Veronica's "I really want to finish in 2017" Plan

[Veronica]

The 2017 List
1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
It Ends with Us Finished 12/24/17 ✮✮✮✮✮
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)My Sister's Keeper Finished 4/6/17 ✮✮✮✮
3. A book you meant to read in 2016The Kite RunnerFinished 3/10/17 ✮✮✮✮✮
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"Brooklyn
5. A historical fiction
Homegoing Finished 2/26/17 ✮✮✮✮✮
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
Everything, Everything Finished 3/28/17 ✮✮✮✮
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
Water for ElephantsFinished 7/2/17 ✮✮✮✮
8. A book written by a person of color
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Beloved
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
A Wrinkle in TimeFinished 5/8/17 ✮✮✮✮
10. A dual-timeline novel
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Finished 5/21/17 ✮✮✮✮✮
11. A category from another challenge
A book about politics- Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge 2016
The Twentieth Day of January Finished 7/11/17 ✮✮✮✮
12. A book based on a myth
The Penelopiad Finished 4/17/17 ✮✮✮✮✮
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite author
Me Before You
14. A book with a strong female character
Divergent
The Joy Luck Club
Daughter of Fortune
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
A Man Called Ove
16. A mystery
One for the Money
Murder on the Orient Express
17. A book with illustrations
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Little Prince
18. A really long book (600+ pages)
The Fireman Finished 2/12/17 ✮✮✮
19. A New York Times best-seller
Eleanor & ParkFinished 9/21/17 ✮✮✮✮
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
The InterceptFinished 9/24/17 ✮✮✮✮
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
The White Queen
A Wind in the Door
22. A book by an author you haven't read before
Shadow ManFinished 6/19/17 ✮✮✮✮✮
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Rebecca
24. A book written by at least two authors
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
25. A book about a famous historical figure
The White Queen
The Red Queen
26. An adventure book
Treasure Island
The Swiss Family Robinson
Robinson Crusoe
27. A book by one of your favorite authors
X Finished 12/9/17 ✮✮✮
28. A non-fiction
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions
Truly Madly Guilty
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)
Thirteen Reasons WhyFinished 9/8/17 ✮✮✮✮
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
(Mystery - Police Procedural)
The Black Echo
Along Came a Spider
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Finished 4/16/17 ✮✮✮
33. A magical realism novel
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
Bel Canto
Honolulu
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
Glass SwordFinished 7/23/17 ✮✮✮✮
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee
The Left Hand of DarknessFinished 11/2/17✮✮✮✮
37. A book you choose randomly
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
Longbourn
39. An epistolary fiction
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower Finished 7/29/17 ✮✮✮✮✮
40. A book published in 2017
King's Cage
41. A book with an unreliable narrator
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestFinished 10/18/17 ✮✮✮✮
42. A best book of the 21st century
MiddlesexFinished 9/21/17 ✮✮✮✮✮
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
Dracula
Lolita
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
China Dolls
Small Great Things
45. A book with a one-word title
Confess ]Finished 11/7/17 ✮✮✮✮✮
46. A time travel novel
The Time MachineFinished 8/6/17 ✮✮✮✮
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link)I chose A Crime StoryLittle DeathsFinished 6/5/17 ✮✮✮✮
A book with a color in the title
Red Rising
48. A banned book
Fahrenheit 451
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
In Cold BloodFinished 9/2/17 ✮✮✮✮
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
The Martian Chronicles
52. A book set in a fictional location
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
The Hobbit

[Veronica]

This is my third attempt at the challenge. I didn't finish these past two years but am really going to try this year to finish it. I'm set on my first four books and will update once I plan the rest of the year.

[MJ]

The Kite Runner is on my reading list, but I don't think I will get to it this year.

[Veronica]

Thanks MJ and Katie!

[Jody]

I want to read The Kite Runner this year too, I've had it sitting on my shelf for a few years now.

[Veronica]

I wanted to read it since last year and wanted to read it but never got to it. Hopefully you get to read it this year,too.

[Veronica]

I completed planning my challenge for the year. May topics have multiple choices and I will choose when I get to that week. Of course, choices are subject to change. I have not chosen my books for a couple topics yet, but will at some point.

[Anastasia]

Ohh, I am happy to see that The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is on your plan. It is such a good book and very relevant to our everyday lives.

[Veronica]

Thanks Anastasia. I've been wanting to read it for awhile and put it in my plan to finally do so.

[Jody]

It's really an amazing book, and very readable.

[Veronica]

The first two months have been really slow, which I partially blame on The Fireman, which took me a long time to get through. There are still 10 months left of the year so plenty of time to keep reading.

[Veronica]

I have been a bit slow on the reading front, only read 5 books in 3 months. This is also the busiest time of year at work for me so have not had as much time to read. That should change soon so I can get some reading mojo back!

[Tracy]

This list....So many good choices, I love it :-)

I'm curious to hear what you think of Brooklyn, I read it last year and it just dragged for me. I thought the movie was so much better, and that NEVER happens.

[Veronica]

Thanks Tracy:)
I enjoyed the movie as well. I'll let you know my take on the book.

[Veronica]

Finished Fried Green Tomatoes, such an excellent read!

[Veronica]

Finished 13/52. I feel that my pace is picking up a bit so hopefully it continues.

[Veronica]

15/52. I finished 4 books in July and hopefully can read at least 5 in August.

[Veronica]

Up to 21/52 books finished. I likely won't complete the entire challenge but I will try to complete as much as possible.