Reading with Style discussion

10.1 Square Peg Read a book that does not qualify for any other 10 or 20 point task. This task may not be repeated.

10.2 Double Trouble Read a book by an author whose surname has a double letter. Examples are Wilkie Collins, Kurt Vonnegut, Virginia Woolf. (From Summer 2014)

10.3 2016/17 Read any book originally published in a year that includes at least two of the numbers 1, 6, and 7.

10.4 Scandinavia Read a book set at least 75% in Denmark, Sweden, or Norway.

10.5 Darwin Darwin Day celebrates the birth of Charles Darwin. Read a book with the DDC classification in the 500s at BPL.

10.6 Obscure Awards Read any book that has won a literature award, other than:

Pulitzer Prize
Man Booker
Edgar Award
Hugo Award
National Book Critics Circle
Bram Stoker Award

Books which have won, or been nominated, long-listed, short-listed, etc for the above awards will not qualify for this task.

10.7 New Year's Day Rosemary's Task Read a book with the name of a month or a day of the week in the title (e.g. June or Monday).

10.8 For the Birds! Karen Michele's Task Celebrate our feathered friends by reading a book about birds. The book can be fiction or nonfiction and can be about real birds or birds of magic or fantasy (phoenix, griffin).

These lists may give you some ideas:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

10.9 Magical Realism: Beth's Task Read a book with a main page genre of "magical realism".

10.10 Group Reads

Elizabeth (Alaska): The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Amanda: Letter from Peking by Pearl S. Buck
Kate S: World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
Valerie: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Tien: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Chalmation: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Ed: Adé: A Love Story by Rebecca Walker
Coralie: The Strays by Emily Bitto
Louise Bro: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lagullande: The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
Don (thebookguy): Respected Sir by Naguib Mahfouz
Katy: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Sam: Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

15.1-15.10 Christmas in Vegas 2: Roulette

20.1 Carson McCullers: (1917-1967) Read any book by an author who died at age 50 or younger.

20.2 LGBT Read a book by an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) author. Only authors on this list will be accepted for this task. Help us grow the list by posting qualifying links in the help thread.

20.3 Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers Read an author's autobiography. Autobiographies and memoirs will both be accepted for this task, but the subject must have authored other works to qualify.

20.4 Member of the Wedding Read one of the top 250 books inlcuded on the list of Best Southern Literature.


20.5 Wunderkind McCullers studied for years as a concert pianist, practicing five hours a day. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories includes McCullers first published work Wunderkind, a story about a musical prodigy. Read any work that features music or musicians. (Music or specific musician must play an important enough role in the story to warrant a mention in the book's summary on GoodReads.)

Some examples (all books included on these lists will work for this task):
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles...
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the...
http://www.classical.net/music/books/...

20.6 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Read a book where the title is a full sentence (examples can be found on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

20.7 Retellings Gabriel's Task

Inspired by my reading of Hag-Seed, read a retelling of a classic tale (be it Shakespeare or otherwise). To qualify, the book must have been shelved as a "retelling" by at least 20 users.

See list here: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

20.8 Shirley Jackson Amanda's Task Shirley Jackson's birthday was December 14, 1917. In honor of her 100th birth anniversary and a tribute to her The Lottery and Other Stories, read a book in which the title contains the phrase "and other stories".

20.9 Reading Resolutions Kate S's TaskRead any book written by a female author included on both the Boxall's 1001 books to read before you die and the Guardian's 1000 books to read. Here is the list of authors on both.

20.10 Not-So-Secret Santa Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task Read a book whose setting (75%) is in Southeast Asia, which comprises these countries: Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Phillipines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.