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message 1: by Laurie-Eve (last edited Jan 13, 2017 05:59AM) (new)

Laurie-Eve (booklaurie98) 1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 (link)
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) - The Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore
3. A book you meant to read in 2016 - «The Bone Season» by Samantha Shannon
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" - «Mrs Dolloway» by Virginia Woolf
5. A historical fiction - «The Book Thief» by Markus Zusak
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - «A Monster Calls» by Patrick Ness
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title - «All the Birds in the Sky» by Charlie Jane Anders
8. A book written by a person of color - «Purple Hibiscus» by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list - «Suicide Notes From Beautiful Girls»
10. A dual-timeline novel
11. A category from another challenge - «Saga: volume 6»
12. A book based on a myth - «The Just City» by Jo Walton
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
14. A book with a strong female character - «The Rose and the Dagger»
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) - «Pan» by Knut Hamsun
16. A mystery - «Dangerous Girls»
17. A book with illustrations -
18. A really long book (600+ pages) - «Brothers Karamazov»
19. A New York Times best-seller
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading - «Geek Girl»
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read - «Ignite Me» by Tahereh Mafi
22. A book by an author you haven't read before -
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)
24. A book written by at least two authors - «My Lady Jane»
25. A book about a famous historical figure - «My Lady Jane»
26. An adventure book - «Wild»
27. A book by one of your favorite authors - All Jane Austen's novels
28. A non-fiction - «Eat, Pray, Love», «Wild»
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions - «Mektoub» by Serge Lamothe
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link) - «Shatter Me» by Tahereh Mafi
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) - «Somebody Up There Hates You» by Hollis Seamon
33. A magical realism novel
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link)
37. A book you choose randomly
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature - «Austenland»
39. An epistolary fiction
40. A book published in 2017
41. A book with an unreliable narrator
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
45. A book with a one-word title - «Mosquitoland»
46. A time travel novel - «The Just City» by Jo Walton
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link)
48. A banned book - «Brave New World» by Aldous Huxley, «Madame Bovary» by Flaubert
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition - «The Enchanted April» by Elizabeth Von Arnim
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) - «Scavengers»
52. A book set in a fictional location - «Cinder»


message 2: by Laurie-Eve (new)

Laurie-Eve (booklaurie98) Katie wrote: "Happy reading, Laurie-Ève :) I'll be reading Mrs Dalloway this year too :)" Nice. I hope we will enjoy it! Haha! :)


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