My sisters, mom and a cousin decided to do a challenge from Goodwill Librarian this year. I am always up for a good challenge that will help whittle down my TBR pile. This one really hits the classics, so I am a little worried I won't finish all 52 of them, but still I will have less than I do right now. So I am going to skip the Alphabet Challenge this year and go with these books.
A book with more than 500 pages - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
A classic romance - The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer
A book that became a movie - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
A book published this year - The Angel Court Affair by Anne Perry
A book with a number in the title - Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
A book written by someone under 30 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
A book with nonhuman characters - The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
A funny book - My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
A book by a female author - The Pieces We Keep by Kristina McMorris
A mystery or thriller - Blood on the Water by Anne Perry
A book with a one-word title - Lost by Jacqueline Davies
A book of short stories - The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
A book set in a different country - Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
A nonfiction book - Stiff: The Curious Lives Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
A popular author's first book - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossenini
A book, no yet read, from an author you love - The Good, the Bad, and the Emus by Donna Andrews
A book a friend recommended - The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
A Pulitzer Prize winning book - So Big by Edna Ferber
A book based on a true story - The Eighty-Dollar Champion Dollar by Elizabeth Letts
A book at the bottom of your to-read list - Wild Swans: Three Daughter of China by Jung Chang
A book your mom loves - Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well by Nancy Atherton
A book that scares you - Jesus the Christ by James E Talmage
A book more than 100 years old - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggins
A book based entirely on its cover - Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
A memoir - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
A book you can finish in a day - The Outsiders by S E Hinton
A book with antonyms in the title - BitterSweet by Shawna Niequist
A book set somewhere you'be always wanted to visit - My Life in France by Julia Child
A book that came out the year you were born - Christy by Catherine Marshall
A book with bad reviews - Tiger Babies Strike Back by Kim Wong Keltner
A trilogy - The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel
A book from your childhood - Frog and Toad Together by Andrew Lobel
A book with a love triangle - Wither by Lauren DeStefano
A book set in the future - The Time Machine HG Wells
A book set in high school - Identical by Ellen Hopkins
A book with a color in the title - The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Cate Coblenz
A book that made you cry - Where the Broken Lie by Derek Rempfer
A book with magic - Fog Magic by Julia L Sauer
A graphic novel - Smile by Raina Telgemeier
A book by an author you've never read before - The Girls from Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
A book you own but have never read - A Case of Imagination by Jane Tesh
A book that takes place in your hometown - Rock Springs by Russel L Tanner
A book that was originally written in a different language- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
A book set during Christmas - Searching for David's Heart by Cherie Bennett
A book written by an author with your same initials - Once Blind: The Life of John Newton by Kay Strom
A play - The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart
A banned book - A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A book based on or turned into a TV show - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
A book you started but never finished - The Book Thief by Markus Zukas
PS This is it. I have around a 100 books chosen for challenges. I currently average a 100 books a year. I am feeling a bit concerned that my eyes are bigger than my reading time will allow, but...
Friday, December 19, 2014
Friday, December 12, 2014
The Eclectic Reader Challenge 2015
In it’s fourth year, the aim of The Eclectic Reader Challenge is to push you outside your comfort zone by reading up to 12 books during the year from 12 different categories.
Join in:
- The challenge will run from January 1st to December 31st 2015. Participants may join at any time up until December 1st 2015
- Create a blog post committing to your participation in this challenge.
* If you don’t have a blog you are still welcome to sign up. You can create a shelf for the challenge at Goodreads or LibraryThing or a similar site Just include your name and a link to your shelf.
- Post your name, blog name, and the direct link to your challenge post in the Linky
- Select, read and review a book from each category listed below during the year for a total of 12 books. A book may be in print, electronic or audio format.
* You can choose your books as you go or create a list in advance. You may combine this challenge with others if you wish.
* Where a book is identified by more than one genre eg historical romance, it may only count for either the historical fiction or romantic fiction genres – not both.
* You can read your chosen titles in any order, at any pace, just complete the challenge by December 31st 2015 to be eligible for the prize drawing.
Bookmark the Eclectic Reader Challenge Page for future reference
Categories
- Retellings - A Curse Dark as Gold
- A book set in a country starting with the letter S - Cry the Beloved Country
- PI Crime - Breakdown
- A novel published before you were born - The African Queen
- Contemporary romance - The Undomestic Goddess
- Fiction for foodies - How to Eat a Small Country
- Microhistory (Non Fiction) - Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
- Science Fiction set in space - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Sports (Fiction or Non fiction) - Unbroken
- Featuring diversity - Rabbit Proof Fence
- Epistolary Fiction - The Screwtape Letters
- Middle Grade/YA Adventure - Navigating Early
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