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brenpike's 15 x 5 in 15

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1brenpike
Editat: des. 29, 2015, 9:29 pm

Back for a fourth year of category challenges!

1. Debut Books
The Shore Sara Taylor
Man V. Nature Diane Cook
Oreo Fran Ross
The Martian Andy Weir

2. History
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire Peter Stark
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art Carl Hoffman
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of An Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II Vicki Constantine Croke
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt Kara Cooney
When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II Molly Guptill Manning
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island Will Harlan
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Scott Douglas
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film Glenn Kurtz
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Erik Larson
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History Cynthia Barnett
81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness Brian Murphy
Deaths on Pleasant Street Giles Fowler
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes Anand Gopal
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster Svetlana Alexievich

3. Miscellaneous
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
Ordinary Grace William Kent Krueger
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
Let Me Be Frank With You Richard Ford
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy
An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
The Photograph Penelope Lively
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Washington Square Henry James
Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh
The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Fingersmith Sarah Waters
Moon Tiger Penelope Lively
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Jeff Hobbs
The Loved One Evelyn Waugh
Scoop Evelyn Waugh
My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier
Canada Richard Ford
The City & The City China Mieville
Us David Nicholls
Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters Jane Dunn
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant Alexandra Fuller
Strange Fruit Lillian Smith
Leaving Before the Rains Come Alexander Fuller
How to be both Ali Smith
The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
A God in Every Stone Kamila Shamsie
The Game of Silence Louise Erdrich
The Paying Guests Sarah Waters
The Lie Helen Dunmore
The Porcupine Year Louise Erdrich
The Master Butcher's Singing Club Louise Erdrich
Theatre W.Somerset Maugham
Chickadee Louise Erdrich
The Bloody Chamber Angela Carter
Euphoria Lily King
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
Time's Arrow Martin Amis
The Millstone Margaret Drabble
Outline Rachel Cusk
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman
Outlaws Javier Cercas
The Bees Laline Paull
Main Street Sinclair Lewis
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town Jon Krakauer
Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis
The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress Beryl Bainbridge
The Gravity of Birds Tracy Guzeman
The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner
The Architect's Apprentice Elif Safak
These Hands Margaret Mason, Floyd Cooper
The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time Jonathan Kozol
Spark of Life Erich Maria Remarque
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair
Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess
The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald
Albert Angelo B.S. Johnson
The Nightingale Kristin Hannah
A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson
The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins
Orhan's Inheritance Aline Ohanesian
Green on Blue Elliot Ackerman
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America Jill Leovy
The Dog Stars Peter Heller
Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver
Our Souls at Night Kent Haruf
In the Unlikely Event Judy Blume
The Stranger Albert Camus
The Meursault Investigation Kamel Daouc
The Watch Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
The Wright Brothers David McCullough
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail Ben Montgomery
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
The Green Road Anne Enright
The Illuminations Andrew O'Hagan
Something Special Iris Murdoch
The Last Kind Words Saloon Larry McMurtry
The Moor's Account Laila Lalami
Travels With My Aunt Graham Greene
A Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler
Inside the O'Briens Lisa Genova
The Fishermen Chigozie Obioma
Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee
Sleeping on Jupiter Anuradha Roy
The Year of the Runaways Sunjeev Sahota
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
The Nature of the Beast Louise Penny
Did You Ever Have a Family Bill Clegg
Lila Marilynne Robinson
Man V. Nature Diane Cook
The Long Song Andrea Levy
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream Katharine Norbury
The Iceberg Marion Coutts
Haroun and the sea of Stories Salman Rushdie
Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor
The Chimes Anna Smaill
Blood Done Sign My Name Timothy Tyson
The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman
The Arrival Shaun Tan
Black Swan Green David Mitchell
The Betrayal Helen Dunmore
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland Sarah Moss
The Small Backs of Children Lidia Yuknavitch
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery Henry Marsh
Dear Committee Members Julie Schumacher
M Train Patti Smith
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis Simon Goodman
Robert Frost's New England Betsy & Tom Melvin
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
Any Human Heart William Boyd
The Ministry of Pain Dubravka Ugrešić
For Rouenna Sigrid Nunez
My Age of Anxiety Scott Stossel
The Blue Guitar John Banville
Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver
Sweet Caress William Boyd
Until Further Notice, I Am Alive Tom Lubbock
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster
Bodies of Light Sarah Moss
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
The Nobodies Album Carolyn Parkhurst
Undermajordomo Minor Patrick deWitt
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson
Homer & Langley E.L. Doctorow
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante
A Damsel in Distress P.G. Wodehouse
Giving Up the Ghost Hilary Mantel
Fifteen Dogs André Alexis
The Orenda Joseph Boyden
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love Simran Sethi
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War Svetlana Alexievich

2mamzel
gen. 5, 2015, 6:48 pm

Welcome back for another year of reading! Have fun! I've seen lots of good stuff about Station Eleven so I'll be interested to see what you think of it.

3rabbitprincess
gen. 5, 2015, 7:31 pm

Welcome back and have fun!

4Dejah_Thoris
gen. 5, 2015, 7:46 pm

Your first two books of the year are books I'm planning to read in the next few months, so I hope you enjoyed them!

5brenpike
gen. 5, 2015, 11:37 pm

Hello visitors! Thanks for checking in. . .
Starting the year out right, books one and two were quite good. Well worth inclusion on a TBR list.

6brenpike
feb. 28, 2015, 1:53 pm

I've got to set some time aside to organize my categories . . . :/

7mamzel
feb. 28, 2015, 9:37 pm

No time like the present!

8brenpike
gen. 4, 2016, 4:29 pm

2016 here