(Because it’s highly unlikely that I’ll get through all of these this year.[ETA:Or in two years, apparently. >.>] OR EVEN THREE I should probably just call it 2019 at this point, but whatever. I am determined to do this regardless of the timeline.) Here’s my list of books to read for the Reading Challenge. Almost all books that I haven’t read before, with a mix of some that were already on my “to read” list and some that I had never heard of before I looked them up. Will cross them off as I finish them, and I’ll also try and write up a bit of a review for each one.
A book with more than 500 pages: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
A classic romance: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A book that became a movie: Shogun by James Clavell
A book published this year: Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman (Review here)
A book with a number in the title: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A book written by someone under 30: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A book with nonhuman characters: The Orc of Many Questions by Shane Michael Murray
A funny book: Next of Kin by Eric Frank Russell (Going to cheat a little bit on this one because I really want to reread it.)
A book by a female author: Conjured by Sarah Beth Durst
A mystery or thriller: Living Proof by Kira Peikoff
A book with a one-word title: Runemarks by Joanne Harris
A book of short stories: Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
A book set in a different country: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
A nonfiction book: Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin (Review here)
A popular author’s first book: Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
A book from an author you love that you haven’t read yet: League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
A book a friend recommended: The Martian by Andy Weir (Review here)
A Pulitzer Prize-winning book: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
A book based on a true story: Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
A book at the bottom of your to-read list: Prudence by Gail Carriger
A book your mom loves: Hard Magic by Larry Correia
A book that scares you: The Greenland Diaries: Days 1-100 by Patrick W. Marsh (Review here)
A book more than 100 years old: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
A book based entirely on its cover: The Archived by Victoria Schwab
A book you were supposed to read in school but didn’t: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A memoir: Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A book you can finish in a day: Viscountess by Taversia
A book with antonyms in the title: Bittersweet by Nevada Barr
A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit: The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
A book that came out the year you were born: The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
A book with bad reviews: Unwrapped Sky by Rjurik Davidson (Review here)
A trilogy: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A book from your childhood: Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Also cheating a little on this one, because it’s high time I reread these.)
A book with a love triangle: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
A book set in the future: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A book set in high school: The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
A book with a color in the title: The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly
A book that made you cry: A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40 by William R. Trotter
A book with magic: The Sword-Edged Blonde by Alex Bledsoe
A graphic novel: Princess Retribution by Elaine Tipping (Review here)
A book by an author you’ve never read before: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
A book you own but have never read: Emma by Jane Austen
A book that takes place in your hometown: Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson
A book that was originally written in a different language: The Kalevala
A book set during Christmas: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A book written by an author with your same initials: Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do by E. B. White and James Thurber
A play: Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
A banned book: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
A book based on or turned into a TV show: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
A book you started but never finished: We the Living by Ayn Rand
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