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POPSUGAR 2017 READING CHALLENGE 31 of 39 completed, Removed task 19 *Revised on 12/31/17*
✔ 1. Read a book recommended by a librarian – Morning Star by Pierce Brown (12/6/17)
✔ 2. Read a book that's been on your TBR list for way too long – American Vampire, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder (1/20/17)
✔ 3. Read a book of letters – Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot (7/20/17)
✔ 4. Read an audiobook – Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (2/1/17)
✔ 5. Read a book by a person of color – Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (3/23/17)
✔ 6. Read a book with one of the four seasons in the title – The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares (1/22/17)
✔ 7. Read a book that is a story within a story – Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot (7/20/17)
✔ 9. Read an espionage thriller – Along Came a Spider by James Patterson (5/24/17)
✔ 10. Read a book with a cat on the cover – Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (3/17/17)
✔ 11. Read a book with an author who uses a pseudonym – The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure aka Anne Rice (2/16/17)
✔ 12. Read a bestseller from a genre you don't normally read – Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding (10/15/17)
✔ 13. Read a book by or about a person who has a disability – The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgon Burnett (5/23/17)
✔ 14. Read a book involving travel – Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (6/8/17)
✔ 15. Read a book with a subtitle – Money Never Sleeps by Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker (4/7/17)
✔ 16. Read a book that's published in 2017 – The Flash, Vol. 1: Lightning Strikes Twiceby Joshua Williamson (7/29/17)
✔ 17. Read a book involving a mythical creature – How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell (11/6/17)
✔ 18. Read a book you've read before that never fails to make you smile – Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 1 by Natsuki Takaya (5/15/17)
19. REMOVED
✔ 21. Read a book from a nonhuman perspective – Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (5/31/17)
✔ 24. A book set in the wilderness – White Fang by Jack London (1/9/17)
✔ 26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited – In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (8/18/17)
✔ 27. A book with a title that's a character's name – The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (7/13/17)
✔ 28. A novel set during wartime – Flags of Our Fathers by James D. Bradley (8/8/17)
✔ 29. A book with an unreliable narrator – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1/12/17)
✔ 30. A book with pictures – Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Three, Vol. 2 by Brian Buccellato (4/23/17)
✔ 31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you – The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (4/18/17)
✔ 33. A book set in two different time periods – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (7/7/17)
✔ 34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title – Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers (4/12/17)
✔ 35. A book set in a hotel – The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (4/1/17)
✔ 38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas – Quite Contrary by Richard Roberts (4/11/17)
✔ 39. The first book in a series you haven't read before – Fallen by Lauren Kate (5/26/17)
✔ 40. A book you bought on a trip – Assassin's Creed: Renaissance by Oliver Bowden (7/3/17)
Never Completed:
8. Read a book with multiple authors – Zane's Caramel Flava by Multiple Authors featured by Zane
20. Read a book with career advice – Nice girls don't get the corner office : 101 unconscious mistakes women make that sabotage their careers by Lois P. Frankel
22. Read a steampunk novel – Refer to “Steampunk” Bookshelf
23. A book with a red spine – The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
25. A book you loved as a child – The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
32. A book about an interesting woman – Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
36. A book written by someone you admire – Is It Just Me?: Or is it nuts out there? by Whoopi Goldberg
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017 – The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
BOOK ROIT’S READ HARDER CHALLENGE19 of 22 completed, Removed task 21 & 23 *Revised on 12/31/17*
✔ 1. Read a book about sports – Basketball Jones by E. Lynn Harris (1/6/17)
✔ 2. Read a debut novel – Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (2/1/17)
✔ 4. Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author – In the Time of the Butterflies by
Julia Alvarez (8/18/17)
✔ 5. Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative – Children of the River by Linda Crew (4/13/17)
✔ 6. Read an all-ages comic – Young Justice Vol. 1 by Art Baltazar (3/9/17)
✔ 7. Read a book published between 1900 and 1950 – Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1/4/17)
✔ 8. Read a travel memoir – Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (6/8/17)
✔ 10. Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location – Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger (7/20/17)
✔ 11. Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location – The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (8/2/17)
✔ 12. Read a fantasy novel – Halo by Alexandra Adornetto (5/26/17)
✔ 14. Read a book about war – Flags of Our Fathers by James D. Bradley (8/8/17)
✔ 15. Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+ – Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (2/23/17)
✔ 16. Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country – A Time to Kill by John Grisham (5/1/17)
✔ 17. Read a classic by an author of color – Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1/4/17)
✔ 18. Read a superhero comic with a female lead – Storm, Vol. 1: Make it Rain by Greg Pak (7/22/17)
