Elise reads 2017
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2017
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1Elise89
Second year, second try. I read 55 books between February and December 2016 and I'm determined to make the full 75 this year!
A little side challenge I would like to set for myself is to read at least 20 books that have a non-U.K./US author, perspective and/or topic.
January
1 halucinations, Oliver Sacks, UK
2 Timekeepers; how the world became obsessed with time, Simon Garfield, UK
3 The reluctant fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, UK/Pakistan
4 Invisible man, Ralph Ellison, US
5 A study in scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
6 The sign of the four, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
7 The unquiet dead, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Canada/Bosnia
February
8 The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
9 I am Malala, Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, UK/Pakistan
10 A brief history of time, Stephen Hawking, UK
11 One hundred years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia
12 The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
13 Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, UK
14 Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates, US
15 The kite runner, Khalid Hosseini, US/Afghanistan
16 The rest is noise, Alex Ross, US
17 Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami, Japan
18 Uglies, Scott Westerfeld, US
March
19 The book of chameleons, Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Angola
20 A wild sheep chase, Haruki Murakami, Japan
21 Interworld, Neil Gaiman, UK
22 The pig that wants to be eaten, Julian Baggini, UK
23 The martian chronicles, Ray Bradbury, US
24 Unfamiliar fishes, Sarah Vowell, US/Hawaii
25 Anansi the trickster spider, Lynne Garner, UK/Ghana
26 The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Douglas Adams, UK
27 A natural history of Dragons, Marie Brennan, US
28 Pretties, Scott Westerfeld, US
29 Specials, Scott Westerfeld, US
30 Extras, Scott Westerfeld, US
31 The restaurant at the end of the universe, Douglas Adams, UK
April
32 Life, the universe and everything, Douglas Adams, UK
33 So long and thanks for all the fish, Douglas Adams, UK
34 Mostly harmless, Douglas Adams, UK
35 A graveyard for lunatics, Ray Bradbury, US
36 The strange case of doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, UK
37 Ender's game, Orson Scott Card, US
38 Anansi the trickster Spider 2, Lynne Garner, UK/Ghana
39 Speaker for the dead, Orson Scott Card, US
May
40 Xenocide, Orson Scott Card, US
41 Children of the mind, Orson Scott Card, US
42 Coraline, Neil Gaiman, UK
43 Catch 22, Joseph Heller, US
44 The lion in the living room, Abigail Tucker, US
45 The tropic of serpents, Marie Brennan, US
46 Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden, US/Japan
47 Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman, UK/Norway
June
48 Lies, inc., Philip K. Dick, US
49 The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood, Canada
50 I am Nujood, age 10 and divorced, Nujood Ali, Yemen
51 Howl's moving castle, Diana Wynne Jones, UK
52 Endymion, Dan Simmons, US
53 The rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons, US
July
54 Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood, Canada
55 The year of the flood, Margaret Atwood, Canada
56 Looking for Alaska, John Green, US
57 Extremely close and incredibly loud, Jonathan Safran Foer, US
58 Oh! salaam, Najwa Barakat, Lebanon
59 Psychobook, Julian Rothenstein, UK
August
60 American Gods, Neil Gaiman, UK
61 The return of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
62 Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
63 Maddaddam, Margaret Atwood, Canada
64 What to listen for in music, Aaron Copland, US
65 Steal like an artist, Austin Klein, US
66 Astrophysics for people in a hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson, US
67 The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, UK
68 Cloud atlas, David Mitchell, UK
September
69 One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Ken Kesey, US
70 Politically correct bedtime stories, James Finn Garner, US
71 Strange Practice, Vivian Shaw, US
72 Burial rites, Hannah Kent, Australia/Iceland
73 Binti, Nnedi Okorafor, US/Nigeria
October
74 Fox tossing, octopus wrestling and other forgotten sports, Edward Brooke-Hitching, UK
75 Command and Control, Eric Schlosser, US
76 Down the rabbit hole, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Mexico
77 Written in the stars, Aisha Saeed, US/Pakistan
78 American war, Omar el Akkad, US
79 The illustrated man, Ray Bradbury, US
November
80 Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer, Ireland
81 City of thorns, Ben Rawlence, Somalia/Kenya
82 The song machine: Inside the hit factory, John Seabrook, US
December
83 Hidden figures, Margot Lee Shetterly, US
84 The lion the witch and the wardrobe, C.S. Lewis, UK
85 Something wicked this way comes, Ray Bradbury, US
86 Candide, Voltaire, France
87 We have no idea, Jorge Cham, Panama/US
Countries:
U.K.
US
Pakistan
Bosnia
Colombia
Afghanistan
Japan
Angola
Hawaii (before american annexation)
Ghana
Norway
Canada
Yemen
Lebanon
Australia
Iceland
Nigeria
Mexico
Ireland
Somalia
Kenya
France
Panama
A little side challenge I would like to set for myself is to read at least 20 books that have a non-U.K./US author, perspective and/or topic.
