Karene's Challenge: 16 With Extras

Right now I am thinking that I would like to do 16 categories (with the optimistic expectation of reading sixteen books in each category) plus some extras for those things I like to do every year. My main interest has been lists. Lists of award books, reading list challenges etc. With the first one being...

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
2. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll.
3. Chaereas and Callirhoe by Chariton.
4. Metamorphoses by Ovid.
5. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/07/the-japanese-novels.html
6. Scriblerus by Alexander Pope.
7. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro.
8. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico.
9. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/07/remains-of-day.html
10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
11. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
12. The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth.
13. The Castle by Franz Kafka.
14. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro.
15. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
16. White Teeth by Zadie Smith.

The Western Canon
1. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom.
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
3. Bronte: Poems by Emily Bronte.
4. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
6. Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
7. Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth by Samuel Johnson.
8. Egyptian Book of the Dead.
9. Angels in America by Tony Kushner.
10. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
11. Small Congregations by Thylias Moss.
12. A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift.
13. Richard II by William Shakespeare.
14. King Lear by William Shakespeare.
15. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
16. The Odyssey by Homer.

1001 Kids Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
1. Otogizoshi.
2. Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo.
3. The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge.
4. The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My by Tove Jansson.
5. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.
6. White Fang by Jack London.
7. WarHorse by Michael Morpurgo.
8. Celia, Lo Que Dice by Elena Fortun.
9. Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine.
10. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell.
11. Troy by Adele Geras.
12. Eloise by Kay Thompson.
13. My Place by Nadia Wheatley
14. The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
15. Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon.
16. Mr Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater.
17. The Big Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester-Brisley.

...including nominees.
1. My Brother Jack by George Johnston.
2. Clean Straw For Nothing by George Johnston.
3. Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White.
4. Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/06/questions-of-travel.html
5. All That I Am by Anna Funder. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/06/all-that-i-am.html
6. That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/06/that-deadman-dance.html
7. The Broken Shore by Peter Temple.
8. Truth by Peter Temple.
9. Breathe by Tim Winton.
10. A Horse of Air by Dal Stivens.
11. The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard.
12. Three Cheers For the Paraclete by Thomas Keneally.
13. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld.
14. The Slow Natives by Thea Astley.
15. The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna.
16. Black Rock White City by A. S. Patric

...including nominees.
1. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.
2. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin.
3. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/06/to-say-nothing-of-dog.html
4. Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin.
5. Bellwether by Connie Willis. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/06/bellwether.html
6. Uprooted by Naomi Novik. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/06/uprooted.html
7. 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
8. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen.
9. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
10. Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen.
11. Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie.
12. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
13. Ringworld by Larry Niven.
14. Rendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke.
15. Updraft by Fran Wilde.
16. All Flesh is Grass by Clifford D. Simak.

...including nominees.
1. They'd Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton
2. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester.
3. The Aeronauts Windlass by Jim Butcher.
4. The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey.
5. The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov.
6. All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey.
7. Redshirts by John Scalzi.
8. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.
9. Dramatic Mission by Anne McCaffrey.
10. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.
11. Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie.
12. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin.
13. Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein.
14. The City & The City by China Mieville.
15. The Concrete Jungle by Charles Stross.
16. Slan by A. E. van Vogt

English Literature.
1. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
2. The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne.
3. Lovers Not Friends by Helen Brooks.
4. The Mistress Contract by Helen Brooks.
5. A Whirl-Wind Marriage by Helen Brooks.
6. Snowbound Seduction by Helen Brooks.
7. The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson.
8. The Fellowship of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
9. The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien.
10. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien.
11. When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/06/when-marnie-was-there-contains-wee.html
12. Vile Visitors by Diana Wynne Jones.
13. As You Like It by William Shakespeare.
14. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie.
15. The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross.
16. Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones.
17. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro.
18. Strange Affairs and Curious Cases by Mark Hodder.

Literary Mugs
I have these great coffee mugs and for the most part I have read the books that are on them. I thought it would be fun to try and read the ones I haven't this year.

Banned Books Mug
1. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson.
3. On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
4. Howl by Alan Ginsberg.
5. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell.
7. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.


Famous First Lines Mug
1. The Stranger by Albert Camus.
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
4. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
5. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.
6. Beloved by Toni Morrison. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/08/beloved.html
7. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
8. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
9. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.

American Literature.
1. Going Over by Beth Kephart.
2. The Mouse With the Question Mark Tail by Richard Peck.
3. The Rocky Road Trip by Amy Ignatow.
4. The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood.
5. Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm.
6. A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck.
7. Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined by Stephenie Meyer.
8. Death Masks by Jim Butcher.
9. Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris.
10. The Interrupted Tale by Maryrose Wood.
11. Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko.
12. Hundred Percent by Karen Romano Young.
13. Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish by Barry Deutsch.
14. Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier.
15. Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins.
16. Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin.
17. Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson.
18. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown.

