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I'll be doing book riot's read harder challenges - both the 2015 and 2016 versions. I can have overlap between these and other challenges, but not between the 2 years.Book Riot 2015
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1. A book written by someone when they were under the age of 25
2. A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65
3. A collection of short stories (either by one person or an anthology by many people)
4. A book published by an indie press
5. A book by or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ
6. A book by a person whose gender is different from your own
7. A book that takes place in Asia
8. A book by an author from Africa
9. A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture (Native Americans, Aboriginals, etc.)
10. A microhistory
11. A YA novel
12. A sci-fi novel
13. A romance novel
14. A National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade
15. A book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.)
16. An audiobook
17. A collection of poetry
18. A book that someone else has recommended to you
19. A book that was originally published in another language
20. A graphic novel, a graphic memoir or a collection of comics of any kind (Hi, have you met Panels?)
21. A book that you would consider a guilty pleasure (Read, and then realize that good entertainment is nothing to feel guilty over)
22. A book published before 1850
23. A book published this year
24. A self-improvement book (can be traditionally or non-traditionally considered “self-improvement”)
Book Riot 2016
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1. A Horror Book
2. A Nonfiction book about science
3. A Collection of Essays
4. Read a book out loud to someone else
5. Read a middle grade novel
6. Read a biography
7. Read a dystopian or post-apolyptic novel
8. Read a book originally published in the decade you were born (1980s)
9. Listen to an audiobook that has won an Audie Award
10. Read a book over 500 pp long
11. Read a book under 100 pp long
12. Read a book by or about a person who identifies as trangender.
13. Read a book that is set in the Middle East
14. Read a book that is by an author from Southeast Asia
15. Read a book of historical fiction set before 1900.
16. Read the first book in a series by a person of colour
17. Read a non-superhero comic that debuted in the last 3 years.
18. Read a book that was adapted into a movie then watch the movie. Debate which is better.
19. Read a nonfiction book about feminism or dealing with a feminist theme.
20. Read a book about religion (fiction or nonfiction.)
21. Read a book about politics, in your country or another (fiction or nonfiction.)
22. Read a food memoir.
23. Read a play.
24. Read a book with a main character that has a mental illness.
Decade ChallengeThere are 22 decades here, but I'm going to aim for 10.
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1800-1809
1810-1819
1820-1829
1830-1839
1840-1849
1850-1859
1860-1869
1870-1879
1880-1889
1890-1899
1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1930-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-2016
Alphabet Soup Challenge I'm aiming to do at least 20 of these. Based on titles excluding "A" and "The".
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A - Ada's Algorithm
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E - Euphoria
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N - Nimona
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W - Wives and Daughters
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Z -
TBR CHALLENGE- Will run all year.
- Books included must be owned by the member (in physical or electronic form) BEFORE Jan. 1, 2016
- Four Levels of 5 books each
I'm aiming for at least 10 non-romance books, and I'm sure I'll read at least 10 Romances.
Level One (5 TBR books) = List Tickler
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Level Two (10 TBR books) = List Tamer
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Level Three (15 TBR books) = Captain of the Shelf
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Level Four (20 TBR books) = Master of All Dust Bunnies
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Dance of Book Joy ensues!
Also any book marked with a star on another post, I already owned.
Award Winners ChallengeI'm looking to complete the 2nd level.
- The goal is to read books that have won an award. Any award is eligible, but see below for a list to help get you started.
- This is a year-long challenge.
- It can be completed more than once in the year.
- 4 levels are possible, for a total of 12 books.
Level 1 - Explorer
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Level 2 - Wanderer
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Level 3 - Enthusiast
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Level 4 - Expert
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List of awards to consider:
General Fiction and World Awards
Pulitzer Prize (International)
ALA Alex Award (Written for adults but with special appeal to young adults).
