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GENRE BINGO CHALLENGEDuration: January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018
Graphic novel: Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening, finished 1/1, *****
Self help: What Color is Your Parachute? 2017: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, finished 1/21, ***
Biography: My Own Words, finished 1/26, ****
Family saga: The Best We Could Do, finished 1/27, *****
Memoir: Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, finished 2/2, ***
Dystopian: Iron Gold, finished 2/4, ****
Science fiction: Dawn, finished 2/10, ****
Historical: Homegoing, finished 2/20, *****
Adventure: Zahrah the Windseeker, finished 2/23, ****
Magical realism: Sing, Unburied, Sing, finished 3/3, *****
Urban fantasy: Beneath the Sugar Sky, finished 3/5, ****
Literary: Little Fires Everywhere, finished 3/20, *****
Historical non: The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies, finished 3/21, *****
YA: Illuminae, finished 3/26, ****
Science non: The Illustrated A Brief History of Time, finished 3/27, ****
Short stories/novella: The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories about Facing the Unknown, finished 4/1, ****
Suspense: Before the Fall, finished 4/2, ***
Romance: Call Me by Your Name, finished 4/6, ****
Humor: The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests, finished 4/12, ****
Horror: Dread Nation, finished 4/15, ****
Space Opera: Space Opera :), finished 4/23, ***
Mystery/thriller: Daemon, finished 7/17, ***
Chick-lit: Crazy Rich Asians, finished 8/28, ****
Classic: Anne of Green Gables, finished 10/12, *****
Epic/high fantasy: Guards! Guards!, finished 12/24, ****
Dystopian: The Handmaid's Tale, finished 12/26, *****
COMPLETED: 25/25
THE EVERY YEAR CHALLENGEDuration: January 1, - December 31, 2018
1985: Brightness Falls from the Air, finished 12/19, *****
1986: Young Zaphod Plays It Safe, finished 11/1, ***
1987: Dawn, finished 2/10, ****
1988: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, finished 12/1, ****
1989: Guards! Guards!, finished 12/24, ****
1990: Last Chance to See, finished 9/27, ****
1991: Boy's Life, finished 7/7, ***
1992: Soar with Your Strengths: A Simple Yet Revolutionary Philosophy of Business and Management, finished 7/5, *** (or 1995)
1993: Death: The High Cost of Living Collected, finished 7/7, ****
1994: The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability, finished 5/22, **
1995: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, finished 7/15, ****
1996: The Illustrated A Brief History of Time, finished 3/27, ****
1997: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence, finished 11/15, ***
1998: Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1, finished 12/8, ****
1999: Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror, Vol. 3, finished 12/8, ****
2000: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, finished 5/25, ****
2001: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't, finished 4/21, ****
2002: Uzumaki, Vol. 2, finished 12/8, ****
2003: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, finished 1/21, ***
2004: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, finished 12/2, ****
2005: Zahrah the Windseeker, finished 2/23, ****
2006: Daemon, finished 7/17, ***
2007: Call Me by Your Name, finished 4/6, ****
2008: The Last Lecture, finished 3/6, ****
2009: When You Reach Me, 4/27, ****
2010: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, finished 9/30, ***
2011: Principles, finished 4/5, ***
2012: Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus, finished 11/17, **
2013: A Tale for the Time Being, finished 5/31, ****
2014: Citizen: An American Lyric, finished 2/5, *****
2015: Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, finished 2/2, ***
2016: Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening, 1/1, *****
2017: The Best We Could Do, 1/27, *****
2018: Iron Gold, finished 2/4, ****
COMPLETED: 32/32
RECOMMENDED NONFICTION CHALLENGEDuration January 1 to December 31, 2018
I'll be reading from Amazon's Most Read Nonfiction list from December 24.
1. Principles , finished 4/5, ***
2. Leonardo da Vinci , finished 4/2, ***
3. What Happened , finished 11/16, ****
4. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
5. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea , finished 8/22, ****
COMPLETED: 4/5 (changed from 6)
POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2018Duration: January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018
One of the most popular reading challenges is back! The 2018 Popsugar Reading Challenge contains 40 tasks to broaden your horizons and 10 additional book prompts for the “hardcore” readers out here!
COMPLETED: 40/40
A-Z CHALLENGEDuration: January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018
A: Citizen: An American Lyric, finished 2/5, *****
B: Beneath the Sugar Sky, finished 3/5, ****
C: The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, finished 4/23, ****
D: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, finished 5/12, ****
E: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, finished 3/10, *****
F: Little Fires Everywhere, finished 3/20, *****
G: Iron Gold, finished 2/5, ****
H: Homegoing, finished 2/20, *****
I: Illuminae, finished 3/26, ****
J: The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests, finished 4/12, ****
K: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, finished 5/25, ****
L: The Last Lecture, finished 3/6, ****
M: The Weight of Memories, finished 3/11, ****
N: Call Me by Your Name, finished 4/6, ****
O: My Own Words, finished 1/26, ****
P: Principles, finished 4/5, ***
Q: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finished 10/9, ****
R: How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child, finished 3/2, ****
S: Sing, Unburied, Sing, finished 3/3, *****
T: Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, finished 2/2, ***
U: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, finished 1/20, ***
V: Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening, finished 1/1, *****
W: The Best We Could Do, finished 1/27, *****
X: Dawn (Xenogenesis), finished 2/10, ****
Y: What Color Is Your Parachute?, finished 1/21, **
Z: Zahrah the Windseeker, finished 2/23, ****
COMPLETED: 26/26
THE MEMBERS’ TASKS CHALLENGE Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2018
I met my goal! But I'm going to keep going to see how far I get.
