The Next Best Book Club discussion

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Some of the tasks are really challenging.
I mostly read at night so I don't know how I'm going to get this one done:
“At Night” – Read a book that’s too scary to read at night

Three Imaginary Boys (1979) (8/13)

“10:15 Saturday Night” – Stay in on a Saturday night, read a book, and take credit for it here
“Accuracy” – Read a book that required the author to do a lot of research to get right
“Grinding Halt” – Take credit for a book you DNFd
“Another Day” – Read a book you attempted to read in the past but walked away from
“Object” – Read a book that focuses heavily around an object (bonus points if it’s a haunted object!)
“Subway Song” – Read a book on the subway / that takes place in a city
“Foxy Lady” – Read a book that is a homage to another work of literature
“Meat Hook” – Read a book that features cannibalism or a different spin on eating meat
“So What” – Take credit here if you read a book that everyone else was raving about but left you feeling ‘meh’
“Fire in Cairo” – Read a book that is set in a country other than your own
“It’s Not You” – Read a book that’s told in first person POV
“Three Imaginary Boys” – Read a book with a child protagonist / that involves children
“The Weedy Burton” – Read a book that has a protagonist with a strange name


Seventeen Seconds (1980)(1/10)

“A Reflection” – If you read a book in which you relate to one of the characters, take credit here
“Play for Today” – Take credit here for a book that you finished in one day
“Secrets” – Read a book that you’d consider a guilty pleasure
“In Your House” – Break up the monotony! Read a book in different rooms of your house and take credit for it here
“Three” – Read the third book by an author (either the third book they’ve published, or the third book in general that you’ve read of theirs)
“The Final Sound” – Read a book that still resonates with you after you’ve finished it
“A Forest” – Read a book that takes place in or features a forest (bonus points if it’s scary!)
“M” – Read a book with a title that starts with M or features an initial in the title
“At Night” – Read a book that’s too scary to read at night
“Seventeen Seconds” – Read a micro fiction or flash fiction collection


Faith (1981)(2/8)

“The Holy Hour” – Read a book that heavily features religion or has religious references
“Primary” – Read the first book in a series or an author’s debut book
“Other Voices” – Read a book that is told from multiple POVs
“All Cats are Grey” – Read a book that features a cat or has a cat on the cover
“The Funeral Party” – Read a book that focuses on a death, grief, or features a cemetery
“Doubt” – If you read a book that you were doubtful of, but ended up loving, take credit for it here
“The Drowning Man” – Read a book that features water on the cover or that takes place on or near a body of water
“Faith” – Read a book in which the main character loses faith


Pornography (1982)(0/8)

“One Hundred Years” – If you read a book that felt like it took ages to finish, take credit for it here
“A Short Term Effect” - Read a book that is less than 100 pages
“The Hanging Garden” – If you read a book that creeped you out, take credit for it here
“Siamese Twins” – Read a book that features a medical anomaly
“The Figurehead” – Read a book that a social media influencer put on your radar
“A Strange Day” – Read a book that was just plain weird
“Cold” – Curl up with a blanket and a good book, and take credit for it here
“Pornography” – Read a book that’s a little (or a LOT) sexy (negative points if it’s Fifty Shades of Gray!)

The Top (1984)

“Shake Dog Shake” – Read a book that features a dog or has a dog on the cover (bonus points if the dog doesn’t die!)
“Bird Mad Girl” – Read a book with a nonsensical title
“Wailing Wall” – Read a book with a title that contains the same first letters
“Give Me It” – Run out and buy a book that you MUST have, read it immediately, and take credit for it here
“Dressing Up” – Read a book that makes you feel fancy
“The Caterpillar” – Read a book that features bugs/insects or has one on the cover
“Piggy in the Mirror” – Read a book that focuses on mental health, or features a character who is struggling mentally
“The Empty World” – Read a post apocalyptic book
“Bananafishbones” – Read a bizarro book
“The Top” – Read the book that is currently sitting at the top of your TBR pile


The Head on the Door (1985)