National Book Award (U.S. Authors)
Man Booker Prize (Commonwealth / International)
Governor General's Literary Awards (Canadian)
Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canadian)
Orange Prize formerly, now Women's Prize (International women writers published in Britain)
Asian Literary Prize (Asian)
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature (International with focus on South Asia)
Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa (African)
Genre-Specific Awards
Newbery Medal (Young Adult)
Walter Scott Prize (Historical Fiction)
Macavity Award (Mystery)
Edgar Award (Mystery)
Agatha Award (Cozy Mystery)
Barry Award (Crime)
Arthur Ellis Award (Crime - Canada)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (Fantasy)
Nebula Award (Sci Fi & Fantasy)
Locus Award (Sci Fi & Fantasy)
Hugo Award (Sci Fi & Fantasy)
Andre Norton Award (YA Sci Fi & Fantasy)
Prometheus Award (Sci Fi with Libertarian Focus)
James Tiptree, Jr. Award (Sci Fi & Fantasy with Gender Focus)
RITA Award (Romance)
Bram Stoker Award (Horror)
Also the 30 Book Non Fiction ChallengeAiming for at least 15
[] NF book with > 500 pages
[] History
[] NF book that became a movie
[] NF about Relationships
[] NF book published this year
[] Religion or Philosophy
[] NF book with a number in the title
[] Biography
[] A funny NF book
[] NF book by a female author
[] a How-To book
[] NF book with a one-word title
[] NF about Nature or Animals
[] A NF book set in a different country
[] Health/Wellness
[] NF book a friend recommended
[] Prize winning NF book
[] Minority Studies
[] NF book that scares you
[] Self Improvement
[] A NF about something that happened in the decade you were born
[] LGBTQ
[] A NF book with a place in the title
[] NF related to Current Events
[] NF book you own but have never read
[] NF book that takes place in your hometown
[] a Memoir
[] NF book written by an author with your same initials or first name
[] Math/Technology
[] A NF book you started but never finished
POPSUGAR 2016 READING CHALLENGEI'm going to aim to read at least 20 of these.
1. A book based on a fairy tale
2. A National Book Award winner
3. A YA bestseller
4. A book you haven't read since high school
5. A book set in your home state
6. A book translated to English
7. A romance set in the future
8. A book set in Europe
9. A book that's under 150 pages
10. A New York Times bestseller
11. A book that's becoming a movie this year
12. A book recommended by someone you just met
13. A self-improvement book
14. A book you can finish in a day
15. A book written by a celebrity
16. A political memoir
17. A book at least 100 years older than you
18. A book that's more than 600 pages
19. A book from Oprah's Book Club
20. A science-fiction novel
21. A book recommended by a family member
22. A graphic novel
23. A book that is published in 2016
24. A book with a protagonist that has your occupation (Graduate Student)
25. A book that takes place during summer
26. A book and its prequel
27. A murder mystery
28. A book written by a comedian
29. A dystopian novel
30. A book with a blue cover ( Euphoria Read .)
31. A book of poetry
32. The first book you see in a bookstore
33. A classic from the 20th century
34. A book from the library
35. An autobiography
36. A book about a road trip
37. A book about a culture you're unfamiliar with
38. A satirical book
39. A book that takes place on an island
40. A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy
Guardian Book ChallengeLet's Have Pie: 1000 Books
Whether it's the Boxall's list of 1001 Books to Read Before You Die, or the Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, that's a lot of books! This mini-challenge aims to help you chip away at them. The challenge will run for all of 2016. You can complete it more than once if you like.
To complete the challenge, you must 'eat' a whole pie. Read one book for each piece of the pie. There are 7 pieces, each representing a different theme.
