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Around the Year in 52 Books Goodreads challenge: COMPLETED!
 
(Favorites are bolded)

1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 (link)  The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

3. A book you meant to read in 2016 The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex

4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"    Us by David Nicholls

5. A historical fiction   The Convictions of John Delahunt by Andrew Hughes

6. A book being released as a movie in 2017   The City of Shifting Waters (Valerian) by Christin Pierre et al.

7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title  Goldfish: A Novel by Nat Luurtsema

8. A book written by a person of color   The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list  Armada by Ernest Cline

10. A dual-timeline novel  Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

11. A category from another challenge  The Last Kingdom (popsugar challenge - the first book in a series you haven't read before)

12. A book based on a myth  The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors  What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum (recommended by Charlotte Huang)

14. A book with a strong female character  Uprooted by Naomi Novik

15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker

16. A mystery  And then there Were Four by Nancy Werlin

17. A book with illustrations   Mary Astor's Purple Diary

18. A really long book (600+ pages) 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster  (880 pgs)

19. A New York Times best-seller Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling

20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading  Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film

21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read  Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore

22. A book by an author you haven't read before  The Wingman by Natasha Anders

23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list 1984 by George Orwell

24. A book written by at least two authors The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler

25. A book about a famous historical figure Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

26. An adventure book  Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel by Robin Sloan

27. A book by one of your favorite authors  A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

28. A non-fiction    The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America by Tom Buk-Swienty

29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) Caught Inside by Jamie Deacon

30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books  The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre (SciFi - Hackers) Warcross by Marie Lu

32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)  Scarlett Epstein Hates it Here by Anna Breslaw

33. A magical realism novel   Sourdough by Robin Sloan

34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere  Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty The Selection by Kiera Cass

36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link) The Martian by Andy Weir

37. A book you choose randomly   Home is Where You Are by Alex Jane

38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature    Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

39. An epistolary fiction  I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin

40. A book published in 2017  Geekerella: A Fangirl Fairy Tale by Ashley Poston

41. A book with an unreliable narrator  In the Woods by Tana French

42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)  The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis

44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link) Graceling by Kristin Cashore

45. A book with a one-word title  Pompeii by Robert Harris

46. A time travel novel  Lightning by Dean Koontz

47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link) American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld (a book with a family member word in the title)

48. A banned book  Unwind by Neal Shusterman

49. A book from someone else's bookshelf  Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves

50. A Penguin Modern Classic Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

52. A book set in a fictional location  Fire by Kristin Cashore

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