The Color Coded Reading Challenge 2017 - My Sign-Up

Yes, I'm at it again!

I can meet the requirements of The Color Coded Reading Challenge almost entirely from my TBR shelves, so it feels like a win already.

Bev at My Reader's Block does a nice job with her challenges, so it's a no-brainer that I'd sign up for this one again. The rules are straightforward: Read 9 books from the color categories. Any shade of the color counts, whether it's in the title or on the cover. Bev mixes things up by allowing a color of choice (any shade) and a "color implied" category (meaning rainbow, plaid, or another color pattern or word).

I think the charm of this challenge comes from the broad simplicity of the rules. Not to mention that 9 is a nice do-able number!

Here's my list for 2017:

Blue: The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan (Booker Prize) substitute: No Self, No Problem - Anam Thubten (review)
Red: We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver (Orange Prize) substitute: The Sun My Heart - Thich Nhat Hanh (review)
Yellow: A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James (Booker Prize) (review)
Green: Rites of Passage - William Golding (Booker Prize) (review)
Brown: The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson (Booker Prize) substitute: How to Re-Imagine the World: A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries - Anthony Weston (review)
Black: Life and Times of Michael K. - J.M. Coetzee (Booker Prize) (review)
White: The Sellout - Paul Beatty (Booker Prize) (review)
Choice (gray): Holiday - Stanley Middleton (Booker Prize) (review)
Implied: Call of the Rainbow Warrior An Environmental Fable - Twyla Dell (review)