Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

★ 31/40 tasks completed ★

1. A book based on a fairy tale
✔2. A National Book Award winner- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
✔3. A YA best seller- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
✔4. A book you haven't read since high school-Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
✔5. A book set in your home state - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
✔6. A book translated to English- Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays by Christa Wolf
7. A romance set in the future
✔8. A book set in Europe- The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
✔9. A book that's under 150 pages- The Devil's Pool by George Sand
✔10. A New York Times best seller- planning to read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
11. A book that's becoming a movie this year
12. A book recommended by someone you just met
✔13. A self improvement book-Fifteen Years in Hell An Autobiography y Luther Benson
✔14. A book you can finish in a day- Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
✔15. A book written by a celebrity- Romanoff And Juliet by Peter Ustinov
16. A political memoir
✔17.A book at least 100 years older than you - Two Hussars by Leo Tolstoy
✔18. A book that's more than 600 pages-The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
19. A book from Oprah's Book Club
✔20. A science fiction novel- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
✔21. A book recommended by a family member- The Traveller's Histories: India by Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda
✔22. A graphic novel- Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
23. A book that is published in 2016
✔24. A book with a protagonist who has your occupation- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
✔25. A book that takes place during summer- Death in Venice, California by Vinton Rafe McCabe
✔26. A book and it's prequel- The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
✔27. A murder mystery- The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon
✔28. A book written by a comedian- Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys by Billy Crystal
29. A dystopian novel
✔30. A book with a blue cover- The World: Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris
✔31. A book of poetry- Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
32. The first book you see in a bookstore
✔33. A classic from the 21st century- Heat & Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
✔34. A book from the library - The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey
✔35. An autobiography- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
✔36. A book about a road trip- Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving
✔37. A book about a culture you are unfamiliar with- Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
✔38. A satirical book- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
✔39.A book that takes place on an island- Trouble for Lucia by E.F. Benson - all takes place in England.
✔40. A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy - Fables For Our Time/Further Fables For Our Time by James Thurber

REJECTED CATEGORIES FOR 52 WEEKS CHALLENGE (for books that did not fit into a Pop Sugar Challenge category)

1. A book about a taboo subject- Although not taboo now, E,M. Forster did not publish Maurice during his lifetime because it dealt with homosexuality.
2. A short book written in another language (not english or your mother tongue)- The Lover by Marguerite Duras
3. A book with a strong female protagonist - Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
4. A book set in the country of your ancestors - The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette
5. A book that is set in a location you would like to visit - The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute (Paris)
6. A book you can finish in a day with a title that starts with the word "The"- The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon
7. Any genre with something from nature in the title - The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas-fils
8. A book that is short but really packs a punch- Old Rosa by Reinaldo Arenas
9. A book that you got for free- Wirriyamu by Williams Sassine
10. A book with a male or female noun or pronoun in the title (i.e. he/she, boy/girl, man/woman, etc.)= Madmen and Specialists: A Play by Wole Soyinka
11. A book with a plant (tree, flower, etc) on the cover- Amyntas by André Gide
12. A book from an author born the same month as you -Acts of Worship: Seven Stories by Yukio Mishima
13. A book with a hero from a different ethnic group than yours - No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
14. A book you bought or will buy from an independent bookstore or from a charity shop- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
15. A book with less than 100 reviews- The Sufferings of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16. A book written by a Nobel Prize winner - Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
17. A book with an animal on the cover - Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
18. A book that takes place in more than one country - I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
19. A book featuring a fictional trickster- A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan
20. A book from an author born the same month as you - Amalgamemnon by Christine Brooke-Rose
21. Any genre with something from nature in the title - Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
22. A book based on an ancient epic- Theogony by Hesiod
23. A book set during time of war- In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World by Justine Hardy
24. Re-read a favorite - Marcel Proust by Edmund White
25. A book by an author who is from a country different than your own- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda
26.A book set during world war II - Lucia in Wartime by Tom Holt
27. A book of fiction that mentions, or is about a real person/ or someone who was a real person- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
28. A book that takes place during a holiday- Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
29.A book from a prolific author (wrote 50 books or more so far) - Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
30. A short story collection - The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges
31. A book with a blue spine or cover- Fair Weather by Richard Peck

updated my list which I hadn't done for quite a while.

Added #15...now at 30 of 40 completed.