Reading Challenge 2020 – Borrowed from the Booklist Queen!
A Book A Week with The Booklist Queen
1. Book Becoming Movie in 2020 News of the World, by Paulette Jiles (12/31)
2. Goodreads Winner in 2019 Dear Girls, by Ali Wong (6/27)
3. Less Than 200 Pages Some Writer! by Melissa Sweet (3/28)
4. Published in 1920s5. By an Author of Color: Good Talk, by Mira Jacobs (1/7)6. A Love Story Opposite of Always, by Justin A. Reynolds (8/31)7. History Book, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Jason Reynolds (6/29)
8. Title with Five or More Words The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, by Mackenzi Lee (2/21)9. 2019 Bestseller Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell (3/21)10. Clever Title : Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger, by Lisa Donovan (5/25)11. Short Story or Essay Collection – You Think It, I’ll Say It, by Curtis Sittenfeld (3/6)
12. More Than 400 Pages The Only Plane in the Sky, by Garrett M. Graff (1/29)
13. Makes You Laugh: Here For It, by R. Eric Thomas (2/15)
14. Famous Author You’ve Never Read Beartown, by Fredrik Backman (1/19)
15. Set in Asia16. Reread a Childhood Favorite Charlotte’s Web, by E. B. White (7/22)17. Celebrity Memoir Year of Yes, by Shonda Rhimes (4/27)18. New York Times #1 Bestseller Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng (3/14)
19. Based on a True Story Rodham, by Curtis Sittenfeld (6/28)
20. Genre You Don’t Usually Read What You Wish For, by Katherine Center (3/29)
21. About a War The Places We Sleep, by Caroline Brooks DuBois (8/24)
22. Bottom of Your To-Read List
23. A Beach Read – The Vacationers by Emma Straub (6/5)
24. A Book Everyone Is Talking About The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett (6/20)
25. Recommended by a Family Member – Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson (6/13)
26. From the 50 States Reading List – Where the Crawdad’s Sing, by Delia Owens (10/25)
27. About a Controversial Topic A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult (3/10)
28. By an Indie Author
29. A Book About Sports Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger (6/2)
30. A Play For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, by Ntozake Shange (6/22)
31. An Audiobook The Wondering Years, by Knox McCoy (4/8)32. The Next Book in a Series: Legacy (KOTLC #8), by Shannon Messenger (1/4)
33. Nonfiction Topic You Love – Here All Along, by Sarah Hurwitz (6/9)
34. Middle Grade Fiction Chirp, by Kate Messner (1/22)
35. Recommended by a Local Librarian The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, by V.E. Schwab (11/19)
36. Debut Novel – 142 Ostriches, by April Davila (2/4)37. A Book That Will Make You Smarter – How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi (3/3)38. A Modern Classic – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume (5/28)39. A Book You Haven’t Read by an Author You Love: Look Both Ways, by Jason Reynolds (1/11)
40. With a Color in the Title: The Only Black Girls in Town, by Brandy Colbert (12/13)41. Translated from Another Language: The Mental Load, by Emma (from French, 3/1)
42. With a Hideous Cover Salvation on Sand Mountain, by Dennis Covington (12/17)
43. A Mystery The Holdout, by Graham Moore (4/7)44. A Book About Politics – We Were Eight Years in Power, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (6/15)
45. By a Local Author
46. With Two Authors The Unhoneymooners, by Christina Lauren (5/26)
47. You Own But Haven’t Read Operating Instructions, by Anne Lamott (3/25)48. Reread a Favorite Book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor (9/6)
49. 2020 New Release Ghosts of Harvard, by Francesca Serritella (3/21)
50. A Book You Saw Someone Reading, Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green (12/22)51. Borrowed From a Friend Watching You, by Lisa Jewell (5/8)52. A Self-Improvement Book Untamed, by Glennon Doyle (8/
Reading Off the Shelf
Goal: To read one book I owned prior to 2020 each month
January: Love Poems for People with Children, by John Kenney
February: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
March: Operating Instructions, by Anne Lamott
April: Mr. Kiss and Tell, by Rob Thomas
May: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
June: Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
July: Midnight at the Electric, by Jodi Lynn Anderson
August: Thirty Million Words, by Dana Suskind
September: Genuine Fraud, by E. Lockhart
October: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, by Katherine Howe
November: I missed this month!
December: Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green
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