Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

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✔ 1. A book you meant to read in 2015, but didn't The Maze Runner read 21/10
✔ 2. A book set in a different continent How One Attempts to Chase Gravity read 19/3
✔ 3. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2015 (winner or nominated) Go Set a Watchman read 6/01
✔ 4. A book by an author you discovered in 2015 Dangerous Lies read 25/5
✔ 5. A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name The Rock Star's Daughter read 26/8
✔ 6. The highest rated on your TBR Special Attraction read 25/2
✔ 7. A book about books The Help read 7/9
✔ 8. A classic book with less than 200 pages The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde read 27/5
✔ 9. A book that was mentioned in another book. Sophie's Choice (Was in What the dead know) read 7/5/16
✔ 10. A book by an author you feel you should have read by now The Shining read 29/11
✔ 11. A book from the Rory Gilmore challenge Of Mice and Men read 1/2
✔ 12. A childhood classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz read 11/4
✔ 13. Reader’s Choice Me Before You read 30/3
✔ 14. A book with one of the five W’s -or H in the title (Who/What/Where/When/Why/How) What Comes of Eating Doughnuts With a Boy Who Plays Guitar read 8/3
✔ 15. A book set in the past (more than 100 years ago) The Poisoned Pilgrim read 20/12
✔ 16. A book from the top 100 mystery novels Murder on the Orient Express read 16/4
✔ 17. A book with a beautiful cover The Story of Us read 8/11
✔ 18. A book on a summer/beach reading list Attachments (found on a Popsugar beach reads list) read 27/2
✔ 19. A non-fiction book Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men read 15/9
✔ 20. A book with a first name in the title Duke read 17/11
✔ 21. A book from the Goodreads Recommendations page You Against Me read 27/3
✔ 22. The first book in a new to you series Awaken read 29/6
✔ 23. The next book in a series you are reading Ascension read 6/7
✔ 24. A "between the numbers" book of a series (0.5, 1,5, 2.5, etc.) Fallen in Love read 18/4
✔ 25. A book whose main character is in a profession that interests you Code Blue - Doctor. I don't want to be a doctor but I enjoy watching doctor shows on TV so I would say doctors interest me. read 7/12
✔ 26. A book everyone is talking about Never Let Me Go read 23/6
✔ 27. A book with a beautiful title (in your own opinion) Life is Awesome read 28/7
✔ 28. A biography, autobiography, or memoir How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?: Inside My Autistic Mind read 2/12
✔ 29. A book by an author who writes under more than one name Royal Assassin read 19/2
✔ 30. A fairytale from a culture other than your own Tales of Hans Christian Andersen read 22/4
✔ 31. A work of young adult fiction Awoken read 1/10
✔ 32. A historical fiction book Bellagrand read 22/7
✔ 33. The 16th book on your TBR Unforgiven read 16/5
✔ 34. A book about mental illness All the Bright Places read 8/2
✔ 35. An award winning book The Cuckoo's Calling Los Angeles Times book prize for Mystery 2013 read 8/4
✔ 36. An identity book - a book about a different culture, religion or sexual orientation The Persistence of Memory - sexual orientation read 10/7
✔ 37. A book that you've seen the movie of but haven't read I Am Number Four read 20/7
✔ 38. A book about an anti hero Rogue read 3/3
✔ 39. A previous suggestion that did not make it into the list 'A book where a main character has a special power'/'A book with a child as the main character ' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone read 23/3
✔ 40. A novella from your favorite genre Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene read 1/2
✔ 41. A book about a major world event (fiction or non-fiction) The Girl Who Came Home read 6/11
✔ 42. A top 100 fantasy novel Assassin's Apprentice read 14/01
✔ 43. A book about a thing that goes bump in the night The Graveyard Book read 7/8
✔ 44. A book you're embarrassed to read in public Sin and Desire read 17/10
✔ 45. A book related to a hobby or passion you have Sink or Swim - about fitness/gym read 19/8
✔ 46. A crime story What the Dead Know read 29/1
✔ 47. A book with a type of food/drink in the title Cake Icing, Butt Budder & Tea Lids read 2/8
✔ 48. A dystopia Grip read 17/8
✔ 49. A book with a great opening line The Project read 14/5
✔ 50. A book originally written in a language other than English The Girl in the Spider's Web read 22/1
✔ 51. A short story from a well-known author The Lottery read 15/2
✔ 52. A book published in 2016 The Ego Cluster: They discovered the genes that define us all... read 27/9

