Shelly D's Reading Challenge List

[Shelly]

Somewhere to organise my challenges.. no idea why I didn't think of this earlier :) (or by myself)

[Shelly]

Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge

30/52

✔️1. A book recommended by a librarian My Family and Other Animals 2.8.17
2. A book that’s been on your TBR list for way too long Shantaram
3. A book of letters Letters to the Lost
✔️4. An audiobook How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life 1.17.17
5. A book by a person of color Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title Winter's Heart
✔️7. A book that is a story within a story The Princess Bride 5.20.17
8. A book with multiple authors Click: One Novel, Ten Authors
✔️9. An espionage thriller Scarecrow 3.1.17
✔️10. A book with a cat on the cover A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets 2.2.17
11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym My Not So Perfect Life
12. A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read (Western) All the Pretty Horses
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability All the Light We Cannot See
✔️14. A book involving travel Fearless 2.14.17
✔️15. Got Your Attention?: How to Create Intrigue and Connect With Anyone 2.19.17
✔️16. A book that’s published in 2017 Behind Her Eyes 1.28.17
✔️17. A book involving a mythical creature Queen of Shadows 1.27.17
✔️18. A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile Sh*t My Dad Says 1.8.17
19. A book about food The Case Against Sugar
✔️20. A book with career advice Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal 2.6.17
✔️21. A book from a nonhuman perspective Jonathan Livingston Seagull1.2.17
✔️22. A steampunk novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 2.24.17
✔️23. A book with a red spine The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation 3.5.17
24. A book set in the wilderness Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
25. A book you loved as a child The Horse and His Boy
✔️26. A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited (from the UK) The Covenant Of Genesis 3.14.17
✔️27. A book with a title that’s a character’s name What Alice Forgot 3.10.17
✔️28. A novel set during wartime Slaughterhouse-Five 3.27.17
✔️29. A book with and unreliable narrator Good Me, Bad Me 2.19.17
30. A book with pictures Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you A Thousand Splendid Suns
32. A book about an interesting woman I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
33. A book set in two different time periods Labyrinth
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title
✔️35. A book set in a hotel Evergreen Falls 4.20.17
36. A book written by someone you admire
37. A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 The Dark Tower
✔️38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas The Husband's Secret (easter) 5.4.17
✔️39. The first book in a series you haven’t read before Heir of Fire 1.17.17
✔️40. A book you brought on a trip The Light Between Oceans 1.29.17

Bonus level:
41. A book recommended by an author you love
✔️42. A bestseller from 2016 Truly Madly Guilty 2.17.17
✔️43. A book with a family-member term in the title My Sister's Bones 2.15.17
44. A book that takes place over a character’s life span
✔️45. A book about an immigrant or refugee The Kite Runner 2.3.17
✔️46. A book from a genre/subgenre that you’ve never heard of (mannerpunk) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 3.22.17
47. A book with an eccentric character
✔️48. A book that’s more than 800 pages The Shadow Rising (1031 pages) 57.5.17
✔️49. A book that you got from a used book sale The Delta 2.16.17
50. A book that’s been mentioned in another book The Paris Wife (mentioned in The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
✔️51. A book about a difficult topic The Golden Child - about teenage bullying 2.12.17
✔️52. A book based on mythology The Secret Of Excalibur 3.12.17

Reference: http://www.popsugar.com/love/Reading-...

[Shelly]

Amazons 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

(so many different opinions on the top 100 books but I'm gonna go with this list from List Challenges

50/100

1. ✔️To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. ✔️Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3. ✔️Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
4. 1984 - George Orewell
5. ✔️Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
6. ✔️The Lord of the Rings - JR Tolkien
7. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
8. ✔️Charlotte's Web
9. ✔️Little Women
10. ✔️The Hobbit - JR Tolkien
11. Fahrenheit 451
12. ✔️Jane Eyre
13. ✔️Gone with the Wind
14. Animal Farm
15. ✔️Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
16. ✔️The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
17. The Help
18. The Grapes of Wrath
19. ✔️The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
20. ✔️The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
21. The Book Thief
22. ✔️Lord of the Flies
23. ✔️The Kite Runner
24. Night
25. ✔️Hamlet - Shakespeare
26. ✔️A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
27. A Wrinkle in Time
28. ✔️The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29. ✔️A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
30. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
31. The Secret Garden
32. ✔️Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
33. The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
34. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
35. The Little Prince
36. Where the Sidewalk Ends
37. ✔️Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
38. The Giver
39. ✔️Anne of Green Gables
40. ✔️Macbeth - Shakespeare
41. ✔️The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
42. ✔️Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowlings
43. ✔️Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
44. ✔️The Bible
45. ✔️The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
46. ✔️The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
47. The Fault in our Stars
48. The Color Purple
49. East of Eden
50. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
51. Catch-22 - Jospeh Heller
52. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
53. ✔️The Stand - Stephen King
54. ✔️Alice in Wonderland
55. ✔️Watership Down
56. ✔️Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
57. Ender's Game
58. ✔️Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
59. ✔️Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
60. ✔️Memoirs of a Geisha
61. ✔️The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
62. ✔️The Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowlings
63. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
64. ✔️A Game of Thrones
65. ✔️The Princess Bride
66. ✔️Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
67. ✔️Life of Pi
68. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
69. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
70. The Scarlett Letter
71. ✔️Dracula - Bram Stoker
72. ✔️Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowlings
73. ✔️Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
74. ✔️Water for Elephants
75. The Raven
76. Secret Life of Bees
77. ✔️Outlander
78. One Hundred Years of Solitude
79. The Poisonwood Bible
80. The Good Earth
81. The Time Traveler's Wife
82. The Odyssey - Homer
83. Celebrating Silence
84. A Prayer for Owen Meany
85. And Then There Were None
86. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
87. ✔️The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
88. The Glass Castle
89. ✔️Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
90. The Things They Carried
91. The Road
92. Cutting for Stone
93. The Brothers Karamzov
94. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
95. Beloved
96. The Story of my Life
97. The Phantom Tollbooth
98. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler
99. Gone Girl
100 Crime and Punishment

And a 15 book bonus level because I cannot believe these were not on this list (would happily replace Harry Potter and Hunger Games - good books...but all time greats???)

5/15

1. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
2. Ulysses - James Joyce
3. ✔️Wide Sargosso Sea - Jean Rhys
4. ✔️Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
5. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
6. Middlemarch - George Eliot
7. ✔️War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
8. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
9. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
10. ✔️The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
11. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
12. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
13. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
14. ✔️Moby Dick - Hermann Melville
15. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess