#TheReadingQuest discussion

Please post your recommendations for the BARD quest here, these are books that fit into the following challenges:

- Book with a movie/TV adaptation
- Book with striking typography on the cover
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Book Translated from Another Language
- Banned/Challenged Books

For a Book Translated from Another Language: See the strategy guide image on Twitter.



Top row:
- I'll Be Right There
- The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic
- Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
- The Book of Heroes
- Notes of a Crocodile
- Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature
- Terra Nova: An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Science Fiction.

Bottom row:
- Man Tiger
- Night of the Milky Way Railway
- Noli Me Tángere
- Damascus Nights
- Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
- Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
- Real World

I hope these help!

Book with a movie/TV adaptation
— The Giver
Book with striking typography on the cover
— Of Fire and Stars
Fairy Tale Retelling
— The Secrets of Eden
Book Translated from Another Language
— Dragon Sword and Wind Child
Banned/Challenged Books
— Beloved

If anyone has any recs for a book with striking typography on the cover, I'd appreciate it! I'm not 100% sold on Of Fire and Stars.

skadoosh wrote: "If anyone has any recs for a book with striking typography on the cover, I'd appreciate it!"

For a book with striking typography on the cover - some of my favourites:
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (YA contemporary)
- Alif the Unseen (Fantasy)
- Juliet Takes a Breath (YA/NA contemporary)
- Sorcerer to the Crown (Historical fantasy)
- The Young Elites (YA fantasy)
- Not Your Sidekick (YA SFF)

*Also, all by marginalised authors. I hope these help!

Thank you!

Below are some suggestions for a BARD TBR, I will also be working from this list for #TheReadingChallenge. Enjoy :)

A book that has a TV/movie adaption
• Twilight Tenth Anniversary/ Life And Death Dual Edition - Cheating a little bit, but I think it still counts
• Confessions of a Shopaholic
• Stardust

A fairy tale retelling
• Heartless
• Cinder
• Crimson Bound

A book cover with striking typography
• Shadow Scale
• Shadow and Bone
• The Future of Us

A book translated from another language
• A Man Called Ove
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
• Kafka on the Shore

A banned book
• The Golden Compass
• Ender's Game
• Animal Farm

- Book with a movie/TV adaptation: the Shelf Movies has got many books listed that fit the task.

Some more suggestions in various genres for those who are stuck!

A book that has a TV/movie adaption
The 5th Wave
The Martian
The Princess Diaries
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Everything, Everything *marginalised author

A fairy tale retelling
The Seafarer's Kiss *marginalised author
Strings
The Sleeper and the Spindle
Ash *marginalised author
A Curse Dark as Gold

A book cover with striking typography
Maresi
To All the Boys I've Loved Before *marginalised author
Through the Woods *marginalised author
Daughter of the Pirate King
Gold

A book translated from another language
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Beartown
The Game: The Valley
The Book Jumper
The Circle

A banned book
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood *marginalised author
Saga, Vol. 1
The Kite Runner *marginalised author
George *marginalised author

I gave recs for the tv/movie adaptions and the banned books in the knights and rouges pages!

Fairytale retellings:
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Striking typography:
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Translated:
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If I finish the Rogue's path, I plan to read these books for the Bard's path:

TV/film adaptation - Adulthood Rites (SF - This is book 2 of the Xenogenesis trilogy, Book 1 is Dawn. The Xenogenesis story is being adapted by Ava Duvernay into a film.)

Fairytale retelling - Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling (Fantasy)

Striking typography - Binti or Lagoon (SF)

Translated - A Wild Sheep Chase, The Rabbit Back Literature Society or The Three-Body Problem

Banned book - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Graphic novel memoir)

*All the books except The Rabbit Back Literature Society are by marginalised authors.

skadoosh wrote: "Book with a movie/TV adaptation
— The Giver
Book with striking typography on the cover
— Of Fire and Stars
Fairy Tale Retelling
— The Secrets of Eden
..."

Of the options for striking typography, I was highly impressed by Binti by Nnedi Okorafor, Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera, and Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, all by marginalised authors.