This year I’m going to go back with 12 choices, to challenge myself.
2. Animal house: A book about animals in any way.
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Frans de Waal
Natural history book about animal intelligence.
5. Breaking Ground: A book about exploration or discovery, fiction or nonfiction.
The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot, Herbert Krosney
How and where this piece of New Testament apocrypha was discovered.
6. Coming to a theater near you: A book made into a major motion picture or TV series.
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
Uglies, Scott Westerfield
One of these two, the first a movie, the second a series.
7. Continuing on: A book from a series you have already started.
Children of Anguish and Anarchy, Tomi Adeyemi
I read the previous two books of this Africa-based YA fantasy trilogy.
9. Daguerreotype vibes: A book authored in the 19th century
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Edgar Allen Poe
I think everyone’s heard of this one.
25. Howdy, stranger: A book about immigrants or immigration, or with an immigrant main character.
Cuban Bread Crumbs, Jack Espinosa
A man’s recollection of growing up in Florida as a Cuban émigré.
27. I remember that!: A book about a historical event that took place in your lifetime.
Harry, a History, by Melissa Anelli
How the Harry Potter phenomena began and grew, beginning in the late 1990s when the first book was released.
28. Let’s go clubbing!: A book in a celebrity’s book club
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (Oprahs Book Club)
The adventures of a Greek American family and one member who is differently sexed.
29. Literary literal alliteration: A book whose title or author’s name is an alliteration.
Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
A sort-of fanfic about a YA novel that was about fanfic, if that makes sense.
34. No hablo: A book originally written in another language (either a translation or in the original if you’d like!).
The Law of Love, Laura Esquivel
She also wrote Like Water for Chocolate.
42. Succinct: A book with a one-word title.
White, Richard Dyer
A scholarly book about race and what it means to be “white.”
44. Three-color mythology: A graphic novel, manga, or comic book.
The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
Another poster on the forum was reading this too and I had it, so I thought it would be fun to compare reviews and the pathology of this now-disgraced author.
