The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

If you would like a place to plan or share what you'll be reading for the Fall 2017 Challenge you may post a list in this thread. You are NOT required to post here to participate in the challenge.

Progress:
Points: 380/965
Tasks: 28/56
Books read: 30

Goals:
* Complete all 5 & 10 point tasks
* Enter the best review competition
* Read two books from genres I'm less familiar with
* Read at least one non-fiction book
* Points goal:
- ambitious goal = 500 points
- more realistic goal = 350 points

5 point tasks
✔ 5.1 - Only Natural
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Volume 1: Squirrel Power by Ryan North

✔ 5.2 - Location, Location, Location
An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell (set in Sweden) (o)

✔ 5.3 - Oh... Craps
Introducing Stephen Hawking (Introducing by J.P. McEvoy

✔ 5.4 - Best Laid Plans
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

✔ 5.5 - September, October, November
A Literary Education: Adapting Charlotte Mason for Modern Secular Homeschooling by Emily Cook

5.6 - Michaelmas
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

✔5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
Hunted by James Patterson

✔ 5.9 - Help Yourself
The 10 Keys to Success by John Bird

✔5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Maria Montessori

10 point tasks

✔ 10.1 - Rice is Nice
The Quiet American by Graham Greene

✔ 10.2 - The Bodyguard
Letters to my Grandchildren: Lessons for the Future
("Waiting for you")

10.3 - No Blindfold
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

✔ 10.4 - It's a Fan Thing
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids by Kim John Payne

10.6 - Highway Patrol
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara

✔10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason's Timeless Educational Ideas by Deborah Taylor-Hough

✔ 10.8 - Best Original Novel
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

✔10.9 - Members Only
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

✔ 10.10 - Countdown
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

15 point tasks

✔ 15.6 - Rio's Harbor
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory

✔15.10 - Thrills and Chills
The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell

20 point tasks

✔ 20.1 - Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Option 2: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

✔ 20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Siobhan's task: It's a Love Story
Option 1: The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

✔ 20.3 - Best Review - Sam M's task: The Secret History
Option 1: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Page one of list.

✔ 20.4 – Golden Oldies – Loafer's task: Golden Oldies
Option 2: Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke
Approved in post 34 of help thread.

✔ 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Fandury's task: The 11 days of the Fantasy Filmfest
Option 5: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

✔ 20.6 - Seasoned Reader - SweetMelissa's task: In Memoriam
Option C: Full House by Maeve Binchy

✔ 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Book Concierge's task: National Hispanic Heritage Month
Option D: The Lightning Thief

✔20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature
Option 1: The Escape by Lynda La Plante

✔ 20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lauren Jodi's task: Morbid Nursery Rhymes
Option 3: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

20.10 - Group reads
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

30 point tasks

✔30.6 - Diana K's task: Fall Baking
My recipe
✔Option A: The House on Mango Street
✔Option D: Big Little Lies (512 pages)

✔ 30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
✔Option 1: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking
✔ Option 5: Chaos to Clean: in 31 Easy BabySteps by Marla Cilley

Books I'm hoping to fit into this season:
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling (30.1)
✔ The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
The Summer Seaside Kitchen by Jenny Colgan
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Quiet American by Graham Greene (30.4)
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (20.1)
✔ The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (30.7)
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Saturday by Ian McEwan

Reading Plan Fall 2017

5.1 - Only Natural
5.2 - Location, Location, Location
5.3 - Oh... Craps
5.4 - Best Laid Plans
5.5 - September, October, November The Furthest Station post 223
5.6 - Michaelmas
5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
5.9 - Help Yourself
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder

10.1 - Rice is Nice
10.2 - The Bodyguard
10.3 - No Blindfold
10.4 - It's a Fan Thing Paradox Bound] post 2124
10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
10.6 - Highway Patrol Long Way Round post 396
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya Cold-Forged Flame post 667
10.8 - Best Original Novel
10.9 - Members Only The Roanoke Girls post 452
10.10 - Countdown Hungry Ghosts post 1744

15.1 - Climbing Everest
15.2 - Opposites Attract
15.3 - Victoria Falls
15.4 - Stranger Things
15.5 - Northern Lights
15.6 - Rio's Harbor
15.7 - Sea Life
15.8 - NaNoWriMo
15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins
15.10 - Thrills and Chills The Mourning House post 2279

20.1 - Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Siobhan's task: It's a Love Story Weaver's Lament post 2124
20.3 - Best Review - Sam M's task: The Secret History
20.4 – Golden Oldies – Loafer's task: Golden Oldies They All Fall Down post 2392
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Fandury's task: The 11 days of the Fantasy Filmfest Pet Sematary post 667
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - SweetMelissa's task: In Memoriam
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Book Concierge's task: National Hispanic Heritage Month The Lost City of the Monkey God post 1015
20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature This Census-Taker post 189
20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lauren Jodi's task: Morbid Nursery Rhymes
20.10 - Group Reads

25.1 - Coralie's task: Melbourne’s Spring Holidays Beacon 23 Half-Resurrection Blues post 1744
25.2 - Nick KY's task: Schmoop the Dude A Poisoned Season The Secret Place post 2511
25.3 - Catherine T's task: Seasonal Poems
25.4 - Andy P's task: I didn't think I would finish the Summer Challenge but...
25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS Down Among the Sticks and Bones Wychwood post 1867
25.6 - M1nks's task: Natural Wonders
25.7 - Sandy's task: More is Better City of Miracles River of Teeth post 2511

30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Wonders of 7 The Hanging Tree Magic Burns post 1534
30.2 - MAZZA1’S Task: Six Degrees of Separation Six Wakes Rivers of London post 1098
30.3 - ElaineL's task: Time Flies Jane and the Barque of Frailty The Legacy post 2637
30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Vowel Power
30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania
30.6 - Diana K's task: Fall Baking The Servant's Tale Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic post 2279
30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales The Essence of Malice post 2279
30.8 - Brooke TX's task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks

50.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Outside the box Nightshades Shadow Unit 6 The Forgotten Room post 1965


Total Points: 470
Books Read: 33
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(2)750+(0)1000+(0)

Points total: 545
GO total: 2
BB total: 3
Tasks completed: 29
Books read: 39


5.1 - Only Natural
a book written by an author whose first and last name initials can be found in NATURAL.

