Librariansteffen's Category Challenge for 2018

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Librariansteffen's Category Challenge for 2018

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1librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 30, 2018, 12:18 pm




I keep track of the books read over here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/286372

These categories include reading I do for some courses I teach, some trips I take, and some ways of structuring my reading that pushes me beyond the usual.

1. YALSA Hub Challenge
2. Bingo Dog 2018
3. MysteryCAT
4. ColourCAT
5. SFFKIT
6. Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2018
7. 75 Book Group Nonfiction Challenge
8. Women Prize for Fiction
9. Books About or Set In Rome, Prague, Berlin, or Amsterdam
10. Books Related to Other Travel
11. Published in 2018
12. More Diversity In My Reading
13. Nonfiction
14. Speculative Fiction
15. Mysteries
16. Historical Fiction
17. Books Over 500 Pages
18. Everything Else

2mamzel
maaliskuu 8, 2018, 2:46 pm

Welcome back!

3thornton37814
maaliskuu 12, 2018, 7:34 pm

Welcome! Enjoy your reading.

4librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: elokuu 4, 2018, 8:56 pm

YALSA 2018 Hub Challenge

1. *Black Hammer, Volume 1: Secret Origins
2. *Brave
3. *Devils Within
4. Down Among the Sticks and Bones
5. Eliza and Her Monsters
6. Girls Made of Snow and Glass
7. *I Am Alfonso Jones
8. *Jonesy, Volumes 1-3
9. *Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
10. *Lighter than My Shadow
11. *Little & Lion
12. *My Brother’s Husband
13. *Noteworthy
14. *Pashmina
15. *Saints and Misfits
16. *Sparrow
17. *Spill Zone
18. *Starfish
19. Strange the Dreamer
20. *The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
21. *The Backstagers
22. The Clockwork Dynasty
23. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
24. *The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
25. *The Stars Beneath Our Feet
26. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
27. *We Are Okay
28. *What Girls Are Made Of
29. *Long Way Down
30. *Electric Arches
31. *Unkindness of Magicians
32. *You’re Welcome Universe
33. *One of Us Is Lying

Read prior to 2018:

Patina
Piecing Me Together
The Hate U Give
You Bring the Distant Near

Read in 2018:

1. Black Hammer
2. Devils Within
3. Lighter Than My Shadow
4. Saints and Misfits
5. Starfish
6. The Backstagers
7. We Are Okay
8. What Girls are Made Of
9. Brave
10. I Am Alfonso Jones
11. Jonesy, 1-3
12. My Brother's Husband
13. Pashmina
14. Spill Zone
15. Electric Arches
16. Noteworthy
17. Lion and Little
18. Sparrow
19. Goodbye Days
20. Unkindness of Magicians
21. 57 Bus
22. Stars Beneath Our Feet
23. You’re Welcome Universe
24. Kindred: the graphic novel
25. The Language of Thorns
26. One of Us Is Lying

Done.

5librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 31, 2018, 5:44 pm

Bingo 2018

1. Book that fits at least 2 KIT’s/CAT’s Queen of Sorrow SFFKIT and ColourCAT
2. Title contains name of a famous person, real or fictional Rembrandt Affair
3. Money in the title - any form of currency, type of payment, etc... Paper Money
4. Originally in a different language Shadow District
5. Book bought in 2017 that hasn’t been read yet Burning Page
6. New-to-you author The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
7. Autobiography/memoir What Happened
8. Book published in 2018 Night Moves
9. A long-time TBR/TBR the longest Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
10. Book with a beautiful cover (in your opinion) The Italian Teacher
11. Poetry or plays Electric Arches
12. LGBT central character White Houses
13. Read a CAT There There ColorCat
14. Title contains a person’s rank, real or fictional Prince and the Dressmaker
15. Published more than 100 years ago Frankenstein
16. Book that is humorous Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy
17. Fat book - 500 plus pages English Girl
18. X somewhere in the title Poet X
19. Relative name in the title (aunt, niece, etc...) Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
20. Related to the Pacific Ocean Pacific
21. Book set during a holiday Mr. Dickens and His Carol
22. Title contains something you would see in the sky Stars Beneath Our Feet
23. Book on the 1001 list And Then There Were None
24. Number in the title Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945
25. Story involves travel Seabird's Cry

6librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 22, 2018, 7:04 pm

Mystery CAT

January: Nordic Mysteries Shadow District
February: Female Cop/Sleuth/Detective Chalk Pit
March: Global Mysteries The Patriarch
April: Classic and Golden Age Mysteries And Then There Were None
May: Mysteries involving Transit Fatal Pursuit
June: True Crime Feather Thief
July: Police Procedurals Taste for Vengeance
August: Historical Mysteries Prisoner In the Castle
September: Noir and Hard-Boiled Mysteries Shell Life
October: Espionage English Girl
November: Cozy MysteriesBooks Can Be Deceiving
December: Futuristic/Fantastical Mysteries Burning Page

7librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 22, 2018, 7:06 pm

ColourCAT

January/Black - Fallen Angel
February/Brown Almost Human
March/Green Green
April/Yellow Natural Causes
May/Blue Goodbye Days
June/Purple Queen of Sorrow
July/Pink Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
August/Grey Warlight
September/Metallic Melmoth
October/Orange There There
November/Red Why To Kill a Mockingbird Still Matters
December/White Dragon's Code

8librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 22, 2018, 7:05 pm

SFFKIT

January: "Read an SFF you meant to read in 2017, but never started/completed"


February: "Urban Fantasy" Unkindness of Magicians

March: "Off World"

April: "Time Travel" How To Stop Time

May: "Rise Up"
Rise up as in revolution, movements/groups/individuals undermining authority
Thunderhead

June: "Series" Queen of Sorrow

July: "Cyberpunk or Techno SFF"

August: "Makes You Laugh" Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy

September: Myths, Legends, & Fairy Tales Melmoth

October: "Historical and Alt-historical" Burning Page

November: "Creatures" Dragon's Code

December: "This is how it ends"

9librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 31, 2018, 5:40 pm

Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2018

A book published posthumouslyWhen Breath Becomes Air
A book of true crime Feather Thief
A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance) And Then There Were None
A comic written and drawn by the same person Brave
A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa) Girls Burn Brighter
A book about nature Seabird's Cry
A western
A comic written or drawn by a person of color I am Alfonso Jones
A book of colonial or postcolonial literature
A romance novel by or about a person of color Love Hate and other filters
A children’s classic published before 1980 Call of the Wild
A celebrity memoir Educated
An Oprah Book Club selection
A book of social science Fascism
A one-sitting book 57 Bus
The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series Cruel Prince
A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author
A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image Black Hammer
A book of genre fiction in translation Shadow District
A book with a cover you hate
A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author
An essay anthology What To Read and Why
A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60Quartet In Autumn
An assigned book you hated (or never finished)

10librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 31, 2018, 5:40 pm

75 Book Group Nonfiction Challenge

January -- A book that has been a nominee or won a non-fiction book prize of ANY KIND within the last decade. An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

February -- Biographies -- self-explanatory -- a biography, not a memoir. Mary’s Monster

March – Far, Far Away: Traveling -- travel narrative. Travelers in the Third Reich

April – History -- another perennial. Triumph of Christianity

May – Boundaries: Geography, Geopolitics and Maps -- a new offering. Anything about places, and boundaries, and how they affect our lives. So, a book about maps, about geographical features (Krakatoa?) or about geopolitics (Samuel Huntington?) or anything like that -- all are OK. I'm making this as eclectic as possible. Color of Law

June – The Great Outdoors -- another hybrid challenge. Want to write about gardening? About the environment? About outdoor sporting events, from baseball to sailing? Do you want to read Cheryl Strayed's book about hiking and her misadventures on the Pacific Coast trail? As long as it happens out of doors, it's all fine. Seabird's Cry

July – The Arts -- from ballet to classical music, to jazz and rock and roll, to sculpture and painting, and the people involved in these -- oh, and books about books, of course! Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult

August – Short and Sweet: Essays and Other Longform Narratives -- self explanatory. Essays from any anthology, long form pieces from the New Yorker, etc. Please make them reasonably long and not just an 800-word news feature from Mashable. Think, New York Times Magazine, perhaps, or London Review of Books, or... What To Read and Why

September – Gods, Demons, Spirits, and Supernatural Beliefs -- from the Book of Common Prayer to things that go bump in the night. A biography of the Dalai Lama? Go for it. How Jesus Became God

October – First Person Singular -- This is the spot for anything first person. Anything that anyone has written about themselves and their lives in any way. Tina Fey? Paul Kalinithi? (sp?) Educated

November – Politics, Economics & Business -- The stuff we all know we should know about but sometimes hate to think about, especially these days. Call it the hot button issues challenge. Immigration/Racism? Banking regulation? Minimum wage debates?
Good and Mad

December – 2018 In Review -- Frustrated because you've got leftover books? You've got too many book bullets from other people? Or -- omigod -- that new biography was just published and you must must must read it? Or you've been reading the lists of best reading of 2018 in the NY Times and just realized, omigod, you MUST READ this one book before the end of the year? This is your holiday gift, from the challenge that keeps on giving... The Red and the Blue

11librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 22, 2018, 7:07 pm

Books set in and/or About Rome, Prague, Berlin, or Amsterdam (reading for a study away course I teach for college students every January)
1. One Summer Day In Rome
2. Melmoth
3. Rome: a history in seven sacking s
4. The Last Palace
5. When Jesus Became God
6. How Do We Look?
7. How Jesus Became God
8. Misquoting Jesus

