As I mentioned before I've decided to do a couple of challenges for the first time. The Mixing it Up Challenge is one of them. I love the idea of branching out and trying a range of genres so I have decided to go for gold and do all 16 genres. For many of the books I'll be trying to also incorporate some of my 100 must-read book challenge books so that will help me to start crossing them off the list too.I've listed a couple of options for each just in case I can't get ahold of a particular book easily.
This will be my main post throughout the year for this challenge and I will update it along the way with all the books I read for the challenge.
Classics
COMPLETE (click for review) - The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins)
Biography - Enchantment. The Life of Audrey Hepburn (Donald Spoto)
Plus I'm giving myself an extra challenge of watching at least one of her movies I haven't seen yet. This is probably going to be very easy to do as I haven't yet seen My Fair Lady so that's a good place to start.
Cookery, Food & Wine - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Barbara Kingsolver)
History - New York (Edward Rutherford)
Modern Fiction -
So many books on my bookshelf that are sitting un-read could be in this category so I think I'll just grab one of those. Good excuse to get through some of them!
Graphic Novels & Manga -
Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes (Neil Gaiman)
Anya's Ghost (Vera Brosgol)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
Crime & Mystery -
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Horror -
I really don't like Horror so if I'm going to do one I might as well make it a classic. So I'm going to read an Edgar Allan Poe. Would love your suggestions on which one to read?!
Romance -
The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
Science Fiction & Fantasy -
Dune (Frank Herbert)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
The Chrysalids (John Wyndham)
Travel
Maphead (Ken Jennings)
Notes From A Small Island (Bill Bryson)
A Single Swallow (Horatio Clare)
Poetry and Drama
Possession (AS Byatt) - Does this one count? As poetry is only one of it's narratives?
The Inferno (Dante)
Journalism and Humour -
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
Science and Natural History -
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
Childrens and Young Adult -
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (Lewis Carrol)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (CS Lewis) I did read this as a child but I don't remember it very well so want to read it again.
Social Sciences and Philosophy -
This genre I really haven't had any luck finding something for. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks to Ellie's comment below I've been able to get a few possibilities on my list. I think this genre will depend a lot on what I can find at my local library.
The Happiness Hypothesis (Jonathon Haidt)
Empire: What ruling the world did to the Birtish (Jeremy Paxman)
The Night the Angels Came (Cathy Glass) - OR any of hers really
Human Planet (Dale Templar)
The Devil's Cup (Stewart Lee Allen)
A History of the World in Six Glasses (Tom Standage)
Logging you in...
theprettygoodgatsby 11p · 699 weeks ago
Out of his well-known works, my favorite is The Cask of Amontillado. The Masque of the Red Death is also really good! As for his lesser-known stories, Lionizing (it's only 4 pages!), Four Beasts in One, Some Words With a Mummy, and The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether are great - and so short. Out of those four, the longest is 14 pages.
booksinthesun 47p · 699 weeks ago
Ellie · 699 weeks ago
Any luck on your social sciences category yet? Maybe hit Amazon or something and use the browse by category option? I have loads of titles tagged 'social sciences' on LibraryThing, which my sister has browsed before so I reckon you should be able to see it without registering. The books are here: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/elliepotten&a... Some of them have a more tenuous link to the social sciences but my sis ended borrowing an armload after she'd taken a look through them!
Hope that helps - and good luck!
booksinthesun 47p · 699 weeks ago
No luck yet with the social sciences. It just simply isn't a category I would normally read. Thanks for the link, I can access it so I'll have a look through and hopefully it'll give me a better understanding of the kind of books that can sit in that category.
elliepotten 37p · 679 weeks ago
booksinthesun 47p · 679 weeks ago