Cozy Mysteries discussion

THE ULTIMATE READING CHALLENGE 2017

BASIC LEVEL (40)

[X] A book recommended by a librarian - Nacht über Reykjavík by Arnaldur Indriðason
[ ] A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long
[ ] A book of letters
[ ] An audiobook
[ ] A book by a person of color

[ ] A book with one of the four seasons in the title
[ ] A book that is a story within a story
[ ] A book with multiple authors *
[ ] An espionage thriller
[X] A book with a cat on the cover (Gee, this is a tough one for cozy mystery readers!) Warrior Cats - Die Macht der drei. Der geheime Blick: III, Band 1 by Erin Hunter

[X] A book by an author who uses a pseudonym - 17 - Das erste Buch der Erinnerung by Rose Snow
[X] A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
[X] A book by or about a person who has a disability - Totenstille by Daniela Arnold
[X] A book involving travel - Le Petit Prince byAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
[ ] A book with a subtitle

[ ] A book that's published in 2017
[ ] A book involving a mythical creature
[ ] A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile
[ ] A book about food
[ ] A book with career advice

[ ] A book from a nonhuman perspective
[ ] A steampunk novel
[ ] A book with a red spine
[ ] A book set in the wilderness
[ ] A book you loved as a child

[X] A book by an author from a country you've never visited - The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
[X] A book with a title that's a character's name - Woyzeck by Georg Büchner
[X] A novel set during wartime - Lacombe, Lucien by Louis Malle
[ ] A book with an unreliable narrator
[X] A book with pictures - Matilda byRoald Dahl

[X] A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you - Auf der Liste by J.A. Konrath
[X] A book about an interesting woman - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
[ ] A book set in two different time periods
[ ] A book with a month or day of the week in the title
[ ] A book set in a hotel

[X] A book written by someone you admire - Othello by William Shakespeare
[ ] A book that's becoming a movie in 2017
[ ] A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
[ ] The first book in a series you haven't read before
[ ] A book you bought on a trip

ADVANCED (12)

[ ] A book recommended by an author you love
[ ] A bestseller from 2016
[ ] A book with a family member term in the title
[ ] A book that takes place over a character's life span
[X] A book about an immigrant or refugee - L'Étranger by Albert Camus

[ ] A book from a genre/subgenre you've never heard of
[ ] A book with an eccentric character
[ ] A book that's more than 800 pages
[ ] A book you got from a used book sale
[ ] A book that's been mentioned in another book

[X] A book about a difficult topic (open to your interpretation of "difficult") - Was bleibt by Christa Wolf
[ ] A book based on mythology