Aurora's 2016 challenges

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My 2016 Challenges:

Yearly Goodreads Challenge - 46/200
Around the World in Books Challenge - 14/15
Book Riots Read Harder Challenge - 6/24
March #readwomen Challenge - 5/5

Planned reading for March:

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Marcel Proust
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, buddy
A Guide to Being Born - Ramona Ausubel
Pet Sematary - Stephen King with Winter
The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion - Meghan Daum
The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal

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Authors I'd like to read in 2016:

Anne Brontë
Wilkie Collins
Joseph Conrad
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Alexandre Dumas
Gustave Flaubert
Nathaniel Hawthorne
James Joyce
Anthony Trollope
William Makepeace Thackeray


Authors I'd like to read more of in 2016:

Charlotte Brontë
Charles Dickens
George Elliot
Elizabeth Gaskell
Thomas Hardy
Henry James
Marcel Proust
Shakespeare
Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolf

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Around the World in Books Challenge:

1. USA - Citizen: An American Lyric ✔
2. Canada - The Penelopiad ✔
3. UK - The Years ✔
4. Ireland - A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing ✔
5. Scotland - The Accidental ✔
6. 6. Turkey Ağrıdağı Efsanesi ✔
7. Norway - Undis Brekke ✔
8. Sweden - Pippi Longstocking ✔
9. Denmark - Stigninger og fald ✔
10. France - Reveries of the Solitary Walker ✔
11. Italy - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
12. Spain - The Prince of Mist ✔
13. Russia - The Idiot ✔
14. Greece - The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone✔
15. Nigeria - Americanah ✔

14/15

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Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge:

1. Read a horror book - Pet Sematary ✔
2. Read a nonfiction book about science - The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
3. Read a collection of essays - The Empathy Exams: Essays ✔
4. Read a book out loud to someone else
5. Read a middle grade novel - Wildwood
6. Read a biography
7. Read a dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel - The Dog Stars
8. Read a book originally published in the decade you were born -
9. Listen to an audiobook that has won an Audie Award
10. Read a book over 500 pages long - The Idiot ✔
11. Read a book under 100 pages - Bluets ✔
12. Read a book by or about a person that identifies as transgender
13. Read a book that is set in the Middle East - The Hakawati
14. Read a book 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 color
17. Read a non-superhero comic that debuted in the last three years
18. Read a book that was adapted into a movie, then watch the movie. Debate which is better - The War of the Worlds
19. Read a nonfiction book about feminism or dealing with feminist themes - The Argonauts ✔
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 - The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone ✔
24. Read a book with a main character that has a mental illness

6/24

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PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY

Owned and not read:
1. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
3. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
4. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
6. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
7. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
8. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
9. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
10. Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
11. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
12. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
13. The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
14. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
15. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

Read:
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
3. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
4. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
6. Persuasion - Jane Austen
7. Dracula - Bram Stoker
8. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
9. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Emma - Jane Austen
11. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
12. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
14. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
15. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
16. Middlemarch - George Eliot
17. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
18. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
19. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
20. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
21. The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
22. The Island of Doctor Moreau - H.G. Wells
23. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
24. Dubliners - James Joyce
25. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton

25/105

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Books with witches:

1. All The Birds in the Sky - Charlie Jane Anders
2. Which Witch? - Eva Ibbotson
3. Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
4. The Witches of Eileanan - Kate Forsyth
5. A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
6. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
7. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
8. The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
9. Truthwitch - Susan Dennard
10. Baba Yaga's Assistant - Marika McCoola
11. The Hawley Book of the Dead - Chrysler Szarlan
12. Babayaga - Toby Barlow
13. Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor
14. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem - Maryse Conde

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March #readwomen Challenge:

A book by an author that is not White - Americanah
A book of essays - The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
A Graphic Novel - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
A book about an LGBTQIA issue - The Argonauts
A sci-fi/ fantasy book - Radiance