Joshua's 2017 Book List

[Joshua]

(Note: Last year, I wound up having to study for a test that took a significant amount of time, so many of the books from my previous challenge were moved over to this one.)

1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016: The Only Pirate at the Party by Lindsey Stirling and Brooke S. Passey
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view): The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
3. A book you meant to read in 2016: The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E": Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
5. A historical fiction: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017: Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
8. A book written by a person of color: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list: Shadowland by Andy Diggle
10. A dual-timeline novel: Casca 1: The Eternal Mercenary by Barry Sadler
11. A category from another challenge: 9-11 by Noam Chomsky
12. A book based on a myth: Dragon Ball, Vol. 1: The Monkey King by Akira Toriyama
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
14. A book with a strong female character: We the Living by Ayn Rand
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland): The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
16. A mystery: Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
17. A book with illustrations: Siege by Brian Michael Bendis
18. A really long book (600+ pages): The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
19. A New York Times best-seller: Paper Towns by John Green
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy by Bill Gates
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read: Four: A Divergent Story Collection by Veronica Roth
22. A book by an author you haven't read before: The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy by Sasha Issenberg
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link): Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
24. A book written by at least two authors: Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 by John Wagner and Pat Mills
25. A book about a famous historical figure: Superman vs. Muhammad Ali by Dennis O’Neil
26. An adventure book: High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
27. A book by one of your favorite authors: The Shining by Stephen King
28. A non-fiction: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre): Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link): Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle): The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
33. A magical realism novel: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty: Thor, Volume 1: The Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link): The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
37. A book you choose randomly: The Totally Awesome Hulk, Volume 1: Cho Time by Greg Pak
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature: The Lindworm by Eli Grant
39. An epistolary fiction: Carrie by Stephen King
40. A book published in 2017: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Prelude by TBA
41. A book with an unreliable narrator: Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far): Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold): Dark Night: A True Batman Story by Paul Dini
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link): Blaze by Richard Bachman
45. A book with a one-word title: Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas
46. A time travel novel: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link): The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
48. A banned book: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays): Beacon 23: The Complete Novel by Hugh Howey
52. A book set in a fictional location: Battlefront - Twilight Company by Alexander Freed