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Around the year in 52 booksI will try to do all the challenges. For some I have more than one book, so that I can decide in the year.
1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
3. A book you meant to read in 2016
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
5. A historical fiction
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
8. A book written by a person of color
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
10. A dual-timeline novel
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
11. A category from another challenge - A book with a subtitle (Popsugar Reading Challenge)
12. A book based on a myth
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors - recommended by Stephen King
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
14. A book with a strong female character
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
16. A mystery
17. A book with illustrations
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban illustrated edition
18. A really long book (600+ pages)
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
The Blinding Knife - Brent Weeks
22. A book by an author you haven't read before
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
24. A book written by at least two authors
25. A book about a famous historical figure
Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
26. An adventure book
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick
27. A book by one of your favorite authors
28. A non-fiction
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre)
Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff (Bloomsbury)
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books
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
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
The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
37. A book you choose randomly
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood
39. An epistolary fiction
40. A book published in 2017
41. A book with an unreliable narrator
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next"
Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind
45. A book with a one-word title
46. A time travel novel
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (A bok with a royal rank in the title)
King's Cage - Victoria Aveyard
48. A banned book
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
White Noise - Don DeLillo
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
52. A book set in a fictional location
TBR Randomiser ChallengeI tried this last year with 10 books and did not finish. This year I will choose 20 books, but will only try to read 10 to 15. Let's see how this works.
1. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
2. Nora Webster - Colm Tóibín
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5. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
6. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
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8. The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee
9. The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
10. Bis ich dich finde - John Irving
11. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
12. The Paper Magician - Charlie N. Holmberg
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15. Breaking News - Frank Schätzing
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19. The Rose & the Dagger - Renee Ahdieh
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I will first try to read 26 books.
31/26
1. A book recommended by a librarian
2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long
The Winner's Curse - Marie Rutkoski
3. A book of letters
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. An audiobook
Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo
5. A book by a person of color
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title
7. A book that is a story within a story
Misery - Stephen King
8. A book with multiple authors
Gemina - Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
9. An espionage thriller
10. A book with a cat on the cover
11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - fairytales
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability
14. A book involving travel
The Big Four - Agatha Christie
15. A book with a subtitle
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between - Lauren Graham
16. A book that's published in 2017
Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor
17. A book involving a mythical creature
The Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
19. A book about food
20. A book with career advice
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective
22. A steampunk novel
23. A book with a red spine
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
24. A book set in the wilderness
25. A book you loved as a child
26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited - Australia
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
27. A book with a title that's a character's name
It - Stephen King
28. A novel set during wartime
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
29. A book with an unreliable narrator
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
30. A book with pictures
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you
Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
32. A book about an interesting woman
I Know I Am, But What Are You? - Samantha Bee
33. A book set in two different time periods
The Girls - Emma Cline
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title
35. A book set in a hotel
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
36. A book written by someone you admire
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
39. The first book in a series you haven't read before
The Kiss of Deception - Mary E. Pearson
40. A book you bought on a trip (London)
The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber
Advanced
1. A book recommended by an author you love
2. A bestseller from 2016
Before the Fall - Noah Hawley
3. A book with a family member term in the title
4. A book that takes place over a character's life span
5. A book about an immigrant or refugee
6. A book from a genre/subgenre you've never heard of
Seveneves - Neal Stephenson - Hard SciFi
7. A book with an eccentric character
8. A book that's more than 800 pages
Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb
9. A book you got from a used book sale
10. A book that's been mentioned in another book
11. A book about a difficult topic
Night - Elie Wiesel
12. A book based on mythology
American Gods - Neil Gaiman