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52 Books 2020 Reading Challenge Suggestions Sept

This document lists 52 books to read in 52 weeks for a reading challenge. It categorizes the books as already read, currently reading, to-read/maybe, or suggested without having the book. Several potential books are listed under each category with details like the title, author, and series. The document also includes 8 categories of books to seek out with examples for each one.
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52 Books 2020 Reading Challenge Suggestions Sept

This document lists 52 books to read in 52 weeks for a reading challenge. It categorizes the books as already read, currently reading, to-read/maybe, or suggested without having the book. Several potential books are listed under each category with details like the title, author, and series. The document also includes 8 categories of books to seek out with examples for each one.
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2020 Reading Challenge

52 Books in 52 Weeks
BOLD: ALREADY READ
TURQUOISE: CURRENTLY READING
CATEGORY
TO-READ/MAYBE: HAVE
SUGGESTED: DON’T HAVE
Weir of Hermiston - Robert Louis Stevenson /
That’s NOT What I Meant & You Just Don't
Understand: Women and Men in Conversation -
Deborah Tannen / The Other Woman / Swallows
of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra /
Red Heeled Rebels (#’s 1-5) The Girl Who: Ran
Away / Made Them Pay / Fought to Kill / Broke
Free / Knew Their Names
You Will Never Leave & I Know What You Did -
N L Hinkens

Short:
The Peach Widow (Argolicus #2) - Zara Altair /
Weaver: The Last American Circus Duet - Coop
1. A book with the letter “W” in the title Kirby

Maybe: Washington Square - Henry James / The


Woman in White - Wilkie Collins / The Way We
Live Now - Anthony Trollope
What She Didn't See (Colby #1) - Heather Wynter /
Wyoming Refuge (Havoc #0.5) - Millie Copper /
Three Weeks Dead (Robbins #0.5) - Rebecca
Bradley / The Caribbean Caper: When Raja Met
Vinny - (Williams #0) - Jack Thompson / When the
Well Runs Dry - M J Dees / War Girl Ursula (#1) -
Marion Kummerow / The Whistle Blower (Wing
#1) - Robin Merrill / Wish Upon a Shell (Lighthouse
#1) - Kay Correll / Wind Chime Café #1 - Sophie
Moss / Love on Willow Loop - Carina Taylor 46

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (plays and short


2. A hardcover
stories) / Masterpieces of Hebrew Literature

Gorky Park (Renko #1) - Martin Cruz Smith /


Once Were Warriors & What Becomes of the
3. By an indigenous author Broken Hearted (Warriors #’s 1 & 2) - Alan Duff
(Israel / half-Pueblo / New Zealand / various Native Great Speeches by Native Americans - Bob
Americans) Blaisdell (ed.)

Suggested: Jake’s Long Shadow #3 - Alan Duff


Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy / Out of the Silence
- Eduardo Strauch Urioste & Mireya Soriano /
4. Set in winter
To read: Squall - Sean Costello

Maybe: The Man Who Laughs - Victor Hugo


A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman / Uncle
5. A character who is a senior Vanya - Anton Chekhov / Je l’aimais - Anna
Gavalda
The Road to Gandolfo & The Road to Omaha -
Robert Ludlum / Trinity - Leon Uris / Gypsy in
Amber (Roman Grey #1) - Martin Cruz Smith
6. Written in the 1970’s
Maybe: The Devil’s Alternative - Frederick Forsyth
/ The Carpet People - Terry Pratchett
Israel-current:
A Ticking Bomb: A Gripping Novel Based on a
True Story of an ISA Agent- David Izhar /
Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon
Agranat and the Zionist Century - Pnina Lahav /
The New Entrepreneurs - Ronen Gafni and
Simcha Gluck / The Seventh Million - Tom Segev
/ The First Mrs. Rothschild - Sara Aharoni /
Switched Identity - A B Yishai

USA (former):
(CA-Orange) Ashley Bell #1 - Dean Koontz
(CA-Riverside) Midnight - Dean Koontz
(CA-San Diego) The Jury (Madriani #6) - Steve
Martini
7. An author local to you
(CA-Los Angeles) Spying in High Heels (#1) -
Since authors local to me are a niche market (I live in
Gemma Halliday
a religious neighborhood in a religious city in a
(Kansas City) I was Right on Time - Buck O’Neill
religious country), I read books set in places/authors
(Florida) Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora
from where I (and Hubby) have lived.
Neale Hurston
U.S. California counties of Orange, San Diego, & Los
(Texas) To Drink of Deceit & To Dine with
Angeles: Kansas City metro; Florida (Tampa Bay
Danger (Morgan #’s 1 & 2) / To Capture a Crime
area); and Texas (Houston).
- Blythe Baker (mini-mysteries)
Hubby: Atlanta, GA (hometown), Santa Clara, CA
(CA- Santa Clara) The Blossom Festival -
(high school), & NYC.
Lawrence Coates
(GA-Atlanta) Someone Else’s Daughter (Miranda
#1) - Linsey Lanier
(NY-New York City) The Lightning Thief
(Olympians #1) - Rick Riordan

Maybe: Texas - James Michener


(NYC) Brooklyn - Colm Toibin / Motherless
Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem / Ragtime - E L
Doctorow

Suggested (NYC):
Winter’s Tale - Mark Halprin / The Bonfire of the
Vanities - Tom Wolfe / The Sun is Also a Star -
Nicola Yoon / Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Dead Even - Brad Meltzer / Tempest & Sunshine
- Mary J Holmes / Ghost of a Chance (Mulgrew
#1) - Cate Dean / Mango Cake and Murder
(Christy's #1) - Christy Murphy / The Hand of
Fatima - Ildefonso Falcones
8. Orange on the cover
Maybe:
How To Conquer Clutter And Organize Your Home:
A Room-By-Room Blueprint For Stress-Free
Organization - Puja Shah / Organization: The
Declutter Challenge - Cleaning And Organizing
Your Life With Feng Shui - Storm Wayne & Dave
Mcman (short)
Storm Killer - Benjamin Blue / The Right Stuff -
Tom Wolfe / Flicker (Ember #1) - Rebecca Rode
Outworlder (Star Wanderers #1) - Joe Vasicek /
Exodus (Dead Planet #1) - Drew Avera
The Cymage (Andlios) - Dave Walsh (short story)

