- A book recommended by a librarian
- A book that's been on your TBR way too long
- A book of letters
An audiobook- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
A book by a person of color- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- A book with one of the four seasons in the title
- A book that is a story within a story
- A book with multiple authors
- An espionage thriller
A book with a cat on the cover- We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
- A book by an author who uses a pseudonym
- A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read
- A book by or about a person who has a disability
A book involving travel- All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai (time travel is travel, right?)
A book with a subtitle- Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
A book that's published in 2017- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (released in Sept)
A book involving a mythical creature- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
A book about food- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
A book with career advice- Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett
A book from a nonhuman perspective- A Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Maybe? I mean, some of the characters are not human and we get their perspective. Right? Maybe
- A steampunk novel
A book with a red spine- I'm Judging You: The Do Better Manual by Luuvie Ajayi
A book set in the wilderness- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
- A book you loved as a child
A book by an author from a country you've never visited- Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan (Singapore)
A book with a title that's a character's name- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
A novel set during wartime- World War Z by Max Brooks
A book with an unreliable narrator- Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
- A book with pictures
A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you- The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
A book about an interesting woman- Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Women by Anne Helen Petersen
A book set in two different time periods- Locke & Key by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
A book with a month or day of the week in the title- Atlanta Burns by Chuck Wendig
- A book set in a hotel
A book written by someone you admire- We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- A book that's becoming a movie in 2017
- A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
The first book in a series you haven't read before- John Dies in the End by David Wong
- A book you bought on a trip
- A book recommended by an author you love
A bestseller from 2016- The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson. At least, I assume it was a best seller.
A book with a family member term in the title- The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin ('wives' count right?)
A book that takes place over a character's life span- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
- A book about an immigrant or refugee
- A book from a genre/subgenre that you've never heard of
- A book with an eccentric character
A book that's more than 800 pages- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- A book you got from a used book sale
- A book that's been mentioned in another book
A book about a difficult topic- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
- A book based on mythology
So not that bad. 28. And there's still time, you never know.
