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congratulations !! This is a great list :D
Congrats Joy! What are you reading for the rest of the year?
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Sophie wrote: "Congrats Joy! What are you reading for the rest of the year?"I'm reading the Harry Potter series with my daughter, I am in two book clubs, and I have a student writing a paper about Pillars of the Earth, which I was hoping to read in 2016, but has now gotten a major bump up the list!
Zaz wrote: "Congrats! What is your favorite? :)"Wow, I'm not sure that's even a fair question. I wouldn't want to hurt any poor book's feelings. :-)
I would have to say, though, that I enjoyed some of the historical fiction selections the most; Lion of Ireland, Red Strangers, and March are probably my top three.
Thanks, Everyone! It was truly the positive energy of this amazing group that motivated me so much.
1. A book with more than 500 pages: Middlemarch by George Eliot
2. A classic romance: Candide by Voltaire
3. A book that became a movie: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
4. A book published this year: Orphan Number Eight by Kim van Alkemade
5. A book with a number in the title: American Boys: The True Story of the Lost 74 of the Vietnam War by Louise Esola
6. A book written by someone under 30: Dragon Sword and Wind Child by Ogiwara Noriko
7. A book with nonhuman characters: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
8. A funny book: Confessions of a Jane Austin Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
9. A book by a female author: Sisterchicks on the Loose by Robin Jones Gunn
10. A mystery or thriller: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
11. A book with a one-word title: Obasan by Joy Kogawa
12. A book of short stories: Monkey: The Journey West by Wu Cheg'en and Arthur Waley
13. A book set in a different country: Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crighton
14. A nonfiction book: A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
15. A popular author’s first book: Murphy by Samuel Beckett
16. A book from an author you love that you haven’t read yet: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessey by Rachel Joyce
17. A book a friend recommended: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
18. A Pulitzer Prize-winning Book: March by Geraldine Brooks
19. A book based on a true story: Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn
20. A book at the bottom of your to-read list: Martin Eden by Jack London
21. A book your mom loves: The Book of Ruth
22. A book that scares you: An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
23. A book more than 100 years old: The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
24. A book based entirely on its cover: Alexandrian Summer by Yitzhak Gormenzano Goren
25. A book you were supposed to read in school but didn’t: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
26. A memoir: Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home by Boyd Varty
27. A book you can finish in a day: Accident: A Day's News by Christa Wolf
28. A book with antonyms in the title: The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London
29. A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit: Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter
30. A book that came out the year you were born: Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander Key
31. A book with bad reviews: Allegheny Dream by Lisa Harris
32. A trilogy: The Borrowers by Mary Norton 1, 2, 3
33. A book from your childhood: Once Upon a Summer by Janette Oke
34. A book with a love triangle: The Game by A.S. Byatt
35. A book set in the future: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
36. A book set in high school: The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian
37. A book with a color in the title: Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley
38. A book that made you cry: The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
39. A book with magic: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
40. A graphic novel: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - Classics Illustrated
41. A book by an author you’ve never read before: The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
42. A book you own but have never read: The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
43. A book that takes place in your hometown: An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
44. A book that was originally written in a different language: I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabil
45. A book set during Christmas: Village School by Miss Read
46. A book written by an author with your same initials: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
47. A play: The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill
48. A banned book: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
49. A book based on or turned into a TV Show: Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
50. A book you started but never finished: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle and Peter Gillis