A book that's published in 2020: Susanna Clarke - "Piranesi"
A book by a trans or nonbinary author: Zeyn Joukhadar - «Et kart av salt og stjerner»
A book with a great first line: Fredrik Backman - "Bjørnstad". Linja er: "Sent en kveld i slutten av mars tok en tenåring en dobbeltløpet hagle i hånden, gikk rett ut i skogen, satte våpenet mot et menneskes panne og trakk av."
A book about a book club: Will Schwalbe . "The end of your life book club"
A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics: Lars Saabye Christensen - "Byens spor" (Oslo)
A bildungsroman: Sally Rooney - «Normal people»
The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed: Lise Myhre - «Nemi - Skumle Damen»
A book with an upside down image on the cover: Max Gladstone og Amal El-Mohtar - «This is how you lose the time war»
A book with a map: Robin Hobb - "Royal assasin"
A book recommended by your favorite blog/podcast/online book club: Jim Butcher - "Storm front"
An anthology: "The long list anthology: More stories from the Hugo award nominations list" (David Steffen, red.)
A book that passes the Bechdel test: Leigh Bardugo - "Ninth house"
A book with the same title as a show/TV show but is unrelated to it: Blake Crouch - "Dark Matter"
A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name: Jay Kristoff - "Nevernight"
A book about or involving social media: Emma Lord - «Tweet Cute»
A book that has a book on the cover: Abbi Waxman - "The bookish life of Nina Hill"
A medical thriller: Jodi Picoult - "A spark of light" (muligens litt tvilsom, men er en thriller satt til en medisinsk praksis (abortklinikk)
A book with a made-up language: Andrzej Sapkowski - "The last wish"
A book set in a country that starts with C: Margaret Atwood - «Alias Grace» (Canada)
A book you picked because the title caught your attention; Shobha Rao - "Girls burn brighter"
A book published the month of your birthday: Steven Erikson - «Gardens of the moon»
A book by or about a woman in STEM: Rebecca Skloot - "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"
A book that won an award in 2019: Taylor Jenkins Reid - "Daisy Jones & The Six"
A book on a subject you know nothing about: Amir Levine og Rachel Heller - "Attached" (visste ingenting om tilknytningspsykologi før dette)
A book with only words on the cover, no images: Jo Nesbø - "Kniv"
A book with a pun in the title: Kathy Reichs - "Bones are forever"
A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins: Diana Gabaldon - «Voyager» (lust, jealousy)
A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI: China Mieville - "Embassytown"
A book with a bird on the cover: William Shaw - "The birdwatcher"
A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader: Frank Herbert - "Dune" (Muad'Dib er verdensleder på Arrakis)
A book with bronze, silver, or gold in the title: Naomi Novik - "Spinning silver"
A book by a WOC: Toni Morrison - "Beloved"
A book with at least four stars on Goodreads: Diana Gabaldon - «Dragonfly in amber»
A book you meant to read in 2019: Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson - "A memory of light"
A book with a three word title: Kathy Reichs - "Bones never lie"
A book with a pink cover: Delia Owens - "Where the crawdads sing"
A Western: Stephen King - "The gunslinger"
A book by or about a journalist: Jonas Hartford Sundquist - Upublisert manus/hemmelig (jeg er beta-leser)
Read a banned book during Banned Book Week: Bram Stoker - «Dracula»
Your favorite prompt from a past Popsugar challenge: A book with an LBTQ+ protagonist (2018): Erin Morgenstern - "The starless sea"

