Alexandra's 2020 Reading Plans & Challenges

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Goodreads 2020 Reading Challenge:
Progress: 64/100; 64% finished

Around the Year in 52 Books 2020 Reading Challenge:
Progress: 20/52; 38% finished

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Edie

✔2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
Diamond Grill (29/12/2019 - 2/1/2020) ★★★★★

✔3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
--> Prompted to read this book because I read Chinatown Ghosts: The Poems and Photographs of Jim Wong-Chu
International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing (8/1/2019 - 13/1/2020) ★★★

4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
--> I definitely would not want to live in Victorian era England
Wuthering Heights

✔5. The first book in a series that you have not started
Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (13/1/2019 - 13/1/2020) ★★★★

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend

7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
--> Set in New Zealand
The Bone People

8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
The Names

✔9. A book that can be read in a day
Uzumaki: Deluxe Edition (4/1/2020 - 4/1/2020) ★★★★★

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
--> 442 pages
Valley of the Dolls

11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
--> First published in 1959
Naked Lunch

✔12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (31/12/2019 - 3/1/2020) ★★

13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
--> Randomly chosen from 2017 challenge (prompt: a historical fiction)
Empire of the Sun

✔14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
The Mars Room (13/04/2020 - 15/05/2020) ★★★

✔15. A book set in a global city
New York
The Great Gatsby (4/7/2020 - 10/7/2020) ★★★★

16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
Anne of Green Gables

17. A book with a neurodiverse character
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

18. A book by an author you've only read once before
-->I've read Bataille once before; his novella Story of the Eye
The Tears of Eros

19. A fantasy book
Kushiel's Dart

20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
Cat's Cradle

21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

22. A book with the major theme of survival
The Martian

✔23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
-->LGBTQIA+ author Ivan Coyote
Rebent Sinner (13/9/2020 - 15/9/2020) ★★★★

24. A book with an emotion in the title


✔25. A book related to the arts
Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights (3/1/2020 - 3/1/2020) ★★★

✔26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death (28/3/2020 - 9/4/2020) ★★★★

27. A history or historical fiction
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

✔28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
--> Canadian author Cecily Nicholson
Wayside Sang ★★★

29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
Solaris

✔30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
--> From 2019
The Nickel Boys (3/8/2020 - 10/8/2020) ★★★★

✔31. A book inspired by a leading news story
The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent (06/03/2020 - 24/03/2020) ★★★★★

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
Never Let Me Go

33. A book about a non-traditional family
Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
--> Genre/sub genre (respectively): art/art history


✔35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
The Wretched of the Screen (2/1/2020 - 3/1/2020) ★★★★

✔36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
Monster in a Box (16/1/2020 - 16/1/2020) ★★

37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1 (Short Novel):
--> 146 pp.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2 (Long Novel):
--> 827 pp.
Underworld

39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
-->Author's name is Pajtim Statovci
My Cat Yugoslavia

40. A book with a place name in the title
Trout Fishing in America

41. A mystery
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
--> Pulitzer Prize, 2007, Fiction
The Road

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
The Culture of the Cold War

44. A book related to witches


✔45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
Homesick for Another World (17/02/2020 - 04/03/2020) ★★★★

✔46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Destruction Rites: Ephemerality and Demolition in Postwar Visual Culture (24/1/2020 - 31/1/2020) ★★★★

✔47. A classic book you've always meant to read
The Trial (07/06/2020 - 10/06/2020) ★★★★

✔48. A book published in 2020
Confirmation Bias (7/2/2020 - 7/2/2020) ★★★★

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
-->Prompt: A book with the theme of power and/or corruption
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

✔50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (8/1/2020 - 8/1/2020) ★★★★

51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
Woolgathering

52. A book related to time
The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do