Another year, another challenge(s). To make this year more merry and bright, I decided to join some of the challenges hosted by me fellow book bloggers. Here we go!
I had so much fun last year joined the reading challenge hosted by Beth Fish Reads, so I am very happy when she announced that she will host another challenge this year. Still the same rules, with slightly different themes, here are the books I’m going to read for this challenge:
1. A book with up or down in the title: Up in The Air (Walter Kim)
2. A book with something you’d find in your kitchen in the title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows)
3. A book with a party or celebration in the title: The Homecoming of Samuel Lake (Jenny Wingfield)
4. A book with fire (or equivalent) in the title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling)
5. A book with an emotion in the title: State of Wonder (Ann Patchet)
6. A book with lost or found (or equivalent) in the title: A Discovery of Witches (Deborah Harkness)
TBRR Pile Mystery Reading Challenge
This challenge is hosted by Mbak Maria from Hobby Buku, and there are prizes at the end of the year, yeay! š Every month there will be different subgenre, but we can also read any kind of subgenre as long as it’s still a mystery book. So here is my reading list:
Januari: The Confession (John Grisham) ā> Legal Thriller
Februari: I am Half Sick of Shadow (Alan Bradley) ā> Serial Mystery
Other books: The Act of Roger Murgatroyd (Gilbert Adair), The Godfather (Mario Puzo), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens)
Maret: Memoar Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) ā> Classic Mystery
April: Out (Natsuno Kirino) ā> Asian Crime Fiction
Mei: Echo Park (Michael Connely) ā> Thriller Suspence
Juni: The House of Silk (Anthony Horowitz) ā> Historical Mystery
Juli: Hickory, Dickory, Dock (Agatha Christie) ā> Freebie
Agustus: The Angel’s Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
September: The Complete Christie (Matthew Bunson), The Best of Nancy Drew, Classic Collection Vol 1 (Carolyn Keene),Ā The Cuckoo’s Calling (Robert Galbraith)
October: The Moving Finger (Agatha Christie), Night Film (Marisha Pessl), Five Little Pigs (Agatha Christie), Theodore Boone The Accussed (John Grisham), Dead Man’s Folly (Agatha Christie), Character Analysis: Ariadne Oliver
November: The Postcard Killers (James Patterson), A Pocket Full Of Rye (Agatha Christie), The Two Letters, The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side (Agatha Christie),
December: Tears of The Giraffe (Alexander McCall Smith), The Pale Horse (Agatha Christie), Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Agatha Christie), The Murder of King Tut (James Patterson),
Fun Year Event with Children’s Literature
This is a great event hosted by Bacaan Bzee, a whole year full of children books! What’s not to like? There are certain themes for every two months, but we are allowed to read other books outside the themes as well. And…. there are prizes too, at the end of the year, yippie! Besides the themes, there will also a read along event every two month. So here are my plans for this challenge:
Fun Months 1 (Jan-Feb): Classic/Bildungsroman/Award’s Winner
The Swiss Family Robinson (Johann David Wyss) – classic
Harry Potter dan Batu Bertuah (JK Rowling) – award’s winner, bildungsroman
The Ring of Solomon (Jonathan Stroud) – award’s winner
Little House on The Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder) – classic, bildungsroman, readalong
Klik! (Eoin Colfer, Linda Sue Park, etc) – mystery
Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) – classic
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (JK Rowling) – bildungsroman
A Corner of the Universe (Ann M Martin) – award’s winner
Fun Months 2 (Mar-Apr): Short Stories / Fairy Tales
Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling) – short stories
Grimm Fairy Tales (Grimms Brothers) – fairy tales/short stories
Splendors and Glooms (Laura Amy Schlitz) – Newbery award
Lima Sekawan the Series (Enid Blyton) – classic, readalong, adventure
Darth Vader and Son (Jeffrey Brown) – comic
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (JK Rowling) – bildungsroman
Fun Months 3 (May -Aug): Series/ Trilogy / Fantasies / Adventures
The View from Saturday (EL Konigsburg) – Newbery award
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling) – bildungsroman, adventures, fantasies, series
The Thief (Megan Whalen Turner) – trilogy, fantasies, adventures
Pippi Goes Aboard (Astrid Lindgren) – classic
Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix (JK Rowling) – bildungsroman, adventure, fantasy, series
Secret Garden (Francess Hodgson Burnett) – classic
The Queen of Attolia/ The Thief #2 (Megan Whalen Turner) – trilogy, fantasy, adventure
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) – series, classic, bildungsroman, readalong
Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince (JK Rowling) – series, bildungsroman, fantasy, adventure
The King of Attolia / The Thief #3 (Megan Whalen Turner) – trilogy, fantasy, adventure
The Julius Romeros Extravaganza, Part I, The Bearded Girl (Hayley Lawson-Smith) – bildungsroman
Mary Poppins (PL Travers) – classic, fantasy, series
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling) – series, adventure, bildungsroman, fantasy
Fun Months 4 (Sep – Oct): Mystery/Classic/Bildungsroman
The Best of Nancy Drew, Classic Collection, Vol 1 (Carolyn Keene) – series, mystery, classic
The Age of Miracles (Karen Thompson Walker) – dystopia, fantasy
The Twits (Roald Dahl) – fantasy, classic, readalong
Theodore Boone: The Accused (John Grisham) – mystery, series
Fun Months 5 (Nov – Dec) : Realistic Fiction / Award’s Winner
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Gennifer Choldenko) – Newbery Award, Realistic Fiction
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)
This challenge has a similar name with the first challenge I joined this year. But this one has different rules, and hosted by my fellow BBI member, Ren from Ren’s Little Corner. We need to read as many fiction books as we can, that contained a name of a person(s) in the title. Here’s my list:
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcererās Stone
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3. Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban
4. Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and Order of Phoenix
6. Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
8. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
10. The Act of Roger Murgatroyd
12. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
13. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore
14. Dongeng-Dongeng Grimm Bersaudara
15. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
19. Charles Dickens’ Ghost Stories
21. Juliet
22. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
25. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
28. The Julius Romeros Extravaganza, Part I, The Bearded Girl
30. The Best of Nancy Drew, Classic Collection Vol.1
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