already read (marked with a *) that I wouldn't mind re-reading.