2017 Reading Challenge - check in 1

Etudesque posted about a PopSugar 2017 Reading Challenge checklist and I like lists so I thought perhaps I'd check in at the end of each quarter and see where I'm at. I'm not actually super concerned with checking things off this list, but hey, perhaps this will help with picking next read

1. A book recommended by a librarian
2. A book that's been on your TBR way too long
3. A book of letters
4. An audiobook
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
5. A book by a person of color
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title
7. A book that is a story within a story
8. A book with multiple authors
9. An espionage thriller
10. A book with a cat on the cover
11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym
12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability
14. A book involving travel
• All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai (time travel is travel, right?)
15. A book with a subtitle
• Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
16. A book that's published in 2017
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (to be released in Sept I think)
17. A book involving a mythical creature
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
19. A book about food
20. A book with career advice
• Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective
22. A steampunk novel
23. A book with a red spine
24. A book set in the wilderness
25. A book you loved as a child
26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited
27. A book with a title that's a character's name
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
28. A novel set during wartime
29. A book with an unreliable narrator
30. A book with pictures
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you
• The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
32. A book about an interesting woman
33. A book set in two different time periods
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title
35. A book set in a hotel
36. A book written by someone you admire
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
39. The first book in a series you haven't read before
• John Dies in the End by David Wong
40. A book you bought on a trip
41. A book recommended by an author you love
42. A bestseller from 2016
43. A book with a family member term in the title
• The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin ('wives' count right?)
44. A book that takes place over a character's life span
45. A book about an immigrant or refugee
46. A book from a genre/subgenre that you've never heard of
47. A book with an eccentric character
48. A book that's more than 800 pages
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
49. A book you got from a used book sale
50. A book that's been mentioned in another book
51. A book about a difficult topic
52. A book based on mythology

OK, 13 out of the 52. Let's see what the next few months bring.