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The Great American Read- time constraint: ongoing
- goal: 14/50
- key:
� pre-list read
� post-list read
� definitely want to read
📖 currently reading
� will not read
📖1984 by George Orwell
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
✅A Separate Peace by John Knowles ★★★☆�
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
→The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Alex Cross Series by James Patterson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
→Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
→And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Another Country by James Baldwin
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
→Beloved by Toni Morrison
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
→The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
→The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
✅The Color Purple by Alice Walker ★★★★�
✔The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas ★★★★�
→Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
→The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
→Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
→Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos
Dune by Frank Herbert
❌Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L James
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
✅Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ★★★★�
→A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
✔The Giver by Lois Lowry ★★★☆�
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
→Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
→The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
→Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
→The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
✔Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling ★★★★�
✔Hatchet by Gary Paulsen ★☆☆☆�
✅Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ★★☆☆�
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
✔The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ★★★★�
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
→Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
→The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Left Behind by Tim LaHaye
→The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
→Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Looking for Alaska by John Green
→The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
→The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
→The Martian by Andy Weir
→Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Mind Invaders by Dave Hunt
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
❌The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
→One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
✅The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton ★★★★�
✔The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ★★★★�
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
✔Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ★★★★�
→Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
→Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Shack by William Paul Young
→Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
→The Stand by Stephen King
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
→Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
→Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
→Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti
→To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
❌Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer
→War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
✅Watchers by Dean Koontz ★★�1/2�
✔Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (need to re-read)
→White Teeth by Zadie Smith
→Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
ŷ Choice Awards- time constraint: ongoing
- goal: 2/30
- key:
� completed
📖 currently reading
🎧 audiobook
�01. There There ★★★★�
02. Girls Burn Brighter
03. A Spark of Light
✔�04. You Think It, I'll Say It ★★★★�
05. Everything Here Is Beautiful
06. A Place for Us
07. The Death of Mrs. Westway
08. The Wife Between Us
09. The Outsider
10. The Map of Salt and Stars
11. Transcription
12. The Clockmaker's Daughter
13. Tattooist of Auschwitz
14. Where the Crawdads Sing
15. Dead Wake
16. Future of Humanity
17. Binti
18. Red Clocks
19. Facism: A Warning
20. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
21. The Girl Who Smiled Beads
22. Educated: A Memoir
23. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
�24. Lilac Girls
25. The Butterfly Garden
26. When Breath Becomes Air
27. The Light Between Oceans
28. A God in Ruins
29. Next Year in Havana
30. I Am, I Am, I Am
AtY 2018(started October 2018)
- time constraint: ongoing
- goal: 11/52
- key:
� completed
📖 currently reading
� upcoming
List:
1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
The City of Brass
2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
Warcross
3. A book from the 2017 ŷ Choice Awards
Little Fires Everywhere
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth
Pines
5. A book about or inspired by real events
Murder on the Orient Express
6. A book originally written in a language other than English
A Man Called Ove
� 7. A gothic novel
The Night Circus
� 8. An "own voices" book*
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe ★★★★�
� 9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
Daughter of Smoke & Bone ★★★☆�
� 10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
Homegoing ★★★★�
11. A literary fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns
12. A book set in Africa or South America
Americanah
� 13. A book with a plot centered around a secret
Out of the Easy ★★★☆�
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
A Clockwork Orange
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
S.
16. A narrative nonfiction
In Cold Blood
17. A book you expect to make you laugh
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
18. A book with a location in the title
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors)
Mr. Mercedes
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
If We Were Villains
�21. A book written in first person perspective
Dark Matter
22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
A Reaper at the Gates
23. A medical or legal thriller
Quicksand
� 24. A book with a map
Six of Crows ★★★★�
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
Vicious
26. A book with a text only cover
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
27. A book about surviving a hardship
Girl at War
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
The Girl in the Ice
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title
Graceling
30. A short book
84, Charing Cross Road
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
32. An alternate history book
11/22/63
33.
The Great Alone
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (A book about a subject that made headlines)
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
� 35. A book featuring a murder
Velocity ★★★★�
36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
The Song of Achilles
38. A science book or a science fiction book
The Martian
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
� 40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list
Man's Search for Meaning ★★★★�
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
Circe
� 42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
Challenger Deep ★★★★�
� 43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine ★★★★�
� 44. A ghost story
The Graveyard Book ★★★★�
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
The Stand
� 46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
The Cruel Prince ★★★☆�
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
Magpie Murders
49. A book from one of the ŷ Best Books of the Month lists
Gone Girl
50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
Lily and the Octopus
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
52. A book published in 2018
The Music Shop
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Books mentioned in this topic
Magpie Murders (other topics)A Man Called Ove (other topics)
Circe (other topics)
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche (other topics)
Challenger Deep (other topics)
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◾️ The Great American Read
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◾️ AtY 2018 Challenge
◾️ AtY 2019 + Rejects Challenge
◾️ Reading Around the World
◾️ AtY 2020 Challenge