Birthday of Books Challenge

Hosted by gisellemedina

14 participants, 385 books added

You can start and finish this challenge whenever you like!

Read as many books as you are old in one year. Ex: I am 27yo and plan on reading at least 27 novels

All books added
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

879 pages • first pub 1922 (editions) user-added

fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective slow-paced
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

The Storyteller

Jodi Picoult

480 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction historical dark emotional sad medium-paced
College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight by Shawn Cohen

College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

Shawn Cohen

272 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark informative sad fast-paced
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

Children of Dune

Dune #3

Frank Herbert

16 hours, 51 minutes • first pub 1976 (editions)

fiction classics science fiction adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced
Tales from the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson

Tales from the Ant World

Edward O. Wilson

5 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction nature adventurous informative fast-paced
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Hanif Abdurraqib

8 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
All The Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

All The Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Patrick Bringley

6 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction art memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Carrie by Stephen King

Carrie

Stephen King

272 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

fiction horror thriller dark tense medium-paced
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

I Was a Teenage Slasher

Stephen Graham Jones

10 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction horror thriller dark tense medium-paced
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

John Green

10 hours, 42 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced