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Tough choice for Week 38! All great books.
I know, I really need to narrow these down but figured I'll give myself choices also depending if all available at library ha!
Around the Year in 52 Books
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Merry and Bright (other topics)Everything, Everything (other topics)
Small Great Things (other topics)
Peony in Love (other topics)
Last Christmas in Paris (other topics)
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Completed: 31/52
Last Updated: 12/23/17
1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
✅Heartless ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
✅Holding Up the Universe ⭐️⭐️
3. A book you meant to read in 2016
✅It Ends with Us⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
✅Lotus ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
5. A historical fiction
✅Salt to the Sea ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
✅A Monster Calls ⭐️⭐️
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
✅The Butterfly Garden Dot Hutchison ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
8. A book written by a person of color
✅Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body ⭐️⭐️
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
Hopeless Colleen Hoover
10. A dual-timeline novel
✅The Secret Keeper Kate Morton ⭐️⭐️⭐️
11. A category from another challenge
Ideas: A Book from the Goodreads 2015 Choice Awards: After You Jojo Moyes,
12. A book based on a myth
✅The Raven Boys ⭐️⭐️⭐️
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
✅The Magdalen Girls ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
14. A book with a strong female character
Throne of Glass Sarah J Mass, Graceling Kristin Cashore, Magic Bites Ilona Andrews
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
Burial Rites Hannah Kent, The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales , A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman, Wolf Winter Cecilia Ekback
16. A mystery
✅The Good Girl ⭐️⭐️⭐️
17. A book with illustrations
✅Everything, Everything
18. A really long book (600+ pages)
✅Winter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
19. A New York Times best-seller
✅Small Great Things
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
Shades of Blue Karen Kingsbury
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
✅Lover Unleashed ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
22. A book by an author you haven't read before
Fallen Too Far Abbi Glines, Fire & Flood Victoria Scott, Wallbanger Alice Clayton
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K Rowling
24. A book written by at least two authors
✅Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I
25. A book about a famous historical figure
America's First Daughter
26. An adventure book
✅The River at Night ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
27. A book by one of your favorite authors
✅The Red Hunter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
28. A non-fiction
✅Scrappy Little Nobody ⭐️⭐️
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions
Walking Disaster Jamie McGuire, Obsidian Jennifer Armentrout
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)
Looking for Alaska John Green, Hush, Hush Becca Fitzpatrick, Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
Antebellum Romance: Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
33. A magical realism novel
✅The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
✅What Alice Forgot ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
The Elite Kiera Cass, Glass Sword Victoria Aveyard
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link)
Uprooted Naomi Novik, The Fifth Season N.K Jemisin, The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison
37. A book you choose randomly
✅Thief (Love Me With Lies #3) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
✅Peony in Love ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
39. An epistolary fiction
✅The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ⭐️⭐️⭐️
40. A book published in 2017
✅The Identicals ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
41. A book with an unreliable narrator
✅Lie to Me ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far
✅Commonwealth
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold
✅The Good Daughter ⭐️⭐️⭐️
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
✅November 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
45. A book with a one-word title
Uglies Scott Westerfeld, Warcross,
Wayfarer Alexandra Bracken
46. A time travel novel
Drums of Autumn Outlander Diana Gabaldon
11/22/63 Stephen King, Waterfall Lisa Tawn Bergren, Beyond the Highland Mist Karen Marie Moning
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link)
A Book with a Colour in the title
Ruby Red Kerstin Geir
48. A banned book
The Color Purple Alice Walker, The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
✅Merry and Bright ⭐️⭐️⭐️
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
A Pioneer Christmas Collection Lauraine Shelling,
52. A book set in a fictional location