Suki's Random Reading Plan

[Suki]

The 2017 List
1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 (link)
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
3. A book you meant to read in 2016
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
5. A historical fiction
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
(from The Book Depository website)
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
8. A book written by a person of color
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
10. A dual-timeline novel
11. A category from another challenge
12. A book based on a myth
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
14. A book with a strong female character
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Norway)
16. A mystery
Fer-de-Lance: Nero Wolfe #1 by Rex Stout
17. A book with illustrations
18. A really long book (600+ pages)
19. A New York Times best-seller
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: Flavia de Luce #1 by Alan Bradley
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
22. A book by an author you haven't read before
A Room with a View by E M Forster
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
24. A book written by at least two authors
Sacrificial Nights by Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti
25. A book about a famous historical figure
26. An adventure book
Castle in the Air: Howl's Moving Castle #2 by Diana Wynne Jones
27. A book by one of your favorite authors
Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto
28. A non-fiction
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions
Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt
This book is published by an indie press called Shock Totem Productions
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
I don't really have a favorite genre, but I read and enjoy a lot of SF; Dystopian fiction is a subgenre.
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
33. A magical realism novel
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
The Bitterwood Bible by Angela Slatter
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link)
Old Man's War: Old Man's War #1 by John Scalzi
37. A book you choose randomly
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
39. An epistolary fiction
Evelina (or, A Young Lady's Entrance Into the World) by Frances Burney
40. A book published in 2017
41. A book with an unreliable narrator
The Murder at the Vicarage: Miss Marple #1 by Agatha Christie
I think almost any book by Agatha Christie would fit the Unreliable Narrator category. This narrator tells us about the people and events of the story as it moves along, but certain facts are misconstrued, and some people are mistakenly suspected of the crime. This narrator gives us all the facts, and we see and hear everything that he/she does. It is the reader's job to try to figure out which of the conclusions that the narrator takes from the facts are true, and which are misleading.
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
The Tired Sounds, A Wake by Michael Wehunt
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
45. A book with a one-word title
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
46. A time travel novel
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time by Yasutaka Tsutsui
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link)
Genre fiction (sci-fi) written over 50 years ago:
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (1961)
48. A banned book
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories by Ray Russell
52. A book set in a fictional location
Howl's Moving Castle: Howl's Moving Castle #1 by Diana Wynne Jones

[Jewel]

Oooo, Perfume: a Story of a Murderer is a gorgeous, chilling tale! I read it almost a decade ago and it's stuck with me. Hands down my favourite dark fairy-tale. Enjoy!

[Suki]

Jewel wrote: "Oooo, Perfume: a Story of a Murderer is a gorgeous, chilling tale! I read it almost a decade ago and it's stuck with me. Hands down my favourite dark fairy-tale. Enjoy!"

Thanks, Jewel! I especially love the descriptions of perfume-making- it is mind-boggling how many flowers it takes to produce a tiny bit of scent.

[Suki]

Katie wrote: "Good luck with your list Suki :)

Perfume is one of those books I want to read eventually. I'm a bit afraid of it, but I will read it one of these days!"

Thanks for the good wishes, Katie! I also wish you luck with yours! When you do read Perfume, I hope you enjoy it.