1. Adriana's task: Read a book where a character makes a big change or with a librarian as a main character: How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child, finished 3/2, ****
2. Amanda's task: Read a book which has been translated from another language: The Weight of Memories, finished 3/11, ****
3. Anna's task: Read a book where any character's name matches with any Disney character's name. The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories about Facing the Unknown, finished 4/1, ****
4. Aparajita's task: Read a book written in a language that appears on the Indian currency, other than English. (Read a translation if you don't speak/read any of those languages).
5. April's task: Read a book that takes place in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. So You Want to Talk About Race, finished 6/13, *****
6. Blagica's task: Read a book that intimidates you or the biggest book on your TBR Pile.
7. Candiss' task: Read a work of epistolary fiction: Illuminae, finished 3/26, ****
8. Charity's task: Read a book about mental illness: Educated: A Memoir, finished 8/2, *****
9. Cheri's task: Read a book that is about or takes place in the Middle Ages.
10. Chloe's task: Read a book set in Canada or by a Canadian author. A Tale for the Time Being, finished 5/31, ****
11. Claire's task: Read a book about Pharaoh, a book set in Egypt, or a book about archaeology.
12. Daph's task: Read a book recommended by a friend or family member. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, finished 6/6, *****
13. Debra's task: Read a book about a serial killer or true crime. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, finished 4/23, ****
14. Delitealex's task: Read a book with ghosts in it or read a horror book Sing, Unburied, Sing, finished 3/3, *****
15. Diana's task: Read a book by a Romanian author, about Romania's culture or about a famous Romanian.
16. D.G.'s task: Read a book with a Hispanic author, character, or setting The House of the Spirits , finished 10/9, ****
17. Eggp's task: Read a book with a friend or participate in a buddy read: Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, finished 2/2, ***
18. Gail W's task: Read a book by an Irish writer.
19. Gilraens's task: Read a by an author from one of those three countries (Netherlands, UK and New Zealand) or set in one of those countries. Space Opera, finished 4/23, ***
20. Gem's task: Read a book with a "6" (six) in the title or one that is set or published in 1966. Six of Crows, finished 9/21, ****
21. Greg's task: Read a book about the Vietnam War or about conscription. No-No Boy, finished 6/6, ****
22. Gretchen's task: Read a book featuring a main character who is an identical twin.
23. Hemangini's task: Read a book where a writer/author is the main protagonist.The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying, 6/30, ****
24. Ilona's task: Read a book about fairy folklore.
25. Inkeri's task: Read a book about physics: A Brief History of Time, finished 3/27, ****
26. Jennifer B's task: Read a book about a big family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, finished 5/25, ****
27. Jennifer N’s task: Read a book where either the main character or the author has red hair. The Glass Castle, finished 8/31, ****
28. Jenny's task: Read a book about surgery or the history of medicine.Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, finished 7/28, *****
29. Jessica's task: Read a book that takes place somewhere that begins with the letter M or someplace where the winters are very cold. Call Me by Your Name, finished 4/6, ****
30. Jill's task: Read a book that takes place where one of your ancestor's lived. Pachinko, finished 6/21, *****
31. Kadijah Michelle's task: Read a book about a Muslim woman.
32. Kristin's task: Read a cookbook with stories or a book about cooking.
33. Kylie's task: Read a book about someone who makes shoes, a book where shoes have an important role, or a (micro-)history of a shoe designer/brand.
34. Laura's task: Read a book set somewhere you have visited or lived. Warcross, finished 4/8, ****
35. Lauri's task: Read a book set in Hawaii or on a tropical island. Circe, finished 6/17, ****
36. Leona's task: Read a book about art: Leonardo da Vinci, finished 4/2, ***
37. Lindsay's task: Read a book about or featuring an animal. The Clay Girl, finished 7/19, ****
38. Lois' task: Read a story about a search for family history or discovering your past: The Best We Could Do, finished 1/27, *****
39. Mie's task: Read a book that includes or features a party. The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests, finished 4/12, ****
40. Nikinnia's task: Read a book by an African American author, with an African American character or set in the South: Zahrah the Windseeker, finished 2/23, ****
41. Nikki's task: Read a book where the main character gets transported to a different time or place. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, finished 5/12, *****
42. Rachael's task: Read a book published between 1990 and 1999. The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability, finished 5/22, **
43. Rebecca's task: Read a book where the main character enjoys creating art or is a teacher: My Own Words, finished 1/26, ****
44. Rique's task: Read a book, fiction or historical fiction, taking place anywhere from the Great Depression through WWII (1929-1945). The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies, finished 3/21, *****
