2015 Reading List Challenge (Adapted for my own needs and interests)

1.     A
book that became a movie

Raymond
Chandler, The Big Sleep

2.     A
book with a one-word title

Jeff
VanderMeer,  Annihilation

3.     A
book of short stories

Laura
van den Berg, The Isle of Youth

4.     A
book from a small press

Jared
Yates Sexton, The Hook and the Haymaker

5.     A
book based on a true story

Truman
Capote, In Cold Blood

6.     A
book more than 100 years old

Emily
Brönte, Wuthering Heights

7.     A
book based entirely on its cover

Duane Swierczynski, Canary

8.     A
book you’ve pretended to read

Homer, The Odyssey

9.     A
book you can finish in a day

Justin
Torres, We the Animals

10.  A
book in translation

César
Aira, Shantytown

11.  A
graphic novel

Scott
McCloud, The Sculptor

12.  A
book you own but have never read

Emily St. John Mandel, Station
Eleven

13.  A
play

David
Mamet, Speed-the-Plow

14.  A
banned book

Vladimir
Nabokov, Lolita

15.  A
book you previously started but never finished

Dashiell
Hammett, Maltese Falcon

16.  A
Pulitzer Prize-winning book

Jennifer
Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

17.  A
book by a Nobel Prize-winner

Alice
Munro, Family Furnishings

18.  A
book by an author you’ve never heard of

Leonard
Gardner, Fat City

19.  A
book written by an author under 30

Anthony
Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

20.  A
book written by an author over 70

Elizabeth
Spencer, Starting Over

21.  A
book of poetry

Sharon
Olds,  Stag’s Leap

22.  A
young adult book

Laurie
Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of
Memory

23.  A
bestseller

Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

24.  A
book with a color in the title

Walter
Mosley, White Butterfly

25.  A
book that came out the year you were born

Renata
Adler, Speedboat