In 2017 a Magpie Attempts to Read Books

[Magpie]

Going for the full 52, which is going to shake up my reading a lot! Last year I think I read a grand total of like 3 books. QAQ

Art school is hard.


In any case! Plans! I'll probably flit around a bit as my namesake is wont to do.

PROGRESS: 1/52


1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016

Are Nominees allowed? If so Do Not Say We Have Nothing

2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)

Complete!
The Orphan Master's Son

3. A book you meant to read in 2016
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
Jeez, errrr
Human Acts

5. A historical fiction
All The Light We Cannot See

6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
Going off of This List
The Dinner or Same Kind of Different As Me or The House of Tomorrow

I'll see what I'm feeling when the week hits!

7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

8. A book written by a person of colour
Their Eyes Were Watching God

9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
On Sal Mal Lane

10. A dual-timeline novel
The Master and Margarita

11. A category from another challenge
I guess I'll see what the Seasonal Challenge is up to when I hit this!

12. A book based on a myth
American Gods, seems like a good fit here but I'm not 100% sold. May re-evaluate.

13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
???
I'll come back to this

14. A book with a strong female character
The Handmaid's Tale

15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
Burial Rites ???

16. A mystery
Gone Girl

17. A book with illustrations
???

18. A really long book (600+ pages)
Maybe I'll top the year out with Anna Karenina

19. A New York Times best-seller
A Thousand Splendid Suns

20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
Pale Fire

21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
No current plans here! Will search for something!

22. A book by an author you haven't read before
Never Let Me Go

23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list
The God of Small Things

24. A book written by at least two authors
???

25. A book about a famous historical figure
???

26. An adventure book
The Name of the Wind
Does that count? OAO;;

27. A book by one of your favorite authors
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

28. A non-fiction
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre)
???

30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books
Shadow and Bone or Alanna: The First Adventure

31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
W-will pick later

32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane

33. A magical realism novel
Love in the Time of Cholera or maybe Midnight's Children

34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
Will look at TBR list and/or find a book for this later!

35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
^^^

36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee
The Grace of Kings

37. A book you choose randomly
Will choose randomly

38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
Will come back to!

39. An epistolary fiction
^^^

40. A book published in 2017
^^^

41. A book with an unreliable narrator
^^^
((I love this sort of thing so recommendations SUPER welcome))

42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)
^^^
aaa so many "Come Back To"s

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

44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next
Definitely want to play with this more, but A Constellation of Vital Phenomena looks neat

45. A book with a one-word title
Faithful

46. A time travel novel
11/22/63 open to other suggestions though

47. A past suggestion that didn't win
Will pick later

48. A banned book
^^^

49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
^^^

50. A Penguin Modern Classic
^^^

51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
The Martian Chronicles

52. A book set in a fictional location
Will narrow this one down later too!

[Magpie]

Ran out of time a bit at the end there ehehe

Suggestions for any of my "Pick out laters" are more than welcome, I'm totally in this for broadening my reading horizons so I'm pretty much "Anything goes"!

I'll be editing this as stuff is completed and set in stone and all that jazz.

[Baheya]

Would highly recommend Burial Rites and A Thousand Splendid Suns. I read them both a few years back, and absolutely loved them!

[Tracy]

11/22/63 is excellent, I'm reading it for my long book option. Definitely recommend it. Its long but a quick read and definitely worth it.

[Pam]

Lots of great books on your list- including 11/23/63, All the Light.., & Burial Rites! I just started American Gods and am watching the TV series. I'm not sure yet what I think about it. It's very strange. I haven't read The Grace of Kings but I like the author Ken Liu. I highly recommend his short story collection The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories.