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

– “Big little lies” by Liane Moriarty

• 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

• 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

– “Journeys through Oz” by L. Frank Baum

• 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

• 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-