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Buyer's Remorse: The TBR Challenge (2016)

Books must be owned (in physical or electronic form) before Jan. 1, 2016. All of my books are ebooks. The year listed is year of purchase. Linked books have been finished. Books I've read or am planning to read are on this shelf: 2016 Book Hoarder Challenge.



Round 1
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Level One (5 TBR books) = List Tickler
1. Etiquette & Espionage (2013)
2. The Darkest Minds (2014)
3. Revelation (2014)
4. Just One Damned Thing After Another (2014)
5. The Magic Thief (2014)

Level Two (10 TBR books) = List Tamer
6. The Blight of Muirwood (2013)
7. The Scourge of Muirwood (2013)
8. A Lady of Spirit (2015)
9. Fox's Bride (2015)
10. The Death of Dulgath (2015)

Level Three (15 TBR books) = Captain of the Shelf
11. Jewel of the Thames (2014)
12. As You Are (2015)
13. The Unflappable Miss Fairchild (2015)
14. The Demon Trapper's Daughter (2014)
15. Steelheart (2013)

Level Four (20 TBR books) = Master of All Dust Bunnies
16. Season of Storms (2014)
17. Midnight Thief (2015)
18. The Burning Stone (2015)
19. Murder as a Fine Art (2014)
20. Shaman (2014)
Dance of Book Joy ensues!
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Round 2
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Level One (5 TBR books) = List Tickler
1. The Lives of Tao (2015)
2. For the King's Favor (2011)
3. Skinwalker (2012)
4. The Decoy Princess (2014)
5. Cast In Secret (2011)

Level Two (10 TBR books) = List Tamer
6. Cobweb Bride (2015)
7. River God (2014)
8. Wildfire at Midnight (2015)
9. Carpe Diem (2015)
10. Restoration (2014)

Level Three (15 TBR books) = Captain of the Shelf
11. The Maid of Fairbourne Hall (2012)
12. A Breath of Frost (2015)
13. Boundary Crossed (2015)
14. Sword-Dancer (2014)
15. Murder for Greenhorns (2014)

Level Four (20 TBR books) = Master of All Dust Bunnies
16. The Witch's Daughter (2012)
17. A Lady of Integrity (2015)
18. A Gentleman of Means (2015)
19. To Whisper Her Name (2012)
20. First Year (2015)
Dance of Book Joy ensues!
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Round 3

Level One (5 TBR books) = List Tickler
1. Child of Flame (2015)
2. Emilie and the Sky World (2015)
3. Wolf Star (2015)
4. The Emperor's Blades (2014)
5. The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence (2014)

Level Two (10 TBR books) = List Tamer
6. Cursed Moon (2015)
7. Slumber (2014)
8. Vicious (2015)
9. The Winds of Khalakovo (2014)
10. Salt Bride (2012)

Level Three (15 TBR books) = Captain of the Shelf
11. A Civil Contract (2012)
12. The Clockwork Dagger (2014)
13. Stormdancer (2014)
14. Stolen Songbird (2014)
15. The Disappeared (2015)

Level Four (20 TBR books) = Master of All Dust Bunnies
16. Winter Queen (2015)
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Dance of Book Joy ensues!

Cereal Numbers : Series Challenge 2016



1. Gail Carriger - Finishing School Series
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Level 1 - Grab a Spoon (3-4 Books in the same series)

✔ 1. Etiquette & Espionage
✔ 2. Curtsies & Conspiracies
✔ 3. Waistcoats & Weaponry
✔ 4. Manners & Mutiny

Completed: 4/4
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2. Brandon Sanderson - Reckoners Series
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Level 1 - Grab a Spoon (3-4 Books in the same series)

✔ 1. Steelheart
✔ 1.5 Mitosis
✔ 2. Firefight
✔ 3. Calamity

Completed: 4/4
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3. Shelley Adina - Magnificent Devices Series
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Level 1 - Grab a Spoon (3-4 Books in the same series)

✔ 6. A Lady of Spirit
✔ 7. A Lady of Integrity
✔ 8. A Gentleman of Means

Completed: 3/3
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4. Tamora Pierce - The Immortals Series
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Level 1 - Grab a Spoon (3-4 Books in the same series)

✔ 1. Wild Magic
✔ 2. Wolf-Speaker
✔ 3. Emperor Mage
✔ 4. The Realms of the Gods

Completed: 4/4
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5. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter Series (Re-Read)

Level 2 - Pour the Milk (5-10 books in the same series)

✔ 1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
✔ 2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
✔ 3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
✔ 4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
✔ 5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
✔ 6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Completed: 6/7

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6. Victoria Thompson - Gaslight Mystery Series
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Level 2 - Pour the Milk (5-10 books in the same series)

✔ 3. Murder on Gramercy Park
✔ 4. Murder on Washington Square
✔ 5. Murder on Mulberry Bend
✔ 6. Murder on Marble Row
✔ 7. Murder on Lenox Hill
✔ 8. Murder in Little Italy
✔ 9. Murder in Chinatown

Completed: 7
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Award Winners 2016 (Completed)



I am aiming to complete Level 2 - Wanderer.

