Librariansteffen's 2015 Category Challenge

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Librariansteffen's 2015 Category Challenge

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1librariansteffen2
Editat: abr. 13, 2015, 9:29 pm

Here are the 15 categories for my 2015 challenge:

1. YALSA's 2015 Reading Challenge
2. Books About Rome, Prague, Berlin, and Amsterdam
3. Books About France and Things French
4. Speculative Fiction
5. 1001 Books To Read Before You Die
6. Mysteries
7. Nonfiction and Biographies
8. Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction
9. Graphic Novels
10. Chunksters
11. Books Published in 2015
12. Children's and Young Adult Books
13. Historical Fiction
14. American Stories
15. Everything Else




I am keeping track of my reading at the 100 Book Challenge at:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/185837

2librariansteffen2
Editat: maig 8, 2015, 2:52 pm

YALSA's 2015 Hub Reading Challenge

Candidates

1. All the Light We Cannot See
2. *Bellweather Rhapsody
3. * Everything I never Told You
4. Revolution
5. *Noggin
6. *The Crossover
7. *Tears of a Tiger
8. *Forged by Fire
9. Darkness Before Dawn
10. Battle of Jericho
11. November Blues
12. *Afterlife With Archie
13. *Bad Machinery
14. *In Real Life
15. *Seconds
16. *Scar Boys
17. Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
18. *The Story of Owen Dragonslayer
19. *I'll give You the Sun
20. *Carnival at Bray
21. *Tomboy
22. *Through the Woods
23. *Ms. Marvel: No NOrmal
24. * Girls Like Us
25. *Beyond Magenta
26. *Family Romanov
26. *Popular
27. *Port Chicago 50
28. Grasshopper Jungle
29. *Vango
30. *Jackaby
31. *Young Elites

Already read:

Gospel of Winter
We Were Liars
Copper Sun
Shadow Hero
My Friend Dahmer
Catching Fire
Hole in My Life
Fault In Our Stars
Lockdown
Maus
And We Stay
This One Summer

3librariansteffen2
Editat: set. 14, 2015, 12:10 pm

Books about Rome, Prague, Berlin, and Amsterdam

(Books read to support the study aborad course I teach in these cities)

1. Berlin Now
2. Leaving Berlin
3. Genius In the Design
4. Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces
5. Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
6. Four Seasons In Rome
7. City of the Soul
8. Flowers From Berlin
9. Rome: A Cultural History
10. Rome in Love

4librariansteffen2
Editat: des. 15, 2015, 2:17 pm

Books About France and Things French

1. Book Seller
2. Joan of Arc
3. Paris Winter
4. Dream Lover
5. Crypt Thief
6. Splendour Falls
7. Sepulchre
8. In Montmartre
9. Little Paris Bookshop
10. Red Notebook
11. Race for Paris
12. Shocking Paris
13. Bruno, Chief of Police
14. Grave Vineyard
14. Black Diamond

5librariansteffen2
Editat: nov. 8, 2015, 8:46 pm

Speculative Fiction

1. Strange library
2. Shadow of the Night
3. Shadow Scale
4. Red Queen
5. Book of Life
6. Darkling Child
7. Invisible Library
8. Uprooted
9. Ink and Bone
10. Two Years Eight Months Twenty Eight Nights

6librariansteffen2
Editat: des. 15, 2015, 2:17 pm

Mysteries

1. Just One Evil Act
2. Motive
3. Bellweather Rhapsody
4. What I Never Told You
5. Death In Vienna
6. Invisible City
7. Crypt Thief
8. Prince of Fire
9. Rock with Wings
10. The Messenger
11. Death Stalks Door County
12. Death At Gills Rock
13. Girl on the Train
14. Moscow Rules
15. Secret Servant
16. Bradstreet Gate
17. Flowers From Berlin
18. Run You Down
19. Speaking in Bones
20. Critical Mass
21. Brush Back
22. Bruno, Chief of Police
23. Theory of Death
24. Mrs. Roosevelt's Confidante
25. Banquet of Consequences
26. Grave Vineyard
27. Black Diamond
28. Devil in Jersalem

