Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

Goodreads Choice Award Books

To read 25 books off the list by December 31, 2017
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ALREADY READ: 11

A-Z Challenge 2017

Start date: January 1, 2017
End date: December 31, 2017

Books completed: 25/26

A - The Academy ★★★★
B - Burial Rites ★★★
C - Children of the Dark ★★★★★
D - Dark Matter ★★★★★
E - Escaping the Arroyo ★★★★
F - Feversong ★★★★
G - Girl Missing ★★★
H - The Haunted ★★★★
I - It Ends with Us ★★★★
J - John Doe ★★★★
K - The Kitchen House ★★★★★
L - Lilac Girls ★★★
M - My Heart and Other Black Holes ★★★★
N - NOS4A2 ★
O - One of Us Is Lying ★★★★★
P - Pretty Baby ★★★★
Q - The Sisters Who Would Be Queen ★
R - The Roanoke Girls ★★★★
S - The Short Drop ★★★★
T - Third Watch ★★★★
U - The Underground Railroad ★★★★
V - The Vanishing ★★★★
W - The Woman in Cabin 10 ★★★★
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Y - The Yosemite Murders ★★★★
Z - The Zookeeper's Wife

New Release Challenge 2017

Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Completed: 20/20

1. Feversong
2. Everything but the Truth
3. Exorcist Falls
4. Fairy Lights
5. Becoming
6. Behind Her Eyes]
7. Every Last Lie
8. The Roanoke Girls
9. Stillhouse Lake
10. The Late Show
11. One of Us Is Lying
12. Mother
13. Blanky
14. The Wife Between Us
15. Episodes of Violence
16. London Noir
17. Hardcore Twenty-Four
18. Final Girls
19. We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone
20. Two Kinds of Truth

New-to-me Author Exploration Challenge

Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Completed 54/25

1. Ruth Ware
2. Hannah Kent
3. Jonathan Janz
4. B.A. Paris
5. Jasmine Warga
6. Nadia Hashimi
7. Matthew FitzSimmons
8. Shari Lapena
9. Colson Whitehead
10. Gina Homolka
11. Greg F. Gifune
12. Shaun David Hutchinson
13. Bentley Little
14. Martha Hall Kelly
15. Joyce Nance
16. Gillian McAllister
17. Glenn Rolfe
18. Bernard Taylor
19. The Girl with All the Gifts
20. Colleen Hoover
21. Jennifer Brown
22. Patrick Lacey
23. Sarah Pinborough
24. Kathleen Grissom
25. Jason Parent
26. Elizabeth Haynes
27. J. Lynne
28. The Behrg
29. T.J. Brearton
30. Leanda de Lisle
31. Amy Engel
32. Rachel Caine
33. Jojo Moyes
34. Megan Miranda
35. Tim Meyer
36. Sibel Hodge
37. Robert Marasco
38. Karen M. McManus
39. Dennis McDougal
40. Alexandra Fuller
41. Penelope Douglas
42. Glen R. Krisch
43. Dean Burnett
44. Sebastian Junger
45. S.E. Lynes
46. Joe Hill (first one I actually finished)
47. Victoria Helen Stone
48. Greer Hendricks
49. David Bernstein
50. Ann Girdharry
51. J.T. Ellison
52. Charles Martin
53. Riley Sager
54. Alexandra Oliva
55.

I have gone back and forth about whether I wanted to do this. On one hand it seems so fun. But on the other hand, I know I have a type A personality and I will be pressured to try to finish. SO! This is like my therapy challenge. I am going to TRY it, but not be OBLIGATED to read books I don't like to finish. :) It will be ok. It will be ok. It will be ok.


Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Completed: 33/52

[] A book recommended by a librarian
[✘] A book that’s been on your TBR list for way too long Girl Missing
[] A book of letters
[✘] An audiobook The Heir
[✘] A book by a person of color And the Mountains Echoed
[] A book with one of the four seasons in the title
[✘] A book that is a story within a story Abandon
[] A book with multiple authors
[] An espionage thriller
[] A book with a cat on the cover
[✘] A book by an author who uses a pseudonym M.R. Carey The Girl with All the Gifts
[✘] A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read It Ends with Us
[✘] A book by or about a person who has a disability The Couple Next Door
[✘] A book involving travel The Woman in Cabin 10
[✘] A book with a subtitle Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
[✘] A book that’s published in 2017 Feversong
[✘] A book involving a mythical creature Children of the Dark
[] A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile
[✘] A book about food Skinnytaste Fast and Slow: Knockout Quick-Fix and Slow-Cooker Recipes for Real Life
[] A book with career advice
[✘] A book from a nonhuman perspective Exorcist Falls
[] A steampunk novel
[✘] A book with a red spine Dark Matter
[✘] A book set in the wilderness Savages
[] A book you loved as a child
[✘] A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited Behind Closed Doors
[✘] A book with a title that’s a character’s name The Roanoke Girls
[✘] A novel set during wartime Lilac Girls
[✘] A book with and unreliable narrator Follow You Home
[] A book with pictures
[✘] A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you Burial Rites
[] A book about an interesting woman
[✘] A book set in two different time periods The Vanishing
[] A book with a month or day of the week in the title
[] A book set in a hotel
[✘] A book written by someone you admire Sour Candy
[✘] A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 The Gunslinger (Part 1 of The Dark Tower Series)
[] A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
[✘] The first book in a series you haven’t read before The Short Drop
[✘] A book you brought on a trip The Sun Is Also a Star

Bonus level:
[] A book recommended by an author you love
[✘] A bestseller from 2016 The Underground Railroad
[✘] A book with a family-member term in the title Mother's Boys
[✘] A book that takes place over a character’s life span The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
[✘] A book about an immigrant or refugee When the Moon is Low
[✘] A book from a genre/subgenre that you’ve never heard of The Wife Between Us
[✘] A book with an eccentric character We Are the Ants
[✘] A book that’s more than 800 pages NOS4A2
[] A book that you got from a used book sale
[] A book that’s been mentioned in another book
[✘] A book about a difficult topic My Heart and Other Black Holes
[] A book based on mythology

Fun challenges, Vicki! I may have to steal that new author one. Good luck in all of them. You these no probs!

Amy wrote: "Fun challenges, Vicki! I may have to steal that new author one. Good luck in all of them. You these no probs!"

Thanks Amy. Go for it! That is probably the one that I am most successful with. I think last year I read over 50 new to me authors.