The Next Best Book Club discussion

So for 2015, I wanted to find something fun for everyone to participate in, and I thought, what the heck, why not a Reading Challenge!! Everyone likes challenges, right?!

This is a really cool reading challenge that was created in another group I was a part of, and it really stretches your reading comfort zone.

You don't have to be a fan of the Beatles to participate. You just have to be a fan of READING!!

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So here's how this works:

*The goal is to cross off as many of the Beatles songs as you can throughout the course of 2015. You can complete them one album at a time, or hit your favorite song titles first... it's totally up to you!

*You cross off the songs by reading a book that meets the criteria listed after each song title. (If the book meets multiple challenges, cool! You can apply it to multiple song titles, OR you can make the reading challenge more challenging by limiting yourself to one title per book.)

*There is a built in redundancy with some of the tasks. They are repetitive on purpose, to give you an opportunity to read more than one type of book and still get credit for completing a task. (Sneaky, I know!)

*You can copy and paste the entire list into your own thread here in this folder and strike through the song titles as you complete them, OR, you can simply copy and paste each song title and its criteria from the master list here as you complete it. (obviously put your name in the thread title so we know whose challenge it is)

*Do not add your list directly to this thread.

*YOU MUST LIST THE BOOK TITLE AND AUTHOR that coincides with the song as you complete it for the challenge so we know what you read!


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An example of a completed song title task in your Challenge thread would look like this:

“I Saw Her Standing There” - Read a book by a female author - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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Aaaaannnnnnnddddddd here's the list:
(it's a long one so it'll show up as multiple posts)

Please Please Me
“I Saw Her Standing There” - Read a book by a female author
“Misery” - Read a sad story
“Anna (Go to Him)” - Read a book with a female name in the title
“Chains” - Read a book about slavery/with slavery as a theme AND/OR a book set in a prison
“Boys” - Read a book with a male’s name in the title
“Ask Me Why” - Read a book with the word WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE or WHY in the title
“Please Please Me” - Read a book with a duplicated word in the title
“Love Me Do” - Read a love story
“P.S. I Love You” - Read a book with a subtitle
“Baby It’s You” - Read a book about childhood OR a book you loved as a child
“Do You Want to Know a Secret” - Read a book in which a secret is revealed AND/OR a mystery
“A Taste of Honey” - Read a book where food is the central theme OR is in the title of the book
“There’s a Place” - Read a book that has a location in the title
“Twist and Shout” - Read a book about abuse or where abuse/abusive family is the main theme

With the Beatles
“It Won’t Be Long” - Read a book that is less than 200 pages
“All I’ve Got to Do” - Read a book that has been on you TBR list for more than a year
“All My Loving” - Read a book by your favourite author
“Don’t Bother Me” - Read a book in one sitting/one day/one weekend
“Little Child” - Read a children’s or YA book
“Till There Was You” - Read a story of lost love
“Please Mister Postman” - Read a book written in letter form AND/OR a book with a specific title in the location
“Roll Over Beethoven” - Read a book where the main character is a musician OR a book about music
“Hold Me Tight” - Read a book you would never ever give away
“You Really Got a Hold on Me” - Read a book about addiction or where addiction is the main focus
“I Wanna Be Your Man” - Read a Man Booker Prize-winner
“Not a Second Time” - Re-read a book
"Devil in her Heart" - Read a book that centers around evil or the devil
“Money (That’s What I Want)” - Read a book about economics or finance

A Hard Day’s Night
“A Hard Day’s Night” - Read a book that has been made into a movie
“I Should Have Known Better” - Read a book from an adult's point of view looking back over their childhood
“If I Fell” - Read a book by one of your favorite authors
“I’m Happy Just to Dance with You” - Read a book about dancing – fiction or nonfiction
“Tell Me Why” - Read a memoir
“Can’t Buy Me Love” - Buy a book and read it immediately
“Any Time at All” - Read a book that has lasted the test of time, is appropriate throughout the ages, appeals to YA and adult, et cetera
“I’ll Cry Instead” - Read a sad story
“Things We Said Today” - Read a book of letters AND/OR read a current events book, magazine(5pts) or journal(5pts)
“When I Get Home” - Read a book about home or family dynamics
“You Can’t Do That” - Read a banned book
“I’ll Be Back” - Read a book that has been re-written from another character’s perspective (exp. Ahab’s Wife, Finn, etc.)

