Breathe To Read

Breathe To Read

Monday, January 1, 2018

2018 Challenge

This year I am going to do things a little differently.  I am going to just try to read 75 books - no categories assigned.  My ORIGINAL plan this year was to start to read a book from an author of every country, but now that we are in Switzerland, it is very hard for me to get books in English.  So - since I don't have a good library to borrow from, I am just going to pick books I can read on my Kindle or possibly borrow from our small English library here.  Category challenges will have to wait until we move back to the US.

I put a request out on my facebook page and the Ladies Library page I follow for ideas.  I have some avid reader friends, and they did not disappoint.  A large part of my list here are from their suggestions and recommendations.  It is going to be fun to read this year.

I did put 75 books on the list again, so we will see if I can reach it.  I am still going to be abroad this year, and we have a lot of trips planned, BUT - I need to fit in more books.  Take them along more often on my explores. 

So - here is the list as it stands today.  It may ebb and flow a bit as the year goes along depending on what I can TRULY borrow (I have done some research and it looks like I can borrow about 95% of this list) and what I can get when we return for a visit to the USA this summer.

I linked the books to their Amazon page, so if you are interested in reading about any of them - just click the title and it will take you to the description page on Amazon.

600 Hours of Edward
A Fall of Marigolds
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Prayer for Owen Meany
And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer
Anything is Possible
As a Man Thinketh
Atonement
Baby ER
Bear Town
Before We were Yours
Britt Marie Was Here
Cujo
Dad is Fat
Dark Matter
Einstein's Dreams
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Ella Minnow Pea
Evicted
Franny and Zooey
Game of Thrones Book 4
Game of Thrones Book 5
Ghost Boy
Hate List
Helter Skelter
I'm Judging You
In a Dark Dark Wood
Interpreter of Maladies
Into The Wild
Little Fires Everywhere
Mr. Mercedes
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards
My name is Lucy Barton
My Not So Perfect Life
Our Short History
Sing Unburied Sing
Sleeping Beauties
Station Eleven
Tell No One
The Amazing Adventures of Kaliver and Clay
The Art Forger
The Atlas of Forgotten Places
The Book of Lost Things
The Code of the woosters
The Couple Next Door
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
The Divine Comedy
The Glass Castle
The God of Small Things
The Godfather
The Great Alone
The Hate You Give
The Hunny Bunny
The Little Prince
The Lost Girls
The Mars Room
The Misremembered Man
The Mountain Between Us
The Namesake
The Outsider
The Secret Keeper
The Tatttoo Artist of Auschwitz
The Tumor - the Non-Legal Thriller
The Underground Railroad
The Weight of Ink
The Zoo Keepers Wife
These Are My Words
This is How It Always Is
Turtles All The Way Down
Unsaid
We Were the Lucky Ones
What ever Happened to Baby Jane
Where'd you go Bernadette
Yellow Star

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