30 Minute Book Challenge

I'm sure some of you will have heard about the 30-day-book-challenge, a kind of game that has been rather popular on Facebook for a while. I always wanted to do the challenge as well, but have found it too hard to come up with an entry every single day for a whole month.

Thus, I decided to take the idea, change it to my needs and turn it into a 30-minute-book-challenge, i.e. I will try to answer this questionnaire in half an hour and may then come back to some entries in the course of the next days. Feel free to post your own lists in the comments section below. :)

01-Your favorite Book

That's a difficult one as there are just too many great books out there, but if I really had to pick one it would probably be Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse.

02-Least Favorite Book

Jorge Luis Borges - The Library of Babel

03-A Book that completely surprised you (bad/good)

David Nicholl's - One Day

04- A Book that reminds you of home

Grimm's Fairy Tales

05- A Non-fiction book that you enjoyed

Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

06- A Book that makes you cry

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas - The Social Lives of Dogs

07- A Book that’s hard to read

James Joyce - Finnegan's Wake

08- An unpopular book you believe should be a Best-Seller

Peter Ackroyd - Chatterton

09- A Book you’ve read more than once

Donna Tartt - The Secret History

10- The first novel you remember reading

Leo Lionni - Swimmy, but that's not really a "novel". That would probably be one of Enid Blyton's Famous Five books

11- The Book that made you fall in love with reading

Michael Ende - The Neverending Story

12- A book so emotionally draining you couldn’t complete it or had to set aside for a bit

That actually never happened...

13- Favorite childhood book

Astrid Lindgren - Ronja, the Robber's Daughter

14- Book that should be on hs/college required reading list

Zadie Smith - On Beauty

15- Favorite book dealing with foreign culture

Teà Obreht - The Tiger's Wife

16- Favorite book turned movie

Ian McEwan - Atonement

17- Book turned movie and completely desecrated

Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife

18- A Book You can’t find on shelves anymore that you love

Edda Bars - Sabinchen Nimmersatt (I LOVED this as a child!)

19- A Book that changed your mind about a particular subject (non-fiction)

John Carey - What Good are The Arts?

20-A Book you would recommend to an ignorant/racist/close-minded person

R. J. Palacio - Wonder

21-A guilty pleasure book

Susan Hill - The Woman in Black

22-Favorite Series

Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic (easily falls under guilty pleasure as well :))

23- Favorite Romance Novel

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

24 - A Book you later found out the Author lied about

Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow

25-Favorite Autobiographical/Biographical book

Ernst Hemingway - A Moveable Feast

26-A Book you wish would be written

The sequel to Mark Douglas-Home's The Sea Detective, but that IS actually being written right now.

27- A Book you would write if you had all the resources

campus novel

28- A Book you wish you never read

E. L. James - Fifty Shades of Grey (so pointless and dull!)

29- An Author that you completely avoid/hate wont read

Alan Hollinghurst

30 - An Author that you will read whatever they put out

Kate Atkinson

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