Beatles for Sale
“No Reply” - Read a book where disappointment is a key focus AND/OR Read a book by an author who has published only one book
“I’m a Loser” - Read a book in which the main character is an outcast
“Baby’s in Black” - Read a book with a color in the title
“Rock and Roll Music” - Read a book that shares its name with a song title
“I’ll Follow the Sun” - Read a book about the weather AND/OR read a self-improvement book
“Mr. Moonlight” - Read a book about someone who works a second job
“Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey” - Read a book with a repeat word in the title
“Eight Days a Week” - Read a book with a number in the title
“Words of Love” - Read a book of poetry
“Honey Don’t“ - Read a book from the banned book list
“Every Little Thing” - Read a book of short stories
“I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” - Read a book centreing around conformity
“What You’re Doing” - Read a book about a profession you find interesting and that you wish you were doing
“Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby” - Read a book centreing around dating

Help!
“Help!” - Read a how-to or technical book OR create a poll and have the other Sidebarians help select your next read
“The Night Before” - Read a book centreing around anticipation
“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” - Read a book about secrets
“I Need You” - Read a book about something you cannot live without
“Another Girl” - Read a book with two female main characters
“You’re Going to Lose That Girl” - Read a book where cheating is a focus
“Ticket to Ride” - Read a book about travel (fiction or non-fiction)
“Act Naturally “ - Read a book about the environment
“It’s Only Love” - Read a book that received a 5-star rating from a fellow TNBBC member
“You Like Me Too Much” - Read a book about unrequited love
“Tell Me What You See” - Read a travelogue book
“I’ve Just Seen a Face” - Read a book with a body part in the title
“Yesterday” - Read a historical (non-fiction) book
“Dizzy Miss Lizzy” - Read a lesser-known book by a well-known author

Rubber Soul
“Drive My Car” - Read a book about a road trip
“Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” - Read a book by Haruki Murakami
“You Won’t See Me” - Read a book in which a character has a supernatural power
“Nowhere Man” - Read a travelogue
“Think for Yourself”- Read a book despite some negative reviews
“The Word” - Read a book with a one-word title
“Michelle” - Read a book that has a female name as its title (the title can only consist of the name)
“What Goes On” Read a book written by two or more collaborating authors
“Girl” - Read a book with the word "girl" in the title
“I’m Looking Through You” - Read a book about spirits/ghosts
“In My Life” - Read a biography/autobiography/memoir
“Wait” - Read a book with the word stop in the title
“If I Needed Someone” - Read a book about a famous duo or book that revolves around two best friends
“Run for Your Life” - Read a book about a sport

SINGLE RELEASED IN 1965
"Day Tripper"
Read a book of travel writing near your home

Revolver
“Taxman” - Read a book about the economy/money
“Eleanor Rigby” - Read a book with a character in the title
“I’m Only Sleeping” - Read a bedtime story or a story set during the nigh time
“Love You To” - Read a book recommended by an author or a book that is listed as an author's favorite. (Book must not be written by the author. Book can also be an author recommendation.)
“Here, There and Everywhere” - Read a book with a punctuation mark in the title
“Yellow Submarine” - Read a book with a color in the title
“She Said She Said” - Read a book recommended by a female celebrity
“Good Day Sunshine” - Read a book with weather in the title (Rain, Sun, Clouds, Thunder, etc.)
“And Your Bird Can Sing” - Read a book with an animal in the title
“For No One” - Read a book with only one word in the title
“Doctor Robert” - Read a book that has a doctor as a main character/about a doctor or about something medical
“I Want to Tell You” - Read a book recommended by a friend
“Got to Get You into My Life” - Read a book about unrequited love
“Tomorrow Never Knows" - Read a book set in the future (of when it was written – ex. 1984)

