Sarah's Library

So, Saturday I talked about whether or not I should commit to next year's POPSUGAR Challenge.  After sleeping (for more than one night, unintentionally) on it I've decided that if I plan specific books for specific categories I should still be able to manage it, even with all the month-long restrictions I've placed on myself.  Therefore in this post I will list all the categories and the books I hope to fill them with, taken from what I already plan to read next year, as well as the month I plan to read them in.

January: My Paper-Free Month (any books that don't get finished will spill over into June)

1. A Book that's Under 150 Pages - Unexpected Gifts (Castle Mountain Lodge, #1) by Elena Aitken

2. A Book Recommended by Someone you Just Met - The Medium (Emily Chambers Spirit Medium Trilogy, #1) by C.J. Archer

3. A Science Fiction Novel - Desperate Times (Desperate Times #1) by Nicholas Antinozzi

4. A Book a Friend Recommended - No Such Thing by Edward Lorn

February: My Library-Free Month (any books that don't get finished will spill over into July)

1. A Book Based on a Fairy Tale - Piper by Helen McCabe

2. A YA Bestseller - Little Women (Little Women, #1) by Louisa May Alcott

3. A Book of Poetry - The Rattle Bag by Seamus Heaney

4. A Book that's Becoming a Movie this Year - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs

5. A Book you Can Finish in a Day - The Tale of Benjamin Bunny by Beatrix Potter

6. A Book Written by a Celebrity - Jamie's America by Jamie Oliver

7. A Political Memoir - Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

8. A Book at Least 100 Years Older than You - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

9. A Book that's More than 600 Pages - Fishing for Stars by Bryce Courtenay

10. A Book from Oprah's Book Club - Night (Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel

11. A Graphic Novel - Flight 714 to Sydney (Tintin, #22) by Herge

12. A Book Written by a Comedian - Fatherhood by Bill Cosby

13. A Classic from the 20th Century - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14. An Autobiography - Dear Fatty by Dawn French

15. A Book about a Road Trip - Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

16. A Satirical Book - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

17. A Book your Mum Loves - Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairbairn

18. A Book More than 100 Years Old - The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

19. A Book that Came Out the Year you were Born - A Secret Rage by Charlaine Harris

20. The First Book you See in a Bookstore (my home library actually, I don't need to buy any more books) - Thinning the Predators by Daina Graziunas and Jim Starlin

March: My Month for Finishing Unfinished Series (any books that don't get finished will spill over into August)

1. A Murder Mystery - All that Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3) by Patricia Cornwell

2. A Dystopian Novel - The Twelve (The Passage, #2) by Justin Cronin

3. A Book that Takes Place on an Island - Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery

April: My Month of Rereading in Order to Review (any books that don't get finished will spill over into September)

1. A Book you haven't Read Since High School - Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier

2. A Banned Book - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

3. A Book that Takes Place in your Hometown (Melbourne) - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

4. A Book Set in your Home State (Queensland) - Fly Away, Peter by David Malouf

5. A Book Set in Europe - Bridget Jones' Diary (Bridget Jones' Diary, #1) by Helen Fielding

6. A New York Times Bestseller - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

7. A Self-Improvement Book - Barefoot Contessa in Paris by Ina Garten

8. A Book Recommended by a Family Member - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

9. A Book with a Protagonist who has your Occupation (work from home/self-employed/writer) - Matilda by Roald Dahl

10. A Book that's Guaranteed to Bring you Joy - By Love Undone (Bancroft Brothers, #1) by Suzanne Enoch

11. A Book you were Supposed to Read in School but Didn't - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, #2) by Mark Twain

12. A Book from your Childhood - Heidi (Heidi, #1) by Johanna Spyri

May: My Free-Read Month (my self-imposed Jan-Apr challenges have ended or been temporarily paused and I can once again visit the library)

1. A National Book Award Winner - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

2. A Romance Set in the Future - Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth

3. A Book that is Published in 2016 - Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4) by Anne Bishop

4. A Book that Takes Place During Summer - The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Sisterhood, #1) by Ann Brashares

5. A Book and its Prequel - City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) and Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1) by Cassandra Clare

6. A Book with a Blue Cover - The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) by Phillip Pullman

7. A Book from the Library - The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

8. A Book about a Culture you're Unfamiliar With - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

9. A Graphic Novel - Watchmen by Alan Moore

That's only 48 books, so I definitely want to read more books than just what fills the POPSUGAR categories, but I think a lot of that will take place in the second half of the year.  At the end of May I'll write an updated post talking about which books from each month I managed to read and which have been pushed to June or later in the year.  I'm really pleased to say that I managed to fill all those categories with books that were already on my shelves bar one and only 12 are books that I don't already own in one form or another.  That's going to make a decent dent in my physical book overload and once I add a few more Kindles to my paper-free month that shelf will weigh a little less too.