Crystal's Reading List

[Biblio]

I adore recommendations, so feel free to add more to my over abundant list :D

WEEKS & TOPICS
1. a book with more than 500 pages The Idiot
2. a romance Gone with the Wind
3. a book that became a movie The Man in the Iron Mask

4. a book published this year

5. a book with a number in the title Catch-22
6. a book written by someone under 30 Frankenstein or Sense and Sensibility or The Story of My Life or The Outsiders or The Shooting Party or It's Kind of a Funny Story or Eragon or Less Than Zero

7. a book with nonhuman characters

8. a funny book The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
9. a book by a female author Interview with the Vampire or Orlando
10. a mystery or thriller American Psycho or The Shining
11. a book with a one-word title Demons
12. a book of short stories (Edgar Allen Poe or Fyodor Dostoyevsky or The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre of The Stories of Vladimir NabokovVladimir Nabokov
13. a book set in a different country Schindler's List or A Passage to India
14. a nonfiction book Why I Write
15. a popular author's first book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet And the Mountains Echoed
17. a book a friend recommended Roots: The Saga of an American Family or Persuasion
18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book Roots: The Saga of an American Family or The Goldfinch
19. a book based on a true story The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
20. a book at the bottom of your to read list The Count of Monte Cristo

21. a book your mom or dad loves

22. a book that scares you The Exorcist
23. a book more than 100 years old The Monk
24. a book based entirely on its cover 1Q84
25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't (Japanese History Class in Uni.) The Tale of Genji or The Tale of Murasaki
26. a memoir I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

27. a book you can finish in a day

28. a book with antonyms in the title War and Peace
29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
30. a book that came out the year you were born The Comfort of Strangers or Red Dragon
31. a book with bad reviews Mein Kampf
32. a trilogy (the first) 50 Shades of Grey or Lord of the Rings
33. a trilogy (the second)
34. a trilogy (the third)
35. a book from your childhood The Last Vampire
36. a book with a love triangle Anna Karenina
37. a book set in the future I Am Legend

38. a book set in high school

39. a book with a color in the title A Clockwork Orange
40. a book that made/makes you cry The Basketball Diaries
41. a book with magic Eragon or Inkheart or Howl’s Moving Castle

42. a graphic novel The Last Unicorn #1 (Based on Peter S. Beagle's Novel)

43. a book by an author you've never read before The Lady and the Unicorn or The Historian
44. a book you own but have never read The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

45. a book that takes place in your hometown

46. a book that was originally written in another language Kafka on the Shore
47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday) A Christmas Story or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or A Christmas Carol

48. a book written by an author with your same initials C.D. Hmmm.....

49. a play Anton Chékov
50. a banned book Fahrenheit 451 or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or Brave New World or Slaughterhouse-Five or American Psycho or The Witches
51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show The Fall
52. a book you started but never finished On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft or The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature or The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention or The Dhamapada

[Cait]

Like you I've got multiple options for some weeks. I like that I can decide what I feel like closer to the actual week that I'll be reading it, plus some books will fit into more than one category so if you don't read it for one, you can go for it in another week.

Good luck with the challenge. :-)

[Jenni]

I see that you have several for week six. You also have my favorite book of all time The Outsiders! I highly recommend this for your week six pick if you end up being undecided about which you should read. There is also a movie and it is excellent as well if you'd like to watch it when you're finished with the book. The storyline in both is nearly identical. They didn't really change anything when they made the movie! I hope this helped to make your choice!

[Biblio]

The Outsiders book and movie have been on my to see/read list for years! I've got to get to it this year :)

[Marina]

I read The Outsiders many years ago, and it's one of the books from my teenage-years I remember the best.
The movie isn't bad either. I mean, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon... What's not to like ;-)

I'm considering reading Mein Kampf, when we get to the books with bad reviews. On one hand I think it might be interesting to hear his thoughts and believes, but then again, I'm not sure I really want to read anything Hitler wrote or even try to understand, what went on in the man's head.

[Cait]

Ooh, that would be an interesting take on the book with bad reviews.

[misplacedselchie]

Mein Kampf is a fascinating book. I read it in high school. Hitler was evil, but he definitely knew his way around words.

How are you coming on Gone With The Wind, Biblio? I am doing very bad, lol

[Biblio]

I started GWTW last year. I just finished it a few minutes ago :) It's a great book! I adore her way of meshing her character's goals together. She hides enough of their secret motivations to be interesting.

What do you think of GWTW or MK?

My older brother also read Mein Kampf in high school and was delightfully creeped out by it. That's what put this book on my to-read list for the past few decade or two.

I started reading MK early last year, he's a brilliant writer. Some of his passages complemented The Book Thief so I used it for teaching my high school students. I'm not sure what kind of impact I left on them. The goal of the lesson was to keep the bigger picture in mind. Also, something about good and bed being a little mixed. There isn't 100% pure or evil. I'm not sure if that message came across the right way. But I could see some thinking happening. (Maybe that the teacher is a little crazy?)

Anyway, Hitler's opinions of books and reading sure went against Liesel's (The main character of The Book Thief).

The chilling thing is if Malcom X, Ghandi or a great, positive role model said some of Hitler's words, the effect would be deeply moving and even inspiring. But Hitler's WWII actions are just too evil, so reading his book is every bit as creepy as reading Lolita!

I only got 100 pages or so in, so I've got to read all of it this year. A to-do list challenge is; read a book by someone you disagree with. Hitler would certainly fit this challenge too!!

[Biblio]

GWTW took me I think 6 months to read ..... *eye rolling* The middle part around the war dragged for me. The movie drags at that part for me too. Rhett's dialogue seriously made me laugh, complete with laughter and sounds that go with laughter. (Ie. nose snorts)

[Marina]

You make Mein Kampf sound really interesting, so I think I'll stick with it as the book with bad reviews. I'll look forward to sharing thoughts about it!

[Biblio]

Biblio wrote: "I adore recommendations, so feel free to add more to my over abundant list :D

WEEKS & TOPICS
1. a book with more than 500 pages The Idiot
2. a romance [book:Gone with the Wind|2852969..."

Will this reply directly to your posting? Is this how discussion boards work? (I'm new to this techie stuff.)

So, Cait, if it works.... That's my plan exactly!! It's so hard to choose just one book. The Goodreads has boosted my reading habits and reading wishlist! I've become seriously addicted to reading lately.

Lots of my books for this challenge are also past reads from other Goodreads Groups. It's like Facebook for reading *happy, nerdish snort*

I have to snoop out your 2015 Reading Challenge List :)