Reading Challenges – A Spoonful of Honi

2021 TBR List

Kimberly — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:00:02 +0000

I participate in POPSUGAR’s reading challenges every year, but this is the first year I planned it all out. I picked a book for (almost) every prompt, and I have a stack of those books that I already own sitting on my dresser, easy for the picking when it comes time to choose my next read. I didn’t want this post to be 800 pages long, so I left off the description of the books, but I linked everything, so you can still read more about it. Let’s get started! one | a book published in 2021 TBD. I’ll probably instinctively pick up a new publication, so I don’t want to limit myself. two | an afro-futurist book The City We Became by N.K. Jemison three | a book with a heart, spade, club, or diamond on the cover The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff (mine has a diamond kite on the cover) four | a book by an author who shares my zodiac sign Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick five | a dark academia book Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo six | a book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang seven | a book where the main character works at my current or dream job Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz eight | a book that has won the women’s prize for fiction An American Marriage by Tayari Jones nine | a book with a family tree Commonwealth by Ann Patchett ten | a bestseller from the 1990s The Secret History by Donna Tartt eleven | a book about forgetting Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman twelve | a book I have seen on someone else’s shelf Untamed by Glennon Doyle thirteen | a locked-room mystery Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie fourteen | a genre hybrid Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer fifteen | a book set mostly or entirely outdoors Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer sixteen | a book with something broken on the cover The Adults by Caroline Hulse (on my cover, the Christmas ornament is broken) seventeen | a book by a Muslim-American author The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty eighteen | a book that was published anonymously Go Ask Alice nineteen | a book with an oxymoron in the title Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty twenty | a book about do-overs and fresh starts Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano twenty-one | a magical realism book The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern or The Midnight Library by Matt Haig twenty-two | a book set in multiple countries All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr twenty-three | a book set somewhere I’d like to visit in 2021 A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende twenty-four | a book by a blogger, creator, or online personality The Royal We by Heather Cocks twenty-five | a book whose title starts with ‘q’,’x’, or ‘z’ Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams twenty-six | a book featuring three generations The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett twenty-seven | a book about a social justice issue Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall twenty-eight | a book set in a restaurant The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle twenty-nine | a book with a black and white cover In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware thirty | a book by an indigenous author There There by Tommy Orange thirty-one | a book that has the same title as a song Anxious Peopleby Fredrik Backman thirty-two | a book about a subject I am passionate about The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker thirty-three | a book that discusses body positivity Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert thirty-four | a book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi thirty-five | a book in a different format than I normally read Watchmen by Alan Moore thirty-six | a book that has fewer than 1,000 Goodreads reviews Good Things Happen to People You Hate by Rebecca Fishbein thirty-seven | a book that I think my best friend would like TBD, I’ll know it when I read it thirty-eight | a book by or about an artist Luster by Raven Leilani thirty-nine | a book everyone seems to have read but me Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens forty | a 2020 Goodreads award winner The Guest List by Lucy Foley forty-one | the longest book (by pages) on my TBR A Court of Thorns and Roses (series) by Sarah J. Maas forty-two | the shortest book (by pages) on my TBR The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom forty-three | the book on my TBR with the prettiest cover The Binding by Bridget Collins forty-four | the book on my TBR with the ugliest color So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport forty-five | the book that’s been on my TBR for the longest time Catch-22 by Joseph Heller forty-six | a book from my TBR that I meant to read in 2020 When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger forty-seven | a book from my TBR that I associate with a favorite person, place, or thing Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow forty-eight | a book from my TBR chosen at random TBD forty-nine | a DNF book from the TBR The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker fifty | a free book from my TBR list TBD. It will be something I rent from the library or a friend loans to me. Happy reading, Kimberly

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Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Kimberly — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:16:29 +0000

