Sara's Reading Nook (of books, tea, and iced coffee)

[Sara]

A-Z Challenge:

5/26

A) The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden 3/15/19
B) The Cruel Prince by Holly Black [series]
C) Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge [series]
D) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
E) Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
F) Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney 4/24/19
G) Someone I Loved by Anna Gavalda
H) Never Never by Colleen Hoover [series]
I) If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
J) Persuasion by Jane Austen 3/25/19
K) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 3/18/19
L) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
M) The Martian by Andy Weir
N) The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
O) Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
P) The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Q) The Huntress by Kate Quinn
R) The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
S) The Secret History by Donna Tartt
T) Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor [series]
U) Uprooted by Naomi Novik
V) A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab [series]
W) White Cat by Holly Black [series]
X) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 8/6/19
Y) We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Z) I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

Technically 15/26 but that's if I add books I decided to read outside of this list I made. Which technically should count but I also really want to read the books I listed out above so. Just for kicks, I'm keeping track of that one too. Makes me feel more accomplished heh. (x)

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A) The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden 3/15/19
B) Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo 3/19/19
C) A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 2/2019
D) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
E) Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
F) Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney 3/24/19
G) Someone I Loved by Anna Gavalda
H) Sins & Needles by Karina Halle 1/2019
I) Atonement by Ian McEwan 12/6/19
J) Harry Potter & the Sorceror's Stone by J.K. Rowling 3/31/2019
K) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 3/18/19
L) King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo 3/26/19 *
M) A Court of Mist & Fury by Sarah J. Maas 2/2019
N) The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
O) Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
P) Persuasion by Jane Austen 3/25/19
Q) Queen’s Shadow by E.K. Johnston 3/2019
R) Ruin & Rising by Leigh Bardugo 3/23/19
S) Siege & Storm by Leigh Bardugo 3/22/19
T) Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor [series]
U) Uprooted by Naomi Novik
V) A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab [series]
W) White Cat by Holly Black [series]
X) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 8/6/19
Y) We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Z) I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
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[Sara]

The Popsugar Challenge: (x)

16/50

1. A book becoming a movie in 2019 - Five Feet Apart or The Nightingale?
2. A book that makes you nostalgic - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction) - Ruin and Rising
4. A book you think should be turned into a movie - something I read and love probably, don't need to plan for this one
5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads - Pride and Prejudice
6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover - A Court of Thorns and Roses
7. A reread of a favorite book - Six of Crows or The Night Circus or The Book Thief?
8. A book about a hobby - Fangirl?
9. A book you meant to read in 2018 - Exit West
10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title - فارسی شکر است [Translated: Farsi is Sugar]
11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover - The Cruel Prince
12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore - The Bear and the Nightingale
13. A book published posthumously - Persuasion
14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie - To Kill a Mockingbird?
15. A retelling of a classic - Cruel Beauty
16. A book with a question in the title - Who Moved My Cheese??
17. A book set on college or university campus - The Secret History?
18. A book about someone with a superpower - Shadow and Bone
19. A book told from multiple POVs - King of Scars
20. A book set in space - The Martian?
21. A book by two female authors - The Bane Chronicles or Never Never?
22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title - Bitter of Tongue or Salt to the Sea?
23. A book set in Scandinavia - The Witches or Hamlet?
24. A book that takes place in a single day - Before I Fall?
25. A debut novel - The Hate U Give?
26. A book that's published in 2019 - Queen's Shadow
27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature - A Court of Wings and Ruin
28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire - Milk and Honey?
29. A book with LOVE in the title - Someone I Loved?
30. A book featuring an amateur detective - Murder at the Vicarage
31. A book about a family - Sometimes I Lie
32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America - The Kite Runner
33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title - The Sun Is Also a Star or A Thousand Splendid Suns?
34. A book that includes a wedding - A Court of Mist and Fury
35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter - Uprooted?
36. A ghost story - A Christmas Carol or The Haunting of Hill House?
37. A book with a two-word title - The Alchemist or Ender's Shadow?
38. A novel based on a true story - The White Queen?
39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game - Ender's Game?
40. A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift - The Wrath and the Dawn or Crooked Kingdom or The Night Circus?

Advanced

41. A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book - The Road?
42. A "choose-your-own-adventure" book - Being Elizabeth Bennet: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure?
43. An "own voices" book - The Astonishing Color of After or The Bride Test?
44. Read a book during the season it is set in - A Room with a View (spring)?
45. A LitRPG book - Ready Player One?
46. A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters - Atonement 12/6/19
47. Two books that share the same title - The Idiot?
48. Two books that share the same title - The Idiot?
49. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom - A Tale of Two Cities or HP or THG or LOTR?
50. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent - The Serpent's Tale?

