Annapi's 2017 Challenges

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Climbing the PBT Stairs - finished on 2/26/2017!

Step 1: Moderator's tag - Canadian
Book 1: Grave by Michelle Sagara

Step 2: Non-fiction
Book 1: Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay
Book 2: The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin

Step 3: Science Fiction
Book 1: An Ancient Peace by Tanya Huff
Book 2: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Book 3: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Step 4: Fantasy
Book 1: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
Book 2: Silence by Michelle Sagara
Book 3: The Sparks by Kyle Prue
Book 4: Touch by Michelle Sagara

Step 5: Group tag - Series
Book 1: Cliff Diver by Carmen Amato (Emilia Cruz #1)
Book 2: Lord of the Wings by Donna Andrews (Meg Langslow #19)
Book 3: Hat Dance by Carmen Amato (Emilia Cruz #2)
Book 4: Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Captain Alatriste #1)
Book 5: Due or Die by Jenn McKinlay (Library Lover's Mystery #2)

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Hitting the PBT High Notes
2008 - choices: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Love Walked In, Water for Elephants, 1000 White Women, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
2009 - choices: Still Alice, The Help
2010 - choices: The Help, Room, Remarkable Creatures, Columbine, Cutting for Stone, Life of Pi
2011 - choices: Night Circus, Room, The Help, 22 Britannia Road, Cutting for Stone, The Eyre Affair
2012 - choices: Cloud Atlas, Gone Girl, Rules of Civility, Divining Women, The Help, The Night Circus, City of Thieves, Cry the Beloved Country, Tell the Wolves I'm Home, The Dog Stars, The Orphan Master's Son, Shadow of the Wind, The Thirteenth Tale
2013 - choices: And the Mountains Echoed, The Night Circus, Mudbound, Life After Life, MaddAdam, The Light Between Oceans
2014 - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
2015 - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
2016 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

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Monthly PBT Tag

Jan - foreign literature - Cliff Diver by Carmen Amato
Jan bonus tag 1 - Everest - Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay
Jan bonus tag 2 - librarian - Due or Die by Jenn McKinlay
Jan bonus tag 3 - psychological thriller - n/a
Jan bonus tag 4 - self improvement - n/a
Feb - quirky - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
Mar - Ireland - Island of Glass by Nora Roberts
Apr - bestsellers - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
May - 2004 - Messenger by Lois Lowry
Jun - coming of age - Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jul - award winner - Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Aug - space opera - Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff
Sep - American - Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
Oct - society - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Nov - African-American - The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
Dec - social issues - Looking for Alaska by John Green

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Unfinished Challenges:

Finish Dive Deep from 2014:
Subject: Medicine
1. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
2. The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge

Finish 100 (Fiction) Books PBT Members Think You Should Read from 2015:
Plan to read:
1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
2. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman DONE 4/4/2015
3. 11/22/63 by Stephen King DONE 7/19/2015
4. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
6. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay DONE 10/25/2015
7. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston DONE 12/28/2016
8. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra DONE 4/13/2016
9. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
10. A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
11. Watchmen by Alan Moore DONE 4/26/2015
12. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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2017 Reading Challenge:

1. A book you had to read in school -
2. A book from your childhood - The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
3. A book by someone who isn’t a writer (think Paul Kalathani or Richard Branson) - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
4. A book published in the 19th Century - In a Far Country by Jack London (1899)
5. A book with someone’s name in the title - Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez Reverte
6. A book with a number in the title - The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
7. A book with a character with your first name - Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes
8. A book your children/a child recommended to you -
9. A book with over 700 pages -
10. A book you can finish in a day - Die Like an Eagle by Donna Andrews
11. A previously banned book - Animal Farm by George Orwell
12. A book with a one-word title - Silence by Michelle Sagara
13. A book that will improve a specific area of your life - Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein
14. A memoir or journal - Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay
15. A book set somewhere you’ll be visiting/have visited this year -
16. An award-winning book - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
17. A self-published book - Cliff Diver by Carmen Amato
18. A book with an animal protagonist -
19. A book by an LGBT author - An Ancient Peace by Tanya Huff
20. A book written by a teenager - The Sparks by Kyle Prue

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Who Wants to be PBT Prosperous?
(in order of descending popularity)

1. King Peso - 4.53
2. The Kite Runner - 4.25
3. The Aeronaut's Windlass - 4.18
4. Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear - 4.1
5. Foucault's Pendulum - 3.89
6. Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic - 3.89
7. Snow Falling on Cedars - 3.8