A Book A Week with the Pingel Sisters
This is a fairly ambitious list, only by virtue of the numbers. I’m planning on putting different books than my other challenges, but I may double up, depending on if anything grabs my attention.
1. A Book With More Than 500 Pages – The Outsider by Stephen King
2. Book You Haven’t Read by Author You Love: The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Amanda Quick
3. Goodreads winner in 2018 – I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara, Gillian Flynn, Patton Oswalt
4. You Can Read in a Day – The Firm by John Grisham
5. Book About a Difficult Topic – The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
6. Recommended by a Friend – The Ancient Magus’ Bride by Kore Yamazaki
7. Book That Will Make You Cry
8. Book Published in 2009 – Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
9. Book Becoming Movie in 2019 – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
10. A Genre You Don’t Usually Read – Elevation by Stephen King
11. Children’s Classic – Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
12. Cover With Your Favorite Color
13. Bought at a Thrift Store – Polgara the Sorceress by David Eddings (my copy was purchased at a used bookstore)
14. Young Adult Fiction – Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
15. First Book in a Trilogy – The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
16. Second Book in a Trilogy – The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
17. Third Book in a Trilogy – The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
18. Dystopian Novel – The Stand by Stephen King
19. Award-Winning Book – Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
20. A Book from the Rory Gilmore Challenge – Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
21. Published the Decade Before You Were Born – The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
22. Historical Fiction From A Favorite Time Period – The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1) by Caleb Carr
23. Classic You’ve Never Read – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
24. A Book That Will Keep You Up All Night – The Stand by Stephen King
25. 2018 bestseller – Becoming by Michelle Obama
26. Nonfiction Book about Science – Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil de Grasse Tyson
27. Listen to an Audiobook – Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
28. Set in Your Home State – The Firm by John Grisham (TN)
29. You Once Started But Never Finished – Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel by James Luceno
30. With a One Word Title – Hunger by Roxane Gay
31. A Fairy Tale Retelling – The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
32. Celebrity Book Club Pick – The Library Book by Susan Orlean (Reese Witherspoon’s book club)
33. A Book You Read in High School – The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
34. Business or Personal Finance Book – Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
35. Autobiography or Memoir – Becoming by Michelle Obama
36. Book Set in Another Country – The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
37. Reread a Favorite Book – Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
38. Book by a Local Author – Death in the Family by James Agee
39. Banned Book – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
40. Narrative Nonfiction – Educated by Tara Westover
41. On Your To-Read List the Longest – Polgara the Sorceress by David Eddings (reread but per GR it’s been on the to-read list since Oct 2008)
42. A Book About Travel – West With The Night by Beryl Markham OR A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell
43. Popular Book You’ve Never Read – Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
44. True Crime – Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury
45. Nonfiction Bestseller – Educated by Tara Westover
46. Science Fiction Novel – Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
47. A Book You Own But Haven’t Read – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
48. Recommended by a Local Librarian
49. 2019 New Release
50. The First Book in a Series – Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
51. Prettiest cover
52. An Inspirational Story
| West With The Night by Beryl Markham | A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell |
43. Popular Book You’ve Never Read
44. True Crime
45. Nonfiction Bestseller
46. Science Fiction Novel
47. A Book You Own But Haven’t Read
48. Recommended by a Local Librarian
49. 2019 New Release
50. The First Book in a Series
51. Prettiest cover
52. An Inspirational Story
Pingel Sisters
Hope you enjoy the challenge. Those are some great book choices!
TL Wright
Thank you! Took me a couple of hours to pick but I’m looking forward to reading them! Pulled from books I already have in my shelves for a lot of them.