[Sara]

Page-turner challenge:

9,828/10,000 pages

Sins & Needles - 438 pages
A Court of Thorns and Roses - 419 pages
A Court of Mist and Fury - 626 pages
A Court of Wings and Ruin - 699 pages
Queen's Shadow - 400 pages
The Bear and the Nightingale - 368 pages
The Kite Runner - 371 pages
Shadow and Bone - 358 pages
Siege and Storm - 432 pages
Ruin and Rising - 422 pages
فارسی شکر است [translated: Farsi is sugar] - 12 pages [ listen it's in Farsi. That was hard. ]
Persuasion - 238 pages
King of Scars - 527 pages
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - 320 pages
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 341 pages
The Glass Menagerie - 110 pages
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 435 pages
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 734 pages
Sometimes I Lie - 264 pages
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 870 pages
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 652 pages
Exit West - 231 pages
Anna Karenina - 210 pages (read this year)
Atonement - 351 pages


Total: 9,828

[Sara]

Color Challenge:

14/18

1. Read a book with "White" or any shade of white in the cover

2. Read a book with "Pink" or any shade of pink in the cover

3. Read a book with "Red" or any shade of red in the cover

4. Read a book with "Orange" or any shade of orange in the cover

5. Read a book with "Yellow" or any shade of yellow in the cover

6. Read a book with "Green" or any shade of green in the cover

7. Read a book with "Light Blue" or any shade of light blue
All the Light We Cannot See?
8. Read a book with "Dark Blue" or any shade of dark blue

9. Read a book with "Purple" or any shade of purple in the cover

10. Read a book with "Brown" or any shade of brown in the cover

11. Read a book with "Black" or any shade of black in the cover

12. Read a book with a Metallic color in the cover

13. Read a book with at least 5 colors on the cover.

14. Read a book with a geometric pattern on the cover.
The Wrath and the Dawn?
15. Read a book with an ugly (to you) cover.

16. Read a book with two or more color words in the title
Blue Lily, Lily Blue?
17. Read a book with the word “Color” in the title.
The Astonishing Color of After?
18. Read a book with a word describing color in the title

[Sara]

Back to the Classics Reading Challenge:

3/12

1. A 19th century classic - any book published between 1800 and 1899. - Sense and Sensibility?
2. A 20th century classic - any book published between 1900 and 1967. - A Farewell to Arms?
3. A classic by a woman author. - Wuthering Heights?
4. A classic in translation. - The Count of Monte Cristo?
5. A classic originally published before 1800. - The Prince?
6. A romance classic. - Pride and Prejudice
7. A Gothic or horror classic. - The Picture of Dorian Gray?
8. A classic with a number in the title. - A Tale of Two Cities?
9. A classic about an animal or which includes the name of an animal in the title. - To Kill a Mockingbird?
10. A classic set in a place you'd like to visit. - Persuasion
11. An award-winning classic. - Great Expectations?
12. A Russian classic. - Anna Karenina

[Sara]

Russian Literature Reading Challenge:

Not necessarily for this year but definitely something I want to do eventually.
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18th Century:
Poems - Ekaterina Kniazhnina
Fables - Ivan Crylov (x)
Selected Writings - Boris Kurakin
Selected Works - V.I Makov
The Comedy of Saint Catherine, Chrysanthus and Darius, Caesar

19th Century (the Golden Age):

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: (x)
Poor Folk
The Double
The Landlady
Netochka Nezvanova
Uncle's Dream
The Village of Stepanchikovo
Humiliated and Insulted
The House of the Dead
Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Gambler
The Idiot
The Eternal Husband
Demons
The Adolescent
the Brothers Karamazov

Short Stories:
Mr Prokharchin,
Novel in Nine Letters
A Jealous Husband
Another Man's Wife
Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed
A Weak Heart, Polzunkov
An Honest Thief
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
White Nights
A Little Hero
A Nasty Story
The Crocodile
Bobok
The Heavenly Christmas Tree
A Gentle Creature
The Peasant Marey
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions [Essay]
A Writer's Diary [Essay]


Leo Tolstoy: (x)
Childhood
Boyhood
Youth
Family Happiness
The Cossacks
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Illych
The Kreutzer Sonata
Resurrection
The Forged Coupon
Hadji Murat

Short Stories:
The Raid
The Snowstorm
Albert
Three Deaths
God Sees the Truth
But Waits
The Prisoner in the Caucasus
What Men Live By
Quench the Spark
Where Love Is, God Is
Ivan the Fool
Wisdom of Children
The Three Hermits
Promoting a Devil
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
The Grain
Repentance
Croesus and Fate
Kholstomer
A Lost Opportunity
Master and Man
Too Dear!
Father Sergius
Work, Death and Sickness
Three Questions
Alyosha the Pot
The Devil
The Power of Darkness [Play]
The Light Shines in the Darkness [Play]
The Fruits of Enlightenment [Play]
The Living Corpse [Play]

Ivan Turgenev: (x)
A Sportsman's Sketches
Rudin
Home of the Gentry
On the Eve
Fathers and Sons
Smoke
Spring Torrents
Virgin Soil

Short Stories: (x)
The Diary of a Superfluous Man
Yakov Pasynkov
Faust
Asya
First Love
Mumu
King Lear of the Steppes
The Song of Triumphant Love
The Mysterious Tales
A Rash Thing to Do [Play]
It Tears Where It is Thin [Play]
Breakfast at the Chief's [Play]
A Conversation on the Highway [Play]
Lack of Money [Play]
A Provincial Lady [Play]
Fortune's Fool [Play]
A Month in the Country [Play]
An Evening in Sorrento [Play]

