Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Hey everyone!
Looking forward to trying out this reading challenge. I've been having a hard time getting into my books lately, so hopefully this will help motivate me to get my butt in gear! My TBR list is waaay too long...

1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Had the change this one. I was originally reading Red Moon but I just could not get into it.

3. A book you meant to read in 2016
Willful Child by Steven Erikson

4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey

5. A historical fiction
The Hippopotamus Marsh by Pauline Gedge

6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
Promise of the Wolves by Dorothy Hearst

8. A book written by a person of color
The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
Killing Floor by Lee Child

10. A dual-timeline novel
The Twelve by Justin Cronin

11. A category from another challenge
From the 2015 Popsugar Reading Challenge "A book with nonhuman characters"
The Sable Quean by Brian Jacques

12. A book based on a myth
The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M. Harris

13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett

14. A book with a strong female character
Andromeda's Fall by William C. Dietz

15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
The Bat by Jo Nesbø

16. A mystery
Night Passage by Robert B. Parker

17. A book with illustrations
Low, Volume 1: The Delirium of Hope by Rick Remender

18. A really long book (600+ pages)
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson

19. A New York Times best-seller
Night Broken by Patricia Briggs

20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas

21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley

22. A book by an author you haven't read before
Amped by Daniel H. Wilson

23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list
River God by Wilbur Smith

24. A book written by at least two authors
Havemercy by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett

25. A book about a famous historical figure
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

26. An adventure book
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
This one has a high possibility of changing. A lot of the books on my TBR list can be classified as an adventure book.

27. A book by one of your favorite authors
The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher

28. A non-fiction
Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles by Rescue Ink

29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions
The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milán

30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima

31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
Fantasy - Military Fantasy
Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook

32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong

33. A magical realism novel
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
Subterranean by James Rollins

35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
Shadow Prowler by Alexey Pehov

36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link)
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

37. A book you choose randomly
The Mirror Prince by Violette Malan

38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

39. An epistolary fiction
S. by J.J. Abrams

40. A book published in 2017
The Black Elfstone by Terry Brooks
This one can also change. I'm a few books behind in this series and there may be another book that comes out that catches my eye a little more.

41. A book with an unreliable narrator
Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker

42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker

44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next"
Forging the Darksword by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

45. A book with a one-word title
Ferals by Jacob Grey

46. A time travel novel
Timeline by Michael Crichton

47. A past suggestion that didn't win
"A book about an advanced technology"
The Eye of Minds by James Dashner

48. A banned book
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
Cinder by Marissa Meyer

50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
Heroes in the Wind: From Kull to Conan by Robert E. Howard

51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

52. A book set in a fictional location
The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust

Great list!

You've got a couple of my favourites on here! Timeline, The Da Vinci Code, Ready Player One and The Warded Man are all great! I hope you enjoy them!

That said, although The Warded Man is aweome, I've found the series progressively going downhill with each book (I've read up to book 3). So far it's still good enough that I want to read the fourth, but the series has lost a lot of potential it had starting out in book 1.

You're also reading a few that I have on my list, so I'll be interested in seeing what you think about them: The Dinosaur Lords, and The Expanse series.

I also read The Aeronaut's Windlass this year and absolutely hated it!! I see you've got it down as a book by one of your favourite authors. It's the first book I've read by Jim Butcher and was really disappointed - maybe I just didn't pick a good book to start with of his, Are there any you'd recommend by him? I'd like to give him another chance because I've heard really good things about his books in general.

Peter wrote: "Great list!

You've got a couple of my favourites on here! Timeline, The Da Vinci Code, Ready Player One and The Warded Man are all great! I hop..."

Yeah, I've heard that about Demon Cycle series. But even if it's just the first book that's really good, I think it will be worth it.

I've heard mixed reviews about The Aeronaut's Windlass. But I absolutely love the Dresden Files, his urban fantasy series, so at this point I'll give anything he writes a try. Those are ones I'd absolutely recommend. The first book, Storm Front, can take a bit to get into, but the series is definitely worth it. One of the things I like about it most is small events from the earlier books come to fruition in later books. So pay attention to the small details! They'll be important later.