2014 Reading Challenges
1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenisyn
2. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
3. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
4. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
6. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
7. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
8. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
9. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
10. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
11. Stolen by Lucy Christopher
12. Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Alternates:
A. A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
B. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The 2014 What's In a Name Categories are:
1. A Reference to Time One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
2. A Position of Royalty The Little Prince
3. A Number Written in Letters The Hundred Dresses
4. A Forename or Names Pudd'nhead Wilson
5. A Type or Element of Weather Zane and the Hurricane
6. School Subject in the Title Foundations in Comic Book Art
Back to the Classics 2014
Required:- A 20th Century Classic A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
- A 19th Century Classic Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
- A Classic by a Woman Author O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- A Classic in Translation One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- A Wartime Classic Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo or Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- A Classic by an Author Who Is New To You Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Optional Categories:
- An American Classic As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner or something by Hemingway?
- A Classic Mystery, Suspense or Thriller The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- A Historical Fiction Classic. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
- A Classic That's Been Adapted Into a Movie or TV Series. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Extra Fun Category: Write a Review of the Movie or TV Series adapted from Optional Category #4.
50 States Personal Challenge:
I had signed up for this challenge hosted by Book Obsessed for a couple years in a row - but I didn't last year and I really wished I had. Not because I stress about reading a book set in each of the 50 states, but because it is just kind of a fun thing to keep track of (at least I think it is fun). So, I'm going to track it again in 2014, but I'm not bothering to sign up for an official challenge. This is just for me - and so I'll list more than one book per state when it happens, because I'm also curious as what that will show at the end of the year.
23/50
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California - The Distance Between Us , The Beginning of Everything, Sinner, Landline, On The Fence, Something Real
- Colorado
- Connecticut Since You've Been Gone
- Delaware
- Florida - Where The Stars Still Shine, Paper Towns, Kiss of Broken Glass
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois - Insurgent, Allegiant, Yummy
- Indiana - Positive
- Iowa - Grasshopper Jungle
- Kansas
- Kentucky - The Swift Boys & Me, Crash Into You, Take Me On
- Louisiana - Zane and the Hurricane
- Maine - In The Shadows, This is What Happy Looks Like
- Maryland - Every Day, Little Fish
- Massachusetts - The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, We Were Liars, Being Henry David, Forget Me
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri - Pudd'nhead Wilson, The Art of Lainey
- Montana
- Nebraska - O Pioneers!
- Nevada - Crank
- New Hampshire - Half a Chance
- New Jersey
- New Mexico - Love Letters to the Dead, Tomboy
- New York - A Trick of the Light, Wonder, Panic, Game, Chopsticks, Okay for Now
- North Carolina - Sweet Tooth
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma - The Spectacular Now, Ready Player One
- Oregon - If I Stay
- Pennsylvania Reality Boy, Bright Before Sunrise
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee Breathe, Annie, Breathe
- Texas Pivot Point , Skinny
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin Better off Friends
- Wyoming