Level 1 - Explorer
1. The Golem and the Jinni - Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (2014)
2. Murder as a Fine Art - Nero Award (2014), Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award (2014)
3. The Lives of Tao - ALA Alex Award (2014)

Level 2 - Wanderer
4. The Vor Game - Hugo Award for Best Novel (1991)
5. A Monstrous Regiment of Women - Nero Award (1996)
6. An Officer and a Spy - Walter Scott Prize (2014)

Let's Have Pie: 1000/1001 Books Before You Die (2016)


Allison's Guardian Pie

✔ 1. Comedy - Bridget Jones's Diary
✔ 2. Crime - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
3. Family & Self - The Picture of Dorian Gray
4. Love - Doctor Zhivago
✔ 5. Science Fiction & Fantasy - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
6. State of the Nation - Oliver Twist
✔ 7. War & Travel - Around the World in 80 Days

February Mini-Mini-Challenge - Very Very Valentine (Completed)



This single book challenge is only good for one month!
From February 1 to February 29.

Mission: Find and read one book with a cover that is somehow associated with the Valentine experience. This could mean hearts, flowers, chocolate, pink, love, letters, heartbreak. Also, the book doesn't have to be a romance, just have some Valentine association on the cover. (Artwork or Title)

Fox's Bride

March Mini-Mini-Challenge - Luck 'O The Irish (Completed)



This single book challenge is only good for one month! From March 1 to March 31.

Mission: Find and read one book with a story or cover/title that is somehow associated with the "Irish" experience. Books set in Ireland, Irish immigrant stories, anything by Maeve Binchy, etc. For cover/title, this could mean green, orange, luck, clover, lucky charms (rabbit's foot, etc.), or whatever else means "Irish" to you.

March Mini-Mini-Challenge - Ides of March (Completed)



According to tradition, Julius Caesar was warned by prophecy to "Beware the Ides of March." For this mini-mini, read one book with paranormal activity by March 31, 2016.

April Mini-Mini-Challenge - The Cruelest Month (Completed)



Planned: The Awakened Mage

April Mini-Mini-Challenge - April Showers - Wacky Weather (Completed)



Planned: Season of Storms

ROY G BIV: The Rainbow Challenge (2016) (April - December) (Completed)






Level 2: Ride The Rainbow! - Rainbow Six
✔ 1. Red
✔ 2. Orange
✔ 3. Yellow
✔ 4. Green
✔ 5. Blue/Indigo
✔ 6. Purple/Violet

Level 3: Beyond the Pale
✔ 7. Pink
✔ 8. Gray
✔ 9. White
✔ 10. Black
✔ 11. Brown
✔ 12. Color/Colour: Frosty

Chunkster Challenge - books over 400 pages. (May - December)

Chunkster Challenge Thread



Round 1
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Level One (Door Stopper)
1. Shaman (652 pgs)
2. For the King's Favor (502 pgs)
3. The Tea Rose (756 pgs)

Level Two (Flower Presser)
4. Cast In Secret (528 pgs)
5. All the Light We Cannot See (597 pgs)
6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (468 pgs)

Level Three (Back Breaker)
7. The Silkworm (481 pgs)
8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (636 pgs)
9. River God (676 pgs)
10. Cress (468 pgs)
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Round 2
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Level One (Door Stopper)
1. XO: A Kathryn Dance Novel (411 pgs)
2. Carpe Diem (408 pgs)
3. A Darker Shade of Magic (401 pgs)

Level Two (Flower Presser)
4. Restoration (480 pgs)
5. The Maid of Fairbourne Hall (417 pgs)
6. Grave Mercy (528 pgs)

Level Three (Back Breaker)
7. A Breath of Frost (496 pgs)
8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (660 pgs)
9. The Witch's Daughter (416 pgs)
10. The Travelers (448 pgs)
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Round 3
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Level One (Door Stopper)
1. To Whisper Her Name (475 pgs)
2. Vessel (432 pgs)
3. Child of Flame (925 pgs)

Level Two (Flower Presser)
4. An Officer and a Spy (464 pgs)
5. The Emperor's Blades (480 pgs)
6. Jane Steele (427 pgs)

Level Three (Back Breaker)
7. The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence (432 pgs)
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (652 pgs)
9. The Winds of Khalakovo (467 pgs)
10. The King's Daughter (496 pgs)
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May Mini-Mini-Challenge - Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere! (Completed)



Goal: Read a book that has the name of a flower in its title.

