2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

★ 52/52 tasks completed ★


✔ 1. a book with more than 500 pages - Shift by Hugh Howey
✔ 2. a classic romance - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
✔ 3. a book that became a movie - The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
✔ 4. a book published this year - Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
✔ 5. a book with a number in the title - Second Stage Lensmen by E.E. "Doc" Smith
✔ 6. a book written by someone under 30 - Eragon by Christopher Paolini
✔ 7. a book with nonhuman characters - Hyperion by Dan Simmons
✔ 8. a funny book - Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
✔ 9. a book by a female author - Fire by Kristin Cashore
✔ 10. a mystery or thriller - A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
✔ 11. a book with a one-word title - Triplanetary by E.E. "Doc" Smith
✔ 12. a book of short stories - The Baen Big Book of Monsters by Hank Davis
✔ 13. a book set in a different country - Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
✔ 14. a nonfiction book - How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor by Ernie J. Zelinski
✔ 15. a popular author's first book - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
✔ 16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet - The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
✔ 17. a book a friend recommended - The Deaths of Tao by Wesley Chu
✔ 18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
✔ 19. a book based on a true story - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
✔ 20. a book at the bottom of your to read list - Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist
✔ 21. a book your mom loves - Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
✔ 22. a book that scares you - Deadline by Mira Grant
✔ 23. a book more than 100 years old - Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
✔ 24. a book based entirely on its cover - Winter Queen by Amber Argyle
✔ 25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
✔ 26. a memoir - Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise by Wil Wheaton
✔ 27. a book you can finish in a day - Lessons Learned by Nora Roberts
✔ 28. a book with antonyms in the title - Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
✔ 29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit - The Likeness by Tana French
✔ 30. a book that came out the year you were born - The Once and Future King by T.H. White
✔ 31. a book with bad reviews - Lightspeed Magazine, September 2014 by John Joseph Adams
✔ 32. a trilogy (Book 1) - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
✔ 33. a trilogy (Book 2) - Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
✔ 34. a trilogy (Book 3) - Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb
✔ 35. a book from your childhood - Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
✔ 36. a book with a love triangle - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
✔ 37. a book set in the future - Cinder by Marissa Meyer
✔ 38. a book set in high school - Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
✔ 39. a book with a color in the title - Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
✔ 40. a book that made/makes you cry - Mistress of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist
✔ 41. a book with magic - Blood Magick by Nora Roberts
✔ 42. a graphic novel - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
✔ 43. a book by an author you've never read before - Among Others by Jo Walton
✔ 44. a book you own but have never read - Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb
✔ 45. a book that takes place in your hometown - Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
✔ 46. a book that was originally written in another language - The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
✔ 47. a book set during Christmas - Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch
✔ 48. a book written by an author with your same initials - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
✔ 49. a play -The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
✔ 50. a banned book - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
✔ 51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show - Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey
✔ 52. a book you started but never finished - Galactic Patrol by E.E. "Doc" Smith

You're off to a really good start. :-)

Good luck with the rest of the challenge.

LOVE Discovery of Witches and that whole trilogy

Gillian Flynn's novels are all so good. I kept wishing I hadn't already read them when I was creating my own list. Sharp Objects and Dark Places are significantly darker than Gone Girl but so amazing. I Hope you enjoy them!