9. Set in space Maybe:


Moon 514 - Drew Briney / The Darklights -
Michaelbrent Collings / Fire Fight (Fire Planets #1) -
Chris Ward / The Pattern Ship (Universe #1) -
Tobias Roote / Rift (Saga #1) - Andreas Christensen
/ Fly Me To The Moon (Sylvia Stryker #1) - Diane
Vallere
Red Rabbit (Ryan #2) - Tom Clancy / The
Children Act - Ian McEwan / The Thousand
Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
/ The Noticer - Andy Andrew / Under the Wide
and Starry Sky - Nancy Horan Dallas / A Spool of
10. A bestseller Blue Thread - Anne Tyler / The Bourne Identity
#1 - Robert Ludlum / How to Live on 24 Hours a
Day - Arnold Bennett

Maybe: Snow - Orhan Pamuk / One of Ours - Willa


Cather
City of Endless Night: Foreseeing the Rise of Nazi
Fascism - Milo Hastings / Beyond Good and Evil
- Friedrich Nietzsche / Anthem - Ayn Rand / The
Rights of Man - Thomas Paine / A Vindication on
the Rights of Women - Mary Wollstonecraft /
The Communist Manifesto (pamphlet) &
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte - Karl
Marx / The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin / Helium -
Jaspreet Singh / The Haj - Leon Uris / The Map
of Lost Memories - Kim Fay / Tattooed
Teardrops (Tamara's #1) - P D Workman
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins
Gilman & Claude Gueux - Victor Hugo (short
stories) / Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen (short
play) / Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson (essay) /
11. A book that leaves one thinking
The Post Office: Rabindranath Tagore (short
play) / Enlightened Friendship: Befriending
Yourself and Others Through Difficulty - Karen
Hermanson / Growing from Depression - Neel
Burton / Understanding Stacey - Kimberly
Adams
Ataraxia (#’s 1-5) The Meaning of Madness /
Hide & Seek: The Psychology of Self-deception /
Heaven & Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions /
For Better, For Worse: Essays / Hypersanity:
Thinking Beyond Thinking - Dr. Neel Burton

Maybe: The Republic - Plato


Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor Hugo /
Down and Out in London and Paris - George Orwell
/ If Looks Could Kill - Gary Kittle / The Turing
Point - Sudha Kuruganti (interactive novella) /
Rediscover Your Sparkle - Julie Schooler / Hold that
Thought: Build Clarity, Peace, and Joy - Chana
Mason / 15 Sure Signs That You Are On The Right
Path - Michael Hetherington (short)
(Spanish) Genio y figura - Juan Valera
(French) Chambre Obscure - Vladimir Nabokov
& Balle de Match (Bolitar #2) - Harlan Coben /
12. A “guilty pleasure”
Don Juan - Moliere / Lux Problems - Syd West

Maybe: Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de


Laclos (French)
Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah / Ordinary
People - Judith Guest / The Middle Kingdom -
Andrea Barrett / Lizzie Leigh - Elizabeth Gaskell
/ Summer - Edith Wharton / The Devil’s Pool -
George Sand
13. Written by a female author
Maybe:
Queen of Dreams - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni /
Romola - George Eliot / The Visioning - Susan
Glaspell
The Fix (Decker #3) - David Baldacci / Only Time
Will Tell (Clifton #1) - Jeffrey Archer / A Child
Called It (#1) - Dave Pelzer / Personal (Reacher
#19) - Lee Child / Beyond the Chocolate War #2 -
Robert Cormier / What Katy Did #1 - Susan
Coolidge / The Gate House (Gold Coast #2) -
Nelson DeMille / Pieces of the Past (Silver Shores
#1) - Shannon Kaper / One Day Gone (Grey #1) -
Luana Ehrlich /
(Hardy) Nothing but the Truth #6 & Betrayal #12
- John Lescroart
(Maya #’s 0.5 & 1) The Spiritualist (short) & The
Anatomist's Secret - Noah Alexander
(Delaware) Private Eyes #6 / Survival of the
Fittest #12 / Breakdown #31 - Jonathan
14. Book in a series Kellerman
No Ordinary Star (#’s 1-3) - M C Frank
(Bridal Shop #’s 1-4) Murder in: White Lace /
Crimson Velvet / Blue Gingham / Lavender Silk -
Karen Sue Walker
(Destined #’s 1-6) Fated-Cinderella / Hidden-
Rapunzel / Twisted-Belle / Betrayed-Ruby /
Hunted-Alba / Cursed-Briar Rose
(Decker/Lazarus) The Ritual Bath #1 / Street
Dreams #15 / The Mercedes Coffin #17 /
Blindman’s Bluff #18 / Hangman #19 / Gun
Games #20 / Murder 101 #22 / The Theory of
Death #23 / Bone Box #24 - Faye Kellerman
(Wolverine Harbor #’s 1-3) The Veil of Deceit /
The Veil of Envy / The Veil of Vengeance - Nora
Kane (short)
Lady Death (Deathsworn #0.5) - Martyn Stanley
(short)
(Kingdoms #’s 1 & 8) Beyond Beauty &
Neverland Falling - Brittany Fichter

To read:
(Inquisitors #’s 1-3) Flames over Frosthelm / The
Outcast Crown / Traitors Unseen - Dave Dobson
(Yorke #’s 0.5 & 1) A Lesson in Crime (short) &
One Last Prayer for the Rays - Wes Markin

Maybe:
Full Black (Harvath #11) - Brad Thor
(Rebus - Ian Rankin) The Falls #12 / A Question of
Blood #14 / Exit Music #17 / Standing in Another
Man’s Grave #18
Lady Susan - Jane Austen / Me Before You #1 -
JoJo Moyes / The Rainbow - D H Lawrence
(Brangwen #1) / Tenor of Love - Mary di Michele
/ The Bride Price (Mail Order #1) - Ruth Ann
Nordin / The Viking (#1) - Marti Talbott /
Everything We Might Have Been (Extra) -
15. Book with romance
Megan Walker & Janci Patterson
The Mikado - Gilbert & Sullivan (short play)

