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Jessica’s comments from the 2017 Reading Challenge group.

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Jan 20, 2016 02:54PM

153078 I'm always up for more friends that read! Most people just look at me like I'm crazy and tell me they haven't read a book since High School. /sigh.
Jan 12, 2016 12:25PM

153078 I hope to read at least 100 books this year!

Read a book that takes place on each continent, or is written by an author from that continent (fiction or non-fiction)

1. North America - The Call of the Wild
2. South America
3. Africa - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
4. Antarctica - At the Mountains of Madness
5. Europe - Half Bad
6. Asia - The Ghost Bride
7. Australia

8. A banned or challenged book - Lolita
9. An award winning book (Pulitzer, Hugo, Man Booker, etc.)
10. Memoir/Autobiography/Biography - My Brief History
11. A dead author's last book
12.A book with LGBT matter or character(s) - Out of Orange: A Memoir
13. A book your favorite author loves
14. A retold fairytale - Scarlet
15. A Young Adult book - Infinite in Between
16. A history book (fiction or non-fiction)
17. A book where you have seen the movie, but not read the book - Ella Enchanted
18. A book from the NYT Bestseller list - The Girl on the Train
19. A book with the point of view of an immigrant - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
20. A controversial book - The Good Girl
21. The first book you see when you walk into a library or bookstore - Wytches, Vol. 1
22. A classic
23. A debut novel - Hate List
24. Published this year (2016) - What Was Mine
25. Based entirely on the cover - Traveling with Your Octopus
26. Own but never read - The Dead-Tossed Waves
27. A book by an author you never read before - Magic to the Bone
28. A book recommended to you by a friendly librarian
29. A book by a Nobel Prize winner
30. Mythology (not just Greek)
31. A book written by someone born the same year as you - Cinder
32. Dystopia - Birthmarked
33. Reread of a favorite book - Dead Until Dark
34. A book about books
35. Book published the year you graduated high school
36. A book a child/teen/someone younger than you loves
37. A book about/set by the sea - Virtue Falls
38. A book with two authors - The Pretenders
39. Author from your own state, province, or country
40. A book about a trip (road, cruise, around the world) - The Damned
41. A book with the name of a person in the title - Crenshaw
42. Science Fiction - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
43. Fantasy - Frost Burned
44. Wild card - Petals on the Wind
45. Wild card - Small Favor
46. Wild card - Deadpool, Vol. 1: Dead Presidents
47. Wild card - Deadpool, Vol. 2: Soul Hunter
48. Wild card - The End of Everything
49. Wild card - Pretty Baby
50. Wild card - The Demonologist
51. Wild card - If There Be Thorns
52. Wild card - Turn Coat
Aug 02, 2015 04:23PM

153078 A book with more than 500 pages Dead Ice (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #24) by Laurell K. Hamilton

A classic romance

A book that became a movie

A book published this year Day Shift (Midnight, Texas, #2) by Charlaine Harris

A book with a number in the title

A book written by someone under 30 Not That Kind of Girl A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" by Lena Dunham

A book with non-human characters

A funny book How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

A book by a female author Death and the Girl Next Door (Darklight #1) by Darynda Jones

A mystery or thriller Murder is Binding (A Booktown Mystery, #1) by Lorna Barrett

A book with a one-word title Room by Emma Donoghue

A book of short stories Shifting Shadows Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson by Patricia Briggs

A book set in a different country (from which you live) Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

A non-fiction book The Family Romanov Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming

A popular author’s first book Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1) by Jim Butcher

A book from an author you love that you haven’t read yet A Sudden Light by Garth Stein

A book a friend recommended The Other Wes Moore One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore

A Pulitzer Prize-winning book

A book based on a true story A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs

A book at the bottom of your to-read list

A book your mom loves Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling

A book that scares you

A book more than 100 years old

A book based entirely on its cover Atlantia by Ally Condie

A book you were supposed to read in high school, but didn’t

A memoir Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg

A book you can finish in a day

A book with antonyms in the title

A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling

A book that came out the year you were born

A book with bad reviews Confessions of a Sociopath A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M.E. Thomas

*A trilogy (First) Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy, #1) by Mira Grant

*A trilogy (Second) Deadline (Newsflesh Trilogy, #2) by Mira Grant

*A trilogy (Third) Blackout (Newsflesh Trilogy, #3) by Mira Grant

A book from your childhood

A book with a love triangle

A book set in the future The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

A book set in high school Beautiful by Amy Reed

A book with a color in the title

A book that made you cry Wild From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

A book with magic Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling

A graphic novel

A book by an author you’ve never read before What If by Rebecca Donovan

A book you own but have never read The Hobbit (Middle-Earth Universe) by J.R.R. Tolkien

A book that takes place in your hometown The Witch With No Name (The Hollows, #13) by Kim Harrison

A book that was originally written in a different language

A book set during Christmas

A book written by an author with your same initials

A play

A banned book

A book based on or turned into a TV show Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3) by Jeff Lindsay

A book you started but never finished Lord of Misrule (The Morganville Vampires, #5) by Rachel Caine