Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

There may be another Marilyn, but I'm certain there isn't another Marqueen so this makes it easier for me to find my list. Hope I don't confuse people.

The 2017 List
1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
The Woman in White
The Moonstone
3. A book you meant to read in 2016
Booked for Trouble by Eva Gates
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
Much Ado About Nothing
5. A historical fiction -
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 -
The Mountain Between Us
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
The Red Pony
Old Yeller
The Yearling
Freddy's Cousin Weedly
A Likely Story
Better Off Thread
Writing All Wrongs
Better Late Than Never
8. A book written by a person of color
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
10. A dual-timeline novel
Orphan Train
11. A category from another challenge - Sci Fi classic
The War of the Worlds
12. A book based on a myth
Runemarks
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
The Little White Horse
14. A book with a strong female character
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Taming of the Shrew
Island of the Blue Dolphins
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Hedda Gabler
16. A mystery
Death in Reel Time
Dead in a Flash
A Second Chance at Murder
The 39 Steps
White Corridor: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
Death Among the Doilies
No Charm Intended
The Vanishing Thief
17. A book with illustrations
The Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
Aesop's Fables
The Canterville Ghost
The Complete Persepolis
18. A really long book (600+ pages)
Inkspell
19. A New York Times best-seller
Lake Wobegone Days
The Help
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
Dragonflight
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
Death Comes to London
Death in Dark Blue
Doom with a View
Deadly Forecast
Sense of Deception
A Grave Prediction
A Panicked Premonition
Fatal Fortune
22. A book by an author you haven't read before
A Doll's House
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Magic Faraway Tree
24. A book written by at least two authors
Good Omens
25. A book about a famous historical figure
The Golden Millstones; Napoleon's Brothers and Sisters
26. An adventure book
Kidnapped
Heart of Darkness
Kim
My Side of the Mountain
Swallows and Amazons
27. A book by one of your favorite authors
The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber
Rose Harbor in Bloom also by Macomber
28. A non-fiction
Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America
The Habit: A History of the Clothing of Catholic Nuns
Unveiled : The Hidden Lives of Nuns
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Giver
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre - Agatha Christie mysteries
The Secret of Chimneys
Three Blind Mice: A Short Story
Crooked House
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Murder at the Vicarage
The Body in the Library
The Moving Finger
A Murder Is Announced
They Do It with Mirrors
A Pocket Full of Rye
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
A Caribbean Mystery
At Bertram's Hotel: A Miss Marple Mystery
Nemesis
Sleeping Murder
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Evil Under the Sun
After the Funeral
The Clocks
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
All's Well That Ends Well
At the Back of the North Wind
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Importance of Being Earnest
33. A magical realism novel
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret by Eve Haas
King Lear
The Tempest
King John
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link)
Pebble in the Sky
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Starship Troopers
Rendevous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
37. A book you choose randomly
Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir by Penelope Lively
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin (Aenid)
39. An epistolary fiction
The Color Purple
40. A book published in 2017
Death of a Ghost
Of Books and Bagpipes
Every Body on Deck
41. A book with an unreliable narrator
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)
The Graveyard Book
A Discovery of Witches
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) Coraline
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
Dante's Inferno
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
45. A book with a one-word title
Othello
Tartuffe
46. A time travel novel
The Time Traveler's Wife
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
47. A past suggestion that didn't win - a book set in your home (state) Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Ghost Towns: Uncovering the Hidden Past
48. A banned book
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Merchant of Venice
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
The Past Life Perspective: Discovering Your True Nature Across Multiple Lifetimes
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
Wide Sargasso Sea
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
52. A book set in a fictional location
The Little Prince
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A Wrinkle in Time
Howl's Moving Castle

Are you going to read all the books? Impressive list.

Claire wrote: "Are you going to read all the books? Impressive list."

Those are the books I am considering for this challenge. In 2016, I am working on 4 different challenges: Ukazoo bookstore, Baltimore County Public Library, the Ultimate Popsugar, and at least one book from at least one author for each of the 50 states. In many cases I read more than the one book required for the prompt and I did not use any book more than once between the four challenges. I am currently at 310 books for the year and I think I will finish the first three challenges on time. I may have to read a few books for the Authors/State in 2017 before I can begin that one again. I will also be doing Popsugar again along with this one in 2017. Ukazoo may not post one this year because they lost their current building and are in the process of moving to new quarters. The library has not announced a new one yet. Those were both 12 books each.

Impressive!

So I have completed three of my 2016 challenges as of today: Ultimate Popsugar, Baltimore County Public Library, and Ukazoo bookstore. I did not start the 50 States/50 Authors until Feb 1st 2016 so I am giving myself until Jan 31st 2017 to complete the three books I still need to read for Montana, New Mexico, and Tennessee. I do have all three books. Since I did NOT use any book for more than one prompt nor for more than one challenge AND I did read more than one book for many of the prompts I don't feel the least bit badly about not completing those three books yet. I read 325 books in 2016.

For 2017, in addition to this ATY challenge I am doing the Ultimate Popsugar, the 50 States/50 Authors again, the Books and Chocolate Classics Challenge, and the Jane Austen Challenge at NBRC on Goodreads with no book used for more than one prompt among the five challenges.

I am also attempting to read all of Shakespeare's works in one year.

Happy New Reading Year to one and all !!!

Update on progress (18 Dec 2017) I still need to read

9. The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
12. Runemarks
18. Inkspell
20. Dragonflight
24. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
25. A book about Napoleon
34. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

I have all of those at this time.

I have finished the Jane Austen challenge. I have two of Shakespeare's poems to read. I still need 4 books for the Ultimate Popsugar challenge and a few for my 50 States/50 Authors challenge. I have read about 420 books so far this year.

OMG - that is a lot of books!

Merry Christmas! I finished The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections In Natural History, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, and Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage!

I am currently reading Runemarks. I still need to read Inkspell, Dragonflight, and a book about Napoleon plus complete this Reading Challenges.

So it's Dragonflight on Saturday and a book about Napoleon on Sunday and I will be FINISHED !!!

Congratulations! 🎉