2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

Okay, that's 12. I'm not too far behind. Have to replace the Jane Smiley (Horse Heaven). That one was not going to get finished. I am not a fan of horse racing, and that book is really long.

WEEKS & TOPICS
1. a book with more than 500 pages - The Little Friend, Donna Tartt [x]
2. a romance - The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters [x]
3. a book that became a movie - The Time Traveler's Wife, A. Niffenegger [x]
4. a book published this year -
5. a book with a number in the title - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
6. a book written by someone under 30 - The Tiger's Wife, T. Obreht
7. a book with nonhuman characters -
8. a funny book - Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
9. a book by a female author - The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer [x]
10. a mystery or thriller - The Round House, Louise Erdrich [x]
11. a book with a one-word title - Cymbeline, Shakespeare
12. a book of short stories - This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
13. a book set in a different country - The Lord of Death, Eliot Pattison - set in Tibet [x]
14. a nonfiction book _ Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, Robert Whitaker
15. a popular author's first book - The Secret History, Donna Tartt
16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet - Orlando, Virginia Woolf
17. a book a friend recommended - The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book - Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie
19. a book based on a true story - Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg
20. a book at the bottom of your to read list
21. a book your mom loved -Black Narcissus, Rumer Godden
22. a book that scares you - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan [x]
23. a book more than 100 years old - The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
24. a book based entirely on its cover -

Cormac McCarthy
25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (I know I read it, but I remember absolutely nothing about it, so here's my chance to read it again)
26. a memoir - Blue Genes: A Memoir of Loss and Survival, Christopher Lukas
27. a book you can finish in a day - Don't Cry, Tai Lake, Qiu Xiaolong [x]
28. a book with antonyms in the title - Up the Down StaircaseUp the Down Staircase
29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit - Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter (Italy)
30. a book that came out the year you were born - Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
31. a book with bad reviews - Catch-22, Joseph Heller
32. a trilogy (the first) Fifty Shades of Grey, E.L. James [x]
33. a trilogy (the second) Fifty Shades Darker, E.L. James [x]
34. a trilogy (the third) - Fifty Shades Freed, E.L. James [x]
35. a book from your childhood - Island of the Blue Dolphins
36. a book with a love triangle- The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks [x]
37. a book set in the future - 2061: Odyssey Three, Arthur C. Clarke
38. a book set in high school - Old School, Tobias Wolff
39. a book with a color in the title - The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
40. a book that made/makes you cry - His Bright Light: The Story of My Son, Nick Traina, Danielle Steel (got me once, will it get me again?)
41. a book with magic - Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
42. a graphic novel - Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey, G.B. Tran
43. a book by an author you've never read before - The The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
44. a book you own but have never read - Oblivion, David Foster Wallace
45. a book that takes place in your hometown - The Vine Of Desire, Chitra Divakaruni
46. a book that was originally written in another language - Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas Patrick Modiano
47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday)
48. a book written by an author with your same initials - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (catch-up week)
49. a play - Arrivals and Departures, Alan Ayckbourn
50. a banned book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show, The Black Echo, Michael Connelly
52. a book you started but never finished - The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings, William Gaddis

Welcome Heather! So far you have a better plan than me. :) You don't have to go back and read what you've missed if you don't want to. It would certainly be a challenge! :P

Great books in your list :)

2 ways to link the cover:
- edit your post and click on the "add book/author" just above the text box. Check "cover" at the bottom and write the title in the search bar.
- open the full cover in another tab of your browser, copy the url, edit your post and, at the right place, write img src="url" width="156" height="237" between <> .

Thank you, Jessica and Zaz! I want to link to the books
over the weekend, but my html is not great, so I knew it
would keep me up late.

Heather

If you want to link all the books to the goodreads pages, just use the book/ author feature just above the text box (computer only), it's easy and fast :)

I just finished The Little Friend last night. I'm not sure what order you're reading in, but if you've finished/when you do, let me know what you think. I'm kind of dying to discuss it with someone.

I'm not done yet, Sara, but I will let you know as soon as I am!

Heather

Zaz, thank you! All of the instructions worked...

You're welcome :)
Oh, your edition of The Road has an interesting cover! My paperback edition is black and grey with only the title, summary and some text on the front, the cover didn't help me to choose this one.