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Genre Bingo Challenge (pg 1 / msg 43)Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
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✔ 01. Literary Fiction ~ Small Great Things
02. Science Fiction ~
✔ 03. Classic ~ A Christmas Carol
04. Science Nonfiction ~
05. Space Opera ~
✔ 06. Adventure ~ The Underground Railroad
✔ 07. Short Story ~ The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales
✔ 08. Historical Nonfiction ~ Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
✔ 09. Horror ~ The Devil of Nanking
10. Dystopian ~
✔ 11. Coming of Age ~ Little Women
✔ 12. Historical ~ Victoria
✔ 13. YA Fantasy ~ Gulliver's Travels
14. Humor ~
✔ 15. Chick-lit ~ Death by Darjeeling
16. High Fantasy ~
✔ 17. Tragedy ~ The Great Gatsby
18. Biography ~
19. Family Saga ~
✔ 20. Mystery/Thriller ~ Defending Jacob
21. Urban Fantasy ~
22. Crime ~
23. Memoir ~
24. Suspense ~
The Dewey Decimal Challenge (nonfiction) (pg 1 / msg 21) Duration: January 1, 2017 – December 1, 2017
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✔ 500-599 ~ 510.925209 LEESHET Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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The Listopia Challenge
(pg 1 / msg 10)Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
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Using the following lists:
A Best Nonfiction (non-biography)
B Read Them Twice... at Least
C Best Southern Literature
D Best School Assigned Books
✔ 01. B The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales
✔ 02. B & D Little Women
✔ 03. B & D A Christmas Carol
✔ 04. B Gulliver's Travels
✔ 05. B & D The Great Gatsby
✔ 06. B & D The Secret Garden
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Around the World Through Language (pg 1 / msg 3)Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
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Let's Turn Pages Challenge
(pg 1 / msg 13) Duration: January 1 – December 31, 2017
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✔ 404 in Victoria
✔ 144 in The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales
✔ 520 in Little Women
✔ 417 in The Underground Railroad
✔ 421 in Defending Jacob
✔ 346 in Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
✔ 727 in Small Great Things
✔ 160 in A Christmas Carol
✔ 318 in Gulliver's Travels
✔ 368 in The Devil of Nanking
✔ 180 in The Great Gatsby
✔ 194 in The Secret Garden
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Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge
(pg 1 / msg 4)Duration January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
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01. A book recommended by a librarian:
✔ 02. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long:
Little Women
03. A book of letters:
04. An audiobook:
✔ 05. A book by a person of color:
The Underground Railroad
06. A book with one of the four seasons in the title:
07. A book that is a story within a story:
08. A book with multiple authors:
09. An espionage thriller:
10. A book with a cat on the cover:
✔ 11. A book with an author who uses a pseudonym:
Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs which is a pseudonym for Gerry Schmitt.
12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read:
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability:
✔ 14. A book involving travel:
Gulliver's Travels
✔ 15. A book with a subtitle:
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
16. A book that's published in 2017:
17. A book involving a mythical creature:
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile:
19. A book about food:
20. A book with career advice:
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective:
22. A steampunk novel:
✔ 23. A book with a red spine:
A Christmas Carol
24. A book set in the wilderness:
25. A book you loved as a child:
✔ 26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited:
The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde, Ireland
✔ 27. A book with a title that's a character's name:
The Great Gatsby
28. A novel set during wartime:
29. A book with an unreliable narrator:
30. A book with pictures:
✔ 31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you:
Small Great Things
✔ 32. A book about an interesting woman:
Victoria
✔ 33. A book set in two different time periods:
The Devil of Nanking
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title:
35. A book set in a hotel:
36. A book written by someone you admire:
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017:
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas:
39. The first book in a series you haven't read before:
40. A book you bought on a trip:
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41. A book recommended by an author you love:
42. A bestseller from 2016:
43. A book with a family-member term in the title:
44. A book that takes place over a character's life span:
45. A book about an immigrant or refugee:
46. A book from a genre/subgenre you've never heard of:
47. A book with an eccentric character:
48. A book that's more than 800 pages:
49. A book you got from a used book sale:
50. A book that's been mentioned in another book:
✔ 51. A book about a difficult topic:
Defending Jacob
52. A book based on mythology:
Serial Reader Challenge
(pg 1 / msg 4)Duration January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017
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I will finish 16 series I have started before this year. (# books)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet #3) by Madeleine L'Engle
Many Waters (Time Quintet #4) by Madeleine L'Engle
An Acceptable Time (Time Quintet #5) by Madeleine L'Engle
Plain Dead (An Amish Mystery #3) by Emma Miller
Plain Missing (An Amish Mystery #4) by Emma Miller (exp pub date 03/28/17)
The Nowhere Man (Evan Smoak #2) by Gregg Hurwitz (exp pub date 01/17/17)
The Collectors (Camel Club #2) by David Baldacci
Stone Cold (Camel Club #3) by David Baldacci
Divine Justice (Camel Club #4) by David Baldacci
Hell's Corner (Camel Club #5) by David Baldacci
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles #4) by Marissa Meyer
Hooked on Ewe (Scottish Highlands #2) by Hannah Reed
Dressed to Kilt (Scottish Highlands #3) by Hannah Reed
I will start__ series this year. (# books)
✔ Little Women (Little Women #1)
✔ Death by Darjeeling (A Tea Shop Mystery)
I will read 7 series from start to finish this year. (# books)
The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia #1) by C.S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia #2) by C.S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia #3) by C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia #4) by
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia #5) by C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia #6) by C.S. Lewis
The Last Battle (The Chronicles of Narnia #7) by C.S. Lewis
I will read __ number of books that are part of a series. (# books)
My total number of books is 23.
My Favorite Things
(pg 1 / msg 4)Duration January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017
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For this challenge, you will fill in the blanks with your favorite things and find "new to you" books that match each category. You can either find a book that has the same same words in the title, is about the same subject, has a picture of your favorite thing on the cover, is written by the same author, or is the next in a series. The choice is yours as long as you have never read the book before!
Here are your categories...
1. My favorite fiction book is: Windmills of the Gods
2. My favorite non-fiction is: The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook
3. My favorite author is: Stuart Woods
4. My favorite genre is: Mystery/Thriller
✔ 5. My favorite fairy/folk tale is: The Elves and the Shoemaker
The Secret Garden just as the work done by the elves was done in secret, so was the work done by the children in the garden.
✔ 6. My favorite male book character is: Stone Barrington who is an attorney.
Defending Jacob, the protagonist is an attorney.
✔ 7. My favorite female book character is: Holly Barker
A Christmas Carol I'm going to get creative here with this one... Holly is a traditional Christmas decoration.
8. My favorite song is: Our House
9. My favorite movie is: The Godfather
✔ 10. My favorite television show is: The Big Bang Theory who's characters are in the sciences and mathematical profession, similar to the women who worked for NASA in the book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.
11. My favorite color is: green
12. My favorite real animal is: butterfly
13. My favorite talking animal is: Winnie-the-Pooh
✔ 14. My favorite number is: 4
Little Women, a story about four sisters.
15. My favorite food is: pizza
16. My favorite real place to visit is:Disney World
✔ 17. My favorite book land to visit is: Middle Earth
Gulliver's Travels The same way Middle Earth is a fictional land, so are the lands visited by Gulliver in this book.
18. My favorite month is: December
✔ 19. My favorite quote is: “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales The above quote is a life lesson, as are all the morals in this collection of short stories.
✔ 20. My favorite non-book hobby is: cooking/baking
Death by Darjeeling contains a recipe at the end of the book.
Examples:
1. My favorite book is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
You could read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 because it is another book in the series.
7. My favorite female book character is Jane Eyre from Jane Eyre.
You could read The Eyre Affair it is a book that includes Jane Eyre as a character.
13. My favorite talking animal is: Charlotte from Charlotte's Web.
You could read The Girl in the Spider's Web because both books have "web" in the title.
17. My favorite book land to visit is outer space.
You could read Ender's Game because the book takes place in outer space.
The TBR Randomiser Challenge
(pg 1 / msg 7)Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2017
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01. Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 by Shelby Foote
02. The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People by Bethanne Patrick
03. The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure by Cathy Scott-Clark
04. The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
05. The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV
Top Ten Faves
(pg 1 / msg 8)Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2017
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Top 10 for the Reading Challengers
✔ 01. Little Women
✔ 02. A Christmas Carol
✔ 03. The Secret Garden
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Color Challenge
(pg 1 / msg 28)Duration: January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017
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✔ 1. "White" or any shade of white in the cover (ivory, cream, bone, etc...).
Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
✔ 2. "Pink" or any shade of pink in the cover (rose, magenta, salmon, etc...).
Small Great Things
✔ 3. "Red" or any shade of red in the cover (maroon, brick, scarlet, etc...).
The Devil of Nanking
✔ 4. "Orange" or any shade of orange in the cover (apricot, ginger, carrot, etc...).
The Underground Railroad
✔ 5. "Yellow" or any shade of yellow in the cover (blond, chartreuse, canary, etc...).
The Great Gatsby
✔ 6. "Green" or any shade of green in the cover (sage, lime, jade, etc...).
Defending Jacob
✔ 7. "Light Blue" or any shade of light blue in the cover (teal, sky, cerulean, etc...)
The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales
8. "Dark Blue" or any shade of dark blue in the cover (indigo, denim, navy, etc...).
✔ 9. "Purple" or any shade of purple in the cover (lavender, plum, orchid, etc...).
Death by Darjeeling
10. "Brown" or any shade of brown in the cover (tan, mahogany, coffee, etc...).
Gulliver's Travels
✔ 11. "Black" or any shade of black in the cover (grey, slate, coal, etc...).
Gulliver's Travels
12. Metallic color in the cover (gold, silver, bronze, etc...).
✔ 13. 5 colors on the cover.
Little Women
✔ 14. A color in the title of the book.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
15. A word describing colors in the title (rainbow, stripes, polka dots, ect...).
A to Z Challenge - Location Edition
(pg 1 / msg 4)Duration: January 1, through December 31, 2017.
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This year we are doing a new twist on the A to Z Challenge. To go with our "Around the World Theme," we have decided to do a Location Edition! For this challenge you will read books with cities, states, provinces, countries, and worlds that fit for each letter of the alphabet. You may only use one location per book, and you may use fictional locations for this challenge.
For some examples, see below:
A: Alaska from Into the Wild
B: Blefuscu from Gulivers Travels
C: Chicago from The Jungle
D: Dune from Dune
E: England from Pride and Prejudice
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✔ B: Gulliver's Travels Brobdingnag
✔ C: Small Great Things Connecticut (New Haven)
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✔ E: Victoria England
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✔ I: The Underground Railroad Indiana
✔ J: The Devil of Nanking Japan (Tokyo)
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✔ L: A Christmas Carol London, England
✔ M: Little Women Massachusetts (Concord)
✔ N: Defending Jacob Newton, MA
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✔ S: Death by Darjeeling South Carolina (Charleston)
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✔ V: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Virginia (Langley)
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✔ Y: The Secret Garden Yorkshire, England
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Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge 2017
(pg 1 / msg 7)Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2017
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Resource: Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge Group
1. Read a book about sports.
2. Read a debut novel.
3. Read a book about books.
4. Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author.
5. Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative.
6. Read an all-ages comic.
✔ 7. Read a book published between 1900 and 1950.
The Great Gatsby
8. Read a travel memoir.
9. Read a book you’ve read before.
10. Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location.
✔ 11. Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location.
Victoria
✔ 12. Read a fantasy novel.
Gulliver's Travels
13. Read a nonfiction book about technology.
✔ 14. Read a book about war.
The Devil of Nanking
15. Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+.
16. Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country.
17. Read a classic by an author of color.
18. Read a superhero comic with a female lead.
19. Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey.
20. Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel.
21. Read a book published by a micropress.
22. Read a collection of stories by a woman.
23. Read a collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love.
24. Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color.
First Quarter ChallengeBook You Might Have Missed Last Year
Duration: January 1, 2017 - March 31, 2017
4/4 COMPLETED
First and foremost, congratulations to everyone for participating in the Goodreads Reading Challenge! Whether you completed your challenge for 2016 or didn't quite make it, as any lover of books, we are sure most of you have a pile of TBR books you would have loved to have squeezed in.
For this 2017 1st Quarter Challenge, we are offering you a chance to catch up on some of those books. Did you not quite finish the PopSugar Challenge? Did you want to read a few more books for the Listopia Challenge? How about the Every Year Challenge? Were you able to read that book that was written when you were 5? Here is a way to start this year's challenge while finishing up some of last year's.