✔5.2 - Location, Location, Location
Plague Z: Escape - Vol. 1 Russia
ebook approved by length msg #6433 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

+5.3 - Oh... Craps
Death and the Dream

✔5.4 - Best Laid Plans
The Well by Catherine Chanter
Using task 15.3, book 1

+5.5 - September, October, November
Nobody

5.6 - Michaelmas
a book written by an author named “Michael” or any of the related names found at Behind the Name - Michael such as Mike, Miguel, Michelle, Lina, Name variations are limited to those found at the link- NO other variations.

5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air
Bear in the Back Seat I: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park p. 14
Winter Count p. 10
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education p. 2
A Year in the Maine Woods p. 2
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail p. 3

✔5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

5.9 Skip

✔5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
Squall

10.1 - Rice is Nice
a book set at least 50% in China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Brazil, Japan or top rice-producing US states: Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas. If the setting is not evident on the book's main page include a reference or quote from the book when you post.

✔10.2 - The Bodyguard
Give Me Your Heart
Song title: "Even If My Heart Would Break"

10.3 Skip

✔10.4 - It's a Fan Thing
Pandemonium

✔10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Dear Husband by Joyce Carol Oates
Star: Carol Burnett

10.6 - Highway Patrol


✔10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
The Twenty-Three

✔10.8 - Best Original Novel
The Sense of an Ending

10.9 Skip

+10.10 - Countdown
Dragon Dawn PB (no MPB available) 314 pages Dragon Dawn

✔15.1 - Climbing Everest
Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry Kilimanjaro
Cross Justice by James Patterson Puncak Jaya

15.2 - Opposites Attract
Read TWO books in which the authors' first and last initials are swapped. Middle initials should be ignored.

15.3 - Victoria Falls
Book 1: Things We Thought We Saw in the Water
+Book 2: Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

15.4 - Stranger Things
Option 1: Read one Book 1 AND one Book 2
+Book 1: The Good Girl
AND
Book 2: A book first published in the 1980s (1980-1989, inclusive)
Option 2: ONE book that fulfills both Book 1 and Book 2 requirements.

15.5 - Northern Lights
Norse Mythology p. 1
Runes p. 1

15.6 - Rio's Harbor
a book with the name of a natural water body found on The Glossary of Bodies of Water list in the title/subtitle. Plurals and possessives will work, but no other variations.

✔15.7 - Sea Life
Loch Ness Revenge


✔15.8 - NaNoWriMo
The Thirteenth Tale
List: Fiction Books About Writers

✔15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins
Gideon's Corpse

✔15.10 - Thrills and Chills
Kuoleman naamio
*575 pages, claiming one BB ticket*

20.1 - Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Option 1: a book with at least one pumpkin on the cover.
Option 3: a book by an author whose initials can be found in the word AUTUMN.
Option 4: a book where all the letters of SAMHAIN can be found in the title.

✔20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Siobhan's task: It's a Love Story
Option 3: Happy Endings
WWIV - Kids at War by E.A. Lake

✔20.3 - Best Review - Sam M's task: The Secret History
Option 3: The Dawn: The Bombs Fall by Michelle Muckley

✔20.4 – Golden Oldies – Loafer's task: Golden Oldies
1. The Legend of the Blue Eyes

✔20.5 - Bigger is Better - Fandury's task: The 11 days of the Fantasy Filmfest
Option 5. Fever Dream
My mother language is Finnish, the book has several editions in different languages, e.g. Pantano de sangre in Spanish and L'isola della follia in Italian

20.6 - Seasoned Reader - SweetMelissa's task: In Memoriam
D) Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores

✔20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Book Concierge's task: National Hispanic Heritage Month
D) The Lost Island

✔20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature
1. When are you due?
The Essence

20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lauren Jodi's task: Morbid Nursery Rhymes
Option 3: ASHES, ASHES
The Stand BB

✔25.1 - Coralie's task: Melbourne’s Spring Holidays
Holiday 1: Grand Final Parade Day
Hammaskeiju 415 pages
Holiday 2: Melbourne Cup Day
Prickle Moon 242 pages
Horse: Green Moon

415 + 242 = 657 pages

25.2 Skip
25.3 Skip

✔25.4 - Andy P's task: I didn't think I would finish the Summer
Book 1. Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations 200 p.
Book 2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
MMPB 447 p. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
200 + 447 = 647 pages

25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS
2. Songs for the Deaf: stories 178 pages
4. The Subtle Knife 325 pages
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16.0
List: Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books, p. 3
178 + 325 = 503 pages

25.6 - M1nks's task: Natural Wonders
You may read either TWO books from 2 different options or ONE book of at least 500 pages that fulfills one option.
1. a book which is set at least 75% in the lands of South America, India, Asia or the South Sea islands.
2. a book which is set over 75% in an isolated area and apart from people. You can read a book set in a community so long as the community itself is small (no more than 50 families) and, of course, set in an isolated spot. Required: Include a reference or quote that proves the setting fits the task when you post.
+3. Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey Into the Alaskan Wild
MPG Nature verified in genre verification thread msg #105
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PB 359 pages Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey Into the Alaskan Wild

25.7 - Sandy's task: More is Better
+Book 1 – Bits & Pieces 537 pages
*claiming one BB ticket*
Book 2 – Women in Deep Time PB 240 pages Women in Deep Time
537 + 240 = 777 pages

✔30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Wonders of 7
Option 2: Húrinin lasten tarina 317 p.
Option 3: Too Close To Home by Linwood Barclay 500 p. *claiming one BB ticket*
317 + 500 = 817 pages

✔30.2 - MAZZA1’S Task: Six Degrees of Separation
Book 1: Six Moon Summer
PB 198 p. Six Moon Summer
Book 2: D) Fire & Ash
*544 pages, claiming one BB ticket*

both have Young Adult as MPG
verified in task help thread mgs #57
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
198 + 544 = 742 pages

✔30.3 - ElaineL's task: Time Flies
Option 2: Ring by Kōji Suzuki 367 pages
Option 3: Atlantis 480 pages
I chose task 10.3. They're Old! Historical Fiction as MPG verified in genre verification thread msg #42 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
367 + 480 = 847 pages

✔30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Vowel Power
Book 1 - Requiem
Book 2 - The Glyphs: And Other Tales of the Paranormal
ebook approved for length msg #6433 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania
Option 1: Listamania
Tender Is The Night (MMPB 392 pages Tender Is the Night) Page 3 of the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" -list
*first published 1933, claiming one GO ticket*
The Great Gatsby (MMPB 172 pages The Great Gatsby) Page 1 of the same list
*first published 1925, claiming one GO ticket*
392 + 172 = 564 pages

30.6 Skip

✔30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
4. History: Kun kyyhkyset katosivat
5. Science: This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

30.8 - Brooke TX's task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks
Option C: Goodreads
Book 1: Aurora 466 p.
+Book 2: Magic Bites (MMPB Magic Bites 260 p.)
466 + 260 = 726 pages

✔50.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Outside the box
Option 1: Midsummer's Eve
Option 2: Witches
MPG fantasy verified in genre verification thread msg #90 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Option 3: WWIV - Kids at War
house on cover

Diana K's reading plan

✔ 5.1 Only Natural The Beginner's Goodbye
✔ 5.2 Location, Location, Location. Beartown
✔ 5.3 Oh...Craps The Lost Wife
✔ 5.4 Best Laid Plans The Devouring Dragon: How China's Rise Threatens Our Natural World
✔ 5.5 September, October, November What We Lose
✔ 5.6 Michaelmas Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
✔ 5.7 A Breath of Fresh Air The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
✔ 5.8 Under the Fall Moon The Cherry Harvest
✔ 5.9 Help Yourself Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
✔ 5.10 Your Own 8th Wonder Noonday

✔ 10.1 Rice is Nice Pachinko
✔ 10.2 The Bodyguard Heart of Palm
✔ 10.3 No Blindfold Defectors
10.4 It's a Fan Thing Kindred
✔ 10.5 I'm So Glad We Had This Time Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
✔ 10.6 Highway Patrol Vroom with a View: In Search of Italy's Dolce Vita on a '61 Vespa
✔ 10.7 Mosi-oa-Tunya The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
✔ 10.8 Best Original Novel Days Without End
✔10.9 Members Only The Kitchen Boy
✔ 10.10 Countdown Stolen Beauty

✔ 15.1 Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book by Joyce Morgan
✔ 15.2 Opposites Attract Standard Deviation
The Vegetarian
✔ 15.3 Victoria Falls Dead Water
✔ 15.4 Stranger Things The Accidental Tourist
✔ 15.5 Northern Lights Norse Mythology
✔ 15.6 Rio's Harbor The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany
✔ 15.7 Sea Life Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
✔ 15.8 NaNoWriMa The Modigliani Girl
✔ 15.9 Ghouls and Goblins Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
✔ 15.10 Thrills and Chills Not a Sound

✔ 20.1 [[book:All the Little Liars|28220808]
✔ 20.2 It's a Love Story Opt. 3 My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
✔ 20.3 The Secret History The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
✔ 20.4 Golden Oldies A Catalog of Birds
✔ 20.5 11 Days of the Fantasy Filmiest (Opt 2) Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
✔ 20.6 Seasoned Reader: In Memoriam Still Life with Bread Crumbs
✔ 20.7 Natl. Hisp. Heritage Sea Creatures
✔ 20.8 My Own Wonder of Nature Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
✔ 20.9 Morbid Nursery Rhymes Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis
✔ 20.10 Group Reads The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

25.1 Melbourne's Spring Holidays The Big Green Tent

✔ 25.2 Schmoop the DudeLittle Fires Everywhere
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
✔25.3 Catherine T's Task - Seasonal Poems Summer Morning, Summer Night
Sun, Moon, Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses, from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets
✔ 25.4 Andy P's Task: I Didn't Think I Would... The Madonnas of Leningrad
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
✔ 25.5 Perletwo's Task: Happy Returns Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome
The Thread
✔ 25.6 M1nks's Task Opt 1 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Opt 2 All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison’s Cabbages to Kennedy’s Roses—How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America
✔ 25.7 Sandy's Task:More is Better The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
The Women in the Castle

