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CURRENT PROGRESS : 32/52 READ , 3 CURRENTLY READING

Right - here goes. This will be my first attempt at a challenge (gulp) and not sure if I'll manage to keep up BUT I've got to start with some positivity. My reading comfort zone tends to revolve around legal / crime thrillers so I'm trying to stretch myself a bit with some of my options.

Week 1: A book with the letters A, T and Y in the title
READ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
READ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Week 2: A book from the first ten books added to your TBR list
A Wanted Man

Week 3: A book from the 2017 Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

Week 4: A book linked to the Earth element
The Pillars of the Earth

Week 5: A book about or inspired by real events
READ Murder on the Orient Express
READ The Penguin Lessons

Week 6: A book originally written in a language other than English
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Week 7: A gothic novel
READ The Grave Tender

Week 8: An "own voices" book
READ Six of Crows

Week 9: A book with a body part in the title
READ Heart-Shaped Box

Week 10: An author's debut book
READ Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Week 11: A literary fiction book
READ Little Fires Everywhere

Week 12: A book set in Africa or South America
READ Pablo Escobar: Beyond Narcos and
READ American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal? Pablo Escobar or George HW Bush
READ The Penguin Lessons

Week 13: A book with a plot centred around a secret
READ Big Little Lies
READ The Light Between Oceans

Week 14: A book linked to the Fire element
READ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
READ Fahrenheit 451

Week 15: A book with a unique format/writing structure
S.

Week 16: A narrative non-fiction
READ Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Week 17: A book you expect to make you laugh
Confessions of a Learner Parent: Parenting like a boss.

Week 18: A book with a location in the title
READ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Week 19: A book nominated for the Edgar Award, or by a Grand Master author
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
READ End of Watch

Week 20: A book rated five stars by at least one of your friends
READ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Week 21: A book written in first person perspective
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

Week 22: A book you have high expectations for
READ Wraith

Week 23: A medical or legal thriller
Shutter Island
READ The Whistler

Week 24: A book with a map
The Phantom Tollbooth

Week 25: A book with an antagonist/villian PoV
READ Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Week 26: A book with a text only cover
Dark Matter

Week 27: A book about surviving a hardship
The Fault in Our Stars

Week 28: A book linked to the Water element
The Golden Compass
READ The Light Between Oceans

Week 29: A book with a "Cluedo" weapon on the cover or in the title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench/spanner)
The Gunslinger

Week 30: A short book
READ The Little Prince

Week 31: A book set in a country you'd like to visit, but have never been to
Barkskins

Week 32: An alternate history book
11/22/63

Week 33: A book connected to a word "born" in the same year as you
READ The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

Week 34: A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls that didn't win, but was polarising or a close call
READ Columbine (Book based on story that made the headlines)

Week 35: A book featuring a murder
Dissolution

Week 36: A book published in the last three years by an author you haven't read before
READ Redemption Road

Week 37: A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
The Lizard Cage

Week 38: A science or science fiction book
Ancillary Justice

Week 39: A book with a form of punctuation in the title
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Week 40: A book from Amazon's "100 Books to Read in a Lifetime" list
READ The Catcher in the Rye

Week 41: A book by an author with the same first and last initials
84, Charing Cross Road

Week 42: A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
READ The Dragon Dreamer

Week 43: A book with a title that is a whole sentence
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Week 44: A ghost story
READ Rebecca

Week 45: A book that intimidates or scares you
House of Leaves

Week 46: A book linked to the Air element
When Breath Becomes Air

Week 47: A book where the main character is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than you
The Kite Runner

Week 48: A book related to one of the seven deadly sins
Lolita

Week 49: A book from one of the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ "Best Books of the Month" list
READ The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

Week 50: A book with a warm atmosphere
READ Lily and the Octopus

Week 51: An award-winning short story or short story collection
READING The BBC National Short Story Award 2014

Week 52: A book published in 2018
To be decided during the year!!!

Great List!! Harry Potter is always amazing, no matter how many times I read it. I loved Big Little Lies, Rebecca, 11/22/63 and The Kite Runner. Heart Shaped Box, Me Before You, Thirteen Reasons Why, and the Hot Zone were all really good reads for me. The Catcher in the Rye....OMG I just loved this is my 20s, it made me cry, although I was a little less impressed re-reading it in my 40s. I think people either love or hate Holden Caulfield.

I have Little Fires Everywhere, Six of Crows, Tell the Wolves I'm Home, S., When Breath Becomes Air, and Fact of a Body all on my challenge plans this year.

You have some pretty quick reads on your list, so that should make your first try a little easier. Enjoy :-)

Tracy wrote: "Great List!! Harry Potter is always amazing, no matter how many times I read it. I loved Big Little Lies, Rebecca, 11/22/63 and The Kite Runner. Heart Shaped Box, Me Before You, Thirteen Reasons Wh..."

I've not read any of the Harry Potter series before, despite my husband raving about them, so will be interesting to see what all the fuss is about!

