Vale's 2017 plan (fill as I go)

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Notes: Since I'm jumping in half way through, I'm counting books I read so far this year. I aim to complete the challenge, but will be happy if I get over 30! And I'm not going in order...

The 2017 List

January

1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
Homegoing

2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
A Visit from the Goon Squad

3. A book you meant to read in 2016
The Dispossessed

4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
Original Bliss


February

5. A historical fiction
The Moor's Account

6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
Murder on the Orient Express

7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
The Mare

8. A book written by a person of color
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

March

9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
The Sellout

10. A dual-timeline novel
Strange Heart Beating

11. A category from another challenge:
Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore in piazza Vittorio

12. A book based on a myth
The Penelopiad

April

13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
Tooth and Claw , reccomended by Annie Proulx

14. A book with a strong female character
Swing Time

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

16. A mystery
Del dirsi addio

May

17. A book with illustrations
Stitches

18. A really long book (600+ pages)
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay

19. A New York Times best-seller
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
The Year of Magical Thinking

June

21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
No Longer at Ease

22. A book by an author you haven't read before
Five Star Billionaire


23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list
Brave New World

24. A book written by at least two authors

July

25. A book about a famous historical figure
Santa Evita

26. An adventure book
The Power

27. A book by one of your favorite authors
Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales

28. A non-fiction
Priestdaddy: A Memoir

July

29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions
An Unnecessary Woman

30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books
Howl's Moving Castle

31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre

32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

August

33. A magical realism novel
Le voci del mondo

34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
The Star Side of Bird Hill

35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
La sovrana lettrice

36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee
Flowers for Algernon

Semptember

37. A book you choose randomly

38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
The Expatriates

39. An epistolary fiction
Dear Committee Members

40. A book published in 2017
Her Body and Other Parties

October

41. A book with an unreliable narrator
Mémoire de fille

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

43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
The Shipping News

44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next"
Everything I Never Told You

November

45. A book with a one-word title
Veronica

46. A time travel novel
The Time Traveler's Wife

47. A past suggestion that didn't win
A book with a cryptic or nonsense title:
Hot Milk

48. A banned book
The Well of Loneliness

December

49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
The Reluctant Fundamentalist

50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
Jane Eyre

51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
Cooked Up: An Anthology of Stories about Food

52. A book set in a fictional location

[Kelly]

I thought the immortal life of Henrietta Lack was really fascinating book! I really enjoyed it!

[[deleted user]]

Kelly wrote: "I thought the immortal life of Henrietta Lack was really fascinating book! I really enjoyed it!"

Thanks for the reccomendation...I will give it a go then :)

[Jody]

Another vote for Henrietta here. It is fantastic, not daunting at all. It reads way more like fiction, and it's totally compelling and absolutely fascinating. It's one of my favourite non-fiction books ever.