Maybe:
Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D H Lawrence / Felix
Holt - George Eliot
Pirate Polly Rules the Waves - Alex Gutteridge
16. Borrowed from a friend
Honour Among Thieves - Jeffrey Archer
What a Joke - Phillip Adams and Patrice Newell /
Paul et Virginie - Jacques Henri Bernardin De
Saint-Pierre, Jules Janin, Emile Levy / The
Nanny Diaries #1 - Emma McLoughlin and
Nicola Kraus / Rogue Enemy (CIA #0.5) - David
F Berens and John Hopton / Queen of Clockwork
(Fairytales: Alice #1) - J A Armitage and Zara
Quentin / Hygge: Introduction to the Danish Art
of Cozy Living - Amy White and Ryan James
(short)

To read:
17. Written by more than one author
A Death In The Afternoon (Southernmost #0) -
David Berens & Kimberly Griggs / Rainy Days
(Four Days #1) - Antonella Senese & A S Kelly /
Havana Fury (R Bodean #0.5) - David F Berens and
Steven Moore

Maybe: American Sniper - Chris Kyle, Scott


McEwen, Jim DeFelice

Suggested:
The Girl in the Spider’s Web (Millennium #4) -
Stieg Larsson continued by David Lagercrantz
Maze - Nichole Haines / Blatant Lies: A Reece
18. Published in 2020
Cannon Thriller (The Prequel) - Paul Knox /
Shadowride & Godfire (Five Lands prequel &
#1) - Cara Witter (Janci Patterson, Megan
Walker, & Lauren Janes) / Nuts and Dolts
(Silicon #0) - Marc Jedel / Life In Quarantine: A
Collection of Short Stories - Principe's Fabulous
4th Graders of 2020 / The Friday Night Date
Dress - Talena Winters / A Good Day for Pie
(Stories of Ramsbolt #4) - Jennifer M. Lane /
Silver’s Gods (Tapestry #1) - Rich X Curtis /
Choosing & Culling (Covenant #’s 1 & 2) - Rae
Hendricks and Paige Clendenin / The Scent of
Bones (Bute #1) - Levi Fuller
Vanish (Frosted Realm Prequel) - Stephanie
Kline (short)

Maybe:
Making Tracks (Dru iGen #1) - Coop Kirby / Clean
Up Time At Crystal Shores (Crystal Shores #1) -
Chrissy Chase / No Way Out (Maqsood #1) - D C
Brockwell

Suggested:
Oona Out of Order - Margarita Montimoire / The
Host #1 - Stephenie Meyer / The Girl with the
Louding Voice - Abi Daré / The Ballad of Songbirds
and Snakes (Hunger Games #0) - Suzanne Collins /
The Jane Austen Society - Natalie Jenner /
? A Suitable Girl #2 - Vikram Seth
? Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline (November)
19. A Stephen King novel The Green Mile / Just after Sunset (short stories)
Same Last Name:
Slaves of Obsession (Monk #11) - Anne PERRY

Same Initials:
(TRP) Cry Me a River - T R Pearson
(TP) The Color of Magic (Discworld #1) - Terry
Pratchett
20. Author whose last name starts with same initial
(P) Boris Godonov - Alexander Pushkin / The
Gates Between - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Former last names:


Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (#1) -
Douglas Adams / The Language of Judaism -
Simon Glustrom / Hard Rain (Rogue #1) - Irma
Venter
Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt / Girl
Forward: A Tale of One Woman's Unlikely
Adventure in Mongolia - Heather Wallace / Ten
Days in a Madhouse - Nellie Bly / Dispatches
from the Edge - Anderson Cooper / The River
21. Written by a blogger or journalist
Between (The River #1) - Jacquelyn Cook / The
Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage - Halima
Khatun

Maybe: Damascus Gate - Robert Stone


Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornsby / The Guest Room -
Chris Bohjalian / The Love of the Last Tycoon -
F Scott Fitzgerald / Glengarry Glenn Ross -
22. A character who frustrates you
David Mamet

Maybe: The Wings of the Dove - Henry James


All My Sons - Arthur Miller / All for Love - John
Dryden / Abbotsford & Newstead Abbey -
Washington Irving / Archeological Expedition to
Arizona in 1895 - Jesse Walter Fewkes / Across
the Floors of Silent Seas (Human #1) - C S
Johnson / Angel’s Trap (Oxpen #1) - Lei R
Tasker / A Provençal Mystery - Ann Elwood

Maybe: A Girl from Yamhill - Beverly Cleary


23. Title beginning with A Aimpoint (Chase #0.5) - Candace Irving / A Murder
Among Friends - Jennifer Lewis Williams / Arson at
the Art Gallery (Getaway Bay #1) - Grace York
(Catherine Lee) / Archibald Lox and the Bridge
Between Worlds (Lox #1) - Darren Shan / Ain't
Seen Muffin Yet (Baker #15) - Leighann Dobbs /
Anonymously Yours - Shirley McCann / Almost
Home: A Soldier's Journey Back to the Love of His
Lifetime - Robert Fitzgerald Price / After Yekaterina
(Kazakov #1) - K L Abrahamson
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene / Bel-Ami - Guy
de Maupassant / BLAZE - The Last American
Circus Duet - Coop Kirby /
Breach of Duty - Sofia Aves (short)
Be Your Own PT: A Proven 10-Week Weight
Training & Diet Program For Your Self-
Transformation - Marc McLean
24. Title beginning with B
Maybe:
Billy Budd - Herman Melville / The Brothers
Karamazov (#’s 1-4) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky /
Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens / Brother Jacob -
George Eliot (short story)
Betrayed (CORE #1) - K P Stafford / Betrayal
(Ann's War #1) - Hannah Howe / Between Worlds
#1: The Move - Lori Wolf-Heffner
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand / Cry of
the Kalahari - Mark & Delia Owens / Captains
Courageous - Rudyard Kipling / Conquest by
Will - Nahashon Harryson / Chicago Blue (Riley
#1) - Stephanie Andrews / Captive (Surrogacy #1)
- V M Andrews
25. Title beginning with C
Maybe:
Camille - Alexandre Dumas / Cousin Bette - Honore
de Balzac
Conspiracy in Tokyo (Watanabe #0.5) - Michael
Legare / Contributor (#1) - Nicole Ciacchella /
Cuckoo Uncaged - Julia Derek / Chrome Pink
(Leeward #1) - Sherri Lupton Hollister
Coffee & Corpses (Cafe #1) - Maisy Marple / Cause
to Kill (Black #1) - Blake Pierce / Calamity under
the Chandelier (Starlet #1) - Bianca Blythe
All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven / Women of
the Silk - Gail Tsukiyama / Balzac & the Little
Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie / The Second
Summer of the Sisterhood (Travelling Pants #2) -
Ann Brashares / Wonder #1 - R J Palacio / She
Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith / The Art
26. A strong “friendship” theme
of Being Friends - Jessica Sorensen / Moonfleet -
John Meade Falkner / Intent (Secrets #1) - Krista
Wagner