I'm unsure about If on a Winter's Night ... - I started reading it a month or so ago and quickly lost interest. Hoping the challenge will spur me on to finish it.

I'm fitting in my reading for pleasure around studying for a law degree so there'll be plenty of weeks where a quick read will be all I'll manage - after ploughing through cases and legislation, I'll be sick of seeing words!!

Being a student AND doing the challenge is hard! Good luck with your challenge, but remember that it's supposed to be fun!

I have no hope of finishing this year but i am going to see how much I can read betweeen now ans the end ic the year. And I can't wait to start the new one!

You've got some great books on your plan! Rebecca was one of my favourite reads this year. I've the same book slotted in as a possibility for #33 too - I wonder if we're the same vintage! 🤔

I read If on a Winter's Night a Traveler last year (I think), and I struggled too. I hope it gets better for you on your next attempt.

I NEED to read If on a Winter's Night a Traveler it has been on my TBR for so long.

I only got half way through Lolita.

so many of your books are on my TBR list

I've started my 2018 challenge early as I'd finished my last book and was desperate to get started on Harry Potter. Read Philosopher's Stone and thoroughly enjoyed it so I am trying to sneak Chamber of Secrets in too before starting A Wanted Man.
Can't understand why I've never read the HP series before - think I was being a bit of a book snob and snubbing them because of all the hype ... and of course, because they are children's books. Also, Rowling has 'borrowed' so many ideas from other stories (apparent as, despite not reading the books, I have seen all the films) that I think I deliberately avoided them.
Have to try and fit the rest of the series in to my challenge now!

Chamber of Secrets finished yesterday and decided to read out of order as wanted another Kindle read done and dusted. Started The Grave Tender this morning and finished it a few hours later (category: a gothic novel). It gripped me from the first page and I had to see it through to the end. Brilliant book, very highly recommended - short too. Now to choose the next story. Loving this challenge so far (although we are only 4 days into the year)!

It looks like we have the same taste in books. I love your list! I'm interested in that ebola one. I'll have to look it up.

I am reading out of order too! I think my problem will be having to wait on copies of books to get here.

I much prefer 'proper' books over kindle ones but have quite a collection of unread ones on my kindle so am going to read them first, whilst scouring charity shops/book shops and Amazon for the rest!

95% of my list I have to buy so I can complete the challenge this year.

Had to edit my list to allow for more from the Harry Potter series (sure I can fit Deathly Hallows in there somewhere!). Plus changed a couple of options.
I find I am adding more and more books to my TBR list, which is great, but at this rate, I'll still be reading well after I'm dead!!

Finished two books this week - and . Covering prompts 12 and 18. Couldn't get enough of Harry Potter and have got an additional book to read after finishing Escobar - not sure if I can work that into the challenge but my interest has been piqued.

Finished Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire over the weekend and have decided to give the series a rest for a while and read some of the other books, so started on and am a third of the way through. Not quite what I was expecting and it's brought me to tears a couple of times already, but it's a lovely story so far about a man and his dog.

So, 3 weeks in and 10 books read so far covering prompts 1 (2 books for this prompt), 5, 7, 12, 14, 16, 18, 30 and 50. Currently reading for prompt 44.
Have read some absolutely stonking books - my favourite so far has to be . Can highly recommend this one.
Hoping to get at least 2 books read this week but have a large assignment due so may not get as many chances to read as I have previously.
Job of the week is to join my local library. Not been in for years as I usually buy my books to keep but hubby is commenting on how many have been delivered recently so the library calls!

Wow!! You're moving right along :-)

You're doing great so far! It looks like you will slay this challenge!

Hmmm - just taken delivery of 10 new books for my challenge. So much for joining the library this week. Damn Amazon and their £10 off a £50 spend yesterday!!! Now, where to hide them so hubby doesn't see them :)

15 books down in January - 4932 pages read.
Prompts 1 (2 books), 5, 7, 9 (read yesterday), 12 (2 books), 14, 16, 18, 22, 23, 25, 30, 44 and 50.

Still haven't joined the library yet - will wait until I have ploughed through most of the books I already have before joining, I think.

Read four books so far for the read-a-thon - two of which were already down for my 2018 challenge . Currently reading The Light Between Oceans for the read-a-thon. Not sure if I'll fit that somewhere into the prompts for this challenge.

Long time since I updated my list so done it now.

Read 13 books in February - 12 of them for this challenge. Favourites being Little Fires Everywhere, End of Watch, Six of Crows, Columbine, and Big Little Lies

Currently four books already read for March - three on the go at the moment, although two of these are not for this challenge (one for Popsugar 2018 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, and one for a book club on Litsy It Ends with Us).

Still not joined library yet (I went with the wrong ID) but raided local charity shops and got a 9 book haul for just over £10 - BARGAIN!

Just joined Netgalley and been accepted to read The Salt Path so will try and fit that in as soon as possible.

Very much enjoying my reading - and pushing my boundaries further and further out.

Wow, you're getting a lot done :-)