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Tara | 1 comments First time doing this challenge!

Progress :: 14/52
Read :: �
Rating :: ★★★�

�1. A book from the ŷ Choice Awards 2016:
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi ★★★★�

� 2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view):
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ★★★★
Charlottes web
Wuthering heights
Tale of two cities

3. A book you meant to read in 2016:
Windfallen by Jojo Moyes

4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E":
✔️Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers ★★★★

Simplify: 7 Guiding Principles to Help Anyone Declutter Their Home and Life by Joshua Becker
Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondō

5. A historical fiction:
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

✔️6. A book being released as a movie in 2017:
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven ★★★★

✔️7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title:
The Canary Room by Edwin F. Casebeer ★★�

✔️8. A book written by a person of color:
Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson ★★★★

9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list:
A Two Pedal World: The Beginning by Paul Rega

10. A dual-timeline novel:
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

11. A category from another challenge:
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim - A book with month in title

12. A book based on a myth
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis audiobook
The lost sisterhood

✔️13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors:
Sula by Toni Morrison - ★★★★�

✔️14. A book with a strong female character :
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery audiobook ★★�

15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland):
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell

16. A mystery:
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

17. A book with illustrations:
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - paperback or audiobook

18. A really long book (600+ pages):
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

19. A New York Times best-seller:
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading:
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read:
Go Set a Watchman?

22. A book by an author you haven't read before:
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy

23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link):
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

24. A book written by at least two authors:
Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor

25. A book about a famous historical figure:
the invention of everything else

26. An adventure book:
Harriet the spy
Adventures of huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer

27. A book by one of your favorite authors:
Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way by Shauna Niequist

28. A non-fiction:
✔️Bearing Hope: Navigating the Desert of Waiting for a Child by Liv Ryan ★★�
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero - audiobook

29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions:
ever after?

30. A book from ŷ Top 100 YA Books (link):
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott kindle or audiobook

✔️31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre:
romantic comedy - The Rosie Project byGraeme Simsion ★★★★

✔️32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle):
The Things We Wish Were True by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen ★★★★

✔️33. A magical realism novel:
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen - audiobook ★★★★

34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere:
What Alice forgot?

35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty:
cinder?

36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link):

37. A book you choose randomly:
Unstuffed: Decluttering Your Home, Mind, and Soul by Ruth Soukup
Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock

38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature:
The Brontë Plot by Katherine Reay

39. An epistolary fiction:
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

✔️40. A book published in 2017:
At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe by Tsh Oxenreider ★★★★

41. A book with an unreliable narrator:
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

42. A best book of the 21st century (so far):
daring greatly

43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold):
1984 by George Orwell

44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link):
Zac and Mia by A.J. Betts

45. A book with a one-word title:
Candide by Voltaire

46. A time travel novel:
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link):
Three Weeks in Paris by Barbara Taylor Bradford - a book set in a city or country you visited

48. A banned book:
catch 22

49. A book from someone else's bookshelf - simply Tuesday
Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World by Emily P. Freeman

50. A Penguin Modern Clacssic - any edition:
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays):
my true love gave to me: 12 winter romances. - Or - Alice Monroe - family furnishings.

�52. A book set in a fictional location:
A Million Junes by Emily Henry


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