AA1986 in 2017

Not sure how I'm going to set this up yet, but here we go!

Possible categories:

1. Auto/Biography
2. Big Fat Book Challenge
3. Classics
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Crime and Punishment
4. History
5. Mystery
-The Great God Pan
6. Newbery Medal
7. Omnibus
8. Plays
9. Poets
10. Political Science
-On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
-Man vs. the Welfare State
-The Prince
11. Random
-From Stressed to Best
12. Religion/Philosophy
-The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
-Walden
-Good Without God
13. Series Catch-Up
-The Sandman, vol 4
14. Sci Fi/Fantasy
-Enemy Mine
-Jackalope Wives
-Tooth and Claw
15. Science
-Bringing Nature Home
-The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
16. Star Wars
17. YA
-Coraline

17 categories for 2017! You returned to this challenge's roots. You have some challenging categories (to my mind) and some fun/playful ones as well. Have a great year!

Thanks! I usually don't get too creative with these, I'm thinking I might add something more (like a number requirement per topic) but I dunno.

Great categories!

Good luck with your 2017 Challenge. :)

Good luck with your challenge, especially those big fat books!

Looks like great variety - should make for a great challenge!

Have a great reading year!

Hi!

Have a great year and with it great reading!

Lovely to see a diverse group of categories for you to dive into!

I think I've decided on 52 books, one per week (I'm behind). I'll probably focus on books I've started but haven't finished.

ETA: I think I say I'll focus on started/unfinished books every year. And yet my Currently Reading collection never seems to dip below 20 books. Hmm.

>14 AngelaB86: lol, me too :) I'm usually "currently" currently reading maybe four books. But there's a stack of 11 books sitting near my desk that are also technically being currently read...

First book of the year, finally! And immediately dived into another one, so hopefully I'm out of this funk.

The Great God Pan probably belongs in horror, but I don't have/want a category for that, so *shrug*. Probably finish my fourth book tonight!

Finally finished my sixth book. Also installed a bookshelf in the living room, directly above where I spend the most time, to keep handy all the books I'd like to read this year (plus my Kindle and iPad). No more "out of sight, out of mind" excuses!

>18 AngelaB86: Great idea! I have to use physical reminders to counteract the out of sight, out of mind mentality for ebooks from the library. Without a stand-in on my borrowed books shelf, they don't get read.

Just updated my list with four books I've finished. Still not reading as much as I'd like, but since joining a gym I've been reading a lot more. The stationary bike isn't as much fun as biking outside, but I can't read on the go.

>20 AngelaB86: The stationary bike isn't as much fun as biking outside, but I can't read on the go.

At least you are making good use of your stationary bike time!

Well, I'm up to 16. I have two books I'm nearly finished with, and another in progress. I'd like to finish the year with 25, but we'll see what happens.