Reading Challenge...

I came across this Reading Challenge on the interwebs somewhere and I wanted to see how long it would take me to complete. I started it in Winter of 2015 (November/December-ish). I am hoping to be done by the end of 2018.

A book that became a movie: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand  
A book published this year: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
A book with a number in the title: 19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult 
A book written by someone under 30: The Mothers by Brit Bennett
A book with non-human characters: Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff 
A funny book: Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
A book by a female author: Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling
A mystery or thriller: The Last Juror by John Grisham 
A book with a one-word title: Room by Emma Donoghue
A Biography: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson  
A book of short stories: The Help by Kathryn Stockett  
A book set in a different country: Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
A nonfiction book: Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, The FLDS Cult, and my Father Warren Jeffs by Rachel Jeffs 
A popular author's first book: Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg (Ok, technically this is her 2nd book, but I'm counting it unless I read something that will replace this pick.)
A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet: The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty  
A book a friend recommended: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain 
A Pulitzer Prize winning book:
A book based on a true story: So, You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
A book at the bottom of your to-read list: The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
A book your mom loves:
A book that scares you: 
A book more than 100 years old: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't: Animal Farm by George Orwell 
A memoir: Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and The Truth Beyond Blackfish by John Hargrove
A book you are able to finish in a day:  
A book with antonyms in the title: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit:
A book that came out the year you were born:
A book with bad reviews: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
A trilogy: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A book from your childhood: Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
A book with a love triangle:The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
Your best friends favorite book: The Hididng Place by Corrie ten Boom 
A book set in high school: Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
A book with a color in the title: The Witness Wore Red by Rebecca Muser
A book that made you cry:
A book with magic: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A book that is currently on the bestseller list: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
A book by an author you've never read before: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
A book you own but have never read: Out of Sync by Lance Bass
A book that takes place in your hometown: The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams (How about home state? Cause it took place in Utah)  
A book that makes you laugh:
A book in a genre you don't usually read: 
A book written by an author with your same initials: Lost Boy: The True Story of One Man's Exile from a Polygamist Cult and His Brave Journey to Reclaim His Life by Brent Jeffs (Ok, so once again I am breaking the rules a little bit. Authors with the initials JB is tough. But this is BJ, which is the opposite of my initials, so that is what I am going for with this one.) 
A book to help you understand a different culture: Walk 2 Moons by Sharon Creech
A banned book:
A book set at Christmas: The Mistletoe Murder by P. D. James 
A book based or turned into a TV show or Movie: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
A book you started but never finished: The Chronicles of Narnia 

Key: 

Finished! Yay! 

2018 goals 

Need a good pick: 

Also, for my own organization, here is a list of books I wanted to read. I made this list back in 2011. I am going to refer to this as I work on the above list.

Alan Bradley: The sweetness at the bottom of the pie

Anita Diamant: Day after Night

Beth Hoffman: Saving Cee Cee Honeycut

Catherine Clinton: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

Chris Cleave: Little Bee

Christian Moerk: Darling Jim

Christina Baker Kline: The way life should be

Cleon Skousen: The Naked Communist

Colm Toibin: Brooklyn

Cornelia Nixon: Jarrettsville  

CS Richardson: The end of the alphabet

Dan Chaon: Await your reply

David Cristofano: The girl she used to be

Dolen Perkins-Valdez: Wench

Eileen Goudge: Woman in red

Elizabeth Berg: Dream when you’re feeling blue

Elizabeth berg: Talk before sleep

Elizabeth Berg: The last time I saw you  

Elizabeth berg: The year of pleasures

Elizabeth berg: What we keep

Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge  

Emma Donoghue: Room

George Orwell: Animal Farm

Harry Bernstein: The invisible wall: A love story that broke barriers

Heather Gudenkauf: The weight of silence

Helen Simonson: Major Pettigrew’s last stand
Hester Young: The Gates of Evangeline

Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard: Hidden In Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and The Underground Railroad
Jandy Nelson: I'll Give You The Sun

Jeanette Walls: The Glass Castle

Jerry Seinfield: Sein Language

John Grisham: The Client

John Grisham: The Last Juror

Jonathan Tropper: This is where I leave you

Kate Braestrup: Marriage and other acts of charity

Kathleen George: The odds

Kathryn Stockett: The help

Kristin Hannah: Firefly lane

Lance Bass: Out of Sync

Larry Schweikart: A Patriots History of the United States

Laura Hillenbrand: Unbroken: a WWII story of survival, resilience and redemption

Laura Moriarty: The rest of her life

Lisa Grunwald: The irresistible Henry House  

Marisa De Los Santos: Belong to me

Michelle Hoover: The Quickening

Mildred Armstrong Kalish: Little Heathens: hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the great depression
M. L. Stedman: The Light Between Oceans

Murial Barbery: The elegance of the Hedgehog

Neil Gairman: Anansi Boys

Nick Hornby: An Education

Nick Hornby: Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby: Juliet Naked

Nick Hornby: Slam

Nora Ephron: I remember nothing and other reflections

Patricia Reilly Giff: Pictures of Hollis Woods

Paul Harding: Tinkers

Ree Drummond: Black Heals to tractor wheels

Rick Braggs: The prince of Frogtown

Robert Goolrick: A reliable wife

Sophie Hannah: The wrong mother

Steve Martin: Born Standing Up: A Comics Life

Susan Gregg Gilmore: Looking for salvation at the dairy queen

Susan Richards: Chosen by a horse

Suzan Colon: Cherries in Winter: My family’s recipe for hope in hard times

Tess Callahan: April and Oliver

Todd Johnson: The Sweet By and By

Tom Franklin: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Willo Davis Roberts: The view from the cherry tree  

Yoko Ogawa: The housekeeper and the professor