So my friend nezushions and I are doing a new year's reading resolution! I'm super excited, and here are the books I'm going to read. Feel free to join in with us or make your own! If you do, be sure to let me know so we can talk about books together.
A book with more than 500 pages
Les Miserable – Victor Hugo
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
A book that became a movie
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
A book published this year
A book with a number in the title
A book written by someone under 30
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
A book with a non-human character
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
The Year of the Hare - Arto Paasilinna
A book by a female author
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
A book with a one-word title
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
Great French Stories – Various Authors
A book set in a different country
Love in a Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
Madame Curie: A Biography – Eve Curie
A popular author’s first book
Looking for Alaska – John Green
A book from an author you love
Broken Harbor – Tana French
A book a friend recommended
A Pulitzer-Prize winning book
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
A book based on a true story or event
A book at the bottom of your to-read list
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burges
A book more than 100 years old
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
A book entirely based on its cover
A book you were supposed to read in school but didn’t
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
A book you can finish in a day
Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn
A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit
The Talents of Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
A book that came out the year you were born
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien
A book from your childhood
Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery
Warm Bodies – Isaac Marion
A book set in high school
Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater
A book with a color in the title
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
A book that will make you cry
The Stolen Throne – David Gaider
Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Bryan Lee O’Malley
A book by an author you’ve never read before
The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
A book you own but have never read
A book that takes place in your hometown
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A book that was originally written in a different language
Gourmet Rhapsody – Muriel Barbery
A book set during Christmas
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
A book written by an author with your same first initial
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
12th Night – William Shakespeare
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
A book based on/turned into a TV show
A Game of Thrones – George Martin
A book you started but never finished
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Shining – Stephen King
The Little Prince – Saint Exupery
A book everyone has read but you
Divergent – Veronica Roth
Some of these are TBD (to be decided) for now.