2015 Reading Challenge

I said yesterday that I was going to post a list of books that I am planning to read for the 2015 reading challenge. Some of these books I have read before but most of them are totally new. 

• A book with more than 500 pages - The Host by Stephanie Meyer
• A classic romance - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
• A book that became a movie - If I Stay by Gayle Forman
• A book published this year - The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
• A book with a number in the title - I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
• A book written by someone under 30 - Girl Online by Zoe Sugg
• A book with nonhuman characters - The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• A funny book - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
• A book by a female author - Geek Girl by Holly Smale
• A mystery or thriller - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• A book with a one-word title - Holes by Louis Sachar
• A book of short stories - Geektastic Stories from the Nerd Herd by Holly Black
• A book set in a different country - Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
• A nonfiction book - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• A popular author's first book - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
• A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet - City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
• A book a friend recommended - After by Anna Todd
• A Pulitzer Prize-winning book - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• A book based on a true story - Wild: A Journey From Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
• A book at the bottom of your to-read list - The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
• A book your mom loves - Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• A book that scares you - The Shakespeare Secret by J.L. Carrell
• A book more than 100 years old - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
• A book based entirely on its cover - Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
• A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - Buddy by Nigel Hinton
• A memoir - Him and Me by Jack and Michael Whitehall
• A book you can finish in a day - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• A book with antonyms in the title - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit - P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
• A book that came out the year you were born - Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• A book with bad reviews - Matched by Ally Condie
• A trilogy - The Trylle Trilogy by Amanda Hocking
• A book from your childhood - Matilda by Roald Dahl
• A book with a love triangle - The Secret Circle by L.J. Smith
• A book set in the future- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• A book set in high school - Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• A book with a color in the title - Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
• A book that made you cry - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• A book with magic - Mystic by Alyson Noel
• A graphic novel - 
• A book by an author you've never read before - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
• A book you own but have never read - Why The Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo
• A book that takes place in your hometown - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (It doesn't quite take place in my home town but it is as close as I can get)
• A book that was originally written in a different language - The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• A book set during Christmas - Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle
• A book written by an author with your same initials - Two Royal Foes by Eva Ann Madden
• A Play - The Nerd by Larry Shue
• A banned book - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• A book based on or turned into a TV show - The 100 by Kass Morgan
• A book you started but never finished - The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne

Introduction

I've been trying some new things this year and one of the things that I really wanted to do was start a blog. However, I had no idea what I would write about. It is only recently that I have found something that I am passionate enough to write about. You may have guessed it already but it's books.

 I have been in love with books since before I could actually read. My nursery teacher used to say that if they ever couldn't find me the first place they would look was the reading corner. She said that I could always be sat in the big wicker chair in the corner making up my own stories to fit with the pictures in the book. My family all say that I always have my nose in a book too and to be perfectly honest, they are probably right.

I guess I have my mum to blame for my love of reading. I mean she even named me Emily because she loved Emily Bronte so much. I grew up surrounded by all of my mum's books and I was determined that one day I would have the number of books that my mum has. I've been consciously collecting my books for about 10 or 11 years now and I am still nowhere near the amount that she has (I'm a little bit jealous). 

2015 Reading Challenge

I was looking for a suitable goal to set my myself for the number of books I should read this year when I found the 2015 reading challenge. I thought that this would be a good way to widen my horizons with the books that I read. This is the challenge;

All that I have done for the challenge so far is decide what books I am going to read for each of the different challenges. I will post a copy of my list on here so that you know what books I plan on reading. I am not going to complete the challenges in order but I am going to try to do all of them and record my progress on here so that I will know when I have completed it and what I thought of all of the books.