✔ 30.1 Ava Catherine's Task: Wonders of 7 A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
Another Brooklyn
30.2 Mazza1's Task: Six Degrees of Separation Six Years
(Option C) Médicis Daughter: A Novel of Marguerite de Valois
✔ 30.3 ElaineL's Task: Time Flies The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Everything Love Is
✔ 30.4 Dlmrose's Task: Vowel Power A Curious Land: Stories from Home
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain
30.5 Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Like Water for Chocolate
✔ 30.6 Diana K's Task: Fall Baking
Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
Salt Houses
✔ 30.7 TessaVanessa's Task The Distant Land of My Father
Carpe Diem: Put a Little Latin in Your Life
✔ 30.8 BrookeTX's Task Florence in Ecstasy
Oryx and Crake

✔ 50.1 Opt. 1 Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Opt. 3 ------
Opt 4. Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake

5.1 - Only Natural - A in NATURAL I'm Not Scared
5.2 - Location, Location, Location - Death of a Cad
5.3 - Oh... Craps - Pub 2 11 -(A Civil Contract
5.4 - Best Laid Plans - Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 6
5.5 - September, October, November - Pgs 0 1 9 - Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 3
5.6 - Michaelmas - Michael - The Fast Diet: The Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, Live Longer
5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air - Walden
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon - Wise Blood
5.9 - Help Yourself - Self Help... Eat. Stop. Eat
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder - Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 5

10.1 - Rice is Nice - Untouchable
10.2 - The Bodyguard - Can You Forgive Her?
10.3 - No Blindfold - Smiley's People
10.4 - It's a Fan Thing - SciFi - Diamond Mask, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together - In Watermelon Sugar
10.6 - Highway Patrol
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya - The Go-Between, The Water-Babies
10.8 - Best Original Novel - Vernon God Little
10.9 - Members Only - The Laws
10.10 - Countdown - Agnes Grey

15.1 - Climbing Everest - 1. Aconcagua/By the Pricking of My Thumbs; 2. Puncak Jaya War with the Newts
15.2 - Opposites Attract - 1. Kristin Lavransdatter, III: The Cross; 2. The Jungle
15.3 - Victoria Falls - Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
15.4 - Stranger Things - The Antipope
15.5 - Northern Lights - Anansi Boys (9)
15.6 - Rio's Harbor - The Sea, the Sea
15.7 - Sea Life - The Water-Babies, Demons of the Deep
15.8 - NaNoWriMo - Possession, Strong Poison
15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins - Gravity's Rainbow
15.10 - Thrills and Chills - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

20.1 - Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice - 2. Grey Mask
20.2 - It's a Love Story - A Civil Contract
20.3 - The Secret History - 1. A Study in Scarlet, Smilla's Sense of Snow
20.4 – Golden Oldies - 4. The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting
20.5 - The 11 days of the Fantasy Filmfest - two different languages - A Distinguished Provincial at Paris. Lost Illusions Part 2.
20.6 - In Memoriam - The Magic Mountain, Death of a Perfect Wife, The Professor's House
20.7 - National Hispanic Heritage Month - 2. A in HISPANIC HERITAGE Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; 4. T in LATINO LITERATURE
20.8 - My own wonder of nature - 1. Pub in Jan Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 4; 2. It, Its, Itself, They, Them, Their, Theirs, Themselves
20.9 - Morbid Nursery Rhymes - 3. Blood of Elves

25.1 - Melbourne’s Spring Holidays 1. 2.
25.2 - Schmoop the Dude 1. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley, 2. A Confederacy of Dunces, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 2
25.3 - Seasonal Poems - 1. The Old Wives' Tale; 2. How Late it Was, How Late
25.4 - I didn't think I would finish the Summer Challenge but... - 1. T in IDRETF Henry von Ofterdingen, Death of an Outsider; 2. A in ARDUOUS Salman Rushdie? Ali Smith? The God of Small Things? Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded?
25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
25.6 - Natural Wonders - Catherine the Great: Life and Legend
25.7 - More is Better - 1. Two Poets, 2. Blood of Elves? The Old Wives' Tale? French Grammar for Dummies?

30.1 - Wonders of 7; 2. The Cuckoo's Calling? A Study in Scarlet? Diamond Mask; 3. Mockingjay
30.2 - Six Degrees of Separation - 1. The Six Wives of Henry VIII; 2. Henry V
30.3 - Time Flies - 3. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener(Noel), 5. Envious Casca
30.4 - Vowel Power - 1. The Quiet American, 2. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
30.5 - Listamania/Lisztomania -
30.6 - Fall Baking - A. Salt: A World History
30.7 - Class is in session - 2. Cursive False Colours; 4, My Cousin Rachel
30.8 - Stacks on Stacks on Stacks - C 1. A Canticle for Leibowitz, 2. Soulless

50. 1 - 1. Eve and David

5 Point Tasks-

5.1: Pippi Longstocking
5.2: Like Water for Chocolate
5.3: Dubliners
5.4: The Tsar's Dwarf
5.5: The Best American Short Stories 2016
5.6 Coming Through Slaughter
5.7: Into Thin Air
5.8: In Cold Blood
5.9: The Dance of Intimacy
5.10

5/50

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10 Point Tasks-

10.1: The Crazed
10.2: Of Love and Other Demons
10.3:
10.4: Authority
10.5: March, Vol 2
10.6: The British Museum is Falling Down
10.7: Catch-22
10.8: The Luminaries
10.9:
10.10: Being Mortal

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15 Point Tasks-

15.1: Tampa & Pnin
15.2: At Night We Walk in Circles & In the Gloaming
15.3: Black Water &
15.4: A Theft
15.5:
15.6: The Great Glass Sea
15.7: Ella Minnow Pea
15.8: The World to Come
15.9: Guantanamo Diary
15.10: The Wasp Factory

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20 Point Tasks-

20.1: The Edible Woman
20.2: Nowhere Man
20.3: The Brothers Karamazov
20.4: Where Monsters Dwell
20.5: The Stand
20.6: Shutter Island
20.7: The Feast of the Goat
20.8: The Last Animal
20.9: Blood Meridian
20.10: The Aeneid

