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��1. A book from the ŷ������ Choice Awards 2016
Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man
✅A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) Falling
��3. A book you meant to read in 2016 �� More Fool Me Listened to Audio in 2016 replace with �� Jude the Obscure
��4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" In Cold Blood
��5. A historical fiction The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
��6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 ��My Cousin Rachel Read for prompt 19 Replaced with�� The Sense of an Ending
��7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title ��Animal: The Autobiography of a Female BodybRead 2016 Replace with �� A Confederacy of Dunces
��8. A book written by a person of colorThe Vegetarian
��9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list Casino Royale
��10. A dual-timeline novel - The Historian
��11. A category from another challenge The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( fits many but will use Pop Sugars ' Classic from 20th century)
��12. A book based on a myth The Sword in the Stone
��13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authorsThe Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare ( recommended by Terry Pratchett )
��14. A book with a strong female character Wishful Drinking
��15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)Roseanna
��16. A mystery �� The Thirteenth Tale Read 2016 Replace with �� The Butterfly Garden
��17. A book with illustration �� A Monster Calls Read 2016 replace with�� Northanger Abbey
��18. A really long book (600+ pages) 11.22.63
��19. A New York Times best-seller �� Not My Father's Son Read in 2016 replace with �� My Cousin Rachel
��20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading American Gods
��21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read Amazing Disgrace
��22. A book by an author you haven't read before On the Other Side
��23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list Memoirs of a Geisha
��24. A book written by at least two authors The Siamese Twin Mystery
��25. A book about a famous historical figure Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
��26. An adventure book Life of Pi
��27. A book by one of your favorite authors Death and What Comes Next
��28. A non-fiction Blame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed
��29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses An Unsuitable Job for a Woman ( originally published Faber & Faber)
��30. A book from ŷ������ Top 100 YA Books Little Women
��31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre��The Witness for the Prosecution: A Short Story Read in 2016 replace with�� The Mysterious Affair at Styles (re read)
��32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) ��Where Was Rebecca Shot?: Curiosities, Puzzles, And Conundrums In Modern Fiction Read 2016 Replace with ��The Old Man and the Sea
��33. A magical realism novel The Tales of Beedle the Bard
��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[book:The Taming of the Queen
��36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee �� Story of Your Life Read for prompt 51 Replace with Fahrenheit 451
��37. A book you choose randomly The Cuckoo's Calling
��38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literatureCounselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure
��39. An epistolary fiction Lady Susan
��40. A book published in 2017 My Sister and Other Liars
��41. A book with an unreliable narrator The Girl on the Train
��42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) Room
��43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) ��A Christmas Carol Read 2016 Replace with �� The Mermaids Singing
��44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
��45. A book with a one-word title Middlesex
��46. A time travel novel Slaughterhouse-Five
��47. A past suggestion that didn't win The Velveteen Rabbit
��48. A banned book �������dz�é
��49. A book from someone else's bookshelf�� The Revenant Read in 2016 Replacing with�� Private Lives
��50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition The Big Sleep
��51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) Stories of Your Life and Others
��52. A book set in a fictional location The Princess Bride

*Disclaimer: The eagle eyed will have spotted that I have already read 44 of the books, but my challenge tally doesn't agree ( and I've only set a target of 42) *(see EDIT below)
This is because when I started the challenge in January I fit the last 10 of the books I read in 2016 into it because I thought I wouldn't read 52 books in 2017. Turns out I probably will so I've just started some challenges in other groups and of my own.
Hope this doesn't break the rules too much!
*EDIT 28/6 Decided not to 'cheat' and use my books from 2016 so edited my list in message 1 and set target at 52*

There really aren't rules per se... there's no prize, no enforcement.

That being said, I wouldn't do what you did because I use the challenge as a year by year way to clean up my backlist and diversify my reading.

Kirsten *Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!" wrote: "There really aren't rules per se... there's no prize, no enforcement.

That being said, I wouldn't do what you did because I use the challenge as a year by year way to clean up my backlist and dive..."
I won't again but this is my first year. The 10 books were the ones I read for the challenge (elsewhere)I was doing last year but didn't finish because 1) I didn't like a lot of the topics 2) Stuff happened and I didn't read as much as I'd planned.
I've already read more books this year than the whole of last year so should easily read 52.
If only I hadn't also added so many books to my TBR list at the same time!

Good luck! The most important thing is to have fun with it.

What did you think of The Naked Civil Servant? I've been wanting to read that for ages, but it's not one that many people seem to read.

Jody wrote: "What did you think of The Naked Civil Servant? I've been wanting to read that for ages, but it's not one that many people seem to read."

Hi, thanks for reading my list! I'm afraid I was a disappointed by The Naked Civil Servant. I've had it on my actual TBR shelf for a long time and the one in my head even longer, probably since watching the film on TV many years ago. I didn't feel like he went into enough detail, and the structure was more like a memoir than an autobiography in that it skipped around. I suppose I also expected lots more gossip about famous people he knew!
I don't want to put you off reading it, though. I'm glad I read it, he was a very interesting and brave man, I just didn't expect him to play this aspect of his personality down so much. I'd be interested to chat with you about it once you've read it.

Decided I'm going to bump The Naked Civil Servant from this challenge - I was going to use it for this and my Memoirs challenge but am only going to use it for the latter now. Will be reading a different book from the middle of my TBR list ( as I'm interpreting the challenge to mean the approximate middle anyway)

Have decided to remove the books I read prior to the official start and replace with other ones I have/will read in 2017 because I can complete the 52 without 'cheating'.
Original list in message 1 amended ( and shelf)