Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016- perhaps Nutshell by Ian McEwan-197p. or Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda-288p.
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)- perhaps The Nose by Nikolai Gogol- 50p.- or Rites of Passage by William Golding- 1001 list
3. A book you meant to read in 2016- perhaps Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
✔4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"- Roxana by Daniel Defoe
5. A historical fiction
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - probably Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette- 134p.
✔7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title- Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
8. A book written by a person of color
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list- perhaps Cuba and the Night by Pico Iyer- 256p.- or The End of the Affair- by Graham Greene-192p.1001 list
10. A dual-timeline novel
11. A category from another challenge
12. A book based on a myth- perhaps The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen-128p- Welch
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
✔14. A book with a strong female character- August Is A Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen-122p.
16. A mystery
17. A book with illustrations
18. A really long book (600+ pages)- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
19. A New York Times best-seller
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read- Lucia on Holiday by Guy Fraser-Sampson
22. A book by an author you haven't read before
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)- perhaps- All Quiet on the Western Front or The Wasp Factory or The Diary of a Nobody or Wuthering Heights or Far from the Madding Crowd
24. A book written by at least two authors- perhaps The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
25. A book about a famous historical figure- The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
26. An adventure book- perhaps The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
27. A book by one of your favorite authors-John Barth? Jean Rhys? Edith Wharton?
28. A non-fiction
✔29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions- The Woman Who Wouldn't by Gene Wilder- St. Martin's Press
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)- perhaps The Giver by Lois Lowry or The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
✔33. A magical realism novel- If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link)- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
37. A book you choose randomly
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature- So Sad Today by Melissa Broder- based on Cathcer in the Rye
39. An epistolary fiction- perhaps The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
40. A book published in 2017
✔41. A book with an unreliable narrator- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)- perhaps The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini or
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" - perhaps Passing by Nella Larsen-122p.-1001 list or Orlando by Virginia Woolf-228p-1001 list
45. A book with a one-word title
46. A time travel novel- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link)
48. A banned book- perhaps Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss or Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe-1001 list
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition- perhaps A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) - The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
52. A book set in a fictional location

1/52- Completed week #41

2/52 & 3/52

Completed Weeks 7 & 41.

Completed weeks 4 & 29..so that 4 of 52 and 5 of 52.

Completed Week #14...that's 6/52

My progress as of June 29, 2017:
43/52
✔ 1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016- Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple) points of view)- book: The Nose|19106] by Nikolai Gogol or Rites of Passage by William Golding
✔3. A book you meant to read in 2016- Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
✔ 4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"- Roxana by Daniel Defoe
✔5. A historical fiction- When the Tree Sings by Stratis Haviaras
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie(same as Pop Sugar #37) or Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette
✔7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title- Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
✔8. A book written by a person of color- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
✔9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
10. A dual-timeline novel- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (CD)- same as PS #33
✔11. A category from another challenge- Unlikely Friendships : 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom by Jennifer S. Holland
12. A book based on a myth- (same as Pop Sugar week #52)- The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors- perhaps The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers by Moritz Thomsen- recommended by Paul Theroux
✔14. A book with a strong female character- August Is A Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
✔15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
✔16. A mystery- The Book of Evidence by John Banville
✔17. A book with illustrations- The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons by Russ Kick
✔18. A really long book (600+ pages)- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
✔19. A New York Times best-seller- Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
✔20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading-Ulysses by James Joyce
✔21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
✔22. A book by an author you haven't read before-Road Story by Julienne van Loon
✔23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" - Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
✔24. A book written by at least two authors- Lionboy by Zizou Corder which is actually a psedonym for 2 people
✔25. A book about a famous historical figure- The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
✔26. An adventure book- The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
✔27. A book by one of your favorite authors- Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
28. A non-fiction- perhaps Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film by Patton Oswalt
✔29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions- The Woman Who Wouldn't by Gene Wilder- St. Martin's Press
✔30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
✔31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre- perhaps The Passion by Jeanette Winterson- historiographic metafiction- a subgenre of historic fiction
✔32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)- The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda
✔33. A magical realism novel-If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
✔34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere- Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee- if I read another book for this week, I can switch this to week #2.
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty- perhaps The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain or The Nightingale Gallery by Paul Doherty- or maybe Lionboy- if not used in weeks 24 or 26- King of Bulgaria.
✔36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
✔37. A book you choose randomly- perhaps Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
✔38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature- Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List by Weldon Thornton
✔39. An epistolary fiction- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
✔40. A book published in 2017-perhaps Big Book of Who: Baseball: The 101 Stars Every Fan Needs to Know by The Editors of Sports Illustrated Kids
✔41. A book with an unreliable narrator- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)- Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss -#89 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7... list
✔43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)- The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)- Passing by Nella Larsen or Orlando by Virginia Woolf
✔45. A book with a one-word title- Nemesis by Philip Roth
✔46. A time travel novel- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
✔47. A past suggestion that didn't win - A script (play or TV or movie)- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
✔48. A banned book- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
✔49. A book from someone else's bookshelf- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks- on Valerie Brown's TBR shelf
✔50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition- Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
✔51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) - The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
✔52. A book set in a fictional location - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

I'm almost done:

