2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Striving for 150 books this year! We'll see how it goes.

Books that are linked represent ones that have been read.

January:

1. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
2. A Soft Place to Land by Susan Rebecca White
3. Light Years by James Salter
4. The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
6. Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
7. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
8. All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
9. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin S. Sharma
10. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
11. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
12. Good Harbor by Anita Diamant

1. Janus - Roman god of beginnings and transitions. Read a book set in Italy, or a book with a character that starts out on a fresh beginning. - Antony and Cleopatra

2. Fenghuang - Chinese bird, also known as the Chinese Phoenix, is a mythical bird that signifies high virtue and grace. Read a book set in China, or a book featuring a character full of grace and virtue. - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

4. Enenra - Japanese smoke creature. It inhabits bonfires and legend says can only be seen by the pure of heart. Read a book set in Japan, or a book with a pure-hearted character. - The Prison Book Club

6. Lang suir - Malaysian ghost of a woman who died in childbirth. Read a book from Oceania, or a book featuring a character who dies from a broken heart. - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

7. Finnish water spirit who will capture unmindful children. Read a book set in Scandinavia, or a book about a captured child. American Gods

10. Jumbee - Caribbean malevolent entities. Read a book set in the Caribbean, or a book featuring a malevolent character. - Break No Bones

February:

1. Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs
2. The Selection by Kiera Cass
3. The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion by Tim Crothers
4. One Good Friend Deserves Another by Lisa Verge Higgins
5. Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer
6. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
7. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
8. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn

8. Read a book where the characters miss the Earth, either they are in outer space or in heaven/hell. - Shine Shine Shine

March:

1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
4. Tamarind Mem by Anita Rau Badami
5. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
6. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
7. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
8. The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar
9. Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs
10. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
11. Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith
12. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
13. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

April:

1. At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
2. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
3. The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper
4. The Wrath & the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
5. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
6. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
7. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
8. Blindness by José Saramago
9. Mating for Life by Marissa Stapley
10. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
11. 419 by Will Ferguson

May:
1. Emma by Jane Austen
2. Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
3. All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
4. Chaos in Kabul: A Malko Linge Novel by Gérard de Villiers
5. The Manning Sisters: The Cowboy's Lady\The Sheriff Takes a Wife by Debbie Macomber
6. 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
7. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
8. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
9. How I Came to Sparkle Again by Kaya McLaren

June:
1. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
2. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
3. The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
4. Othello by William Shakespeare
5. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
6. Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
7. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
8. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
9. Daniel by Henning Mankell
10. Did You Ever Have A Family by Bill Clegg
11. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
12. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
13. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

July:

1. Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
4. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
5. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
6. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
7. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
8. Summer with My Sisters by Holly Chamberlin
9. Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
11. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

August:

1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide by Sean Covey
2. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
3. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
4. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
5. The Conquest by Yxta Maya Murray
6. Bones Are Forever by Kathy Reichs
7. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
8. The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
9. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
10. Bettyville by George Hodgman
11. Vinyl Cafe Unplugged by Stuart McLean
12. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
13. The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
14. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
15. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox

September:

1. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
2. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
3. Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime by Jia Jiang
4. The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
5. The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch
6. City of Friends by Joanna Trollope
7. Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
8. The Island by Elin Hilderbrand
9. The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
10. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
11. Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs

October:

1. Night by Elie Wiesel
2. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
3. Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
4. Out by Natsuo Kirino
5. The Rise & Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman
6. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
7. One for the Moneyby Janet Evanovich
8. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley
9. Secresy; or The Ruin on the Rock by Eliza Fenwick
10. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
11. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley
12. The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy
13. Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
14. Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs
15. Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero by Michael Hingson

November:

1. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
2. The War of the Worlds / The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
3. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
4. Recipes for a Perfect Marriage by Kate Kerrigan
5. Rethinking Letter Grades by Cameron, Caren
6. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

December:

1. Middlemarch by George Eliot
2. The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
3. A Stranger in Mayfair by Charles Finch
4. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
5. The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
6. Infinite Riches by Ben Okri

Let's Turn Pages Challenge:
43 882/ 50 000 pages completed to date

PopSugar Challenge:

1. A book recommended by a librarian - A Complicated Kindness
2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long - One Good Friend Deserves Another
3. A book of letters - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
4. An audiobook - Wives and Daughters
5. A book by a person of color - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title - Summer with My Sisters
7. A book that is a story within a story - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
8. A book with multiple authors - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
9. An espionage thriller - Chaos in Kabul: A Malko Linge Novel
10. A book with a cat on the cover - - The Witches of Eastwick
11. A book with an author who uses a pseudonym - Career of Evil
12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - The Complete Persepolis
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
14. A book involving travel - Tamarind Mem
15. A book with a subtitle - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
16. A book that's published in 2017 - City of Friends
17. A book involving a mythical creature - The Book of Lost Things
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile - Emma
19. A book about food - A Place at the Table: A Novel
20. A book with career advice - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
22. A steampunk novel - The War of the Worlds / The Time Machine
23. A book with a red spine - At Home: A Short History of Private Life
24. A book set in the wilderness - Walden
25. A book you loved as a child - Charlotte's Web, Dr. Seuss, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Winnie the Pooh, Little House on the Prairie, Pippi Longstocking, Little Women, Wizard of Oz,
26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited - The House of Blue Mangoes
27. A book with a title that's a character's name - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
28. A novel set during wartime - Antony and Cleopatra
29. A book with an unreliable narrator - Dark Places
30. A book with pictures - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Erik Larson
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you - The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
32. A book about an interesting woman - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
33. A book set in two different time periods - Shine Shine Shine
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title - Middlemarch
35. A book set in a hotel - Did You Ever Have A Family
36. A book written by someone you admire - Nelson Mandela
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017 -
My Cousin Rachel
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas - Mating for Life
39. The first book in a series you haven't read before - 2001: A Space Odyssey
40. A book you bought on a trip - Handle with Care

Advanced
41. A book recommended by an author you love - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. A bestseller from 2016 - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
43. A book with a family-member term in the title -The Manning Sisters: The Cowboy's Lady\The Sheriff Takes a Wife
44. A book that takes place over a character's life span - A Soft Place to Land
45. A book about an immigrant or refugee - Daniel
46. A book from a genre/subgenre you've never heard of - Realistic Fiction - Thirteen Reasons Why
47. A book with an eccentric character - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
48. A book that's more than 800 pages - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
49. A book you got from a used book sale - Light Years
50. A book that's been mentioned in another book - The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Walden, The Grapes of Wrath, The Sound & the Fury,
51. A book about a difficult topic - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
52. A book based on mythology - American Gods

Listopia Challenge:

Will try for the following:

In the Spirit of Toast

1. Bad Feminist
2. Emma
3. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
4. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
5. The Golem & the Jinni
6. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
7. Middlemarch by George Eliot
8. My Cousin Rachel
9. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
10. Lost in Translation
11. Shine Shine Shine
12. Boy Snow Bird
13. The Complete Persepolis


Magical Realism
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude
2. The Master and Margarita
3. Everything is Illuminated
4. Steppenwolf
5. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
7. Galore
8. The Age of Miracles
9. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
10. The Witches of Eastwick
11. Ines of My Soul
12. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
13. Infinite Riches
14. Songs of Enchantment
15. An Echo in the Bone
16. The Interestings
17. The Museum of Extraordinary Things
18. The Book of Lost Things
19. American Gods

Best Memoir/ Biography/ Autobiography
1. Night
2. Me Talk Pretty One Day
3. Infidel
4. Reading Lolita in Tehran
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6. Walden
7. Steve Jobs
8. When You are Engulfed in Flames
9. All Things Wise & Wonderful
10. Heaven is for Real
11. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
12. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
13. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
14. The White Masai
15. A House in the Sky

Books White People Need to Read
1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin
3. Long Walk to Freedom
4. On Beauty
5. The Book of Negroes
6. Native Son
7. Americanah
8. Twelve Years a Slave
9. Roots
10. Dust Tracks on a Road
11. The Rape of Nanking
12. Dreams from my Father
13. Lies My Teacher Told Me
14. Autobiography of Malcom X
15. Black Like Me

Scotiabank Giller Prize Winners & Nominees
1. A Fine Balance
2. Half Blood Blues
3. Barney's Version
4. The Sisters Brothers
5. 419
6. A Complicated Kindness
7. Fugitive Pieces
8. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
9. Clara Callan
10. Good to a Fault
11. Colony of Unrequited Dreams
12. The Polished Hoe
13. The Piano Man's Daughter
14. Mercy Among the Children
15. Runaway

Best Non-fiction
1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
2. Freakonomics
3. Guns Germs & Steel
4. The Tipping Point
5. Stiff
6. Blink
7. Outliers
8. The Professor & the Madman
9. Animal Vegetable Miracle
10. Silent Spring
11. In Defense of Food
12. All the President's Men
13. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
14. Spook
15. At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Around the World with Languages:

1. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
2. Daniel
3. The Complete Persepolis
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6. The Solitude of Prime Numbers
7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
8. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
9. Blindness
10. Suite Française
11. Chaos in Kabul: A Malko Linge Novel
12. The Master and Margarita
13. Night
14. Out
15. Let Me In

THE DEWEY DECIMAL CHALLENGE (non-fiction):

000-099 - General References or Works:

Computer science, knowledge & systems
010 Bibliographies
020 Library & information sciences
030 Encyclopedias & books of facts
040 [Unassigned]
050 Magazines, journals & serials
060 Associations, organizations & museums
070 News media, journalism & publishing
080 Quotations
090 Manuscripts & rare books

100-199 - Philosophy, psychology and logic:

100 Philosophy
110 Metaphysics
120 Epistemology
130 Parapsychology & occultism
140 Philosophical schools of thought
150 Psychology - The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens
160 Logic
170 Ethics
180 Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy
190 Modern western philosophy

200-299 - Religion:

200 Religion
210 Philosophy & theory of religion
220 The Bible
230 Christianity & Christian theology
240 Christian practice & observance
250 Christian pastoral practice & religious orders
260 Christian organization, social work & worship
270 History of Christianity
280 Christian denominations
290 Other religions