Planned: A Court of Thorns and Roses

Good luck with your challenges!

Thanks, Camille!

Genre Challenge Thread

Goal: 11/12
Finished: 8/12

January: Contemporary/Literary Merit - Home - dnf
✔ February: Romance/Chick Lit - As You Are
✔ March: Mysteries - Absolution by Murder
✔ April: Fantasy - The Awakened Mage
✔ May: Historical Fiction - Shaman
✔ June: Minority Studies/LGBT - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
✔ July: Science-Fiction/Dystopian - The Vor Game
✔ August: Poetry/Plays - King Lear
✔ September: Travel - The Travelers
October: Horror/Thriller - Jane Steele
November: Manga/Graphic Novels - Saga, Volume 1
December: Humour - The Wee Free Men

2016 New Releases (Completed)



Level 2: Curiouser (3 books)

1. Lost Among the Living
2. The Travelers
3. Jane Steele

Spring Cleaning Readathon



For the Spring Cleaning theme, I chose 3 books that I've been putting off for so long that they've become permanent fixtures on my tbr shelf.

For the King's Favor - 502 pgs
Skinwalker - 340 pgs
The Tea Rose - 30 pgs - at least I started it!

Total pages read: 872

Bookopoly

Bookopoly Round 1 (Completed)

My designated shelf for this game is 2016 - Books of Chance.

June 6th - Roll 1: 4
Library Fine - Read a book from the current month's genres (Minority Studies/LGBT, Western Europe, Classics) - The Tea Rose (LGBT)

June 13th - Roll 2: 11
Railroad - Travel Ahead: A book set in the future - Cress

July 18th - Roll 3: 7
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book - Grave Mercy

August 25th - Roll 4: 11
Partner Pick - Emperor Mage

September 4th - Roll 5: 6
Genre: Contemporary - The Travelers

Books of Chance

Upper Half

✔ Ones - 4 - Vessel (Roll 5)
✔ Twos - 8 - Cursed Moon (Roll 8)
✔ Threes - 3 - The Winds of Khalakovo (Roll 10)
✔ Fours - 12 - The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence (Roll 7)
✔ Fives - 10 - XO: A Kathryn Dance Novel (Roll 2)
✔ Sixes - 18 - The King's Daughter (Roll 11)

Lower Half

✔ 3 of a Kind - 25 - The Clockwork Dagger (Roll 12)
✔ 4 of a Kind - 14 - A Breath of Frost (Roll 4)
✔ Full House - 25 pts - Lady Fortescue Steps Out (Roll 3)
✔ Small Straight - 30 pts - The Decoy Princess (Roll 1)
✔ Large Straight - 40 pts - Stormdancer (Roll 13)
✔ Yahtzee - 50 pts - An Officer and a Spy (Roll 6)
✔ Chance - 22 - Vicious (Roll 9)

Completed: 13/13

World Lit Challenge Thread

World Lit Challenge

Goal: 6/12 (June - Dec)
Finished: 5/12

January: South America
February: Middle East
March: Sub-Sahara
April: Southeast Asia
May: Central America/Mexico & Caribbean
✔ June: Western Europe - All the Light We Cannot See
✔ July: North Africa - River God (Egypt)
✔ August: South Asia/India Subcontinent - Rebel Queen (India)
✔ September: North America - To Whisper Her Name
October: Eastern Europe - Doctor Zhivago
✔ November: Oceania/Australia - Heir to Sevenwaters
December: East Asia - Stormdancer (Japan)

June Mini-Mini Challenge - June Bride (June 2016) (Completed)

Planned:

Summer by the Shore 2016 (Completed)

Mission: Read one book with a beach or shore town setting before August 31.