Advanced - a book written by an author in their 20's: Samantha Shannon - "Priory of the orange tree"
Advanced - a book with 20 or twenty in the title: Jules Verne - "20,000 leagues under the sea"
Advanced - a book with a character who has a vision impairment or enhancement: Frank Herbert - "Dune messiah"
Advanced - a book set in Japan: Kij Johnson - "The cat who walked a thousand miles"
Advanced - a book set in the 1920's: Agatha Christie - «Den åpne graven»
Advanced - a book by an author who has written more than 20 books: Agatha Christie - "And then there were none"
Advanced - a book with more than 20 letters in the title: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "The adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
Advanced - a book published in the 20th century: Stephen King - "The Stand"
Advanced - a book from a series with more than 20 books: Kathy Reichs - "Bones of the lost" (litt juks ettersom bok nummer 20 kommer til neste år. Men flere novellaer er skrevet i samme serie/univers også)
Advanced - a book with a character in their 20's: Diana Gabaldon - «Drums of autumn» (blant annet: Brianna, Roger, Stephen Bonnet)

Reading Women Challenge 2020
All books read for this challenge must be by or about women.
(Please note that the spirit of this challenge is to read books that aren’t by men.)

A Book by an Author from the Caribbean or India: Shobha Rao - "Girls Burn Brighter"
A Book Translated from an Asian Language: Sayaka Murata - "Convenience Store Woman" (+1 bonus)
Bonus if the translator is a woman!
A Book about the Environment: Maja Lunde - "Blå"
A Picture Book Written/Illustrated by a BIPOC Author: Lisa Aisato - "Livet - illustrert"
BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
A Winner of the Stella Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction
A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian
A Book Featuring Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism: Black Future Month-boka?
An Anthology by Multiple Authors: «The long list anthology» (David Steffen, red.)
A Book Inspired by Folklore: Samantha Shannon - «The priory of the Orange Tree»
A Book about a Woman Artist: TAylor Jenkins Reid - "Daisy Jones & The SIx"
Read and Watch a Book-to-Movie Adaptation: Diana Gabaldon - "Dragonfly in Amber" (har også sett Outlander-TV-serien)
A Book about a Woman Who Inspires You: Kathy Reichs - "Bones are forever" (Brennan inspirerer meg)
A Book by an Arab Woman: Max Gladstone og Amal El-Mohtar - «This is how you lose the time war» (Mohtar er av libanesisk avstamning)
A Book Set in Japan or by a Japanese Author: Kij Johnson - "The cat who walked a thousand miles"
A Biography; Rebecca Skloot - "The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks"
A Book Featuring a Woman with a Disability: Diana Gabaldon - «Voyager» (Miss Campbell)
A Book Over 500 Pages: Robin Hobb - "Royal Assasin"
A Book Under 100 Pages: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - «We should all be feminists»
A Book That’s Frequently Recommended to You: Delia Owens - «Where the crawdads sing»
A Feel-Good or Happy Book: Abbi Waxman - "The bookish life of Nina Hill"
A Book about Food: Elizabeth Acevedo - "With the fire on high"
A Book by Either a Favorite or a New-to-You Publisher: Naomi Novik - "Spinning silver" (gitt ut på Macmillan, som blant annet har tor.com, en favoritt når det gjelder fantasy og sci-fi)
A Book by an LGBTQ+ Author: Zeyn Joukhadar - «Et kart av salt og stjerner»
A Book from the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlists or Honorable Mentions

BONUS

A Book by Toni Morrison
A Book by Isabel Allende

Rory fra Gilmore Girls er populærkulturens mest kjente lesehest sammen med Hermione fra Harry Potter. "The Rory Gilmore reading challenge" er en utfordring som går ut på å lese alle bøkene hun leser på skjermen (totalt 339).