Canadian Literature
1. Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/01/fifteen-dogs.html
2. The Nest by Kenneth Oppel.
3. The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel.
4. Seven Wild Sisters by Charles de Lint.
5. Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel.
6. The Skeleton Tree by Iain Lawrence.
7. Heart of a Champion by Ellen Schwartz.
8. Look Out For the Fitzgerald-Trouts by Esta Spalding.
9. Man by Kim Thuy.
10. This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel.
11. Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson.
12. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan.
13. Runaway by Alice Munro
14. Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb.
15. Secret Path by Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire.
16. The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje.

Regency Fiction.
1. Unequal Affections by Lara S. Ormiston.
2. An Assembly Such As This by Pamela Aidan.
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
4. Fitzwilliam Darcy : The Last Man in the World by Abigail Reynolds.
5. The Return: A Pride and Prejudice Story by Timothy Underwood.
6. Mr . Darcy and Mr. Collins's Widow by Timothy Underwood.
7. By Force of Instinct by Abigail Reynolds.
8. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
9. Mr Darcy's Refuge by Abigail Reynolds.
10. Duty and Desire by Pamela Aidan.
11. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
12. These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan.
13. Longbourn by Jo Baker.
14. The Truth About Mr Darcy by Susan Adriani.
15. The Houseguest: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary by Elizabeth Adams.
16. Unwilling: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary by Elizabeth Adams.

Doctor Who

...continuing on with the third Doctor Jon Pertwee.
1. Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos by Terrance Dicks.
2. Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon by Malcolm Hulke.
3. Doctor Who and the Daemons by Barry Letts.
4. Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks.
5. Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon by Brian Hayles.
6. Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils by Malcolm Hulke.
7. Doctor Who and the Mutants by Terrance Dicks.
8. Doctor Who: The Time Monster by Terrance Dicks.
9. Doctor Who: The Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks.
10. Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters by Terrance Dicks.
11. Doctor Who and the Space War by Malcolm Hulke.
12. Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks.
13. Doctor Who and the Green Death by Malcolm Hulke.
14. Doctor Who and the Time Warrior by Terrance Dicks.
15. Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion by Malcolm Hulke.
16. Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks by Terrance Dicks.

Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (women's edition).
Ursula K. Le Guin.
1. A Wizard of Earthsea.
2. The Tombs of Atuan.
3. Tales From Earthsea.
4. The Other Wind.
5. Lavinia.
6. Changing Planes.
7. Unlocking the Air and Other Stories.
8. Voices.
9. Powers.
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Anne McCaffrey.
1. Dragonsinger.
2. Dragonflight.
3. The Renegades of Pern.
4. The Ship Who Sang.
5. Catalyst.
6. Weyr Search.
7. Dragon Quest.

Mystery Fiction
1. Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage.
2. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
3. The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage.
4. The Odds of Getting Even by Sheila Turnage. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/03/the-odds-of-getting-even.html
5. Blood Rites by Jim Butcher.
6. Dead Beat by Jim Butcher.
7. Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher.
8. Robots and Murder by Isaac Asimov.
9. The High Window by Raymond Chandler.
10. The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz.
11. The Great Cake Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith.
12. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke.
13. Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz.
14. Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke.
15. The Man Who Was Poe by Avi.
16. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon.
17. All the Little Liars by Charlaine Harris.

1. Don't Panic: The Official Guide to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion by Neil Gaiman.
2. Fairy Tale Comics edited by Chris Duffy.
3. The Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale.
4. Maus: A Survivors Tale by Art Spiegelman.
5. Treaties, Trenches, Mud and Blood by Nathan Hale.
6. If You Were a Chocolate Mustache by J. Patrick Lewis.
7. Confucius: The Golden Rule by Russell Freedman.
8. Hashi by Reiko Hashimoto
9. 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola.
10. The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle.
11. Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
12. Vegan Bowls by Zsu Dever.
13. The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes.
14. The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon.
15. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz.
16. The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman.

Random Books.
1. Junonia by Kevin Henkes.
2. Words of (Questionable) Wisdom by Amy Ignatow.
3. The Martian by Andy Weir.
4. The Adventures of Tintin: Volume 5 by Herge.
5. Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes.
6. The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami.
7. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher.
8. White Knight by Jim Butcher.
9. The Unseen Guest by Maryrose Wood.
10. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne.
11. After the War is Over by Jennifer Robson.
12 Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin.
13. The Great Fire by Jim Murphy.
14. The Tales of Uncle Remus: The adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester.
15. Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs by J. Patrick Lewis.
16. All-Of-a-Kind-Family by Sydney Taylor.
17. An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine.

Woman Themed Bingo PUP!

Squee!
1. The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
2. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.
3. Purple hibiscus by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie.
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Currer Bell).
5. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.
6. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin.
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
8. Secrets at Sea by Richard Peck.
9. Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson.
10. The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly, Completely Lost It by Lisa Shanahan.
11. Day Shift by Charlaine Harris.
12. The War That Saved My Life by Kimberley Brubaker Bradley.
13. The Awesomely Awful Melodies by Amy Ignatow.
14. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.
15. Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman.
16. Randi Rhodes Ninja Detective: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit by Octavia Spencer.
17. The Unfinished Angel by Sharon Creech.
18. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly.
19. The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su & Kate Rorick.
20. Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson.
21. Tales From Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin.
22. The Girls of Atomic Cityby Denise Kiernan.
23. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith.
24. Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki.
25. Hush by Jacqueline Woodson.