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25 Point Tasks-

25.1: Freeman's: Arrival & Black Boy
25.2: The Days of Abandonment & The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
25.3: The Girl With the Long Green Heart & The Man Who Spoke Snakish
25.4: My Best Friend's Exorcism & No Longer Human
25.5: Blue Highways & Brave New World
25.6: Out & The Gene
25.7: The Savage Detectives & Women

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30 Point Tasks-

30.1: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 & If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
30.2: & Buddenbrooks
30.3: A Simple Machine, Like the Lever & Blindness
30.4: The Queen of the Damned & Glyph
30.5: Les Miserables & Doctor Zhivago
30.6: Honey for the Bears & Cry, the Beloved Country
30.7: My Booky Wook & So Late, So Soon
30.8: Lincoln in the Bardo & The Wilds

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50 Point Task-

50.1:

0/50

5.1 author initials can be found in NATURAL
5.2 Anne of Avonlea
5.3 FIRST published in a year that contains two 1’s
5.4 Raven's Gate
5.5 The Red Notebook
5.6 author named “Michael”
5.7 H is for Hawk
5.8 title/subtitle corn, barley, harvest, hunter, travel, dying, beaver, blood, frost
5.10 book of your choice

10.1 set at least 50% in ONE of these: China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Brazil, Japan or Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas
10.2 word from this list
10.3 The Secret Agent
10.4 The Subtle Knife
10.5 Rot & Ruin
10.7 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame/Sixty-One Nails/The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
10.8 Booker prize list
10.9 Group Read during September thru November for any of your OTHER Goodreads groups
10.10 Unnatural Death

15.1 TWO books by two different authors - initials Everest/Aconcagua/Denali/Kilimanjaro/Elbrus/Puncak Jaya/Vinson
a
b
15.2 TWO books in which the authors' first and last initials are swapped
a The Osiris Ritual by George Mann
b
15.3
a The Shock of the Fall
b This Savage Song
15.4 The Talisman or The Shrine
15.5 Monsters
15.6 Rivers of London
15.7 Jaws/Kraken
15.8 The Angel's Game
15.9 The Gallows Curse
15.10 Others

20.1 Cocaine Blues
20.2 The Owl Killers
20.3
20.4
20.5 Option 4 The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers
20.6
20.7 The Shooting Party
20.8
20.9

25.1
Book 2: Dark Dawn over Steep House
25.2
Option 1 Poison Study
Option 5 Three Men in a Boat
25.3
25.4 The Hand That First Held Mine
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Seek
25.5
25.6
25.7

30.1
Option 1 author whose first and last name initials can be found in the word SEVEN
Option 2 7 letters in one of the words in the title
Option 3 7 letters in author's last name
30.2
Book 1 Ninety Degrees North
Book 2 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
30.3 Option 1: The Interrupted Tale
Option 3 10.5 Winter
30.4
Book 1 Queen Lucia/The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender/A Great and Terrible Beauty/The Queen's Choice/The Line of Beauty/The Summer Queen/A Quiet Belief in Angels/The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper/Katherine of Aragón, The True Queen
Book 2 Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum/Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky/The Greek Myths: Stories of the Greek Gods and Heroes Vividly Retold
30.5
2 books from 1001 Books
30.6
Option B Dead Beat
Option D 12 in page number
30.7
Option 4 history or historical genre
Option 5 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
30.8 Option B
Book 1 Northern Lights
Book 2 Storm Front

Total points: 210
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 4

5.1 - Only Natural
5.2 - Location, Location, Location
5.3 - Oh ... Craps
✔5.4 - Indemnity Only
5.5 - September, October, November
✔5.6 - Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
✔5.9 - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
5.10 - Your Own 8th Wonder

10.1 - Rice is Nice
✔10.2 - North End Love Songs
✔10.3 - The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
✔10.4 - The Grays
✔10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together10.5 - Turned Away: The World War II Diary of Devorah Bernstein
10.6 - Highway Patrol
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
10.8 - Best Original Novel
10.9 - Members OnlyBellevue Square or Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City or Spin
✔10.10 - Sold

15.1 -✔ A Town Like Alice
✔The Bingo Palace
✔15.2 - A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
✔Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan
15.3 - Victoria Falls
15.4 - Stranger Things
15.5 - Northern Lights
15.6 - Rio's Harbor
15.7 -Grayson
15.8 - Dept. of Speculation
✔15.9 - The Good Girl
✔15.10 - The Running Man

✔20.1Crocodile on the Sandbank
20.2Brown Girl in the Ring
✔20.3 Wicked Weeds: A Zombie Novel
20.4 The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
✔20.5 Death's Excellent Vacation
✔20.6A Good Marriage
✔20.7Requiem for a Dream
✔20.8 Sexing the Cherry
✔20.9In The Blood: The Blood Lives
20.10 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

25.1 - ✔Go Set a Watchman
✔Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada
25.2 -✔ Son of a Trickster 336 pages
✔Seriously... I'm Kidding 218 page
25.3 - Catherine T's Task: Seasonal Poems
✔25.4 - Drifting House
✔A Tale for the Time Being
25.5 - The Grapes of Wrath
25.6 -The Glass Palace
✔25.7 - The Lonely Hearts Hotel
✔The Wives of Bath

✔30.1 - Dancing Winds
✔The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
30.2 - Six Metres of Pavement (SMOP)
Trans-Sister Radio or Funny Boy
✔30.3 - ✔By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
✔The Witches of New York
30.4 - Kiss of the Fur Queen
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
✔30.5 -✔ A Confederacy of Dunces
✔Candide
30.6
30.7Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Book of Salt
✔[30.8book:Lincoln in the Bardo|29906980] 343
✔Geek Love 348
50.1