20/339

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

2. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

3. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

1. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

2. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

3. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

4. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

5. Atonement by Ian McEwan

6. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

8. Babe by Dick King-Smith

9. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

10. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

11. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

12. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

21. Beloved by Toni Morrison

1. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

2. The Bhagava Gita

3. 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

4. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

5. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

7. Brick Lane by Monica Ali

8. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

9. Candide by Voltaire

10. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

11. Carrie by Stephen King

12. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

1. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

2. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

3. Christine by Stephen King

38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

2. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

3. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

4. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

5. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

6. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

7. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

8. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

9. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

10. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

11. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

13. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

14. Cujo by Stephen King

53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

1. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

2. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

3. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

57. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

1. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

2. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

4. Deenie by Judy Blume

5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

6. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx

7. The Divine Comedy by Dante

8. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

9. Don Quixote by Cervantes

10. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

11. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

12. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

13. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

14. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

15. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

16. Eloise by Kay Thompson

17. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

18. Emma by Jane Austen

19. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

20. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

21. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

22. Ethics by Spinoza

23. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

24. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

25. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

26. Extravagance by Gary Krist

27. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

28. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

29. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

30. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

31. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

1. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

2. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

3. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

4. Fletch by Gregory McDonald

5. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

6. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

7. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

9. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

10. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

11. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

12. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

13. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

14. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

15. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

16. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

17. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

18. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

19. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

20. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

21. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

22. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

23. The Graduate by Charles Webb

24. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

25. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

26. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

27. The Group by Mary McCarthy

28. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

1. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

3. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

4. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

5. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

6. Henry V by William Shakespeare

7. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

8. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

9. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

10. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

11. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

12. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

13. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

14. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

15. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

16. Howl by Allen Ginsberg

17. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

18. The Iliad by Homer

19. I'm With the Band by Pamela des Barres

20. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

21. Inferno by Dante

22. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

23. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

24. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

25. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

26. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

27. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

28. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

29. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

30. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

31. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

32. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

1. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence

2. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

3. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

4. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

5. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

6. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

7. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

9. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

10. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

11. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

12. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

13. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

14. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

15. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

1. The Love Story by Erich Segal

2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

4. The Manticore by Robertson Davies

5. Marathon Man by William Goldman

6. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

7. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

8. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

9. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

10. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

11. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

12. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

13. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

14. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

15. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

16. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

17. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

18. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

19. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

20. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

21. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

22. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

23. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

24. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

25. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It's Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

26. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

27. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

28. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

29. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

30. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

31. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

32. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

33. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

34. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

35. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

36. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

37. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

38. Night by Elie Wiesel

39. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

40. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan

41. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

42. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

43. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

44. Old School by Tobias Wolff

45. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

2. Oracle Night by Paul Auster

3. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

4. Othello by Shakespeare

5. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

6. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

7. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

8. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

9. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

10. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

11. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

12. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

13. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

14. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

15. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

16. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

17. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

18. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

19. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

20. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind

236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

1. Property by Valerie Martin

2. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

3. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

4. Quattrocento by James Mckean

5. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

6. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

7. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

8. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

9. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

10. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

11. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

12. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

13. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

1. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

2. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

3. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert

4. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

5. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

6. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

7. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

8. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

9. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

10. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

11. Sanctuary by William Faulkner

12. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

13. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

14. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

15. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

16. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

17. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

1. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

2. Selected Hotels of Europe

3. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell

4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

5. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

6. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

7. Sexus by Henry Miller

276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

1. Shane by Jack Shaefer

2. The Shining by Stephen King

3. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

4. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

5. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

6. Small Island by Andrea Levy

7. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

8. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

9. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore

10. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

11. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

12. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

13. Songbook by Nick Hornby

14. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

15. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

16. Sophie's Choice by William Styron

17. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

18. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

19. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

20. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

21. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

22. Stuart Little by E. B. White

23. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

24. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

25. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

26. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

27. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

28. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

29. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

30. Time and Again by Jack Finney

31. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

32. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

3. The Trial by Franz Kafka

4. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

5. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

6. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

7. Ulysses by James Joyce

8. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

9. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

10. Unless by Carol Shields

11. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

12. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

13. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

14. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

15. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

16. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

17. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

18. Walt Disney's Bambi by Felix Salten

19. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

20. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker

21. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

22. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

23. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

24. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

25. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

26. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

27. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

28. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

29. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

30. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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Reparatørenes Inntogsmarsj!

