This is going to be the first year where I'm actually doing a reading challenge. I've only just kept a tally of the number of books read on Goodreads but this way I can get through those books I've been meaning to read but haven't yet. I did a list of 12 so I could focus on one each month.
Here are some options for each category. Please give me recommendations or if there's a book here that I shouldn't read, let me know that too.
A book that I own that I haven't read yet
*The Alchemist
*The Power of One
*Mink River
*Flipped
A book that intimidates me (or one over 700 pages)
*The Winds of War
*Team of Rivals
*John Adams
*Lonesome Dove
*Gone With the Wind
A book that I should have read as a child but haven't yet
*Charlotte's Web
*Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh
*Romana series
*The Secret Garden
*All-of-a-kind Family
*Matilda
A book published this year (more options once the year goes on)
*Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
*Short
*Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race
*Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
A book in translation
*My Brilliant Friend
*Crime and Punishment
*Les Miserables
A book recommended by a friend
*One Dead Spy
*Walkable City
*Life and Death in Shanghai
*The Lord of the Rings series
*Middlemarch
A book I've been meaning to read
*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
*Peace Like a River
*The Snow Child
*And There Was Light
*When Breath Becomes Air
A book from genres I don't normally read (or mostly food memoirs)
*Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
*Bird by Bird
*My Life in France
*French Kids Eat Everything
*Dinner: A Love Story
A book by Charles Dickens
*Tale of Two Cities
*Little Dorrit
*Great Expectations
A book by Jane Austen
*Mansfield Park
*Northanger Abbey
A book to reread
*The Giver
*To Kill a Mockingbird
*Anne of Green Gables
*The Secret Keeper
*A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
*North and South (audio)
A book that was once banned (this comes from a list on Goodreads so I'm not sure how accurate it is)
*I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing
*Brave New World
*Ender's Game
*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
*Uncle Tom's Cabin
I listened to Charolletes Web and loved the audio! Such a sweet tale. LOVE Life and Death in Shanghi (I've read it twice. I believe it's a classic because you can learn something new each time it's read... ahh so good!) and I hear French Kid Eat Everything is really good. I am not a huge parenting book fan... but I've been tempted to pick this one up. I haven't had a picky eater yet so I haven't felt the drive but I hear it has some sound principles in teaching children about the relationship with food. Can't wait to read your reviews! Just got Boys in a Boat (per your recommendation) so I'll have to call you once I'm done!
ReplyDeleteOk I'll definitely listen to Charlotte's Web on audio (I believe it's only 2 hours long too!) And I put Death in Shanghi on here because of you. I knew you highly recommended it so I wanted to pick it up. Hopefully I can this year. And I realized I just saw another comment you made on a post last month-so sorry! I hope you like Boys in the Boat and I agree we need to chat soon!
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