Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

I am taking my last three work-intensive prerequisite courses this year, so I expect myself to read very little over the next six months---unless the reading content comes from the inside of a textbook, that is. at any rate, I would love to read more than I have been (compare the 213 books I read in 2014 to a dismal count of 10 in 2016), &---even if I don't complete this---simply aiming to finish the 52 books challenge should help with that!

I intend to keep this list updated & current, so hopefully I stick to that. bolded titles indicate that I finished the book while those with asterisks are currently being read. everything else are prospective picks that I may (or may not) read!

1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 ➟ Rebels of the Sand
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) ➟ Six of Crows
3. A book you meant to read in 2016 ➟ Under Heaven
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" ➟ A Worldly Country
5. A historical fiction ➟ The Help
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 ➟ Murder on the Orient Express
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title ➟ Tell the Wolves I'm Home
8. A book written by a person of color ➟ The Bonesetter's Daughter
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list ➟ The Blind Asassin
10. A dual-timeline novel ➟ The Forgotten Garden
11. A category from another challenge ➟
12. A book based on a myth ➟ The Penelopiad
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors ➟
14. A book with a strong female character ➟ Rat Queens, Vol. 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) ➟ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
16. A mystery ➟ Gone Girl
17. A book with illustrations ➟ The Singing Bones
18. A really long book (600+ pages) ➟ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
19. A New York Times best-seller ➟ One-Punch Man, Vol. 1
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading ➟ Life of Pi
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read ➟ Shadow Scale
22. A book by an author you haven't read before ➟ The Snow Queen
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list ➟ Mort
24. A book written by at least two authors ➟ Genesis
25. A book about a famous historical figure ➟ Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War
26. An adventure book ➟ Stardust
27. A book by one of your favorite authors ➟ More Than This
28. A non-fiction ➟ Mao's Last Dancer
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions ➟ And Then There Were None
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books ➟ Unwind
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre ➟ His Majesty's Dragon
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) ➟ 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides
33. A magical realism novel ➟ A Tale for the Time Being
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere ➟ On the Jellicoe Road
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty ➟ The Demon King
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee ➟ The Fifth Season
37. A book you choose randomly ➟
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature ➟ Railsea
39. An epistolary fiction ➟ I Capture the Castle
40. A book published in 2017 ➟
41. A book with an unreliable narrator ➟ The Screwtape Letters
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) ➟ Snowflower and the Secret Fan
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) ➟ The Yellow Wall-Paper
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" ➟
45. A book with a one-word title ➟ Skin
46. A time travel novel ➟ 11/22/63
47. A past suggestion that didn't win ➟ A best seller from another country ➟ Confessions
48. A banned book ➟ Whale Talk
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf ➟ The Lie Tree
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition ➟ A Happy Death
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) ➟ The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays
52. A book set in a fictional location ➟ Trickster's Choice

Good luck with your courses!

Yay, Mort! My favourite Discworld novel.

thanks, @sophie!

@ jody & katie, mort as well as js&mn are two books that I'm particularly excited to read!! I'm sure I'll enjoy them. (:

I'm also reading one of Tamora Pierce's novels for week 52!! I really like the world building in her books.

I just finished The Help and loved it! Hope you do too! I also can't wait to read Six of Crows. Hope to fit it in somewhere. Just found a hardcover last week. Good luck in your challenge. It's great!

@samantha I read SotL a few years back & loveloveloved it, so I thought it'd be fun to pick up some more tamora pierce by starting off with alanna's daughter. I'm looking forward to it :D her world-building is awesome.

@amy thanks, I hope I like it too!! same for six of crows. I've been meaning to read it since before it came out, lol.