My 2015 Reading Challenge

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I'm taking on the 2015 Reading Challenge I found on Tumblr by way of PopSugar.

Color Key
:bulletred: Not yet started 
:bulletyellow: In progress
:bulletgreen: Finished! 

Progress
17 / 50 - 34%
1/5 Completed 9 July 2015!

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A book with more than 500 pages
:bulletgreen: A Game of Thrones – George RR Martin 
Finished 9 July 2015

A classic romance
:bulletyellow: Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 
Started 17 July 2015

A book that became a movie
:bulletgreen: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Ken Kesey
Started 27 July 2015
Finished 19 December 2015

A book published this year
:bulletgreen: Love Letters to the Dead – Ava Dellaira (April 2014)
Started 9 July 2015
Finished 17 July 2015

A book with a number in the title
:bulletred: Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult

A book written by someone under 30
:bulletred: Alif the Unseen – G Willow Wilson

A book featuring nonhuman characters
:bulletred: The Princess's Dragon – Susan Trombley

A funny book
:bulletgreen: Napalm and Silly Putty – George Carlin
Started 6 August 2015
Finished 10 August 2015

A book by a female author
:bulletgreen: I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai 
Finished 9 July 2015

A mystery / thriller
:bulletyellow: The Zombie Room – RD Ronald 
Started 11 August 2015

A book with a one-word title
:bulletgreen: 1984 – George Orwell 
Finished 25 January 25

A book of short stories
:bulletred: The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A book set in a different country
:bulletgreen: Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys 
Finished 24 February 2015

A non-fiction book
:bulletred: The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk – Randy Shilts

A popular author’s first book
:bulletred: Looking for Alaska – John Green 

A book from an author you love but haven’t read yet
:bulletred: The Cuckoo's Calling – Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) 

A book a friend recommended
:bulletred: Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky 
Recommended by locoexclaimer

A Pulitzer-Prize winning book
:bulletred: The Color Purple – Alice Walker 

A book based on a true story
:bulletred: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne

A book from the bottom of your to do list
:bulletred: Coraline – Neil Gaiman 

A book your mom loves
:bulletred: East of Eden -- John Steinbeck 

A book that scares you
:bulletgreen: Misery – Stephen King
Started 22 February 2015
Finished 8 March 2015

A book that's more than 100 years old
:bulletred: Gulliver's Travels – Jonathan Swift 

A book entirely on its cover
:bulletred: Guardians of the Night – Alan Russell 

A book you were supposed to read in school but didn’t
:bulletred: Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston 

A memoir
:bulletgreen: Orange is the New Black – Piper Kerman 
Started 7 July 2015
Finished 17 July 2015

A book you can finish in a day
:bulletred: A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 

A book with antonyms in the title
:bulletred: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
Recommended by sounddrive

A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit
:bulletgreen: Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
London, UK 
Started 25 January 2015
Finished 22 February 2015

A book that came out the year you were born
:bulletred: Lucy – Jamaica Kincaid (1990)

A book with bad reviews
Suggestions pls? 

A trilogy
:bulletgreen: The Hunger Games -- Suzanne Collins
Started 17 July 2015
Finished 5 August 2015

A book from your childhood
:bulletred: Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – Robert C O'Brien

A book featuring a love triangle
:bulletred: The Vincent Boys – Abbi Glines

A book set in the future
:bulletgreen: Cinder – Marissa Meyer 
Finished 8 January 2015

A book set in high school
:bulletred: Boy Meets Boy – David Levithan 

A book with a color in the title
:bulletred: Black Beauty – Anna Sewell 

A book that made you cry
:bulletred: A Corner of the Universe - Ann M Martin
Recommended by sounddrive

A book with magic
:bulletred: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling

A graphic novel
:bulletgreen: Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi 
Started 27 June 2015
Finished 30 June 2015

A book by an author you’ve never read before
:bulletred: Annie on My Mind – Nancy Garden

A book you own but have never read
:bulletgreen:  Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
Finished 14 July 2015

A book that takes place in your hometown
:bulletgreen: The Raven's Gift – Don Rearden 
Rural Alaska
Started 14 July 2015
Finished 27 July 2015

A book originally written in a different language
:bulletred: The Last Dragon (L'ultimo elfo) -- Salvana del Mari [Italian]

A book set during Christmas
:bulletred: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror -- Christopher Moore

A book by an author with your same initials
:bulletred: A-10s Over Kosovo - Christopher E Haave
Recommended by sounddrive

A play
:bulletred: Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

A banned book
:bulletgreen: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian – Sherman Alexie 
Finished 18 January 2015

A book based on / turned into a TV show
:bulletred: Darkly Dreaming Dexter – Jeff Lindsey 

A book you started but never finished
:bulletgreen: Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 
Started 12 March 2015
Finished 7 July 2015



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A book that made you cry:

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene
A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin