Kateryna's "2017 in 52 books" Reading Challenge

[Kateryna]

This is my third year! And here is my book list for 2017 Reading Challenge :)

47/52

✔1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016: End of Watch by Stephen King ★★★
✔2. A book with at least 2 perspectives: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell ★★★
✔3. A book you meant to read in 2016: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch ★★★★
✔4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E": Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin ★★★★
✔5. A historical fiction: The Wonder by Emma Donoghue ★★★★★
✔6. A book being released as a movie in 2017: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline ★★★★★
✔7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title: Blood for Blood (Wolf By Wolf #2) by Ryan Graudin ★★★★
✔8. A book written by a person of color: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan ★★
✔9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz ★★★★
✔10. A dual-timeline novel: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng ★★
✔11. A category from another challenge - A book you loved as a child (Popsugar): The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
✔12. A book based on a myth: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan ★★★
✔13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors: (Khaled Hosseini) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen ★★
✔14. A book with a strong female character: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent ★★★★
✔15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland): The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson ★★★
✔16. A mystery: The Girl In The Ice (Detective Erika Foster, #1) by Robert Bryndza ★★★★
✔17. A book with illustrations: Matilda by Roald Dahl ★★★★
18. A really long book (600+ pages): Winter (The Lunar Chronicles #4) by Marissa Meyer
✔19. A New York Times best-seller: Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta ★★
✔20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading:Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy ★★★
✔21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read: Waking Gods (Themis Files #2) by Sylvain Neuvel ★★★
✔22. A book by an author you haven't read before: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman ★★★
✔23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons ★
✔24. A book written by at least two authors: The Shrunken Head by Lauren Oliver, H.C. Chester ★★★★★
✔25. A book about a famous historical figure 11/22/63 by Stephen King ★★★★★
✔26. An adventure book: Miss Ellicott's School for the Magically Minded by Sage Blackwood ★★★
✔27. A book by one of your favorite authors: A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi ★★
✔28. A non-fiction: Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson ★★★
✔29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre): Lilli de Jong by Janet Benton ★★★★★
✔30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books:Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) by Marissa Meyer ★★★★
✔31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre: MYSTERY – cozy mystery: Crime and Poetry by Amanda Flower ★★
✔32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle): The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson ★★
✔33. A magical realism novel: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid ★★★★
✔34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere: (AUSTRALIA): The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay ★★★★
✔35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty: Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2) by Marissa Meyer
✔36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee: Uprooted by Naomi Novik ★★
✔37. A book you choose randomly: The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti ★★★★
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature:
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3) by Marissa Meyer
✔39. An epistolary fiction: Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple ★★★
✔40. A book published in 2017:The Alice Network by Kate Quinn ★★★
✔41. A book with an unreliable narrator: The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson ★★★★
✔42. A best book of the 21st century: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese ★
✔43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold): The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey ★★★★
✔44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next": He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly ★★★★
✔45. A book with a one-word title: Beartown by Fredrik Backman ★★★
✔46. A time travel novel: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle ★★★★
✔47. A past suggestion that didn't win - A book with a child as the main character: Serafina and the Twisted Staff by Robert Beatty ★★★
✔48. A banned book: Bleak House by Charles Dickens ★★
✔49. A book from someone else's bookshelf: The Mothersby Brit Bennett ★★★★
50. A Penguin Modern Classic: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays): Stars Above (The Lunar Chronicles #4.5) by Marissa Meyer
52. A book set in a fictional location: Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King

[Zaz]

You're starting with a good batch of great books! Have fun :)

[Kateryna]

Zaz wrote: "You're starting with a good batch of great books! Have fun :)"

Thank you! I definitely will :)

[Sophie]

I'm also reading Dark Matter and The Snow Child :)

[Kateryna]

Sophie wrote: "I'm also reading Dark Matter and The Snow Child :)"

Yaay for us :) I also have an enormous list of books that fit each category.. These are just the books I want to read for sure, the rest I will choose as I go. Have an exciting reading year!