300 - 399 - Social Sciences: Devil in the White City, Freakonomics, Blink, All the President's Men, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Dreams from my Father, The Rape of Nanking, Bad Feminist, Walden

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
310 Statistics
320 Political science - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
330 Economics
340 Law
350 Public administration & military science
360 Social problems & social services - Bettyville
370 Education
380 Commerce, communications & transportation
390 Customs, etiquette & folklore

400 - 499 - Language :The Professor & the Madman

400 Language
410 Linguistics
420 English & Old English languages
430 German & related languages
440 French & related languages - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
450 Italian, Romanian & related languages
460 Spanish & Portuguese languages
470 Latin & Italic languages
480 Classical & modern Greek languages
490 Other languages

500 - 599 - Natural Science: Spook, Silent Spring

500 Science
510 Mathematics
520 Astronomy
530 Physics
540 Chemistry
550 Earth sciences & geology
560 Fossils & prehistoric life
570 Life sciences; biology
580 Plants (Botany)
590 Animals (Zoology)

600 - 699 - Technology and Applied Science:Stiff, Animal Vegetable Miracle, In Defense of Food

600 Technology
610 Medicine & health
620 Engineering
630 Agriculture
640 Home & family management - At Home: A Short History of Private Life
650 Management & public relations
660 Chemical engineering
670 Manufacturing
680 Manufacture for specific uses
690 Building & construction

700 - 799 - Fine Arts and Recreation:

700 Arts
710 Landscaping & area planning
720 Architecture - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
730 Sculpture, ceramics & metalwork
740 Drawing & decorative arts
750 Painting
760 Graphic arts
770 Photography & computer art
780 Music
790 Sports, games & entertainment - The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion

800 - 899 - Literature :Me Talk Pretty One Day

800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism
810 American literature in English - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
820 English & Old English literatures
830 German & related literatures
840 French & related literatures
850 Italian, Romanian & related literatures
860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures
870 Latin & Italic literatures
880 Classical & modern Greek literatures
890 Other literature

900 - 999 - History and Biography: Night, Autobiography of Malcom X, Guns Germs & Steel, In the Garden of Beasts, At Home

900 History
910 Geography & travel
920 Biography & genealogy - The Prison Book Club
930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
940 History of Europe - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
950 History of Asia - The Complete Persepolis
960 History of Africa
970 History of North America - Black Like Me
980 History of South America
990 History of other areas

Genre Bingo:

B1. Science Fiction: 2001: A Space Odyssey
B2. Paranormal Romance:
B3. Urban Fantasy: American Gods
B4. Tragedy: Othello
B5. Historical: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
I1. Coming of Age:
I2. Classics: Antony and Cleopatra
I3. Memoir: The Prison Book Club
I4. Chick-lit: A Soft Place to Land
I5. Humor: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
N1. Literary Fiction: Light Years
N2. Family Saga: The House of Blue Mangoes
N3. FREE - One Good Friend Deserves Another
N4. Science Nonfiction:
N5. YA Fantasy: The Selection
G1. Mystery or Thriller: Break No Bones
G2. Biography: The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
G3. Magical Realism: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
G4. Suspense: Bones to Ashes
G5. Horror: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
O1. Graphic Novel: The Complete Persepolis
O2. Historical Romance:
O3. Self-Help: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
O4. Dystopian: Blindness
O5. Historical Non-fiction: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

The Survey Says:

1. What is your name? (First, Last, Middle, Nickname) – Read a book that contains one of your names in some way – author, title, character. - American Gods - character named Sam

2. What is your favourite sport? – Read a book that is either about your favourite sport or one of the characters plays that sport. You could also chose a book where the cover shows that sport. - The Mountain Story

3. What colour are your eyes? – Read a book where the colour of your eyes is the main colour of the cover - green - Bones to Ashes

4. Have you ever had a broken bone? – If yes, read a book with the word “Bone” in the title. If no, read a book about archeology (the character may be an archeologist, the book may be set in a museum, etc) - Break No Bones

5. What is your favourite movie? – If the movie is an adaptation, read the book that inspired the movie. Or, read a book that is written by the same author. Or, read a book that has the same title. If the movie is not an adaptation, read a book with a similar theme or has the same title. - The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer or The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship by Lisa Verge Higgins

6. What is your favourite book? – Read it again. Or, read a book that has the same title. Or read a book by the same author. If you can’t find the same title, or the author only has the one book, go to the book page and click on “Readers Also Enjoyed”. Select a book from the list. Infinite Riches by Ben Okri

7. Pick a number between 1 and 10. – Select a series and read the book that corresponds to that number. Or, read a book with the number in the title. #7 - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

8. What is your favourite holiday? – Read a book that is about that holiday, set during that holiday, or has the name in the title. - The Island

9. What is your relationship status? – Read a book with that word in the title, or where the main character or author shares that status. Or…. Get creative. What kind of book will be representative? - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

10. Are you right or left handed? – Read a book with that word in the title. - Let the Right One In

11. What is your birthday month? – Read a book with the selected month in the title, or set during that month. Summer with My Sisters

12. Do you have a pet? What is it? Don’t have a pet? Adopt a pet that someone in your immediate circle has (mother, brother, sister, friend, etc.) – Read a book featuring that type of pet. Or, read a book with that pet in the title. - Dog House: A Love Story

13. What is your favourite type of food? (Chinese, Italian, Mexican, etc) – Read a book set in the country or region of choice. (Chinese – set in China, Italian – set in Italy, etc.) If you chose a type of food that is not specific to a country, what region would you find it prevalent? Read a book set in that region. For example – Seafood would be prevalent in the coastal areas of Canada, United States, among others. Indian - Tamarind Mem

14. What is something you use daily? (brush, computer, car, get creative) - Read a book with that word in the title. Or, is on the cover. Or…. Get creative. What kind of book will represent that item? Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero

15. What is your shoe size? (No halves; roll up to next number) – Select that number of books on your TBR, put them into the Fruit Machine (or another randomizer), and read the one that is selected. If you used European sizes, convert to US using this site: https://www.softmoc.com/ca/shoesize.asp That will reduce the number of books you need to plug into the Fruit Machine. - Devil Bones

16. What is your favourite Ice cream flavour? – Read a book that either represents that flavour by the colour of the cover, or in the title. You may also chose a book that represents that flavour in some way. Green colour -

17. What is your country of birth? – Read a book set in that country, or written by an author that was also born in that country. Any book set in US or by US author - Good Harbor

18. What is your favourite season? – Read a book with either the season in the title, or set in that season. Fall - Fall of Giants by Ken Follett or The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco or Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke or Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

19. What is your current desk top picture? – Interpret that desk top picture any way you like. Read a book that represents that interpretation. Book about family - Mating for Life

20. What is your preferred mode of transport? – Read a book with your selection on the cover, or in the title, or it plays a significant role in the book. Codebreakers by F. H. Hinsley or We Who Can Fly by Elizabeth Greene

21. How many candles were on your last birthday cake? – Go to your TBR and order the shelf by number. Read the book that corresponds to your answer. At Home: A Short History of Private Life

22. Have you been in an accident? – If yes, read a book set in a hospital, or with the word “accident” in title. If no, read a book that is a thriller, in which an accident is a high probability. Complications by Atul Gawande or 100 Days by David Biro or Stiff by Mary Roach

23. Do you prefer a shower or bath? – Read a book with your selected word in the title, or depicted on the cover.

24. Name a place you’d like to visit. – Read a book set in that location. Australia - Truly Madly Guilty

25. What is your favourite genre? – Read a book in that genre. The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion

26. Do you prefer a car or truck? – Read a book with your selection on the cover or in the title. - - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

27. Do you have a tattoo? – - The Prison Book Club

28. Do you prefer Classic or Contemporary? – If Classic, read a book published in 1800 – 1899. Emma

29. What is your favourite flower? – Read a book with that selection on the cover or in the title. Or, read a book that you feel represents that flower in some way. The Lilac Bus

30. Have you been to Europe? Where? – Read a book set in that location. London - The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

31. If you could meet anyone famous, infamous, notorious… who would it be? – read a biography, autobiography, memoir, or historical fiction about that person. Conversations with Myself / The Struggle is My Life by Nelson Mandela

32. What is the feature you are most often complimented on? – Eyes - - 419

33. Would you rather encounter a ghost, an alien, or neither? – If ghost, read a ghost story. If alien, read a story with aliens in it. If neither, read a book about another supernatural being other than a ghost or alien (werewolf, vampire, witch, succubus, etc). Hamlet by William Shakespeare or Salem's Lot by Stephen King or Let Me In by John Ajvide Lindqvist - 2001: A Space Odyssey

34. What is your favourite animal (other than domestic pets)? – Read a book with that creature on the cover, in the title, or in the story. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

35. What type of holiday do you prefer? (Beach, Mountain, Camping, exotic, etc) – Read a book in that setting or that represents your choice. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver or Born Adventurer by Stephen Haddelsley or A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson or

36. If you had to lose one of the 5 senses, which would you prefer it to be? – Read a book with that word in the title, or read a book where a character is afflicted by that same loss. Taste - . Vinyl Cafe Unplugged

37. Who is your favourite author? – Read either a book by that author, or a book recommended by that author. Daniel

38. Do you prefer tea, coffee, or water? – If tea or coffee, read a book with the word in the title, or set in a country where that beverage is a huge export (ie China for tea, Brazil for tea). If water, read a book with the word in the title, or set on/near a large body of water. Tea - set in China - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

39. What is your birthstone using the US 2016 listing: (https://www.americangemsociety.org/en...) – Read a book with that gemstone on the cover, in the title, or the colour of that gemstone is the colour of the cover. Pearl = white cover -

40. What is your favourite fruit? – Read a book with that fruit on the cover, in the title, or the colour of that fruit is the colour of the cover. Mango - yellow - - The People of Forever Are Not Afraid

41. Issue you are passionate about (abortion, euthanasia, animal rights… etc) – Read a book where this issue is prominent or is represented in some way. It may be fiction or non-fiction. Climate Change = Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

42. Would you rather explore in space or undersea? – Read a book in that setting. Space - Shine Shine Shine

43. To what time period would you like to time travel? – Read a book either set in that time period, or published in that time period. Or, read a book about time travel where the character’s time travelled to that period. 1920's - The Great Gatsby

44. Do you prefer shoes or bare feet? – Read a book where your selection is on the cover or in the title, or get creative and find a book that represents your choice.