January
1 halucinations, Oliver Sacks, UK
2 Timekeepers; how the world became obsessed with time, Simon Garfield, UK
3 The reluctant fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, UK/Pakistan
4 Invisible man, Ralph Ellison, US
5 A study in scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
6 The sign of the four, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
7 The unquiet dead, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Canada/Bosnia
February
8 The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
9 I am Malala, Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, UK/Pakistan
10 A brief history of time, Stephen Hawking, UK
11 One hundred years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia
12 The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
13 Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, UK
14 Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates, US
15 The kite runner, Khalid Hosseini, US/Afghanistan
16 The rest is noise, Alex Ross, US
17 Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami, Japan
18 Uglies, Scott Westerfeld, US
March
19 The book of chameleons, Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Angola
20 A wild sheep chase, Haruki Murakami, Japan
21 Interworld, Neil Gaiman, UK
22 The pig that wants to be eaten, Julian Baggini, UK
23 The martian chronicles, Ray Bradbury, US
24 Unfamiliar fishes, Sarah Vowell, US/Hawaii
25 Anansi the trickster spider, Lynne Garner, UK/Ghana
26 The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Douglas Adams, UK
27 A natural history of Dragons, Marie Brennan, US
28 Pretties, Scott Westerfeld, US
29 Specials, Scott Westerfeld, US
30 Extras, Scott Westerfeld, US
31 The restaurant at the end of the universe, Douglas Adams, UK
April
32 Life, the universe and everything, Douglas Adams, UK
33 So long and thanks for all the fish, Douglas Adams, UK
34 Mostly harmless, Douglas Adams, UK
35 A graveyard for lunatics, Ray Bradbury, US
36 The strange case of doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, UK
37 Ender's game, Orson Scott Card, US
38 Anansi the trickster Spider 2, Lynne Garner, UK/Ghana
39 Speaker for the dead, Orson Scott Card, US
May
40 Xenocide, Orson Scott Card, US
41 Children of the mind, Orson Scott Card, US
42 Coraline, Neil Gaiman, UK
43 Catch 22, Joseph Heller, US
44 The lion in the living room, Abigail Tucker, US
45 The tropic of serpents, Marie Brennan, US
46 Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden, US/Japan
47 Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman, UK/Norway
June
48 Lies, inc., Philip K. Dick, US
49 The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood, Canada
50 I am Nujood, age 10 and divorced, Nujood Ali, Yemen
51 Howl's moving castle, Diana Wynne Jones, UK
52 Endymion, Dan Simmons, US
53 The rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons, US
July
54 Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood, Canada
55 The year of the flood, Margaret Atwood, Canada
56 Looking for Alaska, John Green, US
57 Extremely close and incredibly loud, Jonathan Safran Foer, US
58 Oh! salaam, Najwa Barakat, Lebanon
59 Psychobook, Julian Rothenstein, UK
August
60 American Gods, Neil Gaiman, UK
61 The return of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
62 Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle, UK
63 Maddaddam, Margaret Atwood, Canada
64 What to listen for in music, Aaron Copland, US
65 Steal like an artist, Austin Klein, US
66 Astrophysics for people in a hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson, US
67 The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, UK
68 Cloud atlas, David Mitchell, UK
September
69 One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Ken Kesey, US
70 Politically correct bedtime stories, James Finn Garner, US
71 Strange Practice, Vivian Shaw, US
72 Burial rites, Hannah Kent, Australia/Iceland
73 Binti, Nnedi Okorafor, US/Nigeria
October
74 Fox tossing, octopus wrestling and other forgotten sports, Edward Brooke-Hitching, UK
75 Command and Control, Eric Schlosser, US
76 Down the rabbit hole, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Mexico
77 Written in the stars, Aisha Saeed, US/Pakistan
78 American war, Omar el Akkad, US
79 The illustrated man, Ray Bradbury, US
November
80 Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer, Ireland
81 City of thorns, Ben Rawlence, Somalia/Kenya
82 The song machine: Inside the hit factory, John Seabrook, US
December
83 Hidden figures, Margot Lee Shetterly, US
84 The lion the witch and the wardrobe, C.S. Lewis, UK
85 Something wicked this way comes, Ray Bradbury, US
86 Candide, Voltaire, France
87 We have no idea, Jorge Cham, Panama/US
Countries:
U.K.
US
Pakistan
Bosnia
Colombia
Afghanistan
Japan
Angola
Hawaii (before american annexation)
Ghana
Norway
Canada
Yemen
Lebanon
Australia
Iceland
Nigeria
Mexico
Ireland
Somalia
Kenya
France
Panama
2FAMeulstee
Happy reading in 2017, Elise!
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