Fantasy

1. Classic fantasy: Robin Hobb - "Assasin´s Apprentice"
2. Magic school: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter And the Half-blood Prince"
3. Necromancers
4. PTSD: Tahereh Mafi - "Shatter me"
5. Dragons
6. Fairytale (retelling)
7. Grimdark: Jan Roar Leikvoll - «Fiolinane»
8. Ghosts: Charles Dickens - "A Christmas carol"
9. Uncommon fantasy creatures: Terry Pratchett - "The light fantastic" (example: druids and trolls rarely appear in books, the sentient Luggage, and so forth)
10. Shapeshifters: Sarah J. Maas - "Empire of storms"
11. Gods: Terry Pratchett - "The colour of magic"
12. Animal companions: Philip Pullman - "The Amber Spyglass"
13. Maternal heritage
14. Set in our world: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
15. Witches: Kelly Barnhill - "The girl who drank the moon"
16. Magical Law Enforcement: Ben Aaronovitch - "Rivers of London"
17. Thief: Leigh Bardugo - "Six of crows"
18. Pirates
19. Portal Fantasy: Philip Pullman - "The Subtle Knife"
20. Warrior: Lian Hearn - "I lys av månen"

Sci-fi

1. On a different planet: Ursula le Guin - "Left hand of darkness"
2. Utopia: Ursula le Guin - "The dispossessed"
3. Space ship: Stanislaw Lem - "The star diaries"
4. Steampunk
5. Time Travel: Diana Gabaldon - "Outlander"
6. Artificial Intelligence pov
7. Proto Sci-fi
8. Hive
9. Alien
10. Virtual reality
11. Super powers: Jessica Townsend - "Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow"
12. Science
13. Replicate
14. Space colonization
15. Mecha
16. Space creatures/beasts
17. Teleportation: Madeleine L´engle - "A wrinkle in time"
18. Space western
19. The moon: N. K. Jemisin - "Stone sky"
20. Invasion

Generic
1. Satire: Terry Pratchett og Neil Gaiman - «Good Omens»
2. Under 500 pages: Dag Solstad - "Genanse og verdighet" (eller må det også være fantasy i denne kategorien?)
3. Over 800 pages: Sarah J. Maas - "Kingdom of Ash"
4. Novella: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "A study in scarlet"
5. Finish a series: Lian Hearn - "Barn av Otori" "
6. Mental health: Gail Honeyman - "Eleanor Oliphant har det helt fint"
7. Disability
8. Published before 1991: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Sign of the Four"
9. Set in Africa
10. Library: Sarah J. Maas - "Tower of Dawn"
11. By a woman of color: N. S. Jemisin - "The obelisk gate"
12. One word title: Neil Shusterman - "Scythe"

1. Book published in 2019: Emil André Erstad - "Hareides fall - trettiseks dager som endra norsk politikk"

2. Author you’ve never heard of: Jo Walton - "Amongst others"

3. A book you’ve read before: Philip Pullman - "The Subtle Knife"

4. Book with a strong female lead: Sarah J. Maas - "Queen of shadows"

1. A play

2. A book set in Southern USA: Jesmyn Ward - "Det som reddes kan"

3. A memoir on someone you admire

8. Set in the Victorian Era: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "A story of four"

1. Character with career you wish you had

10. A plant on the cover: Lisa Aisato - "Livet - illustrert"

11. Published the year you graduated school: Jan Roar Leikvoll - «Fiolinane» (2010)

12. A graphic novel: Maja Lunde og Lisa Aisato - "Snøsøsteren"

1. Featuring music

14. An ugly cover: Terry Pratchett - "The light fantastic"

15. A teen as the main character: Madeleine L´engle - "A wrinkle in time"

16. The re-telling of a well-known story: Hans Olav Lahlum - "De fems tegn" (skriver i forordet at boka er inspirert av/bevisst ligner på "The sign of the four" av Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, men denne er satt i en mer moderne setting)

17. Set during a holiday: Charles Dickens - “A Christmas carol”

18. Book picked out by someone else: Dag Solstad - "Genanse og verdighet" (plukket ut av bibliotekaren som anbefalt + påpekt av to bokelskere som første Solstad-bok jeg burde lese)