45. Do you prefer green or black olives? Neither? Read a book with either a predominantly green or black cover depending on your answer. If you said “neither”, read a book with a predominantly white cover. Aim for at least 75% of the cover so that when you look at the cover, it screams green, black or white depending on your choice. Black cover - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

46. What is your Zodiac sign? – This one is wide open. Read a book that represents your zodiac sign in some way. Mine is Sagittarius (the archer). I could read a book with Sagittarius in the title, Archer in the title, author named Archer, bow and arrow on the cover, horse on the cover, a Western with Indians (bow & arrow). Gemini - twins - My Secret Sister

47. What is your height in inches? – Go to your TBR shelf and sort by number. Read the book that matches your answer. If you don’t have that many books on your TBR, select a listopia on a topic you are interested and read the book with the corresponding number to your height. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

48. Who is someone you miss? – Read a book that represents that person in some way. I miss my mother, so I could read a book with “Mother” in the title, a biography of Mother Theresa, where the main character is a mother, a book with a mother holding her baby on the cover, etc. Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry published 1991 year he died.

49. What is your hobby? – Read a book that represents that hobby in some way. Knitting

50. What language would you like to learn to speak? – Read a book that was translated from that language to one you do speak. Or, chose a book where a character speaks that language. For example, if you chose Gaelic, you could read any of the books in the Outlander series. Translated from Italian - The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Mount TBR 2017:

1. Antony and Cleopatra
2. A Soft Place to Land
3. Light Years
4. The Prison Book Club
5. Break No Bones
6. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
7. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
8. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
9. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
10. Good Harbor
11. Bones to Ashes
12. The Selection
13. The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
14. One Good Friend Deserves Another
15. Shine Shine Shine
16. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
17. The Witches of Eastwick
18. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
19. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
20. The Great Gatsby
21. A Place at the Table: A Novel
22. Tamarind Mem
23. The Book of Lost Things
24. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
25. The Secret Adversary
26. The House of Blue Mangoes
27. Devil Bones
28. Suite Française
29. Dawn of the Dreadfuls
30. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
31. Island of the Blue Dolphins
32. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
33. The Killing Circle
34. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
35. The Wrath & the Dawn
36. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
37. Red Dragon
38. Blindness
39. Mating for Life
40. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
41. 419
42. Emma
43. Clara Callan
44. Chaos in Kabul: A Malko Linge Novel
45. The Manning Sisters: The Cowboy's Lady\The Sheriff Takes a Wife
46. 206 Bones
47. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
48. My Cousin Rachel
49. How I Came to Sparkle Again
50. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
51. The Painted Girls
52. Othello
53. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
54. Spider Bones
55. A Complicated Kindness
56. Truly Madly Guilty
57. Daniel
58. Did You Ever Have A Family
59. The Light Between Oceans
60. Dark Places
61. Dressing Up for the Carnival
62. Handle with Care
63. Brooklyn
64. Summer with My Sisters
65. Flash and Bones
66. One Hundred Years of Solitude
67. Walden
68. The Solitude of Prime Numbers
69. The Conquest
70. Bones Are Forever
71. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
72. The Mountain Story
73. The Lowland
74. The Post-Birthday World
75. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
76. My Ántonia
77. The Master and Margarita
78. The Fleet Street Murders
79. Speaking from Among the Bones
80. The Island
81. The Silver Star
82. Bones of the Lost
83. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
84. Out
85. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
86. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
87. Bones Never Lie
88. Let Me In
89. The War of the Worlds / The Time Machine
90. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
91. Middlemarch by George Eliot
92. The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
93. A Stranger in Mayfair by Charles Finch
94. Bad Feminist
95. Infinite Riches

Around the Year in 52 Books:

1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) - The House of Blue Mangoes
3. A book you meant to read in 2016 - Suite Française
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" - Good Harbor
5. A historical fiction - A Place at the Table: A Novel
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - My Cousin Rachel
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title -
8. A book written by a person of color - Tamarind Mem
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list - Island of the Blue Dolphins
10. A dual-timeline novel - Shine Shine Shine
11. A category from another challenge - At Home: A Short History of Private Life
12. A book based on a myth - American Gods
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors - Alice Hoffman - The Great Gatsby
14. A book with a strong female character - The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland) - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
16. A mystery - Bones to Ashes
17. A book with illustrations - Dawn of the Dreadfuls
18. A really long book (600+ pages) - Wives and Daughters
19. A New York Times best-seller - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading - One Good Friend Deserves Another
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read - Break No Bones
22. A book by an author you haven't read before - Bad Feminists
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link) - Emma
24. A book written by at least two authors - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
25. A book about a famous historical figure - Antony and Cleopatra
26. An adventure book - 2001: A Space Odyssey
27. A book by one of your favorite authors -
Daniel28. A non-fiction - The Prison Book Club
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - Devil Bones
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link) - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 13 Reasons Why, Delirium, The Selection, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, The Scorpio Races
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre - Non-fiction: Memoir - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
33. A magical realism novel - The Book of Lost Things
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere - Truly Madly Guilty
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link) - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
37. A book you choose randomly - The Secret Adversary
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
39. An epistolary fiction - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
40. A book published in 2017 - City of Friends
41. A book with an unreliable narrator - Thirteen Reasons Why
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) - The Killing Circle
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link) - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
45. A book with a one-word title - Blindness
46. A time travel novel - The War of the Worlds / The Time Machine
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link) - A book with a cryptic or nonsense title - The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
48. A banned book - Uncle Tom's Cabin
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf - Career of Evil - on Michelle/Abby's shelf
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - One Hundred Years of Solitude
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) - Dressing Up for the Carnival
52. A book set in a fictional location - The Selection

2107 Reading Challenge:

Read books either published during or that takes place in the following time periods:

Book from the 1500’s - The Conquest
Book from the 1600’s – Antony and Cleopatra
Book from the 1700’s - Secresy; or The Ruin on the Rock
Book from the 1800’s - Emma
Book from 1900-1909 - My Ántonia
Book from 1910-1919
Book from 1920’s – The Great Gatsby
Book from 1930’s
Book from 1940’s - Night
Book from 1950’s - Black Like Me
Book from 1960’s – The Lowland
Book from 1970’s - Light Years
Book from 1980’s - The Witches of Eastwick
Book from 1990’s – Tamarind Mem

Different kinds of people and the things they do

A book with a villain - Break No Bones
A book with a hero - Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
A book about a person that inspires you
A book by a comedian – Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
A book with a character with a job similar to your own - Clara Callan
A book about a family – Mating for Life
A book about children - Freak the Mighty
A book with an eccentric character - The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
A book about an artist or art - The Post-Birthday World
A book about teachers or teaching - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
A book about pilots or flying - The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
A book about dancers or dancing - The Painted Girls
A book about actors or the theatre – Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
A book about athletes or sports - How I Came to Sparkle Again
A book about fishing or fisherman
A book about ministry or ministers - The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
A book about computers or computing people - 419
A book about inventors - The House of Blue Mangoes
A book about farmers or farming - The Manning Sisters: The Cowboy's Lady\The Sheriff Takes a Wife
A book about lawyers or the law and application of the law - Handle with Care
A book about writers or writing
A book about explorers or exploration - 2001: A Space Odyssey
A book about policing or detection and related - Devil Bones
A book about housekeeping or housekeepers - Did You Ever Have A Family
A book about politicians - Chaos in Kabul: A Malko Linge Novel
A book about military people - The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
A book about investigators – Bones to Ashes
A book about collecting or collectors - Daniel
A book about journalists or journalism - The Woman in Cabin 10
A book about environmentalists
A book about scientists - Bones Are Forever
A book either by or about someone notorious
A book with a child narrator – A Complicated Kindness

Genres and Topics

A funny book – .Vinyl Cafe Unplugged
A crime novel - Red Dragon
A mystery - The Secret Adversary
A psychological thriller – Dark Places
A classic romance - Wives and Daughters
A modern romance - One Good Friend Deserves Another
A book about the outdoors - Walden by Henry David Thoreau
A holiday book
A horror or creepy book – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
A memoir/biography/autobiography – Bettyville
A religious book - A Place at the Table: A Novel
A book of poems
African American literature
YA novel – Thirteen Reasons Why
A classic - Othello
A paranormal book (vampires, werewolves, ghosts, etc.) – Let Me In
A dystopian novel - The Queen of the Tearling
A graphic novel - The Complete Persepolis
A play - All's Well That Ends Well
A self-help book - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
A science fiction novel - The Left Hand of Darkness
Historical fiction – Brooklyn
A book about health or medicine - The Lilac Bus
A psychology book - Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime
A book based on a true story
A book of short stories - Dressing Up for the Carnival
A gothic novel - My Cousin Rachel
A neo-fairy tale – The Book of Lost Things
A chick-lit book – A Soft Place to Land
A philosophical novel - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
A fantasy – The Selection
A non-fiction book – All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
A book about science - Speaking from Among the Bones
A book about war (or set during a war) - Suite Française
A book about slavery - Twelve Years a Slave
A book with/about animals - Dog House: A Love Story
A steampunk novel - The War of the Worlds / The Time Machine
A travel book - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
A book about a well-know bad event (ex: holocaust, salem witch trials, west baptist) - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
A book about books – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
A book involving a trial - The Silver Star
A book with LGBT theme - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
A book about mental illness - Career of Evil
A book about friendship - Good Harbor