[Sophie]

Me too, I even created a massive spreadsheet with all my to-read books and which prompts they could fit in ;)

[Jody]

Cinder is really fun. The whole series is, very readable and enjoyable. I've loved having them as a bit of relief amongst the weightier books I've read in the last year. I hope you enjoy it!

[Kateryna]

Katie wrote: "I'll be reading Uprooted too, and I'm very much looking forward to it. Bleak House is a really good book: I got through it really quickly, even though it's long. happy reading, Kateryna!"
Thank you Katie! Last time I read Dickens a few years ago, it was A Tale of Two Cities and I loved it. Looking forward to Bleak House. Hopefully you enjoy Our Mutual Friend :)

[Kateryna]

Jody wrote: "Cinder is really fun. The whole series is, very readable and enjoyable. I've loved having them as a bit of relief amongst the weightier books I've read in the last year. I hope you enjoy it!"
Hello from Australia, Jody :) Cider has been on my to-read list for ages now! and with so much hype around it I just have to read it. You have heaps of classics on your list, enjoy your reading! :)

[Jody]

Another Australian! Hello! :) Yep, I love the classics, by far my favourite things to read, but I do like to throw some fun books in too, otherwise my reading life can get a bit too serious.

[Samantha]

I also plan on reading American Gods and Cinder this year! :) I loved Uprooted, even if things felt a bit rushed at the end. I hope you enjoy it as well.

[Kateryna]

Jody wrote: "Another Australian! Hello! :) Yep, I love the classics, by far my favourite things to read, but I do like to throw some fun books in too, otherwise my reading life can get a bit too serious."
I love classiscs as well, I was reading lots and lots a few years ago. Yeah you are right, it was too serious :) Nowadays I only read a few per year.

[Kateryna]

Katie wrote: "Haven't read A Tale of Two Cities yet - that's on my list for some day! Nearly done with Our Mutual Friend and it's very good, one of Mr Dickens' best, I'd say :)"

I love Dickens! I've also read Hard Times, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Little Dorritt. My parents own Dicken's complete works in hardback.. I am slowly going through it :)

[Kateryna]

Samantha wrote: "I also plan on reading American Gods and Cinder this year! :) I loved Uprooted, even if things felt a bit rushed at the end. I hope you enjoy it as well."

Uprooted has high ratings, and I was struggling with Hugo Award category, so will give it a go. And to be honest, I am terrified by American Gods, I don't know what to expect :) Hopefully we will enjoy it!

[Marina]

I'm also planning on reading American Gods but I don't really know what to expect either and it's a long book so it scares me a little. But I've enjoyed some of his other books so hopefully this is just as good.

Cutting for Stone was on my list last year but I never read it. Maybe I should give it a chance this year.
Good luck with your list :-)

[Sophie]

Even if American Gods is long, I found it read quite quickly. It's not my favorite of Gaiman's though.

[Jody]

I started American Gods years ago, and just never finished it. I didn't intentionally abandon it, I just forgot to pick it back up again. I've since fallen in love with Neil Gaiman's writing, but for some reason I'm still not super enthusiastic about it.

[Kateryna]

Yeah the size of American Gods is terryfying :) And reviews are so controversial. I have never read any books by Neil Gaiman, it's time now I guess..

[Kateryna]

I started reading Our Mutual Friend like 10 years ago, and for some reasons I didn't go further than first 50 pages. From my memory it started with a man, a girl and a boat :) I will start it again after Bleak House.

[Jody]

If you don't like it, don't give up on Neil Gaiman. I was put off after attempting American Gods, but I gave him another shot last year and am now head over heels in love with his writing.

[Kateryna]

Jody wrote: "If you don't like it, don't give up on Neil Gaiman. I was put off after attempting American Gods, but I gave him another shot last year and am now head over heels in love with his w..."

Jody, thank you for advice :) I will see how I go with Neil Gaiman.