✔ 01. Victoria
✔ 02. The Underground Railroad
✔ 03. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
✔ 04. Small Great Things
First Quarter Challenge2016 Goodreads Choice Award Winners
Duration: January 1, 2017 - March 31, 2017
2/2 COMPLETED
Let's celebrate the best books of 2016, Goodreads-style! This challenge is based around the Goodreads Choice Awards of 2016.
✔ 01. The Underground Railroad
✔ 02. Small Great Things
January Group Reads The Bard's Yard Book Club
01. MS ~ The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia #1) by C.S. Lewis
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✔ 03. A ~ Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
04. Sh ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (Jan 29 thru Mar 11)
The Readers Review
✔ 01. The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde (Dec thru Jan 8)
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2017 Reading Challenge
01. American Gods (American Gods #1) by Neil Gaiman
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
01. R ~ One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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03. NS ~ The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
04. SS ~ The Pearl by John Steinbeck
05. QLR ~ The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances #1) by Alexandre Dumas
Cozy Mysteries
01. AofM ~
Cozy Mystery Corner
01. Twisted Threads by Lea Wait
02. Murder Simply Brewed by Vannetta Chapman
The Life of a Book Addict
01. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
✔ 02. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
✔ 03. Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
04. QNF ~ Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
Into the Forest
01. Jan/Feb Org ~ One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh
02. Jan/Feb A ~ Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
03. Jan/Feb YA ~ Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
Mysteries & Crime Thrillers
01. Dec/Jan The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
02. Dec/Jan Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge
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Obsessed with True Crime
01. AofM ~ The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule
02. NAofM ~
On the Southern Literary Trail
01. Pre ~ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
02. Post ~ Redemption Road by John Hart
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The Mystery, Crime & Thriller Group
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02. Dec/Jan The Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder
✔ 03. Dec/Jan Defending Jacob by William Landay
04. Jan/Feb Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
05. Jan/Feb Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton
Never too Late to Read Classics
✔ 01. Dec/Jan A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
✔ 02. Dec/Jan The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen read 2016
✔ 03. Dec/Jan YA ~ Little Women (Little Women #1) by Louisa May Alcott
04. Jan/Feb The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
05. Jan/Feb Anne of Green Gables by Anne of Green Gables
06. Jan/Feb YA ~ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Key: X - not going to read / ✔ - completed
January Challenge Myths from Around the World (pg 1 / msg 17)
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2017
2/2 COMPLETE
1. Janus - Roman god of beginnings and transitions. Read a book set in Italy, or a book with a character that starts out on a fresh beginning.
2. Fenghuang - Chinese bird, also known as the Chinese Phoenix, is a mythical bird that signifies high virtue and grace. Read a book set in China, or a book featuring a character full of grace and virtue.
3. Brownie - Scottish mythical creature that inhabits houses and aids in tasks. Read a book set in Scotland, or a book featuring a character that does work that is unseen.
4. Enenra - Japanese smoke creature. It inhabits bonfires and legend says can only be seen by the pure of heart. Read a book set in Japan, or a book with a pure-hearted character.
5. Cyclops - Greek mythical one-eyed giants. Read a book based on a Greek tragedy or a book featuring a short-sighted character.
✔ Victoria, Victoria has many missteps within the first two years of her reign (the time frame covered in the book), one in particular with Lady Flora Hastings.
6. Lang suir - Malaysian ghost of a woman who died in childbirth. Read a book from Oceania, or a book featuring a character who dies from a broken heart.
7. Finnish water spirit who will capture unmindful children. Read a book set in Scandinavia, or a book about a captured child.
8. Hippogriff - European medieval beast that is half eagle and half horse, known for being extremely fast and able to fly long distances. Read a book about medieval Europe, or a book featuring a character who flies.
9. Wandjina - Australian aboriginal wind and cloud spirits. Read a book set in Australia, or a book featuring an important weather event.
10. Jumbee - Caribbean malevolent entities. Read a book set in the Caribbean, or a book featuring a malevolent character.