Maybe: Frank and Fearless - Horatio Alger, Jr / An


Old-fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott
Scooby-Doo (Team Up #2 - Flintstones / Jetsons /
Superman / Batman) / Meet The X-Men - Claire
Hibbert / Avatar: The First Airbender / Black
Panther: Soul of a Machine / Iron Man (short) /
27. A comic book The Essential Calvin and Hobbes (first 50 pages)
- Bill Watterson

Fairy Tale #1 (manga) / Grimm’s Briar Rose


(motion book)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy / The Plague -
Albert Camus / The Curious Incident of the Dog
in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon / Rebecca -
Daphne du Maurier

Maybe: Beloved - Toni Morrison


28. Literary Fiction
Suggested:
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov / The
Goldfinch - Donna Tartt / The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
/ The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan
Kundera / Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro /
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García
Márquez / The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Roots - Alex Haley / It’s Like This, Cat - Emily
Neville / Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala /
Sold - Patricia McCormick / The Satanic Verses -
Salman Rushdie

Maybe:
The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne / Anais
Nin - Deirdre Bair / Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan /
29. An award-winning novel Tales from Silver Lands - Charles Joseph Finger /
Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington / The Story of
Mankind - Henrik Wilhelm van Loon / Main Street -
Sinclair Lewis
Falcon's Call - Mike Waller / The Other Magic
(Passage #1) - Derrick Smythe
Marking Time (Descendants #1) - April White

Suggested:
Birdsong & Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks
(French #’s 2 & 3 - need #1)
Julie and Julia - Julie Powell / Killer Cupcakes
(Baker #1) - Leighann Dobbs / In for a Penny
(Granny #1) - Kelsey Browning & Nancy Naigle /
Cozy Mysteries Cookbook - Hope Callaghan /
#Lola (#Toots, #0.5) - Linh Le James & Whiskey
Cocktails from Helen's Tavern (Ramsbolt #0)
- Jennifer M. Lane (cocktails) (short)

30. A book with recipes inside Mediterranean Diet: A Clear Guide To Lose
Weight & Increase Energy - David Corr / Eat
Like a Greek: Easy Ways to Try Mediterranean -
Karen Guttridge / Crockpot Cookbook - Steven
Wilson /

(BookSumo Press Cookbooks - ~50 pages each)


Easy Chicken / Popsicles / Crepes / Chicago /
Crockpot Recipes: Delicious Crockpot Meals
Restoration & Merivel - Rose Tremain (#’s 1 &
2) / The Other Boleyn Girl (Tudor #9) - Philippa
Gregory / The Enchanted Castle - Edith Nesbit /
The Little Lame Prince - Dinah Maria Mulock
Craik / The Flawed Princess - Alice Ivinya / The
Boy who Lit up the Sky (Rehnor #1) - J Naomi
31. A book featuring royalty
Ay / The Price for Peace (Factions #1) - W J May

Maybe: The Lost Prince - Frances Hodgson Burnett


The Hope for Dragonhold (King's Fall #1) - M M
Wedin / The Amaril Company - (Yoga #0.5) -
Andrew Marc Rowe
The Human Factor & Our Man in Havana -
Graham Greene / The Columbus Affair - Steve
Berry / Gideon’s Spies (Secret History of the
Mossad) - Gordon Thomas / The 39 Steps &
Greenmantle (Hannay #’s 1 & 2) - John Buchan /
Casino Royale (Bond #1) - Ian Fleming / A Young
Lawyer's Story (Murfee #1) - John Ellsworth /
32. A spy novel The Russia House - John Le Carré / (Faces #’s 1
& 2) A Thousand Faces & A Million Shadows -
Janci Patterson

Maybe:
The Aquitaine Progression - Robert Ludlum / Icon -
Frederick Forsyth / The Secret Agent - Joseph
Conrad / The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
Savage Beauty (bio of Edna St. Vincent Millay) -
Nancy Milford / Mirrors: The Aborigine Poetry
of Eldred Van-Ooy - Joshua Spring / An
Unfinished Song - Swarnakumari Debi Ghosal
33. A book containing poetry Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen / The Prophet - Kahlil
Gibran / 73 poems - e e cummings / Sonnets from
the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Brown / The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor
Coleridge / Enoch Arden - Tennyson / Evangeline
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / The Rape of the
Lock - Alexander Pope / Thought and Space -
Ray Bradbury / Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam /
some Wiliam Blake
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / The Big
Balloon Race - Eleanor Coerr / Nim’s Island #1 -
Wendy Orr / The Master Key: An Electrical
Fairy Tale & The Flying Girl - L Frank Baum /
M is for Magic - Neil Gaiman / Things Fall Apart
(Africa #1) - Chinua Achebe / What Colour is
Paradise - Marc Chagall / Russian Shores of the
34. A book with illustrations
Black Sea - Laurence Oliphant / Mona Lisa's
Secret (Peruggia #1) - Phil Philips

Maybe:
The Quincunx - Charles Palliser / The Water-babies
- Charles Kingsley / The Palace in the Garden - Mrs.
Molesworth
The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides / Cold
Mountain - Charles Frazier / American Shaolin -
Matthew Polly / The Giant’s House - Elizabeth
McCracken / The Geographer’s Library - Jon
Fasman / Life - Lu Yao / The Sorrows of Young
Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / A
Journey to Katmandu - Laurence Oliphant /
Watership Down (#1) - Richard Adams / Skipped
- Janci Patterson / Bundle of Trouble (Maternal
#1) - Diana Orgain
35. An author’s debut book
Maybe: Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates / Call it
Sleep - Henry Roth
The Phoenix Project - Michelle Kidd / The Man by
the Sea (Slim #1) - Jack Benton / The Heaviness of
Knowing (Conscious #1) - Sharolyn G Brown