“In Between Days” – If you’re reading two books at the same time, take credit for them here
“Kyoto Song” – Read a book that was written by a musician or that frequently quotes song lyrics
“The Blood” – Read a splatterpunk book, or a book that features an awful amount of blood
“Six Different Ways” – Read a book in a different format than you normally do (digital instead of print, audiobook, graphic novel instead of traditional)
“Push” – Read a book someone ‘pushed’ onto you
“The Baby Screams” – Read a book that features creepy babies (or baby dolls) or in which the main character is pregnant
“Close to Me” – Read a book by an author you’ve met in RL, or that you attended a reading for
“A Night Like This” – Stay up late reading a book and take credit for it here
“Screw” – Read a book with a one word title
“Sinking” – If you read a book that sucked in right from the start, take credit for it here


Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)

“The Kiss” – Read a book that contains the ‘enemies to lovers’ trope or in which there is a delayed hook up
“Catch” – Buy a book that caught your attention solely based on the cover and take credit for it here when you read it
“Torture” – Take credit here for a book that you didn’t DNF but should have
“If Only Tonight We Could Sleep” – If you read a book that scared you silly, take credit for it here
“Why Can’t I Be You” – Read a book that is written in second person
“How Beautiful You Are” – Read a book that you think is visually gorgeous (cover, illustrations, French flaps, sprayed edges, whatever!)
“The Snakepit” – Read a book that contains vicious behavior or is set in a place of squalor
“Hey You!” – Read a book that you can’t stop telling people about!
“Just Like Heaven” – Read a book that you anticipate will become a year-end favorite
“All I Want” – Read a book that you were DYING to get your hands on but that sat sitting on your TBR until now
“Hot Hot Hot!!!” – Read a book that everyone’s talking about
“One More Time” – Pick up a book you’ve read years ago, and reread it now
“Like Cockatoos” – If you read a book that feels familiar, take credit for it here
“Icing Sugar” – Read a book that you’d classify as “brain candy”
“The Perfect Girl” – Read a book that features a female protagonist
“A Thousand Hours” – Read a book that’s more than 400 pages long
“Shiver and Shake” – Read a horror book
“Fight” – If you read a book that contains a lot of violence, take credit for it here


Disintegration (1989)

“Plainsong” – Read a book that has flown under everyone’s radar
“Pictures of You” – Read a graphic novel or a book that contains illustrations
“Closedown” – Take credit here if you let your true introvert shine, and read a book during a social event
“Lovesong” – Read a book that features love or in which the main character is pining for someone
“Last Dance” – Read the last book an author published, or the last book of a series
“Lullaby” – Read a fairy tale retelling
“Fascination Street” – Read a book on a topic that you find fascinating
“Prayers for Rain” – Take credit here if you stayed inside on a rainy day and read a book
“The Same Deep Water as You” – If you read a book that has left you just as confused as everyone else, take credit here
“Disintegration” - Read a badly beat up used book (bonus points if you show us how bad a condition it was in!)
“Homesick” – Read a book that’s set in your hometown, or written by an author from your hometown
“Untitled” – Free space, take credit for any book here

Wish (1992)

“Open” – Read a book that you’ve been putting off
“High” – If you read a book that’s left you feeling all the feels, take credit here
“Apart” – Read a book in which the cover doesn’t match the content
“From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea” – Read a magical realism or speculative fiction book
“Wendy Time” – Read a book that’s written by someone who identifies as female
“Doing the Unstuck” – Read a science fiction book
“Friday I’m in Love” – Read a book that you think is the author’s equivalent of a ‘sell out’
“Trust” – Read a book a close friend recommended to you
“A Letter to Elise” – Read a book that’s told in an alternate format – texts, letters, emails, etc
“Cut” – If you read a book that you can’t stop highlighting or quoting passages from, take credit for it here
“To Wish Impossible Things” – Give a new genre a try and take credit for it here
“End” – if you read a book that just sort of… ends, leaving you with a WTF did I just read feeling, take credit for it here