Blueberry

10.2 The Woman in Cabin 10
10.7 The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
10.10 Agnes Grey, Jamaica Inn
15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6 Sulphur Springs
15.7
15.8 The Angel's Game, The Blue Castle, Bird by Bird
15.9 Glory Over Everything, Good on Paper, The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit
15.10 How to Survive a Horror Movie, Haunting of Hill House,
30.1
1. The Six Suspects, The Accidental Apprentice (both by Vikas Swarup)
2.
3.
30.2
1. The Separation, Six Suspects
30.3
1.
2.
3.
4. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, As the Crow Flies (Longmire)
30.4
1. The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate
2.The Dry, Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, A Cry from the Dust
30.5
Gilmore: A Room with a View, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Amazing Advs of Kavalier & Clay, Five people you meet in Heaven, Nanny Diaries, Love Medicine, House of Sand & Fog,
30.6
1. Apple Orchard, Apple Tree Yard
30.7
1. Books for Living, The Little Paris Bookshop
2. Olive Kitteridge, The Seperation, Don't Let Me Go
3.
4.
5.
30.8

Fall 2017 Reading Plan

5.1 - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
5.2 - The Snow Child
5.3 - The Call of Cthulhu
5.4 - Best Laid Plans City of Illusions 5.5✔1449
5.5 - Dept. of Speculation✔762
5.6 - Nefertiti
5.7 - Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus p17
5.8 - Blood & Beauty: The Borgias
5.9 - The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs✔1093
5.10 - Book of your choice

10.1 - Shōgun, Red Sorghum: A Novel of China, Peony: A Novel of China
10.2 - The Summer Queen (queen)
10.3 - Casino Royale
10.4 - Planet of Exile✔1275
10.5 - A Storm of Swords
10.6 - The Motorcycle Diaries (hoopla)
10.7 - Ten Days in a Mad-House✔1575
10.8 - The Sense of an Ending
10.9 - Fahrenheit 451✔881
10.10 - What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism✔2641

15.1 - Denali: Wisdom's Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and Sheba
Kilimanjaro: Henry V: The Warrior King of 1415
15.2 - 1: Helen of Troy
2: A Feast for Crows
15.3 - 1: Heir to Sevenwaters
2: Evelyn, After by Victoria Helen Stone
15.4 - 2: The Sunne in Splendour
15.5 - The Pale Horseman p4, Neverwhere p7, Red Rising p7
15.6 - Wide Sargasso Sea
15.7 - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
15.8 - The Blue Castle (Fiction Books)
15.9 - The Grand Sophy
15.10 - The Haunting of Hill House✔1310

20.1 - 3: The Heart Goes Last✔564
20.2 - 1: Three Men in a Boat✔1575
20.3 - 1: A Study in Scarlet✔2244
20.4 - 2: Dissolution
20.5 - 4: The Wind's Twelve Quarters: A Story
20.6 - C: The Black Tulip✔2611
20.7 - B: Murder on the Orient Express✔799
20.8 - 1: The Just City✔2142
20.9 - 3: Doomsday Book✔1185
20.10 - Death on the Nile or The Aeneid

25.1 - 1: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
2: To Marry an English Lord
25.2 - 1: Child of the Prophecy✔
3: The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am✔390
25.3 - 1: The Big Sleep
2: (Spring) Night
25.4 - 1: The Remains of the Day 245p
2: Autumn 264p, Avalon 349p
25.5 Option 2 - 2&3: The Confessions of Young Nero✔390
25.6 - 1: The Far Pavilions
25.7 - 1: Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles
2: She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, People of the Book

30.1 - 2:
3:
30.2 - 1: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
2C: The Eyre Affair
30.3 B - 1&3 (10.3): The Pillars of the Earth
30.4 - 1: Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen
2: All the Birds in the Sky
30.5 - 1: (1001 Books): The Time Machine 122p & Life of Pi 401p
30.6 - A: Salt: A World History, Salt to the Sea
D: The Secret Scripture
30.7 - 2: The Turn of the Screw
4: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
30.8 - C-1: A Canticle for Leibowitz
2: Wildwood Dancing

50.1 - 1: What Happened✔
2: To Say Nothing of the Dog✔
4: Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change✔2446

Reserved

Fall 2017 Plan

5.1 - Only Natural
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen


5.2 - Location, Location, Location
The Lost Boy by Camilla Läckberg
⬛ Sweden ⬛


5.3 - Oh... Craps
Stirred by J.A. Konrath
⬛ Published (first published November 22nd 2011) ⬛


5.4 - Best Laid Plans
I chose to use 5.2 - Location, Location, Location from Summer SRC
The Doll's House by M.J. Arlidge
⬛ England ⬛
More info on series is here: https://www.goodreads.com/series/1381...


