Last year, a friend on facebook challenged me to find and read the following, and now...'tis complete!
A book with more than 500 pages(Politics on a Human Scale, Jeff Taylor)A classic romance(Emma, Jane Austen)A book that became a movie(The Copperhead, Harold Frederic)A book published this year(The Empty Throne, Bernard Cornwell)A book with a number in the title(Selma 1965, Chuck Fager)A book written by someone under 30(I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai)A book with nonhuman characters (The Magician's Nephew, C.S. Lewis)A funny book(Bachelors Anonymous, P.G. Wodehouse)A book by a female author(Boudica, Vanessa Collingridge)A mystery or thriller(The Iron Web, Larken Rose)A book with a one-word title (Agincourt, Juliet Barker)A book of short stories(The Inimitable Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse)A book set in a different country(Map of Betrayal, Ha Jin)A nonfiction book(Winter World, Bernd Heinrich)A popular author's first book(Carrie, Stephen King)A book from an author who love that you've not yet read(Zebra Derby, Max Shulman)A book a friend recommended(Recarving Rushmore, Ivan Eland)A Pulitzer-Prize winning book(An Army at Dawn, Rick Atkinson)A book based on a true story(The Marriage Game, Alison Weir)A book on the bottom of your to-read list(The Search for Ice Age Americans, Kenneth Tankersly)A book your mom loves(Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Montgomery)A book that scares you(Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko)A book more than 100 years old(Beowulf)A book based entirely on its cover(The Internet Police, Nate Anderson)A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't(Grendel, John Gardner)A memoir(The South Since the War, Sidney Carton)A book ye can finish in a day(The Quartet, Joseph Ellis)A book with antonyms in the title(That Was Then, This is Now, S.E. Hinton)A book set somewhere you wanted to visit(The Great Cities, ed. John Julius Norwich)A book that came out the year you were born(Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card)A book with bad reviews(Patriots, James Rawles)A trilogy(Star Trek: Terok Nor; James Swallow, S.D. Perry, and Britta Dennison)A book from your childhood(The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis)A book with a love triangle(The Other Queen, Philippa Gregory)A book set in future(A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller)A book set in high school (The Chosen, Chaim Potok)A book with color in title(Green is the New Red, Will Potter)A book that made you cry(The Pigman, Paul Zindel)A book with maa-agic(The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien)A graphic novel(V for Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd)A book by an author you've never read(The Americans, Daniel Boorstin)A book you own but haven't read(The Eagle's Conquest, Simon Scarrow)A book set in your hometown(Casualties, David Rothstein)A book originally written in different language(Tevye's Daughters, Sholom Alecheim)A book set during Christmas("Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol", Tom Mula)A book written by author with your initials(Here Be Dragons, Sharon Penman)A play("The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde)A banned book(The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini)A book based on, or turned into, a TV show(Star Trek TOS: Foul Deeds will Rise, Greg Cox)A book you started but never finished(The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris)
Great challenge. Congrats on finishing!
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DeleteI knew you would (obviously). Congrats on finishing Emma! I did OK with 30 as I wasn't expecting to do all of them. Already planning my 2016 reading so I have my own challenges to complete next year.
ReplyDeleteDo you have many different ones going? I've got the Classics club, and I may or may not do that "2016 reading challenge".
ReplyDeleteI think my biggest challenge is to read everything I plan to read! For example, I'm going to see if I can manage 10 20th Century Classics in a row. Now that'll definitely be a challenge!!
ReplyDeleteDo you have a cut-off point, year-of-publication wise?
ReplyDeleteDifficult to say. I mean, if something was published in 1987 can it actually be called a 'classic'? I shall have to think on it.... as always [grin]
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