- A book recommended by a librarian: Fantomina, Eliza Haywood
- A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- A book of letters: My Dearest Father, W.A. Mozart
- An audiobook: Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher
- A book by a person of color: Queen of the Night, Alexander Chee
- A book with one of the four seasons in the title: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Sappho
- A book that's a story within a story: The Hours, Mihcael Cunningham
- A book with multiple authors: My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, Kate Bernheimer, Gregory Maguire and others
- An espionage thriller: Eye of the Needle, Ken Follet
- A book with a cat on the cover: The Guest Cat, Takashi Hiraide
- A book by an author who uses a pseudonym: 1984, George Orwell
- A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read: Hex, Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- A book by/about a person who has a disability: De idioot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- A book involving travel: Alleen op de wereld, Hector Malot
- A book with a subtitle: Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture: Representing Body Politics in the Nineteenth Century, Kimberly Rhodes
- A book that's published in 2017: The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden
- A book involving a mythical creature: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
- A book you're read before that never fails to make you smile: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
- A book about food: Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
- A book with career advice: On Studting Singing, Sergius Kagen
- A book from a nonhuman perspective: The Bees, Laline Paull
- A steampunk novel: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
- A book with a red spine: De Wereld van Sophie, Jostein Gaarder
- A book set in the wilderness: Wildwood, C. Meloy & C. Ellis
- A book you loved as a child: Saartje Tadema, Thea Beckman
- A book by an author from a country you've never visited: Oblomov, Ivan Gontsjarov
- A book with a title that's a character's name: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- A novel set during wartime: Oorlog en Vrede, Lev Tolstoj
- A book with an unreliable narrator: The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- A book with pictures: Obax, André Neves
- A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you: Tar Baby, Toni Morrison
- A book about an interesting woman: Venus in Furs, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- A book set in two different time periods: The Muse, Jessie Burton
- A book with a month or day of the week in the title: Mothering Sunday, Graham Swift
- A book set in a hotel: _De dame met het hondje, Anton Tsjechov
- A book written by someone you admire: any book by Carrie Fisher
- A book that's becoming a movie in 2017: My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
- A book set around a holiday other than Christmas: Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
- The first book in a series you haven't read before: North and South, John Jakes
- A book you bought on a trip: Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
ADVANCED
- A book recommended by an author you love: Emma, Jane Austen (J.K. Rowling)
- A bestseller from 2016: The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
- A book with a family-member term in the title: The Sea is My Brother, Jack Kerouac
- A book that takes place over a character's life span: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A book about an immigrant or refugee: Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- A book from a genre/subgenre that you've never heard of: The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis (mythopoeia)
- A book with an eccentric character: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
- A book that's more that 800 pages: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
- A book you got from a used book sale: Een vrouw van dertig, Honoré de Balzac
- A book that's been mentioned in another book: Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- A book about a difficult topic: Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter
- A book based on mythology: The Penelopeiad, Margaret Atwood
jan 2 2017 ∞
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