Listopia lists for each Guardian theme:
Comedy
Crime
Family and Self
Love
Science Fiction & Fantasy
State of the Nation
War & Travel
Projected 1st Round Readings
Comedy: Lucky Jim*
Crime: To Kill a Mockingbird
Family & Self:The Picture of Dorian Gray
Love: Wuthering Heights
Science Fiction & FantasyThe Handmaid's Tale*
State of the Nation: Things Fall Apart
War & Travel: The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Rory Gilmore Reading ChallengeI want to read another 5 from this half of the list, and 5 from the second half in the course of the year. The crossed out books are ones I've read, and the crossed out ones in bold are the ones I've read this year. (Bold but not crossed out are those I'm most inclined to read.)
The challenge is lots of places on the web, but I first saw it here.
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3.) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4.) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
5.) An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
6.) Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
7.) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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9.) Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
10.) The Art of Fiction by Henry James
11.) The Art of War by Sun Tzu
12.) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
13.) Atonement by Ian McEwan
14.) Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
15.) The Awakening by Kate Chopin
16.) Babe by Dick King-Smith
17.) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
18.) Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
19.) Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
20.) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
21.) Beloved by Toni Morrison
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23.) The Bhagava Gita
24.) The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
25.) Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
26.) A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
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29.) Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
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31.) The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
32.) Carrie by Stephen King
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35.) Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
36.) The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
37.) Christine by Stephen King
38.) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
39.) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
40.) The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
41.) The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
42.) A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
43.) Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
44.) The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
45.) Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
46.) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
47.) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
48.) Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
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50.) The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
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52.) Cujo by Stephen King
53.) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
54.) Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
55.) David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
56.) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
57.) The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown
58.) Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
59.) Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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61.) Deenie by Judy Blume
62.) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
63.) The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
64.) The Divine Comedy by Dante
65.) The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
66.) Don Quixote by Cervantes
67.) Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
68.) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
69.) Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
70.) Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
71.) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
72.) Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
73.) Eloise by Kay Thompson
74.) Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
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76.) Empire Falls by Richard Russo
77.) Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
78.) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
79.) Ethics by Spinoza
80.) Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
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82.) Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
83.) Extravagance by Gary Krist
84.) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
85.) Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
86.) The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
87.) Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
88.) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
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90.) Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
91.) The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
92.) Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
93.) Fletch by Gregory McDonald
94.) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
95.) The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
96.) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
97.) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
98.) Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
99.) Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
100.) Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
101.) Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
102.) George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
103.) Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
104.) Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
105.) The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
106.) The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
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108.) Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
109.) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
110.) The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
111.) The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
112.) The Graduate by Charles Webb
113.) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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116.) The Group by Mary McCarthy
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120.) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
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122.) Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
123.) Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
124.) Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
125.) Henry V by William Shakespeare
126.) High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
127.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
128.) Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
129.) The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
130.) House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
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132.) How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
133.) How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
134.) How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
135.) Howl by Allen Ginsberg
136.) The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
137.) The Iliad by Homer
138.) I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres
139.) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
140.) Inferno by Dante
141.) Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
142.) Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
143.) It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
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145.) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
146.) Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
147.) The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
148.) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
149.) Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
150.) The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
151.) Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
152.) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
153.) Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence
154.) The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
155.) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
156.) The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
157.) Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
158.) Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
159.) Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
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161.) Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
162.) The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
163.) The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
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165.) Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
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167.) The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
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169.) The Love Story by Erich Segal
170.) Macbeth by William Shakespeare
171.) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
172.) The Manticore by Robertson Davies
173.) Marathon Man by William Goldman
174.) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
175.) Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
176.) Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
177.) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
178.) The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
179.) Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken
180.) The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
and the 2nd half of the list ...181.)
