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2015 reading challenge

1/19/2015

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

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