To keep an eye on the progress in this 2015 reading challenge (source: Pop Sugar), I keep a list here on my blog.
20 december 2015: finished! 1. a book with more than 500 pages Done: Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Shadow of the Wind 2. a classic romance Done: Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (read review) 3. a book that became a movie Done: Pascal Mercier - Night train to Lisbon (read review) 4. a book published this year Done: Andreas Gruber - Todesurteil 5. a book with a number in the title Done: Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities 6. a book written by someone under 30 Done: Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist 7. a book with nonhuman characters Done: Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit 8. a funny book Done: Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men In A Boat 9. a book by a female author Done: Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin 10. a mystery or thriller Done: Agatha Christie – Murders in the Orient Express 11. a book with a one-word title Done: William Beckford – Vathek 12. a book of short stories Done: E.T.A. Hoffmann – Nachtstücke 13. a book set in a different country Done: Charlie Lovett - The Bookman's Tale 14. a nonfiction book Done: Philipp Blom - Enlightening the World: The Triumph of Reason in a Unreasonable Age 15. a popular author's first book Done: Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility 16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet Done: Mark Twain – Life on the Mississippi 17. a book a friend recommended Done: Josephine Pennicott - Poet's Cottage (read review) 18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book Done: Alice Walker - The Color Purple 19. a book based on a true story Done: Solomon Northup - Twelve Years A Slave 20. a book at the bottom of your to read list Done: Noah Gordon – The Physician 21. a book your mom loves Done: David Lagercrantz - The Girl in The Spider's Web 22. a book that scares you Done: Stephen King - Revival 23. a book more than 100 years old Done: Louis Couperus - Van oude mensen, de dingen, die voorbijgaan... 24. a book based entirely on its cover Done: Carlos María Domínguez – The Paper House 25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't Done: Harry Mülisch – The Discovery of Heaven 26. a memoir Done: Anne Frank - The Diary of Anne Frank (read review) 27. a book you can finish in a day Done: John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men 28. a book with antonyms in the title Done: Arthur Japin - De zwarte met het witte hart (read review) 29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit Done: Josephine Pennicott - Currawong Manor (read review) 30. a book that came out the year you were born Done: Ken Follett – Pillars of the Earth 31. a book with bad reviews Done: Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary 32. a trilogy (the first) Done: Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1) 33. a trilogy (the second) Done: Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) 34. a trilogy (the third) Done: Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium #3) 35. a book from your childhood Done: A.A. Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh 36. a book with a love triangle Done: William Shakespeare - Othello 37. a book set in the future Done: Dmitri Glukhovski - Metro 2033 38. a book set in high school Done: Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower 39. a book with a color in the title Done: Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange 40. a book that made/makes you cry Done: Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (read review) 41. a book with magic Done: William Shakespeare - The Tempest 42. a graphic novel Done: Art Spiegelman – Maus (read review) 43. a book by an author you've never read before Done: Wilkie Collins - The Haunted Hotel 44. a book you own but have never read Done: Geert Mak - Amsterdam: A brief life of the city 45. a book that takes place in your hometown Done: Max Dendermonde – Kunstmin, liefde en dood in Dordrecht 46. a book that was originally written in another language Done: John Milton – Paradise Lost 47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday) Done: E.T.A. Hoffmann - Nutcracker and Mouse King 48. a book written by an author with your same initials Done: Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita 49. a play Done: Friedrich Schiller - Die Räuber 50. a banned book Done: Marquis de Sade - Justine 51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show Done: Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 52. a book you once started but never finished Done: Ildefonso Falcones – Cathedral of the Sea Comments are closed.
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