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I planned on reading Scrappy Little Nobody for Week 17. Am I right in my assumption?
Absolutely Emily, she is very funny. I laughed out loud 😃
Awesome! Definitely looking forward to it now! I've been wanting to read it since it came out.
Week Three now complete...if delayed. Week Two fail - book has been given up as it is awful.
Week four - complete. Closing in on Week five.
Week 9 - postponed. Week 10 - behind :(
Week 13 and 14 - very behind. Week 17 - completed ahead of schedule
The 2018 List
1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick - COMPLETE
2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory
3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards
The Girl Before by JP Delaney - COMPLETE
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - COMPLETE
5. A book about or inspired by real events
Crown of Blood by Nicola Tallis - COMPLETE
6. A book originally written in a language other than English
Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - COMPLETE
7. A gothic novel
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte - COMPLETE
8. An "own voices" book*
The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon - COMPLETE
9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter - COMPLETE
10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - COMPLETE
11. A literary fiction
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki - COMPLETE
12. A book set in Africa or South America
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - COMPLETE
13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly - COMPLETE
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
Into the Fire by Manda Scott - COMPLETE
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - COMPLETE
16. A narrative nonfiction
Straight Outta Crawley by Romesh Ranganathan - COMPLETE
17. A book you expect to make you laugh
Cheer Up Love by Susan Calman - COMPLETE
18. A book with a location in the title
Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch - COMPLETE
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author
The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale - COMPLETE
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins - COMPLETE
21. A book written in first person perspective
The Friend by Dorothy Koomson - COMPLETE
22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor - COMPLETE
23. A medical or legal thriller
Sycamore Row by John Grisham - COMPLETE
24. A book with a map
Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman - COMPLETE
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - COMPLETE
26. A book with a text only cover
NW by Zadie Smith - COMPLETE
27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
Shadows on the Nile by Kate Furnivall
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler - COMPLETE
30. A short book
The Awakening by Kate Chopin - COMPLETE
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes - COMPLETE
32. An alternate history book
Souless by Gail Carriger - COMPLETE
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (Codependence)
Entwined with You by Sylvia Day - COMPLETE
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link)
35. A book featuring a murder
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
38. A science book or a science fiction book
How to Teach Physics to your dog by Chad Orzel
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
The Billionaire's Secret by JS Scott - COMPLETE
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
44. A ghost story
The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill - COMPLETE
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
The Brothers Karamazov by Fydor Dostoevsky
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
Chasing the Stars by Malorie Blackman
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard
49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists (link)
50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
A Perfect Match by Katie Fforde
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
52. A book published in 2018
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz - COMPLETE