Odds & Ends

A book with a food in the title
A staff pick from a library or bookstore - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
The last book on your Goodreads TBR - Flash and Bones
A book cover that's your favorite color -
A book you found in a thrift store – Spider Bones
A book with a season in the title - Summer with My Sisters
A book with pictures - Dawn of the Dreadfuls
A book becoming a movie in 2017 – Naruto Vol 1
A book by your favorite author - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
A book about a difficult topic - The Rape of Nanking
A NYT bestseller (any year) - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
A book that covers a character’s lifespan – A Soft Place to Land
A beach read - The Island
A book that’s under 150 pages - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
A book that’s over 500 pages - Special Topics in Calamity Physics
A book you never read from your childhood – Winnie-the-Pooh
A book with an interesting title – The Elegance of the Hedgehog
A book that was free – At Home: A Short History of Private Life
A book published this year (2017) - City of Friends
A book with a number in the title -
A book with a color in the title – The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
A book with a one-word title - Blindness
A book with a three-word title - Shine Shine Shine
A book set in a different country – Truly Madly Guilty
A debut novel - The Light Between Oceans
A book from an author you love that you haven’t read yet – The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
A book recommended to you
A Pulitzer Prize-winning book -
A Man Booker prize winner
An award winning book (any award!) –The Sisters Brothers
A book that scares you - The Killing Circle
A book with antonyms in the title - The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit – Out
A book set in the future
A book with magic – Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
A book by an author you’ve never read before - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
A book you own but have never read - Island of the Blue Dolphins
A book that was originally written in a different language – One Hundred Years of Solitude
A book written by an author with your same initials
A controversial book – Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book for professional development (for you)
A book written by someone born the same year as you
A book with a month name in the title
A book set in your favorite season
A book everyone is reading aka cult novel – American Gods
A book about a different culture – The Master and Margarita
A book published the year you graduated high school
A book that you can’t stop thinking about afterwards - The Prison Book Club
A book that you disliked but finished - 206 Bones
A book that teaches something - The Mountain Story
An audio book – The Wrath and the Dawn

Ultimate Game Night Challenge:

Week 1 - Monopoly:

♥️Chance card
Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200
* Read a book where character goes to jail:

Book - The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley

Bonus Game: Dominoes!

* read a book with a black and white only cover: - 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke - completed 01/14/1

Week 2 - Sorry

• read a book with a house on the cover or house or home in the title

Book read: - Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs - completed 01/18/17

Week 3 - Operation

* read a book where somebody has an operation or a chronic illness

Book read: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith - completed 01/18/16
How it fits: (view spoiler)[ One of the characters falls victim to the plague and after marrying, eventually succumbs to the illness. (hide spoiler)]

Week 4 - Ticket To Ride

* read a book where you can find all the letters in the word RIDE in the title

Book Read: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin S. Sharma - completed 1/26/17
How it fits: The letters RIDE are found in the title

Week 5: Candyland

Tasks
☪️ read a book where a character get stuck in a bad situation, Like in the molasses swamp
Book read: Bones to Ashes - completed 2/4/17
How it fits: (view spoiler)[ main character is trapped in an apartment and attacked (hide spoiler)]

Week 6 - Minecraft

|Task: read a book with a character who is involved in building, construction worker, contractor, architect, city planner, etc.

Book read: The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion by Tim Crothers - completed 2/9/17

How it fits: character is involved in building the slums of Katwe by selling parts of the land and building shacks for people to live in or rent.

Week 7 - Scrabble:

Task: Read a book with a title with a Scrabble score of> 35

Book read: One Good Friend Deserves Another by Lisa Verge Higgins - completed 2/15/17

How it fits: Title has a Scrabble score of 41.

Week 8 - Game of Life:
Task: Heads- Pink read a book with a girl on the cover or in the title
Book read: - The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
Completed 2/20/17
How it fits - has a girl on the cover

Week 9 - Barbie Goes to the Prom:

Task: ❤️ read a book with a character with the same name as one of Barbies potential dates
Book read: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Completed: 3/1/17
How it fits: One of the main characters is named Tom Buchanan

Bonus: Twister

Task: read a book where you can find three letters in order in the word Twister in a word in the title
Book read: by Anita Rau Badami
Completed: 3/11/17
How fits: Has T I R in the title

Week 10: Scattegories
Tasks: Letters: H o found in: The Book of Lost Things
✳️ title
✳️ Author name first or last

Week 11: Hungry Hungry Hippo

Task: ⚡️ read a Book where you can find all the letters in hungry in the title and author name
Book read: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Completed 3/13/17
How it fits: THe DiviNG Bell and the BUtteRflY

Week 12: Guess Who
❓ do you have blue eyes? If yes read a book with a blue cover
Book read:
How it fits - has a blue cover

Week 13: Chinese Checkers
~ read a book that takes place in a European country - At Home: A Short History of Private Life
How it fits: Takes place in England

Bonus Game: Go Fish
- any book of my choice - Career of Evil

Week 14: Hi Ho Cherry O
Task: ❣️ read a book that reminds you of your grandma
Book read: The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

Week 15: Chutes & Ladders
Task: ☯️ read a book with a good versus evil theme
Book read: The Wrath & the Dawn

Week 16: Clue

Task: Read a book with the characters either live in or visit a house with any of the following rooms, library, ballroom, Conservatory,or Study...
Book read: Blindness by José Saramago
How it fits: MC has a study - pg. 294 - "...she read to all of them a few pages from a book she had gone to fetch from the study."

Week 17: Connect 4
Task: ⚫️ read a book with a rating above 4.0 on Goodreads
Book read: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Date read: 4/26/17
How it fits: Has rating of 4.34 on Goodreads

April Bonus Game: Beer Pong
- beverage on cover - - Truly Madly Guilty

Week 18 - Perfection:
- yellow cover -

Week 19 - Taboo:
- starts with letter in TREASURE - The Manning Sisters: The Cowboy's Lady\The Sheriff Takes a Wife

Week 20: Risk
🌐 read a book that takes place in France or with a character that is French - 206 Bones

Week 21: Trivial Pursuit
Task: 🔷 Science and nature read a book with a nature scene on the cover - My Cousin Rachel

Bonus: Cooties
🐞1 Head: read a book with all the letters in head in the title
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin


🔴 read a book that has stood the test of time or a contemporary book that you believe will stand the test of time, your interpretation - Wives and Daughters

Week 23: Mastermind
💚 read a book where a character needs to crack a code, your interpretation - Othello

Week 24:
🐭 read a book where a character attempts to trap another character, your interpretation - Spider Bones

Week 25:
✳️ read a book with the character that aggravates you, this is left up to your own interpretation- Daniel

Week 26:
⚓️ read a book with either all the letters in HIT or MISS in the title
⚓️ read a book tagged war at least 10 times - The Light Between Oceans

June Bonus Challenge: Pick up sticks
💙 read a book with sticks or stick like objects on the cover -

Week 27: Bananagrams
🍌 read a book with over 21 chapters - Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Week 28: Splendor
💎 read a book with a main page genre of historical fiction or historical - Brooklyn

Week 29: Sequence
🔵 read a book with a five in the page count - Summer with My Sisters

Week 30: Pandemic
🔬 read a book where a character gets sick - One Hundred Years of Solitude

July Bonus: Crazy Eights
8️⃣ A book with an 8 in the publication date
Book read: The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II by Iris Chang

Week 31: Monopoly Junior
💰 read a book with zoo, waterslide, or rollercoaster in the text
Book read: The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

Week 32 : Chess
🔲 Pawn: read a book with a black or white cover -

Week 33: Code Name
🔸 read a book with an assassin in it
Book read: The Sisters Brothers

Week 34: Eclipse
☀️ read a book where research is involved
Book read: The Post-Birthday World

Week 35: Don't Tip the Waiter
🍽 read a book with a character in the food service industry waiter/waitress/caterer
Book read: My Ántonia

August Bonus: Barrel of Monkeys
🐒 make a chain with in the title and/or author name of your book, just as you would when playing this game

Week 36: Through the Ages

🗝 read a book tagged military or with a character that is in the military
Book read: The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
How it fits: characters are in the army or Queen's Guard

Week 37: The Ungame

💬 what are the four most important things in your life? read a book involving a family
Book read: City of Friends by Joanna Trollope

Week 38: Pictionary
✏️ read a book that would best get a team member to guess the word - STAR
Book read: The Silver Star

Week 39: Sneaky Snacky Squirrel
🍁 read a book that starts with letter found in the word SQUIRREL - Special Topics in Calamity Physics

September Bonus
⭕️ read a book with a title that starts with the letter O
Book read: Out

WEEK 40🔮👻MYSTERIUM🔮
👻 read a book with a mpg of mystery - The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

Week 41: Dead of Winter
💀 read a book where a character is keeping a secret
Book read: One for the Money

Week 42: Betrayal at Hill House
👻 read a book where a character betrays another - The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches

Bonus:
= Water on the cover
Book read:

Week 43: Dracula
🦇 read a book with a vampire in it - Let Me In

2017 Classic Bingo Challenge:

B1: Written by Nobel Laureate - Blindness
B2: Classic Comedy or Satire - The Master and Margarita
B3: Classic Tragedy
B4: Classic Made into a Film/TV - 2001: A Space Odyssey
B5: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize - Island of the Blue Dolphins - Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Jugendbuch (1963)

I1: 20th Century Classic - Red Dragon
I2: New-to-You Author - The Witches of Eastwick
I3: Classic Play - Antony and Cleopatra
I4: Classic of More than 500 Pages - Wives and Daughters
I5: 18th Century or Earlier Classic - All's Well That Ends Well

N1: South American Classic - One Hundred Years of Solitude
N2: Short Story Classic - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
N3: FREE SPACE - The Secret Adversary
N4: Poetry Collection
N5: European Classic - Othello

G1: 19th Century Classic - Uncle Tom's Cabin
G2: Bokklubben (Norwegian Book Club) World Library List Book - Middlemarch
G3: Classic Non-fiction - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
G4: Group Read - Emma
G5: Classic Recommended by a Friend - The Rape of Nanking

O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region
O2: Classic Folklore or Mythology
O3: Asian Classic - Tamarind Mem
O4: Classic Romance - The Great Gatsby
O5: Prize-Winning Female Author - My Cousin Rachel

A-Z Classic Title Challenge:

A. - Antony and Cleopatra
B. - Blindness
C. -
D. - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
E. - Emma
F. - Freak the Mighty
G. - The Great Gatsby
H. -
I. - Island of the Blue Dolphins
J. - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
K. -
L. - Light Years
M. - My Cousin Rachel
N. - Night
O. - Othello
P. -
Q. -
R. - Red Dragon
S. - The Secret Adversary
T. - Tamarind Mem
U. - Uncle Tom's Cabin
V. -
W. - The Witches of Eastwick
X. -
Y. -
Z. -

