Nicoletta Book Challenge

Nicoletta Book Challenge

48 titles for 2020
I decided to create my personal book challenge inspired by the other challenges I saw in Read It Forward Group on FB. 

My plan is to read 52 books in 2020 but I set "the rules" for only 48 books.

I hope you will like it and be inspired by my list.

Happy reading!
1 The book I was supposed to finish in 2019: The Swallows 
2 A book with "Winter" in the title
3 A book with "Spring" in the title
4 A book with "Summer" in the title: Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
5 A book with "Fall or Autumn" in the title
6 A book with a holiday in the title
7 A book with a building in the title
8 A book with a real city in the title
9 A book with a number in the title
10 A book by an author you don't know: The Perfect Mother by Caroline Mitchell
11 An author's debut book: Real Life by Brandon Taylor
12 A book by an author you've only read once before: The Last Passenger by Charles Finch 
13 A book by one of your preferred authors
14 A book set in a place you visited, or you lived: Smile by Roddy Doyle
15 A book set in a place you want to visit: The Holdout by Graham Moore 
16 A book you didn't finished
17 A book that can be read in a day: Summer of '79
18 A book with more than 400 pages
19 A book featuring an historical figure: Blood Water Paint
20 An historical fiction book
21 A biography or a memoir
22 A family saga
23 A book about a non-traditional family
24 A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel,etc.): The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
25 A book written in the 19 century
26 A book written in the 20 century: Dawn by Elie Wiesel
27 A book by an author who won the Nobel prize
28 A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards: The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel by Renée Nault
29 A book you pre-ordered: The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian
30 A book you bought long time ago, but you didn't read it
31 A book you want to re-read
32 A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019: All Rivers Run To The Sea by Elie Wiesel
33 A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
34 A mystery: The Vanishing Man by Charles Finch
35 A book set in the decade you were born: Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand 
36 A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
37 A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
38 A classic book you've always meant to read
39 A book published in 2020: Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
40 A book with a silhouette on the cover
41 A book in a series you love
42 A book related to the arts
43 A book with "sister, wife or daughter" in the title
44 A book by classic author or inspired by a classic book
45 A book with "book or library or bookshop" in the title
46 A book about a travel or a journey: Four seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
47 A book by an Australian, Canadian, New Zealand or European author: After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill
48 A book with a pet on the cover


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