year-end wrap up

and how well did I do on my 2015 challenge?

So way way way long time ago (last January), I found a reading challenge (here’s the link). So how well did I do for 2015 and this challenge, assuming that I want a unique book has to fit in each category?

Legend:

Success! The novel superbly satisfies the criteria.
Quasi-sucess Parts, but not all of the novel satisfy the criteria.
Failure Didn’t manage to read even one book like this. Sad panda 🙁

Read a book that is/Read a/Read an/Read/ …

001 set in British Columbia Ellen In Pieces by Caroline Adderson
002 set in Alberta Saltwater Cowboys by Dayle Furlong
003 set in Saskatchewan The Girl in Saskatoon by Sharon Butala
004 set in Manitoba Crackpot by Adele Wiseman
005 set in Ontario And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier
006 set in Quebec Sanaaq by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
007 set in Nova Scotia Turn Us Again by Charlotte R. Mendel
008 set in New Brunswick Yep, the province I live in. Failure!
009 set in Prince Edward Island This Is Happy by Camilla Gibb (for about four pages of the whole book)
010 set in Newfoundland/Labrador The Night Stages by Jane Urquhart
011 set in Nunavut, Yukon, or Northwest Territories Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
012 set in an urban centre A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
013 with a rural setting Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
014 set outside of North America Under the Skin by Michel Faber
015 which has been nominated for the Giller Prize Outline by Rachel Cusk
016 which has been nominated Governor General’s Fiction Award The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
017 which has been nominated Governor General’s Nonfiction Award I have a book out from the library right now. I haven’t read it, but it’s at least in my house.
018 which has been nominated for the Writer’s Trust Fiction Prize All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
019 which has been nominated for the Writer’s Trust Nonfiction Prize (Weston Prize)  
020 which has been nominated for RBC Taylor Prize (formerly The Charles Taylor Prize) for Literary Nonfiction The Juggler’s Children by Carolyn Abraham
021 which has been nominated for the Stephen Leacock Medal For Humour I guess I don’t like funny.
022 which has been nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
023 which has been nominated for the Commonwealth Prize Bang Crunch by Neil Smith
024 which has been nominated for the Booker Prize The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
025 that has featured in the The Morning News’ annual ‘Tournament of Books’ Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
026 that has been featured on Canada Reads When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
027 which has been nominated for a National Book Award Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
028 by an author who has won a Nobel Prize I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
029 which features a Canadian immigration experience The View From Castle Rock by Alice Munro
030 authored by a First Nations writer Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
031 that features First Nations experiences Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont
032 that is considered a Canadian Classic Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler
033 by a Canadian author The Secret World of Og by Pierre Berton
034 featuring an animal Double Trouble by Jenny Dale
035 published by an independent (indie) publishing house Cosmo by Spencer Gordon
036 originally published in a language you do not speak Uzumaki Volume One by Junji Ito
037 ‘big book’ – a book over 600 pages A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
038 you discovered in a Canadian Newspaper The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
039 you discovered in a Canadian Magazine Erm…maybe I need to actually read a Canadian magazine.
040 you discovered on 49th Shelf http://49thshelf.com Elle by Douglas Glover
041 recommended to you by a Canadian Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
042 that features hockey If I Fall, I Die by Michael Christie (Well, he wears a hockey helmet on his first foray from the house, so close enough.)
043 that features music or musicians Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
044 written by an author under the age of 30 The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (when it was published he was 29, not obviously that he is still under 30 now).
045 written by an author over the age of 65 The Brueghel Moon by Tamaz Chiladze
046 that features an LGBTQ character Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
047 written by an author who identifies as LGBTQ Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
048 about family Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
049 that has been banned A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
050 by an author who is also (or has been) a journalist Count on Yourself by Alison Griffiths
051 that has been a Canadian bestseller Adult Onset by Ann-Marie Macdonald
052 about survival The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
053 that has been on your bookshelf for a very long time Great American Short Stories edited by Wallace and Mary Stegner
054 published in 2015 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
055 published in the 1800s 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
056 published in the 1900s Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
057 published in the 2000s Submission by Michel Houellebecq
058 set in the future Feed by Mira Grant
059 set in the past Siberiak by Jenny Jaeckel
060 that has been adapted for TV, or the big screen Good-bye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
061 the first book in a series Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
062 in a series you have already begun A God In Ruins by Kate Atkinson
063 that you think has a beautiful cover design Katamari Volume 1 by Alex Culang and Renato Castro
064 written by a man, featuring a female main character The Categorical Universe of Candice Phee by Barry Johnsberg
065 written by a woman, featuring a male main character The Man Without A Face by Masha Gessen
066 recommended to you by a friend, or family member The Thickety by J.A. White
067 published in the year of your birth The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
068 by one of you favourite authors Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
069 by an author you have never read before 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
070 novel that is a coming of age story Tita by Marie Houzelle
071 that was noted on any 2014 ‘best books of the year’ list Through the Woods by Emily Caroll
072 that features illness or disability The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
073 that is a mystery, or features crime The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
074 science fiction novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
075 fantasy novel The Turnip Princess by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth
076 novel which is considered ‘YA’ (published for young adults) The Thrilling Life of Pauline De Lammermoor by Edeet Ravel
077 poetry collection Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell
078 play The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Krauss (also the only play I read this year)
079 that crosses genres Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
080 graphic novel, or graphic memoir Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët
081 about food or drink The Sweetness in the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
082 biography or memoir Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
083 love story The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
084 featuring travel 1988: I Want to Talk With the World by Han Han
085 collection of short stories What Boys Like by Amy Jones
086 of essays Yes Please by Amy Poehler
087 of narrative nonfiction A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacIntyre
088 epistolary novel, or a nonfiction collection of letters Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
089 that deals with overcoming the monster Boo by Neil Smith
090 that features a rags to riches story The BFG by Roald Dahl
091 about a quest Bird Box by Josh Malerman
092 featuring a voyage and return The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
093 comedy A Royal Pain by Ellen Conford
094 tragedy The Children Act by Ian McEwan
095 story about rebirth Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Lynn Crosbie
096 novel with a first-person narrative When Did You See Her Last? by Lemony Snicket
097 novel with a second-person narrative Viviane by Julia Deck
098 novel with a third-person narrative All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
099 that has an unreliable narrator Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer
100 that features alternating narration The Swallow by Charis Cotter

Around the World 2015

I read to the following countries/territories:

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(Map via traveltip.)

 Afghanistan

 Algeria

 Angola

 Australia

 Austria

 Belgium

 Bosnia and Herzegovina

 Bulgaria

 Cambodia

 Canada

 Chile

 China

 Croatia

 Cuba

 Czech Republic

 Dominica

 Ecuador

 England

 Egypt

 Ethiopia

 France

 Georgia

 Germany

 Greece

 Hungary

 India

 Ireland

 Italy

 Jamaica

 Japan

 Korea, South

 Kosovo

 Mexico

 Mongolia

 Morocco

 Myanmar

 Netherlands

 New Zealand

 Nigeria

 Pakistan

 Poland

 Portugal

 QuĂ©bec

 Romania

 Russia

 Serbia

 Scotland

 Slovenia

 Spain

 Switzerland

 Thailand

 Turkey

 Ukraine

 United States of America

 Vatican City

 Vietnam

Not even counting all the imaginary ones.