A-Z Classic Author Challenge:

A. - Jane Austen - Emma
B. - Anita Rau Badami - Tamarind Mem
C. - Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey
D. - Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel
E. - Janet Evanovich by One for the Money
F. - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
G. - Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters
H. - Thomas Harris - Red Dragon
I. -
J. -
K. - Natsuo Kirino - Out
L. - Ursula K. Le Guin -
M. - Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
N. - Solomon Northup - Twelve Years a Slave
O. - Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins
P. - Rodman Philbrick - Freak the Mighty
Q. -
R. -
S. - William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra
T. - Henry David Thoreau - Walden
U. - John Updike - The Witches of Eastwick
V. -
W. - Elie Wiesel - Night
X. -
Y. -
Z. -

Women's Century Challenge:

To be completed

Authors Known & New :

1800-1809 - tbd
1810-1819 - Emma - *Jane Austen - 1815
1820-1829 - tbd
1830-1839 - tbd
1840-1849 - tbd
1850-1859 - Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
1860-1869 - Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1865
1870-1879 - Middlemarch by George Eliot, 1871
1880-1889 - tbd
1890-1899 - The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson, 1890
1900-1909 - Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter, 1909
1910-1919 - My Ántonia - Willa Cather, 1918
1920-1929 - The Secret Adversary-*Agatha Christie, 1922
1930-1939 - Good Morning Midnight - Jean Rhys, 1937
1940-1949 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith, 1943
1950-1959 - My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 1951
1960-1969 - The Left Hand of Darkness by *Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969
1970-1979 - Lady Oracle - *Margaret Atwood, 1976
1980-1989 - Lost in Translation - Nicole Mones, 1988
1990-1999 - Tamarind Mem by Anita Rau Badami 1997
2000-2009 - Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - 2004

Old & New Classic Challenge:

Old School (1899 and earlier): Clearing the shelves
1. Walden
2. Emma
3. Middlemarch

New School (1900-1999): Female Authors
1. Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones
2. My Cousin Rachel
3. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Wild Cards: Translated
1. Blindness
2. Night
3. The Master and Margarita
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse
6. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Alternates (William Shakespeare):
1. Othello
2. All's Well That Ends Well

My Favourite Things:

1. My favorite fiction book is: The Famished Road- Infinite Riches
2. My favorite non-fiction is:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
3. My favorite author is: Henning Mankell - Daniel
4. My favorite genre is: Non-fiction - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
5. My favorite fairy/folk tale is: The Princess Bride - Boy Snow Bird
6. My favorite male book character is: Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
7. My favorite female book character is: Flavia de Luce - Speaking from Among the Bones
8. My favorite song is: You Otta Know - Alanis Morrisette - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
9. My favorite movie is: Thelma & Louise - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
10. My favorite television show is: Big Bang Theory - 2001: A Space Odyssey
11. My favorite color is: purple - The Lilac Bus
12. My favorite real animal is: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
13. My favorite talking animal is: Winnie the Pooh
14. My favorite number is: 7 - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
15. My favorite food is: Indian - Tamarind Mem
16. My favorite real place to visit is: Mountains - The Mountain Story
17. My favorite book land to visit is: Mars - A Soft Place to Land - lives on Mars street
18. My favorite month is: September
19. My favorite quote is: "Impossible is just a stage" - Chris Hadfield - American Gods
20. My favorite non-book hobby is: Knitting - Uncle Tom's Cabin

Top 10 Favs:

1. Les Miserables
2. The Shadow of the Wind
3. The Master and Margarita
4. The Forgotten Garden
5. Middlemarch
6. A Fine Balance
7. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
8. The Golem & the Jinni
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude
10. Dark Places
11. A Walk in the Woods
12. The Light Between Oceans
13. Atonement
14. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
15. White Teeth
16. Walden
17. Bad Feminist
18. On the Beach
19. Blindness
20. Brooklyn
21. Let the Right One In
22. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
23. The Book of Lost Things
24. Big Little Lies
25. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
26. The Grapes of Wrath
27. Night
28. Winnie-the-Pooh
29. All the Light We Cannot See
30. Hamlet
31. The Girl With All the Gifts
32. The Secret Keeper
33. The Historian
34. Sophie's Choice
35. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
36. Island of the Blue Dolphins
37. The Goldfinch
38. Where'd You Go Bernadette
39. Thirteen Reasons Why
40. Stone Mattresses
41. Life After Life

TBR Randomizer Challenge

1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Middlemarch
3. The Master and Margarita
4. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
5. American Gods
6. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
7. Let the Right One In
8. Uncle Tom's Cabin
9. The Book of Lost Things
10. Clara Callan
11. The Golem & The Jinni
12. Silent Spring

Colour Cover Challenge:

01. White:
02. Pink:
03. Red:
04. Orange:
05. Yellow:
06. Green:
07. Light Blue:
08. Dark Blue:
09. Purple:
10. Brown:
11. Black:
12. Metallic:
13. Five colors:
14. Color title: Black Like Me
15. Descriptive title: The Painted Girls

Serial Reader:

I will finish 1 series I have started before this year. (1 book) - Career of Evil

I will start 1 series this year (1 book)
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Dawn of the Dreadfuls

I will read 10 books that are part of a series. (10 books)
- Kathy Reichs: 8-10 books
1. Break No Bones
2. Bones to Ashes
3. Devil Bones
4. 206 Bones
5. Spider Bones
6. Flash and Bones
7. Bones Are Forever
8. Bones of the Lost
9. Bones Never Lie

- Alan Bradley: 1-3 books
1. Speaking from Among the Bones
2. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
3. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

- Gerard de Villiers: 1-2 books
1. Chaos in Kabul: A Malko Linge Novel

My total number of books is 12.

Around the World

1. Canada - The Prison Book Club
2. Italy - Antony and Cleopatra
3. USA - A Soft Place to Land
4. China - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
5. Uganda - The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
6. Israel - The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
7. India - Tamarind Mem
8. England - The Book of Lost Things
9. France - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
10. Sweden - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
11. Afghanistan - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
12. Nigeria - 419
13. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
14. Australia - Truly Madly Guilty
15. Namibia - Daniel
16. Iran - The Complete Persepolis
17. Ireland - Brooklyn
18. Spain - The Conquest
19. Russia - The Master and Margarita
20. Norway - The Woman in Cabin 10
21. Poland - Night
22. Japan - Out
23. Wales - The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

January: Chile
February: Grenada
March: Denmark
April: Germany
May: Sweden
June: Angola
July: Tanzania
August: Guinea
September: Syria
October: Georgia
November: Myanmar/Burma
December: Fiji

In 2017 we will be concluding our tour of England, and will "visit" our last five locations:*

January - Shropshire
February - Gloucestershire
March - Durham
April: Staffordshire
May: Huntingdonshire

In June, we will begin our tour of the regions of India (largest cities of each region are in parentheses):

June- East India (Calcutta)
July - Central India (Lucknow)
August - West India (Mumbai)
September - South India (Bangalore)
October - North India (Delhi)
November - Northeast India (Gawahati)

In December 2017, we will begin our tour of the Canadian provinces:

December - Prince Edward Island

We will also complete our tour of the regions of France:

January: Pays de la Loire
February: Alsace
March: Basse-Normandie
April: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
May: Midi-Pyrénées
June: Bretagne
July: Auvergne
August: Nord-de-pas-Calais
September: Picardie
October: Franche-Comté
November: Lorraine
December: Haute-Normandie

Bookriot Read Harder Challenge:

Read a book about sports - The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion

2. Read a debut novel. - Shine Shine Shine

3. Read a book about books - The Prison Book Club

4. Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author - One Hundred Years of Solitude

5. Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative - Daniel

6. Read an all-ages comic. - The Complete Persepolis

7. Read a book published between 1900 and 1950 - The Great Gatsby

8. Read a travel memoir - Turn Right at Machu Picchu

9. Read a book you’ve read before - The Killing Circle

10. Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location - Mating for Life

11. Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location - 2001: A Space Odyssey

12. Read a fantasy novel - American Gods

13. Read a nonfiction book about technology - 419

14. Read a book about war - Antony and Cleopatra

15. Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+ - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

16. Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country - Foxfire

17. Read a classic by an author of color - Twelve Years a Slave

18. Read a superhero comic with a female lead.

19. Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey - Uncle Tom's Cabin

20. Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel: - Secresy; or The Ruin on the Rock

21. Read a book published by a micropress - My Cousin Rachel

22. Read a collection of stories by a woman - Dressing Up for the Carnival

23. Read a collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love

24. Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Author Alphabet Challenge:

A. - Jane Austen - Emma
B. - Shani Boianjiu - The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
C. - John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things
D. - Anita Diamant - Good Harbor
E. - Janet Evanovich - One for the Money
F. - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
G. - Seth Grahame-Smith - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
H. - Lisa Verge Higgins - One Good Friend Deserves Another
I. -
J. - Jonas Jonasson - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
K. - Natsuo Kirino - Out
L. - Erik Larson - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
M. - Debbie Macomber - The Manning Sisters: The Cowboy's Lady\The Sheriff Takes a Wife
N. - Lydia Netzer - Shine Shine Shine
O. - Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins
P. - Andrew Pyper - The Killing Circle
Q. -
R. - Kathy Reichs - Break No Bones
S. - William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra
T. - Rebecca Traister - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
U. - John Updike - The Witches of Eastwick
V. - Gérard de Villiers - Chaos in Kabul: A Malko Linge Novel
W. - Susan Rebecca White - A Soft Place to Land
X. -
Y. - Yxta Maya Murray
Z. -

Alphabet Location Challenge:

