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1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 - Underground Airlines
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) - Carve the Mark
3. A book you meant to read in 2016 - Dark Matter
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" - Humans, Bow Down
5. A historical fiction - The Boston Girl
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - Between Shades of Gray
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title - I Could Pee on This And Other Poems by Cats
8. A book written by a person of color -
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list - Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
10. A dual-timeline novel - The Girl Before
11. A category from another challenge - Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager - From the 2017 Read Harder Challenge - A book about sports
12. A book based on a myth - The Penelopiad
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors - The Flicker Men - recommended by Sylvain Neuvel
14. A book with a strong female character - West with the Night
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) -
16. A mystery - The Blood Between Us
17. A book with illustrations - Big Mushy Happy Lump
18. A really long book (600+ pages) - 4 3 2 1
19. A New York Times best-seller - The Princess Diarist
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read - A Dog's Journey
22. A book by an author you haven't read before - The Doctor's Christmas Proposal by Eve Gaddy
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass - #30 on the list
24. A book written by at least two authors - Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?: True Stories and Confessions
25. A book about a famous historical figure - The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
26. An adventure book
27. A book by one of your favorite authors - Wires and Nerve, Volume 1 by Marissa Meyer
28. A non-fiction - Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions - Dreams of Her Own - Tule Publishing
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (#51) - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre -
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) -
33. A magical realism novel - Sundays at Tiffany's
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere - Popol Vuh
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (1993 winner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Aw...) - Doomsday Book
37. A book you choose randomly - The Bookseller
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
39. An epistolary fiction - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
40. A book published in 2017 - The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
41. A book with an unreliable narrator - Before I Go to Sleep
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) - The Night Watch - #67 on LibraryThing's List of 100 Best 21st Century Novels So Far
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) - Waking Gods
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" link - Seveneves
45. A book with a one-word title - Kindred
46. A time travel novel - A Scandalous Matter
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (could have been used for the "A new to you series" or "Book by a Popular Author" or "Political Thriller" or "Book makes you think about water"): The Hunt for Red October
48. A banned book - The Martian Chronicles
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition - One Hundred Years of Solitude
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) - Homesick for Another World
52. A book set in a fictional location -
A Dog's Journey (A Dog's Purpose, #2) by W. Bruce Cameron Three Nights in August Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager by H.G. Bissinger Kindred by Octavia E. Butler The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Dark Matter by Blake Crouch The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher Troublemaker Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini Wires and Nerve, Volume 1 (Wires and Nerves, #1) by Marissa Meyer Dreams of Her Own (Dreams Come True, #3) by Rebecca Heflin The Doctor's Christmas Proposal (The Gallagher's of Montana Book 3) by Eve Gaddy The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1) by Veronica Roth West with the Night by Beryl Markham The Not-Quite States of America Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack Humans, Bow Down by James Patterson The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Universe, #4) by Tom Clancy The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) by Connie Willis The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood A Scandalous Matter (Magic of Love, #3) by Margaret Locke Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters I Could Pee on This And Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2) by Sylvain Neuvel Big Mushy Happy Lump (Sarah's Scribbles, #2) by Sarah Andersen The Blood Between Us by Zac Brewer Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, #1) by Benjamin Alire Sáenz The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Popol Vuh by Anonymous Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys Rosemary The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson


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