Librariansteffen's 2016 Category Challenge

I am going to try for 18 categories that are intertwined with some other challenges.




1. BingoPup Women
2. BingoDog
3. War and Peace Group Read
4. YALSA Hub Challenge
5. Books Set In or About Rome, Prague, Berlin, and Amsterdam
6. Dewey CAT
7. Geo CAT
8. Mysteries
9. Reading In Series
9. Chunksters
10. Books Published in 2016
11. 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
12. Bailey's Prize
13. TBR Challenge
14. Books Related to Travel
15. Speculative Fiction
16. Children's and Young Adult
17. Nonfiction
18. Everything Else

1. female ruler. Imperial Wife
2. women in science. Lab Girl
3. published less than 10 years ago. My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
4. short story collection Reader, I Married Him
5. non-traditional roles. Audacity
6. By a woman published before 2000. Guenevere, the Legend in Autumn by Persia Woolley
7. African American author. Negroland by Margo Jefferson
8. female spy. Enchanted Islands
9. Different genre than you normally read by female author who wrote in different genres. (Might be the genre the author has written most of her books in if you tend not to read that genre.) Euphoria Historical fiction by author who usually writes contemporary realistic.
10. award winner Enchanted Air Pura Belpre Award 2015
11. autobiography, memoir, or correspondence by a woman. Boys In the Treesby Carly Simon
12. women in combat Girl at War
13. Any book written by or about a woman. The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro
14. New-to-you" female author Madwoman Upstairs
15. By or about women set in Latin America or Asia. The Expatriates by Janice K. Lee
16. By a female African author. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
17. By female author made into a movie. The Moon-spinners by Mary Stewart
18. By or about women set in Europe, Australia, or New Zealand. Anatomy Lesson by Nina Segal
19. About a female critter (alien, animal, fantasy creature, mineral) Nimona
20. By a female author who was over 60 years of age when the book was first published. Japanese Lover by Isabelle Allende
21. Mystery by a female author from the Golden Age of Dectective Fiction (1920's & 1930's) Death on the Cherwell
22. female author from the Middle East. Republic of the Imagination by Azar Nafisi
23. By or about a woman/women from your "to be read" pile. Still Life
24. Poetry or plays written by a woman. Citizen by Claudia Rankine
25. female author using a male pseudonym. Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

1. Debut book Ready Player One
2. Comics Nimona
3. Less than 200 pages This Strange Wildness
4. About a writer My Name Is Lucy Barton
5. Musical reference Echo
6. Wordplay Be Frank With Me
7. You want this job or hobby Girl Through Glass
8. Body of water Salt To The Sea
9. Food At the Edge of the Orchard
10. Self-published Bad Wizard
11. Indigenous Euphoria
12. In translation Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
13. Read a CAT Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
14. Author born in 1916 The Moon-spinners
15. TheaterYear of Lear
16. One word title Audacity
17. Airplane flight First Flight Around the World
18. Focus on art Improbability of Love
19. About the Environment. Miller's Valley
20. Senior Citizen as the protagonist Japanese Lover
21. Autobiography Somewhere There Is Still a Sun
22. Adventure The Defector
23. Coming of age story Simon Vs. the Homosapiens Agenda
24. Published before you were born Death on the Cherwell
25. Survival story. Girl At War

War and Peace Group Read

1. Part On - Completed 1/30/16

YALSA Hub Challenge

Books to read:

1. *Most Dangerous
2. Symphony for the City of the Dead
3. * Enchanted Air
4. *First Flight Around the World
5. *This Strange Wilderness
6. Bone Gap
7. Ghosts of Heaven
8. Out of Darkness
9. *Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
10. *Because You'll Never Meet Me
11. * Conviction
12. * Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
13. *Weight of Feathers
14. Six of Crows
15. Bunker Diary
16. *Audacity
17. Shadowshaper
18. Boy in the Black Suit
19. X: A Novel
20. Challenger Deep
21. *More Happy Than Not
22. *Everything, Everything
23. Wonders of the Invisible World
23. *Porcupine of Truth
24. *All American Boys
25. Forgive Me If I Have Told You This Before
26. Breakthrough
27. SuperMutant Magic Academy
28. Fans of the Impossible Life
29. When Everything Feels Like the Movies
30. Cut Both Ways
31. *Nimona
32. *Drowned City
33. *Girl At War
34. *Notorious RBG
35. *Roller Girl
36. *Awkward

*read

Already read:

Between the World and Me
Boy Meets Boy
Love is the Higher Law
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Wintergirls
Cinder
Briar Rose
Red Queen
We Should Be Feminists
Boston Girl
March 1
Charm and Strange

Read:

1. Simon Vs. The Homosapiens Agenda
2. Audacity
3. Enchanted Air
4. Conviction
5. Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
6. Nimona
7. First Flight Around the World
8. This Strange Wilderness
9. Weight of Feathers
10. Drowned City
11. Everything, Everything
12. You'll Never Meet Me
13. Girl At War
14. More Happy Than Not
15. Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
16. Notorious RBG
17. Porcupine of Truth
18. All American Boys
19. X: A Novel
20. Most Dangerous
21. Roller Girl
22. Awkward
23. Ms. Marvel v.2
24. Ms. Marvel v. 3
25. Devoted

Have a great reading year!!

Welcome back!