A: Afghanistan - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
B: Burma - Shine Shine Shine
C: Canada - The Prison Book Club
D:
E: England - The Book of Lost Things
F: France - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
G: Ganzu province, China - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
H: Hawaii - Spider Bones
I: Italy - Antony and Cleopatra
J: Japan - Out
K: Katwe, Uganda - The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
L: Louisiana - Twelve Years a Slave
M: Moscow - The Master and Margarita
N:Nigeria - 419
O: Oregon - The Sisters Brothers
P: Poland - Night
Q: Quebec - Bones Are Forever
R: Ratnapura, Rajasthan - Tamarind Mem
S: Sweden - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
T: Texas - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
U: United States - A Soft Place to Land
V: Venice - The Conquest
W: Wales - The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
X:
Y:
Z:

Around the US Challenge:

1. Georgia - A Soft Place to Land
2. New York - Light Years
3. South Carolina - Break No Bones
4. California - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
5. Minnesota - American Gods
6. Massachusetts - Good Harbor
7. Virginia - Shine Shine Shine
8. Rhode Island - The Witches of Eastwick
9. Illinois - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
10. North Carolina - Devil Bones
11. Missouri - Red Dragon
12. Texas - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
13. Montana - The Manning Sisters: The Cowboy's Lady\The Sheriff Takes a Wife
14. Colorado - How I Came to Sparkle Again
15. Hawaii - Spider Bones
16. Conneticut - Did You Ever Have A Family
17. Kansas - Dark Places
18. Kentucky - Uncle Tom's Cabin
19. New Hampshire - Handle with Care
20. Louisiana - Twelve Years a Slave
21. Maine - Summer with My Sisters
22. Alabama - Black Like Me
23. Michigan - The Mountain Story
24. Oregon - The Sisters Brothers
25. Nebraska - My Ántonia
26. New Jersey - One for the Money
27. Florida - Dearly Devoted Dexter

Badge Lovers:

Action / Adventure
1. The Conquest
2. The Mountain Story

Audio Books
1. Shine Shine Shine
2. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
3. Twelve Years a Slave
4. Walden
5. Black Like Me
6. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
7. Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime
8. Speaking from Among the Bones
9. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
10. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
11. Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero

Big Books - 500+ pages
1. American Gods
2. Dark Places

Chick Lit
1. A Soft Place to Land
2. A Place at the Table: A Novel
3. Mating for Life
4. How I Came to Sparkle Again
5. Handle with Care
6. Summer with My Sisters
7. City of Friends
8. The Lilac Bus

Children's (Non-YA)

Classics:
1. Antony and Cleopatra
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Emma
4. All's Well That Ends Well
5. My Cousin Rachel
6. Wives and Daughters
7. Othello
8. Uncle Tom's Cabin
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude
10. My Ántonia
11. Night
12. Secresy; or The Ruin on the Rock

Contemporary Fiction
1. Good Harbor
2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
3. 419
4. A Complicated Kindness
5. Truly Madly Guilty
6. Daniel
7. Did You Ever Have A Family
8. The Solitude of Prime Numbers
9. The Post-Birthday World
10. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
11. The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

Dystopian
1. Blindness

Erotica

Fantasy
1. The Witches of Eastwick
2. The Book of Lost Things
3. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
4. The Queen of the Tearling

Goodreads Awards Nominees/Winners
1. All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
2. The Light Between Oceans

Graphic Novels/Manga
1. The Complete Persepolis

Historical Fiction
1. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
2. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
3. Tamarind Mem
4. The House of Blue Mangoes
5. Suite Française
6. Clara Callan
7. The Painted Girls
8. The Lowland

Horror
1. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2. Dawn of the Dreadfuls
3. The Killing Circle
4. Red Dragon
5. Out
6. Dearly Devoted Dexter

Humor
1. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
2. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
3. . Vinyl Cafe Unplugged
4. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Literary Fiction
1. Light Years
2. Dressing Up for the Carnival

M/M & LGTBQA+
1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Magical Realism
1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. The Master and Margarita

Mystery and Thriller
1. Break No Bones
2. Bones to Ashes
3. The Secret Adversary
4. Devil Bones
5. Career of Evil
6. Chaos in Kabul: A Malko Linge Novel
7. 206 Bones
8. Spider Bones
9. Flash and Bones
10. Bones Are Forever
11. The Fleet Street Murders
12. The Woman in Cabin 10
13. Bones of the Lost
14. Out
15. Bones Never Lie

New Adult

Non Fiction
1. The Prison Book Club
2. The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
3. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
5. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
- Night
6. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
7. Dog House: A Love Story
8. The Rape of Nanking
9. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
10. Bettyville
11. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

Paranormal
1. Let Me In

Romance
1. One Good Friend Deserves Another
2. The Manning Sisters: The Cowboy's Lady\The Sheriff Takes a Wife
3. Brooklyn
4. The Island
5. One for the Money
6. Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

Science Fiction
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
3. The War of the Worlds / The Time Machine
4. The Island of Dr. Moreau

Sports

Westerns
1. The Sisters Brothers

Young Adult
1. The Selection
2. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
3. Island of the Blue Dolphins
4. The Wrath and the Dawn
5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
6. Thirteen Reasons Why
7. The Silver Star
8. Freak the Mighty

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TV Challenge
60s #70s #80s
Duration: 1 Sept-30 Nov

1960's Most Popular TV Shows

Adam 12
Tasks: Read a book where the MC is a police officer OR read a book where the MC is named Jim or Pete. (I will accept James or Peter as well). - My Ántonia

The Beverly Hillbillies
Tasks: Read a book with a family of at least 4 OR read a book where the MC moves OR read a book that is set in California. - Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime

Bewitched
Tasks: Read a book with a character that is a witch OR a book with a supernatural theme. - The Master and Margarita

Gilligan's Island
Tasks: Read a book who has a character with one of the following names (Gilligan, Jonas, Thurston, Lovey, Ginger, Roy, or Mary Ann) or read a book with a boat on the cover or where the MC's spend time on a boat. - The Island

Gunsmoke
Tasks: Read a book that is tagged Western or Cowboy 15 times OR read a book set in Kansas or read a book with a gun on the cover.

Hogan's Heroes
Task: Read a book where the MC is/was in the military OR read a book set in Germany. - Bones of the Lost

I Dream of Jeannie
Tasks: Read a book with a genie in it OR a book where someone calls another character master OR where the MCs get married. - Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero

Leave it to Beaver
Tasks: Read a book with a naive character OR read a book where a character leads an easy/perfect life OR read a book with a young boy. Freak the Mighty

Lassie
Tasks: Read a book with a dog on the cover OR read a book where someone is lost OR read a book that makes you cry. - Special Topics in Calamity Physics

McHale's Navy
Tasks: Read a book with a black and white cover (No color on cover at all) OR read a book that is in a series that led to a spinoff series. Secresy; or The Ruin on the Rock

Mister Ed
Tasks: Read a book with a horse on the cover OR where a character rides a horse OR that was originally a short story but expanded into a full length novel. The Queen of the Tearling

The Munsters
Tasks: Read a book that is a satire OR read a book with a MPG of paranormal. - Let Me In

My Favorite Martian
Tasks: Read a book where two MCs are roommates OR read a book where the MC is a reporter or an alien from outer space. - The War of the Worlds / The Time Machine

Star Trek
Tasks: Read a book that is MPG Science Fiction OR read a book where a character flies on a space ship OR read a book that was made into a movie. The Left Hand of Darkness

The Twilight Zone
Tasks: Read a book that is MPG thriller, suspense, or horror OR read a book with a moral OR read a book from Unexpected Plot Twist - Dearly Devoted Dexter

1970's Top TV Shows

All in the Family
Tasks: Read a book that features one of the issues above OR read a book with a MPG of humor. - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

The Brady Bunch
Tasks: Read a book featuring a blended family OR read a book with a reunion in it. - City of Friends

Charlie's Angels
Tasks: Read a book where the MC is a female private detective OR read a book with 3 women working together on something OR read a book with a MPG of crime. Out

Chips
Tasks: Read a book where the MC is a cop OR there is a motorcycle on the cover OR the MC rides a motorcycle. - One for the Money

Happy Days
Tasks: Read a YA book OR read a book where someone "drops out" of something important. - The Silver Star

Laverne & Shirley
Tasks: Read a book where the MC has a roommate OR read a book where the MC is a blue collar worker OR read a book that is set in Milwaukee. - Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

The Love Boat
Tasks: Read a book with a boat or ship on the cover OR read a book where the MC travels on a boat or ship of some kind. - The Woman in Cabin 10

The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Tasks: Read a book where the MC is a single, independent career woman OR read a book that has won several awards. - The Lilac Bus

MASH
Tasks: Read a book where the MC is a doctor OR read a book set in Korea or during a war OR read a book with a helicopter on the cover. - The Island of Dr. Moreau

The Muppet Show
Tasks: Read a book with MPG of music OR read a book written by an author from the UK or read a book with a frog on the cover.

Sanford and Son
Tasks: Read a book featuring a father and son OR read a book with an African American MC or on the cover. - Night

Taxi
Tasks: Read a book set in New York City OR where the MC rides in a taxi OR with a yellow cover.

Three's Company
Tasks: Read a book where 3 people are roommates (at least one must be the opposite sex of the other two) OR read a book where the MC is a chef OR read a book where the MC is struggling financially. The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

Welcome Back, Kotter
Tasks: Read a book where the MC is a teacher OR read a book racially or ethnically diverse group OR read a book where the title starts with a letter in SWEATHOGS. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

WKRP in Cincinnati
Tasks: Read a book set in Ohio OR read a book where a character works in radio OR read a book with an intact 88 in the page number OR read a book published in September or April of any year. Bones Never Lie

1980's Top TV Shows

21 Jump Street
Tasks: Read a book with an intact "21" in the page count OR read a book where the MC is under cover OR read a book where the MC is a teen or is going to school. - Speaking from Among the Bones

A-Team
Task: Read a book where a character has been in prison OR read a book where a character is/was serving in the Army OR read a book where the MC is part of a team.

Bosom Buddies
Tasks: Read a book where a character is a cross dresser OR read a book where the MC works in advertising OR read a book with two men on the cover (no one else).

Cheers
Tasks: Read a book where the MC goes to a bar OR read a book with at least 5,000 reviews OR read a book set in Boston. - The Fleet Street Murders

The Cosby Show
Tasks: Read a book with at least 5 books in the series OR read a book featuring a family OR read a book set in New York.

