30 Day Book List

I decided to do one of the 30 Day Book Challenges that I had seen on many blogs.  In my search for a list to go through, I found 4 different ones, so I made my own by combining questions from each of the lists I found as well as a few of my own.  (My original posts are here and here).  On this page I’ll be tracking each day of the list and giving links to each individual post.

1. Favorite book or series – the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
2. Favorite drama book – Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
3. Favorite nonfiction book – The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
4. Favorite Romance book – I Don’t Want to Kill You by Dan Wells
5. Favorite Science Fiction book – Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
6. Favorite Fantasy book – The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
7. Favorite Horror book – I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
8. Favorite Mystery book – And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
9. Favorite YA book – The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
10. Favorite Coffee Table book – The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson
11. Favorite (auto)biographical book – Last Words by George Carlin with Tony Hendra
12. Favorite book title – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
13. Favorite main character (male) – Perrin Aybara from the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
14. Favorite main character (female) – Deryn Sharp from the Leviathan Series by Scott Westerfeld
15. Favorite side character (male) – Fermin Romero de Torres from The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
16. Favorite side character (female) – Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
17. Favorite villain – Hrathen and Dilaf from Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
18. Favorite book you read in school – A Separate Peace by John Knowles
19. Most interesting setting in a book – The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
20. Favorite quote from a book – Sorilea from The Wheel of Time
21. Favorite book turned movie – Howl’s Moving Castle – book written by Diana Wynne Jones and the movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki
22. Book that has been on your “to read” list the longest – Dune by Frank Herbert
23. Book that made you laugh out loud – Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia
24. Book that made you cry – The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
25. Most disturbing book – The Room by Hubert Selby Jr.
26. Book you couldn’t put down – Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
27. Most thought-provoking book – God’s Debris by Scott Adams (honorable mention: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn)
28. Book that you heard about on a blog and enjoyed – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
29. Favorite Author – Brandon Sanderson
30. Author I wish people would read more – Hubert Selby Jr.

So there is my 30 day book list.  I started the list September 20th 2011 and I finished it October 19th 2011.  Obviously this list is heavily influenced by the books that I have read recently.  I think it would be really interesting to come back in a year or two and go through this list again and see how much my thoughts have changed after reading more books.  Who knows, I’ll think about it.