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Currently at:25,941
Goal: 25, 000
Achieved: November 30, 2017
Updated: December 12, 2017

Book Count

Currently at:76
Goal: 60 - Keep going :)
Achieved: August 30, 2017
Updated: December 12, 2017






Popsugar: 2017 Book Challenge


Two years ago, I stumbled across PopSugar's Reading Challenge. (Here's last year's ).
2017's is no less exciting! They even added an 'Advanced' section. And, of course, I added a few.


Content
-       Book of letters ~ A Secret History (Mary Gentle)
-       By or about a person with a disability ~ Memory of Earth (Orson Scott Card)
-       Involving travel ~ Crystal Kingdom III (Amanda Hocking)
-       Involving a mythical creature ~ Nicholas: The Lords of Satyr (Elizabeth Amber)
-       About food ~
-       About career advice ~
-       Pictures within ~ DragonLance Tales, Vol 2 (Various Authors)
-       ^Takes place over a character’s lifespan ~ The Red Garden (Alice Hoffman)
-       ^About an immigrant or refugee ~The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Oscar Hijuelos)
-       ^More than 800 pages ~ The Passage (Justin Cronin)
-       ^Book that’s mentioned in another book ~ Micromegas (Voltaire)
-       ^Difficult topic ~ The Thing About Jellyfish (Ali Benjamin)
-       ^Based on mythology ~ The Search for the Red Dragon (James A. Owen)

Character
-       Main character has different ethnicity than you ~ Flame in the Mist (Renee Ahdieh)
-       About an interesting woman ~ Margaret the First (Danielle Dutton)
-       Nonhuman perspective ~ Written in Red (Anne Bishop)
-       Unreliable narrator ~ The Loser (Thomas Bernhard)
-       ^Eccentric character ~ Ghostly Echoes: Jackaby, III (William Ritter)


Setting
-       Set in wilderness ~ The Island of Doctor Moreau (H.G.Wells)
-       Set during wartime ~ The Chilbury Ladies' Choir (Jennifer Ryan)
-       Set in two different time periods ~ A Handful of Time (Kit Pearson)
-       Set in a hotel ~
-       Set around a holiday other than Christmas ~


Author
-       POC author ~ Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Madeleine Thien)
-       Multiple authors ~
-       Author who uses a pseudonym ~ Ink and Bone (Rachel Caine)
-       Author from country you’ve never visited ~ Frogkisser (Garth Nix)
-       Written by someone you admire ~ The Screwtape Letters (C.S.Lewis)


Cover
-       Cat on the cover ~
-       *Stars on the cover ~ A Court of Mist and Fury, III (Sarah J. Maas)
-       Red spine ~ The Masked City, II (Genevieve Cogman)


Title
-       Title with a subtitle ~
-       One of the four seasons in the title ~ Winter Be My Shield (Jo Spurrier)
-       Title that’s a character’s name ~ Violet Eyes (Debbie Viguie)
-       Month or day of the week in the title ~
-       ^Family-member term in the title ~ The Storyteller's Daughter (Cameron Dokey)

Genre
-       Espionage thriller  ~ Jane, unlimited (Kristin Cashore)
-       Best seller from genre you don’t normally read ~ The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
-       Steampunk ~
-       ^A genre/subgenre you’ve never heard of before ~ Unridden (Cat Johnson)
-       *Modern children’s book ~ Lily Quench and the Treasure of Mote Ely (Natalie Jane Prior)
-       *Classic children’s book ~ Peter Pan (J.M.Barrie)


Publishing
-       Published in 2017 ~ Caraval (Stephanie Garber)
-       ^Bestseller from 2016 ~
-       *Published before 1950 ~ Dragonwyck (Anya Seton)
-       *Published 1980’s ~ Silver Metal Lover (Tanith Lee)
-       *Published 1990’s ~ Green Rider (Kristen Britain)


Reading
-       Been on your TBR for way too long ~ Black Unicorn (Tanith Lee)
-       Brought on a trip ~
-       First book in series never read before ~ The Gunslinger: Dark Tower I (Stephen King)
-       Audiobook ~ The Miniaturist (Jessie Burton)
-       Recommended by a librarian ~
-       ^Recommended by an author you love ~
-       ^Used book sale acquirement ~ The Fairy's Mistake (Gail Carson Levine)

Rereading
-       Loved as a child ~
-       You’ve read before that never fails to make you smile ~ Graceling (Kristin Cashore)


Current Events
-       Becoming a movie 2017 ~



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