Kirsten's 2015 Challenges

[Kirsten]

Here is my 2015 year-end update for my A-Z challenges:

By Title:

A - The Amersham Rubies
B - Betrayal in Death
C - The Case of the Cursed Dodo
D - The Dunwich Horror
E - Euphoria
F - Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
G - Good Morning, Midnight
H - Hercule Poirot's Christmas
I - Interlude in Death
J - Judgment in Death
K - Killjoy
L - Landline
M - The Magpies
N - The Night Circus
O - Open Season
P - Portobello
Q - Quaker Silence
R - Revival
S - Seduction in Death
T - A Test of Wills
U -
V - Vanished
W - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
X -
Y - The Year We Left Home
Z -

By Author:

A -Margaret Atwood
B - Rhys Bowen
C - Agatha Christie
D - Philip K. Dick
E - Mark Edwards
F - Karen Joy Fowler
G - Julie Garwood
H - Bruce Holsinger
I - Kazuo Ishiguro
J - Shirley Jackson
K - Stephen King
L - Michael Lewis
M - Erin Morgenstern
N - Irène Némirovsky
O - S.D. O'Donnell
P - Jake G. Panda
Q -
R - Ruth Rendell
S - Karin Slaughter
T - Charles Todd
U -
V - Kurt Vonnegut
W - Alison Weir
X -
Y -
Z - Richard Zacks

[Kirsten]

Here is my 2015 year-end update for my color challenges:

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[Kirsten]

My GCAC-2015 Challenge Year-End Update:

The King by J.R. Ward
Festive in Death by J.D. Robb
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Euphoria by Lily King
The Pigeon Needs a Bath! by Mo Willems
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Three by Sarah Lotz
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney
Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare

[Kirsten]

My 2015 Year-End update of the Ultimate 2015 challenge:

A book with 500 pages
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

A classic romance

A book that became a movie
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

A book published this year
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

A book with a number in the title
The Boat of A Million Years by Poul Anderson

A book written by someone under 30

A book with nonhuman characters
The Case of the Cursed Dodo by Jake G. Panda

A funny book
Suture Self by Mary Daheim

A book with a female author
Portobello by Ruth Rendell

A mystery or thriller
Hercule Poirot's Christmas: A Holiday Mystery by Agatha Christie

A book with a one-word title
Revival by Stephen King

A book of short stories

A book set in a different country
The Magpies by Mark Edwards

A nonfiction book
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis

A popular author's first book
Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter

A book from an author you love that you have not read yet
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood

A book a friend recommended
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever

A Pulitzer Prize winning book

A book based on a true story
Euphoria by Lily King

A book at the bottom of your to-read list
No Dominion by Charlie Huston

A book your mom loves

A book that scares you
Delirious by Daniel Palmer

A book more than 100 years old
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

A book based entirely on its cover
Dating the Devil by Lia Romeo

A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't

A memoir
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

A book you can finish in a day
Interlude in Death by J.D. Robb

A book with antonyms in the title

A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
Portrait in Death by J.D. Robb

A book that came out the year you were born

A book with bad reviews

A trilogy
When Gravity Fails
A Fire in the Sun
The Exile Kiss
by George Alec Effinger

A book from your childhood
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper

A book with a love triangle
[bookcover :Clouds of Witness|192888]Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers

A book set in the future
Judgment in Death by J.D. Robb

A book set in high school

A book with a color in the title
Condition Purple by Peter Turnbull

A book that made you cry
Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb

A book with magic
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

A graphic novel
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath: A Graphic Novel by H.P. Lovecraft

A book by an author you've never read before
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

A book you own but have never read
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

A book that takes place in your hometown (or close to where you live)

A book originally written in a different language
The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl

A book set during Christmas
VanishedVanished by Kendra Elliot

A book written by an author with your same initials
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney

A play

A banned book
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

A book based on or turned into a TV show
Good Morning, Midnight by Reginald Hill

A book you started but never finished
The Shining by Stephen King

[Kirsten]

My Year End Update of the 1001 Books To Read Before You Die Challenge

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
The Shining by Stephen King
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Turn of the Screw, with eBook by Henry James
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Shame by Salman Rushdie
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho

[Elizabeth]

Fantastic!!!!

[Kirsten]

Thank you :-)