2015 Perpetual Reading Challenges

Nonfiction Adventure

For this year's reading challenges, I decided to do something very different and drastic.  I am going to read women authors.  I feel like I've been neglecting all those wonderful female authors sitting on my shelves.  I will be tailoring my challenge participation to account for this overall goal.  I do have a few exceptions.  I may read a male author if 1) I've already started the series and desperately want to finish it (i.e. Song of Ice and Fire) 2) It is a book club selection (out of my hands) or 3) If it is a male author writing nonfiction specifically about a women subject (e.g. a biography of Kate Chopin).  Other than those three exceptions, I want to discover some wonderful women authors.

Goal: 10 books

1. Living History by Hilary Rodham Clinton
2. Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
3. The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
4. Life in Ruins by Marilyn Johnson
5. Backlash by Susan Faludi
6. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
7. TBD
8. TBD
9. TBD
10. TBD

Fantasy Project

Goal: 5 books

1. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
3. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
4. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
5. TBD

NPR’S TOP 100 SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS

Goals: 5 books

1. The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
3. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldan
4. TBD
5. TBD

NPR’S TOP 100 TEEN BOOKS

Goal: 5 books

1. Divergent (series), by Veronica Roth (in progress)
2. The Mortal Instruments (series), by Cassandra Clare (in progress)
3. Graceling (series), Kristin Cashore
4. TBD
5. TBD

TOP 100 YA NOVELS

Goal: 5 books

1. Cassandra Clare – The Mortal Instruments (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
2. Kristin Cashore – The Seven Kingdoms (1, 2, 3)
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. TBD

21ST CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS

Goal: 5 books

1. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
3. The House of Riverton by Kate Morton
4. TBD
5. TBD

TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 100 NOVELS

Goal: 5 books

1. TBD
2. TBD
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. TBD

THE RORY GILMORE READING CHALLENGE

Goal: 5 books

1. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
3. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
4. TBD
5. TBD

1001 BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE

Goal: 5 books

1. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
2. TBD
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. TBD

Goal: 5 books

1. Interview with a Vampire
2. The Vampire Lestat
3. The Queen of the Damned
4. The Tale of the Body Thief
5. Memnoch the Devil

Feminism

Goal: 10 books

1. Backlash by Susan Faludi
2. TBD
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. TBD
6. TBD
7. TBD
8. TBD
9. TBD
10. TBD