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12+ Classics Challenge8/12
5+ Translated Fiction Challenge6/5
(French, Russian, Russian, Italian, Spanish [Argentina], Chinese)
6+ Nonfiction Challenge11/6
30+ ReadWomen Challenge34/30
1. *Mary Ann Shaffer (& Annie Barrows) - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
2. *Helen Macdonald - H is for Hawk (NF)
3. *Emma Jane Kirby - The Optician of Lampedusa (NF)
4. *Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda (Illustrator) - Monstress, Vol. 1, Vol. 2 (Comics)
5. Catherynne M. Valente - Radiance , The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
6. *Rosalind Miles - Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World (NF)
7. *Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
8. *Jessie Burton - The Muse
9. *Erika Swyler - The Book of Speculation
10. *Valerie Martin - Property
11. *Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child
12. Naomi Novik - Uprooted
13. *Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
14. *Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
15. *Zadie Smith - White Teeth, Swing Time
16. *Margot Lee Shetterly - Hidden Figures (NF)
17. *Laini Taylor - The Daughter of Smoke & Bone Trilogy
18. *Kiran Millwood Hargrave - The Girl of Ink and Stars
19. *Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
20. Becky Chambers - A Closed and Common Orbit
21. *Andrea Wulf - The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (NF)
22. *Naomi Alderman - The Power
23. *Hanya Yanagihara - The People in the Trees
24. *Mariana Enríquez - Things We Lost in the Fire
25. *Angie Thomas - The Hate U Give
26. *Sarah J. Maas - Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms
27. *bell hooks - Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (NF)
28. *Jane Corry - Blood Sisters
29. *Elizabeth Kolbert - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (NF)
30. Robert Galbraith [aka J.K Rowling] - The Silkworm, Career of Evil
31. *Katherine Arden - The Bear and the Nightingale
32. *Sarah Waters - The Paying Guests
33. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should All Be Feminists (NF)
34. Hannah Kent - The Good People
*Also fit into my 'New Authors Challenge'
30 + New Authors Challenge40/30
1. Paul Beatty - The Sellout
2. *Mary Ann Shaffer (& Annie Barrows) - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
3. *Helen Macdonald - H is for Hawk (NF)
4. *Emma Jane Kirby - The Optician of Lampedusa (NF)
5. *Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda (Illustrator) - Monstress, Vol. 1, Vol. 2 (Comics)
6. *Rosalind Miles - Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World
7. *Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
8. *Jessie Burton - The Muse
9. *Erika Swyler - The Book of Speculation
10. Barack Obama - Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
11. Peter S. Beagle - The Last Unicorn
12. *Valerie Martin - Property
13. *Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child
14. *Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
15. *Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
16. *Zadie Smith - White Teeth, Swing Time
17. *Margot Lee Shetterly - Hidden Figures (NF)
18. Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
19. *Laini Taylor - The Daughter of Smoke & Bone Trilogy
20. Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
21. *Kiran Millwood Hargrave - The Girl of Ink and Stars
22. *Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
23. *Andrea Wulf - The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (NF)
24. *Naomi Alderman - The Power
25. *Hanya Yanagihara - The People in the Trees
26. *Mariana Enríquez - Things We Lost in the Fire
27. *Angie Thomas - The Hate U Give
28. *Sarah J. Maas - Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms
29. *bell hooks - Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (NF)
30. *Jane Corry - Blood Sisters
31. Tim Whitmarsh - Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World
32. Stephen Gregory - The Cormorant
33. Pu Songling - Wailing Ghosts
34. *Elizabeth Kolbert - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (NF)
35. *Katherine Arden - The Bear and the Nightingale
36. Dave Eggers - Heroes of the Frontier
37. *Sarah Waters - The Paying Guests
38. Sylvain Neuvel - Sleeping Giants
39. John Grisham - Skipping Christmas
40. Lin-Manuel Miranda (& Jeremy McCarter) - Hamilton: The Revolution (NF)
*Also part of my Read Women challenge
20 + Bookshelf Challenge (books owned prior to 2017)20/20
1. The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Purchased 2016)
2. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Christmas present 2016)
3. Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente (Purchased 2016)
4. Who Cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles (Gifted 2016)
5. The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler (Purchased 2016)
6. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (Purchased 2016)
7. Property by Valerie Martin (Purchased 2015)
8. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (Purchased 2012)
9. The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (Purchased 2014)
10. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (Purchased 2016)
11. The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov (Purchased 2014)
12. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino (Acquired 2015)
13. The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara (Purchased 2015)
14. The Cormorant by Stephen Gregory (Purchased 2014)
15. Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling (Purchased 2015)
16. The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan (Purchased 2016)
17. The Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan (Purchased 2016)
18. Demigods and Magicians by Rick Riordan (Purchased 2016)
19. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (Purchased 2015)
20. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Purchased 2015)
Around the World in 80 Books Challenge (Fiction only 2012-?)38 Countries Visited
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1. England: Kraken by China Miéville
2. India: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry read 2016
3. USA: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Denmark: We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen
5. *Wales: The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart (English)
6. *Italy: The Undrowned Child by Michelle Lovric (British, living in Italy)
7. Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]: War With the Newts by Karel Čapek
8. Scotland: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
9. France: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo read 2013
10. Russia: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
11. Greece: Seven Lives and One Great Love, Memories of a Cat by Lena Divani read 2014
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12. China: Death Of A Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
13. *Germany: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Australian)
14. Sweden: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
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15. *Iceland: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Australian)
16. Faroe Islands: The Old Man and His Sons by Heðin Brú
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17. South Korea: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang
18. New Zealand: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
19. Nigeria: Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (Nigerian American)
20. Algeria: The Plague by Albert Camus
21. Poland: Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall
22. Taiwan: The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi
23. Tasmania [Australia]: The Hunter by Julia Leigh
24. Ukraine: A Matter Of Death And Life by Andrey Kurkov
25. Iraq: The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
26. *Spain: All Men Are Liars by Alberto Manguel (Argentine-Canadian)
27. Finland: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
28. *The Netherlands: The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas (French)
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29. *†Malaysia: A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (English-Australian) - Joint setting of Malaya (pre establishment of Malaysia) and Australia
30. Japan: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
31. †Dominica: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - joint setting Dominica and Jamaica
32. Ireland: The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
33. *†Tanzania: Shame by Melanie Finn (Kenyan/American) - joint setting of Switzerland
34. *†Egypt: Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar (Libyan) - set partly in Switzerland/UK
35. *Brazil: Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey (American - lived in Brazil)
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36. *The Chanel Islands: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (American)
37.†Ghana: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi -joint setting Ghana and America
38. Argentina: Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez
* Author does not come from said country. May later be replaced by author who does.
† Only half of book set in said country. May later be replaced by book set entirely there.
Around the World in 80 Books - Non-Fiction Edition! (2016-?)
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1. Egypt: The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt by Gene Kritsky
2. United Kingdom: Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
3. Afghanistan: The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
4. Venezuela: Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
5. USA: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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6. Italy [Lampedusa]: The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma Jane Kirby
7. Greece: Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh
Boring Stats!New Books/Rereads: 74/1*
*The Rook
New Authors/Previously Read: 40/16*
*(view spoiler)
Fiction/Non-Fiction: 64/11
Books/Comics (Fiction): 58/6
Standalone/Series (Fiction): 34/29*
*(view spoiler)
Female Authored Books/Male Authored Books: 44/31
Female Authors/Male Authors (Fiction): 26/19
Female Authors/Male Authors (Non-Fiction): 8/3
New Female Authors/New Male Authors: 28/12
Most Read Authors:
Sarah J. Maas (5)
Rick Riordan (5)
Ben Aaronovitch (4)
Laini Taylor (3)
Mikhail Bulgakov (2)
Robert Galbraith [AKA J.K. Rowling] (2)
Marjorie M. Liu (2)
Daniel O'Malley (2)
Zadie Smith (2)
Catherynne M. Valente (2)
New Series Started: 6
Monstress (Comic)
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Throne of Glass
The Book of Dust
Winternight
Themis Files
Series Finished: 4
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Fairyland
Magnus Chase (probably)
The Kane Chronicles
Upcoming series releases: lots
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