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Red Rising, The Martian, Ready Player One, and my all time favourite - The Name of the Wind! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. You're in for some great reads!
Peter wrote: "Red Rising, The Martian, Ready Player One, and my all time favourite - The Name of the Wind! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. You..."Thank you, Peter :-)
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1. A book from the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards 2016: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 by John Tiffany2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view): The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu3. A book you meant to read in 2016: The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E": How to Kill a Rock Star by Tiffanie DeBartolo5. A historical fiction: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters6. A book being released as a movie in 2017: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title: Watership Down by Richard Adams8. A book written by a person of color: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list: Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine10. A dual-timeline novel: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield11. A category from another challenge (a book from the Rory Gilmore challenge): Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller12. A book based on a myth: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater recommended by Victoria Schwab14. A book with a strong female character: American Street by Ibi Zoboi15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland): Karate Chop: Stories by Dorthe Nors16. A mystery: Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson by Lyndsay Faye17. A book with illustrations: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness18. A really long book (600+ pages): A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab19. A New York Times best-seller: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading: The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read: The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater22. A book by an author you haven't read before: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link): The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger24. A book written by at least two authors: Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward25. A book about a famous historical figure: Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart26. An adventure book: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee27. A book by one of your favorite authors: The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez28. A non-fiction: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions: Pretty Little Dead Girls by Mercedes M. Yardley30. A book from Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Top 100 YA Books (link): Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre (magical realism): Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle): Har døden taget noget fra dig sÃ¥ giv det tilbage by Naja Marie Aidt33. A magical realism novel: Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners #3) by Libba Bray34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty: Shimmer and Burn by Mary Taranta36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link): Coraline by Neil Gaiman37. A book you choose randomly: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature: Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge39. An epistolary fiction: Lady Susan by Jane Austen40. A book published in 2017: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor41. A book with an unreliable narrator: The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick42. A best book of the 21st century (so far: /list/show/8... Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold): Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link): Unwind by Neal Shusterman45. A book with a one-word title: Truest by Jackie Lea Sommers46. A time travel novel: Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray47. A past suggestion that didn't win (a book with a title that contains a musical term): Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab48. A banned book: Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs49. A book from someone else's bookshelf: The Martian by Andy Weir50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays): Our Numbered Days by Neil Hilborn52. A book set in a fictional location: Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale