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Love Reading Book Challenge 2017 Recommended Reading

December 30, 2016 By Ben McEvoy

So you’ve decided to make 2017 the best reading year of your life by taking the Love Reading Book Challenge 2017. Good for you! We’re gonna have a blast. But what books should you read for each category?

To get some ideas flowing, I’ve put ~8 book suggestions for each category on the Love Reading Book Challenge list. Some of these recommendations are books I have loved. Others are books I have my eye on. I’ll be updating you with my own progress with the reading challenge on a bi-monthly basis, so you’ll get some ideas for potential reads if you follow along with that too.

Read a book in its true serial form

Read a graphic novel, comic, or manga

 

Read a book of poems (not an anthology)

Read a terrifying horror novel

Read a massive classic

Read a play and then see it

Read a science fiction novel

Read a book and watch the film version

Read a Nobel, Man Booker, or Pulitzer Prize winner

Read a romance novel

Read a short story collection

Read a book from a country you’ve never visited

Read a biography chosen by someone else

Read a banned book

Read a self-published book

Read a book by your favourite author’s favourite author

Read a book from a genre you’ve never visited before 

Read a book while listening to the audiobook version

Read a book published this year 

Read a book of essays

Read a self-improvement or spirituality book

Read a children’s book

Read a guilty pleasure

Do you have any recommendations to add? Let me know! Let’s make 2017 the best reading year yet!

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