2015 Reading Challenge | Overton High

61) The fellowship of the ring: being the first part of The lord of the rings

Author

Tolkien, J.R.R

Series

Lord of the rings volume 1

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A book with nonhuman characters

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In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages, it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit.

62) Ancillary justice

Author

Leckie, Ann

Series

Imperial Radch volume 1

Notes

A book with nonhuman characters

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Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards: This record-breaking novel follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.
"There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." — John Scalzi
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest....

63) Mister B. Gone

Author

Barker, Clive

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A book with nonhuman characters

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"Think of a darker, more aggressive version of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. . . . Filled with wicked mischief and dark dares." — Kansas City Star

From Clive Barker, the great master of horror and the macabre, comes a brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force of the supernatural—a terrifying work that escorts the reader on an intimate and revelatory

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64) sybil

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65) Her fearful symmetry: a novel

Author

Niffenegger, Audrey

Series

Thorndike Press large print core

Notes

A book at the bottom of your to-read list

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Julia and Valentina Poole are American twenty-year-olds whose attachment to one another is intense. Their aunt, Elspeth Noblin, has died of cancer and left them her London apartment under two conditions: that they live in it for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the estranged Elspeth and Edie, their mother. The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders Highgate Cemetery. As the...

66) The book of life: a novel

Author

Harkness, Deborah E

Series

All souls trilogy volume 3

Notes

A book at the bottom of your to-read list

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"After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when...

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68) Atlas shrugged

Author

Rand, Ayn

Notes

A book that scares you

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A satire on the follies and dangers of collectivism in which the United States is faced with the prospect of economic collapse when the country's leading innovators and industrialists go into hiding.

69) 1984: a novel

Author

Orwell, George

Series

Signet classic volume CE 2123

Notes

A book that scares you

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Orwell's classic novel of one man's nightmare odyssey through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but individual thought and memory.

70) Pride and prejudice and zombies: the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem!

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Notes

A book based entirely on its cover

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A mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton--and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy.

71) Battlefield Earth: a saga of the year 3000

Author

Hubbard, L. Ron

Notes

A book based entirely on its cover

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A towering masterwork of science fiction adventure and one of the best-selling science fiction novels of all time, L. Ron Hubbard s Battlefield Earth opens with breathtaking scope on an Earth dominated for 1,000 years by an alien invader and man is an endangered species. From the handful of surviving humans a courageous leader emerges Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, who challenges the invincible might of the alien Psychlo empire in a battle of epic scale,

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72) Cinder

Author

Meyer, Marissa

Series

Lunar chronicles volume 1

Notes

A book based entirely on its cover

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As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.

73) Siddhartha

Author

Hesse, Hermann

Series

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Notes

A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't

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Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, Hesse's classic work tells the story of a soul's long quest for the answer to the enigma of man's role on Earth.

74) Brave new world

Author

Huxley, Aldous

Series

Harper Perennial modern classics

Notes

A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't

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Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future--where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.

75) Kierkegaard in 90 minutes

Author

Strathern, Paul

Series

Philosophers in 90 Minutes

Notes

A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't

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Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense, yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life, about how we live, and how we choose to live. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay beyond the reach of reason, logic, philosophical systems, theology, or even "the pretenses of

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76) The slow regard of silent things

Author

Rothfuss, Patrick

Series

Kingkiller chronicles

Notes

A book you can finish in a day

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Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place. Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries.

77) Cabal

Author

Barker, Clive

Notes

A book you can finish in a day

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Believing himself responsible for horrific crimes, Boone secludes himself in a remote Canadian necropolis, pursued by hunters and a woman who loves him, in a short novel accompanied by four short stories.

78) The green mile

Author

King, Stephen

Notes

A book you can finish in a day

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Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence...

79) The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

Author

Lewis, C. S

Series

Chronicles of Narnia volume 2

Notes

A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit

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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

80) The magicians: a novel

Author

Grossman, Lev

Series

Magician novels (Lev Grossman) volume 1

Notes

A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit

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As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of magic in upstate New York, he makes a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin's fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined for his childhood dream...