45. Sarah's task: Read a book that is centered around the mafia/mob.
46. Sheila's task: Read a book about living in the intersection of 2 or more cultures: Homegoing, finished 2/20, *****
47. Susy's task: Read a book in your mother language/tongue. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, finished 1/20, ***
COMPLETED: 35/35
Must reads in January:1. Crime and Punishment
2. How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
3. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
4. The Bear and the Nightingale
5. Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening
Options for February: 1. How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
2. Who Fears Death
3. Dawn
4. Things Fall Apart
5. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
6. Binti
7. An Unkindness of Ghosts
8. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
9. The Last Black Unicorn
10. Citizen: An American Lyric
11. Homegoing
12. Zahrah the Windseeker
13. Sing, Unburied, Sing
#readingblackout
Options for March:1. Illuminae (TBR Twins)
2. Before the Fall (work book club)
3. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE (work book club 2)
4. Beneath the Sugar Sky
5. The Last Lecture
6. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
7. Little Fires Everywhere
Options for April:1. When You Reach Me (work book club)
2. Call Me by Your Name (book club)
3. Before the Fall (work book club)
4. Leonardo da Vinci
5. Principles
6. Dread Nation
7. The Female Persuasion
8. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
9. Strange the Dreamer
10. Warcross
11. The Ship of the Dead
12. Space Opera
13. Circe
Options for May:1. Europe in Autumn
2. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
3. Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
4. The Poppy War
5. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
6. No-No Boy
7. A Tale for the Time Being
8. Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism
9. The Rape of Nanking
10. The Lowland
11. Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood
12. We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
13. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
14. Pachinko
15. One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
BOOKRIOT'S 2018 READ HARDER CHALLENGE
COMPLETED: 24/24
Options for June:1. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
2. Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
3. Hamlet
4. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
5. Circe
6. Children of Blood and Bone
7. Pachinko
8. The Lowland
9. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
10. One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
11. So You Want to Talk About Race
12. The Fire Next Time
GOODREADS SUMMER READING CHALLENGEDuration: June 1 - August 31
Summer-Related Tasks
6. Ocean Blue: Read a book that takes place on the water.
8. Sports-a-holic: Read a book that features a popular summer sport.
Tasks to Stretch Your Comfort Zone
-- Let's Get It On: Read a book that features falling in or out of love.
-- Poet at Heart: Read a book of poetry
-- My, What Big Teeth You Have: Read a book that puts a spin on a well-known fairy tale.
-- High Noon: Read a classic or contemporary Western.
COMPLETED: 17/15
Options for July1. Record of a Spaceborn Few
2. The Clay Girl
3. Daemon
4. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
5. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
6. Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
7. Boy's Life
8. Leading While Green: How Emerging Leaders Can Ripen Into Effective Leaders
9. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
10. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
11. Educated: A Memoir
Options for August1. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
2. Last Chance to See
3. Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
4. The House of the Spirits
5. Crime and Punishment
6. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
7. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
8. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
9. The Future is Blue
10. Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
Options for September1. Foundryside
2. The House of the Spirits
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
5. Six of Crows
6. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
7. Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
8. The Final Empire
Options for October1. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
2. The Monster Baru Cormorant
3. The Consuming Fire
4. Vengeful
5. Foundryside
6. What Happened
7. Anne of Green Gables
8. All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
9. Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
Possibilities for 2019 Listopia challenges:Best Science Fiction & Fantasy books
Best Feminist Fiction
Best Page Turners with Redeeming Social Value
Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men
Best Hugo Award Winners and Nominees
Best Nonfiction (no biographies)
Must Read Non-fiction
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
Around the World in 100 Books
Options for November1. The Monster Baru Cormorant
2. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
3. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
4. Brightness Falls from the Air
5. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
6. Emma
7. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Options for December1. What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
2. Guards! Guards!
3. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
4. The Snowman
5. Cosmos
6. Brightness Falls from the Air
7. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
8. Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1
9. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
10. A Clockwork Orange or The Handmaid's Tale
2022 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (other topics)Hamlet (other topics)
The Illustrated A Brief History of Time (other topics)
Don Quixote (other topics)
A Brief History of Time (other topics)
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Duration: January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018
LIST ONE: Must Read Classics
At the start of 2018: 58
1. Hamlet
2. Crime and Punishment
3. Anne of Green Gables, finished 10/12, *****4. Don Quixote
5. Emma, finished 12/3, ***LIST TWO: Speculative Fiction by Authors of Color
At the start of 2018: 15 books
1. Zahrah the Windseeker, finished 2/23, ****2. The House of the Spirits, finished 10/9, ****3. Dawn, finished 2/10, ****4. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, finished 9/30, ***5. A Tale for the Time Being, 5/31, ****LIST THREE: Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
At the start of 2018: 23 books
1. A Brief History of Time, finished 3/27, ****2. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, finished 7/17, ****3. Last Chance to See, finished 9/27, ****4. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
5. Cosmos, finished 12/20, *****COMPLETED: 10/15