SINGLE RELEASED IN 1966
"Paperback Writer"
Read a paperback book

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” - Read a tear-jerker or a very depressing book
“With a Little Help from My Friends” - ask someone to recommend you a book and read it.
“Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” - Read a book where drugs/drug use is a central theme
“Getting Better” - read a book with Getting or Better in the title
“Fixing a Hole” - Read a how-to book
“She’s Leaving Home” - Read a coming of age story
“Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” - Read a book about childhood
“Within You Without You” - Read a book about a person with multiple personalities or a personality disorder
“When I’m Sixty-Four” - Read a book that's at least 64 years old
“Lovely Rita” - Read a book with Lovely or Rita in the title
“Good Morning Good Morning” - Read a book with Good or Morning in the title, OR a book with the same word twice in the title
“A Day in the Life” - Read a book where the main action happens within a 24-hour period AND/OR a historical fiction book

Magical Mystery Tour
“Magical Mystery Tour” - Read a fantasy or mystery book
“The Fool on the Hill “ - Read a book/play that includes a foolish character
“Flying” - Read a book with Flying in the title
“Blue Jay Way” - Read a book with birds or the word "bird" or a type of bird in the title
“Your Mother Should Know” - Read a book about a mother/child relationship or a book dedicated to a mother
“I Am the Walrus” - Read a book with an animal in the title
“Hello, Goodbye” - Read a book about love gained and love lost AND/OR read a book written by an author who is now deceased
“Strawberry Fields Forever” - Read a book with a type of food in the title
“Penny Lane” – Read a book written by an English author or set in England
“Baby, You’re a Rich Man” - Read a Pulitzer Prize-winner
“All You Need is Love” - Read a romance or love story


The White Album
“Back in the USSR” - Read a book by a Russian author or set in Russia
“Dear Prudence” - Read a book of letters/written in letter form
“Glass Onion” - Read a book with Glass or Onion in the title
“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La,Da” - Read a book by an African author or set in Africa
“Wild Honey Pie” - Read a book with Wild, Honey, or Pie in the title
“The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill” - Read a book that is part of series
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” - Read a tragedy/a book centering on tragedy
“Happiness is a Warm Gun” - Read a true crime/thriller/mystery novel
“Martha My Dear” - Read a book with a woman's name in the title
“I’m So Tired” - Read a book where illness is the main focus
“Blackbird” - Read a book about letting something go
“Piggies“ - Read a book about corporate greed
“Rocky Raccoon” - Read a book with alliteration in the title
“Don’t Pass Me By” - Read a book that has been on your TBR list for over a year
“Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” - Read a sexy-time book
“I Will” - Read a book that you have found daunting in the past and have put off reading it
“Julia” - Read a book with a leading character named Julia or with Julia in the title

(album 2)
“Birthday” - Read a book published in the year of your birth
“Yer Blues” - Read a book about depression or a book where the cover is the color blue
“Mother Nature’s Son” - Read a book about the environment
“Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey” - read a book that got a big ole secret in it
“Sexy Sadie” – Read an erotic book
“Helter Skelter” – Read a true crime book
“Long, Long, Long” – Read a trilogy, quartet or any series with at least three books
“Revolution 1” - Read a Banned Book
“Honey Pie” - Read a book about food
“Savoy Truffle” - Read a book with Savoy or Truffle in the title
“Cry Baby Cry” - Read a book about babies/birth
“Revolution 9” - Read a book with war as a central theme or that takes place during war time
“Good Night” - Read a book that takes place over the course of one night

Yellow Submarine (1969)
“Only a Northern Song” - Read a book by a Canadian author
“All Together Now” - Read one of the group reads or a book club read
“Hey Bulldog” - Read a book that has a main character with a dog as his/her sidekick or a book with a dog on the cover.
“It’s All Too Much” - Read a book over 700 pages
“All You Need Is Love” - Read a book about religion, spirituality or religious controversies
“Pepperland” - Read a book set in India
“Sea of Time” - Read a book about time travel or in which time is a central element
“Sea of Holes” – Read a book set at sea
“Sea of Monsters” – Read a book with a monster, zombie or mythical creature (etc.) as a character
“March of the Meanies” - Read a book about the holocaust
“Pepperland Laid Waste” - Read a book about something nuclear or a post-apocalyptic book
“Yellow Submarine in Pepperland” - Read a book with a color in the title