Dallas
Tasks: Read a book where two characters from feuding families fall in love OR read a book where the MC schemes or makes "dirty" business decisions OR read a book set on a ranch.

The Dukes of Hazard
Tasks: Read a book where a character is a corrupt law enforcement official OR read a book featuring cousins OR read a book with a female wearing short shorts ("Daisy Dukes") or a car on the cover.

Family Ties
Tasks: Read a book where two characters have differing political view points OR read a book where the author uses their middle initial (like Alex P. Keaton) OR read a book with a two word title.

Full House
Tasks: Read a book where the MC is a widow OR read a book where a single man is raising his children OR Read a book with a house on the cover.

The Greatest American Hero
Tasks: Read a book where the MC has any of the powers listed above OR read a book with HERO in the title (does not need to be consecutive.

Hill Street Blues
Tasks: Read a book set in a large city OR read a book with a blue cover.

L.A. Law
Tasks: Read a book that mentions one of these topics: capital punishment, abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence OR read a book where the MC is a lawyer.

MacGyver
Tasks: Read a book with Army knife, duct tape or matches in the text OR read a book with the letters DSX in the title OR read a book set in LA, California or Vancouver, Canada.

Married...with Children
Tasks: Read a book where the MC is married with children OR read a book published on April 5 or 9 June of any year OR read a book with a character names Al, Peggy, Kelly or Bud.

Quantum Leap
Tasks: Read a book with a MPG of Science Fiction or historical OR read a book where a character travels through time.

✔ Serious Reader Challenge for 2017 - NBRC
Level 1: Books 1 - 100

Level 1 Start: 1 January 2017
Level 1 Finish:

Books Read:

❒ 01 - Antony and Cleopatra
❒ 02 - Light Years
❒ 03- A Soft Place to Land
❒ 04 - The Prison Book Club
❒ 05 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
❒ 06 - Break No Bones
❒ 07 - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
❒ 08 - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
❒ 09 - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
❒ 10 - American Gods
❒ 11 - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
❒ 12 - Good Harbor
❒ 13 - Bones to Ashes
❒ 14 - The Selection
❒ 15 - The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
❒ 16 - One Good Friend Deserves Another
❒ 17 - Shine Shine Shine
❒ 18 - The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
❒ 19 - The Witches of Eastwick
❒ 20 - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
❒ 21 - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
❒ 22 - The Great Gatsby
❒ 23 - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
❒ 24 - A Place at the Table: A Novel
❒ 25 - Tamarind Mem
❒ 26 - The Book of Lost Things
❒ 27 - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
❒ 28 - The Secret Adversary
❒ 29 - The House of Blue Mangoes
❒ 30 - Devil Bones
❒ 31 - Suite Française
❒ 32 - Dawn of the Dreadfuls
❒ 33 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
❒ 34 - Island of the Blue Dolphins
❒ 35 - At Home: A Short History of Private Life
❒ 36 - Career of Evil
❒ 37 - The Killing Circle
❒ 38 - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
❒ 39 - The Wrath & the Dawn
❒ 40 - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
❒ 41 - Red Dragon
❒ 42 - Blindness
❒ 43 - Mating for Life
❒ 44 - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
❒ 45 - 419
❒ 46 - Emma
❒ 47 - Clara Callan
❒ 48 - Chaos in Kabul: A Malko Linge Novel
❒ 49 - All's Well That Ends Well
❒ 50 - The Manning Sisters: The Cowboy's Lady\The Sheriff Takes a Wife
❒ 51 - 206 Bones
❒ 52 - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
❒ 53 - My Cousin Rachel
❒ 54 - How I Came to Sparkle Again
❒ 55 - Wives and Daughters
❒ 56 - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
❒ 57 - The Painted Girls
❒ 58 - Othello
❒ 59 - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
❒ 60 - Spider Bones
❒ 61 - A Complicated Kindness
❒ 62 - Truly Madly Guilty
❒ 63 - Daniel
❒ 64 - Did You Ever Have A Family
❒ 65 - The Light Between Oceans
❒ 66 - Dark Places
❒ 67 - The Grownup
❒ 68 - Dressing Up for the Carnival
❒ 69 - Uncle Tom's Cabin
❒ 70 - Handle with Care
❒ 71 - Thirteen Reasons Why
❒ 72 - The Complete Persepolis
❒ 73 - Brooklyn
❒ 74 - Twelve Years a Slave
❒ 75 - Summer with My Sisters
❒ 76 - Flash and Bones
❒ 77 - One Hundred Years of Solitude
❒ 78 - Dog House: A Love Story
❒ 79 - The Rape of Nanking
❒ 80 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
❒ 81 - Walden
❒ 82 - The Solitude of Prime Numbers
❒ 83 - Black Like Me
❒ 84 - The Conquest
❒ 85 - Bones Are Forever
❒ 86 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
❒ 87 - The Mountain Story
❒ 88 - The Lowland
❒ 89 - Bettyville
❒ 90 - Vinyl Cafe Unplugged
❒ 91 - The Sisters Brothers
❒ 92 - The Post-Birthday World
❒ 93 - Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
❒ 94 - My Ántonia
❒ 95 - The Master and Margarita
❒ 96 - Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime
❒ 97 - The Queen of the Tearling
❒ 98 - The Fleet Street Murders
❒ 99 - City of Friends
❒ 100 - Speaking from Among the Bones
❒ 101 - The Island
❒ 102 - The Silver Star
❒ 103 - The Woman in Cabin 10
❒ 104 - Bones of the Lost
❒ 105 - Night
❒ 106 - Special Topics in Calamity Physics
❒ 107 - Freak the Mighty
❒ 108 - Out
❒ 109 - The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
❒ 110 - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
❒ 111 - One for the Money
❒ 112 - The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
❒ 113 - Secresy; or The Ruin on the Rock
❒ 114 - The Left Hand of Darkness
❒ 115 - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
❒ 116 - The Lilac Bus
❒ 117 - Dearly Devoted Dexter
❒ 118 - Bones Never Lie
❒ 119 - Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
❒ 120 - Let Me In
❒ 121 - The Time Machine/The War of the Worlds
❒ 122 - The Island of Dr. Moreau
❒ 123 - Recipes for a Perfect Marriage
❒ 124 - Rethinking Letter Grades
❒ 125 - Things Fall Apart
❒ 126 - Middlemarch
❒ 127 - The Rosie Effect
❒ 128 - Infinite Riches
❒ 129 - A Stranger in Mayfair
❒ 130 - Bad Feminist
❒ 131 - Such a Long Journey
❒ 132 - The Spectacular Now

EVENTS ACROSS THE DECADES 1950's

Starts: 1 August 2017
Ends: 31 December 2017

Sporting Events:
1. Read a book with a rich main character OR read a book with a baseball player or with a baseball on the cover - Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

2. Read a book with someone running on the cover OR with a 4 in the publication date - Walden

3. Read a book that is MPG YA, a MC who plays soccer OR a book set in Brazil. - The Queen of the Tearling

4. Read a book with Sports as a MPG OR WORLD CUP in the title (does not need to be consecutive)
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Popular Culture:
1. Comic Strip - Read a book with a dog on the cover OR a character or author named Charles or Charlie -

2. Read a book with a MPG of erotic or a naked person on the cover OR a MC who is a writer or photographer The Mountain Story

3. Read a book written by an author from the United Kingdom OR a book with a character names James - My Ántonia

4. Read a book with an author or character named James, Jim, Jimmy or Dean OR read a book with a car accident in it - The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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Political/Military Events
1. Read a book published on March 12th of any year OR read a book with two of the numbers from 57.68 in the page count - Speaking from Among the Bones

2. Read a book with some type of discrimination in the book OR read a book set in South Africa - Black Like Me

3. Read a book set in Space OR a book with SPUTNIK in the title (doesn't need to be consecutive) The Left Hand of Darkness

4. Read a book where someone takes over a job or position from someone OR where someone resigns from their job OR where someone flees from something - The Conquest
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Technology Advances/Inventions
1. Read a book where someone uses a credit card OR a book whose title or author's initial starts with C - The Post-Birthday World

2. Read a book where the main characters discuss birth control OR a MC or author named Luis or with the initials L.M. - The Island

3. Read a book where the MC flies OR a book published on May 2nd of any year - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

4. Read a book set in Boston or Paris OR read a book with ORGAN in the title (does not need to be consecutive) - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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Disasters:
1. Read a book with a grey cover (at least 50%) or a book with a 4 in the page count or publication date -

2. Read a book with a natural disaster OR a 1 and 6 in the page count or publication date Freak the Mighty

3. Read a book with a plane on the cover OR with an explosion in the book - The Lowland

4. Read a book with an animal with a hoof on the cover OR where an animal is killed - The Sisters Brothers


AMMP's Events Across the Decades 1960's
Aug 1 - Dec 31

Sports:
1) 1960 - Read a book where the MC watches TV OR with an 8 and a 3 in the page count - The Sisters Brothers

2) 1961 - Read a car with a character who is a race car driver OR set in Italy - The Solitude of Prime Numbers

3) 1967 - Read a book that is a 1st in a series or with a football or football field on the cover - The Queen of the Tearling

4) 1969 - Read a book with a boat on the cover OR a book where a character travels on any type of water craft - The Conquest

Popular Culture:
1) 1961 - Read a book with a toy on the cover OR read a book that could be made into a Disney musical -

2) 1962 - Read a book that has a superhero in the book OR read a book with an intact 15 in the page count or publication date - Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime

3) 1966 - Read a book that has more than 10,000 ratings on GRs OR that takes place in space - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

4) 1969 - Read a book with MPG music OR that has a festival in it - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Political/Military:
1) 1960 - Read a book with a military character or that is tagged War at least 15 times. - The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

2) 1962 - Read a book that is dystopian OR read a book that starts with a W. - Walden

3) 1963 - Read a book where a character has a public speaking scene OR read a book where someone is assassinated or the MC is an assassin - Black Like Me

4) 1969 - Read a book that is the 11th in a series OR a book with the author initials or N.A. or E.A. -

Technology Advances/Inventions:
1) 1960 - Read a book where weather plays an important role OR a book with TIROS in the title (does not need to be consecutive) - The Post-Birthday World

