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The printable/downloadable version of the 2019 Popsugar Reading challenge is here.

Here I've presented three books in each category with at least a thousand book reviews on Goodreads for each book. The title URLs open on Amazon dot com.

1. A book becoming a movie in 2019Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Genre: Classics, Historical Fiction)Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (Fantasy, Young Adult)Pet Sematary by Stephen King (Horror, Thriller)2. A book that makes you nostalgic(Can't say what'll ma...

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A considerable time (Goodreads whispers, 'Nine months') has passed since I finished reading 'The Three-Body Problem' - the first book in the "Remembrance of Earth's Past" series. The first book, while being exciting, wasn't really thrilling except may be in the last 50 pages. Besides, I kept losing track of the characters while reading it.

Having gone through a lean patch of unexciting books (I have joined a library which houses mostly classics), I decided to give...

So, yesterday on Twitter, I asked people to name the best three books that they've read in 2016 and this is the list:

@PunsNProses 




@mindkhichdi




@Romaticize 




@Kerouacrow




@kapilk1210




@samosawallah




@selurus




@retardEngineer




@idealistIdiot




@shutchup




@Munchin_JugHead





@supaarwoman




@salonimunot



@Pushkarr



Thanks a lot to all those who responded. Apologies for the shitty formatting. Tried to link the books to their respective Goodreads but didn't happen. Enjoy your 2017!

Pages: 345
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I picked this one at a second-hand books store. The discount was really good and quite honestly, among all the books, this was the only title that I had heard of.

The book is an account of the Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan who is appointed as the personal physician of the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. The book recounts his journey from being a general doctor to that of being a close confidante of Idi Amin. The doctor gets a close encounter with the lives of people...

Pages: 287
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I read 'The Unexpected Guest' on a lazy day with nothing much to do. I shortlisted it brilliantly by going by its cutesy little length as I wanted something light to read and wanted to be done with it in a day.

The book reads rather like a play what with the setting of the house described with a handy map at the beginning. It begins with the much-cliched scene of a stranger having his car stuck in the rains and he arrives at a house only to discover that a murder has...

Pages: 180
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I don't really remember exactly when I had bought F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' though I remember that I had bought it from a second-hand book store and most probably around the time when its latest movie adaptation (2013) was released. The intention, as always, of course, was to read the book and compare it with the movie. Like every reader, I consider myself an authority on certifying whether every movie adaptation lives up to the quality of its book. A...

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Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem" is a widely popular recently published book in the science-fiction genre. It spans across several decades and planets and captures many important aspects of the Chinese history. As most of the action in the plot is based in China, the book was an introduction to Chinese sci-fi for me.
The plot revolves around two scientists - Ye Wenjie and Wang Miao. Ye is a pioneer scientist who has seen her father die during the revolution for h...

Pages: 206
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Last month, I asked my Twitter followers if they'd be interested in gifting me a book for my birthday. Though a few fell prey to this sentimental yet evil appeal, I backed off thinking that it wasn't too nice of me to do something like this and didn't go back to this request until the day arrived. However, Abhijeet insisted on sending a book even though the birthday had almost left the calendar. Many thanks to him for gifting me 'Gahire Pani' ('Deep water' in Marath...

Pages: 327
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The "Harry Potter" series holds a special place for me because it introduced me to the world of fantasy. I read the series quite late after all the books were released. I even ignored all the movies considering them as imbecile. Credit to a niece who challenged me to give the first book a try and then stop myself from reading the rest of the books. Like innumerable people across the globe, I was smitten by the wonderful world of Harry Potter.

The buzz around the new...

Pages: 227
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I rarely add books to my Goodreads "To-read" list because, firstly, I'm too lazy and, secondly, I try to read books based on chance encounters and leisurely discoveries rather than as a plan. Besides, being almost always confused about things doesn't help a reading plan much. But there are a few books in my "To-read" list based on someone's kind recommendations or the times when I stumble upon a book and liked it so much that I had to keep it in the list (only to be...