Abbey Road (1969)
“Come Together” - Read a book at the same time as another TNBBC member
“Something” - Read a book about anything
“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” - Read a murder mystery
“Oh! Darling” - Read a book where the main character is an aristocrat
“Octopus’s Garden” - Read a book with an animal in the title
“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” - Read a book over 1000 pages
“Here Comes the Sun” - Read a book set in the summer or with the word summer in the title
“Because” - Read something....just because
“You Never Give Me Your Money” - Read a book about business or government
“Sun King” - Read a book about the monarchy
“Mean Mr. Mustard” - Read a book about cooking
“Polythene Pam” - Read a book with the name Pam in the title or where Pam is a leading character
“She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” - Read a book about a secret love affair
“Golden Slumbers” - Read a book by an author who is deceased
“Carry That Weight” - Read a book centered on health, good eating, sport, fitness, etc
“The End”- Read a book with the word END in the title
“Her Majesty” - Read a book about royalty (fiction or non-fiction)

LET IT BE (1970)
“Two of Us” - Read a book about a famous duo (can be fiction or non-fiction but the duo must be non-fiction)
“Dig a Pony” - Read a book with horses in it or the word "horse/pony" in the title
“Across the Universe” - Read a science fiction or fantasy book
“I Me Mine” - Read a book with a pronoun in the title
“Dig It” - Read a book on the NY Times Bestseller List
“Let It Be” - Read a classic
“Maggie Mae” - Read a book thats title contains alliteration
“I’ve Got a Feeling” - Read a book of poetry
“One After 909” (Read a book over 909 pages)
“The Long and Winding Road” - Read a book over 900 pages
“For You Blue” - Read a book given to you as a gift
“Get Back” - Read a book you couldn’t finish
"Free As a Bird" - Read a book of your choice
"Devil in her Heart - Read a book where the main character is evil, or actually the devil

ohh fun challenge - can anyone come up with a cool graphic so those of us who blog can maybe link it to challenge pages? ;)

I love that idea! Let me see what I can do....

OK, I made two but I don't have time to load them up to a site to host them right now. I'll do that sometime this weekend.

I would like to join this challenge please. :)

What a fab challenge!

I found a couple of duplicates; are these intentional? There might be more.

“Misery” - Read a sad story
“I’ll Cry Instead” - Read a sad story

“Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey” - Read a book with a repeat word in the title
“Please Please Me” - Read a book with a duplicated word in the title

Great eye, Sandra. Yup!

Because there are soooo many Beatles songs, we knew these would get repetitive, so the challenge is meant to allow you more than one opportunity to read a similar kind of book and still get credit for it.

Kinda sneaky, maybe? But still lots of fun too!

Man... I can't seem to get the image html to work. I keep getting an error code.

So here's what I did: I created two different icon options for the Beatles Reading Challenge, if you (like Dee) want to add the image to your blog sidebar and link it to your challenge.

The icons are on TNBBC's brand spanking new Pinterest page.

Here's the link the the icons:

https://www.pinterest.com/mescorn/tnb...

If anyone can figure out how to embed them here, feel free to do so!

Seriously clever idea; well done.

I love it!

Yay!! I'm working on my 2015 blog challenge post this weekend I hope

ok, linked to images...maybe.

Thank you Jennifer!

I'm going to have a lot of fun with one.
Thanks for putting this together.

You're welcome Sookie!

Lori, what kind of book should we read for "I'm Only Sleeping"?

