Tuesday 5 January 2016

Popsugar 2015 reading challenge

A non-fiction book - Lena Dunham "Not That Kind of Girl"
A memoir - Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb "I Am Malala"
A Pulitzer Prize-winning book - Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird"
A funny book - Mindy Kaling "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?"
A book with magic
A book based on a true story - Cheryl Strayed "Wild"
A book that became a movie
A book published this year - Anna Smaill "The Chimes"
A book by a female author - Jeanette Winterson "The Gap of Time"
A book written by someone under 30
A popular author's first book - George Orwell "Down and Out in Paris and London"
A book by an author you've never read before - Graeme Simsion "The Rosie Project"
A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet - Paulo Coelho "Adultery"
A book a friend recommended - E. Lockhart "We Were Liars"
A book at the bottom of your to-read-list - Karen Joy Fowler "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves"
A book you own but have never read
A book you started but never finished - Eleanor Catton "The Luminaries"
A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
A book written by an author with your same initials
A book that came out the year you were born - Jeffrey Eugenides "The Virgin Suicides"
A book with more than 500 pages - Kate Atkinson "Life After Life"
A book with a number in the title - Emily St John Mandel "Station Eleven"
A book with a one-work title - David Nicholls "Us"
A book with a colour in the title
A book with antonyms in the title - Anthony Doerr "All the Light We Cannot See" &
A book that was originally written in a different language - Milan Kundera "The Festival of Insignificance"
A book more than 100 years old - Jane Austen "Sense and Sensibility"
A book that takes place in your hometown
A book set in a different country - Jeffrey Eugenides "The Marriage Plot"
A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
A book set during Christmas - Stephanie Perkins "My True Love Gave to Me"
A book based entirely on its cover - Marie NDiaye "Three Strong Women"
A book you can finish in a day - Nora Ephron "Heartburn"
A book that made you cry - Hanya Yanagihara "A Little Life"
A play - William Shakespeare "The Winter's Tale"
A banned book
A book based on/ turned into a TV show
A poetry book - Charles Bukowski "The Pleasures of the Damned"
A mystery or thriller
A book that your mum loves
A book from your childhood - Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland"
A book with a love triangle - Francesca Segal "The Innocents"
A book set in the future - Howard Jacobson "J"
A book set in public school - Charlotte Mendelson "Almost English"
A book of short stories - J.D. Salinger "Franny and Zooey"
A trilogy - Helen Fielding "Bridget Jones' Diary", "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason", "Mad About the Boy"
A classic romance - Jojo Moyes "Me Before You"

*this list has been slightly modified & I have taken certain liberties with interpreting the challenges, but hey, it makes sense to me!

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