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Hemingway Challenge
� “The Blue Hotel� by Stephen Crane - read on 1.13.2018
� “The Open Boat� by Stephen Crane - read on 02.11.2018
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Hail and Farewell by George Moore
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Oxford Book of English Verse
The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson
The American by Henry James
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A Farewell To Arms by Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
The Complete Short Stories by Hemingway
With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba by Arnold Samuelson
Perks
I have read a lot of these but I want to re-read them all, so starting fresh!
Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Catcher in the Rye
The Fountainhead
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Naked Lunch
On the Road
Peter Pan
A Separate Peace
The Stranger
This Side of Paradise
To Kill a Mockingbird
Walden, or Life in the Woods
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� - are completed
A book that's published in 2020
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Glass Hotel
Creatures
A book by a trans or nonbinary author
Magic for Liars
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
A book with a great first line
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A book about a book club
The Jane Austen Book Club
The End of Your Life Book Club
A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics
Last Night in Montreal
Gods of Jade and Shadow
A bildungsroman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
� The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed: Dog Songs
A book with an upside-down image on the cover
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Virgin Suicides
A book with a map
Six of Crows
Ninth House
A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - MFM Podcast
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Harry Potter and the Sacred Text Podcast
The Need - A book Podcast can't remember which one right now!
An anthology
Her Body and Other Parties
A book that passes the Bechdel test
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
City of Girls
A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it
Renegades
The Lying Game
A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name
Sourdough
A book about or involving social media
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
Fangirl
The Circle
A book that has a book on the cover
The Thirteenth Tale
The Bookshop on the Corner
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
A medical thriller
An Anonymous Girl
The Silent Patient
The Alienist
A book with a made-up language
A Clockwork Orange
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Eragon
A book set in a country beginning with "C"
Station Eleven
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
A book you picked because the title caught your attention
will find one soon!
A book published the month of your birthday
The Starless Sea
The Witches Are Coming
In the Dream House: A Memoir
A book about or by a woman in STEM
Lab Girl
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
A book that won an award in 2019
Spinning Silver
Educated
There There
A book on a subject you know nothing about
will find one soon!
� A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics: Know My Name
A book with a pun in the title
Red, White & Royal Blue
Frankissstein: A Love Story
A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins
If We Were Villains
Pride and Prejudice
A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
Scythe
Fairest
� A book with a bird on the cover: The Unhoneymooners
A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader
Red, White & Royal Blue
American Royals
A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title
The Goldfinch
Spinning Silver
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Golden Child
A book by a WOC
The Hate U Give
On Beauty
Gingerbread
A book with at least a four-star rating on ŷ
The Starless Sea
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Winter
� A book you meant to read in 2019: The Tradition
� A book with a three-word title: Franny and Zooey
A book with a pink cover
Severance
Bunny
Gingerbread
A Western
No Country for Old Men
All the Pretty Horses
A book by or about a journalist
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
All the Bright Places
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
American Psycho
Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
will find one soon!
Advanced
A book written by an author in their 20s
Normal People
The Anatomy of Dreams
A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title
11/22/63
Catch-22
A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision)
All the Light We Cannot See
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
A book set in the 1920s
The Great Gatsby
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Paying Guests
Gods of Jade and Shadow
A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics
Memoirs of a Geisha
1Q84
A book by an author who has written more than 20 books
Naming Authors: Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Alice Hoffman, Agatha Christie,
� A book with more than 20 letters in its title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
A book published in the 20th century
Rebecca
On the Road
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
A book from a series with more than 20 books
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
A book with a main character in their 20s
Attachments
Ninth House
Conversations with Friends
Sweetbitter
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B-
C- Creatures
D- Dog Songs
E-
F- Franny and Zooey
G-
H- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
I-
J-
K- Know My Name: A Memoir
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N-
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R-
S- Soft Targets
T- The Tradition
U- The Unhoneymooners
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X-
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Z-
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Red:
Orange:
Yellow: The Unhoneymooners
Green: Know My Name: A Memoir
Blue: The Family Next Door
Purple:
Pink:
White: Soft Targets
Black:
Brown
Gray:
Multi: Creatures
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1. Book that has been on your TBR list the longest:
2. Book from a physical stash somewhere in your house
3. Book you got for free
4. Book you gave up on but promised to try again and finish this time
5. Book recommended by a friend
6. Book from BOTM selection you missed
7. Book from a series you abandoned
8. Book classic you got and never opened: Franny and Zooey
9. Book that is in the 1-99 that is on your TBR list (virtual list here on goodreads): Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
10. Book that is/was assigned in school that you never really "read" - SKIMMING DOESNT COUNT!
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Going in for stage three (between 11-15 books).
1. Franny and Zooey
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
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