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In 2018 I am approaching this challenge with a new tactic. For the past 2 years I have picked one book per topic at the start of the year and read that particular book for this challenge, even if there was other books I read that would fit into one of these categories, I wouldn't count it and still read the original pick. The problem with this is that sometimes you don't feel like reading certain books at a certain time, or you just can't get your hands on it. So for this year I'll be reading off my TBR (360 books) and putting them where they fit as I go. Can't wait to get started!
That was pretty much my approach for this year's challenge, and it worked really well for me. I wish you lots of luck and happy reading!
Okay, I'm doing my quarterly update a few days early as I will be going camping over Easter and I wont read more off this list before then.During this first three months I've read 22 books, a cracking pace I won't keep up, largely because I participated in a two month long team reading challenge at the start of the year.
So far my favourite book has been Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea and my least favourite Second Chances
Quarterly update being done late because I went on holidays :)I read 13 books for this challenge over the 3 months
My favourite was Tobruk, least favourite Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
All up I've finished 35 books
Favourite: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Least favourite: Second Chances
Have read some ripping books for this challenge this year and there are a heap more I look forward to reading.
I really like your list and added several to my TBR from it and your Favourites list! I can’t always find Australian authors, though, through the library. I didn’t realize that Lonesome Dove, which I’m reading, has a rope/lasso on it (kind of obvious). That helps me with that prompt! Look forward to seeing your remaining books. We have some of the same ones left.
Doing my quarterly undated early because I'll be away this weekend (yay!)I only read 9 books off this list over the last 3 months, my favourite being A Man Called Ove and I actually didn't read one that I disliked.
Overall I have read 44 books so far and my favourite and least favourite haven't changed.
Today as I drove down to my Christmas holiday I listened to my last book.So overall;
Favourite fiction book - The Score
Favourite nonfiction book - Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
Favourite book I would never have read if not for this challenge - Into Thin Air
Most disappointing book - Horse Heaven
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Horse Heaven (other topics)Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea (other topics)
Into Thin Air (other topics)
The Score (other topics)
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52 weeks, 52 books.
52 down, 0 to go.
1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the titleAround the World in Eighty Days - Completed 17/1
2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read listSecond Chances - Completed 8/2
3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice AwardsBeartown - Completed 2/3
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 EarthThe Sunburnt Country - Completed 1/8
5. A book about or inspired by real eventsNothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea - Completed 22/1
6. A book originally written in a language other than EnglishThe Cherry Orchard - Completed 4/1
7. A gothic novelVillette - Completed 18/12
8. An "own voices" bookThe Sun Is Also a Star - Completed 27/3
9. A book with a body part in the titleIn His Eyes - Completed 7/1
10. An author's debut bookCold Comfort Farm - Completed 7/3
11. A literary fictionGould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish - Completed 20/5
12. A book set in Africa or South AmericaHope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by war, saved by ballet: an extraordinary true story - Completed 25/3
13. A book with a plot centred around a secretThe Secret History of the World - Completed 21/10
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 FireKinglake-350 - Completed 30/1
15. A book with an unique format/writing structureFamily Skeleton - Completed 12/2
16. A narrative non-fictionWild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Completed 2/8
17. A book you expect to make you laughHow I Became a Famous Novelist - Completed 24/10
18. A book with a location in the titleMount Buggery to Nowhere Else: The stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names - Completed 31/8
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author*WILDCARD* The Call Of The Weird: Travels In American Subcultures - Completed 14/11
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friendsThe Hunger Games - Completed 24/6
21. A book written in first person perspectiveThe Fault in Our Stars - Completed 6/9
22. A book you have high expectations or hope forRomeo And Juliet - Completed 26/2
23. A medical or legal thrillerZac and Mia - Completed 19/1
24. A book with a mapThe Map Thief - Completed 21/4
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of viewLolita - Completed 9/5
26. A book with a text only coverThe Road - Completed 10/6
27. A book about surviving a hardshipTobruk - Completed 29/4
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 WaterBrother Fish - Completed 28/1
29. A book with a "Cluedo" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)Lonesome Dove - Completed 18/4
30. A short book84, Charing Cross Road - Completed 10/5
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been toParis Time Capsule - Completed 5/1
32. An alternate history bookA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Completed 16/2
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as youThe Score - Completed 28/10
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-callRiders of the Purple Sage - Completed 14/1
35. A book featuring a murderScam Chowder - Completed 10/2
36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read beforeTalking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between - Completed 21/4
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nomineeHorse Heaven - Completed 2/12
38. A science book or a science fiction bookA Brief History of Time - Completed 15/3
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the titleThe Toll-Gate - Completed 6/1
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime listThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Completed 9/8
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initialsLeaves of Grass - Completed 10/6
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwaterMoby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them - Completed 16/3
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentenceAre We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? - Completed 30/4
44. A ghost storyA Christmas Carol - Completed 20/12
45. A book that intimidates/ scares youCarrie - Completed 27/9
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 AirInto Thin Air - Completed 5/6
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your ownReading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Completed 5/7
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)The Hippopotamus - Completed 12/10
49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month listsMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Completed 25/1
50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centred on family, friendship, love or summer)A Man Called Ove - Completed 11/7
51. An award-winning short story or short story collectionMe Talk Pretty One Day - Completed 17/7
52. A book published in 2018The Lucky Galah - Completed 23/5