Friday 6 March 2015

2015 PopSugar Challenge

Over the last few years, I have been trying to increase the amount of books I read to the level it once was. Not an easy task since adult responsibilities put a dampener on things.  One way I have been doing this is to join a few reading groups on Goodreads and following along with their reading lists.

One of these groups brought up the topic of the PopSugar 2015 reading challenge.  In this challenge, there are 50 book categories for you to fill with whichever reading material you like, to read during the 52 weeks of this year (There is actually one read for each week, one of the 50 categories is a trilogy).


Looking to expand my reading horizons, I give you the following... My 2015 reading list.  This is of course subject to change as the year goes on (you'll note a couple of changes already). I tried to choose books that I hadn't read before, with the exception of a book from my childhood: The Enchanted Wood; and a book with magic: The Magic Faraway Tree.  Both of these I'll be reading with my younger children throughout the year

1. a book with more than 500 pages A Feast for Crows

2. a romance The Princess Bride
3. a book that became a movie Fight Club
4. a book published this year Carry On Alchemy: a story of perfect murder
5. a book with a number in the title Ready Player One
6. a book written by someone under 30 The Bell Jar
7. a book with nonhuman characters The Jungle Book
8. a funny book Life, the Universe and Everything
9. a book by a female author Assassin's Apprentice
10. a mystery or thriller Gone Girl
11. a book with a one-word title Coraline
12. a book of short stories The Bizarro Starter Kit
13. a book set in a different country The Book Thief
14. a nonfiction book The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
15. a popular author's first book Looking for Alaska
16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet ( I took a little liberty and used her pseudonym) The Cuckoo's Calling
17. a book a friend recommended Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book The Color Purple
19. a book based on a true story Call the Midwife Boxed Set: Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse, Farewell to the East End
20. a book at the bottom of your to read list The Color of Magic
21. a book your mom loves Dune
22. a book that scares you A Clockwork Orange
23. a book more than 100 years old The War of the Worlds
24. a book based entirely on its cover The Iron Trial
25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't (I read all my books at school, this one is from my eldest daughter's 2015 reading list) The Bunker Diary
26. a memoir Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
27. a book you can finish in a day Marvel 1602
28. a book with antonyms in the title The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act
29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections
30. a book that came out the year you were born Strata
31. a book with bad reviews Palo Alto
32. a trilogy (the first) The Hunger Games
33. a trilogy (the second) Catching Fire
34. a trilogy (the third) Mockingjay
35. a book from your childhood The Enchanted Wood
36. a book with a love triangle City of Bones
37. a book set in the future Cinder
38. a book set in high school The Perks of Being a Wallflower
39. a book with a color in the title Scarlet
40. a book that made/makes you cry Bridge to Terabithia
41. a book with magic The Magic Faraway Tree
42. a graphic novel The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
43. a book by an author you've never read before Fahrenheit 451
44. a book you own but have never read Obernewtyn
45. a book that takes place in your hometown (I couldn't find one specifically for my home town, that I hadn't already read, so I went with rural Victoria, Australia instead) True History of the Kelly Gang
46. a book that was originally written in another language The Diary of a Young Girl
47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday) Little Women
48. a book written by an author with your same initials John Keats - Collected Poems Stormdancer
49. a play Hamlet
50. a banned book Brave New World
51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show Orange Is the New Black
52. a book you started but never finished The Silmarillion

I have chosen not to read mine in order of week, to allow for me to fit shorter books in on busy weeks and longer books when time isn't an issue. And of course the book published this year hadn't yet been published by week 4.


Goodreads has a group dedicated to this reading challenge if you would like to check it out yourself.  What's on your 2015 reading list? Is there anything on my list that you love? hate? Share your thoughts in the comments below.



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