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message 1: by Katie (new)

Katie | 6 comments I'm going to try and add some children's titles for each task, for any kids doing the challenge or people who work with children's lit. For Task 1 I came up with:

Swordbird by Nancy Yi Fan

This Couldn't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall! by Gordon Korman

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Diary of Anne Frank


message 2: by Killian (new)

Killian (killianshea) For YA fans (all by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes):
In the Forests of the Night (and those that follow it - Demon In My View, Shattered Mirror, Midnight Predator)

Hawksong (and those that follow it - Snakecharm, Falcondance, Wolfcry, and Wyvernhail)

Persistence of Memory (the ones following it would be after she was 25)


message 3: by Amii (new)

Amii | 12 comments The Opposite of Loneliness-Marina Keegan


message 4: by Robin P (new)

Robin P Katie wrote: "I'm going to try and add some children's titles for each task, for any kids doing the challenge or people who work with children's lit. For Task 1 I came up with:

Swordbird by Nancy Yi Fan

This C..."


What a great idea to encourage kids to read more widely!


message 5: by DeborahSS (new)

DeborahSS (deborahs1101) | 1 comments This Side Of Paradise — F. Scott Fitzgerald

(started in 2014 with nary a chance of finishing by year's end)


message 6: by Melissa (new)

Melissa Stebbins  (bougem) | 24 comments Going for Zadie Smith's White Teeth


message 7: by Emily (new)

Emily (embowlden) | 1 comments Melissa wrote: "Going for Zadie Smith's White Teeth" That book is one of my all-time favorites!


message 8: by Melissa (new)

Melissa (balletbookworm) | 14 comments Melissa wrote: "Going for Zadie Smith's White Teeth"

Ooh, thanks for the reminder! Been on my TBR too long.


message 9: by Jessica (new)

Jessica T. (jessicaola) | 5 comments Zadie Smith it is! Great excuse to read.


message 10: by Risa (new)

Risa (risa116) | 24 comments Agreed. That is what I've chosen for this category, as well. Just under the wire! She was born 10/75 and this got published 1/00. Whew! As Melissa wrote, "Been on my TBR too long."


message 11: by Rosemary (new)

Rosemary | 11 comments The collected poetry and letters of Rimbaud have been sitting on my shelf for ages, so that's what I'm reading!


message 12: by Elizabeth (new)

Elizabeth | 20 comments I'm having a hard time with this one. Technically I already filled it with Nimona, but I'd like at least one more, preferably prose, and nothing I'm seeing speaks to me yet. Maybe I'll go for the Austen. She rocks. But I can't help but feel like that's cheating some how (can't put my finger on *why* I feel that.)


message 13: by Lea (new)

Lea (leaglette) | 11 comments I'm reading White Teeth.


message 14: by steph (new)

steph | 10 comments shame i just finished "Frankenstein" in december... had i but known! but i can only recommend it, shelly´s novel is truly remarkable!


message 15: by Betsy (new)

Betsy | 3 comments I enjoyed The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...


message 16: by Sarah (new)

Sarah (sarahreadssometimes) | 9 comments I'm currently reading The Opposite of Loneliness as well and really enjoying it.


message 17: by Denise (new)

Denise | 27 comments Just finished "The Neon Bible" by the same author as "Confederacy of dunces


message 18: by Denise (new)

Denise | 27 comments It posted before I was done. The Neon Bible was written by John Kennedy Toole when he was 16 but not published until after his death.


message 19: by Mindy (new)

Mindy Jones (mindyrecycles) I'm planning on Frankenstein.


message 20: by Laura (new)

Laura Spaulding Does anyone know how old Emily St John Mandel was when she published Station Eleven?


Victoria (RedsCat) (redscat) Emily St John Mandel was born in 1979 and the book pubbed 2014.


message 22: by Laura (new)

Laura Spaulding thanks Victoria. she looks really young.


Victoria (RedsCat) (redscat) Yes, she does :)


Victoria (RedsCat) (redscat) Yes, she does :)


message 25: by Angie (new)

Angie | 4 comments I might go with Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. It's been on my TBR list for ages. She wrote it at age 23.


message 26: by Casey (new)

Casey Remer | 3 comments Just completed: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell when she was 25


message 27: by Beachesnbooks (new)

Beachesnbooks | 49 comments Reading The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon for this challenge--it's the second book in a series, but the author is still only 23!


message 28: by Miss Jones (new)

Miss Jones | 26 comments I just completed "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers for this task. This book was excellent!


message 29: by Bea (new)

Bea This is a duplicate thread. Book Riot thread for this task is here.


message 30: by Cindarella (new)

Cindarella (princesscindarella) | 3 comments I was thinking I might read Eragon...


message 31: by Cindarella (new)

Cindarella (princesscindarella) | 3 comments I was thinking I might read Eragon...


message 32: by Rebecca (new)

Rebecca (booknester) Just finished the Red Queen, great new series...


message 33: by Bea (new)

Bea This is a duplicate thread. Book Riot thread for this task is here.


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