12librariansteffen2
maaliskuu 13, 2018, 3:50 pm

Other Travel Related Reading

13librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 31, 2018, 6:21 pm

Books Published in 2018

1. Mary's Monster
2. A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
3. White Houses
4. Triumph of Christianity
5. Baby Monkey
6. Night Moves
7. The Immortalists
8. Unbelievable
9. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
10. The Red and the Blue
11. Love, Hate and Other Filters
12. The Cruel Prince
13. Every Note Played
14. Three Things About Elsie
15. The Rain Watcher
16. Dragon's code
17. Melmoth
18. There, There
19. The Mitford Murders
20. The Fifth Risk
21. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
22. The Last Palace
23. Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
24. Shell Game
25. How Do We Look?
26. The Chosen Wars
27. Walking Shadows
28. The Silence of the Girls
29. Sea Prayers
30. Why To Kill a Mockingbird Still Matters
31. Transcriptions
32. Ghost Boys
33. Soul of America
34. I'd Rather Be Reading
35. The Shakespeare Requirement
36. Death Rides the Ferry
37. Educated
38. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
39. The Incendiaries
40. Plot to Destroy Democracy
41. Warlight
42. From Cold War to Hot Peace
43. War on Peace
44. Yes we (Still) Can
45. The Bookworm
46. America for Beginners
47. Travelers in the Third Reich
48. Antisocial Media
49. Prisoner in the Castle
50. Girls Burn Brighter
51. The Internet Trap
52. Thunderhead
53. What to Read and Why
54. The Feather Thief
55. Fascism
56. My Oxford Year
57. Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
58. Clock Dance
59. Taste of Vengeance
60. The World As It Is
61. Circe
62. Natural Causes
63. Italian Teacher
64. Queen of Sorrow
65. Seabird's Cry
66. How to Stop Time
67. Shadow District
68. So You Want to Talk About Race
69. Camp Austen
70. Dark Angel
71. The Prince and the Dressmaker
72. Blood Water Paint
73. Color of Law
74. Paris By the Book

14librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 22, 2018, 7:07 pm

Women's Prize for Fiction

Three Things About Elsie

15librariansteffen2
maaliskuu 13, 2018, 3:55 pm

More Diversity In My Reading

16librariansteffen2
maaliskuu 13, 2018, 3:55 pm

1001 Books To Read Before You Die

17librariansteffen2
maaliskuu 13, 2018, 3:56 pm

Mysteries

18librariansteffen2
maaliskuu 13, 2018, 3:56 pm

Historical Fiction

19librariansteffen2
maaliskuu 13, 2018, 3:56 pm

Speculative Fiction

20librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 13, 2018, 3:57 pm

Nonfiction

21librariansteffen2
maaliskuu 13, 2018, 3:56 pm

Everything Else

22librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 30, 2018, 12:18 pm

Books Over 500 Pages

23-Eva-
maaliskuu 14, 2018, 4:18 pm

Lots of interesting challenges here!

24librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: syyskuu 24, 2018, 12:53 pm

Possible titles from 1001 Books:

All Quiet on the Western Front
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Amsterdam
Antic Hay
Around the World in 80 Days
Bend in the River
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Birds Fall Down
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Buddenbrooks
Cane
The Children's Book
Cider With Rosie
The Colour
Country Girls
Crome Yellow
David Copperfield
Death of Ivan Ilyich
Dispossessed
Dracula
Drop City
Dumas Club
Elegance of the Hedgehog
Eugenie Grandet
Frankenstein
Freedom
Ghost Road
Girls of Slender Means
God of Small Things
Grass is Singing
Green Hat
Hawksmoor
Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy
July's People
Marriage Plot
Middlesex
Quartet In Autumn
The Red and the Black
Robber Bride
Tale of Two Cities
The Things They carried
Therese Raquin
U.S.A.
War and Peace
Watchmen
Year of the Hare

1. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. Quartet In Autumn

25librariansteffen2
Muokkaaja: elokuu 6, 2018, 4:37 pm

PBS Great American Read

1. Call of the Wild
2. Hitchiker's Guide To the Galaxy
3. And Then There Were None

26librariansteffen2
kesäkuu 29, 2018, 4:06 am

Completed the YALSA Hub Challenge with a few days to spare! So much good writing in the young adult genre these days...

27librariansteffen2
joulukuu 31, 2018, 6:24 pm

Finished 2018. Bingo 2018, MysteryCAT, ColourCAT, 75 Book Group Nonfiction Challenge completed. Part of the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge, part of the SFFKit. On to 2019!

28christina_reads
joulukuu 31, 2018, 6:27 pm

Congratulations, and Happy New Year!