2) 1963 - Read a book where the MC listens to music OR read a book with a character who is a musician - Vinyl Cafe Unplugged

3) 1964 - Read a book where two of the characters don't speak the same language OR read a book with a symbol on the cover - My Ántonia

4) 1966 - Read a book with a baby on the cover OR where a MC is pregnant - The Lowland

Disasters:
1) 1960 - Read a book with a fire on the cover OR a book with a "crazy" character - Bones Never Lie

2) 1963 - Read a book with a mountain on the cover or with two of the following numbers are in the page count (1, 4, 8, 9, 0) -

3) 1964 - Read a book with a body of water on the cover OR read a book with a rain storm in the book - Bones Are Forever

4) 1966 - Read a book with a brown cover OR read a book published on Jan 11th of any year

AMMP's Events Across the Decades 1970's
Aug 1 - Dec 31

Sports:
1) 1973 - Read a book with a horse on the cover OR
Read a book with Three 3's in the page count and publication date - Bones Never Lie

2) 1973 - Ready a book with a battle of the sexes scene in it or Read a book with a character who goes by their first and middle names like Billy Jean - The Conquest

3) 1976 - Read a book that a GR friend gave a 5 star rating to OR Read a book that is MPG history or historical - Black Like Me

4) 1974 - Read a book from the list Books you read so much they should give you a spot in the Guinness Book of World Record OR read a book with a baseball player -

Popular Culture:
1) 1970 - Read a book where a couple or a group "break up" OR read a book tagged music at least 10 X or on the MP - The Post-Birthday World

2) 1972 - Read a book with PONG in the title (does not need to be consecutive) OR read a book where a character plays a video game - The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

3) 1975 - Read a book where a character swims in the ocean OR read a book that is 1st in a series - Bettyville

4) 1979 - Read an author's first (debut) book OR read a book with an author whose first name is Michael - The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Political/Military:
1) 1970 - Read a book with an intact 43 in the page count OR read a book published in the 70's - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

2) 1972 - Read a book where a character is a thief OR read a book that takes place in Washington D.C. - The Sisters Brothers

3) 1975 - Read a book with MPG War OR read the last book in a series (may be the last book currently released) - Night

4) 1977 - Read a book that has won an award OR Read a book whose title begins with an A - - Vinyl Cafe Unplugged

Technology Advances/Inventions:
1) 1974 - Read a book with UPC in the title (does not need to be consecutive) OR read a book where someone scans an item

2) 1976 - Read a book where someone uses an Apple product OR with an apple on the cover - Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

3) 1978 - Read a book where someone uses a cell phone OR read a book where the MC is an inventor - Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime

4) 1972 - Read a book with a watch on the cover OR read a book where keeping time is very important to the story - The Woman in Cabin 10

Disasters:

1) 1974 - Read a book with an epidemic in it OR read a book where more than one person dies - My Ántonia

2) 1970 - Read a book where a character rides the train OR read a book with a 2, 3 and 6 in the page count and publication date - The Lowland

3) 1972 - Read a book where a character goes to a club or bar OR read a book set in Japan - Bones Are Forever

4) 1978 - Read a book where a character either tries to or commits suicide OR read a book with a child (under 12) in the book - The Mountain Story

AMMP's Events Across the Decades 1980's
Aug 1 - Dec 31

Sports:
1) 1980 -Read a book about a hockey player OR read a book with a miracle in it - The Master and Margarita

2) 1982 - Read a book where the author 's initials can be found in FIFA OR a book set in Italy or Spain - The Solitude of Prime Numbers

3) 1985 - Read a book from Great Debut Novels OR Read a book with a MC or author named Michael - Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

4) 1981 - Read a book where a character makes a great come back OR a book that makes you cry - City of Friends

Popular Culture:
1) 1981 - Read a book with a bride on the cover OR where the MC is royalty - The Queen of the Tearling

2) 1984 - Read a book set during Christmas OR read a book where someone is VERY poor - Black Like Me

3) 1980 - Read a book where someone is shot OR read a book where the author uses their initials (Such as J.K. Rowling) - The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

4) 1986 - Read a book with a character whose name is the same as one of the above (first or last) OR read a book where the MC is a famous musician

Political/Military:
1) 1981 - Read a book where the MC works in the justice system (lawyer, judge, court reporter). Law enforcement DOES NOT qualify OR read a book from Girls Who Kick Ass - Bones Are Forever

2) 1983 - Read a book with an explosion OR where the MC goes shopping - The Lowland

3) 1984 - Read a book set in the future OR read a book set in China - The Left Hand of Darkness

4) 1987 - Read a book with a powerful woman OR read a book set in England - The Post-Birthday World

Technology Advances/Inventions:
1) 1982 - Read a book set in Japan OR read a book where someone works in the music industry - Vinyl Cafe Unplugged

2) 1987 - Read a book where a character wears contacts or glasses OR read a book where someone does something to positively change their appearance - The Conquest

3) 1986 - Read a book with a form of transportation on the cover OR read a book where a character works in construction -

4) 1988 - Read a book where a character suffers from depression OR where a character works in the medical field - The Mountain Story

Disasters:
1) 1986 - Read a book set in one of the countries that was formerly part of the USSR OR read a book that you think is a disaster - Bettyville

2) 1986 - Read a book that is set in space OR read a book where a character is a teacher - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

3) 1989 - Read a book set in Alaska OR read a book with a bird or animal that may have been effected by the spill on the cover -

4) 1989 - Read a book where a character attends a sporting event OR read a book with an intact 96 in the page count


AMMP's Events Across the Decades 1990's
Aug 1 - Dec 31

Sports:
1) 1994 - Read a book with an overall GR rating of 3.0 or below OR read a book from a series that is not yet complete - Bones Are Forever

2) 90's - Read the 6th book in a series OR read a book published in any of the years above - Freak the Mighty

3) 1993 - Read a book that has been banned OR read a book set in Canada or from a Canadian author - Vinyl Cafe Unplugged

4) 1997 - Read a book where the MC gets in trouble at work OR read a book from The Ultimate List of Fighter Romance - Bettyville

Popular Culture:
1) 1997 - Read one of the Harry Potter books OR read a book with MPG Magic - The Master and Margarita

2) 1991 - Read a book with a serial killer OR with a MC named Jeffrey or Jeff - City of Friends

3) 1992 - Read a book with a character in the mob OR read a book where a character is murdered - The Lowland

4) 1994 - Read a book with a white cover OR read a book where someone flees from the police -

Political/Military:
1) 1990 - Read a book where the MC is or was in prison/jail OR read a book "bad boy" becomes a leader - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

2) 1991 - Read a book where a character is an elected official OR read a book with a Russian character - The Post-Birthday World

3) 1996 - Read a book from an author who's initials are K.A. OR read a book tagged political - The Left Hand of Darkness

4) 1999 - Read a book where a woman is the first to do something OR read a book with just one woman on the cover - The Conquest

Technology Advances/Inventions/Discoveries:
1) 1991 - Read a book where the internet is important OR read a book from Books with Nerdy, Geeky Or Genius Heroes and Heroines - The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

2) 1997 - Read a book where a character is genetically manipulated or engineered OR with a sheep on the cover - Let Me In

3) 1993 - Read a book where a character cleans their house OR read a book with dirt or mud on the cover -

4) 1998 - Read a book with a sex scene OR read a book where a character takes any type of medicine - Black Like Me

Disasters:
1) 1990's - Read a book with a military or former military character OR read a book set during a war - The Queen of the Tearling

2) 1992 - Read a book where someone is injured at work OR read a book with a 5 in the page count - Walden

3) 1993 - Read a book with a doll on the cover OR read a book with a fire in it - The Sisters Brothers

4) 1997 - Read a book where the MC is a cook/chef/baker OR read a book where a character stays at a hotel - Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

MODERN MRS: DARCY CHALLENGE 2017
Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2017

1. A book you chose for the cover - - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2. A book with reputation for being un-put-down-able - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
3. A book set somewhere you've never been but would like to visit - Truly Madly Guilty
4. A book you've already read - The Killing Circle
5. A juicy memoir - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
6. A book about books or reading - The Prison Book Club
7. A book in a genre you usually avoid - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
8. A book you don't want to admit you're dying to read - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
9. A book in the backlist of a new favorite author - American Gods
10. A book recommended by someone with great taste - A Complicated Kindness
11. A book you were exited to buy or borrow, but haven't read yet - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
12. A book about a topic or subject you already love - Bad Feminist

THE REAL McCOY: Non Fiction Challenge 2017

[] NF book with > 500 pages
[✔] History - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
[✔] NF book that became a movie - The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
[✔] NF about Relationships - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
[] NF book published this year
[✔] Religion or Philosophy - The Complete Persepolis
[✔] NF book with a number in the title - Twelve Years a Slave
[] Biography
[✔] A funny NF book - At Home: A Short History of Private Life
[✔] NF book by a female author - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
[✔] a "How-To" NF book - Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime
[✔] NF book with a one-word title - Bettyville
[✔] NF about Nature or Animals - Dog House: A Love Story
[✔] A NF book set in a different country - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
[✔] Health or Wellness related - Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
[] NF book recommended by a friend
[✔] Prize winning NF book - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
[] NF on Minority Studies
[✔] NF book that scares you - The Rape of Nanking
[] Self Improvement or Career Advice
[✔] A NF about something that happened in the decade you were born - Black Like Me
[] NF on a LGBTQIA+ topic
[✔] A NF book with a place in the title - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
[✔] NF related to Current Events - Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
[✔ ] Sociology or Psychology - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
[✔ ] NF book that takes place in your region - The Prison Book Club
[✔] a Memoir - Night
[] NF book written by an author with your same initials, first or last name
[] Math or Technology
[✔] A NF book you started but never finished - Walden

Most influential books by women: to read

- The Secret History
- I Capture the Castle
- Gone with the Wind
- The Color Purple
- The Women's Room

Brush Up on Shakespeare - ongoing

2016:
1. The Tempest
2. Macbeth
3. Romeo and Juliet

2017:
4. Antony and Cleopatra
5. All's Well That Ends Well
6. Othello