✔ Little Women, Mr. Laurence
January Challenge Marathon Challenge (pg 1 / msg 22)
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2017
4/10 and 1,906/4000 imcomplete
✔ 01. 144 in The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales
✔ 02. 404 in Victoria
✔ 03. 520 in Little Women
✔ 04. 417 in The Underground Railroad
✔ 05. 07. 421 in Defending Jacob
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4/10 1,906/4,000
This was such a hit last year, that we are thought we would kick off the year again running! How often is our New Year's Resolution to read more books? How many of us set goals higher that we did last year? How many of us want to read that super long classic that has been sitting on our book shelf, or spend a winter day curled up on the couch with a pile of graphic novels? Let's start this 2017 with a marathon of reading!
With long holiday breaks coming, pick a pile of books you feel you could snuggle up with. A nice long over 500 page book, a group of books under 100 pages, that book that has been on your TBR waiting to read for way too long, or anything else you choose for yourself.
This is not a sprint, but a way to spend January in the pages! Pick the number of pages or books you would like to read in January and post them below. The goal is to get the New Year started fast! Who would have thought that by hurrying up and sitting with a book, that you could do a marathon?
February Group Reads The Bard's Yard Book Club
01. MS ~ The Magician's Nephew
02. HS ~ To Kill a Mockingbird
03. A ~ Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
04. Sh ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
The Readers Review
02. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (Feb 20 thru Mar 18)
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2017 Reading Challenge
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Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
01. R ~ The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
02. OS ~ Hard Times by Charles Dickens
03. NS ~ Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
04. SS ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
05. QLR ~ The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances #1) by Alexandre Dumas
Cozy Mysteries
01. AofM ~ Susan Furlong
Cozy Mystery Corner
01. A High-End Finish by Kate Carlisle
02. Alibis and Amethysts by Sharon Pape
The Life of a Book Addict
01. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
02. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
03. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
04. QNF ~ Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
Mysteries & Crime Thrillers
01. Feb 15/Mar 31 The Dry by Jane Harper
02. Feb 15/Mar 31 The Trespasser by Tana French
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Obsessed with True Crime
01. AofM ~ someone who killed their S.O.
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On the Southern Literary Trail
01. Pre ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
02. Post ~ News of the World by Paulette Jiles
03. Mod ~ Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
Into the Forest
01. Jan/Mar Org ~ One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh
02. Jan/Mar A ~ Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
03. Jan/Mar YA ~ Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
The Mystery, Crime & Thriller Group
01. Jan/Feb Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton
02. Jan/Feb Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
03. Feb/Mar A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
04. Feb/Mar Good as Gone: A Novel of Suspense by Amy Gentry
05. Feb/Mar Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner
Never too Late to Read Classics
01. Jan/Feb The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
02. Jan/Feb Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
03. Jan/Feb YA ~ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
04. Feb/Mar Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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06. Feb/Mar YA ~ Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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X - not going to read / ✔ - completed
March Group Reads The Bard's Yard Book Club
01. MS ~
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04. Sh ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (thru Mar 11)
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The Readers Review
01. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (Feb 20 thru Mar 18)
02. Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas
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2017 Reading Challenge
01. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
01. R ~ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
02. OS ~ Cantebury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
03. NS ~ Beloved by Toni Morrison
04. SS ~ The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
05. QLR ~ The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Cozy Mysteries
01. AofM ~ Elizabeth Spann Craig
Cozy Mystery Corner
01. Brighton Belle by Sara Sheridan
02. The Rhyme of the Magpie by Marty Wingate
The Life of a Book Addict
01. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
02. The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer
03. Heartless by Marissa Meyer
04. QNF ~ Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
Mysteries & Crime Thrillers
01. Feb 15/Mar 31 The Dry by Jane Harper
02. Feb 15/Mar 31 The Trespasser by Tana French
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Obsessed with True Crime
01. AofM ~ So March's challenge is to read a book about a family or couple that kill or commit other crimes together. This can be father and son, husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, parents and children, etc.
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On the Southern Literary Trail
01. Pre ~ Sanctuary by William Faulkner
02. Post ~ Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith
03. Mod ~ No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman
Into the Forest
01. Jan/Mar Org ~ One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh
02. Jan/Mar A ~ Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
03. Jan/Mar YA ~ Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
04. Mar/May Org ~ D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
05. Mar/May A ~ Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
06. Mar/May YA ~ Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
The Mystery, Crime & Thriller Group
01. Feb/Mar A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
02. Feb/Mar Good as Gone: A Novel of Suspense by Amy Gentry
03. Feb/Mar Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner
03. Mar/Apr The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
04. Mar/Apr The Black Widow by Daniel Silva
Never too Late to Read Classics
01. Feb/Mar Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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03. Feb/Mar YA ~ Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
04. Mar/Apr ~ The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
05. Mar/Apr ~ All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
06. Mar/Apr YA ~ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Key:
X - not going to read / ✔ - completed
The Women in the Book Challenge (pg 1 / msg 45)Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2017
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This month's theme is Women, and several members suggested challenges with prompts to read different kinds of books by and about women - this is a hybrid of those suggestions. There are a wide range of topics to help us broaden our horizons!
