The Reading Challenge Group discussion

Read and Feed Book Club monthly picks

***1. The Invention of Wings by Kidd
***2. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Albertalli
***3. My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
***4. Echo by Ryan
***5. Ripper by Allende
***6. Billy Budd by Melville
***7. Night Circus by Morgenstern
***8. Last Midwife by Dallas
***9. Straight Man by Russo
***10. All the Light We Cannot See
***11. The Emerald Mile by Fedarko
***12. Kindred by Butler

10 Oldest Entries on my GR TBR

***1. Middlesex by Eugenides
***2. Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro (available as PCPL e-book)
***3. Little Prince by de Saint-Exupéry
***4. Suite Francaise by Nemirovsky
***5. Forgotten Garden by Morton
***6. Language of Flowers by Diffenbaugh
***7. This Beautiful Life by Schulman (available as PCPL e-book)
***8. 20 Boy Summer by Ockler (have on Kindle)
***9. So Much for That by Shriver (available as PCPL e-book)
***10. 84 Charing Cross Road

Level One (5 TBR books) = List Tickler

1. Everything I Never Told You
2. Dawn by Butler
3. The Grownup by Flynn
4. Dead Wake by Larson
5. Fry's English Delight by Fry

Level Two (10 TBR books) = List Tamer

6. Red Rising
7. Man Called Ove
8. The Little Prince
9. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
10. The Graduate by Webb

Level Three (15 TBR books) = Captain of the Shelf

11. Just Kids by Smith
12. Because We Are
13. Twenty Boy Summer
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Level Four (20 TBR books) = Master of All Dust Bunnies

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Dance of Book Joy ensues!

Book Riot Reader Harder challenge

24/24

***1. Horror book – Haunting of Hill House by Jackson*
***2. Nonfiction book about science – Isaac's Storm by Larson
***3. Collection of essays -- Bad Feminist by Gay
***4. Read a book out loud to someone else – The Grownup by Flynn
***5. Middle grade novel – Wonder by Palacio*
***6. Biography – King’s Speech by Logue
***7. Dystopian novel – Red Rising by Brown
***8. Originally published in the decade I was born – The Graduate by Webb
***9. Audiobook that won an Audie – Not my Father’s Son by Cummings
***10. Over 500 pages long – Echo by Ryan
***11. Under 100 pages -- Little Prince by de Saint-Exupéry
***12. By or about a person that identifies as transgender -- George by Gino
***13. Set in the middle east – An Unnecessary Woman by Alameddine
***14. By an author from SE Asia -- Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
***15. Historical fiction set before 1900 – Invention of Wings by Kidd
***16. First book in a series by a person of color – Dawn by Octavia Butler
***17. Non super-hero comic that debuted in the last 3 years – Lumberjanes by Stevenson
***18. Adapted into a movie -- Passage to India by Forster
***19. Nonfiction book about feminism – We Should all be Feminists by Adichie*
***20. About religion, fiction or non – Life Driven Purpose by Barker
***21. About politics, fiction or non, any country – Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
***22. Food memoir – Eating Animals by Foer
***23. A play – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Albee
***24. Main character has mental illness – The Bell Jar by Plath

Decade Challenge
(Original publication date)

1800-1809:
1810-1819: Sense & Sensibility
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859: Bartleby the Scrivener
1860-1869: Little Women
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899: Island of Dr. Moreau
1900-1909: The Jungle
1910-1919:
1920-1929: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
1930-1939:
1930-1939:
1940-1949: The Little Prince
1950-1959: Haunting of Hill House
1960-1969: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1970-1979: 84 Charing Cross Road
1980-1989: Dawn
1990-1999: Naked in Death
2000-2009: Gift of Rain
2010-2016: Cinder

Luck o' the Irish



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.

for green cover.

Spring Bingo Categories

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
***B5: Pretty Dress The Annotated Sense and Sensibility

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense
***I4: Mental Illness The Bell Jar
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover
***N3: FREE The Gift of Rain
N4: Romance
N5: Male POV

G1: Tear-Jerker
***G2: In Translation Suite Française
G3: Minority Studies
G5: Young Adult
G6: Magical Powers

***O1: Fairy Tale Retelling Scarlet
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

Mission: Read something with a deliciously wicked villain. This is a one book/play mini-challenge to be completed between April 1 - 30.

Fruit Salad Mini-challenge

Nothing says summer like a cool, sweet slice of watermelon.

For this challenge, read one book with fruit in the title before summer's end. (September 20)

***Orange is the New Black by Kerman

This challenge will run all year and have a leveled format, but mostly this is a place to discuss the new releases of 2016.

Owned titles:

The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things
You Will Know Me
The Eagle Tree
Sleeping Giants
Mothering Sunday
Eligible
The God's Eye View
Grave of Hummingbirds
Anna and the Swallow Man

Level One: Curious: read 1 new release
The Girls

Level Two: Curiouser: read 3 new releases
Lily and the Octopus

Level Three: Most Curious: read 6 new releases
Level Four: You killed the cat: read 12 new releases

This is a multi-level challenge that will run from April 1 through December 31. (You may cross post this with the longer challenges and bingos, but only count books read within the April-Dec. timeframe.)

Use your judgement on colors. Blue could be aquamarine or Navy. Red could be scarlet or carnelian. Etc.

Level 1: Painter's Palette - Any 3 colors
Level 2: Ride The Rainbow! - rainbow 6
Level 3: Beyond the Pale - All 12

Rainbow Six:

Red:
Orange:
Yellow:
Green:
Blue/Indigo:
Purple/Violet:

Beyond the Pale:

Pink:
Gray:
White:
Black:
Brown:
Color/Colour:

I'd Like to Buy a Vowel.

Mission: Beginning September 1, keep track of titles that are missing a key vowel.

No As- Just Kids
No Es- Straight Man
No Is- Never Let Me Go
No Os- The Girls
No Us- The Age of Innocence
No Ys- The Pigman

Challenge runs until December 31. Good Luck!

Top 20 most influential books by women

No time limit

*** To Kill a Mockingbird
*** The Handmaid's Tale
*** Jane Eyre
*** Harry Potter
*** Wuthering Heights
*** Pride and Prejudice
*** Rebecca
*** Little Women -- finished 11/11
- The Secret History
*** I Capture the Castle
*** The Bell Jar
- Beloved
*** Gone with the Wind
*** We Need to Talk About Kevin
*** The Time Traveler's Wife
- Middlemarch
*** I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- The Golden Notebook
*** The Color Purple
- The Women's Room

Back to School Challenge
This one is only good until the end of September.

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

The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

NEW! Dogmatically Catastic (2016)

Mission: Read a book where a pet is a major player in the story. It doesn't have to be a dog or a cat; if you've got a Finbulous Fish story, go for it.

Deadline: September 30.

Lily and the Octopus

Chunkster Challenge!

Goal: Read more books with a page count over 400 pages before the end of 2016.

Level One (Door Stopper)
- Read three books with > 400 pages
The Gift of Rain
Ripper
Scarlet

Level Two (Flower Presser)
- Read 6 books with > 400 pages
The Forgotten Garden
The Pillars of the Earth
The Night Circus

Level Three (Back Breaker)
- Read 10 books with > 400 pages... and then see a chiropractor!
Because We Are: A Novel of Haiti
All the Light We Cannot See
Little Women
Middlesex