2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

I'll probably end up changing some of these a lot, and I'm leaving quite a few open because I find I read better with the element of surprise.

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WEEKS & TOPICS
1. a book with more than 500 pages:
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann

2. a romance:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. a book that became a movie:
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

4. a book published this year:
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King

5. a book with a number in the title:
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

6. a book written by someone under 30:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

7. a book with nonhuman characters:
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

8. a funny book:
The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett

9. a book by a female author:
Captive Prince: Volume One by C.S. Pacat

10. a mystery or thriller:
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

11. a book with a one-word title:
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

12. a book of short stories:
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel

13. a book set in a different country:
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

14. a nonfiction book:
Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze by M.G. Sheftall

15. a popular author's first book:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet:
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst

17. a book a friend recommended:
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

19. a book based on a true story:
Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert Graves

20. a book at the bottom of your to read list:
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant

21. a book your mom loves:
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

22. a book that scares you:
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates

23. a book more than 100 years old:
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

24. a book based entirely on its cover:
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

26. a memoir:
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin

27. a book you can finish in a day:
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

28. a book with antonyms in the title:
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt

29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit:
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

30. a book that came out the year you were born:
Contact by Carl Sagan

31. a book with bad reviews:
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

32. a trilogy (the first):
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

33. a trilogy (the second):
Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

34. a trilogy (the third):
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

35. a book from your childhood:
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

36. a book with a love triangle:
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

37. a book set in the future:
Wool by Hugh Howey

38. a book set in high school:
Carrie by Stephen King

39. a book with a color in the title:
Black Seas of Infinity: The Best of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft

40. a book that made/makes you cry:
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

41. a book with magic:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

42. a graphic novel:
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg

43. a book by an author you've never read before:
The City and the City by China Mieville

44. a book you own but have never read:
The Martian by Andy Weir

45. a book that takes place in your hometown:
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland

46. a book that was originally written in another language:
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday):
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

48. a book written by an author with your same initials:
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

49. a play:
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

50. a banned book:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show:
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

52. a book you started but never finished:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My plan changes from day to day :P You have a great plan so far, though. :)

And finished! With a few hours to spare! I started out being ahead in this challenge but due to a demanding schedule that appeared, my reading was stopped in its tracks! I had a hectic time catching up and almost didn't make it. But, I switched out some longer books for shorter ones and was able to complete it.

Feels good!

I really enjoyed this challenge, but I think I need a break year to just read a pile of Discworld books to relax. Maybe in 2017 I'll give it another go!

Congrats :)

Have fun with your 2016 books!