✔ 1. Read a book written by a female author that is new to you.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. Read a book written by a female of color.
3. Read a nonfiction book written by a female author.
4. Read a biography (not a memoir) about a woman.
5. Read a book that is classified as “feminist.” (Can be fiction)
6. Read a book where a woman disguises herself as man.
7. Read a book where the woman in the story does not conform to gender norms.
8. Read a book about a woman/women during a time of war.
9. Read a book where the antagonist is a female.
10. Read a book with a woman's name in the title.
Title IX Challenge (pg 1 / msg 3)Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2017
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* Title IX is an American law that prohibits sexual discrimination in education.
To honor the women in our lives, let's read books that feature women in the title. Since women fill so many different roles, there are tons of possibilities! Some examples of words include woman, girl, Miss, Mrs., lady, a woman's name, or even women-specific job titles such as waitress or actress.
Second Quarter ChallengeCLEAR ALL YOUR BOOKSHELVES CHALLENGE (pg 2 / msg 59)
Duration: April 1, 2017 - June 31, 2017
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This challenge is a way to clean out all of bookshelves: your physical, your electric, and your audible ones! The books you read for this challenge are books you that are already in your possession. Whatever you do for this challenge, you are not allowed to read a book obtained after April 1, 2017.
Here are some ideas on how to choose your books:
1. Read a book that you borrowed from a friend and want to return when finished.
2. Read a book that you have had for two+ years and haven't started.
3. Read a book you have started, set aside for awhile, and now want to finish.
4. Read a book that you own that will help towards a yearly challenge.
5. Read a book from your shelf then donate it to your local Little Free Library, church, shelters, Goodwill, etc.
List the number of
Physical Books:
Ebooks: 1 Death by Darjeeling #2
Audible Books:
you want to read (listen to).
Second Quarter Challengemy link text">CLASSICS AROUND THE WORLD CHALLENGE (pg 1 / msg 26)
Duration: April 1, 2017 - June 30, 2017
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With our yearly theme of Around the World we though it might be fun to have a challenge focused around reading classics. American and British classics are pretty well known, but there’s lots of gems out there waiting to be discovered from all the world! I have provided some links to give some inspiration. Feel free to use them :)
Links:
French Literature
German/Austrian Literature
Nordic Literature
Japanese Literature
Latino/Latina Literature
Slavic Literature
Asian Literature
Here’s how you do it: pick the number of books you want to read. If you want to you can choose the books right then or you can discover them as you go.
April Group Reads The Bard's Yard Book Club
01. MS ~
02. HS ~
03. A ~
04. Sh ~
05. Se ~
The Readers Review
01. Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas
02. Proj ~ The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
2017 Reading Challenge
01. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
01. R ~ Emma by Jane Austen
02. OS ~ Villette by Charlotte Brontë
03. NS ~ A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
04. SS ~ A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
05. QLR ~ Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Cozy Mysteries
01. AofM ~ Elizabeth Spann Craig (Quilt or Innocence)
Cozy Mystery Corner
01. Of Grave Concern by Max McCoy
02. Stamped Out by Terri Thayer
The Life of a Book Addict
01. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
02. Caraval by Stephanie Garber
03. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
04. QNF ~ Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Mysteries & Crime Thrillers
01. Memory Man by David Baldacci
02. A Cold Dark Place by Gregg Olsen
03. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
SP Void by David Staniforth
Obsessed with True Crime
01. survivor link: survivor's bookshelf
On the Southern Literary Trail
01. Pre ~ All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
02. Post ~ Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
03. Mod ~ Dirty Work by Larry Brown
Into the Forest
01. Mar 15/May 15 Org ~ D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
02. Mar 15/May 15 A ~ Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
03. Mar 15/May 15 YA ~ Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
The Mystery, Crime & Thriller Group
01. Mar/Apr ~ The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
02. Mar/Apr ~ The Black Widow by The Black Widow
03. Apr/May ~
04. Apr/May ~
Never too Late to Read Classics
01. Mar/Apr ~ The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
02. Mar/Apr ~ All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
03. Mar/Apr YA ~ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
04. Apr/May ~
05. Apr/May ~
06. Apr/May YA ~ Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Key:
X - not going to read / ✔ - completed
APRIL CHALLENGE - LINKS (pg 2 / msg 51)Duration April 1, 2017 to April 30, 2017
1 link / 2 books
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Let's have a little fun linking up our books! Each task requires 2 books instead of 1.
