Yes, I found this on Pinterest and no, I am not ashamed of that.....
So without further ado, here is the list and my planned book for each item.
1. A book with more than 500 pages.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. A classic romance.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
3. A book that became a movie.
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Phillbrick
4. A book published in 2015
The Season of Migration by Nellie Hermann
5. A book with a number in the title.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
6. A book written by someone under 30.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7. A book with nonhuman characters.
Fluke by James Herbert
8. A funny book.
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
9. A book by a female author.
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
10. A mystery or thriller
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
11. A book with a one-word title.
Motherlunge by Kirstin Scott
12. A book of short stories.
The Turning by Tim Winton (updated...)
13. A book set in a different country.
(France) Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
14. A nonfiction novel.
A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon
15. A popular author's first book.
Irish Thoroughbred by Nora Roberts
16. A book from an author you love that your haven't read.
Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich
17. A book a friend recommended.
Walking Home: A Poet's Journey by Simon Armitage
18. A Pulitzer Prize winning book.
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
19. A book based on a true story.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
20. A book at the bottom of your to-read list
Middlemarch by George Eliot
(April 8, 2013 is the date this book was put onto my Goodreads to read list... I was supposed to read it for my book club a while ago and didn't... YA! It will finally be off my list)
(April 8, 2013 is the date this book was put onto my Goodreads to read list... I was supposed to read it for my book club a while ago and didn't... YA! It will finally be off my list)
21. A book your mom loves.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
22. A book that scare you.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
23. A book more than 100 years old.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
24. A book based entirely on its cover.
The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice by Deborah Adele
(I have been told about the book for years and had ordered it and it got lost in the mail for over 3 months, and when I finally opened the package and looked at the cover, I said I need to read this for my challenge....)
(I have been told about the book for years and had ordered it and it got lost in the mail for over 3 months, and when I finally opened the package and looked at the cover, I said I need to read this for my challenge....)
25. A book your were supposed to read in school but didn't.
(a disclaimer on this one, this was an option in college, and I chose another book)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
26. A memoir.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
27. A book you can finish in a day.
(note, I read really fast, so I just picked a book a random)
The Major's Daughter by J.P. Francis
28. A book with antonyms in the title.
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
29. A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit.
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy (updated)
30. A book that came out the year you were born (1971).
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
31. A book with bad reviews.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith (Updated)
found from this list of bad books....
(This is a portion of a review on goodreads..."Occasionally offensive not because I am an Austen purist, but because I'm not an idiot, the book barely escapes being so awful as to not receive even one star."
found from this list of bad books....
(This is a portion of a review on goodreads..."Occasionally offensive not because I am an Austen purist, but because I'm not an idiot, the book barely escapes being so awful as to not receive even one star."
32. A trilogy.
The third time is the charm right???? The Patrick Rothfuss Kingkiller Chronicle's third book will not be published in 2015, so here is my next attempt of a trilogy.
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy which includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy which includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass
33. A book from your childhood.
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
34. A book with a love triangle.
Embers by Sandor Marai
35. A book set in the future.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
36. A book set in high school.
I'm on my 3rd option for this book. The first, I could not find, except for purchase for about $50 since it is out of print. The second, an new version of the first, was available at my library, but instead of taking place in high school takes place with a 4th grade class... grrrr... so now,
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
37. A book with a color in the title.
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
38. A book that made you cry.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (updated)
Nobody Don't Love Nobody by Stacy Bess (updated)
Nobody Don't Love Nobody by Stacy Bess (updated)
39. A book with magic.
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
40. A graphic novel.
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
41. A book by an author you've never read before.
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
42. A book you own but have never read.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
43. A book that takes place in your hometown.
( note, I went with the city where I was born, Willington Quay, Northumberland, England)
The Fire Eaters by David Almond
44. A book that was originally written in a different language.
Night by Elie Wiesel (I am ashamed to say I have never read this)
45. A book set during Christmas.
Pelican Road by Howard Bahr (updated)
46. A book written by an author with your same initials.
Lost Laysen by Margaret Mitchell
47. A play.
A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
48. A banned book. (There are quite a few books on my list that would fit this category)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
49. A book based on or turned into a TV show.
About a Boy by Nick Hornby (it's a movie too)
50. A book you started but never finished.
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
And there you go...
yes, it is ambitious, but I believe it is doable.
Some books are ones I've been meaning to read for a long time.
Others are on book lists that you need to read in your life.
One is for my book club.
I even managed to get the latest book by my current favorite author, Sarah Addison Allen.
Quite a few of them break me out of the genres I have been reading.
Plus, I looked for books that I had never read to fill the challenge.
I could not be happier to be attempting this.
In fact, I have already read 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood. Wow is all will say about it.
Off with my nose in a book,
Melissa
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