Challenges from Exploding Steamboats discussion

Post your reading plans here and check off the prompts as you complete them. Remember, you can change your plans at any time; just remember your post # and come back in to edit it.

[X] A self-published book - Agent to the Stars
[Xxxx] A book about a haunted building - The House of Shattered Wings, The Plague Court Murders, Murder in G Major, Poe
[Xxxxxxxxxxx] An illustrated children’s book - Unlovable, Dragon of the Red Dawn, Alabaster Shadows, Pippi Longstocking, Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal, On The Wings Of A Butterfly: A Story About Life And Death, The Big Orange Splot, Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads, Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind, Who Is Coming to Our House?, The King of the Golden River; Or, The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria
[X] A book with a key on the cover - Untitled
[Xx] A book with the word “Girl” in the title - I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, The Girl with Ghost Eyes
[Xx] A story told from a non-human POV - The Book Thief, Who Is Coming to Our House?
[Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] An award-winning book - Uprooted, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Color Purple, The House of Shattered Wings, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Signal to Noise, Murder in G Major, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, All the Birds in the Sky, The Book Thief, Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal, The Schwa Was Here, The Ballad of Black Tom, Poe, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, A Game of Thrones, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, The Girl with Ghost Eyes, Red Glass
[Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] A book with a woman on the cover - Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: The Book, Uprooted, The Steampunk Tarot, Planetfall, Giants' Bread, Boudoirs to Brothels: The Intimate World of Wild West Women, Promises, Promises, Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box, The Dark Days Club, Passing Strange, A Gathering of Shadows, Shutter, Vol. 1: Wanderlost, Murder at the Male Revue, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Girl with Ghost Eyes, French Milk, Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind
[Xx] A book by a medical professional - Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, Murder in G Major
[X] A book about a sheriff - Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads
[Xxxxx] A book with a cat on the cover - File M for Murder, 2017 Fifth Annual Battle of the Bards Poetry Contest: Winning Entries, Shutter, Vol. 1: Wanderlost, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Who Is Coming to Our House?
[X] A book featuring a bookstore - In The Dead of Winter
[X] A book set in a retirement community - Murder in Retirement
[X] A book set on another planet - Planetfall
[X] A book you haven’t read since high school - Winnie-the-Pooh
[Xx] A political memoir - Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
[X] A book at least 100 years older than you - The King of the Golden River; Or, The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria
[ ] A book from Oprah’s Book Club
[Xxxxx] A book recommended by a family member - Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Pippi Longstocking, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Big Orange Splot, Winnie-the-Pooh
[Xx] A book with a protagonist who has your occupation - Murder in G Major, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
[X] The first book you see in a bookstore - Born a Crime
[Xxx] A book about a road trip - Promises, Promises, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Red Glass

Well, the sheriff book, family recom and first book I saw will be easy. I'll have to think about other books, but this is a fun idea!

[ x] An illustrated children’s book - Rotten Island
[x ] A book about a sheriff - The Cold Dish
[x] Award winning book - The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet
[x ] A book recommended by a family member - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
[X ] A book with a protagonist who has your occupation - Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods
[x ] The first book you see in a bookstore - Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 1
[ ] A book by a medical doctor - Audio version (When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden StressGabor Mate')
[ x] A book with a woman on the cover - Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast
[x ] A story told from a non-human POV - Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection
[x ] A self-published book - Vile: Legends of Thunder Valley

[ ] A self-published book
[ X] A book about a haunted building - Crimson Peak: The Art of Darkness
[ X] An illustrated children’s book - The Secret of the Mansion
[ ] A book with a key on the cover
[X ] A book with the word “Girl” in the title - The Girl Before
[ X] A story told from a non-human POV - The Ninth Life
[ X] An award-winning book - Burial Rites
[ X] A book with a woman on the cover -The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
[X ] A book by a medical professional -A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
[X ] A book about a sheriff -Haunted
[X ] A book with a cat on the cover -File M for Murder

[X ] A book featuring a bookstore - The Cracked Spine
[X ] A book set in a retirement community -The Green Mile
[ ] A book set on another planet
[ ] A book you haven’t read since high school
[ ] A political memoir
[X ] A book at least 100 years older than you - The Three Musketeers: BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama
[X ] A book from Oprah’s Book Club -Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
[ ] A book recommended by a family member
[X ] A book with a protagonist who has your occupation - Colin the Librarian: The Chronicles of Ancient Threa - Volume 3 or Maybe 4
[ ] The first book you see in a bookstore
[X ] A book about a road trip - The Red Trailer MysteryBurial Rites

[X] A self-published book - Onyx Webb: Book Nine: Episodes 25, 26, 27 & 28
[X] A book about a haunted building - Hell House
[X] An illustrated children’s book - She Persisted
[X] A book with a key on the cover - The Dead Key
[X] A book with the word “Girl” in the title - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
[X] A story told from a non-human POV - Redwall
[X] An award-winning book - Starship Troopers
[X] A book with a woman on the cover - Etched in Bone
[X] A book by a medical doctor - The Surgeon
[X] A book about a sheriff - The Red Church
[X] A book with a cat on the cover - The Wind Through the Keyhole

[X] A book featuring a bookstore - Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries
[X] A book set in a retirement community - The Last Stop
[X] A book set on another planet - Red Rising
[X] A book you haven’t read since high school - 1984
[X] A political memoir - Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
[X] A book at least 100 years older than you - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
[X] A book with a protagonist who has your occupation - Stillhouse Lake
[X] A book from Oprah’s Book Club - The Pillars of the Earth
[X] A book recommended by a family member - The Wolf's Boy recommended by my 13yo son
[X] The first book you see in a bookstore - The Winter People
[X] A book about a road trip - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Updated description: I've gone through and removed my planned books, instead replacing with ones that actually count. I'm doing my own interpretation of some of the topics so as to use books currently on my TBR shelf as opposed to buying new ones.

