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2016 Reading challenge

1/13/2016

 
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 A new year comes with a new reading challenge! Or better said: three of those. The one from Popsugar is hard this year, but I am confident I'll make it again ;). One of the others is to read all the titles present on my book skirt!

​1. A book based on a fairytale
​Done: Michael Cunningham - The Snow Queen

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2. A National Book Award winner
Done: E. Annie Proulx - Close Range
(She didn't win the NBA for this book, but I couldn't get my hands on The Shipping News, that's why I chose to read this instead)


​3. A YA Bestseller
​Done: Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (review)

​4. A book you haven't read since high school
​Done: Jostein Gaarder - The Solitaire Mystery (review)

​5. A book set in your home state
​Done: Suzanna Jansen - Het Pauperparadijs

6. A book translated to English
​Done: Bernhard Schlink - The Reader (review)

​7. A romance set in the future
Done: ​Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay

​8. A book set in Europe
​Done: Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To The Arms

​9. A book that's under 150 pages
​Done: William Shakespeare - Macbeth

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​10. A New York Times bestseller
​​Done: Harper Lee - Go Set A Watchman (review)

​11. A book that's becoming a movie this year
​Done: Paula Hawkins - The Girl On The Train

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​12. A book recommended by someone you just met
​Done: Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader

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​13. A self-improvement book
​​No.

​14. A book you can finish in a day
​​Done: William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

​15. A book written by a celebrity
​Done: Julianne Moore - Freckleface Strawberry

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​16. A political memoir
​Done: Femke Halsema - Pluche

​17. A book at least 100 years older than you
​Done: Lousia May Alcott - Little Women

18. A book that's more than 600 pages
​Done: Herman Melville - Moby Dick

​19. A book from Oprah's Book Club
Done: Cormac McCarthy - The Road (review)

​20. A science-fiction novel
​Done: Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire

​21. A book recommended by a family member
​Done: Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain

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22. A graphic novel
​Done: Alfonso Zapico - James Joyce

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​23. A book that is published 2016
Done: Anna Romer - Beyond the Orchard

​24. A book with a protagonist who has your occupation
​Done: A. F. Th. van der Heijden - De Ochtendgave

​25. A book that takes place during Summer
​Done: F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

​26. A book and it's prequel
Done: J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows

​​27. A murder mystery
Done: Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

​28. A book written by a comedian
​Done: Horst Evers - Mein Leben als Suchmaschine

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​29. A dystopian novel
​Done: Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

​​30. A book with a blue cover
​Done: Joseph Heller - Catch-22

​31. A book of poetry
​Done: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 50 Gedichte

​32. The first book you see in a bookstore
​Done: DBC Pierre - Breakfast with the Borgias (review)

​33. A classic from the 20th century
Done: Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (review)

34. A book from the library
​​Done: John Steinbeck - East of Eden (review)

​35. An autobiography
Done: Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom (abridged)

​36. A book about a road trip
Done: ​John Steinbeck - The Grapes Of Wrath (review)

​37. A book about a culture you're unfamiliar with
Roy Adkins - Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England

​38. A satirical book
​Done: Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote

​39. A book that takes place on an Island
Done: H.G. Wells - The Island of Dr. Moreau

​40. A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy
Done: ​Jonas Jonasson - Hitman Anders And The Meaning Of It All

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