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message 1: by Emily (last edited Dec 06, 2016 04:22PM) (new)

Emily | 1 comments 1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) - A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
3. A book you meant to read in 2016 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" - Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
5. A historical fiction - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - The Circle by Dave Eggers
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
8. A book written by a person of color - The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list - The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
10. A dual-timeline novel - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
11. A category from another challenge - A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke (2016 Book Riot challenge - a book under 100 pages)
12. A book based on a myth - The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors - Summerland by Michael Chabon (recommended on Neil Gaiman's blog)
14. A book with a strong female character - My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) - The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell
16. A mystery - Murder at the ABA by Isaac Asimov
17. A book with illustrations - Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
18. A really long book (600+ pages) - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
19. A New York Times best-seller - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading - It's Superman! by Tom De Haven
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read - A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
22. A book by an author you haven't read before - Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link) - The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
24. A book written by at least two authors - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
25. A book about a famous historical figure - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
26. An adventure book - The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
27. A book by one of your favorite authors - Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
28. A non-fiction - New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link) - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre - TBD
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) - Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington
33. A magical realism novel - Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere - Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty - The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link) - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
37. A book you choose randomly - The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature - March by Geraldine Brooks
39. An epistolary fiction - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
40. A book published in 2017 - TBD
41. A book with an unreliable narrator - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link) - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
45. A book with a one-word title - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
46. A time travel novel - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link) - The Mothers by Brit Bennett (a book with a family member in the title)
48. A banned book - Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf - TBD
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition - A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) - Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World ed. by Claudia Roth Pierpont
52. A book set in a fictional location - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan


message 2: by Zaz (new)

Zaz | 2969 comments I'm currently watching the new TV show Dirk Gently, so I'm curious about the book. I'm not sure I'll read it in 2017 but I'll be interested in your opinion.
Many good books in your plan you'll have fun :)


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