Saturday, August 1, 2015

August TBR: Challenge Yourself

Alright, the year is more than half over and it's time to get cracking on some of the book challenges I committed myself to this year.  I'm going to focus on the Eclectic Reader Challenge.  The books on this list fulfill the genres left on the list.  

The first week of August (Aug 3-9) will be focused on the books I have picked up for the BookTubeAThon, but I will share these books in a different post.

Currently Reading
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Possible Candidates
  • Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson (Food) 
  • This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel (Switzerland)
  • Playing for Pizza by John Grisham (Sports)
  • To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han (Diversity)
  • Starters by Lissa Price (Diversity)
  • Wonder by R.J. Palacio (Diversity)
  • The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (Microhistory)
  • Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen (Microhistory)
  • The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (PI Crime)



Book Club
  • TBA

New Releases
  • What You Left Behind by Jessica Verdi (Aug 4)
  • Mechanica by Betsy Cornwall (Aug 4)
  • Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead (Aug 4)
  • Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid (Aug 4) 
Key:
(Ecl.) = Eclectic Reader Challenge
(New) = Newbery Reading Challenge
(Full) = Full House Reading Challenge
(TBR) = 2015 TBR Pile Challenge
(ABC) = Alphabet Soup Challenge
(Ult.) = Teenreads Ultimate Reading

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