5.5 - September, October, November
Long Lost by Harlan Coben
Mass Market Paperback, 406 pages


5.6 - Michaelmas
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly


5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
The Dying Game by Åsa Avdic


5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
⬛ Any Book ⬛
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10.1 - Rice is Nice
Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke
⬛ Louisiana ⬛


10.2 - The Bodyguard
Bye, Bye Love by K.J. Larsen
⬛ "I Will Always Love You" - Love ⬛


10.3 - No Blindfold
Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva


10.4 - It's a Fan Thing
The Last Town by Blake Crouch


10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block
⬛ Vicki Lawrence ⬛


10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
Cover-Up Story by Marian Babson


10.8 - Best Original Novel
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
⬛ Page 2 ⬛


10.9 - Members Only
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
This book was read for my real life bookclub in September


10.10 - Countdown
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Paperback, 246 pages
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15.1 - Climbing Everest
Shadow Play by Iris Johansen
⬛ Kilimanjaro ⬛
and
Far From True by Linwood Barclay
⬛ Elbrus ⬛


15.2 - Opposites Attract
Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson
and
Reunion in Death by J.D. Robb


15.3 - Victoria Falls
Book 1:
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
and
Book 2:
A Cold White Sun by Vicki Delany


15.4 - Stranger Things
Book 1:
Shiver Hitch by Linda Greenlaw
and
Book 2:
Chiefs by Stuart Woods
(first published June 1981)


15.5 - Northern Lights
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
⬛ Page 1 ⬛


15.6 - Rio's Harbor
Misery Bay by Steve Hamilton


15.8 - NaNoWriMo
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
⬛ Fiction Books About Writers - Page 1 ⬛


15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane


15.10 - Thrills and Chills
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
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20.1 - Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Option 2:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
⬛ On Page 1 and series is new to me ⬛


20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Siobhan's task: It's a Love Story
Option 2: Inclusivity
⬛ From page 4 of the Books with Disabled Heroes ⬛
Jericho Point by Meg Gardiner


20.3 - Best Review - Sam M's task: The Secret History
Option 3:
Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet
⬛ W I C K E D IN wicked. ⬛


20.4 – Golden Oldies – Loafer's task: Golden Oldies
Option 1:
Downfall by J.A. Jance


20.5 - Bigger is Better - Fandury's task: The 11 days of the Fantasy Filmfest
Option 1:
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King


⬛ 20.6 - Seasoned Reader - SweetMelissa's task: In Memoriam
Option D
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter


20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Book Concierge's task: National Hispanic Heritage
Option B)
In Harm's Way by Ridley Pearson
Paperback, 506 pages


20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature
2. Boy or girl?
Quietly in Their Sleep by Donna Leon
⬛ Their ⬛


20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lauren Jodi's task: Morbid Nursery Rhymes
Option 2: BLOODY MARY
Trail Of Blood by Lisa Black
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25.1 - Coralie's task: Melbourne’s Spring Holidays
Holiday 1: Grand Final Parade Day
UNSUB by Meg Gardiner
Paperback, 384 pages
Published June 1st 2017 by Dutton Books
and
Holiday 2: Melbourne Cup Day
The Night Bird by Brian Freeman
Paperback, 362 pages
⬛ Night Watch ⬛


25.2 - Nick KY's task: Schmoop the Dude
Option 1. Schmoop the Dude…like, for real.
Remains of Innocence by J.A. Jance
Paperback, 528 pages
and
Option 4. The Luck o’ the Irish
I Hear the Sirens in the Street by Adrian McKinty
Paperback, 334 pages


25.3 - Catherine T's task: Seasonal Poems
Book 1: Remembrance Day
Make Out With Murder by Lawrence Block
⬛ With from Line 1 ⬛
and
Book 2: To Autumn
How Will I Know You? by Jessica Treadway
⬛ How from Line 3 ⬛


25.4 - Andy P's task: I didn't think I would finish the Summer Challenge but...
Book 1. IDRETF
The Girls She Left Behind by Sarah Graves
Paperback, 368 pages
and
Book 2. ARDUOUS
Back Road, The by Rachel Abbott
Paperback, 491 pages


25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS
Option 1:
The Secret Sister by Brenda Novak
Paperback, 400 pages
and
Option 2:
Nano by Robin Cook
Paperback, 544 pages


25.7 - Sandy's task: More is Better
Book 1 –
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
⬛ Houses ⬛
Paperback, 391 pages
and
Book 2 –
Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson
⬛ Children ⬛
Paperback, 400 pages
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30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Wonders of 7
Option 2:
City of Jasmine by Deanna Raybourn
Paperback, 354 pages
and
Option 3:
Blind Spot by Terri Persons
Paperback, 352 pages


30.2 - MAZZA1’S Task: Six Degrees of Separation
Book 1:
Deep Six by Clive Cussler
Mass Market Paperback, 535 pages
and
Book 2:
D) Read a book of the same genre as Book 1
Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman
Paperback, 400 pages
⬛ Fiction ⬛


30.3 - ElaineL's task: Time Flies
Option 2: A Sad Goodbye…
T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton
Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
and
Option 4: Where Has the Year Gone?
The Store by James Patterson
Paperback, 368 pages
The link to the 5 star book by Patterson is:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...


30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Vowel Power
Book1:
The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker
⬛ fOUrth ⬛
and
Book 2:
Dry Bones by Craig Johnson


30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania
Option 1:
Book 1: From 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die ⬛ Page 2 ⬛
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Paperback, 555 pages
and
Book 2: From 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die ⬛ Page 1 ⬛
1984 by George Orwell
Mass Market Paperback, Signet Classics, 328 pages


30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
3. Math: 2+2=4
Tonight I Said Goodbye by Michael Koryta
⬛ Said ⬛
and
4. History:
A Question of Honor by Charles Todd
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50.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Outside the box
Option 1:
Flat Spin by David Freed

Option 3:
The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
⬛ Mountains ⬛

Option 4:
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

✔ 5.1 - Only Natural - Einstein's Dreams
✔ 5.2 - Location, Location, Location - Death of a Travelling Man
5.3 - Oh...Craps - Gorky Park
✔ 5.4 - Best Laid Plans - Death of a Glutton
✔ 5.5 - September, October, November - This One Summer
5.6 - Michaelmas - Wonder Boys
5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air - The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon - As I Lay Dying
✔ 5.9 - Help Yourself - The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment
✔5.10 - Your Own 8th Wonder - The Little Book of Mindfulness: 10 Minutes a Day to Less Stress, More Peace