Suggested:
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison / Mary Barton -
Elizabeth Gaskell
In Search of Validation: A Child Survivor of the
Holocaust Chronicles His Adult Years -
Benjamin Hirsch / Travels - Michael Crichton /
36. Written in first person Avalon High #1 - Meg Cabot / Orlando - Virginia
Woolf / The Girl in the Tree - Sebnem Isiguzel /
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard - Emmuska Orczy /
Bridget Jones’ Diary #1 - Helen Fielding
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen / The Boys
from Brazil - Ira Levin / Helmets and Lipstick:
An Army Nurse in World War Two - Ruth G.
Haskell / The Story of Doctor Dolittle #1 - Hugh
37. A book featuring the medical profession Lofting / The Tumor - John Grisham (short
story) / Dr Faustus - Christopher Marlowe (play)

Maybe: Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak / The


Island of Doctor Moreau - H G Wells
Ready Player One #1 - Ernest Cline / (Numbers
Game) Numbers Game #1 / Chan’s Story #1.5 /
Ruby’s Story #2.5 - Rebecca Rode
Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy / The
Machine Stops - E M Forster / The Repairer of
Reputations - Robert W Chambers / Future
Futures - Donald J Bingle (short stories)

Maybe:
38. Set in the future The Variable Man - Philip K Dick (short story)
The Paradise Factory (Cortex #1) - Jim Keen / The
Technician - C P James

Suggested:
The Martian - Andy Weir / Enders Game (series) -
Orson Scott Card / Cyberabad Days (India 2047 #2)
- Ian McDonald / The City of Ember - Jeanne
DuPrau / Uglies #1 - Scott Westerfield / Oryx and
Crake (MaddAddam #1) - Margaret Atwood
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink / House of Sand
and Fog - Andre Dubus III / The Handmaid’s
Tale #1 - Margaret Atwood / The Interpretation
of Murder (Freud #1) - Jed Rubenfeld

Maybe:
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner / Songs
39. A book used in a celebrity book club
in Ordinary Time - Mary McGarry Morris

Suggested:
The Color Purple - Alice Walker / The Invention of
Wings - Sue Monk Kidd / One Hundred Years of
Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez / The Hate You
Give - Angie Thomas
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James
Joyce / Selections from Canterbury Tales -
Chaucer / The Last Leaf & The Ransom of Red
Chief - O. Henry / The School for Scandal -
40. Book on the Mensa reading list for grades 9-12 Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Maybe:
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray / Look
Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
Mitla Pass - Leon Uris / Matilda - Roald Dahl /
The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Ryan #4) - Tom
41. Published when you were 20 (1988) Clancy

Suggested: Jurassic Park #1 - Michael Crichton


(2019) The Desecration of All Saints - Alan Lee
(Allegorical) The Giver #1 - Lois Lowry
(Audio) Barks and Purrs - Neil Gaiman
(Audio - read play/watched movie) Salomé & An
42. Reuse a prompt from a past year
Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde / The Pirates of
Penzance - Gilbert & Sullivan (short plays)
(Beach Read) The Murder on the Links (Poirot
#2) - Agatha Christie
(Career - Mossad) A Death in Vienna (Allon #4) -
Daniel Silva
(Children’s) Be Careful What You Wish For
(Cult) Helter Skelter: The True Story of the
Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi & Curt
Gentry
(Cult film) Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep) - Philip K Dick
(Goosebumps #12) - R. L. Stine
(Color) Gold Coast (Sutter #1) - Nelson DeMille
(Everyone – author rather than book) After You
(Before #2) - Jojo Moyes
(Fairy Tale) The Random House Children’s
Treasury
(Fantasy) The Little Lame Prince - Dinah Maria
Mulock Craik
(Gothic) The Mysteries of Udolfo & A Sicilian
Romance - Ann Radcliffe / The Whisperer in the
Darkness - H P Lovecraft / Diary of a Madman -
Guy de Maupassant (short story)
(Family Favorite) 2010: A Space Odyssey (#2) -
Arthur C. Clarke
(First Seen) Swimming
(Graduated 1986) The Bourne Supremacy #2 -
Robert Ludlum
(Graduated 1998) What We Keep - Elizabeth
Berg
(Graduated 2001) Jackdaws - Ken Follett
(Graphic novel) Zoo - James Patterson and
Michael Ledwidge
(Harper Collins) The Selection #1 - Kiera Cass
(Holiday) Le Crime d’Halloween - Agatha
Christie (French)
(Humorous) Baron Munchausen - Rudolf Erich
Raspe
(Immigrant) Alert (Bennett #8) - James Patterson
and Michael Ledwidge
(Initials) Loose Ends (Corwin #1) - D. D.
VanDyke
(J) Judge & Jury - James Patterson and Andrew
Gross
(Mad) Mathilda - Mary Shelley / Mystic River -
Dennis Lehane
(Memoir) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -
Maya Angelou #1
(Mental health) Everything’s Fine - Janci
Patterson
(Military) Primary Target (Stone #0.5) - Jack
Mars
(Music) Music and Silence - Rose Tremain
(New Author) The Resort - Sol Stein / The Best of
Saki / The Little Duke - Charlotte Yonge
(Nominated 2018) The Ocean at the End of the
Lane - Neil Gaiman
(One-word title) Walden - Henry David Thoreau
(Organized Crime/Mob) Undue Influence
(Madriani #3) - Steve Martini
(Plant) Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
(Play) Aria da Capo - Edna St. Vincent Millay /
The Misanthrope & Tartuffe - Moliere
(Post-apocalyptic) The Maze Runner (#’s 1-3) -
James Dashner
(Pseudonym) The Thin Man & The Maltese
Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
(Read again) The Little Drummer Girl - John le
Carré & The Golden Compass (Dark #1) - Phillip
Pullman (I don’t reread, but I saw the movie and
the TV series so the story is a “retell”)
(Retelling) Confessions of an Ugly Step-sister -
Gregory Maguire
(Self-published) Manipulated Counsel -
Nahashon Harrison
(Someone else picked) Behind Closed Doors - B A
Paris
(South America) The General in His Labyrinth -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Southern USA) Tularosa (Kerney #1) - Michael
McGarrity (Santa Fe, NM)
(Speed read) Body Surfing & All He Ever
Wanted - Anita Shreve
(Sports) The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James
Brown
(Strong female lead) Hannah Senesh, Her Life
and Diary
(Suggested) Alex Cross’ Trial (Cross #15) - James
Patterson and Richard Dilallo
(Teen) The Mortal Instruments (#’s 1-6) -
Cassandra Clare
(Time travel) Fifteen Postcards (Curiosity Shop
#1) - Kirsten McKenzie & Final Hours - Cate
Dean
(True Crime) The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
(Ugly cover) My Name is Anna - Lizzy Barber
(Victorian) Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas
Hardy
(Western) The Mysterious Rider - Zane Grey