7librariansteffen2
Editat: des. 30, 2015, 2:46 pm

Historical Fiction

1. Vanessa and Her Sister
2. Boston Girl
3. Nightingale
4. Day After Night
5. Touch of Stardust
6. At the Water's Edge
7. Jazz Palace
8. Cherry Harvest
9. Cavendon Hall
10. Letters from Skye
11. Circling the Sun
12. Miss Emily
13. Marriage of Opposites
14. House of Hawthorne
15. Last Summer at Chelsea Beach
16. Finding Rebecca
17. Secret Chord
18. Truth According to Us
19. Race For Paris
20. Secret Chord

8librariansteffen2
Editat: des. 28, 2015, 11:12 am

Graphic Novels

Afterlife With Archie
Bad Machinery
In Real Life
Seconds
Tomboy
Through the Woods
Ms. Marvel: No Normal
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant
March: Volume 2
Honor Girl
Game of Thrones: the graphic novel v. 2
Sleeper and the Spindle

9librariansteffen2
Editat: abr. 2, 2015, 11:54 am

1001 Books To Read Before You Die

Candidates for 1001 Books To Read Before You Die

All Quiet On the Western Front
Agnes Grey
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Berlin's Alexanderplatz
Children's Book
The Colour
Drop City
Elegance of the Hedgehog
Fine Balance
Ghost Road
Grapes of Wrath
Half of a Yellow Sun
Marriage Plot
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Regeneration
Satanic Verses
Siege of Krishnapur
Snow
Tale of Two Cities
USA
War and Peace
Watchmen
What I Loved
White Tiger
Year of the Hare

10librariansteffen2
març 18, 2015, 5:21 pm

American Stories

11librariansteffen2
Editat: nov. 8, 2015, 8:45 pm

Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction

1. Spool of Blue Thread
2. The Bear
3. Table of Less Valued Knights

2015 Long List

Outline
Crooked Heart
Aren't We Sisters?
I Am China
Dear Thief
Elizabeth is Missing
Station Eleven
The Offering
Country of Ice Cream Star
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
The Bees
The Table of Less Valued Knights
The Walk Home
A God in Every Stone
How to be Both
The Shore
A Spool of Blue Thread
The Paying Guests
After Before
The Life of a Banana

Books Not Yet Read from 2014:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
Fatima Bhutto, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Claire Cameron, The Bear
Lea Carpenter, Eleven Days
M.J. Carter, The Strangler Vine
Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Deborah Kay Davies, Reasons She Goes to the Woods
Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
Audrey Magee, The Undertaking
Eimear McBride, A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing
Charlotte Mendelson, Almost English
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Evie Wyld, All The Birds, Singing



Books Not Yet Read from 2013:

How Should a Person Be?
Alif the Unseen
Mateship with Birds
The Light Between Oceans
Honour
The Forrests
Lamb
Bring Up the Bodies
Flight Behavior
A Trick I learned From Dead Men

12librariansteffen2
Editat: oct. 12, 2015, 10:34 pm

Children's and Young Adult Literature

Noggin
The Crossover
Tears of a Tiger
Forged by Fire
Scar Boys
The Story of Owen Dragonslayer
I'll give You the Sun
Carnival at Bray
Girls Like Us
Beyond Magenta
Family Romanov
Popular
Port Chicago 50
Young Elites
Shadow Scale
All the Bright Places
Red Queen
Prairie Fire
Anne of the Island
Ink and Bone

13librariansteffen2
Editat: des. 29, 2015, 11:44 pm

Chunksters

1. Just One Evil Act
2. Shadow of the Night
3. Victoria: A Life
4. Book of Life
5. Critical Mass
6. Brush Back
7. Banquet of Consequences
8. Truth According to Us
9. Rome: A Cultural, Visual and Personal History

14librariansteffen2
Editat: des. 30, 2015, 3:00 pm

Books Published in 2015

1. Vanessa and Her Sister
2. Bookseller
3. Touch of Stardust
4. Inside the O'Briens
5. Funny Girl
6. At the Water's Edge
7. Children's Crusade
8. Emma: A modern retelling
9. In the Unlikely Event
10. Go Set a Watchman
11. Book of Speculation
12. Circling the Sun
13. Language Arts
14. The Last Summer At Chelsea Beach
15. Race to Paris
16. Shocking Paris
17. Love May Fail
18. Truth According to Us
19. After Alice
20. The Admissions
21. 1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar
22. Church of Spies
23. Devil in Jerusalem
24. This Is Not a Love Story
25. My Life On the Road
26. Between the World and Me
27. Banquet of Consequences
28. Theory of Death
29. Mrs. Roosevelt's Confidante
30. Pioneer Girl

There are 81 books in my list for this year that were published in 2015. Most fit in some other category but a few are only in this category.

