The 2015 Reading Challenge: The List (aka the Master Post)

So, along with the rest of the WriYers Read Too community, we're doing a challenge to read books that fit a category on a list.  Here is the list from PopSugar but I remember first finding it on Facebook and I started sharing it with others.  Or Tatra/Ana found it first and she started sharing it and then I shared it to others.  Either way, we found it on Facebook and decided to take the challenge and bring anybody else who wanted to read it along with us.  Feel free to join in, readers, and send me the link to your list in the comment section.  I'm going to share mine - it's not complete, so feel free to recommend books too - and you might see books that I've mentioned before.  Or, if you follow me on Goodreads, you'll see I've read them before.  I don't mind re-reads and there's nothing in the challenge against them, so I put them in.

The re-reads that are on here - Prayer for Owen Meany, the Elfquest books, Dragonsinger - are there because there's a comfort to reading them.  It's like speaking to an old friend after not speaking to them in a long time.  Or a nice cup of hot tea on the darkest day of winter or ice tea on the hottest day of summer.  I like comfort and going back to things I've done before.  I think we all do on some level, but I'm getting off track.

Below is the list of my books that I'm reading.  I'll link to the reviews as I do them / do them later in the month if I happen to read a bunch of them, as in the case of the ones with numbers in the title, but that'll be on the rare side.  Bold means that the category is done.  Books that are striked out are ones that could not be finished for some reason or another.  They'll still get reviews and, who knows, I might finish them, but for the most part, they're DNF (Did Not Finish).

So, the list.

2015 Reading Challenge

• A book with more than 500 pages: Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett; The Stand by Stephen King
• A classic romance: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen; Little Women by Louise May Alcott
• A book that became a movie: If I Stay by Gayle Forman; The Maze Runner by James Dashner; Paper Towns by John Green;
• A book published this year: I Was Here by Gayle Forman; Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins;
• A book with a number in the title: 1st to Die by James Patterson; 2nd Chance by James Patterson and Andrew Gross; 3rd Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Gross; 4th of July by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
• A book written by someone under 30: Looking for Alaska by John Green
• A book with nonhuman characters: The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien; The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
• A funny book: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett
• A book by a female author: A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott;
• A mystery or thriller: Birdman by Mo Hayder
• A book with a one word title: Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey
• A book of short stories: Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
• A book set in a different country: Neither Here or There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson;
• A nonfiction book: At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
• A popular author’s first book: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice; Irish Thoroughbred by Nora Roberts; The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson; Odds On by MIchael Crichton as John Lange;
• A book by an author you love that you haven’t read yet: Cider House Rules by John Irving; The Shinning by Stephen King; Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman;
• A book a friend recommended:
• A Pulitzer Prize-winning book: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• A book based on a true story: Black Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerald O’Neill;
• A book at the bottom of your to-read list: The Stand by Stephen King
• A book your mom loves:
• A book that scares you:
• A book more than 100 years old: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
• A book based entirely on its cover: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• A book you were supposed to read in school but didn’t: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy;
• A memoir: Wild by Cheryl Strayed; Blind Courage by Bill Irwin;
• A book you can finish in a day: Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey
• A book with antonyms in the title: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
• A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit: In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
• A book that came out the year you were born: Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
• A book with bad reviews:
• A trilogy: Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• A book from your childhood: Fire and Flight by Wendi and Richard Pini
• A book with a love triangle:
• A book set in the future:
• A book set in high school:
• A book with a color in the title: The Green Mile by Stephen King; The Thin Red Line by James Joyce;
• A book that made you cry: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving;
• A book with magic
• A graphic novel: Kings of the Broken Wheel by Wendi and Richard Pini
• A book by an author you’ve never read before:
• A book you own but have never read:
• A book that takes place in your hometown: Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
• A book that was originally written in another language: Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
• A book set during Christmas: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie
• A book written by an author with your same initials: Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth Samet
• A play: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• A banned book: Looking for Alaska by John Green
• A book based on or turned into a tv show: The Black Echo by Michael Connelly (Bosch - Amazon Prime); A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin (Game of Thrones - HBO)
• A book you started but never finished: Magic’s Price by Mercedes Lackey