my 2017 shelf:
R. I. P. Challenge XII
Commitment level: 4 books
Books I’m counting toward the challenge:
- The Secret History of Twin Peaks, Mark Frost
- The Hearts We Sold, Emily Lloyd-Jones
- Meddling Kids, Edgar Cantero
- Tales of the Peculiar, Ransom Riggs
Sign up for the challenge here.
Wild Goose Chase Reading Challenge
Commitment level: 7 books
Books I’m counting toward the challenge:
- A book with a word or phrase relating to wildness in the title: Reckless: My Life as a Pretender, Chrissie Hynde
- A book with a species of bird (or the word “bird”) in the title:
- A book with an exotic or far-flung location in the title: Vietnamerica, GB Tran
- A book with an object you might hunt for in the title: The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee, Stewart Lee Allen
- A book with a synonym for chase in the title:
- A book with a means of transport in the title:
- A book with an object you might take on a search or hunt in the title:
Sign up for the challenge here.
European Reading Challenge
Commitment level: 5 books
Books I’m counting toward the challenge:
- The House Between Tides, Sarah Maine (Scotland)
- 13 Rue Thérèse, Elena Mauli Shapiro (France)
- The Scribe of Siena, Melodie Winawer (Italy)
- four
- five
Sign up for the challenge here.
The Backlist Reader Challenge 2017
Commitment level: 20 books
Books I’m counting toward the challenge:
- Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
- The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri
- White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Brenda Wineapple
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville, (Big Read audio version)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters, ed. Thomas H. Johnson
- Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
- ten
- eleven
- twelve
- thirteen
- fourteen
- fifteen
- sixteen
- seventeen
- eighteen
- nineteen
- twenty
Sign up for the challenge here.
Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge
Commitment level: 20 books (not the same as above)
Books I’m counting toward the challenge:
- The House Between Tides, Sarah Maine
- Reckless: My Life as a Pretender, Chrissie Hynde
- 13 Rue Thérèse, Elena Mauli Shapiro
- Heartless, Marissa Meyer
- The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
- 1984, George Orwell
- How It Went Down, Kekla Magoon
- eight
- nine
- ten
- eleven
- twelve
- thirteen
- fourteen
- fifteen
- sixteen
- seventeen
- eighteen
- nineteen
- twenty
Sign up for the challenge here.
British Books Challenge
Commitment level: 10 books
Books I’m counting toward the challenge:
- The House Between Tides, Sarah Maine
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (re-read)
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (re-read, audio)
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë ( re-read, audio)
- The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins (re-read, audio)
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (re-read, audio)
- The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde (re-read, audio)
- Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde (re-read, audio)
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- The Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde (re-read, audio)
Sign up for the challenge here.
The Chronological Sherlock Holmes Challenge
Commitment level: all four novels and 56 short stories
Challenge chronology can be found here. Review linkups can be found at this tag.
Sign up for the challenge here.
The Historical Fiction Reading Challenge
Commitment level: Renaissance Reader, 10 books
Books I’m counting toward the challenge:
- The House Between Tides, Sarah Maine (early 20th century Scotland)
- 13 Rue Thérèse, Elena Mauli Shapiro (1920’s Paris)
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (early 19th century Yorkshire)
- The Scribe of Siena, Melodie Winawer (medieval Siena, Italy)
- five
- six
- seven
- eight
- nine
- ten
Sign up for the challenge here.
2017 Where Am I Reading?
Settings and locations for all the books I read in 2017.
Take a look at my 2016 Reading Challenge Progress Page.