(Visited: England/Scotland/Ireland/Wales /
Mexico / Greece / Singapore)
Monday or Tuesday - Virginia Woolf / The
Guynd - Belinda Rathbone / Teacher Man -
Frank McCourt #3 / The Constant Princess
(Tudor #6) - Philippa Gregory / The Murmur of
Bees - Sofia Segovia / Zorba the Greek - Nikos
Kazantzakis / The Bondmaid - Catherine Lim

Maybe (additional):
(Retelling)
The Second Sister (Amendyr #1) - Rae D. Magdon /
Enchant: Beauty and the Beast Retold (Medieval
Fairytale #1) - Demelza Carlton / Toby Fisher and
the Arc-Light (#1) - Ian McFarlane / Chasing
Rabbits (Underground #1) - Erin R. Bedford /
Hooded - A A Woods / Mistress of Myre - Anne
Stryker / Fallen Snow & Forget Me Not (Whispering
#’s 1 & 2) - Diana Dawn / Big, Bad Mister Wolf - H
L MacFarlane 192 / Forbidden - Adrienne Woods

Suggested (additional):
(2019) The Giver of Stars - JoJo Moyes / The
Testaments - Margaret Atwood
(Cult film) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
(Everyone) Educated -Tara Westover / The Silent
Patient - Alex Michaelides / Eleanor Oliphant Is
Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman / Little Fires
Everywhere - Celeste Ng / Winter Garden - Kristin
Hannah / The Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George /
Lisa Jewell?
(Graduated 1986) Howl’s Moving Castle
(Harper Collins) The Selection #’s 2 & 3 - Kiera
Cass
(Post-apocalyptic) The Maze Runner (#’s 4 & 5) -
James Dashner
(Southern USA) The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
(African continent) Maiwa’s Revenge - H. Rider
Haggard
(Bahamas) Passage by Night - Jack Higgins
(Belorussia) Defiance - Nechama Tec
(Bohemia-Czech) The Winter’s Tale -
Shakespeare (play)
(Botswana) The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
#1 - Alexander McCall Smith
(Brazil) Living with Saci - M J Dees / Along the
Tapajós - Fernando Vilela (short story)
(Cambodia) In the Shadow of the Banyan - Chris
Cleave
(Canada) The Lightkeeper’s Daughter - Ian
Lawrence
(Caucasus area) A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail
43. Set in a country you’ve never visited before Lermontov
(Have been to Mexico, England, Ireland, Wales, (Chile) Portrait in Sepia - Isabel Allende
Scotland, Greece, and Singapore) (Colombia) Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
(Cuba) The Price of Paradise - Susana Lopez
Rubio
(Denmark) Topaz - Leon Uris
(Easter Island) Last Secret Keystone (Peruggia
#3) - Phil Philip
(Egypt) Last Secret Chamber (Peruggia #2) - Phil
Philip
(France) The Dark Vineyard (Bruno #2) - Martin
Walker
(Genovia) The Princess Diaries #1 - Meg Cabot
(Germany) Your Perfect Year - Charlotte Lucas
(Greenland/Iceland) The Saga of Erik the Red
(Grenada) Under the Silk Cotton Tree - Jean
Buffong
(Honduras) Mercenary - David M Gaughran
(India) A Fatal Journey (Beckingham #5) -
Blythe Baker
(Iran/Turkey) On Two Feet and Wings - Abbas
Kazerooni
(Italy-France) The Talented Mr. Ripley/Ripley
Under Ground/Ripley’s Game (#’s 1-3) - Patricia
Highsmith
(Japan) The Book of Tea - Okakura Kakuzō
(Jordan) Pillars of Salt - Fadia Faqir
(Korea/Japan) Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
(Liberia) Murder in the Cassava Patch - Bai T
Moore
(Mauritania) Goliath (Mitchell #1) - Richard
Turner
(Mongolia) The Lost Spear (Lost #0.5) N.J. Croft
(short)
(Morocco) A House in Fez - Suzanna Clarke
(Nepal) Little Princes - Conor Grennan
(Netherlands) The Forger’s Spell A True Story of
Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the
Twentieth Century - Edward Dolnick
(Nigeria) Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie
(North Pole) No Ordinary Star (#’s 1-3) - M C
Frank
(Norway/Sweden) Hans of Iceland - Victor Hugo
(Puerto Rico) Sister Chicas - Lisa Alvarado, Ann
Hagman Cardinal, Jane Albertson Coralin
(Peru/Ecuador/Polynesia) Kon-Tiki - Thor
Heyerdahl
(Russia) Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev / Notes
from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky /
Father Sergius - Leo Tolstoy / The Government
Inspector - Nicolai Gogol
(Saudi Arabia) Blurred Vision: Life Inside the
Sand Castle - L. Martin Moss
(Scandinavia) Beowulf
(South Africa) Shackles - Dianne J Wilson
(Sweden) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s
Nest (Millennium #3) - Stieg Larsson
(Syria) Split My Heart - Neil Blackmore
(Thailand) The Bridge Over the River Kwai -
Pierre Boulle / The Beach - Alex Garland
(Turkey) Cages on Opposite Shores - Janset
Berkok Shami
(Ukraine) Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of
a Novel - Anatoly Kuznetsov
(Vietnam) Up Country (Brenner #2) - Nelson
DeMille
(Ethiopia) This History of Rasselasa, Prince of
Abyssinia - Samuel Johnson (short story)
(Tanzania) The Girl Who Crossed the Line -
Tikiri Herath (short story)

To Read:
(Afghanistan) A Fort of Nine Towers - Qais Akbar
Oman
(Australia) Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise -
Andrew M Crusoe
(Austria or 2020) 83 Baumstrasse - Nasrin Namdar
(China) Nanjing 1937 - Ye Zhaoyan
(Crimea) Doctor Margaret's Sea Chest (Azadi #1) -
Waheed Rabbani
(Gibraltar) The Spill: The Beach Never Looked So
Deadly - Aaron Leyshon
(Haiti) Bug-Jargal - Victor Hugo
(Iraq) The Hades Factor #1 - Robert Ludlum
(author)
(Laos) The Honourable School Boy (Karla #2) -
John le Carré
(Lebanon) From Beirut to Jerusalem - Thomas L
Friedman
(Malaysia) The Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng
(Norway) The Son - Jo Nesbo
(Spain) The Barefoot Queen - Ildefonso Falcones
(Switzerland) The Book of Air and Shadows -
Michael Gruber
(Tasmania) Fortune’s Son (Tasmanian #1) - Jennifer
Scoullar
(Uganda) Matika and the River Lion - Latrice
Simpkins