1. Gothic Fiction novel

20. A book about time-travel: Diana Gabaldon - "Outlander"

21. A title starting with the letter “J”: Klaus Hagerup og Lisa Aisato - "Jenta som ville redde bøkene"

22. Fantasy novel: Jessica Townsend - "Wundersmith - the calling of Morrigan Crow"

1. True crime novel

2. A self-published book

25. The name of a color in the title: Sarah J. Maas - "Kingdom of ash"

26. A one word title: Neil Shusterman - "Scythe"

1. A book that makes you mad

28. A book that discusses mental health: Gail Honeyman - "Eleanor Oliphant har det helt fint"

29. A book published by HarperCollins: Tahareh Mafi - "Shatter me"

30. An author who uses initials: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter And the Half-Blood prince"

31. A book that everyone’s talking about: N. K. Jemisin - "The stone sky"

1. A western

33. A book about a cult: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "A study in scarlet"

1. Nominated for (but didn’t win) the 2018 Goodreads choice awards

35. A sports related book: Kathy Reichs - "Flash and bones"

36. A humorous novel: Neil Gaiman og Terry Pratchett - "Good Omens"

1. Set in South America

38. An allegorical book: N. K. Jemisin - "The obelisk gate" (hele serien er allegorisk og handler om rasisme og diskriminering)

39. Military Related: fiction or non-fiction: Sarah J. Maas - "Tower of dawn"

40. A character that is an immigrant: Johannes Anyuru - "De kommer til å drukne i sine mødres tårer"

1. A book suggested by someone else in the challenge

2. A family member’s favourite book

43. A children’s book: Philip Pullman - "The book of Dust - La belle sauvage"

44. An author who uses a pseudonym: Lian Hearn - «Barn av otori»

45. A “beach read”: Kathy Reichs - "Spider bones"

1. The first book you see in a bookstore / library

47. Set in a country you’ve visited: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

48. Set in a post-apocalyptic world: N. K. Jemisin - "The Obelisk Gate"

49. A speed read: Terry Pratchett - "The colour of magic"

50. A fairy tale: Kelly Barnhill - "The girl who drank the Moon"

1. A book about organized crime / the mob

52. An audiobook: Charles Dickens - “A Christmas carol” (har lest denne to ganger i år, mener derfor den kan gå to ganger på lista)