50/52
✔ 1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016- Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
✔2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple) points of view)- book: Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz
✔3. A book you meant to read in 2016- Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
✔ 4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"- Roxana by Daniel Defoe
✔5. A historical fiction- When the Tree Sings by Stratis Haviaras
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie(same as Pop Sugar #37) or Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette
✔7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title- Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
✔8. A book written by a person of color- [book[author:Chris Bohjalian|3509]:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier|43015] by Ishmael Beah
✔9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
✔10. A dual-timeline novel- The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm
✔11. A category from another challenge- Unlikely Friendships : 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom by Jennifer S. Holland
✔12. A book based on a myth- The White Steamship by Chingiz Aitmatov
✔13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors- The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers by Moritz Thomsen- recommended by Paul Theroux
✔14. A book with a strong female character- August Is A Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
✔15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
✔16. A mystery- The Book of Evidence by John Banville
✔17. A book with illustrations- The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons by Russ Kick
✔18. A really long book (600+ pages)- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
✔19. A New York Times best-seller- Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
✔20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading-Ulysses by James Joyce
✔21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
✔22. A book by an author you haven't read before-Road Story by Julienne van Loon
✔23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" - Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
✔24. A book written by at least two authors- Lionboy by Zizou Corder which is actually a psedonym for 2 people
✔25. A book about a famous historical figure- The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
✔26. An adventure book- The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
✔27. A book by one of your favorite authors- Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
✔28. A non-fiction- perhaps Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film by Patton Oswalt
✔29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions- The Woman Who Wouldn't by Gene Wilder- St. Martin's Press
✔30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
✔31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre- perhaps The Passion by Jeanette Winterson- historiographic metafiction- a subgenre of historic fiction
✔32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)- The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda
✔33. A magical realism novel-If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
✔34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere- Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee- if I read another book for this week, I can switch this to week #2.
✔35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty- Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
✔36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
✔37. A book you choose randomly- perhaps Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
✔38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature- Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List by Weldon Thornton
✔39. An epistolary fiction- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
✔40. A book published in 2017-perhaps Big Book of Who: Baseball: The 101 Stars Every Fan Needs to Know by The Editors of Sports Illustrated Kids
✔41. A book with an unreliable narrator- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)- Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss -#89 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7... list
✔43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)- The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo
✔44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)- Passing by Nella Larsen
✔45. A book with a one-word title- Nemesis by Philip Roth
✔46. A time travel novel- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
✔47. A past suggestion that didn't win - A script (play or TV or movie)- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
✔48. A banned book- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
✔49. A book from someone else's bookshelf- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks- on Valerie Brown's TBR shelf
✔50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition- Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
✔51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) - The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
✔52. A book set in a fictional location - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

I finished!

52/52
✔ 1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016- Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
✔2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple) points of view)- book: Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz
✔3. A book you meant to read in 2016- Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
✔ 4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"- Roxana by Daniel Defoe
✔5. A historical fiction- When the Tree Sings by Stratis Haviaras
✔︎6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie(same as Pop Sugar #37) or Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette
✔7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title- Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
✔8. A book written by a person of color- [book[author:Chris Bohjalian|3509]:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier|43015] by Ishmael Beah
✔9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
✔10. A dual-timeline novel- The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm
✔11. A category from another challenge- Unlikely Friendships : 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom by Jennifer S. Holland
✔12. A book based on a myth- The White Steamship by Chingiz Aitmatov
✔13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors- The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers by Moritz Thomsen- recommended by Paul Theroux
✔14. A book with a strong female character- August Is A Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
✔15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
✔16. A mystery- The Book of Evidence by John Banville
✔17. A book with illustrations- The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons by Russ Kick
✔18. A really long book (600+ pages)- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
✔19. A New York Times best-seller- Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
✔20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading-Ulysses by James Joyce
✔21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
✔22. A book by an author you haven't read before-Road Story by Julienne van Loon
✔23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" - Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
✔24. A book written by at least two authors- Lionboy by Zizou Corder which is actually a psedonym for 2 people
✔25. A book about a famous historical figure- The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
✔26. An adventure book- The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
✔27. A book by one of your favorite authors- Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
✔28. A non-fiction- perhaps Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film by Patton Oswalt
✔29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions- The Woman Who Wouldn't by Gene Wilder- St. Martin's Press
✔30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
✔31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre- perhaps The Passion by Jeanette Winterson- historiographic metafiction- a subgenre of historic fiction
✔32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)- The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda
✔33. A magical realism novel-If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
✔34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere- Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee- if I read another book for this week, I can switch this to week #2.
✔35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty- Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
✔36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
✔37. A book you choose randomly- perhaps Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
✔38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature- Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List by Weldon Thornton
✔39. An epistolary fiction- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
✔40. A book published in 2017-perhaps Big Book of Who: Baseball: The 101 Stars Every Fan Needs to Know by The Editors of Sports Illustrated Kids
✔41. A book with an unreliable narrator- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
✔42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7... list
✔43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)- The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo
✔44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)- Passing by Nella Larsen
✔45. A book with a one-word title- Nemesis by Philip Roth
✔46. A time travel novel- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
✔47. A past suggestion that didn't win - A script (play or TV or movie)- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
✔48. A banned book- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
✔49. A book from someone else's bookshelf- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks- on Valerie Brown's TBR shelf
✔50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition- Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
✔51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) - The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
✔52. A book set in a fictional location - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Congrats :)

WTG, Ed!