Alex's Reading Challenge Corner 2018

[Alex]

LISTOPIA 2018
Jan 1 - Dec 31
0/?? completed

Female Psychological Thrillers/Suspense Written by Women
1. Behind Closed Doors
2. The Other Typist

Anticpated/Best 2017 Literary Fiction
1. Marlena
2. Universal Harvester

Best Strange & Twisted Memoirs
1. Dry
2. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

[Alex]

2018 COLOR CHALLENGE
Jan 1 - Dec 31
2/15 completed

✔ 1. "White" or any shade of white in the cover (ivory, cream, bone, etc...). | | 01.04.18

2. "Pink" or any shade of pink in the cover (rose, magenta, salmon, etc...).

3. "Red" or any shade of red in the cover (maroon, brick, scarlet, etc...).

4. "Orange" or any shade of orange in the cover (apricot, ginger, carrot, etc...).

5. "Yellow" or any shade of yellow in the cover (blond, chartreuse, canary, etc...).

6. "Green" or any shade of green in the cover (sage, lime, jade, etc...).

7. "Light Blue" or any shade of light blue in the cover (teal, sky, cerulean, etc...).

8. "Dark Blue" or any shade of dark blue in the cover (indigo, denim, navy, etc...).

9. "Purple" or any shade of purple in the cover (lavender, plum, orchid, etc...).

10. "Brown" or any shade of brown in the cover (tan, mahogany, coffee, etc...).

✔ 11. "Black" or any shade of black in the cover (grey, slate, coal, etc...). | | 01.06.18

12. Metallic color in the cover (gold, silver, bronze, etc...).

13. 5 colors on the cover.

14. Color in the title of the book.

15. A word describing colors in the title (rainbow, stripes, polka dots, etc...).

[Alex]

LET'S TURN PAGES 2018
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2017
Total pages read: 1514 pages/18,000

January - 1514 pages
February -
March -
April -
May -
June -
July -
August -
September -
October -
November -
December -

[Alex]

THE TBR JAR CHALLENGE 2018
1/6 completed

1. Lie With Me
2. The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
3. The Girl with Three Legs: A Memoir | 01.31.18
4. Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door
5. I Remember You
6. Orbiting Jupiter

[Alex]

An Author's Works Challenge
Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2017
0/5 completed

Angela Marsons
1. Play Dead
2. Blood Lines
3. Dead Souls
4. Broken Bones
5. The Middle Child

[Alex]

POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2018 (message 73)
Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2018
4/12+ completed

1. A book made into a movie you’ve already seen - Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, Donnie Darko, Carrie, Memoirs of a Geisha, It, The Shining, Red Dragon
2. True crime -
✔ 3. The next book in a series you started - Field of Screams | 01.04.18
4. A book involving a heist - Prince of Thieves
5. Nordic noir - The Bat, The Ice Princess, The Boy in the Suitcase
6. A novel based on a real person - Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath, Burial Rites
✔ 7. A book set in a country that fascinates you - The Girl with Three Legs: A Memoir | 01.31.18
8. A book with a time of day in the title - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Midnight
9. A book about a villain or antihero - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Darkly Dreaming Dexter,Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Jane Steele
10. A book about death or grief - The Hate U Give, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Norwegian Wood, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, But You Did Not Come Back, Finding Jake, After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, One True Thing
11. A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym - The Cuckoo's Calling
12. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist - Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, This is How It Always Is, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, Dry, Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, If I Was Your Girl, Guapa
13. A book that is also a stage play or musical - Bug, The Bad Seed
✔ 14. A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you- Milk and Honey | 01.06.2018
15. A book about feminism - Bad Feminist, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women, How to Be a Woman, Because I Was A Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages
16. A book about mental health - Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction, Dry, Coming Clean, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression, Have You Found Her, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder, Broken Child, Tales from a Traveling Couch: Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients, The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
✔17. A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift - The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir | 01.25.18
18. A book by two authors - The Wife Between Us, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
19. A book about or involving a sport - Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
20. A book by a local author
21. A book with your favorite color in the title - The Green Mile, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, The Search for the Green River Killer, Green Girl
22. A book with alliteration in the title - Déjà Dead, The Haunting of Hill House, Summer Sisters, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Missing Melissa, After Anna, Sleep Sister, Saving Sophie
23. A book about time travel - Dark Matter, 11/22/63, Landline
24. A book with a weather element in the title - The Scent of Rain and Lightning, The Sound of Rain, The Burning Air, The Girl In The Ice, Ice and Bone: Tracking an Alaskan Serial Killer, In Cold Blood, Cold Cold Heart, A Cold Dark Place, Cold Killing
25. A book set at sea - The Woman in Cabin 10
26. A book with an animal in the title - Summertime All the Cats Are Bored, Cat's Eye, One Good Dog, Dog Years, Black Dog, The Bat
27. A book set on a different planet - Coraline
28. A book with song lyrics in the titles - Heart-Shaped Box, Try Not to Breathe
29. A book about or set in Halloween - Hallowe'en Party, Tales Of Horror On Halloween Night, Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night, The Dirty Secrets Club, Haunted Nights, Halloween Carnival Volume 1, A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts, The Fifth Petal, Something Wicked This Way Comes
30. A book with characters who are twins - Her, The Silent Twins, The Ice Twins, Identical, The Girls, Dead Letters, Mischling
31. A book mentioned in another book - And Then There Were None, The Man in the High Castle, Before I Fall, A Time to Kill
32. A book from a celebrity book club - Good Me, Bad Me, A Stranger in the House, Final Girls
33. A childhood classic you’ve never read - The Little Prince,
34. A book that’s published in 2018 - The Chalk Man
35. A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner - Before I Fall, The Light Between Oceans, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Landline, All the Light We Cannot See, Mr. Mercedes, The Nightingale, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
36. A book set in the decade you were born
37. A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to
38. A book with an ugly cover
39. A book that involves a bookstore or a library
40. You favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, 2017 PopSugar Reading Challenges

Advanced
41. A bestseller from the year you graduated high school
42. A cyberpunk book
43. A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place
44. A book tied to your ancestry
45. A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title
46. An allegory
47. A book by an author with the same first or last name as you
48. A microhistory
49. A book about a problem facing society today
50. A book recommended by someone else taking the PopSugar Reading Challenge

[Alex]

A-Z CHALLENGE 2018
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2018
5/26 completed

Read a book for each letter of the alphabet. You can use ANY of the first letters of the main words in a title of a book (don't use words like "a", "the", "or", and "of").

A -
B -
C -
D -
E -
✔ F - Field of Screams | 01.04.18
✔ G - The Girl with Three Legs: A Memoir | 01.31.18
H -
✔ I - Incest, Murder and a Miracle: The True Story Behind the Cheryl Pierson Murder-for-Hire Headlines | 01.18.18
J -
K -
L -
✔ M - Milk and Honey | 01.06.18
N -
O -
P -
Q -
R -
✔ S - The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir | 01.25.18
T -
U -
V -
W -
X -
Y -
Z -

[Alex]

EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE 2018
Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2018
4/12 completed

2005 (The year I moved to Minnesota):
2006:
2007:
2008:
2009:
2010:
✔ 2011: The Girl with Three Legs: A Memoir | 01.31.18
2012:
2013:
✔ 2014: Milk and Honey | 01.06.18
✔ 2015: Field of Screams | 01.04.18
✔ 2016: Incest, Murder and a Miracle: The True Story Behind the Cheryl Pierson Murder-for-Hire Headlines | 01.18.18
2017:
2018: