Fifty challenges, fifty-three books. Going down in the order presented on the list:
- A Book With More Than 500 Pages: The Stand by Stephen King
- A Classic Romance: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- A Book That Became A Movie: Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- A Book Published This Year: Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
- A Book With A Number In The Title: Boy21 by Matthew Quick
- A Book Written By Someone Under 30: Alif The Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
- A Book With Nonhuman Characters: The Gospel of Loki by Joanne H. Harris
- A Funny Book: Texts From Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg
- A Book By A Female Author: The Witch's Boy by Kelly Barnhill
- A Mystery Or Thriller: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- A Book With A One-Word Title: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
- A Book Of Short Stories: A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
- A Book Set In A Different Country: The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman
- A Nonfiction Book: Unapologetic by Francis Spufford
- A Popular Author's First Book: Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
- A Book From An Author You Love That You Haven't Read Yet: Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
- A Book A Friend Recommended: Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz
- A Pulitzer Prize-winning Book: Beloved by Toni Morrison OR The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- A Book Based On A True Story: Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
- A Book At The Bottom Of Your To-Read List: The Book of Mordred by Vivian Vande Velde
- A Book Your Mom Loves: Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
- A Book That Scares You: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells *
- A Book More Than 100 Years Old: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- A Book Based Entirely On Its Cover Girls Like Us by Gail Giles
- A Book You Were Supposed To Read In School But Didn't: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand **
- A Memoir: On Writing by Stephen King
- A Book I Can Finish In A Day: Burial At Thebes by Seamus Heaney
- A Book With Antonyms In The Title: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
- A Book Set Somewhere I've Always Wanted To Visit: Days Of Blood And Starlight by Laini Taylor ***
- A Book That Came Out The Year I Was Born: The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip
- A Book With Bad Reviews: Modelland by Tyra Banks ****
- A Trilogy: The Mysterious Mr. Spines by Jason Lethcoe
- A Book From My Childhood: The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
- A Book With A Love Triangle: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
- A Book Set In The Future: The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
- A Book Set In Highschool: Devilish by Maureen Johnson
- A Book With A Color In The Title: Vermillion by Molly Tanzer
- A Book That Made Me Cry: Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
- A Book With Magic: A World Without Princes by Soman Chainani
- A Graphic Novel: Jerusalem by Guy Delisle
- A Book By An Author I've Never Read Before: Guy In Real Life by Steve Brezenoff
- A Book I Own But Have Never Read: Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicky Léon
- A Book That Takes Place In My Hometown: Hoodoo by Ronald L. Smith
- A Book That Was Originally Written In A Different Language: The Little Flowers of St. Francis translated by Raphael Brown
- A Book Set During Christmas: The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore (subject to change)
- A Book Written By An Author With My Initials: Glasshouse by Charles Stross
- A Play: The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
- A Banned Book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- A Book Based On Or Turned Into A TV Show: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
- A Book I Started But Never Finished: Matched by Ally Condie ******
* I've never read a book that scared me. Unwind had that one scene that horrified me but it didn't scare me. So I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this one.
** I'm not sure if there is a book that I was supposed to read for school but didn't. Pretty sure I read all of them. If I have, then I'm just going to reread Cyrano de Bergerac because it's been way too long.
*** Prague, if you're curious. I hope this book is set in Prague, anyway, or at least partly. I could have gone for The Unbearable Lightness of Being but honestly - with all due respect for its reputation - it sounds like a drag.
**** Come on, who hasn't wanted to pick this book up out of sheer morbid curiosity?
** I'm not sure if there is a book that I was supposed to read for school but didn't. Pretty sure I read all of them. If I have, then I'm just going to reread Cyrano de Bergerac because it's been way too long.
*** Prague, if you're curious. I hope this book is set in Prague, anyway, or at least partly. I could have gone for The Unbearable Lightness of Being but honestly - with all due respect for its reputation - it sounds like a drag.
**** Come on, who hasn't wanted to pick this book up out of sheer morbid curiosity?
***** You try living on the highway in the Middle of Nowhere, Southern AL, and see if you can find a book set in your hometown. I'm settling for home state.
****** For the sake of transparency and honesty, I will admit that I only want to finish this book so I can write a long trash-rant about it. Possibly the most boring smash-hit dystopia I've had the displeasure of beginning. At least Divergent had the decency to piss me off. Matched didn't even have the rage factor.
One New Book A Month Challenge
January:
February:
March:
June:
- Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
July: tbd
August: tbd
September:
- Lock & Mori by Heater Petty
October: tbd
November: tbd
December: tbd
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