15librariansteffen2
Editat: des. 28, 2015, 11:15 am

Nonfiction and Biography

1. Christ Actually
2. Berlin Now
3. Victoria: A Life
4. Yes, Please
5. Pious Ones
6. Dead Wake
7. So We Read On
8. Why Homer Matters
9. Genius in the Design
10. Sapiens
11. Michelangleo: A Life in Six Masterpieces
12. Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword
13. When Books Went to War
14. Missoula
15. Infamy
16. What We See When We Read
17. Sixth Extinction
18. Zhivago Affair
19. Professor and the Madman
20. Shocking Paris
21. Browsings
22. Art of Memoir
23. This is not a love story
24. Between the world and me
25. My life on the road
26. Church of spies
27. 1920

16librariansteffen2
Editat: des. 30, 2015, 2:59 pm

Everything Else

1. Love, Anthony

17lkernagh
març 19, 2015, 9:54 am

Welcome back!

18mamzel
març 19, 2015, 10:51 am

I'm glad to see someone else is taking on the HUB challenge. I look forward to seeing what you read.

19rabbitprincess
març 19, 2015, 4:46 pm

I shall be interested to hear about your French books and mysteries. Welcome back!

20-Eva-
març 21, 2015, 9:58 pm

Looking forward to following along!

21librariansteffen2
Editat: des. 21, 2015, 12:13 pm

BINGO for 2015

1. With a protagonist of the opposite gender - Death in Vienna - Daniel Silva

2. Chosen by someone else - Bruno, Chief of Police - Martin Walker

3. You've owned for more than 1 year - Just One Evil Ace - Elizabeth George

4. With scientists - Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert

5. On a subject you're unfamiliar with - Rome: A Cultural History

6. Translated from a language you don't speak - Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George

7. With a natural disaster - Paris Winter - Imogene Robinson

8. About autism - Love, Anthony - Lisa Genova

9. With an LBGTQ main character - I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson

10. Set in a country other than your own - Berlin Now - Peter Schneider

11. About language - Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester

12. Published in 1915 - Anne of the Island - Lucy Montgomery

13. Read a CAT - Finding Rebecca (November History CAT)

14. Reminds you of your childhood - Pioneer Girl - Bich Min Ngyuen

15. Where prophecies and portents are part of the plot - Book of Life - Deborah Harkness

16. Based on a fairy tale or myth - Uprooted

17. Inspired by another piece of fiction - Emma: A Modern Retelling - Alexander Mccall Smith

18. With correspondence or letters - Letters From Skye - Jessica Brockmole

19. By an LT author - Vanessa and Her Sister - Priya Parmar

20. Where an animal is of importance - The Bear - Claire Cameron

21. With a mythical creature - Shadow Scale - Rachel Hartman

22. Centered around a major historical event - Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

23. Whose author shares an ancestors' first name - Cavendon Hall - Barbara Taylor Bradford

24. That is a genre bender - Story of Owen Dragonslayer of Trondheim - E.K. Johnston

25. That is completely outside of your comfort zone - Beyond Magenta - Susan Kuklin

22mamzel
ag. 31, 2015, 6:16 pm

Can I be so bold as to choose a book for your second entry? I noticed you didn't read All the Light We Cannot See for your HUB challenge. I think you should read it now. I think you'll be happy you did.

23librariansteffen2
set. 3, 2015, 11:47 am

Thanks. You are right; I should read this. I have been moving this book around from pile to pile all summer. It will be first up right after Labor Day, which is the real New Year for those of us in the school business.

24librariansteffen2
des. 30, 2015, 3:02 pm

Done and done. 154 books, 81 published this year, the BingoDog completed. None in the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die category. Clearly I focused a lot on the present this year.

On to 2016!

25-Eva-
des. 31, 2015, 6:37 pm

154 is a great total! Happy new year!

26lkernagh
gen. 1, 2016, 1:05 pm

Kudos on 154 books read in 2015!