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message 1: by Sarah (last edited Nov 02, 2016 05:59PM) (new)

Sarah | 1467 comments 1. A book with more than 700 pages - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2. The first book in a series - Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap, #1) by Adriana Trigiani
3. A book with an animal in the title
4. A classic - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
5. A British mystery - Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) by Robert Galbraith
6. A book that won an award - Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew
7. A book you read with you book club - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3) by George R.R. Martin
8. A book you borrowed from a library - God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
9. A book with a 4.5 star rating or higher on Amazon that has over 500 reviews - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
10. A book about ghosts - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
11. A book that takes place near water - The Sound of Glass by Karen White
12. A book that takes place during a war - Dead Wake The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
13. A YA book - All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
14. A paranormal romance novel - A Hunger Like No Other (Immortals After Dark, #2) by Kresley Cole
15. A book by an author you've never read before - The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
16. A true crime book - Ghettoside A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
17. A book about home improvement/DIY
18. A dystopian novel
19. A book that takes place on an island - The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
20. A book with a female heroine - Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
21. A book a survey recommends for you to read - Shrill Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
22. A book about vampires
23. A book about books
24. A book by a non-American author - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
25. A non-fiction book - The Tipping Point How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
26. A book whose chapters are sorted by characters - Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
27. A book you've read before (a reread) - Knight (Unfinished Hero, #1) by Kristen Ashley
28. A book recommended through an online book group - The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene
29. A book that has been on your TBR for over two years - Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
30. A book written or published in 2000
31. A book recommended by a family member - The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
32. A book by an author you don't like - Looking for Alaska by John Green
33. A book that contains a natural disaster - The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
34. A children's book that has chapters - Ivy and Bean Doomed to Dance (Ivy and Bean, #6) by Annie Barrows
35. A book by an author that lives in your state
36. An historical fiction novel - The Color Of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
37. A biography or autobiography - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
38. A book from a prior year's TBR 12 - Night by Elie Wiesel
39. A book you found hard to put down - Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
40. A book that takes place at a prep school or college/university - Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
41. A book about King Arthur
42. A book by an author you've met
43. A book you bought the day it came out
44. A book and its sequel - Before the Storm (Before the Storm, #1) by Diane Chamberlain Secrets She Left Behind (Before the Storm #2) by Diane Chamberlain
45. A book recommendation you found on Goodreads - Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
46. A book whose author has your same first or last name - Girl at War by Sara Nović
47. A book you borrowed from a friend - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
48. A book on Kindle/Nook - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
49. A book about a family/family saga - Let Me Explain You by Annie Liontas
50. A book you bought and started as soon as you got home - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs


message 2: by Sarah (new)

Sarah | 1467 comments Yes I will be keeping track of another challenge here as well, as above.


message 3: by Sarah (last edited Jan 04, 2017 07:48AM) (new)

Sarah | 1467 comments A-Z Challenge 2016
Since I didn't come close to completing last year, I am again going by author's first name

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Books completed: 0/26

A - Anthony Doerr wrote All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
B - Betty Smith wrote A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
C - Chad Harbach wrote The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
D - Diane Ackerman wrote The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
E - Elie Wiesel wrote Night by Elie Wiesel
F - Flannery O'Connor wrote Everything That Rises Must Converge Stories by Flannery O'Connor
G - Gregory David Roberts wrote Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
H - Hanya Yanagihara wrote A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
I - Ishmael Beah wrote Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
J - John Steinbeck wrote East of Eden by John Steinbeck
K - Khaled Hosseini wrote The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
L - Louise Erdrich wrote Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
M - Margaret Atwood wrote Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
N - Nancy E. Turner wrote These Is My Words The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories (Sarah Agnes Prine, #1) by Nancy E. Turner
O - Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
P - Philip Roth wrote Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Q - Daniel Quinn (Q by last name) wrote Ishmael An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
R - Richard Flanagan wrote The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
S - Sylvia Plath wrote The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath DONE
T - Toni Morrison wrote God Help the Child by Toni Morrison DONE
U - Ursula Hegi wrote Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
V - Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
W - Wallace Stegner wrote Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
X - Alex Haley (x is in the name) wrote Roots The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
Y - Yann Martel wrote The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
Z - Zora Neale Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston


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