Wild Mood Swings (1996)

“Want” – Read a book you’ve been dying to get your hands on
“Club America” – Read a book that’s been translated into English
“This is a Lie” – Read a book that ended up being different than you thought it would be
“The 13th” – Read a ‘feel good’ book and take credit for it here
“Strange Attraction” – Read a book didn’t you expect to like that really surprised you
“Mint Car” – Read a book while on a road trip and take credit for it here
“Jupiter Crash” – Read a space opera / book that takes place in space
“Round & Round & Round” – Play Spin the Bottle with your books and take credit for the one you landed on here
“Gone!” – Read a book in which magic is heavily featured
“Numb”- Read a book for so long, in the same position, that your arms or legs go numb, and take credit for it here
“Return” – Read a book that you borrowed (from the library, from a friend, from a little free library, etc)
“Trap” – Read a book that you literally could not put down
“Treasure” – Read a book in which someone is searching for something / read a mystery book
“Bare” – Read a book that is exactly what it claims to be
“It Used to Be Me” – Read a book that’s been on your TBR for a super long time, that a much younger you bought, but you realize you aren’t into anymore.


Bloodflowers (2000)

“Out of This World” – Read a book that features aliens or things that are not of this world
“Watching Me Fall” - Read a new to you author that you’ve instantly fallen in love with
“Where the Birds Always Sing” – Read a book that features birds or has birds on the cover
“Maybe Someday” – Read a book that you keep meaning to pick up and take credit for it here
“Coming Up” – Read a book by a debut author
“The Last Day of Summer” - Read a book that is set in the summer time
“There Is No If…” – Read a book you that strongly loved or strongly hated and take credit for it here
“The Loudest Sound” – Listen to an audiobook and take credit for it here
“39” – Read a book with a number in the title
“Bloodflowers” – Read a book that you know will haunt you for some time to come
“Split Milk” – Read a book that was mildly unpleasant


The Cure (2004)

“Lost” – Read a book that made absolutely no sense to you
“Labyrinth” – Read a book that was published in the 80’s
“Before Three” – Read one of the first three books of an author’s bibliography
“Truth, Goodness, and Beauty” – Read a book that blew you away
“The End of the World” – Read a dystopian book or a book in which the world has severely changed
“Anniversary” – Read a book in which something cyclical happens
“Us or Them” – Read a book that is written in first person plural, or forth person POV
“Fake” – Read a book you are too embarrassed to admit you did / didn’t like
“alt.end” – Take credit for a book that you caught yourself skimming through, either because you wanted to get through a slow part or you couldn’t wait to discover what was happening
“(I Don’t Know What’s Going) On” – Read a book that has amazing twists and turns that you couldn’t predict
“Taking Off” – If you read a book that started off slow but then got really good, take credit for it here
“Never” – Read a book in a genre that you thought you’d never read
“The Promise” – Read a book that you kept promising someone you would get to, but kept putting off
“Going Nowhere” – Read a book that seemed to go nowhere
“This Morning” – Read a book in bed

4:13 Dream (2008)

“Underneath the Stars” – Read a book outside at night
“The Only One” – Read a book by your favorite author
“The Reasons Why” – Read a book and immediately review it everywhere you can
“Freakshow” – Read a book you’d be embarrassed to have people see you read
“Sirensong” – Read a book by an author whose books just keep calling to you / your auto-buy author
“The Real Snow White” – Read a book that puts a spin on a fairy tale
“The Hungry Ghost” – Read a book that features ghosts
“Switch” – Read a book that switches up the narrators / tells the story from multiple POVs
“The Perfect Boy” – Read a book that was absolutely perfect, a 5 star read
“This. Here and Now. With You” – Carry a book around with you and read it wherever you go, whenever you can, then take credit for it here
“Sleep When I’m Dead” – Read a book cover to cover in one sitting
“The Scream” – Read a book that pissed you off so badly you wanted to throw it across the room
“It’s Over” – Read a book that convinces you to never read another book by that author again

Good luck and thanks for joining!!