182.) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
183.) The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
184.) Moby Dick by Herman Melville
185.) The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
186.) Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
187.) A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
188.) Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
189.) A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
190.) A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
191.) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
192.) Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
193.) My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
194.) My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
195.) My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
196.) Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
197.) My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
198.) The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
199.) The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
200.) The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
201.) The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
202.) Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
203.) New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
204.) The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
205.) Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
206.) Night by Elie Wiesel
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208.) The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
209.) Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
210.) Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
211.) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
212.) Old School by Tobias Wolff
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214.) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
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216.) The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
217.) Oracle Night by Paul Auster
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219.) Othello by Shakespeare
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221.) The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
222.) Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
223.) The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
224.) A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
225.) The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
226.) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
227.) Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
228.) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
229.) Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
230.) Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
231.) Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
232.) The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
233.) The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
234.) The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
235.) The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
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237.) Property by Valerie Martin
238.) Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
239.) Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
240.) Quattrocento by James Mckean
241.) A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
242.) Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
243.) The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
244.) The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
245.) Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
246.) Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
247.) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
248.) The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
249.) Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
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251.) R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
252.) Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
253.) Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
254.) Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
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257.) A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
258.) Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
259.) The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
260.) Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
261.) Sanctuary by William Faulkner
262.) Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
263.) Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
264.) The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
265.) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
266.) Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
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268.) The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
269.) Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
270.) Selected Hotels of Europe
271.) Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
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273.) A Separate Peace by John Knowles
274.) Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
275.) Sexus by Henry Miller
276.) The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
277.) Shane by Jack Shaefer
278.) The Shining by Stephen King
279.) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
280.) S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
281.) Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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283.) Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
284.) Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
285.) Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
286.) The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
287.) Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
288.) The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
289.) Songbook by Nick Hornby
290.) The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
291.) Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
292.) Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
293.) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
294.) Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
295.) Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
296.) The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
297.) A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
298.) Stuart Little by E. B. White
299.) Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
300.) Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
301.) Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
302.) Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
303.) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
304.) Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
305.) Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
306.) Time and Again by Jack Finney
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308.) To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
309.) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
310.) The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
311.) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
312.) The Trial by Franz Kafka
313.) The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
314.) Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
315.) Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
316.) Ulysses by James Joyce
317.) The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
318.) Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
319.) Unless by Carol Shields
320.) Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
321.) The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
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323.) Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
324.) The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
325.) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
326.) Walden by Henry David Thoreau
327.) Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
328.) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
329.) We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
330.) What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
331.) What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
332.) When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
333.) Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
334.) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
335.) Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
336.) The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
337.) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
338.) The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
339.) The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Diversity Reading ChallengeThis is drawn largely from We Read Diverse Books but that seems to have stopped being updated in September so I've added in other challenges for the last four, drawing from Unconventional Librarian. The original challenge is one per month, but I'm just looking to do the 12 sometime in the year.
1. A novel / short story collection / memoir written by someone of a different race than you.
As I'm already planning on reading a fair amount of African fiction, I'm changing this to be someone non-white and British.
2. Someone with an invisible condition that affects their behaviour in ways others might find puzzling / difficult / offensive (e.g. Alzheimers; Depression; ME; Autism.)
3. LGBT
(This is in addition to the Transgender reading in the Read Harder challenge.)
4. A book in translation
5. Read a novel or memoir by someone in a very different generation - at least 30 years' gap - and preferably about life at that very different age.
6. Read a novel or memoir about - and preferably by -someone with a highly visible disability or condition (e.g. in a wheelchair, blind, severely burned.)
7. A book that takes place in a different time - and preferably was written in a different time.
8. Read a book by an author of a religion different than yours.
9. Read a novel that takes place in a country that a) is not where you currently live and b) that you have never read about before.
10. A book with a person of colour on the cover.
11. A book with an illustrator of colour.
12. A "genre" fiction book NOT focused on white people living in Europe / the US / Canada.
And the last of the challenges I set myself for now!Ethnographies and Books on Archaeology
I loved reading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures and decided to read more ethnography - and then didn't. So this year, I've made myself a goodreads shelf and I'm aiming for 10 books. I'm also aiming for those 10 to be diverse in terms of theme / approach / geographical area.
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The Reading Challenge Group
Books mentioned in this topic
Lucky Jim (other topics)To Kill a Mockingbird (other topics)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (other topics)
Wuthering Heights (other topics)
The Handmaid’s Tale (other topics)
More...
With all the challenges, I'm going to try extra hard to read books I already own, and to read as diversely as possible.
Any book marked with an asterisk I owned (and hadn't read) before the start of the year.