One of my 2017 reading challenges is this full house reading challenge from Book Date:
The categories are as follows.
- B1: Non Fiction – Purple Cow /Seth Godin 210 pages 4 stars completed 3/11/17
- B2: 2017 published – MEXICO: Stories / Josh Barkan 256 pages 4 stars completed 2/13/17
- B3: Award Winner – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close / Jonathan Safran Foer 326 pages 5 stars completed 1/21/17 (won American Place Theatre’s Literature to Life Award)
- B4: Food on cover or title – Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller / Sarah Miller 3 stars 204 pages completed 1/31/17 (Apple on cover)
- B5. Western -Renegade’s Pride /B.J. Daniels
- I1: On TBR 2+ years – I’ll Give You The Sun /Jandy Nelson 4 stars 371 pages completed 3/14/17
- I2: Published pre 2000 – Sula / Toni Morrison 5 stars 174 pages completed 1/28/17 first published 1973
- I3: Book about books – The Barrowfields /Philip Lewis 348 pages 3 stars completed 3/23/17
- I4: Cozy mystery – The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel 276 pages 3 stars completed 3/11/17
- I5: USA / Canadian author – See Now Then /Jamaica Kincaid 182 pages 4 stars completed 2/9/17
- N1: More than 500 pages Americanah /Chimamandah Ngozi Adichie 588 pages 4 stars completed 3/26/17
- N2: UK / European author – Paris For One / JoJo Moyes
- N3: Size word in title – Small Great Things /Jodi Picoult 458 pages 4 stars completed 6/24/17
- N4: Book from childhood
- N5: Not really for you – Things We Lost In The Fire Stories /Mariana Enriquez 208 pages 4 stars completed 3/5/17 – paranormal setting isn’t my usual pick
- G1: Page turner – Here Comes The Sun /Nicole Dennis-Benn 349 pages 4 stars completed 2/20/17
- G2: Back list book from fav author: Colson Whitehead / The Colossus of New York 158 pages 4 stars completed 1/27/17
- G3: Two worded title – Human Acts /Han Kang 5 stars 218 pages completed 2/27/17
- G4: Diversity book – Mr. Potter / Jamaica Kincaid
- G5: Attractive cover – Shylock Is My Name /Howard Jacobson
- O1: Middle grade book – Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief /Rick Riordan Graphic novel 128 pages 2 stars completed 3/22/17
- O2: Book from a list – Adulthood Is A Myth / Sarah Andersen 109 pages 4 stars completed 2/6/17 Goodreads Choice Award for Graphic Novels & Comics 2016 (When Breath Becomes Air & Underground Railroad also on the same list)
- O3: Debut book – Unburnable by Marie-Elena John 296 pages 4 stars completed 1/24/17
- O4: Australian / NZ author – The Book Thief /Markus Zusak 552 pages 4 stars completed 4/13/17
- O5: Borrowed – The Star Side of Bird Hill /Naomi Jackson 294 pages 3 stars completed 2/4/17