1) TITLE TWINS: Read two books with that share a word in the title. Link is in the title.
2) REFLECTIONS: Read two books on the same subject, one fiction and one non-fiction. Link is the topic.
3) TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN: Two different perspectives on the same topic. For example a male and female's view of marriage OR a liberal and a conservative view on poverty OR a young person and an older person's view on friendship. Link is the topic.
4) BACKLIST: Read an author's most recent publication, followed by an earlier publication, and then an even earlier publication, etc. Link is the author her- or himself.
5)GOODREADS RECOMMENDATION: Read a book and then choose a book that Goodreads lists as being similar or recommended. Link is Goodreads.
6)GLOBETROTTER: Read a book in which the character travels from one place to another. Find a book that begins where the last book left off (Does not need to be exact location, but should be close.) Link is the location.
April Challenge ??
MayGroup Reads The Readers Review
01. Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola (May 7 through June 3)
02. Proj ~ The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
2017 Reading Challenge
01. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
01. R ~ Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
02. OS ~ Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
03. NS ~ Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
04. SS ~ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
05. QLR ~ Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Cozy Mysteries
01. AofM ~ Rita Mae Brown
Cozy Mystery Corner
01. Dying In the Wool by Frances Brody
02. The Book Club Murders by Leslie Nagel
Mysteries & Crime Thrillers
01. May/June Dark Matter by Greg Iles
02. May/June Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
03. May/June Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
Obsessed with True Crime
May Challenge ~ defense of the enviornment/eco-terrorism
On the Southern Literary Trail
01. Pre ~ Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
02. Post ~ The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
03. Mod ~ Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner
Into the Forest
01. Mar 15/May 15 Org ~ D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
02. Mar 15/May 15 A ~ Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
03. Mar 15/May 15 YA ~ Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
04. May 15/ Jul 15 Org ~ voting ends May 12
05. May 15/ Jul 15 A ~
06. May 15/ Jul 15 YA ~
The Mystery, Crime & Thriller Group
01. Apr 15/May 14 ~ Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
02. Apr 15/May 14 ~ The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
03. May 15/Jun 14 ~
04. May 15/Jun 14 ~
Never too Late to Read Classics
01. Apr 15/May 14 ~ The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
02. Apr 15/May 14 ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
03. Apr 15/May 14 ~ Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
04. Apr 15/May 14 YA ~ The Little House Collection by Laura Ingalls Wilder
04. May/Jun ~
05. May/Jun ~
06. May/Jun ~ The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Key:
X - not going to read / ✔ - completed
May Challenge
May Challenge
June Group Reads
June Challenge
June Challenge
Third Quarter Challenge Duration: July 1, 2017 - September 30, 2017
Third Quarter Challenge Duration: July 1, 2017 - September 30, 2017
July Group Reads
July Challenge
July Challenge
August Group Reads
August Challenge
August Challenge
September Group Reads
September Challenge
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Big Little Lies (other topics)Sense and Sensibility (other topics)
The Brothers Karamazov (other topics)
The Mermaids Singing (other topics)
The Story of My Life (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Helen Keller (other topics)Liane Moriarty (other topics)
Jane Austen (other topics)
Walt Whitman (other topics)
Val McDermid (other topics)
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Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
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✔ 01. Victoria
✔ 02. The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales
✔ 03. Little Women
✔ 04. The Underground Railroad
✔ 05. Defending Jacob
✔ 06. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
✔ 07. Small Great Things
✔ 08. A Christmas Carol
✔ 09. Small Great Things
✔ 10. Gulliver's Travels
✔ 11. The Devil of Nanking
✔ 12. The Great Gatsby
✔ 13. The Secret Garden
✔ 14. Death by Darjeeling
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