Newbery Awards and Honors

1. Doll Bones by Holly Black.
2. Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena.
3. Bomb by Steve Shienkin.
4. Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/06/newbery-2016.html
5. Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz.
6. Joyful Noise: Poems For Two Voices by Paul Fleischman.
7. Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin.
8. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose.
9. Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus.
10. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia.
11. Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos.
12. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick.
13. Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool.
14. Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson.
15. A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck.
16. The Wanderer by Sharon Creech.

DeweyCAT

January: 000 The Unexplained: Aliens by Judith Herbst.

February: 100 When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death by Laurie Krasny Brown.

March: 200 Treasury of Egyptian Mythology by Donna Jo Napoli.

April: 300 - 354 Spies (DK Readers) by Richard Platt.

May: 355 - 399 Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books For the Blind by Margaret Davidson.

June :400 Anno's Alphabet by Mitsumasa Anno.

July: 500 Loud and Quiet by Lisa Bullard.

August: 600 An American Plague by Jim Murphy.

September: 700 The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle For Equal Rights by Russell Freedman.

October: 800 Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson.

November: 900 - 939 Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman.

December: 940 - 999 Where Poppies Grow by Linda Granfield.

Books From Libraries.
1. The Journal of Etienne Mercier by David Bouchard.
2. Mouse Bird Snake Wolf by David Almond.
3. Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt.
4. Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke.
5. Legends of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke.
6. The Return of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke.
7. Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. Martin.
8. The Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle.
9. Half-minute Horrors edited by Susan Rich.
10. Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea.
11. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate.
12. Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath.
13. Little Robot by Ben Hatke.
14. The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman
15. The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume 2 by Neil Gaiman.
16. Sweet and Sour: Tales From China by Carol Kendall.
17. Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins.
18. After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson.
19. The Farthest Shore by Ursula K Le Guin.
20. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale.
21. Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer Holm.
22. A Long Way From Chicago by Robert Peck.
23. Witness by Karen Hesse. http://kpolhuis.blogspot.ca/2016/03/witness.html
24. Gandhi: Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton.
25. The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman.
26. Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman.
27. Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman.
28. Night Shift by Charlaine Harris.
29. Ruthless Tycoon, Innocent Wife by Helen Brooks.
30. The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar.
31. Moonlight Over Paris by Jennifer Robson.
32. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang.
33. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz.
34. The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson.
35. Booked by Kwame Alexander.
36. Catwings Return by Ursula K. Le Guin.
37. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin.
38. The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron.
39. Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson.
40. Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson.
41. The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron.
42. The Mutts Diaries by Patrick McDonnell.
43. Baba Yaga's Assistant by Marika McCoola.
44. The Croc Ate My Homework by Stepehn T. Pastis.
45. Red's Planet by Eddie Pittman.
46. The Secret of the Stone Frog by David Nytra.
47. Bluffton by Matt Phelan.
48. Bera the One-Headed Troll by Eric Orchard.
49. Dead Upon a Time by Elizabeth Paulson.
50. The Unmapped Sea by Maryrose Wood.
51. License to Scratch by Ashley Spires.
52. Binky Takes Charge by Ashley Spires.
53. The Rat by Elise Gravel.
54. Nursery Rhyme Comics.
55. Lost & Found by Shaun Tan.
56. Binky Under Pressure by Ashley Spires.
57. Fable Comics edited by Chris Duffy.

Wow! That is quite ambitious. I look forward to following your choices.

16 x 16 plus extras -- that is a lot of books! I love lists too so I look forward to seeing which you select.

Very ambitious - looking forward to following along!

Looking forward to seeing how you set up your categories. 16 x 16 is an impressive goal!

Wow! You are going to be reading a lot of books. I'm planning on reading some Miles Franklin nominated books too, so maybe we'll have some in common.

Wow, that will be a lot of books! Interesting categories!

Doctor Who! Hurray! :)

Looks like you will have an action-packed reading year!

I will look forward to following along on your busy reading year.

Looks like your 2016 will be fun. I look forward to following along.

Lots of good reading ahead! Good luck.

Good to see an ambitious reader! I'm also a fan of lists and plan to have a couple in my challenge once I get set up.

Everything is arranged to my satisfaction now, including two more challenges... just waiting for the first of January!

Very ambitious! I like your categories, and I've starred your thread. I'm looking forward to following along with what you're reading in the coming year.

Literary mugs? I had no idea there were such things. What a great idea for a category! I'm getting really impatient for the new year to see what will go there.

Wow! Very creative!

Phew! All finished and just in the nick of time! It was an inspiring and invigorating challenge... Can't wait for 2017!
Happy new year fellow readers!

You too!

Congrats on finishing!