Rebeccah's Reading List

[Rebeccah]

Here is my list of books that I plan to read over the next year. I still have some gaps, but no doubt I will fill those in as the months roll past!

WEEKS & TOPICS
1. a book with more than 500 pages - House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
2. a romance - 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott
3. a book that became a movie - 'I Am Legend' by Richard Matheson
4. a book published this year - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
5. a book with a number in the title - Day Four by Sarah Lotz
6. a book written by someone under 30 - Fiend by Peter Stenson
7. a book with nonhuman characters - The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
8. a funny book - The Moaning of Life by Karl Pilkington
9. a book by a female author - 'The Distance' by Helen Giltrow
10. a mystery or thriller - The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
11. a book with a one-word title - Tampa by Alissa Nutting
12. a book of short stories There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbour's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
13. a book set in a different country The Fattest Man in America by Christopher Nicholson
14. a nonfiction book - The Masonic Manual by Robert Macoy
15. a popular author's first book - The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett
16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet - 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator' by Roald Dahl
17. a book a friend recommended - The 100 by Kass Morgan
18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book - 'A Visit from the Good Squad' by Jennifer Egan
19. a book based on a true story - Bill of Rights by Fred D'Aguiar
20. a book at the bottom of your to read list - Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
21. a book your mom loves - 'Cell' by Stephen King
22. a book that scares you - The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
23. a book more than 100 years old - 'The Sleeper Awakes' by H.G. Wells
24. a book based entirely on its cover The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - 'Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha' by Roddy Doyle
26. a memoir - Junior by Macaulay Culkin
27. a book you can finish in a day - Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
28. a book with antonyms in the title
29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit - Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
30. a book that came out the year you were born - 'Before She Met Me' by Julian Barnes
31. a book with bad reviews
32. a trilogy (the first)
33. a trilogy (the second)
34. a trilogy (the third)
35. a book from your childhood
36. a book with a love triangle - 'Never Let Me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro
37. a book set in the future - Intrusion by Ken Macleod
38. a book set in high school - The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
39. a book with a color in the title - 'The Man in the Brown Suit' by Agatha Christie
40. a book that made/makes you cry - Marley & Me by John Grogan
41. a book with magic - The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
42. a graphic novel - Fluffy by Simone Lia
43. a book by an author you've never read before - The Distance by Helen Giltrow
44. a book you own but have never read
45. a book that takes place in your hometown - Finding Myself by Toby Litt
46. a book that was originally written in another language - 'If On A Winter's Night A Traveler' by Italo Calvino
47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday) - The Italian's Christmas Miracle by Lucy Gordon
48. a book written by an author with your same initials
49. a play
50. a banned book - 'Naked Lunch' by William Burroughs
51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show - 'Luther - The Calling' by Neil Cross
52. a book you started but never finished - 'The Knife of Never Letting Go' by Patrick Ness

[Daisie]

You have an awesome start on your list! I love Little Women and Roald Dahl. I read that book and have to say it was not one of my favorites. Have you read The BFG? That is one of my favorites by Roald Dahl.

[Cait]

You've reminded me of The Carpet People. I don't think I have a copy of it at the moment, though I have most of Terry Pratchett's other books (barring some more recent ones).

And your choice for a book with a love triangle... I've got that one on my shelf and I'm due for a reread. ;-)

Good luck with the challenge.

[Rebeccah]

Daisie wrote: "You have an awesome start on your list! I love Little Women and Roald Dahl. I read that book and have to say it was not one of my favorites. Have you read The BFG? That is one of my favorites by..."

I read The BFG when I was really young, and I also remember watching the film version which I really enjoyed. I think I prefer his adult short stories though, as they're so dark and twisted!

[Rebeccah]

Cait wrote: "You've reminded me of The Carpet People. I don't think I have a copy of it at the moment, though I have most of Terry Pratchett's other books (barring some more recent ones).

And your choice for a..."

Thank you. A lot of these books are ones that I haven't read before so I'm looking forward to delving right in and seeing where they take me!