COMPLETED Heidi's mostly fantasy, scifi & classics 2018 plan

[Heidi]

Not reading in order, planning some to reads in advance but leaving spaces open for discoveries along the way!

The 2018 List

1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
Raisa Porrasmaa Japani pintaa syvemmältä: Muutakin kuin sake, sushi ja samurait
2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
Peter Wohlleben The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards
Katherine Arden The Bear and the Nightingale
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
Frank Herbert Dyyni - Kolmas osa: Profeetta
5. A book about or inspired by real events
Timo Isoaho Nightwish - We Were Here
6. A book originally written in a language other than English
Anni Kytömäki Kivitasku
7. A gothic novel
Angela Carter The Magic Toyshop
8. An "own voices" book
Octavia E. Butler Imago
9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
Frances Hardinge A Skinful of Shadows
10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
11. A literary fiction
Kazuo Ishiguro The Buried Giant
12. A book set in Africa or South America
Mario Vargas Llosa The Green House
13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
Kate Morton The Forgotten Garden
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire (House on fire on the cover)
Philip Pullman A Sally Lockhart Mystery 2: The Shadow in the North
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
William Goldman The Princess Bride
16. A narrative nonfiction
Mia Kankimäki Asioita jotka saavat sydämen lyömään nopeammin
17. A book you expect to make you laugh
Minna Eväsoja Melkein geisha: hurmaava ja hullu Japani
18. A book with a location in the title
Henry David Thoreau Walden
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author
Daphne du Maurier Jamaica Inn
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
Maria Turtschaninoff Maresi
21. A book written in first person perspective
Octavia E. Butler Adulthood Rites
22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
Angela Carter Nights at the Circus
23. (A medical or legal thriller) Wild Card
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
24. A book with a map
Haruki Murakami Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
Julie C. Dao Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
26. A book with a text only cover
Naomi Klein No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
Jan Zalasiewicz Ocean Worlds: The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench) Revolver on the cover
Philip Pullman A Sally Lockhart Mystery 3: The Tiger in the Well
30. A short book
Takashi Hiraide The Guest Cat
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to (Japan)
Hiromi Kawakami Strange Weather in Tokyo
32. An alternate history book
Kate Elliott Cold Magic
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you
Year: 1989, word: hominin
Chris Stringer Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call: A book about mental illness
Han Kang The Vegetarian
35. A book featuring a murder
Gail Carriger Soulless
36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
Lauren Oliver Replica: Lyra / Gemma
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
Naomi Alderman The Power
38. A science book or a science fiction book
Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
Philip Pullman The Tin Princess
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
Louise O'Neill The Surface Breaks
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
Alan Bradley Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
44. A ghost story
Jonathan Stroud The Empty Grave
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
Hanna Tuuri Tuulen maa (title = The Land of Wind)
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
Kyung-Sook Shin Please Look After Mom
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
Homer The Iliad (wrath)
49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists
Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus
50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
Hector Garcia Puigcerver Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
Banana Yoshimoto Kitchen
52. A book published in 2018
Alan Bradley The Grave's a Fine and Private Place


2018 Reading Goals

Read 28,000 pages: 21,660/28,000
Read thirteen non-fiction books: 13/13 (completed outside of ATY)
Read 12 classics (published at least 50 years ago): 12/12
Read books from five new countries: 3/5
Read two doorstops (>750 pages): 1/2

Minimum 50% of 2018 reading by female authors: 58% (30/52)
Minimum 20% of 2018 reading from non US/UK authors: 40% (21/52)

[Michele]

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children tämä oli todella hyvä!

[Heidi]

Michele wrote: "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children tämä oli todella hyvä!"

On pitänyt lukea tuo jo kauan, joten odotan innolla!

[Heidi]

COMPLETED! Word count and reading around the world challenge goals not quite reached, but I'm happy with my reading year!

[Kelly]

Nice job!!