Books about or set in Rome, Prague, Berlin, and Amsterdam

1. Anatomy Lesson
2. Relic Master
3. Somewhere There Is Still a Sun
4. Hundred Year Flood
5. Black Earth
6. News From Berlin
7. Last Painting of Sara de Vos
8. Lilac Girls
9. All the Light We Cannot See
10. 40 Autumns

Dewey Cat

January: 000: Bibliotech 020.285

February: 100: Geography of Genius 153.9809

March: 200: Chosen? 221.6 B889c

April: 300 - 354: Feminism Unfinished 305.420973

May: 355 - 399: Lit Up 373.73

June: 400: You Gotta Be the Book 428.40712

July: 500: Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack 599.938

August: 600: Wright Brothers 629.13

September: 700: Garth Williams, American Illustrator

October: 800: Year of Lear 822.33

November: 900-939Dynasty

December: 940 - 999: 40 Autumns

Geo Cat

January Destination: South America Japanese Lover

February Destination:Central Asia And the Mountains Echoed

March Destination:Eastern Europe and Russia Salt To The Sea

April Destination:Polar regions, Islands, Bodies of Water Boar Island

May Destination:North America (Including Mexico) Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

June Destination:Australia & New Zealand Lake House Lake House

July Destination:Central America and Caribbean Ladies of Managua

August Destination:SubSaharan Africa Americanah

September Destination:Southern Asia Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

October Destination:Eastern Asia In the Shadow of the Banyan

November Destination:Northern Africa and the Middle East meursault Investigation

December Destination:Western Europe All the Light We Cannot See

Mysteries

1. Rogue Lawyer
2. Death on the Cherwell
3. Still Life
4. Break Down
5. Boar Island
6. The Defector

Reading in Series

1. Still Life
2. The Defector

Chunksters

1. Americanah

2. All Light We Cannot See

3. The Defector

Books Published in 2016

1. Wherever There Is Light
2. My Name Is Lucy Barton
3. The Guest Room
4. Swans of Fifth Avenue
5. Madwoman Upstairs
6. The Expatriates
7. At the Edge of the Orchard
8. As Close to Us As Breathing
9. Your Heart Is Muscle the Size of Your Fist
10. Summer Before the War
11. The Nest
12. Miller's Valley
13. The Atomic Weight of Love
14. The Sorcerer's Daughter
15. Enchanted Islands
16. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
17. High Mountains of Portugal
18. Another Brooklyn
19. How to Party With an Infant
20. Nutshell
21. Underground Railroad
22. Commonwealth
23. Hero of France
24. Heartless
25. Hag Seed
26. 40 Autumns

1001 Books to Read Before You Die

Baileys Prize

1. My Name is Lucy Barton
2. Girl At War
3. Improbability of Love

Hope you find lots of great books in 2016!

TBR Challenge

1. Ready Player One
2. Still Life
3. Americanah
4. Boys In the Boat
5. All the Light We Cannot See

Books Related to Other Travel

1. Spain In Our Hearts

2. Two Hotel Francforts

3. Road to Santiago

4. Barcelona the Enchantress

5. High Mountains of Portugal

6. Golden City

Speculative Fiction-

January: Read a SFF that has been languishing on your shelves for a year or more

February: Read a SFF published in the last 5 years -

March: Read a book set in an Alternate World...Alt history, fantasy world or future world Golden City

April: Read something from NPR's top 100 Sci/Fi Fantasy list

May - Read a Space Opera -

June - Read a book with interesting cover art -

July - Read a book with a story featuring change through transformation or adaptation

August - Start A Series or Continue A Series -

September - International SFF: Read a book(s) written by non-US/UK authors

October - Retrofuturistic: Read a book in a steampunk, clockpunk, dieselpunk, etc...Masked City

November - Read a book about time travel

December - Reader's Choice: read a book in any of the January through November's challenges

Children's and Young Adult Books

1. Salt To the Sea

2. Booked

Nonfiction

1. Lit Up
2. Men Explain Things to Me

Everything Else
Comeback Love

And...

Book Riot - Read Harder Challenge (may overlap with other CAT challenges)

Read a horror book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel
Read a nonfiction book about science Lab Girl
Read a collection of essays - Men Explain Things To Me
Read a book out loud to someone else - Pink and Say
Read a middle school novel Booked
Read a biography (not a memoir or autobiography) - Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
Read a dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel Ready Player One
Read a book originally written in the decade you were born - Secret of the Wooden Lady
Listen to an audiobook that has won an Audie award - Echo
Read a book over 500 pages long Americanah
Read a book under 100 pages Chosen?
Read a book by or about a person that identifies as transgender - Blood Promise
Read a book that is set in the Middle East - Meursault Investigation
Read a book that is by an author from Southeast Asia - By the Banyan
Read a book of historical fiction set before 1900 - At the Edge of the Orchard
Read the first book in a series by a person of color Ghost
Read a non-superhero comic that debuted in the last three years Drowned City
Read a book that was adapted into a movie, then watch the movie. Debate which is better Still Life
Read a nonfiction book about feminism or dealing with feminist themes -Feminism Unfinished
Read a book about religion (fiction or nonfiction) Devoted
Read a book about politics, in your country or another (fiction or nonfiction) -Your Heart Is A Muscle the Size of Your Fist
Read a food memoir - French Milk
Read a play - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Read a book with a main character that has a mental illness - Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

I am attempting the Read Harder challenge too. I think the Dewey challenge will help me fill in some of the "harder" choices like a collection of essays which I have never been tempted to read. I look forward to seeing your choices.

Woman BingoPup completed!

Congrats on finishing that one!

BingoDog completed!

Congrats!

Finished BingoDog and WomanBingo, GeoCat, DeweyCat, the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge, and the YALSA Hub Challenge. Did not seem to be the year for fantasy, classics, or very long books. Must have been the state of the world. On to 2017.