Sunday, August 07, 2022

2015 Reading Challenge

Started: 19 January 2015 - Completed: 4 August 2022
 
1.  A book with more than 500 pages - All The Colours of Darkness by Peter Robinson
2.  A classic romance - Persuasion by Jane Austen
3.  A book that became a movie - Inferno by Dan Brown
4.  A book published this year - The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins 
5.  A book with a number in the title - A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
6.  A book written by someone under 30 - A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
7.  A book with nonhuman characters - Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
8.  A funny book - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
9.  A book by a female author - Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris 
10. A mystery or thriller - Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris 
11. A book with a one-word title - Stalker by Faye Kellerman
12. A book of short stories - Not Safe After Dark & Other Short Stories by Peter Robinson
13. A book set in a different country - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 
14. A nonfiction book - The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (And Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller
15. A popular author’s first book - Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
16. A book from an author you love that you haven’t read yet - One Grave Less by Beverly Connor
17. A book a friend recommended - The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud 
18. A Pulitzer Prize-winning book - A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
19. A book based on a true story - The Lady In The Van by Alan Bennett
20. A book at the bottom of your to-read list - The Skeletons of Scarborough House (The Chapelwick Mysteries - Book 1) by Kitty French
21. A book your mom loves - J K Rowling: (audiobook versions)
      - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
      - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
      - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
      - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
      - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
      - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
      - Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows
22. A book that scares you - The Small Hand by Susan Hill
23. A book more than 100 years old - The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
24. A book based entirely on its cover - The Restoration of Otto Laird by Nigel Packer 
25. A book you were supposed to read in school but didn’t - Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
26. A memoir - Memoirs of a Professional Cad by George Sanders
27. A book you can finish in a day - The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway 
28. A book with antonyms in the title - Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
29. A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit - The Ferrari Club by Steve O'Brien
30. A book that came out the year you were born - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
31. A book with bad reviews - Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
32. A trilogy - The Eldarn Sequence: Robert Scott & Jay Gordon
Book 1 - The Hickory Staff
Book 2 - Lessek's Key
Book 3 - The Larion Senators
33. A book from your childhood - Enid Blyton:
      · The Island of Adventure
      · The Castle of Adventure
      · The Valley of Adventure

      · The Sea of Adventure
      · The Mountain of Adventure
      · The Ship of Adventure
      · The Circus of Adventure
      · The River of Adventure
34. A book with a love triangle - The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening & The Struggle
by L. J. Smith
35. A book set in the future - Fisherman's Hope by David Feintuch
36. A book set in high school - Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
37. A book with a color in the title - The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black
38. A book that made you cry - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
39. A book with magic - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke 
40. A graphic novel - Jack The Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889
by Rick Geary
41. A book by an author you’ve never read before - The Witch's Ladder by Dana E Donovan 
42. A book you own but have never read - Margaret Rutherford: A Blithe Spirit by Dawn Langley Simmons
43. A book that takes place in your hometown - Ten Days by Gillian Slovo (London);
44. A book that was originally written in a different language - 100 Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45. A book set during Christmas - Mystery In White by J Jefferson Farjeon
46. A book written by an author with your same initials - Affinity by Sarah Waters
47. A play - The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
48. A banned book - Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
49. A book based on or turned into a TV show - Bad Boy by Peter Robinson (DCI Banks)
50. A book you started but never finished - Trust Me, I'm A Vet by Cathy Woodman