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The PopSugar Challenge - Twenty Fifteen

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THE LIST

1. A book with more than 500 pages
2. A classic romance The Great Gatsby
3. A book that became a movie The Silver Linings Playbook Currently Reading
4. A book published this - 2015- year ( I'd do this one mid year!)
5. A book you can finish in a day
6. A book with antonyms in the title Big Little Lies
7. A book set somewhere you have always wanted to travel The Paris Wife
8. A book with a number in the title One Plus One
9. A book written by someone under 30 years of age
10. A book with non human characters
11. A funny book I've Got Your Number or Remember Me? or Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores
12. A book written by a female P.S. I Love You Completed 1/29
13. Mystery or thriller
14. A book with a one worded title Fangirl
15. A book of short stories
16. A book set in a different country
17. Nonfiction
18. A popular author's first book The Kite Runner
19. A book from an author you love but haven't read yet The Wedding Completed 2/3
20. A book a friend recommended
21. Pulitzer Prize winning book To Kill a Mockingbird Completed 2/9
22. Based on a true story
23. A book on the bottom of your To-Be-Read list! ( GET DIGGIN!) - All the Light We Cannot See Completed 1/15
24. A book your mom loves
25. A book that scares you
26. A book that is over 100 years old ( first published at least 100 years ago)
27. A book based entirely on its cover (Judge that book!)
28. A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't ( if you don't know, try checking out a high schoolers to read list or lists on goodreads!)
29. Memoir The Diary of a Young Girl Completed 1/22
30. A book that came out the year you were born A Fine Balance
31. A book with bad reviews
32. A trilogy The Hunger Games Completed 2/17 , Catching Fire and Mockingjay
33. A book from your childhood The Notebook
34. A book with a love triangle
35. A book set in the future Station Eleven
36. A book set in high school The Perks of Being a Wallflower
37. A book with a color in the title
38. A book that made you cry Before I Go
39. A book with magic
40. A graphic novel Watchmen
41. A book by an author you've never read before Everything I Never Told You Completed 1/5
42. A book you own but have never read The Alchemist
43. A book that takes place in your hometown Moth Smoke
44. A book that was originally written in a different language Kafka on the Shore Completed 3/1
45. A play Hamlet
46. A banned book Lord of the Flies
47. A book set during Christmas
48. A book written by an author with the same initials The Shock of the Fall
49. A book based on/or turned into a Television show Outlander
50. A book you started but never finished I Am Pilgrim

And lets add a little C&B into it:
51. A book from the C&B shelf you never read The Princess Bride
52. A book from the C&B old challenge list ( can be any challenge, any list, any genre)
53. A book from a Book-Buddy read The Darkest Minds Completed 1/9
54. One of the first ten books C&B ever read- Go to the bookshelf and click on the date added tab to switch it to the first added reads! It's Kind of a Funny Story
55. Finish a challenge from 2015 and add as many books that you finished in that one to this list!



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2nd Annual Hoarders Challenge - Twenty Fifteen

3/8
1. A book that has been on your TBR list the longest All the Light We Cannot See Completed 1/15
2. Book from a physical stash somewhere in your house: The Kite Runner
3. Book you got for free To Kill a Mockingbird Completed 2/9
4. Book you gave up on but promised to try again and finish this time: I Am Pilgrim
5. Book recommended by a friend Kafka on the Shore Completed 3/1
6. Book from BOM selection you missed
7. Book from a series you abandoned The Lost Symbol
8. Book classic you got and never opened

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Third Annual Classics Challenge - Twenty

2/5
Stage One
Read 1-5 classic books
1. To Kill a Mockingbird February 9th, 2015
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Anna Karenina
4. Hamlet April 24th, 2015
5. Frankenstein

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The First Annual Hemingway Challenge - Twenty Fifteen

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Hemingway's List

“The Blue Hotel” by Stephen Crane
“The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Hail and Farewell by George Moore
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Oxford Book of English Verse
The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson
The American by Henry James

Added -
A Farewell To Arms by Hemingway
With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba by Arnold Samuelson

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Perks of Being a Wallflower

2/13
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The books are:
The Catcher in the Rye
The Fountainhead
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet April 24th, 2015
Naked Lunch
On the Road
Peter Pan
A Separate Peace
The Stranger
This Side of Paradise
To Kill a Mockingbird Completed February 9th, 2015
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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February 2015 Challenge

3/8
A book with a red or pink cover Catching Fire
A book about love The Silver Linings Playbook
A romance novel The Wedding 2/3
A book over 500 pages Kafka on the Shore
A book written by a female To Kill a Mockingbird 2/9
A book with white writing (not background) The Hunger Games 2/17
A book that starts with "F" Forbidden
A book from a lover (or friend!) The Notebook

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March 2015 Challenge


Goal ≥ 1500 Pages

Currently Reading
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Books Read
Book: Kafka on the Shore
Pages: 615
Points: 2
Read on March, 1.

Book: The Silver Linings Playbook
Pages: 289
Points: 1
Read on March, 2.

Book: Slammed
Pages: 315
Points: 1
Read on March, 4.

Book: Point of Retreat
Pages: 215
Points: 1
Read on March, 6.

Book: This Girl
Pages: 304
Points: 1
Read on March, 7.

Book: Fangirl
Pages: 445
Points: 1
Read on March, 11.

Book: Bridget Jones's Diary
Pages: 271
Points: 1
Read on March, 15.

Book: Catching Fire
Pages: 405
Points: 1
Read on March, 17.

Book: Mockingjay
Pages: 400
Points: 1
Read on March, 18.

Book: Anna and the French Kiss
Pages: 372
Points: 1
Read on March, 20.

Book: I'll Give You the Sun
Pages: 371
Points: 1
Read on March, 28.
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Totals
Total pages: 4,002
Total books: 11
Total points: 12

Candy Collector

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May 2015: April Showers, May Flowers

C - Confess by Colleen Hoover May 4th
A - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
M - Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid Currently Reading
E - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
L - The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes May 2nd
L - The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
I - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
A - Arsen: A Broken Love Story by Mia Asher

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