This week I updated my chart for the 2017 Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge. With the year almost halfway over, I’ve read 10 books (well, maybe a couple more, but they either didn’t fit the challenge or were a second for a particular category). Honestly, this list is probably only interesting to me, but here you go anyway.
The Color Code:
Red = a book chosen for the category. I don’t have it yet. Subject to change.
Blue = a book chosen for the category that I own or have checked out from the library.
Green = what I’m currently reading.
Black = This category is complete!
Reading for Growth |
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Category | Book 1 | Book 2 |
Newbery Award Winner or Honor Book | The Graveyard Book, Gaiman | |
Translated Book | The Sound of Things Falling, Juan G. Vasquez | |
Poetry, Play or Essay Collection | The Impossible Will Take A Little While | |
More than 600 Pages | ||
Any Genre: Current Event Theme | Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar | |
Immigrant Story | Girl in Translation, Jean Kwok | |
Published Before 1960 | Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter | The Awakening, Kate Chopin |
3 Books by the same Author | Trigger Warning, Neil Gaiman | Anansi Boys |
#ownvoices or #diversebooks author | This is Where it Ends, Marieke Nijkamp | |
Unreliable narrator or ambiguous ending | Brief Life of Oscar Wao | |
Nominated for award in 2017 | check shopping list on amazon for …. | 2017 Pen America Literary finalists |
Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award Winner | Gilead, Marilynne Robinson | All the Light We Cannot See* |
Reading for Fun |
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Chose for the cover | Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, A. Schumer | |
Un-put-downable | ||
Set somewhere I’ve never been | ||
I’ve already read it | The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood | |
Book about books or reading | Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman | |
Genre I Usually avoid | What Women Fear, Angie Smith | |
I’m Dying to Read it | Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead | |
Backlist of Favorite New Author | ||
Recommended by Someone with great taste | All the Light We Cannot See, A. Doerr | |
Excited to buy or borrow but hadn’t read | Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance | |
Topic or Subject I already Love | Blessings, Anna Quindlan (Audio) | |
Juicy Memoir | Not My Father’s Son, Alan Cumming | Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo* |