Planned:

Alphabet Soup Challenge

Allison's Soup
Completed: 23/26

✔ A- Agnes and the Hitman
✔ B- Boundary Crossed
✔ C- Cress
✔ D- The Decoy Princess
✔ E- Emilie and the Sky World
✔ F- A Fatal Waltz
✔ G- Grave Mercy
✔ H- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
✔ I- An Impartial Witness
✔ J- Jane Steele
✔ K- The King's Daughter
✔ L- Lost Among the Living
✔ M- A Monstrous Regiment of Women
N- A Natural History of Dragons
✔ O- An Officer and a Spy
✔ P- Pixie Noir
Q- The Queen's Man
✔ R- Rebel Queen
✔ S- The Silkworm
✔ T- The Travelers
✔ U- The Unflappable Miss Fairchild
✔ V- The Vor Game
✔ W- Waistcoats & Weaponry
✔ X- XO
Y- The Yard
✔ Z- The Zig Zag Girl

Brush up your Shakespeare (Completed)



✔ 1. Much Ado About Nothing
✔ 2. King Lear
✔ 3. Sonnets 1-154

Feather Weight Challenge (June-December 2016) (Completed)

Books with less than 280 pages.


Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (223 pgs)
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (251 pgs)
3. Lady Fortescue Steps Out (152 pgs)
4. The BFG (208 pgs)
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (176 pgs)

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. Much Ado About Nothing (62 pgs)
7. King Lear (80 pgs)
8. The Twits (96 pgs)
9. Matilda (131 pgs)
10. Emperor Mage (228 pgs)

Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. A Lady of Integrity (270 pgs)
12. A Gentleman of Means (242 pgs)
13. First Year (278 pgs)
14. Resurrection Row (226 pgs)
15. The Zig Zag Girl (240 pgs)

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! (Summer 2016) (Completed)

Planned: The Moth

Fruit Salad (Summer 2016) (Completed)

Planned: The Peach Keeper

Dog Days of Summer (July 3- August 11) (Completed)

Planned: Wildfire at Midnight

Children's Corner (Completed)

Beatrix Potter's birthday was July 28 and Roald Dahl's will be September 13, so let's celebrate by reading a few children's books between their birthdays.

Level 1 - The Nursery - 2 books
1. The BFG
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Level 2 - First Years - 4 books
3. The Twits
4. Matilda

Dogmatically Catastic (Completed)

Read a book where a pet is a major player in the story.

Planned: Anyone But You

Back to School (Completed)

Find and read one book with a word or words in the title that are somehow associated with the academic experience.

Planned: First Year

I'd Like to Buy a Vowel (September-December)

Round 1
✔ No As- Resurrection Row
✔ No Es- Blood Bound
✔ No Is- The Travelers
✔ No Os- The Witch's Daughter
✔ No Us- Vessel
✔ No Ys- Child of Flame

Round 2
✔ No As- Cursed Moon
✔ No Es- The Winds of Khalakovo
✔ No Is- Murder on Gramercy Park
✔ No Os- Summit Lake
✔ No Us- The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence
✔ No Ys- Vicious

Fall Bingo (Oct-Dec)

Goal: 1 Bingo
Completed: 1 Bingo

B1- Multiple Awards - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
B2- Never Finished -
✔ B3- Courtroom or Crime - Murder on Gramercy Park
✔ B4- Orange Cover - The Realms of the Gods
✔ B5- Politics - The King's Daughter

✔ I1- Finish a Series - Winter
✔ I2- Beloved Children's - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
✔ I3- Adventure - Emilie and the Sky World
✔ I4- Dysfunctional Family - Cursed Moon
✔ I5- Sweater on Cover - Named of the Dragon

✔ N1- GR Award Nominated - The Emperor's Blades
N2- Challenges Social Norms
N3- FREE
N4- Senior Romance
N5- Hometown Setting

✔ G1- First Person POV - An Officer and a Spy
G2- Red Cover -
✔ G3- Unfamiliar Territory - The Winds of Khalakovo
✔ G4- Highly Recommended - Jane Steele
✔ G5- Supernatural Character - Blood Bound

✔ O1- Foreign Setting - The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence
O2- Time Travel
O3- Illustrated
✔ O4- Religion - Child of Flame
✔ O5- Brown Cover - Wine of Violence

Haunted by the Unread

Mission: Choose five books you planned to read THIS YEAR, which you were unable to accomplish. Then, Bust 'em, Dr. Venkman!

✔ 1. Cursed Moon
✔ 2. Stolen Songbird
✔ 3. The Emperor's Blades
✔ 4. The Dead Travel Fast
✔ 5. Wolf Star