Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

Here are my challenges for 2016!

2016 Colorful Covers Challenge

Red Cover


Orange Cover


Yellow Cover


Green Cover


Blue Cover


Purple Cover


Pink Cover


Black Cover


White Cover


Gray Cover


Brown Cover


Colorful Cover

2016 A-Z Challenge

A - All the Birds in the Sky
B - Bad Feminist
C - The Circle
D - The Dream Thieves
E - Every Heart a Doorway
F - Fledgling
G - The Girl Wakes
H - A History of Glitter and Blood
I - Indexing: Reflections
J - The Just City
K - Kindred Spirits
L - Landline
M - My Brilliant Friend
N - Nimona
O - The Obelisk Gate
P - The Passion
Q - The Quick
R - The Rook
S - The Story of the Lost Child
T - Trigger Warning
U - The Underground Girls of Kabul
V - The Vegetarian
W - We Should All Be Feminists
X -
Y - Yes, Chef
Z -

2016 Popsugar Reading Challenge

✓ A book based on a fairy tale - Reflections
⌷ A national book award winner - Salvage the Bones
✓ A YA best seller - Everything, Everything
⌷ A book you haven’t read since high school
⌷ A book set in your home state -
✓ A book translated to English - My Brilliant Friend
⌷ A romance set in the future
⌷ A book set in Europe
✓ A book that’s under 150 pages - Death My Own Way
⌷ A New York Times best seller
⌷ A book that’s becoming a movie this year
⌷ A book recommended by someone you just met
⌷ A self improvement book
✓ A book you can finish in one day - Kindred Spirits
✓ A book written by a celebrity - Why Not Me?
⌷ A political memoir
⌷ A book at least 100 years older than you
✓ A book that’s more than 600 pages - The Wise Man's Fear
⌷ A book from Oprah’s Book Club
⌷ A science fiction nover
⌷ A book recommended by a family member
✓ A graphic novel - Through the Woods
✓ A book that is published in 2016 - Mr. Splitfoot
⌷ A book with a protagonist that has your occupation
⌷ A book that takes place during Summer
⌷ A book and its prequel
⌷ A murder mystery
✓ A book written by a comedian - Bossypants
⌷ A dystopian novel
⌷ A book with a blue cover
⌷ A book of poetry
⌷ The first book you see in a bookstore
⌷ A classic from the 20th century
⌷ A book from the library
✓ An autobiography - Yes, Chef
⌷ A book about a road trip
⌷ A book about a culture you’re unfamiliar with
⌷ A satirical book
⌷ A book that takes place on an island
⌷ A book that’s guaranteed to bring you joy

2016 New Releases Challenge

✓ 1. All the Birds in the Sky
✓ 2. Marked in Flesh
✓ 3. Every Heart a Doorway
✓ 4. Mr. Splitfoot
✓ 5. Kindred Spirits
✓ 6. Reflections
✓ 7. Roses and Rot
✓ 8. A Court of Mist and Fury
9.
10.

2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Reading Challenge

✓ Between the World and Me
✓ Saga, Volume 4
✓ The Girl on the Train
✓ The Mime Order
✓ Vision in Silver
✓ Carry On
✓ A Court of Thorns and Roses
✓ Six of Crows
✓ Alice
✓ The Heart Goes Last
✓ Magic Shifts
✓ The Fifth Season
✓ The Library at Mount Char
✓ Modern Romance
✓ Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
✓ Why Not Me?
✓ The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 2: Fandemonium
✓ Nimona
The Buried Giant
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Book Riot Read Harder 2016 Challenge

✓ 1. Read a horror book
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
✓ 2. Read a nonfiction book about science
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
✓ 3. Read a collection of essays
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
✓ 4. Read a book out loud to someone else
✓ 5. Read a middle-grade novel
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
✓ 6. Read a biography (not memoir or autobiography)
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
✓ 7. Read a dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
✓ 8. Read a book originally published in the decade you were born (1980's)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
✓ 9. Listen to an audiobook that has won an Audie Award
Bossypants by Tina Fey
✓ 10. Read a book over 500 pages long
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
✓ 11. Read a book under 100 pages
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
✓ 12. Read a book by or about a person that identifies as transgender
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
✓ 13. Read a book set in the Middle East
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg
✓ 14. Read a book by an author from Southeast Asia
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
✓ 15. Read an historical fiction book set before 1900
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
✓ 16. Read the first book in a series by a person of color
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
✓ 17. Read a non-superhero comic that debuted in the past three years
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
✓ 18. Read a book that was adapted into a movie, then watch the movie. Debate which is better.
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
✓ 19. Read a nonfiction book about feminism or dealing with feminist themes
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✓ 20. Read a book about religion (fiction or nonfiction)
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
✓ 21. Read a book about politics, in your country or another (fiction or nonfiction)
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
✓ 22. Read a food memoir
Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
✓ 23. Read a play
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
✓ 24. Read a book with a main character that has a mental illness
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

#BustleReads Challenge 2016
(although I'm noticing that this overlaps a lot with last year's Book Riot challenge...and a bunch of other challenges...according to the list, they actually did this on purpose, but maybe that'll make it easier to finish. Although it's not a high priority for me compared to the other challenges.)

1. Read a book written by a woman under 25.
2. Read a book on non-Western history.
✓ 3. Read a book of essays.

4. Read a book about an indigenous culture.
5. Read a book before you see the movie
6. Read a YA book by an author of color
7. Read a book set in the Middle East
8. Read a book about women in war
✓ 9. Read a graphic novel written by a woman

✓ 10. Read a book about an immigrant or refugee to the US

11. Read a children's book out loud
12. Reread your favorite book from childhood
13. Read a memoir from someone who identifies as LGBTQIA
✓ 14. Read a work of post-apocalyptic fiction written by a woman

✓ 15. Read a feminist sci-fi novel

✓ 16. Read the first book in a series you've never read

17. Read a book set in Africa by an author from Africa
18. Read a book in translation
19. Read a contemporary collection of poetry
✓ 20. Read a book by a modernist woman writer

Good luck! Lots of good titles and fun ideas already, can't wait to see your other picks. Happy reading!

Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Challenge 2016

✓ 1. The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
✓ 2. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.