Play Book Tag discussion

1. Read 45 books.
2. Climbing the PBT stairs.
3. Hitting the PBT high notes.
4. Asking for it
5. Having an overall average of over 400 pages/book at the end of the year because 2015 was just sad.

Read 45 books

1. The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
2. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai - 2*
3. Snatched - David M. Sindall - 1*
4. Amun : Nouvelles - 4*
5. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach - 5*
6. The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker - 5*
7. All That Is Solid Melts into Air - Darragh McKeon - 3*
8. Le prix de la chose - Joseph Elfassi - 2*
9. Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith - 4*
10. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North - 5*
11. The Housekeeper and the Professor - 5*
12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
13. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - 3*
14. Cloud Atlas - 4*
15. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
16. Crosstalk - 3*
17. The Chemist - 4.5*
18. Lincoln's Dreams - 2*
19. Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate - 4*
20. The High Mountains of Portugal - 3*
21. Admission - 4*
22. The Complete Persepolis - 4*
23. The Circle - 1*
24. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
25. The Kite Runner - 5*
26. All the Light We Cannot See - 5*
27. Edge of Eternity - 4*
28. A Wrinkle in Time - 5*
29. The Double Bind - 3*
30. Penser et agir comme un chat - 4*
31. La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert - 3*
32. My Brilliant Friend - 5*
33. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
34. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
35. Keeping the World Away - 4*
36. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
37. Jimmy and Fay: A Suspense Novel - 2*
38. Remarkable Creatures - 5*
39. And Then There Were None - 3*
40. The Girl with All the Gifts - 5*
41. To Kill a Mockingbird - 5*

Climbing the PBT stairs

Step 1: Series
1. Career of Evil - 4*

Step 2: Classics
1. And Then There Were None - 3*
2. To Kill a Mockingbird - 5*

Step 3: Canadian
1. Amun : Nouvelles - 4*
2. Le prix de la chose - 2*
3. The High Mountains of Portugal - 3*

Step 4: Book-to-movie
1. Cloud Atlas - 4*
2. Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate - 4*
3. Admission - 4*
4. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - 4*

Step 5: Historical-fiction*
1. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai - 2*
2. All That Is Solid Melts into Air - 3*
3. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - 3*
4. Lincoln's Dreams - 2*
5. All the Light We Cannot See - 5*

*I'll amend this one to say I have to read at least three of these not set in/around/about WWII.

Hitting the PBT high notes

2008: To Kill a Mockingbird - 5*
2009: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - 3*
2010: Remarkable Creatures - 5*
2011: The Eyre Affair
2012: City of Thieves
2013: The Golem and the Jinni - 5*
2014: All the Light We Cannot See - 5*
2015: The Housekeeper and the Professor - 5*
2016: The Tsar of Love and Techno

Sounds like a great year. Welcome back!

Asking for it

I asked some friends to recommend me a book, regardless of my tastes, any book they'd enjoyed.

Sandy
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - 5*

Sara
Scythe

Nati
The Truce

Jess
Lonesome Dove

Meredith
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Jenni
All That Is Solid Melts into Air - 3*

Ashley
The Kite Runner - 5*

friendlyxpsycho
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - 5*

You've got some great books to read! I loved "Stiff", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet", and "All the Light We Cannot See". I hope you enjoy them too.

Thanks! I'm hoping for diversity, and I'm thinking I'm off to a good start with these choices!

Three of these are on my list too. TKAM, City of Thieves, and Hotel.