Bookin' It Through 2017 with the ATY Challenge

[Andrea]

MY 2017 CHALLENGE SELECTIONS

46/52 TASKS COMPLETED

✔= read and ☛ = still to read

✔ 1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016:

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

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

The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman

☞ 3. A book you meant to read in 2016
Moonglow by Michael Chabon

✔ 4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E":

Laurus by Evgenij Vodolazkin

✔ 5. A historical fiction:

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

✔ 6. A book being released as a movie in 2017:

The Circle by Dave Eggers

✔ 7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title:

History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund

✔ 8. A book written by a person of color:

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

✔ 9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list:

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid

☛ 10. A dual-timeline novel
The Winshaw Legacy or What a Carve Up! (?) by Jonathan Coe

✔ 11. A category from another challenge [2017 British Books Challenge]:

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

✔ 12. A book based on a myth:

Runemarks by Joanne Harris

✔ 13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors:
This book is a Carlos Ruiz Zafón recommendation

Atonement by Ian McEwan

✔ 14. A book with a strong female character:
Elizabeth Bennet

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

✔ 15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland):
Denmark

The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

✔ 16. A mystery:

The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison

✔ 17. A book with illustrations:

The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders

☛ 18. A really long book (600+ pages)
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

✔ 19. A New York Times best-seller:

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

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

The Scarlet City by Hella S. Haasse

✔ 21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read:

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

✔ 22. A book by an author you haven't read before:

Zero K by Don DeLillo

✔ 23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list:

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

✔ 24. A book written by at least two authors:

The Witch Who Came in from the Cold by Lindsay Smith (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Max Gladstone (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Ian Tregillis (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Cassandra Rose Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michael Swanwick (Contributor)

✔ 25. A book about a famous historical figure:

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton

✔ 26. An adventure book:

Day Of The Fastle by Richard Dalglish

✔ 27. A book by one of your favorite authors:

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

☛ 28. A non-fiction
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

✔ 29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre):
Flatiron Books, an imprint of Macmillan, published this book.

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

✔ 30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books:

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

✔ 31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre:
supernatural comedy- a sub-genre of fantasy

The Unhappy Medium: A Supernatural Comedy by T.J. Brown

✔ 32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle):

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

✔ 33. A magical realism novel:

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

✔ 34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere:
I initially targeted Matthew Reilly because I enjoyed The Tournament, but then I read this book for fun and discovered that Garth Nix was born and still resides in Australia!

Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix

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

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

✔ 36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee:

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

✔ 37. A book you choose randomly:

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

✔ 38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature:

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

✔ 39. An epistolary fiction:

Dracula by Bram Stoker

✔ 40. A book published in 2017:

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

✔ 41. A book with an unreliable narrator:
With this title, SOMEONE has to be unreliable!

Unreliable by Lee Irby

✔ 42. A best book of the 21st century (so far):

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

✔ 43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
by John Bellairs

✔ 44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (www.whatshouldireadnext.com)
used Atonement by Ian McEwan as the basis for recommendation

The Accidental by Ali Smith


✔ 45. A book with a one-word title:

Djibouti by Elmore Leonard

✔ 46. A time travel novel:

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

☛ 47. A past suggestion that didn't win
An illuminated novel, or a book with an illuminated cover design
Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel by Zachary Thomas Dodson

✔ 48. A banned book:
A Clockwork Orange was banned in the United States and in Britain at various times.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

✔ 49. A book from someone else's bookshelf:
My brother-in-law's shelf

The Last Juror by John Grisham

☛ 50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

✔ 51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays):

Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

✔ 52. A book set in a fictional location:

The Day Before the Revolution by Ursula K. Le Guin