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I already have most of this down in my diary, but it seems like a nice idea to have some of it down here. Would make it easier to keep track of things.

Books with [?]s next to them are undecided. I'll get to them later.

1. a book with more than 500 pages Dune °Ú✻Ó
2. a romance Pride and Prejudice °Ú✻Ó
3. a book that became a movie Fight Club °Ú✻Ó
4. a book published this year All the Light We Cannot See °Ú✻Ó
5. a book with a number in the title 1984 °Ú✻Ó
6. a book written by someone under 30 Red Rising °Ú✻Ó
7. a book with nonhuman characters The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy °Ú✻Ó
8. a funny book Thank You, Jeeves °Ú✻Ó
9. a book by a female author The Inheritance of Loss °Ú✻Ó
10. a mystery or thriller American Psycho °Ú✻Ó
11. a book with a one-word title Choke °Ú✻Ó
12. a book of short stories Taras Bulba and Other Tales °Ú✻Ó
13. a book set in a different country The General in His Labyrinth °Ú✻Ó
14. a nonfiction book The Conquest of the Incas °Ú✻Ó
15. a popular author's first book Grimus °Ú✻Ó
16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet Memories of My Melancholy Whores °Ú✻Ó
17. a book a friend recommended The Idiot °Ú✻Ó
18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book The Old Man and the Sea °Ú✻Ó
19. a book based on a true story American Sniper
20. a book at the bottom of your to read list On the Road
21. a book your mom loves
22. a book that scares you Gone Girl
23. a book more than 100 years old Dracula
24. a book based entirely on its cover
25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't Never Let Me Go
26. a memoir The Diary of a Young Girl
27. a book you can finish in a day Breakfast at Tiffany's
28. a book with antonyms in the title War and Peace
29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit My Name is Red
30. a book that came out the year you were born The Remains of the Day
31. a book with bad reviews Mein Kampf
32. a trilogy (the first) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [?]
33. a trilogy (the second)
34. a trilogy (the third)
35. a book from your childhood
36. a book with a love triangle Golden Son
37. a book set in the future Brave New World
38. a book set in high school
39. a book with a color in the title The White Tiger
40. a book that made/makes you cry One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
41. a book with magic Dance Dance Dance
42. a graphic novel From Hell
43. a book by an author you've never read before
44. a book you own but have never read Guns, Germs, and Steel
45. a book that takes place in your hometown
46. a book that was originally written in another language
47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday)
48. a book written by an author with your same initials: A Clockwork Orange
49. a play The Inspector General
50. a banned book The Satanic Verses (It's banned in my home country, India)
51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show Neverwhere
52. a book you started but never finished The Brothers Karamzov

I didn't enjoy Y the last man, but I like a lot Saga by the same author. Both stories are interesting!

Interesting, I'll have to pick this up at some point. Although, I will hold off until they finish the complete story. I've read enough manga to know what it is to wait for your favourite stories to continue!

Also, curious, any particular reason why you didn't enjoy "Y"?

Really I don't know. I like dystopias, the idea there is good and, as I read Saga, I'm pretty sure it's well executed. Maybe my point of view of what I could do in this situation is too different than the path chosen by the writter. In Saga, nothing is realistic and the characters are all weird, so it's more enjoying the fun and the crazy ideas than thinking about how evolves some post-apocalyptic situation.

You have great books in your plan Abhishek! Specially The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it's such a funny book. I've been thinking about reading Memories of My Melancholy Whore in the week of "a book your mom loves" and The Satanic Verses in "a book a friend recommended". I also got Dracula sitting in my bookshelf but I still haven't decided if I'll read it this year or not. And I might join you in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo!

Adriana wrote: "You have great books in your plan Abhishek! Specially The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it's such a funny book. I've been thinking about reading Memories of My Melancholy Whore in the week of ..."

Incidentally, I've had both Hitchhiker and Dracula sitting on my shelf for a while now, and this seems like a really good way to dust those off and get going!

Garcia Marquez and Dostoyevsky rank among my favourite authors and this is a very good excuse to read more from them.

I love Fight Club. For the Old Man and the Sea, it seems boring at first but it's quite interesting if you think of the sea as a character too.
I had American Psycho in mystery/thriller, but I changed it to a book that scares me.

Week 1: done and dusted!

Now on to my least favourite genre and the book I'm possibly looking forward to the least in this list.

Ana wrote: I had American Psycho in mystery/thriller, but I changed it to a book that scares me. " My reasoning with that category is going for a book the idea of reading which scares me, as opposed to going for a scary book. Which, going by my taste, is probably going to be a "classical" nineteenth century romance novel. Or the mass-produced nonsense that passes off as literature in my country nowadays (cf. week 20). Although, seeing as that is also going to be my week 20, and also most likely my week 31, I'll probably be better off reading Emma or Wuthering Heights in this week instead.

Oooooh Dracula. I might join you on that one

Jessica wrote: "Oooooh Dracula. I might join you on that one"

All aboard the Transylvania train! The more, the merrier!

I just finished my fifth book, and I took much longer with 1984 that I had thought earlier. I've been extremely busy in the past few weeks, and unfortunately this frenetic pace is going to stay this way for the next few weeks. Most of my reading in February has been done in flights and hotel rooms, and this is going to continue a little longer. March will hopefully bring some much needed respite and some more reading time, I hope!

Abhishek, you have an awesome list. I was debating on reading Mein Kampf for the banned books week. It was between that or Satanic Versus. Is access to Mein Kampf illegal in your country? I'm really not sure if it is legal where I live (Satanic Verses is banned here!), and I don't want to get in trouble, so I'm still debating what I should read for that week. Or if I should travel to a country it is legal in (like Malaysia next door), and read it there :)

Narma wrote: "Abhishek, you have an awesome list. I was debating on reading Mein Kampf for the banned books week. It was between that or Satanic Versus. Is access to Mein Kampf illegal in your country? I'm r..."

I live in the US right now, and none of them are illegal here. I don't think Mein Kampf is illegal in India (where I'm from), I had a friend with a copy of the book. But yeah, The Satanic Verses is illegal in India.