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PBT 100 Non-Fiction Books You Must Read Before You Die:
12 is way too ambitious, considering I wasn't able to do it for fiction last year. I will be happy if I hit 6. (I DID!)

1. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand DONE 2/11/16
2. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach DONE 02/23/16
3. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown DONE 3/31/16
4. Maus I & II DONE 4/25/2016
5. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King DONE 7/3/2016
6. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand DONE 11/28/2016
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Shelfagories Challenge: I think 26 out of 29 is pretty good, especially as I did not double on anything!

1. A book with more than 750 pages - Legends of Australian Fantasy (871 pages)
2. A classic romance - Irish Rose
3. A book that became a movie/TV show - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
4. A book published this year - Orphan X (2016)
5. A book written by someone under 30 - The Secret History
6. A book based entirely on its cover -
7. A mystery or thriller - The Girl in the Spider's Web
8. A book of short stories - The J. A. Jance Casebook
9. A nonfiction book - Between the World and Me
10. A popular author's first book - Irish Thoroughbred
11. A book that won the Pulitzer Prize after 2000 -
12. A book more than 100 years old (published 1645) - The Book of Five Rings
13. A book set somewhere you want to visit (England) - Career of Evil
14. A book set in the future - Devoted in Death
15. A book with magic - The Magicians
16. A book you own but have never read - Heart of Oak
17. A book that takes place in your hometown - Smaller and Smaller Circles
18. A book written by an author with your initials - Magyk by Angie Sage
19. A play - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
20. A collection of short stories - Legends of Australian Fantasy
21. A microhistory - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
22. A translated book (Czech) - Apocryphal Tales
23. A book published by an indie press - Smaller and Smaller Circles
24. A book by/about an indigenous culture - In the Country
25. A graphic novel - The Complete Maus
26. A book published the year you were born (1964) - White Stallion of Lipizza
27. A book set during Christmas/winter holiday - A Christmas Message
28. A book with nonhuman characters - Cast in Honor
29. A book that scares you -

Finish Dive Deep from 2014:
Subject: Medicine

Plan to read:
1. Stiff by Mary Roach - DONE 02/23/2016
2. The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks - DONE 10/17/14
3. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
4. The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
5. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee - DONE 1/13/14
6. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens - DONE 4/23/2015

Finish 100 (Fiction) Books PBT Members Think You Should Read from last year:

Plan to read:
1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
2. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman DONE 4/4/2015
3. 11/22/63 by Stephen King DONE 7/19/2015
4. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
6. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay DONE 10/25/2015
7. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston DONE 12/28/2016
8. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra DONE 4/13/2016
9. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
10. A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
11. Watchmen by Alan Moore DONE 4/26/2015
12. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Read a book for each tag this year: COMPLETED

Jan - 2010 - Legends of Australian Fantasy
Feb - World War II - Unbroken
Mar - mystery thriller - The Girl in the Spider's Web
Apr - female author - Stars in Your Eyes
May - series - Cinder
Jun - fantasy - The Fifth Season
Jul - biography/memoir - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Aug - entertainment - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Sep - 2013 - A Symphony of Echoes
Oct - historical fiction - Epitaph
Nov - animals - White Stallion of Lipizza
Dec - short story - The Elephant Vanishes