Alexander Pushkin:
Eugene Onegin
Ruslan and Ludmila
The Gabrieliad
The Fountain of Bakhchisaray
The Gypsies
Poltava
The Bronze Horseman

Fairy Tales:
The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel

Prose:
The Tales of Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin
Dubrovsky
The Queen of Spades
The Captain's Daughter

Plays:
Boris Godunov
A Feast in Time of Plague
Mozart and Salieri
The Stone Guest

Mikhail Lermontov:
Princess Ligovskaya
A Hero of Our Time
Menschen und Leidenschaften [Play]
A Strange Man [Play]
Masquerade [Play]
Collected Poetry [Play]

Nikolai Gogol:
Dead Souls
Taras Bulba
The Government Inspector [Play]
Marriage [Play]
The Gamblers [Play]
The Order of Vladimir [Play]
Third Class [Play]

Short Stories:
The Fair at Sorochyntsi
St. John's Eve
May Night, or the Drowned Maiden
Christmas Eve
A Terrible Vengeance
A Bewitched Place
The Old World Landowners
Viy
The Portrait
Nevsky Prospekt
Diary of a Madman
The Nose
The Carriage
The Overcoat

Ivan Goncharov:
A Common Story
Oblomov
The Precipice

Anton Chekov:

Novellas:
The Steppe
The Duel
The Story of an Unknown Man
Three Years
My Life


Short Stories:
The Bet
Ward No. 6
The Black Monk
Rothschild's Violin
The Darling
The Lady With the Dog

Plays:
Platonov
On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Swansong
Ivanov
The Bear
A Tragedian in Spite of Himself
The Wedding
The Wood Demon
A Marriage Proposal
The Festivities
The Seagull
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
the Cherry Orchard

20th Century:
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov
Moscow to the End of the Line - Venedikt Erofeev
Mother - Maxim Gorky
Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
The Gift - Vladimir Nabokov
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
August 1914 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Roadside Picnic - Arkady Strugatsky
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
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[Sara]

My version of the TBR Jar:

3/10

I'm randomizing my TBR each time I finish a book from here, if that makes sense. For now, I'm starting with 10 because I've got other challenges going on as well.

1) The Glass Menagerie 4/2/19
2) Sometimes I Lie 4/24/19
3) The Astonishing Color of After
4) The Idiot (McDuff translation)
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[Sara]

The Read & Go Challenge :

7/17

1. A novel set in the woods
2. A novel involving a creative outlet - Sometimes I Lie 4/24/19
3. A novel featuring food you have not tried - Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone 3/31/19
4. A novel involving a train ride - Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban 4/4/19 + Anna Karenina
6. A novel involving ghosts - Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets 4/2/19
11. A novel set in or involving something industrial (factory, etc.)
12. A novel involving a plane ride
13. A novel set in a snow land
14. A novel set in a country other than your own - Persuasion 3/24/19
15. A novel featuring a garden
16. A novel set in a museum
17. A novel set in a hotel
18. A novel featuring an instrument you wish you could play
19. A novel involving an escape - King of Scars 3/26/19
20. A novel set underground or underwater
21. A novel involving a road trip - Sins & Needles 1/4/19
23. A novel set in a city within 100 km of your own

[Sara]

Goodreads Summer Challenge :

I'm doing this for the year instead.

7/21

For Beginners:
• Good as Gold: A book that won a Goodreads Choice Award.
• The Book is Better: A book being adapted for TV or film this year.
• Short & Sweet: A book with less than 100 pages (or book you can finish in one sitting). - Between the World and Me?
• On the Bandwagon: One of the “most read” books right now on Goodreads.
• Actually Want to Read: A book that’s been on your Want to Read shelf for more than a year. - Exit West 8/6/19
• Not From Around Here: A book set in a different culture from your own. - The Kite Runner 3/18/19
• In the Friend Zone: A book that a friend has recommended. - Atonement 12/6/19
• It Takes Two: A coauthored book.
• Wheel of Format: A book in a format that you don’t normally read in (graphic novel, poetry, play, audiobook, etc.) - Hyperbole and a Half 7/30/19
• New Voices: A debut novel.
• Past Love: Reread a book you loved when you were younger. - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 4/23/19
• Armchair Traveler: A book set in a destination you want to visit. - Pride & Prejudice 6/24/19

Expert-Level Additions:
• Stay Awhile: A book with more than 500 pages. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 6/6/19
• Stranger than Fiction: A nonfiction book published this year.
• Tongue-tied: A translated book. Anna Karenina 10/16/19
• No Place Like Home: A book that appears in your Goodreads newsfeed. - The Bride Test?
• Continental Drift: A book set on every continent.
• Genre Explorer: A book from a genre you’ve never read before.
• Reading Roulette: Read the third book you see on your Want to Read shelf.
• Primary Reading: A book with a number or color in the title.
• Back to School: A book about a subject you don’t know much about.