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2016 Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Reading Challenge

35/40 books

A-Z Challenge

15/26 books

Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Book of Tomorrow The Book of Tomorrow
Empress of Bright Moon The Empress of Bright Moon
The Glass Castle The Glass Castle
The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale
Joyride Joyride
The Lies about Truth The Lies About Truth
The Moon In the Palace The Moon in the Palace
No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife - Angela Ricketts
The Pearl that Broke its Shell The Pearl that Broke Its Shell
Summer Nights at the Moonlight Hotel Summer Nights at the Moonlight Hotel
Things We know by Heart Things We Know by Heart - Jessi Kirby
Under The Harrow Under the Harrow - Flynn Berry
Vanishing Girls Vanishing Girls - Lauren Oliver
A Window Opens A Window Opens - Elisabeth Egan

I SPY: BOOK TITLES EDITION
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016

23/25 books

1. Of Mice and Men
2. A Tale of Two Cities: The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
3. Gone with the Wind: Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
4. A Wrinkle in Time: No Parking at the End Times - Bryan Bliss
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: The Lie Tree - Frances Hardinge
6. The Little Prince: Have a Little Faith: a True Story - Mitch Albom
7. Alice's Adventures & Through the Looking Glass: The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
8. Brave New World: Everyone Brave is Forgiven - Chris Cleave
9. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
10. Joy Luck Club: Joyride - Anna Banks
11. The Diary of a Young Girl: The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
12. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Things We Know by Heart - Jessi Kirby
13. The Book Thief: The Book of Tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern
14. The God of Small Things: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
15. Around the World in 80 Days: 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
16. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Summer Nights at the Moonlight Hotel - Jane Costello
17. The Time Traveller's Wife: No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife - Angela Ricketts
18. All Quiet on the Western Front - All the Missing Girls - Megan Miranda
19. The Old Man & the Sea: Salt to the Sea - Ruta Sepetys
20. Where the Red Fern Grows
21. Island of the Blue Dolphins: Green Island - Shawna Yang Ryan
22. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-stop Café: A Green and Ancient Light - Frederic S. Durbin
23. The Girl with the Pearl Earring: The Pearl that Broke Its Shell - Nadia Hashimi
24. The Call of the Wild: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed
25. The Good Earth: The Good Girl - Mary Kubica

50 States Challenge
2015 - ???

15/50 books

Alabama (AL)
Alaska (AK)
Arizona (AZ) - The Water Knife - Paolo Bacigalupi
Arkansas (AR)
California (CA) - Things We Know by Heart - Jessi Kirby
Colorado (CO)
Connecticut (CT)
Delaware (DE)
Florida (FL): The Big Bad Wolf - James Patterson
Georgia (GA)
Hawaii (HI)
Idaho (ID)
Illinois (IL)
Indiana (IN)
Iowa (IA)
Kansas (KS)
Kentucky (KY)
Louisiana (LA)
Maine (ME)
Maryland (MD)
Massachusetts (MA): The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Michigan (MI):
Minnesota (MN): Truest - Jackie Lea Sommers
Mississippi (MS)
Missouri (MO): Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Montana (MT)
Nebraska (NE): Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
Nevada (NV)
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ): A Window Opens - Elisabeth Egan
New Mexico (NM): Love Letters to the Dead - Ava Dellaira
New York (NY): Night Harvest - Michael Alexiades
North Carolina (NC)
North Dakota (ND)
Ohio (OH): Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
Oklahoma (OK): The Art of Crash Landing - Melissa DeCarlo
Oregon (OR)
Pennsylvania (PA)
Rhode Island (RI)
South Carolina (SC)
South Dakota (SD)
Tennessee (TN): The Firm - John Grisham
Texas (TX)
Utah (UT)
Vermont (VT)
Virginia (VA)
Washington (WA): The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Leslye Walton
West Virginia (WV): Four Blind Mice - James Patterson
Wisconsin (WI):
Wyoming (WY)

Round the World Challenge
2015 - ?

Countries taken from:

21/197 books

Afghanistan: The Pearl that Broke Its Shell - Nadia Hashimi
Australia: The Sun in Her Eyes - Paige Toon
Bhutan: Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan - Jamie Zeppa
China: The Last Empress - Anchee Min
France: Not Quite Nice - Celia Imrie
Ireland: One Hundred Names - Cecelia Ahern
Japan: A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Libya: In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar
Malaysia: The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo
Mali: Blood & Ink - Stephen Davies
Malta: Everyone Brave is Forgiven - Chris Cleave
Marshall Islands: 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea - Jonathan Franklin
Pakistan: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
Spain: If You Were Me - Sheila O'Flanagan
Taiwan: Green Island - Shawna Yang Ryan
Thailand: The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
Ukraine: Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
USA: The Firm - John Grisham
UK: Little Bee - Chris Cleave
Wales: Lamp Black, Wolf Grey - Paula Brackston
Zambia: The Garden of Burning Sand - Corban Addison

Every Year Challenge - 2016

8/31 books

1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002 - Geisha, a Life - Mineko Iwasaki
2003
2004 - London Bridges - James Patterson
2005 - The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
2006
2007
2008
2009 - The Book of Tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern
2010
2011
2012 - Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
2013
2014 - The Pearl that Broke Its Shell - Nadia Hashimi
2015 - A Window Opens - Elisabeth Egan
2016 - The Moon in the Palace - Weina Dai Randel

First book of the year!

Second book of the year!

Read 16 Jan.

Read 21 Jan

Read 28 Jan

Read 7 Feb

Read 1 Mar

Read 14 Mar

Read 13 Apr

Read 8 May

Read 12 May

Read May

Read May

Read Jun

Read Jun

Read 21 Jun

Read 26 Jun

Read July

Read 31 July

Read 9 Aug

Read 14 Aug

Read 22 Aug

Read 5 Sep

Read Sep

Read 18 Sep

Read Sep


Read 12 Oct

Nov reads

Read 13 Dec

might be the last book of the year

The last book of 2016.

Overall, a good year but fell into a reading slump during the third quarter.

I will still set my 2017 reading goals as 40 books and will continue to join more challenges! :)