I copied this from a reshare on Facebook. This is where I will be documenting the books that I read that fit each category! 🙂
2015 READING CHALLENGE
- A book with more than 500 pages-“The bone clocks” by David Mitchell
- A classic romance- “The story of a whim” by Grace Livingston Hill
- A book that became a movie- “The Bad Seed” by William March
- A book published this year – “Everybody rise” by Stephanie Clifford
- A book with a number in the title -“Adulting: How to become a grown-up in 468 easy(ish) steps” by Kelly Wiilliams Brown
- A book written by someone under 30- “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton (Written when she was 15 and 16!)
- A book with nonhuman characters- “The lust lizard of melancholy cove” by Christopher Moore
- A funny book—“How to survive a sharknado and other unnatural disasters” by Andrew Shaffer
- A book by a female author- “Spook: Science tackles the afterlife” by Mary Roach
- A mystery or thriller- “Finders Keepers” by Stephen King
- A book with a one-word title-“Thumped” by Megan McCafferty
- A book of short stories-“Stone Mattress: Nine Tales” by Margaret Atwood
- A book set in a different country–“The great zoo of China” by Matthew Reilly
- A nonfiction book- “A few good eggs: Two chicks dish on overcoming the insanity of infertility” by Julie vargo
- A book you can finish in a day-“An Idiot Girl’s Christmas: True tales from the top of the naughty list” by Laurie Notaro
- A book with antonyms in the title
- A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit- “Instructions for a heatwave” by Maggie O’Farrell
- A book that came out the year you were born (1983)- “The woman in black” by Susan Hill
- A book with bad reviews-“Gone” by Christine Kersey
– “Big little lies” by Liane Moriarty
- A trilogy-“Parallel trilogy” by Christine Kersey
- A book from your childhood- “A wrinkle in time” by Madeleine L’Engle
- A book with a love triangle- “Many waters” by Madeleine L’Engle
- A book set in the future-“House of Ravens” by Karpov Kinrade
- A book set in high school-“Chasing Shadows” by Swati Avasthi
- A book with a color in the title– “Red Rising” by Pierce Brown
- A book that made you cry- “Fragile and Perfectly Cracked: A memoir of loss and infertility” by Sophie Wyndham
- A book with magic-“Rhymes with Witches” by Lauren Myracle
- A popular author’s first book-“Contest” by Matthew Reilly
- A book from an author you love that you haven’t read yet-“Undead and unwary” by Maryjanice Davidson
- A book a friend recommended- “The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant
- A Pulitzer Prize winning book- “Beloved” by Toni Morrison
- A book based on a true story
- A book at the bottom of your to-read list–“Familiar” by J. Robert Lennon
- A book your mom loves
- A book that scares you- “The Exorcist” William Peter Blatty
- A book more than 100 years old
- A book based entirely on its cover- “The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares: The Haunted City” by Jason Blum and various writers
- A book you were supposed to read in school but didn’t–“To kill a mockingbird” by Harper Lee
– “Journeys through Oz” by L. Frank Baum
- A memoir – “My story” by Elizabeth Smart
- A graphic novel- “Shoplifter” by Michael Cho
- A book by an author you’ve never read before- “A Christmas blizzard” by Garrison Keillor
- A book you own but have never read- “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel
- A book that takes place in your hometown- “Hello Darkness” by Sandra Brown (Austin, TX)
- A book that was originally written in a different language- “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Translated from Russian)
- A book set during Christmas-“Holidays on ice” by David Sedaris
- A book written by an author with your same initials (S.H.)-
- A play- “The Mousetrap and Other Plays” by Agatha Christie
- A banned book -“TTYL” by Lauren Myracle
- A book based on or turned into a TV show- “Zoo” by James Patterson
- A book you started but never finished-
