madhatter22's 2018 Category Challenge

I like seeing what people come up with for their category challenges every year, but I think I'll just stick with Morrissey and most of my same categories this year.

You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (books by new-to-me authors)
1. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
2. Last Night at the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan
3. Underground Airlines - Ben Winters
4. Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh
5. Irene - Pierre Lemaitre

This Charming Man/Wonderful Woman (books I haven't read yet by favorite authors)
1. Eight Cousins - Louisa May Alcott
2. Quartet in Autumn - Barbara Pym
3. How to Be Famous - Caitlin Moran
4. There Once Lived a Mother ... - Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
5. The Outsider - Stephen King

The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get (books that have been on my TBR list for at least 7 years)
1. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
2. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family - Mary S. Lovell
3. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
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How Soon Is Now? (books that I read before, or within 3 months of, publication)
1. The Power - Naomi Alderman
2. I'll Be Gone in the Dark - Michelle McNamara
3. Looker - Laura Sims
4. Elevation - Stephen King
5. Lethal White - Robert Galbraith

Back to the Old House (books I borrowed prior to this year and need to return)
1. Eden's Outcasts - John Matteson
2. The Blue Castle - L.M. Montgomery
3. The Probable Future - Alice Hoffman
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Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference (short story/essay collections)
1. Calypso - David Sedaris
2. Shrill - Lindy West
3. You Can't Touch My Hair - Phoebe Robinson
4. Everything's Trash But It's Okay - Phoebe Robinson
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Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before (at least the 2nd of a series I started prior to this year)
1. The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo
2. Ripley Under Water - Patricia Highsmith
3. Sons from Afar - Cynthia Voigt
4. Seventeen Against the Dealer - Cynthia Voigt
5. The Likeness - Tana French

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (classics)
1. Middlemarch - George Eliot
2. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
3. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
4. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
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We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful (bios & memoirs)
1. You're on an Airplane - Parker Posey
2. This Will Only Hurt a Little - Busy Philipps
3. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life - Amy Krouse Rosenthal
4. Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon - Iris Apfel
5. She Wants It - Jill Solloway

Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself (non-bio nonfiction)
1. Soul of an Octopus - Sy Montgomery
2. Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara? - Jenny Bond
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1. Unbury Carol - Josh Malerman
2. Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon - Iris Apfel
3. Gold Fame Citrus - Claire Vaye Watkins
4. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
5. Irene - Pierre Lemaitre
6. The Power - Naomi Alderman
7. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life - Amy Krouse Rosenthal
8. I'll Be Gone in the Dark - Michelle McNamara
9. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family - Mary S. Lovell
10. The Night Bookmobile - Audrey Niffenegger
13. The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo
15. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
16. Calypso - David Sedaris
17. Lethal White - Robert Galbraith
18. You Can't Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain - Phoebe Robinson
19. There Once Lived a Mother ... - Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
22. The Crow Trap - Ann Cleeves
23. Quartet in Autumn - Barbara Pym
24. Eight Cousins - Louisa May Alcott
25. A Wrinkle in Time- Madeline L'Engle

Hope you have a great year of reading!

Nice to see that Morrissey picture again! Happy reading in 2018. :)

I do love that pic of him! He was a handsome devil when he was younger ;) Have a great reading year!

Hi Shauna! Nice to see you back for another year of Morrissey.

Great to see you back and nothing wrong with sticking with a theme that works for you! ;-)

Hope you have an excellent reading year!

Can't forget the 2018 meme of books read in 2017!

Describe yourself: The Grownup

Describe how you feel: Raven Black

Describe where you currently live: Cavedweller

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Invisible Cities

Your favorite form of transportation: All Creatures Great and Small

Your best friend is: My Absolute Darling

You and your friends are: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud

What's the weather like? Strange Weather

You fear: Somebody with a Little Hammer

What is the best advice you have to give: Take the Cannoli

Thought for the day: You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

How you would like to die: The Serpent of Venice

Your soul’s present condition: 101 Things That Piss Me Off

>10 madhatter22: *applause* Good advice!

I LOVE your answers! Especially where you would go and how you would get there. And, what you fear... that's kind of wonderfully creepy :)

Happy new year! I'm another one who recycles the same categories each year (albeit I've added a place theme this year, for the first time. But that was just an excuse to show off some photos! They've got next to nothing to do with the categories!).

Great answers to the meme!

Love you meme answers!

>10 madhatter22: Loved your answers to "you and your best friends are" and the advice question especially. All were good though.

Good to see you back for another year. Hope it's a good one for you!