What’s In A Name 2017

Another challenge I've been doing for the last few years is now up. Click here to sign up and see more details.

The basics

The challenge runs from January to December. During this time you choose a book to read from each of the following categories. (Examples of books you could choose are in brackets – translations and other languages most definitely count!):

A number in numbers (84, Charing Cross Road; 12 Years A Slave; 31 Dream Street):
12th of Never--James Patterson

A building (The Old Curiosity Shop; I Capture The Castle; House Of Shadows; The Invisible Library; Jamaica Inn):
Slaughterhouse Five--Kurt Vonnegut

A title which has an ‘X’ somewhere in it (The Girl Next Door; The Running Vixen):
How to Take the Ex out of Ex-Boyfriend--Janette Rallison

A compass direction (North and South; Guardians Of The West; The Shadow In The North; NW):
Southern Ghost--Carolyn G. Hart

An item/items of cutlery (The Subtle Knife; Our Spoons Came From Woolworths):

The Impossible Knife of Memory--Laurie Halse Anderson

A title in which at least two words share the same first letter – alliteration! (The Great Gatsby; The Luminous Life Of Lilly Aphrodite; Gone Girl; The Cuckoo’s Calling):
Black Beauty--Anna Sewell

Challenge completed on March 11