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Goals:
1. 100 Books in the year
2. Explore more books outside my comfort zone
3. Have fun

January
1. Armada
2. Bridget Jones's Diary
3. The Help
4. The Invisible Man
5. Murder as a Fine Art
6. The Grim Grotto
7. The Wangs vs. the World
8. The Penultimate Peril
9. The End
10. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

February
11. The Iliad
12. Truly Madly Guilty
13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
14. Love in the Time of Cholera
15. Flowers in the Attic
16. Perfect Little World
17. Modern Lovers

March
18. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
19. Caraval
20. Flowers for Algernon
21. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
22. Modern Romance
23. Orange Is the New Black
24. Uncle Dynamite
25. Americanah
26. The Lies of Locke Lamora

April
27. After You
28. Swing Time
29. Thirteen Reasons Why
30. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
31. The Outsiders
32. Dead Letters

May
33. One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
34. The Taming of the Queen
35. Exit West
36. Delicious Foods
37. Since We Fell
38. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
39. Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
40. You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
41. The House on Mango Street
42. Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
43. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
44. The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
45. The Night Circus

June
46. Beautiful Disaster
47. Night of Cake & Puppets
48. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
49. The Summer that Melted Everything
50. Into the Water
51. The Night Watch
52. My Cousin Rachel
53. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

July
54. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
55. Emma
56. The Weight of Blood
57. Etiquette & Espionage
58. Tipping the Velvet
59. Final Girls
60. A Thousand Splendid Suns
61. The Girl in the Spider's Web

August
62. Dark Matter
63. Food: A Love Story
64. Labor Day
65. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
66. Casino Royale
67. The Blinds
68. Three Sisters, Three Queens
69. The Bear and the Nightingale

September
70. Saturday
71. Everything You Want Me to Be
72. Sing, Unburied, Sing
73. Every Heart a Doorway
74. The Pillars of the Earth
75. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
76. A Wrinkle in Time
77. Venus and Adonis

October
78. Psycho
79. The Three Musketeers
80. The Power
81. The House of the Spirits
82. The Women in the Castle
83. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
84. The Nest

November
85. Spoonbenders
86. Girl, Interrupted
87. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
88. All Our Wrong Todays
89. Artemis
90. Lily and the Octopus
91. The Silkworm
92. Beartown
93. The Trespasser
94. The Rules of Magic

December
95. Middlesex
96. All Grown Up
97. Raven Black
98. Dinner at the Center of the Earth
99. My Not So Perfect Life
100. Dating-ish
101. The Muse
102. Little & Lion

Monthly Genre Challenge
January: New Beginnings - The Wangs vs. the World
February: Valentine's Day (Romance / Saints) - Love in the Time of Cholera
March: Women's History/Strong Women - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
April: Animals & Rebirth - After You
May: Family - Delicious Foods
June: Beach Reads - Into the Water
July: Heat - A Thousand Splendid Suns
August: Royalty - Three Sisters, Three Queens
September: School, College or University - Everything You Want Me to Be
October: Halloween - Psycho
November: Change - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

PopSugar List for 2017

[x] Recommended by a librarian - One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
[x] on your TBR too long - Thirteen Reasons Why
[x] book of letters - Flowers for Algernon
[x] audiobook - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
[x] by a person of color - Modern Romance
[x] a season in the title - The Summer that Melted Everything
[x] story within a story - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
[x] multiple authors - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
[x] espionage thriller - Casino Royale
[x] cat on cover - The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
[x] author with pseudonym - The Grim Grotto
[x] bestseller in genre you don’t normally read - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
[x] by or about a person with disability - After You
[x] involves travel - Exit West
[x] has subtitle - Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
[x] published 1n 2017 - Perfect Little World
[x] about food - Food: A Love Story
[x] career advice - The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
[x] re-read that makes you smile - The Night Circus
[x] mythical creature - The Bear and the Nightingale
[x] non-human perspective - Delicious Foods
[x] steampunk novel - Etiquette & Espionage
[x] has red spine - The Girl in the Spider's Web
[x] set in wilderness - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
[x] re-read you loved as a child - One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
[x] author from a country you’ve never visited - Love in the Time of Cholera
[x] title has character name - Bridget Jones's Diary
[x] set in wartime - Armada
[x] unreliable narrator - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
[x] has pictures - The End
[x] main character is different ethnicity then you - Americanah
[x] about interesting woman - Orange Is the New Black
[x] set in 2 time periods - Swing Time
[x] set in a hotel- The Penultimate Peril
[x] title has month or day of week - Saturday
[x] written by someone your admire - Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
[x] becoming a movie in 2017 - Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
[x] set around a holiday other than Christmas - Labor Day
[x] first book of a series new to you - Murder as a Fine Art
[x] bought on a trip - My Cousin Rachel
[x] recommended by an author you love - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
[x] bestseller from 2016 - Truly Madly Guilty
[x] family member in title - Uncle Dynamite
[x] takes place over life-span - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
[x] about immigrant or refugee - The Wangs vs. the World
[x] genre or subgenre you’ve never heard of - The Lies of Locke Lamora (mannerpunk)
[x] involves an eccentric character - Dead Letters
[x] more than 800 pages - The Pillars of the Earth
[x] bought from used bookstore - The Night Watch
[x] based on mythology - The Iliad
[x] difficult topic - The Help
[x] book mentioned in another book - The Invisible Man

