Anisa's First Time Around the Year

[Anisa]

The 2017 Anisa List
(and definitely not going in order...hope that's okay!)

Currently reading: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Read So far: 23

1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
When Breath Becomes Air

2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
Charlotte's Web

3. A book you meant to read in 2016 -
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
Animal Farm

5. A historical fiction
All the Light We Cannot See

6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
Looking for Alaska

7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
Lord of the Flies

8. A book written by a person of color
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes

10. A dual-timeline novel
Cloud Atlas

11. A category from another challenge
Popsugar - Book you've read before makes you smile The Forty Rules of Love
Book about a person with disability Nujeen
Book with month or day in title Tuesdays with Morrie

12. A book based on a myth
The Holy Cow and Other Indian Stories English Edition

13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors

14. A book with a strong female character
The Underground Railroad

15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

16. A mystery (courtroom drama)
Midwives

17. A book with illustrations The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes Where the Wild Things Are

18. A really long book (600+ pages)
The Pillars of the Earth

19. A New York Times best-seller The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

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
Britt-Marie Was Here

22. A book by an author you haven't read before
Midwives The Road

23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list
The Handmaid's Tale

24. A book written by at least two authors Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch or Let it Snow

25. A book about a famous historical figure
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad

26. An adventure book Treasure Island

27. A book by one of your favorite authors

28. A non-fiction
Start Something That Matters

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers The Fourth Industrial Revolution The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time

29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses
My Brilliant Friend

30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Howl's Moving Castle

31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre

32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door

33. A magical realism novel The Lovely Bones The Master and Margarita

34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
Love in the Time of Cholera

35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty Cleopatra: A Life

36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link) The Graveyard Book

37. A book you choose randomly The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature The Hours or The Penelopiad

39. An epistolary fiction
The Color Purple

40. A book published in 2017
New Arundhati Roy

41. A book with an unreliable narrator Wuthering Heights House of Leaves

42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao White Teeth

43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
Dark Matter

44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
And the Mountains Echoed

45. A book with a one-word title
Commonwealth

46. A time travel novel The Time Traveler's Wife The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link)
Book I chose because of cover
The Nest
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

48. A banned book
The Metamorphosis Lady Chatterley's Lover

49. A book from someone else's bookshelf Isaac Asimov Philip Roth

50. A Penguin Modern Classic - The Prophet

51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

52. A book set in a fictional location Snuff A Wrinkle in Time

[Angie]

Great list thus far. I read The Color Purple earlier this year, and it's fantastic.

[Anisa]

Hey - I was just over there browsing your list - I'm definitely going to have to steal some titles from it. Also - can I just say - kudos on making the list look so good!)

[MJ]

I've read The Lovely Bones several times. Sad, but so good.

[Anisa]

Thanks MJ & Katie -

I was very uncertain about Lovely Bones but I do live getting lost in an emotionally evocative book so I'm glad to hear you guys liked it.