MAY - A book that starts with one of the letters in "ONTD"

[Lea]

(The article "The" doesn't count)

Some suggestions:

Othello - William Shakespeare
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Orientalism - Edward Said
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman
N or M? - Agatha Christie
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
NOS4A2 - Joe Hill
Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin
This Savage Song - Victoria Schwab
Three Dark Crowns - Kendare Blake
The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
Devil in Winter - Lisa Kleypas
Dealing with Dragons - Patricia C Wrede
Dare Me - Megan Abbott
Danger! Women Artists at Work - Debra Mancoff
Dreaming of Dior: Every Dress Tells a Story - Charlotte Smith

[Undine]

I'm finally gonna read Oblomov.

[Keri]

Never Let Me Go suuuucked.

I'll probably read Dracula since I have the hard copy waiting to be read! I'll have to see my To-Read List for another I can read.

[IMY]

This is my ambitious list, we'll see how many I actually get through.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
Troubling Love
Orphan Train

[Rachel]

I have to read Noughts & Crosses and Oryx and Crake for another challenge I'm doing, so I will be reading those.

Maybe I'll try to make all the books I read in May to fit this challenge, we'll see!

EDIT: going to start tracking books under a spoiler cut

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BOOKS I READ:

POSSIBLE BOOKS:
Noughts & Crosses
Oryx and Crake
The Orphan Mother

BOOKS ON HOLD:
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[kirsten]

I'm leaning towards Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman for this. Especially sine I've been meaning to read this since it came out (Neil is my favourite author) and I got it for 50% off the other day at Indigo.

[Liz]

I'll likely read Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus as it's been on my TBR list for about 2 years now...

[Kelly]

I'm debating on possibly reading The Night Circus as well since I've heard good things about it. I haven't decided yet though.

I would definitely recommend NOS4A2 if anyone is on the fence for it. I really loved that book a lot. I've really become a big fan of Joe Hill's these past few years.

[Eve]

Kelly wrote: "I'm debating on possibly reading The Night Circus as well since I've heard good things about it. I haven't decided yet though.

I would definitely recommend NOS4A2 if..."

Night Circus is very polarizing...people either love it or think it's vastly overrated. If you're into world building and visuals, you'll like it. But if you're looking for character development and character-driven plot, look elsewhere imo because it's pretty boring on that front. Most of the characters are pretty one-dimensional.

NOS4A2 is on my list for May!

[Kim]

My potential choices are:

Often I Am Happy

Nutmeg

Nemesis

Three Years with the Rat

The Dancers Dancing

[Cecil]

Probably going to end up reading Titus Groan for this since I've been putting off reattempting that series.

[RC]

I am between Often I Am Happy (thanks, Kim!) and The Three Musketeers for this month. The page length of the latter is putting me off, and I am in the mood for a little heartbreak, so maybe I'll go with the former.

[Rachel]

ONTD post is up for the May task! http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/...

[Ingrid]

I'm leaning towards NOS4A2, but I'm also considering:

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Titans by Victoria Scott
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (I started this one years ago and never finished it)

Not sure if A Darker Shade of Magic counts for the challenge, but I'll also be reading that this month, and I hope to finish the February and March challenges. It's been 84 years.gif

[susan]

I defs want to do all ONTD so I raided my to-read list for ideas. atm I'm thinking:

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (we'll see if this actually happens lol, but i want to read more classics)
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer
Dogsbody - Diana Wynne Jones

so, a chance to sneak in some scifi/fantasy for this challenge lol

[Alyssa]

i'm currently reading The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog, and i think i may try to read all books this month that fit into the challenge category. although i have been so slow this year that might only be one other book!

[Linsey]

Susan wrote: "I defs want to do all ONTD so I raided my to-read list for ideas. atm I'm thinking:

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (we'll see if this actually happens lol, but i..."

I officially read Northanger Abby for this month, but I just started the Night Watch. Also One Hundred Years of Solitude is such a great and immersive read!

[Kat]

I'm gonna try to read The Odyssey. I've wanted to for years but never got around to it so now seems like a good time.

[Lucie]

Ah whoops, I got April and May the wrong way around! I read Dracula as my book beginning with one of the letters ONTD. It was on my 'hundred books to read' list and I'm glad I got to it. It's a bit rambling in parts but has some lovely haunting descriptions and I can only imagine how darkly thrilling it would have been during the era in which it was first published. I've given a full review here.

