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WEEKS & TOPICS

1. a book with more than 500 pages - Voyager(1059 pages)(FINISHED 2/3/2015)
2. a romance - The Time Traveler's Wife OR The Night Circus
3. a book that became a movie - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe OR Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story (Depends on my mood that week)
4. a book published this year - The Book of Life
5. a book with a number in the title - 14(FINISHED 2/4/2015)
6. a book written by someone under 30 - Red Rising
7. a book with nonhuman characters - Honor Among Orcs
8. a funny book - Bossypants
9. a book by a female author - Wolf(FINISHED 2/20/2015)
10. a mystery or thriller - Broken Monsters (FINISHED 1/21/2015)
11. a book with a one-word title - Trapped
12. a book of short stories - The Body-Snatcher and Other Classic Ghost Stories
13. a book set in a different country - Drums of Autumn
14. a nonfiction book - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
15. a popular author's first book - The Hobbit
16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet - Darkness & Shadows
17. a book a friend recommended - A Dark and Twisted Tide
18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book - A Thousand Acres
19. a book based on a true story - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
20. a book at the bottom of your to read list - Rosemary's Baby
21. a book your mom loves -
22. a book that scares you -
23. a book more than 100 years old - Frankenstein
24. a book based entirely on its cover - The Legacy of the Key
25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - The Grapes of Wrath
26. a memoir - Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
27. a book you can finish in a day - Still Alice
28. a book with antonyms in the title - Big Little Lies
29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
- Beyond the Highland Mist
30. a book that came out the year you were born
31. a book with bad reviews
32. a trilogy (the first)- House of Cards
33. a trilogy (the second)- To Play the King
34. a trilogy (the third)- The Final Cut
35. a book from your childhood
36. a book with a love triangle
37. a book set in the future - Lock In
38. a book set in high school - Fallen
39. a book with a color in the title - The Woman in White
40. a book that made/makes you cry
41. a book with magic - The Winter Witch
42. a graphic novel
43. a book by an author you've never read before
44. a book you own but have never read - Hanging Hill
45. a book that takes place in your hometown
46. a book that was originally written in another language - ±õ°ùè²Ô±ð
47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday)
48. a book written by an author with your same initials
49. a play
50. a banned book - Slaughterhouse-Five
51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show - Darkly Dreaming Dexter
52. a book you started but never finished

This was a lot harder than I thought it would be to come up with some of these! A couple of these I'll have to think about.

I just realized I listed two books twice!

There's a lot of people who will read LotR for the trilogy. You'll have interesting discussions if you're all discovering it!

Fried Green Tomatoes seems to have a lot of love in this group, I need to look at it.
I'll read Big Little Lies the same week as you :)

Zaz wrote: "There's a lot of people who will read LotR for the trilogy. You'll have interesting discussions if you're all discovering it!

Fried Green Tomatoes seems to have a lot of love in this group, I need..."

I loved the movies and have had the LOTR on my "to-read" list for some time...figured it's as good a time as any!

Fried Green Tomatoes is MY favorite movie and I actually never knew it was a book first!

I never saw the movie and didn't read the book, I've to catch-up on tomatoes :D

Zaz wrote: "I never saw the movie and didn't read the book, I've to catch-up on tomatoes :D"

Have a box of tissues ready...you wouldn't think tomatoes would be sad...but they are!

If the story is sad, I'll probably cry with the movie, not the book. There's some tissues somewhere :p

I'm currently reading (not in the challenge) Lock in, your week #37. I'm just at 25% but it's really well written, I'll see later but the book is on its way for a 5 stars review. You have to read Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome before reading Lock in. It's free (link in the 1st review), "short" and totally needed to understand the story, so don't miss it ;) (and it's a great way to taste the writing and the universe ^^).

Zaz wrote: "If the story is sad, I'll probably cry with the movie, not the book. There's some tissues somewhere :p

I'm currently reading (not in the challenge) Lock in, your week #37. I'm just at 25% but it's..."

Oh awesome thank you for that! I'll check that out and really happy to hear that Lock In is (so far) 5-star worthy! I've never read that author before so it's definitely new to me.

I'd never read this author before. Lock in and the prequel were the month books of a group I follow, so as the prequel was free, I decided to give it a try. And magic happened :p
Lock in is a dystopian thriller which is unusual (dystopias are often survival books), with the "humans use artificial bodies". I really enjoyed The Surrogates (graphic novel) which has these same features, so it could be a side read for you, before Lock in to discover this type of story or after if you like it :)

I love it when magic happens. Yeah I don't "typically" like dystopias, but I'm always open. I liked that this was also a thriller so it sounded like something I would enjoy.

I've actually never read a graphic novel so maybe that will be a good pick for that week in the challenge! ;)

Sybil and Rosemary's Baby are both great books. Rosemary's Baby is very subtle in the horror and the writing is pretty basic but it's strangely captivating.

I finished Lock In and totally enjoyed it. It's like a good detective movie! I gave it 5 stars because I can't say something against the book, I liked all of it. Everybody hasn't same tastes as me on reading, so it's probably more a 3-4 stars book, you'll tell me that ;)

I just finished Voyager (my week one title) finally. I will probably change some of my weeks that I included other books in the series. They're just so long and dare I say boring that I'm having a hard time getting through them. I love the characters which is what keeps me reading but why oh why were these books not cut in half!? dear lord.

Also finished 14, my week five pick and was not a big fan of that book. But I didn't realize there was a first book in the series so I figured I'd give the series another shot by reading book one.

Oh wow. I've been wanting to start the Outlander series and figured I would read it for my final book in the challenge, allowing me to read them closer together and without the time pressure. I had NO idea that they're that long though (!)

Laura wrote: "Oh wow. I've been wanting to start the Outlander series and figured I would read it for my final book in the challenge, allowing me to read them closer together and without the time pressure. I had..."

Oh yeah! Each book is well over 800 pages! Voyager was the longest by far and they're sometimes really tough to get through. SO MUCH DETAIL! But still a good series

Oooo Bossypants was enjoyable. :D
I am also considering reading the Lord of the Rings Trilogy for the trilogy weeks, it has been far too long :)

Jessica wrote: "Oooo Bossypants was enjoyable. :D
I am also considering reading the Lord of the Rings Trilogy for the trilogy weeks, it has been far too long :)"

I'm embarrassed to say I've never actually read the trilogy but they've been on my list for a really long time! I really loved the movies and I've been told that the books are even better.

I just finished Wolf by Mo Hayder, which was my week 9 choice. I haven't been able to do as much reading as of late but this book I couldn't put down.

I actually didn't really like it at first. Mo Hayder is one of my favorite authors and I came down hard at first on the book. Hired thugs I don't find all that scary and I expected more from Ms. Hayder. BUT it turned around and it was AWESOME!

And poor Jack Caffrey...

Edited my trilogy read: reading The House of Cards Trilogy by Michael Dobbs!