Open Library:
(Bosnia-Herzegovina) The Dawning - Milka Bajic-
Poderegin
(Burma) The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
(Denmark) Smilla’s Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
(Guinea) My Heart Will Cross This Ocean -
Kadiatou Diallo and Craig Wolff
(Iran/Persia) Samarkand - Amin Maalouf
(Jamaica) Dr. No (Bond #6) - Ian Fleming
(Lithuania) Between Shades of Gray - Ruta Sepetys
(Nigeria/Biafra) Half of a Yellow Sun -
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(Portugal) All the Names - José Saramago
(Rwanda) Baking Cakes in Kigali (Bakery #1) -
Gaile Parkin
(Tasmania) The Roving Party - Rohan Wilson 304
(Uzbekistan) Chasing The Sea - Tom Bissell
(Yemen) Motoring with Mohammed - Eric Hansen /
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday

Maybe:
(French Guyana) Papillon #1 - Henri Charrière
(library)
(Greenland ) The Land that Time Forgot (Caspak
#1) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
(Oman) The Icarus Agenda - Robert Ludlum (1988)
(my copy is missing first 20 pages)

Suggested:
(Arabian Peninsula/Gulf) The Corsair - Abdul-Aziz
Al-Mahmoud
(Argentina/Colombia/Venezuela) The Motorcycle
Diaries - Ernesto Che Guevara
(Australia/India) Shantaram - Gregory David
Roberts
(French Guyana) The Dark Child - Camara Laye /
Papillon #1 - Henri Charrière (library)
(Ghana) Tail of the Blue Bird - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
(Iceland) Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
(Malaya) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
(Mozambique/Zimbabwe) A Girl Named Disaster -
Nancy Farmer
(New Zealand) The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera
(Oman) In the Service of the Sultan - Ian Gardiner
(Pakistan) I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai and
Christina Lamb
(Philippines) Dusk (Rosales #1) - F. Sionil José
(Slovenia) I Saw Her That Night - Drago Jančar
(Somalia) From a Crooked Rib - Nuruddin Farah
(Switzerland) The Pledge - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
(Tasmania) Past the Shallows - Favel Parrett
(Uzbekistan) The Railway - Hamid Ismailov and
Robert Chandler
(Zimbabwe) The Children Who Sleep by the River
by Debbie Taylor
(Zubara-UAE) Dead Six #1 - Larry Correia and
Mike Kupari
See You Soon - N C Marshall / Multiple Me’s -
Sasha Wright

Short:
The Red Diamond (Iman's #1) - Emily Flowers /
The Ruby Iyer Diaries (Origins Prequel) - Laxmi
Hariharan / Ghosts in Macau (Ambrose #1.5) - H
N Wake

Maybe:
Missed Connections (#0.5) - Alexandria Clarke / Inn
44. Recommended to you by Amazon
Over Her Head - (Dusky #1) - Dixie Davis / Rafe
(Brotherhood #1) - Kathy Ivan / Her Long Walk
Home (Sea View #1) - Linda Barrett / Sniper's Nest
(McCord #1) - C M Sutter / His Hand In the Storm
(James #1) - Ritu Sethi / The Secret of Seaside
(Paige #1) - Abigail Ball / Mason (SEALs #1) - Dale
Mayer / Face of Death (Prime #1) - Stella Gold and
Blake Pierce / Sign Off (Wyoming #1) - Patricia
McLinn / Rafferty's Rules (#1) - W Glenn Duncan /
The Honeymoon Cottage (Pajaro #1) - Barbara Cool
Lee
1,123 Hard to Believe Facts - Nayden Kostov /
The Gate Beyond Oblivion (Gate #1) - Ryan Kirk
45. A book that cost you less than $5 / A Throne for Sisters (#1) - Morgan Rice / Spies,
(almost every book on my challenge was free) Lies, & Cupcakes (Rebels #1) - Jessica Sorensen /

Maybe:
Stones Left Unturned - Anthony R. Wilson / Dotty
Dishes the Dirt (#0.5) - Dianne Ezzard / Mrs.
Pickles' Perilous Parting - K P Stafford / Out of
Options (Cottage #0.5) - Dianne Ascroft / The
Double Cross (Travelers #0.5) - Michael P King /
Sleeping Dogs (Strong #0.5) - Mike Donohue / The
Fall (E&M #0.5) - Lena Bourne / Murder on the
East China Sea Beginning #2) - Mark Wm Smith /
The Descendants (#1) - Destiny Hawkins / Tupelo
Gypsy (Voodoo Lucy #1) - Vito Zuppardo / The
Surrey Stalker (DCI #1) - B L Pearce / Lost
(Cinderella's Diaries #1) - Ron Vitale / Pushing Up
Daisies (Tea Shop #1) - Katherine Hayton / Maggie
and the Black-Tie Affair (Carita #1) - Barbara Cool
Lee / Kingdom of Fairytales: After the happily ever
afters (#0.5) / Dead Men’s Shoes (Bluebelle) - Geoff
Palmer / Poppy Bloom (Life #1) - Rebekah Dodson
/ Thistles (Pistils #1) - Kate McNeil / Missed
Connections - Alexandria Clarke / Inn over Her
Head - Dixie Davis / The Templar's Cross-The
Wayward Alliance (Kintour #1) - J R Tomlin /
Kheris Burning (Thieves' Guild #1) - C G Hatton /
Traitors Unseen (Guild, #3) - Dave Dobson / Tidal
Wave (T Bodean #0.5) - David Berens
Faye Kellerman - Straight Into Darkness
James Patterson - Along Came a Spider & Kiss
the Girls (Cross #’s 1 & 2)
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Poison Belt
(Challenger #2)
Jojo Moyes - Sheltering Rain
N L Hinkens - The Lies She Told / Her Last Steps
/ The Silent Surrogate / The Cabin Below