[X] A self-published book
* The Tiniest Vampire (and other silly things)
[ ] A book about a haunted building
[X] An illustrated children’s book
* The Stonekeeper
[X] A book with a key on the cover
* The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
[X] A book with the word “Girl” in the title
* The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion
* The Girl With All the Gifts
[X] A story told from a non-human POV
* Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
[X] An award-winning book
* In the Woods (Edgar, Barry, Macavity, and Anthony awards)
* The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
* Cemetery Girl
[X] A book with a woman on the cover
* Brain on Fire
* Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal?"
* Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
[X] A book by a medical doctor
* Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple
* The Brain That Changes Itself
[ ] A book about a sheriff
[X] A book with a cat on the cover
* Cats and the People They Own
[ ] A book featuring a bookstore
[ ] A book set in a retirement community
[ ] A book set on another planet
[X] A book you haven’t read since high school
* Brave New World
[ ] A political memoir
[X] A book at least 100 years older than you
* Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite (This translation was originally published in 1978, but the memoirs themselves are from the mid-1800s, so I’m counting it.)
* Beowulf
[X] A book from Oprah’s Book Club
* Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail
[X] A book recommended by a family member
* I, Robot
* Mona Lisa Overdrive
[ ] A book with a protagonist who has your occupation
[ ] The first book you see in a bookstore
[ ] A book about a road trip

[x] A book about a haunted building Sweet Tea and Spirits
[x] A book with the word “Girl” in the title The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
[x] A story told from a non-human POV The Automatic Detective
[x] An award-winning book All the Light We Cannot See, Lincoln in the Bardo
[x ] A book with a woman on the cover Secret Daughter

[ ] A book featuring a bookstore
[ ] A book you haven’t read since high school
[x] A book recommended by a family member You, Hidden Bodies

I don't think I know how to set up a bookshelf. My plan: read whatever I want to read and then see if it fits a category, although I may look at the categories to see if any of them suggest something new to read. I'm not a very fast reader but my plan is to read 36 books this year since I didn't make 48 last year. I only read 30. If I don't HAVE to finish a book, I might be able to do the 36.

[ ] A self-published book
[X ] A book about a haunted building Lovecraft Country
[ ] An illustrated children’s book
[ ] A book with a key on the cover
[ ] A book with the word “Girl” in the title
[ ] A story told from a non-human POV
[X ] An award-winning book--The Sellout by Paul Beatty, winner of the Booker Prize.
[] A book with a woman on the cover -
[ ] A book by a medical professional
[ ] A book about a sheriff
[ ] A book with a cat on the cover

[ ] A book featuring a bookstore -
[ ] A book set in a retirement community -
[ ] A book set on another planet -
[ ] A book you haven’t read since high school
[ ] A political memoir
[ ] A book at least 100 years older than you
[ ] A book from Oprah’s Book Club
[ ] A book recommended by a family member
[ ] A book with a protagonist who has your occupation
[ ] The first book you see in a bookstore
[ ] A book about a road trip
So far I've read an award winning book: The Sellout by Paul Beatty which won the Booker Prize.

Lovecraft Country would have fit in more than one category so I may have to move it to another one later, depending on what else I read.

I said I would aim for 17 books. Let’s see if I can make it

[X ] A self-published book Building Better Babies
[ ] A book about a haunted building
[X] An illustrated children’s book - Little Critter's This is My Friend
[] A book with a key on the cover -
[ ] A book with the word “Girl” in the title
[ ] A story told from a non-human POV
[] An award-winning book -
[Xxxxx] A book with a woman on the cover - Dust, The Dark Lady, The Notorious RBG, Ragnarok, The Right Words at the Right Time, Vanishing Point, Skylark, Death at Epsom Downs, Murder They Wrote, Sarah Plain and Tall, I Married Adventure, Southampton Row, Mrs. Jeffries Turns the Tide
[X ] A book by a medical professional-- Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
[ ] A book about a sheriff
[Xxxxx] A book with a cat on the cover - Bedtime Stories for Cats, Cat, Skylark, Southampton Row

[ x] A book featuring a bookstore - The Shadow of the Wibd
[ ] A book set in a retirement community -
[X] A book set on another planet - The Dark Lady
[ ] A book you haven’t read since high school
[ x] A political memoir -- Long Walk to Freedom
[X ] A book at least 100 years older than you -- Journey to the Center of the Earth
[ ] A book from Oprah’s Book Club
[ ] A book recommended by a family member
[X ] A book with a protagonist who has your occupation -- Defending Jacob
[] The first book you see in a bookstore
[X ] A book about a road trip -- A Fez of the Heart