Revolver
“Taxman” - Read a book about the economy/money
“Eleanor Rigby” - Read a book with a character in the title
“I’m Only Sleeping”
“Love You To” - Read a book recommended by an author or a book that is listed as an author's favorite. (Book must not be written by the author. Book can also be an author recommendation.)
“Here, There and Everywhere” - Read a book with a punctuation mark in the title
“Yellow Submarine” - Read a book with a color in the title
“She Said She Said” - Read a book recommended by a female celebrity
“Good Day Sunshine” - Read a book with weather in the title (Rain, Sun, Clouds, Thunder, etc.)
“And Your Bird Can Sing” - Read a book with an animal in the title
“For No One” - Read a book with only one word in the title
“Doctor Robert” - Read a book that has a doctor as a main character/about a doctor or about something medical
“I Want to Tell You” - Read a book recommended by a friend
“Got to Get You into My Life” - Read a book about unrequited love
“Tomorrow Never Knows" - Read a book set in the future (of when it was written – ex. 1984)

Good eye Patricia. I've edited that part to show it as a bedtime story or a book set during the night time.

Thanks for pointing that out!!

Where will we post the books that we've read?

You'll need to create your own thread in this folder and track your books that way. See how Maggie has her own?

Here's how to set up your own thread:

Click on the Beatles Reading Challenge Folder name.
Then click on New Topic in the upper right hand corner.
This is your thread. Now give it a name - something like Brittany's Beatles Challenge.

Then, you can choose to copy and paste the entire list into your thread, or just copy and paste each song title and task as you complete it....

Hope this helps!

A list like this will take me a couple of years (at least)!!! But let's see how far I can get.

Original idea!

This is probably the coolest, most interesting reading challenge I have ever seen! I am so excited to work on it...a lot of fun possibilities!

There is no topic on “If I Needed Someone” on the Rubber Soul album

Cheryl, great eyes. I've updated it to show a task!

"Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey" from the white album also has no task attached to it.

Melissa, please do not add your personal list as a comment to this thread. We're asking that participants create their own thread to track their reading throughout the year. See my instructions on how to do that in comment #22 here.

If you need help with that, please PM me here.

This is such a fun idea!

Thanks Gitte!

Whoops! That's a reading task I need to adjust. Remember I mentioned I took this from another group I was a part of...???

Going to update it now. Thanks for catching that.

This looks like fun!

Hello everyone. I am Adriana and fairly new to the group. At least I am just joining in now. This sounds super fun. I can't wait to get started. Question...do they have to be book we read in 2015 or books we have read in general?

Book you are reading now.. this year. It's the 2015 challenge, so any books you read before 2015 wouldn't count.

Got it! Thank you for your quick response.

I'm thinking I might participate. I'm not seeing "Real Love" on the list; am I missing it somehow?

rytr_1 wrote: "I'm thinking I might participate. I'm not seeing "Real Love" on the list; am I missing it somehow?"

Which album is it from? It appears to be a John Lennon song that was released as a redubbed beatles single. I don't think it's missing. It's just not on any of the Beatles Albums.

But Day Tripper is listed as a single, not on an album.

Lori wrote: "rytr_1 wrote: "I'm thinking I might participate. I'm not seeing "Real Love" on the list; am I missing it somehow?"

Which album is it from? It appears to be a John Lennon song that was released as..."

Beatles Anthology, as is "Free as a Bird."

What a wonderful challenge! I am definitely in. I love Beatles and just can't resist another challenge, especially one with Beatles in it :)

Am off to make my thread here :)

Well, guys, I have no idea. I didn't actually make this challenge, I borrowed it from a member from one of my other groups :)

Ok. I am in!!

I'm in

We LOVE the beatles at my house.
I have abbey road painted on my wall.
My little dogs name is " ringo John Paul George". My big dogs name is Eleanor Rigby
My chickens names are Lucy , prudence , dizzy lizzy , Rita , pam , helter skelter :)

I'm soo ready for this !
I must get organized

Abbey road is also tattooed on the back of my legs :)

If you haven't read the interviews with Lennon and Ono, it's well worth it to see how he talks about his life and his art as well. You can also see an old (but very fun) interview Dick Cavett did with them.

Shelley
http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com

Hi Shelly, that's not really the point of this thread. We're not doing a reading challenge on The Beatles. We're just using their songs as fodder for book titles and storylines to challenge our reading.

Michelle wrote: "I'm a little late to this, but I'd like to join."

Michelle, you can join in at any time. Just go ahead and open up your own thread to start tracking your reading!!

I'm also joining in late but this is too fun to pass up! I'm going to see where I can fit the books I've read so far this year and see how far I can get.