Side reads
✔ Ghost
✔ Sunset Reads: William & Cristina
✔ Assassin's Quest
✔ Sweet and Sour Sisters: Part 1
✔ Sweet and Sour Sisters: Part 2
✔ Forget Me Not
✔ The Cleaning
✔Paper Castles
✔ Flip
✔ Jack and Jill Went Downhill
✔ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
✔ Stunned
✔ Revived
✔ The Last Portal
✔ What Doesn't Kill Us
✔ Picnic at Hanging Rock
✔ All That Remains of Me

Slowly adding to my list and moving a few things around. I read What the dead know for my set in a different continent book but decided to change it to the A book with one of the five W's in What! Won't be hard to get a different continent given I'm in Australia.

Ok completely out of order but 6 down!

Hi Annika, I really enjoyed all the bright places. It was an easy to read story on a serious topic. Have you read it? I thought it definitely had a 'the fault in our stars' feel, along with a bit of DUFF.

I'm looking forward to the maze runner. Ice read a few comments about numbers 2 and 3 not being as good. Maybe i will skip them

Hey Bec...You could stick The 5th Wave in number 26 ;)

Oh thanks Janice, good idea!!

Okay another move for What the Dead know. It's now moved to the crime category, as I received the book What Comes of Eating Doughnuts With a Boy Who Plays Guitar free to review, so figured I may as well try and fit it into the challenge. It fits under the food category but the one I have for that category (Cake Icing, Butt Budder & Tea Lids sounds funny, so I figured it can go under the - A book with one of the five W’s -or H in the title category, so What the dead know had to move again!

So my list keeps changing as I keep getting books to review, and then they are awesome and I need to read the next in the series! I read Ghost, the second in the plagued series, which I could fit into the book set in the past, but....I've had the The Poisoned Pilgrim on my kindle for a long time and I think if I keep putting it off it will never get read. So I'm putting Ghost as a side read. The second in the Gem City series (after What comes of eating doughnuts with a boy who plays guitar) I'm putting down as set in another continent. I had to bump out one I already owned on kindle for this, but I think it will be worth it :)

I'm currently reading the wonderful wizard of Oz. It's different to the movie!

Wow - struggled through Sophie's Choice. I started on 18th April and didn't finish until last night 7th May. I think that's the longest I've ever taken to read a book. I did not enjoy it one bit.

Just took a little side read whilst I participated in a Slip marathon....ok that's finished so back to ATY books!

Finished Sin and Desire as a book you are embarrassed to read in public. Wow it was pretty bad. Sex and the same stuff over and over (partner swapping, 2 blokes 1 girl etc).

Congrats for being able to put up with it! What the challenge makes us do... ;)

Sophie wrote: "Congrats for being able to put up with it! What the challenge makes us do... ;)"
Thanks! It was over 500 pages too, so will add to my page count :)

3 to go!

2 to go!

And done!!!

Well done :)

Now tell us your favorites from the challenge!

Congrats, Bec!!

Congrats!!

Zaz wrote: "Well done :)

Now tell us your favorites from the challenge!"
If I go by my ratings I gave 5 stars to Assassin's Apprentice (and the rest in the trilogy), Grip (I also gave 5 stars to the rest of the trilogy but didn't read that for the challenge) and Rogue.
And lots I gave 4 stars to! I read a lot of good books this year...and some not so good books too.