New To You Authors Jan-April - Completed 2/6/2017
Level One: 1 New Author
1. Helen Fielding
Level Two: 3 New Authors
2. Kathryn Stockett
3. David Morrell
Level Three: 6 New Authors
4. Jade Chang
5. Mary Roach
6. Homer

Winter Challenges
First! First! (Debut Novel) Jan. 2017 - The Help

Winter Bingo - Completed 1/16/2017
N1: Classic - The Invisible Man
N2: Made into a Movie - The Help
N3: FREE - Murder as a Fine Art
N4: Science Fiction - Armada
N5: Humor - Bridget Jones's Diary

Down with History Jan - March
Level 1 - 2 Books
1. The Help
2. Murder as a Fine Art
Level 2 - 4 Books
3. Love in the Time of Cholera
Level 3 - 6 Books

I Hate Valentine's Day! - completed 2/18/2017
Flowers in the Attic

Luck o' the Irish 2017 - completed 3/16/2017
Orange Is the New Black

Reserved for Spring Challenges
Spring Bingo
B1: Award Nominated - Swing Time
I2: Travel - Exit West
N3: FREE - The Outsiders
G4: Young Adult - Thirteen Reasons Why
O5: Pink Cover - One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Mommy Dearest Challenge - Delicious Foods

Cinco de Mayo! (May 2017) - The House on Mango Street

LGBTQ+ Appreciation (June 2017) - The Night Watch

Reserved for Summer Challenges
Summer Bingo
I1: Listed it - Casino Royale
I2: Bought it - The Blinds
I3: Eyed it - Dark Matter
I4: Downloaded it - The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
I5: Scored it! - Food: A Love Story

50 Book Challenge - completed!

Reserved for Autumn Challenges

New Release Challenge 2017 level 4 completed

3/1/2017 Update:
2017 Reading Challenge Status: 2 books ahead of schedule (18%)
# of Books read in January: 10
# of Books read in February: 7
Favorite Book read in the 1st two months: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Biggest Accomplishment: Finishing the Series of Unfortunate Events

Chase, what did you think of A Series Of Unfortunate Events?

I thought most of the series books were cute, but as a whole they left a lot of questions unanswered.

5/1/2017 Update:
2017 Reading Challenge Status: On track (33%)
# of Books read in March: 9
# of Books read in April: 6
Favorite Book read in the previous two months: Flowers for Algernon or Americanah
Biggest Accomplishment: 4 nonfiction books in 2 months. Not bad for someone who isn't a huge fan of nonfiction.

7/1/2017 Update:
2017 Reading Challenge Status: 4 books ahead of schedule (54%)
# of Books read in May: 13
# of Books read in June: 8
Favorite Book read in the previous two months: My Cousin Rachel and The Night Circus (reread)
Biggest Accomplishment: May was the first time that I ever listened to an audiobook. I don't think I'll ever love them, but I've found that I can at least listen to them without zoning out too much, as long as it's the right kind of book.

9/8/2017 Update:
2017 Reading Challenge Status: 3 books ahead of schedule (71%)
# of Books read in July: 8
# of Books read in August: 8
Favorite Book read in the previous two months: Dark Matter
Biggest Accomplishment: Finishing the last of the Jane Austen novels.

Which was the last Jane Austen novel you read? And which was the first.

Emma was the last and Pride and Prejudice the first.

11/1/2017 Update:
2018 Reading Challenge Status: 2 books ahead of schedule (85%)
# of Books read in September: 8
# of Books read in October: 7
Favorite Book read in the previous two months: The House of the Spirits
Biggest Accomplishment: 1) Finishing the Popsugar challenge, finally. 2) Finally reading The House of Spirits, which has been a book I said I was going to read for at least 10 years now.

12/31/2017 Update:
2018 Reading Challenge Status: 102/100 books read
# of Books read in November: 10
# of Books read in December: 8
Favorite Book read in the previous two months: Girl, Interrupted
Biggest Accomplishment: Meeting my 100 book goal again this year.