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JoDee (nekonet) | 39 comments 1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 (link) - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) - The Mothers (read)
3. A book you meant to read in 2016 - My Name is Lucy Barton (read)
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" - All Grown Up (read)
5. A historical fiction - High Dive (read)
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - The Zookeepers's Wife
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title - Mister Monkey (read)
8. A book written by a person of color - Swing Time
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list -
10. A dual-timeline novel - We Love You, Charlie Freeman (read)
11. A category from another challenge - Books about war - War and Turpentine
12. A book based on a myth - Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors - - recs by Ann Patchett - The Dream Life of Astronauts or Lab Girl
14. A book with a strong female character
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) - My Struggle Book 2 or Bret Easton Ellis and Other Dogs
16. A mystery - Boy Detective Fails
17. A book with illustrations - Darling, I love you (read)
18. A really long book (600+ pages) - The Nix (read)
19. A New York Times best-seller - Milk and Honey
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading -
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read - Mad Addam or God of Ruins
22. A book by an author you haven't read before - What Belongs to You (read)
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link) - God of Small Things
24. A book written by at least two authors - The Monster of Florence
25. A book about a famous historical figure - Lincoln in the Bardo
26. An adventure book - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Count of Monte Cristo
27. A book by one of your favorite authors - Moonglow (read)
28. A non-fiction - Tangled Vines (read)
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions - Black Wave (read)
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link) - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Graceling
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) - Grief is the Thing with Feathers (read)
33. A magical realism novel
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere - Saint Evita
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link) - Seveneves
37. A book you choose randomly
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature - Hagseed
39. An epistolary fiction
40. A book published in 2017 - Universal Harvester
41. A book with an unreliable narrator -
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) - Kafka on the Shore
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) - Hangsaman (read)
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link) - Parasites Like Us
45. A book with a one-word title - Commonwealth
46. A time travel novel - Version Control (read)
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link) - book with a color in the title - The Red Car
48. A banned book
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf - Evicted, Gentleman in Moscow
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) - Dear Mr. You
52. A book set in a fictional location - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland


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