[Rachel]

Actually Dracula can work April because it was nominated for an oscar (And won!) :)

[Lucie]

Rachel wrote: "Actually Dracula can work April because it was nominated for an oscar (And won!) :)"

Awesome, I'm two for two ;) will try and do another for this month,
I just got the audible version of "The Nothing Girl" by Jodi Taylor so I'll get cracking with that. I also wanted to read Rosemary's Baby for the April challenge but still haven't managed to scout myself out a cheap copy so will continue trying to track that one down.

[anolinde]

Finished my book early this month - read The Dressmaker! The movie was pretty good/weird and the book was basically the same. There were a lot of fashion terms that I had to look up!

[Lea]

Here to recommend These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer to romance fans this month - it's a lot of fun!!

[Kelly]

After seeing a whole thread of people praising it I might end up doing Night Film instead for this month. I still need to finish Cannibalism (the book not the practice) first though so it'll end up being whatever is available at the library.

[susan]

Linsey wrote: "I officially read Northanger Abby for this month, but I just started the Night Watch. Also One Hundred Years of Solitude is such a great and immersive read!"

that's rly good to hear - I was so interested by the synopsis but my mom loathes it and is judging me for picking it lol

[Lucie]

Linsey wrote: "Susan wrote: "I defs want to do all ONTD so I raided my to-read list for ideas. atm I'm thinking:

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (we'll see if this actually happ..."

Great recommendations, I loved Persuasion and Mansfield park but Northanger Abbey is still on my tbr list (as are both of the others you mention) how did you find it?

[Miki]

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
Titans - Victoria Scott
Dealing with Dragons - Patricia C Wrede

[Courtney]

I just finished Talking To My Country by Stan Grant. It was a mixture of memoir and essays on the meaning of aboriginality within australia. It was extremely powerful.

[Carla]

I think I've decided on Truly Madly Guilty for this one.

[Juliana]

I decided I'm going to read 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl for this challenge. I may read something else as well but we'll see.

[Juliana]

Update: I'm going to pick something else. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is an awful, self-loathing book and I can't get past the first 50 pages.

[Sam]

I had planned on reading four books this month for the challenge but life is a little too hectic right now. I'm almost halfway through Dangerous Girls right now. I do want to read The Nightingale after if I have time.

[Sasha]

If "the" doesn't count, does "a" not count either? I'm trying to look at my to-read list and see what I can read that fits, and nothing is really grabbing me. But work = life atm so maybe it's that :P

[Rachel]

Yeah, the "a" doesn't count :)

[Rachel]

I started a book. I'm starting with D - The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle.

[Juliana]

I finally found a book that doesn't make me want to chuck it across the room for how horribly written it is.
I'm starting Nine Women, One Dress. Do I get extra points for finding a book that uses three out of the four letters in the title? ;P

[Kim]

I forgot about my other suggestions and went for The Devotion of Suspect X which I highly recommend.

[Alyssa]

I finished The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog (meh) and am now working on Dark Matter which is really good!

[Rachel]

i just finished the horror-ish book, The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle. I really enjoyed it.

[Kelly]

I'm still waiting on a hold for Night Film from the library but in the meantime I finished Gabourey Sidibe's book This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare, which I really enjoyed, and then I started This Is Where It Ends since it was on the librarian recommendations shelf at the library and I am not feeling it at all so far.

[Liz]

I've finished The Night Circus and I absolutely adored it! Though, I think I may be the only one who read it this month.

[Dessi]

I just recently started Dark Matter and it is AWESOME. Can't put it down so I am sure I will finish it until the end of the month.

[Courtney]

I also ended up reading NOS4R2... wasn't prepared for the level of creepy tbh.

[Rachel]

I'm going to have to continue this challenge into next month lol, I really wanted to get to every letter. I'm picking up Not Your Sidekick this weekend from the library and I still want to get to Those Across the River. my copy of oryx and crake is never coming in :( but eventually it will lol

[Courts]

Rachel wrote: "I'm going to have to continue this challenge into next month lol, I really wanted to get to every letter. I'm picking up Not Your Sidekick this weekend from the library and I still want to get to T..."

Oh, I loved Not Your Sidekick. It was super cute and fun.