Every book read by Rory in Gilmore Girls. 47/339 1984 by George Orwell Winter 2013 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 2013 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Elementary School The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Summer 2010 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Archidamian War by Donald Kagan The Art of Fiction by Henry James The Art of War by Sun Tzu As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Atonement by Ian McEwan Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy The Awakening by Kate Chopin 2011 Babe by Dick King-Smith Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Bel Canto by Ann Patchett The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Summer 2014 Beloved by Toni Morrison 2013 & January 2017 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Fall 2012 The Bhagava Gita The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Summer 2014 Brick Lane by Monica Ali Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner Candide by Voltaire The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Carrie by Stephen King Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 2011 Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White Elementary School The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman 2012 Christine by Stephen King A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Complete Novels by Dawn Powell The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 2011 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber The Crucible by Arthur Miller Cujo by Stephen King The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Daisy Miller by Henry James Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown High School Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Deenie by Judy Blume The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx The Divine Comedy by Dante The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Don Quijote by Cervantes Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn Eloise by Kay Thompson Emily the Strange by Roger Reger Emma by Jane Austen Spring 2017 Empire Falls by Richard Russo Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Ethics by Spinoza Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves Eva Luna by Isabel Allende Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Extravagance by Gary Krist Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 2014 Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce Fletch by Gregory McDonald Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 2013 Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Gender Trouble by Judith Butler George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg Gidget by Fredrick Kohner Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 2015 The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford The Gospel According to Judy Bloom The Graduate by Charles Webb The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald January 2016 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Group by Mary McCarthy Hamlet by William Shakespeare Fall 2012 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling Elementary School Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling First Grade A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare Henry V by William Shakespeare High Fidelity by Nick Hornby The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr) The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland Howl by Allen Gingsburg The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo The Iliad by Homer Summer 2009 I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Summer 2015 Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken Life of Pi by Yann Martel Summer 2009 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Summer 2016 Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold The Love Story by Erich Segal Macbeth by William Shakespeare Summer 2012 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Manticore by Robertson Davies Marathon Man by William Goldman The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Winter 2016 The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Miracle Worker by William Gibson Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Night by Elie Wiesel Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Spring 2017 The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 2010 Old School by Tobias Wolff Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens On the Road by Jack Kerouac One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Summer 2016 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan Oracle Night by Paul Auster Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Othello by Shakespeare Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Out of Africa by Isac Dineson The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 2014 A Passage to India by E.M. Forster The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky High School Peyton Place by Grace Metalious The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Spring 2017 Property by Valerie Martin Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Quattrocento by James Mckean A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe High School & Fall 2016 The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton Rita Hayworth by Stephen King Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert Roman Fever by Edith Wharton Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 2009 A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi Sanctuary by William Faulkner Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford The Scarecrow of Oz by...

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Goodreads: 100 Books You Should Read in a Lifetime

Kimberly — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 02:06:51 +0000

100 Books You Should Read in a Lifetime from Goodreads 47/100 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 2009 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Spring 2017 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 1984 by George Orwell Winter 2013 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling First Grade The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald January 2017 Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White Elementary School Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 2015 Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury 2014/2015 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Animal Farm by George Orwell Winter 2013 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 2011 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 2013 The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Summer 2016 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins High School The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 2015 Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Night by Elie Wiesel Hamlet by William Shakespeare 2013 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 2010 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 2009 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Summer 2014 The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Elementary School Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 2015 The Giver by Lois Lowry Middle School Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Macbeth by William Shakespeare 2013 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling 2007 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 2013 The Holy Bible: New King James Version by Thomas Nelson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson October 2015 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Summer 2013 The Color Purple by Alice Walker East of Eden by John Steinbeck Summer 2014 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Catch-22 by Joseph Heller In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Summer 2015 The Stand by Stephen King Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Elementary School Watership Down by Richard Adams Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Summer 2014 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Elementary School The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1) by George R.R. Martin The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Third Grade Life of Pi by Yann Martel Summer 2009 The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Les Miserable sby Victor Hugo The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Dracula by Bram Stoker Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling 2005 Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Book 2) by Suzanne Collins High School Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe Fall 2016 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Winter 2016 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingslover Fall 2012 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 2010 The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger High School The Odyssey by Homer Celebrating Silence: Excerpts From Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins High School The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien The Road by Cormac McCarthy Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Beloved by Toni Morrison 2013 & January 2017 Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 2014 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Leave a comment below letting me know how many you’ve read! List courtesy of Goodreads (www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/100-books-to-read-before-you-die)

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