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Jess | 55 comments I know it's super late in the game, but I thought I'd finally add my plan in. I've mostly been playing it by ear and choosing a book each week (that's part of the fun!) so "plan" is not a great word for what I have so far, but I'm going to put out what I've done so far and some of the weeks that I think I know what I will read and edit it as I go along!

WEEKS & TOPICS
1. a book with more than 500 pages - The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
2. a romance - Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey
3. a book that became a movie - Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
4. a book published this year - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
5. a book with a number in the title - Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
6. a book written by someone under 30 - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
7. a book with nonhuman characters
8. a funny book - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
9. a book by a female author - The Good House by Tananarive Due
10. a mystery or thriller - Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
11. a book with a one-word title - Reamde by Neal Stephenson
12. a book of short stories - The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
13. a book set in a different country
14. a nonfiction book - On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Bliss
15. a popular author's first book - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet - Naamah's Curse by Jacqueline Carey
17. a book a friend recommended - The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book - The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
19. a book based on a true story - No Land's Man by Aasif Mandvi
20. a book at the bottom of your to read list - It Starts With Food by Dallas and Melissa Hartwig
21. a book your mom parent loves - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
22. a book that scares you - Lock In by John Scalzi
23. a book more than 100 years old - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
24. a book based entirely on its cover - The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller
25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
26. a memoir - Not My Father's Son by Allan Cumming
27. a book you can finish in a day - Naamah's Blessing by Jacqueline Carey
28. a book with antonyms in the title - Give and Take by Adam M. Grant
29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
30. a book that came out the year you were born - Shame by Salman Rushdie
31. a book with bad reviews - Blowback by Chalmers Johnston (taking the "controversial" route to interpret badness of reviews)
32. a trilogy (the first) - Fellowship of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
33. a trilogy (the second) - The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
34. a trilogy (the third) - The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
35. a book from your childhood - The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
36. a book with a love triangle - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
37. a book set in the future - The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
38. a book set in high school - Armada by Ernest Cline
39. a book with a color in the title - Red Doc by Anne Carson
40. a book that made/makes you cry - Art and Lies by Jeanette Winterson
41. a book with magic
42. a graphic novel -
43. a book by an author you've never read before - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
44. a book you own but have never read- Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
45. a book that takes place in your hometown - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
46. a book that was originally written in another language - The Cave by Jose Saramago
47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday)
48. a book written by an author with your same initials - Cat Daddy by Jackson Galaxy
49. a play
50. a banned book
51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show
52. a book you started but never finished - The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine


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