A book becoming a movie in 2019: Neil Gaiman og Terry Pratchett - "Good Omens" (ble riktignok TV-serie, ikke film, men det er jo slik det fungerer i dag)
A book that makes you nostalgic: J. K. Rowling - «Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince»
A book written by a musician (fiction or non-fiction)
A book you think should be turned into a movie: Leigh Bardugo - "Crooked kingdom"
A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
A book with a plant in the title or on the cover: Lisa Aisato - "Livet - illustrert"
A reread of a favorite book: Philip Pullman - "The subtle knife"
A book about a hobby: Klaus Hagerup og Lisa Aisato - "Jenta som ville redde bøkene"
A book you meant to read in 2018: N. K. Jemisin - "The Obelisk Gate"
A book with “pop”, “sugar” or “challenge” in the title
A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover: Neal Shusterman - «Scythe»
A book inspired by mythology, legend, or folklore: Diana Gabaldon - "Outlander"
A book published posthumously: Robert Jordan / Brandon Sanderson: "A Memory of light" (RJ døde før denne siste og et par av de andre bøkene i hans monumentale serie Wheel of time" var ferdigstilt. Han hadde dog skrevet en god del notater og også fortalt sin kone hva som skjedde med flere av karakterene, dette ble utgangspunktet for Sandersons ferdigstillelse)
A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie: Madeleine L’Engle - «A wrinkle in time» (leses av karakteren Sawyer i TV-serien LOST)
A retelling of a classic
A book with a question in the title
A book set on a college or university campus: Sarah J. Maas - "Tower of Dawn" (Torre Cesme er en utdanningsinstitusjon for healere)
A book about someone with a superpower: Sarah J. Maas - «Empire of storms»
A book told from multiple character POVs: Ursula le Guin - «Left hand of darkness»
A book set in space: Stanislaw Lem - "The star diaries"
A book by two female authors: Maja Lunde og Lisa Aisato - "Snøsøsteren"
A book with a title that contains “salty,” “sweet,” “bitter,” or “spicy”
A book set in Scandinavia: Lars Mytting - "Søsterklokkene"
A book that takes place in a single day: Dag Solstad - "Genanse og verdighet"
A debut novel: Gail Honeyman - "Eleanor Oliphant har det helt fint" (2017)
A book that’s published in 2019: Bård Borch Michalsen - "Verbene som beveger verden"
A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature: Kelly Barnhill - "The girl who drank the moon"
A book recommended by a celebrity you admire
A book with “love” in the title
A book featuring an amateur detective: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "A study in Scarlet" (denne vil nok en del være uenige i, Holmes er tross alt "consulting detective" men har ingen formell kompetanse innen feltet såvidt man finner ut)
Abook about a family: Jan Roar Leikvoll - "Fiolinane"
A book written by an author from Asia, Africa, or South-America: Mohsin Hamid - "The reluctant fundamentalist"
A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in the title:
A book that includes a wedding: Lian Hearn - "I lys av månen'
A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter: Philip Pullman - «The Amber Spyglass»
A ghost story: Charles Dickens - "A Christmas carol"
A book with a two-word title: Jo Walton - "Among others"
A novel based on a true story: Kathy Reichs - "Flash and bones"
A book revolving around a puzzle or game
Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: Leigh Bardugo - Six of Crows (prompt: "A book involving a heist" from 2018)

Advanced
A “cli-fi” (climate fiction) book: Tahereh Mafi - "Shatter me"
A “choose-your-own-adventure” book
An “own voices” book: Johannes Anyuru - «De kommer til å drukne i sine mødres tårer»
Reading a book during the season it is set in: Emil André Erstad - "Hareides fall - trettiseks dager som endra norsk politikk"
A LitRPG book
A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters: Terry Pratchett - "The colour of magic"
Two books that share the same title (1)
Two books that share the same title (2)
A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom (e.g. Big Brother from “1984”)
A book set in an abbey. Cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent: Philip Pullman - «La Belle Sauvage - Støvets bok 1» (ikke hele boka)

Denne er massiv! Jeg ser på min profil at jeg vel har lest rundt 30 bøker i året de siste par åra, og 52 bøker er derfor enormt mye. Jeg skal vurdere om jeg skal la den samme boka telle i flere kategorier. Begynner allerede å legge inn bøker jeg leser nå som passer, for å få en "head start". Gjør skriften fet når jeg er ferdig.

1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy - N. K. Jemisin: "The Obelisk gate"
2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, What, Where, When, Why)
3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y: Terry Pratchett - «The colour of magic»
4. A book with a criminal character (i.e. assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel etc): Leigh Bardugo - "Crooked kingdom"

1. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare
   6. A book with a dual timeline: Johannes Anyuru - «De kommer til å drukne i sine mødrees tårer»
   7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1 Sarah J. Maas - "Heir of Fire"
   8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2 Sarah J. Maas - "Queen of shadows"

9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres (romance/erotica, crime/mystery, religious/inspirational, science fiction/fantasy or horror): Jessica Townsend - "Wundersmith"
10. A book featuring an historical figure
11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals (title, cover, subject: Richard Adams - "Watership down"
12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer: Klaus Hagerup og Lisa Aisato - "Jenta som ville redde bøkene"

13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list: Neil Gaiman og Terry Pratchett - «Good Omens» (staff pick sommeren 2018)
14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term: Stanislaw Lem - "The star diaries"
15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country
16. A book told from multiple perspectives: Lian Hearn - "I lys av månen"
17. A speculative fiction (i.e. fantasy, scifi, horror, dystopia): Neal Shusterman - «Scythe»

1. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements
   19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR: Ursula le Guin - «Left hand of darkness»
2. A book featuring indigenous people of a country
   21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes: Emil André Erstad - "Hareides fall - trettiseks dagar som endra norsk politikk" (velger å tolke denne i norsk, ikke amerikansk, kontekst)

22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover: Hans Olav Lahlum - "De fems tegn"*
23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "The sign of the four"(gammel bok)
24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New: Tahareh Mafi - "Shatter me" (en "ny" verden)**
25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed:

26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue: Lars Mytting - Søsterklokkene
27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list: John Irving - «A prayer for Owen Meany»
28. A book related to something cold (i.e. theme, title, author, cover, etc.): Philip Pullman - "The subtle knife"
29. A book published before 1950: Charles Dickens - "A Christmas Carol"
30. A book featuring an elderly character: Kelly Barnhill - "The girl who drank the moon"

31. A children’s classic you’ve never read: Madeleine L’Engle - «A wrinkle in time»
32. A book with more than 500 pages: Sarah J. Maas - «Empire of storms»
33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet: Diana Gabaldon - "Outlander"
34. A book with a person's name in the title: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

1. A psychological thriller
   36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list: Philip
   Pullman - «Støvets bok - La Belle Sauvage» (2017)
   37. A book set in a school or university: J. K. Rowling - «Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince»
   38. A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel, etc): Bård Borch Michalsen - "Verbene som beveger verden"

39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life: Dag Solstad - "Genanse og verdighet"
40. A book you stumbled upon: Jo Walton - «Among others»
41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards: Sarah J. Maas - "Kingdom of ash"
42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character: Sarah J. Maas - "Tower of dawn"
43. A book related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) [fiction or nonfiction]: Kathy Reichs - "Spider bones"

44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed (same topic, same era, book appeared in the show/movie, etc.): Kathy Reichs - "Flash and bones"
45. A multi-generational saga: Eka Kurniawan - "Skjønnhet er et sår"
46. A book with a (mostly) black cover: Leigh Bardugo - "Six of crows»
47. A book related to food (i.e. title, cover, plot, etc.): Mohsin Hamid - "The reluctant fundamentalist" (hele den narrative rammen er hovedpersonen som deler et måltid med en amerikaner og forteller ham historien)

48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year: Philip Pullman - "The Amber Spyglass"
49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country: Lian Hearn - «Barn av Otori»
50. A book that includes a journey (physical, health, or spiritual): Jan Roar Leikvoll - «Fiolinane»
51. A book published in 2019: Bård Borch Michalsen - "Verbene som beveger verden"
52. A book with a weird or intriguing title: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "A study in Scarlet"

Bøkene på denne lista dekker en periode i Vest-Europa på 300 år fra begynnelsen av 1500-tallet til slutten av 1700-tallet. Mye har preg av framveksten av individualisme, rasjonalisme og samfunnskritikk. Forfatterne jeg har lest i det siste driver gjøn med meste, men pakker gjerne - av forsiktighetshensyn - satiren sin inn i fantasifulle utopier, en tidlig form for science fiction. Men her er også bøker som innvarsler et mer humant, tolerant syn på tilværelsen. Forfatterne på 1700-tallet legger gjerne vekt på betydningen av et fantasi- og følelelsliv som ikke lar seg innordne strenge rasjonalitetspåbud. Med andre ord begynnelsen på romantikken.

Nederst på lista finnes en rekke faktabøker som jeg synes har vært nyttige for å se forfatterne og deres bøker i sammenheng med tiden de er skrevet i. Her får du også forklaringen på at det er temmelig tynt med med nordiske forfattere på leselisten min. Holberg og Wessel kommer kanskje med ved et seinere høve. (Skrevet 14.7.2019, redigert 18.2.2023).

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