Friday, January 2, 2015

Freewrite: 2015 Reading List

I'm not going to share all my New Year's resolutions with you, but one thing I really want to do is a 2015 reading list I found on Pinterest.

I had already made a goal to read a book a week (which isn't hard for me to do, but sometimes I just don't), but this list is going to make me branch out a bit on my reading choices.

Here's the list, and the books I've chosen for each category. I'm going to try and only read books I've never read before, I won't use the same book for multiple categories, and you can be sure I'll review each one.

A book with more than 500 pages: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

A classic romance: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

A book that became a movie: The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

A book published this year (I'm gonna do 2014): Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

A book with a number in the title: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

A book written by someone under 30: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A book with nonhuman characters: Watership Down by Richard Adams

A funny book: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

A book by a female author: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

A mystery or thriller: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

A book with a one-word title: Emma by Jane Austen

A book of short stories: Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

A book set in a different country: The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

A nonfiction book: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

A popular author's first book: Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet: The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

A book a friend recommended: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

A Pulitzer Prize-winning book: The Color Purple by Alice Walker

A book based on a true story: The Undaunted by Gerald Lund

A book at the bottom of your to-read list: On Basilisk Station by David Weber

A book your mom loves: Shannon Derry by Carol Warburton

A book that scares you: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

A book more than 100 years old: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

A book based entirely on its cover: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

A memoir: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

A book you can finish in a day: The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

A book with antonyms in the title: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit: Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

A book that came out the year you were born: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

A book with bad reviews: The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

A trilogy: The Hourglass Door trilogy by Lisa Mangum

A book from your childhood: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A book with a love triangle: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

A book set in the future: Legend by Marie Lu

A book set in high school: I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

A book with a color in the title: Strands of Bronze and Gold by Jane Nickerson

A book that made you cry: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

A book with magic: Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

A graphic novel: Watchmen by Alan Moore

A book by an author you've never read before: The Captive Maiden by Melanie Dickerson

A book you own but have never read: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

A book that takes place in your hometown: Letters for Emily by Camron Wright

A book that was originally written in a different language: The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

A book set during Christmas: The Mistletoe Promise by Richard Paul Evans

A book written by an author with your same initials: The Collected Works of C. S. Lewis

A play: Hamlet by William Shakespeare

A banned book: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

A book based on or turned into a TV show: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

A book you started but never finished: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

These are all subject to change, and I probably won't read them in that order, but this is my list! Wish me luck getting through them all in one year.

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