Jen P's Challenge Tracker

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Jen P's 2017 Reading Goals & Challenges:

Read 125 books
Read 1 book for each PBT monthly tag
PBT High Notes Challenge
Climbing the PBT Stairs Challenge
Book Riot's Read Harder
Read all Man Booker long list nominees

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Goodreads Challenge link: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

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PBT monthly tags:

January - Foreign Literature
The Association of Small Bombs
July's People
The Brothers Karamazov
Librarian tag: The Invisible Library
Everest tag: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Psychological Thriller tag: The Grown Up

February - Quirky
The Strange Library
Eleanor & Park

March - Ireland
Nora Webster

April - Bestsellers
The Year of the Flood
MaddAddam
Nobody's Fool
Ready Player One
Cinder

May -

June -

July - Award Winners

August - Space Opera

September -

October -

November

December -

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PBT High Notes:

2016
2015: Ready Player One
2014: Shotgun Lovesongs
2013: MaddAddam
2012: Rules of Civility
2011: Kindred
2010: Room
2009: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2008: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

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Climbing the PBT Stairs

Stair 1: Admin's Choice: Canadian
1. The Year of the Flood

Stair 2: Universal Tag - Series
1. The Invisible Library
2. Sorcerer to the Crown

Stair 3: Strong Heroine
1. Red Queen
2. Strong Female Protagonist. Book One
3. Paper Girls, Vol. 1

Stair 4: Translation
1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. The Strange Library
3. Maresi: Krönikor från Röda klostret
4. Delirio

Stair 5: 1001 books
1. July's People
2. Jack Maggs
3. Invisible Man
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Les Liaisons dangereuses

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Book Riot Read Harder:
--Read a book about sports: Stephen Florida
-Read a debut novel: Red Queen
-Read a book about books: The Invisible Library
-Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author: Delirio
-Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative: Exit West
-Read an all-ages comic.
-Read a book published between 1900 and 1950.
-Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location: Infinite Jest
-Read a travel memoir: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
-Read a book you’ve read before: Born a Crime
-Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location: The Association of Small Bombs DONE
-Read a fantasy novel: Sorcerer to the Crown
-Read a nonfiction book about technology
-Read a book about war
-Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+
-Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country
-Read a classic by an author of color
-Read a superhero comic with a female lead: Strong Female Protagonist. Book One
-Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey
-Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel: Hallucinating Foucault
-Read a book published by a micro press: The 52nd
-Read a collection of stories by a woman: Difficult Women:
-Read a collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love
-Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color: The Color Purple

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Updated 4/2/17

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updated July 25: I finished the my PBT stairs. Now onto the high notes

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Jen wrote: " PBT High Notes:

2016
2015: Ready Player One
2014: Shotgun Lovesongs
2013: MaddAddam
2012: Rules of Civility
2011: [book:Kindred|6093..."

So I think this is as good as it's going to get for this challenge. Finished 3. Have minimal interest in the others with the exception of Rules of Civility which I want to read but won't get to by end of year.