1. Read a total of 36 BIO in 2011 (3 per month in designated categories or titles/authors that begin with the same letter as the first letter of the month).
2. No buying new books until I've read 2 BIO. After the first 2, I can then follow the rule - read 1, buy 1 (until reading 5, when I can buy unlimited books for the remainder of the month).
3. 18 books will be set in stone before the start of 2011 - they will be put in bold italics.
4. I will finalize each upcoming month's list before the current month ends - then NO CHANGING!
The following is my list for the BIO challenge:
January
1. (1st in a series): City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
2. (wolves): Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
3. (winter): Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
February
1. (love story): Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper
2. (shortest): The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
3. (gift): American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
March
1. (war story): The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
2. (classic): Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
3. (favorite cover): The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
April
1. (god or hero): Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
2. (apocolyptic): The Road by Cormac McCarthy
3. (comedy): The Gates by John Connolly
May
1. (oldest BIO): Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
2. (memoir): In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
3. (magical land): Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
June
1. (young adult): A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
2. (couple/marriage): Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
3. (rose): A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith
July
1. (animals): The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wrobleski
2. (longest): Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen
3. (America): 1776 by David McCullough
August
1. (historical): Katherine by Anya Seton
2. (A = title): The Awakening by Kate Chopin
3. (national figure): The Women by T.C. Boyle
September
1. (7 or 17th century): Fever 1793
2. (sad): White Oleander by Janet Fitch
3. (school): The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
October
1. (ghost/paranormal/horror): The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
2. (thriller/vampire): Dracula by Bram Stoker
3. (series continuation): whichever Outlander book I need to read next
November
1. (mystery): The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
2. (food/feast/famine): The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
3. (colonial America/ pilgrims): The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
December
1. (Christmas/ holiday): A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
2. (family): True Colors by Kristin Hannah
3. (guilty pleasure): A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
2011 Nonfiction Challenge - also created by The Novel Ideas
The are no rules for this challenge - the idea is to expand our horizons by incorporating more nonfiction selections into our reading for next year. I have challenged myself to read at least one nonfiction selection each month of 2011.
Here's my list of upcoming nonfiction reads for 2011:
2 comments:
I didn't realize you had The Road down for apocolyptic - I'm glad to have someone to read it with! I thought everyone had already gotten to it!
I also need to get my non-fiction challenge posted on my blog. What do you think, are four challenges too many? ;) I actually have an idea for another I would like to do - maybe I'll keep my NF goal down to 6 & then make the other challenge 6 books too. I need to pull in the reigns on all the challenges I want to do, but they're so addicting!
No, you're not the only person who has yet to read The Road ;-) I'm looking forward to reading it and chatting about it with you!
Four challenges is a lot, but you can probably fit some of the same books into more than one challenge to make it a little less daunting. Good luck!
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