So, here we go: another year, another challenge.
This year, though, my lovely friend Rosie (who blogs at Ramble Ramble Rosie and writes much better reviews than I) and I smartened up. We looked at our To be Read piles (or shall we call them pillars?) and tailored ourselves a mighty fine little reading list:
A Russian novel
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol – January 11.17A Sci-Fi / Fantasy book
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater – February 17.16
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater – February 21.16
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater – February 24.16
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater – May 8.16A memoir, or book based on factual events
Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart – October 28.16A book with a neon cover
Landline by Rainbow Rowell – September 21.16A childhood favourite
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery – March 6.16A book that belongs to a series
Soulless by Gail Carriger – April 6.16
Changeless by Gail Carriger – August 8.16CanLit
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt – May 16.16- A book written by a Nobel Literary Prize-winning author
A story written from a child’s perspective
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie – May 15.16A collection of short stories
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs – May 17.16A book you’ve borrowed from a friend
Patrin by Theresa Kishkan – September 25.16A book that’s been translated from a foreign language
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas – October 27.16A book by a local author
The Truth Commission by Susan Juby – October 2.16A book that’s been made into a movie that you haven’t seen
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes – February 4.16A book longer than 500 pagesWinter by Marissa Meyer – January 9.16
A book by a deceased author
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald – April 18.16A book with a friend’s name in the title
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion – December 18.16Something your mom recommends
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan – February 5.17SatireThe Girl who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson – September 11.16
A book from the Canada Reads short list (any year)
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan – January 3.17- A book that’s been self-published
Erotica
Ask for It by Sylvia Day – October 25.16A novelization of a movie or TV show
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher – November 12.16A book with a number in the title
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad – July 13.16A book from Rory Gilmore’s reading challengeThe Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse – September 16.16
A book published in 2016
The Love that Split the World by Emily Henry – August 19.16
As with last year, I’ll keep track on this post and on each of the reviews. Not only that, but every title will be categorized as Book Challenge 2016, because I’m considerate like that. Feel free to join in and share your lists with us—we’ll be nice. We promise.
Happy reading!