Showing posts with label reading challenge. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 7, 2017

Reading Challenge - Popsugar 2016

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There are 40 Books on this list

A Book Based on a Fairy Tale
The Lunar Chonicles, Marissa Meyer

A National Book Award Winner

A YA Bestseller
Throne of Glass, Sarah J Maas

A Book You Haven't Read Since High School
The Summoning, Kelley Armstrong

A Book Set in Your Home State/Province (AB, Canada)

A Book Translated Into English

A Romance Set in the Future

A Book Set in Europe
The Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Lani Taylor

A Book Under 150 Pages
Animal Farm, George Orwell

A New York Times Bestseller

A Book That's Becoming a Movie This Year
When a Monster Calls, Patrick Ness

A Book Recommended By Someone You Just Met
Every Heart A Doorway, Seanan McGuire

A Self-Improvement Book

A Book You Can Finish in One Day
A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay

A Book Written by a Celebrity

A Political Memoir

A Book at Least 100 Years Older Than You (1895)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stephenson (published 1886)

A Books Thats More Than 600 Pages
The Stand, Stephen King (my edition has 1153 pages - my longest book of the year)

A Book From Oprah's Book Club

A Science Fiction Novel

A Book Recommended by a Family Member
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien (recommended by my Dad)

A Graphic Novel
Sin City, Frank Miller

A Book Published in 2016
End of Watch, Stephen King

A Book With a Protagonist Who Has Your Occupation

A Book That Takes Place During Summer

A Book and its Prequel

A Murder Mystery

A Book Written by a Comedian

A Dystopian Novel

A Book With a Blue Cover
Misery, Stephen King

A Book of Poetry

The First Book You See in a Bookstore

A Classic From the 20th Century
The Lord of the Rings

A Book From the Library
A Madness so Discreet, Mindy McGinnis

An Autobiography

A Book About a Roadtrip

A Book About a Culture You're Unfamiliar With

A Satirical Book

A Book That Takes Place on an Island

A Book That's Guaranteed to Bring You Joy
Harry Potter, JK Rowling

Reading Challenge - BookRiot Read Harder

A Horror Novel

A Non-fiction Book About Science

A Collection of Essays

A Book Loved by Someone Else
Odd Thomas, Dean Koontz

A Middle Grade Novel

A Biography (not a memoir or autobiography)

A Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic

A Book Published in the decade you were born (1990's for me)

An Award Winning Audiobook

A Book Longer Than 500 Pages

A Book By or About a Transgenered Person

A Book Set in the Middle East

A Historical Fiction Set Before 1900
Pride and Prejeduce

First Book in a Series by a Person of Colour

A Non-Superhero Comic Published in the Last 3 Years

Read a Book that was Adapted into a Movie, Watch the Movie. Which was Better?

A Non-fiction Feminist Novel

A Book about Religion

A Political Book

A Food Memoir

A Play

A Book with a Main Character Suffering from Mental Illness
Sins of the Mother, Irene Kelley

Reading Challenge -Bustle Reads 2016

20 Books

Read a Book Written By a Woman Under 25

Read a Book About Non-Western History

A Book of Essays

Read a Book About an Indigenous Culture

Read a Book Before You See The Movie
When A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness

Read a Ya Book by an Author of Colour

A Book Set in the Middle East

A Book About Women in War

Read a Graphic Novel Written by a Woman

A Book About an Immigrant or Refugee to the USA

Read a Children's Book Aloud

Reread Your Favourite Book From Your Childhood

Read a Memoir by Someone Who Identifies as LGBTQIA

Read a Work of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Written by a Woman

Read a Feminist Sci-Fi Novel

Read the First Book in a series You've Never Read

Read a Book Set in Africa (bonus : by an Author From Africa)
A Thousand Lives : The Untold Story of Hope, Deception and Survival in Jonestown, Julia Scheeres

A Translated Book

A Contemporary Collection of Poetry

A Book by a Modernist Woman Writer

Sunday, December 25, 2016

Stephen King

Stephen King has published 66 works of fiction (which include several novels of short stories )to date. It is my mission to read them all so far I have read :

  1. The Shinning
  2. Carrie
  3. It
  4. The Green Mile
  5. The Dead Zone
  6. Bag of Bones
  7. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
  8. Cell
  9. Cujo
  10. The Tommyknockers
  11. The Mist
  12. Under the Dome
  13. Dr. Sleep 
  14. Joyland
  15. 11/22/63
  16. Blockade Billy
  17. Black House
  18. Christine
  19. The Colorado Kid
  20. Cycle of the Werewolf
  21. The Dark Half 
  22. Desperation
  23. Dolores Claiborne
  24. Gerald's Game
  25. Thinner
  26. Salem's Lot
  27. The Stand
  28. Misery
  29. Insomnia
  30. Mr Mercedes
  31. Finders Keepers
  32. End of Watch 
  33. Skeleton Crew
  34. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
  35. Night Shift
  36. Just After Sunset
  37. Everything's Eventual
  38. Different Seasons
  39. Four Past Midnight
So 66 % done which is 27 Novels to go. Trying for 12 or more of his books a year!