2015 Reading Challenge
2015 READING
CHALLENGE
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Cosmic has read 40 of 50 books in 2015.
COSMIC ARCATA’S 2015 BOOKS
  • The Essence of Success by Earl Nightingale
  • I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
  • Spark by John J. Ratey
  • The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
  • Effortless Healing by Joseph Mercola
  • Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
  • The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
  • The Iliad of Homer by Elizabeth Vandiver
  • The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
  • The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker
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message 1: by Cosmic (last edited Jan 20, 2015 08:58PM) (new)

Cosmic Arcata It might be fun to pick books for this

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BOOK RIOT'S READ HARDER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2015

Book Riot published a challenge for 2015, and we thought it'd be fun to participate! We've replicated the challenge for you below (complete with links), but you can check out the original Book Riot post here. The goal is to do all 24 tasks, but if that's a stretch for you, please feel free to set your own goal.

1. A book written by someone when they were under the age of 25 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

2. A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65 The Floating Opera and The End of the Road by John Barth

3. A collection of short stories (either by one person or an anthology by many people)
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (Penguin Classics) by Robert Chandler

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...

4. A book published by an indie press Weapons of Mass Instruction A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

5. A book by or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

6. A book by a person whose gender is different from your own The Oscar Wilde Collection by Oscar Wilde
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

7. A book that takes place in Asia Imperial Woman The Story of the Last Empress of China by Pearl S. Buck

8. A book by an author from Africa Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and an Africa tale Into Africa The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone by Martin Dugard

9. A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture (Native Americans, Aboriginals, etc.) Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko or Code Talker The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez

10. A microhistory The Alchemy of Air A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hager

11. A YA novel Journey to the Center of the Earth (Extraordinary Voyages, #3) by Jules Verne

12. A sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams

13. A romance novel The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

14. A National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

15. A book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.) Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth

16. An audiobook Mirroring People The New Science of How We Connect with Others by Marco Iacoboni

17. A collection of poetry The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

18. A book that someone else has recommended to you Paradise Lost by John Milton

19. A book that was originally published in another language Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

20. A graphic novel, a graphic memoir or a collection of comics of any kind (Hi, have you met Panels?) V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

21. A book that you would consider a guilty pleasure (Read, and then realize that good entertainment is nothing to feel guilty over) Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1) by A.A. Milne

22. A book published before 1850
Balzac Honore A Harlot High and Low by Honoré de Balzac

23. A book published this year Savor Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by Thích Nhất Hạnh

24. A self-improvement book (can be traditionally or non-traditionally considered “self-improvement”) Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson


message 2: by Cosmic (new)

Cosmic Arcata Some of these books i have read this year...sometimes though i kinda enjoy just making the list to read. I see some that i may need to replace because i have misplaced the book in a move anf it will have to wait.

So I kinda happy i made this list. I think i may add some more challenges.


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