✔ 19. Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey – Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older (4/24/17)
✔ 20. Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel - Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (1/8/17)
✔ 22. Read a collection of stories by a woman – How To Be Happy by Eleanor Davis (10/20/17)
✔ 24. Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color – In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (8/18/17)
Never Completed:
3. Read a book about books – The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
9. Read a book you’ve read before – The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
13. Read a nonfiction book about technology – The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price
21. REMOVED
23. REMOVED
TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE (DONE)All 40 tasks completed *Revised on 9/7/17*
✔ 1 American Vampire, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder (1/20/17)
✔ 2 Bayou Vol. 1 by Jeremy Love (1/26/17)
✔ 3 Black Girl Lost by Donald Goines (2/24/17)
✔ 4 Bleach, Volume 33 by Tite Kubo (5/5/17)
✔ 5 Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 1 by Jinsei Kataoka (3/23/17)
✔ 6 The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (2/8/17)
✔ 7 Princess Jellyfish 2-in-1 Omnibus, Volume 1 by Akiko Higashimura (4/19/17)
✔ 8 Gambit, Volume 1: Once a Thief... by James Asmus (2/11/17)
✔ 9 Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Three, Vol. 2 by Brian Buccellato (4/23/17)
✔ 10 Lord of the Flies by William Golding (3/28/17)
✔ 11 Money Never Sleeps by Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker (4/7/17)
✔ 12 The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (4/18/17)
✔ 13 The Favorite by Kiera Cass (5/22/17)
✔ 14 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgon Burnett (5/23/17)
✔ 15 Along Came a Spider by James Patterson (5/24/17)
✔ 16 Halo by Alexandra Adornetto (5/26/17)
✔ 17 Fallenby Lauren Kate (5/26/17)
✔ 18 Assassination Classroom, Vol. 01 by Yūsei Matsui (5/29/17)
✔ 19 Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (5/31/17)
✔ 20 Complicated Love by Lilah K. London (6/3/17)
✔ 21 Complicated Love by Lilah K. London (6/3/17)
✔ 22 Death Note, Vol. 7: Zero by Tsugumi Oba (6/12/17)
✔ 23 Honey So Sweet, Vol. 2 by Amu Meguro (6/21/17)
✔ 24 The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (6/24/17)
✔ 25 What Happens in Scotland by Jennifer McQuiston (6/30/17)
✔ 26 Assassin's Creed: Renaissance by Oliver Bowden (7/3/17)
✔ 27 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (7/7/17)
✔ 28 Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1 (7/13/17)
✔ 29 The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (7/13/17)
✔ 30 Dolores Claiborne: A Novel by Stephen King (7/18/17)
✔ 31 Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger (7/20/17)
✔ 32 Bakuman, Volume 1: Dreams and Reality by Tsugumi Oba (7/27/17)
✔ 33 Bakuman, Volume 2: Chocolate and Akamaru by Tsugumi Oba (7/30/17)
✔ 34 Bakuman, Volume 3: Debut and Impatience by Tsugumi Oba (7/31/17)
✔ 35 The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (8/2/17)
✔ 36 Flags of Our Fathers by James D. Bradley (8/8/17)
✔ 37 Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson (8/12/17)
✔ 38 The Flash, Vol. 1: Move Forward by Francis Manapul (8/16/17)
✔ 39 In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (8/18/17)
✔ 40 Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (9/3/17)
COLOR READING CHALLNEGE (DONE)All 15 tasks completed *Revised on 8/2/17*
✔ 1 White cover –
by Oliver Bowden (7/3/17) ✔ 2 Pink cover –
by Meg Cabot (4/18/17)✔ 3 Red cover –
by Lauren Weisberger (2/8/17)✔ 4 Orange cover –
by Ayana Mathis (7/13/17))✔ 5 Yellow cover –
by Alexandra Adornetto (5/26/17)✔ 6 Green cover –
by Tan Twan Eng (8/2/17)✔ 7 Light Blue cover –
by Tanita S. Davis (3/21/17)✔ 8 Dark Blue cover –
by Lauren Kate (5/26/17)✔ 9 Purple cover –
by Jennifer McQuiston (6/30/17)✔ 10 Brown cover –
by Anne Rice (2/1/17)✔ 11 Black cover –
by Mark Millar (1/31/17)✔ 12 Metallic cover –
by Madeline Miller (6/24/17)✔ 13 A Least 5 colors cover –
by Jacqueline Woodson (3/23/17)✔ 14 Color in Title –
by Keith Giffen (7/24/17)✔ 15 Describe color title –
by John Boyne (1/17/17)
LET'S TURN PAGES CHALLENGEBooks Read: 232 – Pages Completed: 53,329/30,000 *Revised on 13/31/17*
January: 10 Books - 2,290 pages
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February: 16 Books - 3,421 pages
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March: 9 Books - 2,473 pages
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April: 12 Books - 3,018 pages
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May: 15 Books - 4,156 pages
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June: 13 Books - 2,920 pages
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July: 15 Books – 3,890 pages
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August: 53 Books – 10,973 pages
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September: 41 Books - 8,552 pages
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October: 28 Books – 5839 pages
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November: 11 Books – 2958 pages
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Chetara wrote: "LET'S TURN PAGES CHALLENGEBooks Read: 232 – Pages Completed: 53,329/30,000 *Revised on 13/31/17*
January: 10 Books - 2,290 pages..."
December: 9 Books – 2,839 pages
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Year Long Challenges:
POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE
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READ HARDER CHALLENGE
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COMPLETED 9/6/2017
TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
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COMPLETED 8/2/2017
COLOR READING CHALLENGE
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COMPLETED 12/31/2017 with 53,329 pages
LET’S TURN PAGES CHALLENGE