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Yearly Challenge

Challenge #1: NO. OF BOOKS TO READ IN 2016
Duration: Jan. 1, 2016 - Dec. 31, 2016

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6/20

Yearly Challenge

Challenge #2: AROUND THE WORLD IN BOOKS
Duration: Jan. 1, 2016 - Dec. 31, 2016

Read books written by authors from as many different countries as you can. The authors can have either been born there or lived there.

Algeria
by Albert Camus

Australia
by Graeme Simsion

Colombia
by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Czech Republic
by Franz Kafka

France
by W. Somerset Maugham

India
by George Orwell

UK
by Charlotte Brontë

USA
by Jared Diamond


4/8

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Yearly Challenge

Challenge #3: LET'S TURN PAGES
Duration: Jan. 1, 2016 - Dec. 31, 2016

1. Make a goal of number of pages you would like to read.
2. Read as many pages as you can in one year.
3. Since you probably don’t know what you want to read for the entire year, make your list as you go. (Be sure to post the number of pages in your book!)

If your edition doesn't have page numbers (such as an audiobook), use the most popular edition of the book (that's not an audiobook) to determine what the number of pages should be. Rereads will count for this challenge, but you have to read the entire book…no skimming!

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - 312 pages
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - 201 pages
The Rosie Project - 304 pages
The Stranger - 123 pages
The Little Prince - 98 pages
Animal Farm - 102 pages

1140/9000

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Yearly Challenge

Challenge #4: A TO Z CHALLENGE -- CHARACTER EDITION
Duration: Jan. 1, 2016 - Dec. 31, 2016

Playing off of our I-Spy “Book Title” edition, we are introducing the A to Z Challenge “Character Edition.” Read a book with a character to fit for each letter of the alphabet. You can use the first letters of character’s first or last name. You may only use one character per book, and you may use memoirs/biographies/autobiographies for this challenge.

A: Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird
B: Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice
C: Carl Yastrzemski from Fenway: An Unexpurgated History of the Boston Red Sox
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E: Elizabeth Gilbert from Eat, Pray, Love
F: Florentino Ariza from Love in the Time of Cholera
G: Gregor Samsa from The Metamorphosis
H: Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye
I:
J: Jane Eyre from Jane Eyre
K: Anna Karenina from Anna Karenina
L:
M: Meursault from The Stranger
N:
O: Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind
P: Philip Carey from Of Human Bondage
Q: The Queen of Heart from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories
R: Rosie from The Rosie Project
S: Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol
T: Tom Brady from Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion
U:
V: Vivien Leigh from Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait
W: George Washington from Washington: A Life
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3/26

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Quarterly Challenge

GROUP READS CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2016

For this challenge, we're going to read old group reads! This challenge was brought back at the suggestion of several members of the group.

1. Check out the list of all past group reads
2. Decide how many you'd like to read this quarter
3. Read!
4. Tell us what you thought of them in this thread.


1. by Jonas Jonasson
2. by Graeme Simsion
3. by Erin Morgenstern


1/3

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Yearly Challenge

Challenge #5: FAMOUS PEOPLE CHALLENGE
Duration: Jan. 1, 2016 - Dec. 31, 2016

I always want to read books about famous Pisceans (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20). Why? Because I'm a Piscean myself. From my stacks of TBR books, I'm going to read four books on the most out of the most well-known Pisceans. One book per quarter.

Q1 (Jan. 1 - Mar. 31, 2016): It's all about INVENTION & TECHNOLOGY
by Walter Isaacson
Birthday: February 24, 1955

Q2 (Apr. 1 - Jun. 30, 2016): It's all about SCIENCE & DISCOVERY
by Walter Isaacson
Birthday: March 14, 1879

Q3 (Jul. 1 - Sept. 30, 2016): It's all about LEADING & PRESIDENCY
by Ron Chernow
Birthday: February 22, 1732

Q4 (Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 2016): It's all about MUSIC & BEAUTY
by Frédéric Chopin
Birthday: March 1, 1810