Short:
Zara Altair - The Roman Heir (Argolicus #3)
Amy White - 7 Essential Mindfulness Habits
Zion Cage - Captives (the End spinoff)

To Read:
46. By an author used in an earlier category
Luana Ehrlich - One Step Back (Ray #0.5)
Blake Pierce - If She Knew (Wise #1) / Next Door
(Fine #1) - 194 / The Perfect Wife (Hunt #1)
C M Sutter - Retribution (Pierce #1) / Greed (A
Monroe #1) / Maniacal (Det. J Monroe #1) /
Snapped (Agent J Monroe #1)

Liam G Black

To Read (after I find #4):


Stieg Larsson (continued by David Lagercrantz) -
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium
#5)
Suggested:
The Girl Who Lived Twice (Millennium #6)
(Airplane- Fighter jet) Kittyhawk Pilot - Michael
47. Story takes place on a form of transportation
Lavigne
(Airplane- postal) Vol de Nuit - Antoine de Saint-
Exupéry
(Auto- Car) Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
(Auto- Jeep) Mounty in a Jeep Thomas Morris
Longstreth
(Auto- Taxi) Hackman’s Night & The Taxi
Driver - Raymond Knister
(Bicycle) Three Men on the Bummel #2 - Jerome
K Jerome
(Boat- Canoe) Death on the Barrens - George
James Grinnell
(Boat- Cruise liner/Yacht) Brewster’s Millions -
George Barr McCutcheon
(Boat- Ferry) The Tavern at the Ferry - Edwin
Tunis
(Dog sled) The Loneliest Cottage (Alaskan #1) -
Melissa Storm
(Dream Traveller #’s 1-5) Out of Time / The
Network / Finding Lucy / Fool’s Gold / Crunch
Time - Ernesto H Lee
(Horse/Burro/Donkey) A Lady's Life in the
Rocky Mountains - Isabella Lucy Bird
(Hot Air Balloon) Once Upon a Time in the
North (Dark #0.5) - Phillip Pullman
(Ship- Naval Cruiser) In Harm's Way: The
Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the
Extraordinary Story of its Survivors - Doug
Stanton
(Space craft) The Little Journey & the Fight of
the Good Ship Clarissa - Ray Bradbury (short
stories)
(Submarine) The Hunt for Red October (Ryan
#3) - Tom Clancy
(Train) Chili Queen - Sandra Dallas
(Wagon) The Shunning (Lancaster #1) - Beverly
Lewis

To Read:
(Air- Heliocopter) Black Hawk Down - Mark
Bowden
(Air- Skyship) Third Daughter (Dharia #1) - Susan
Kaye Quinn
Floating to the Fringe: On Tour to the Edinburgh
Fringe in an Electric Milk Float - Paul Thompson
(Boat- Raft) Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis
in the Golden Age of Rafting - T R Pearson
(Bus) Riding the Bus with my Sister - Rachel Simon
(Motorcycle) Race to Dakar - Charley Boorman
(Ship- ) South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last
Expedition 1914-17

Look for:
(Funicular) / (Litter/Rickshaw) / (Segway)
(Stagecoach) / (Tank) / (Tram/Trolley)

Maybe:
20,000 Leagues - Jules Verne / Amistad - Alexs Pate

Suggested:
(Air- Warship) Tom Swift And His Aerial Warship -
Victor Appleton
(Motorcycle) Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows
Across the World - Ewan McGregor, Charley
Boorman, Robert Uhlig
(Skateboard) DogTown: The Legend of the Z-Boys -
Glen E Friedman & Dreamseller: An Addiction
Memoir - Brandon Novak / Disposable: A History of
Skateboard Art - Sean Cliver
(Ship) Swiss Family Robinson - Johan David Wyss /
HMS Pinafore - Gilbert & Sullivan / The Toilers of
the Sea - Victor Hugo / Jaws?
Broken Lights & Red Pottage - Michael
Aarohnson (parts I & II) / Go, My Son - Chaim
Shapiro / The Sorrows of Young Werther -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Glasses - Henry James (short story)
48. Character who wears glasses
Maybe: Smiley’s People - John Le Carré

Suggested: Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov / The


Goldfinch - Donna Tartt / The Shadows (Elsewhere
#1) - Jacqueline West / The Family Upstairs - Lisa
Jewell / Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John Le Carré
The President’s Daughter (Dillon #6) - Jack
49. About a World Leader Higgins / King Lear - Shakespeare / The Man
Who Played With Fire - Jan Stocklassa
Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway / The
Parasite (and various short stories) - Sir Arthur
50. An author you previously disliked Conan Doyle

Maybe: Baudolino - Umberto Eco


Various by Oscar Wilde & Ernest Hemingway
Various by Edward Bellamy / Dracula’s Guests
& Other Stories - Bram Stoker / The Girl Scouts
& Rose O’The River - Kate Douglas Wiggin
From Twice-told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne /
The Flood - Emile Zola / Salomy Jane & The
Outcasts of Poker Flat - Bret Harte / At Fault -
Kate Chopin / Prayers for the Soul of a Dying
Star - Sailor Stone / Amy Foster & Tales of
Hearsay - Joseph Conrad / More than a Feeling
51. A genre you don’t normally care for (short
(Claire #.5) - Cate Dean / Ranger’s Folly
stories)
(Dwemhar #1) - J T Williams / Ice Mermaid
(Salt #0.5) - M C Frank / A Knight's Quest for
the Holy Grail - C.S. Johnson / How Fortunate
(Liberty #1) - Kim Hall / The Gangster Boy of the
Savannas - Tikiri Herath / A Life’s Time - Chris
Sarantopoulos / Queen of Hearts - Tanya Lisle /
Death of a Sparrowman - Eric J Gates /
Ch05en (#’s 1-5) - William Dickstein (short)
The End (#’s 0.5-2) The Past / Genesis / Fight for
Survival - Zion Cage (short)
Maybe: Glimpses: An Anthology of 16 Short
Fantasy Stories - Kevin Partner and Adrian G Hilder
Bartholomew Fair - Ben Jonson / The Art of
Loving - Erich Fromm / The Autobiography of
Malcolm X / The Lost German Slave Girl - John
Bailey / Sanctuary - Edith Wharton
52. A book with a Foreword
Maybe: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A
History of Nazi Germany - William L Shirer / The
Jungle - Upton Sinclair

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