10.1 - Rice is Nice - A Matter of Time
10.2 - The Bodyguard - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
10.3 - No Blindfold - The Looking Glass War
✔ 10.4 - It's a Fan Thing - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
✔ 10.5 - I'm So Glad - This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection
10.6 - HIghway Patrol -
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya - These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
10.8 - Best Original Novel - The English Patient
✔ 10.9 - Members Only - The Professor's House
10.10 - Countdown - March: Book Three

✔ 15.1 - Climbing Everest - Appointment with Death and Drama
15.2 - Opposites Attract - The Rent Collector and A Dog's Purpose
15.3 - Victoria Falls - Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
15.4 - Stranger Things - The Thanatos Syndrome
15.5 - Northern Lights - Runemarks
15.6 - Rios' Harbor - Iron Lake
15.7 - Sea Life - Moby-Dick or, The Whale
15.8 - NaNoWriMo - I Capture the Castle
15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins - Growing Up Again: Life, Love and Oh Yeah, Diabetes
✔ 15.10 - Thrills and Chills - The Closers

✔ 20.1 - Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
✔ 20.2 - It's a Love Story - Ageless Memory
20.3 - The Secret History - The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
✔ 20.5 - The 11 days of the Fantasy Filmfest - Looking for Alaska
20.6 - In Memoriam - Life Itself
✔ 20.7 - National Hispanic Heritage Month - Midnight in Austenland
✔ 20.8 - My Own Wonder of Nature - Atlas of World History
20.9 - Morbid Nursery Rhymes - Half Blood Blues
20.10 - Group Reads -

25.1 - Melbourne's Spring Holidays - In Defense of a Liberal Education and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
✔ 25.2 - Schmoop the Dude - Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride and Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
25.3 - Seasonal Poems -
25.4 - I didn't think I would... - The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
25.5 - HAPPY RETURNS - Catch-22
25.6 - Natural Wonders - Shantaram
25.7 - More is Better - The Women and Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

✔ 30.1 - Wonders of 7 - A Brief History of Time and What Happened
30.2 - Six Degrees of Separation - Six Great Modern Short Novels and A Passage to India
✔ 30.3 - Time Flies - Y is for Yesterday and Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers
30.4 - Vowel Power - I'm Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship: Hilarious, Heartwarming Tales About Man's Best Friend from America's Favorite Humorists and Cry, the Beloved Country
✔ 30.5 - Listomania/Lisztomania - To Have and Have Not and The Age of Innocence
✔ 30.6 - Fall Baking - A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea and Crime Beat
✔ 30.7 - Class is in session - Doomsday Book and The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
30.8 - Stacks on Stacks - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch and The Song of Achilles

perletwo's reading plan

05.01 - Reading Lolita In Tehran (AN)
05.02 - Raisins and Almonds (AU)
05.03 - Saint Peter's Fair (1981)
05.04 - Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs #6) (S 10.10)
05.05 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey (pb 128 pgs) (GO 1927)
05.06 - The Late Show (Michael)
05.07 - The Orchid Thief (p. 4)
05.08 - Blood Relations
05.09 - Option B
05.10 - Secrets In Death


10.01 - Y is for Yesterday (CA)
10.02 - The Night Gardener (Queen of the Night)
10.03 - Spying In High Heels
10.04 - World of Trouble
10.05 - In Such Good Company
10.06 - Coconut Cowboy
10.07 - Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men Vol. 2
10.08 - Child 44
10.09 - The Sixth Extinction
10.10 - City Beasts (pb ed. 320 pgs)


15.01 - The Society (Puncak Jaya); Ordeal By Innocence (Aconcagua)
15.02 - Killer Stuff & Tons of Money (MS); The Panic Virus (SM)
15.03 - The Shape of Water; The Red Queen
15.04 - 1. Get Even; 2. Death on Deadline (1987)
15.05 - Norse Mythology (p. 1)
15.06 - To Helen Back: A River Road Mystery
15.07 - Scales of Justice
15.08 - Eats Shoots & Leaves (BfW)
15.09 - the Greek Coffin Mystery
15.10 - Horrorstor (horror)


20.01 - 3. Fat 40 & Fired (NM)
20.02 - 3. Never Tell a Lie (HE)
20.03 - 1. The Murder Room (p.2)
20.04 - 1. The Skeleton Road
20.05 - 1. Doctor Sleep (top mmp ed 672 pgs, BB)
20.06 - A. Crazy Heart
20.07 - B. Monk's Hood (EP)
20.08 - 1. The Road to Little Dribbling (1/19/16
20.09 - 3. The Fever
20.10 - Death on the Nile


25.01 - 1. Bryant & May & the Burning Man; 2. Black Widow: Forever Red (top pb ed. 432 pgs) (black knight) (not really a comic)
25.02 - 1. The Trespasser (449 pgs); 2. Batman: Hush (GNtAQ p.3)
25.03 - 1. Eye of the Beholder (LG, eye); 2. Sweet Danger (Blake, MA, sweet)
25.04 - 1. The Daughter of Time (top mmp 207 pgs); 2. The Wrath & the Dawn (RA, top pb ed. 388 pgs)
25.05 - option 2, afterworlds (1 SW, 2 mmp ed 672 pgs)
25.06 - 1. Valley of Amazement (Asia) (top pb ed 608 pgs)
25.07 - 1. Manhattans & Murder (top pb ed 304 pgs); 2. The Forest of Hands & Teeth (this pb ed 308 pgs)


30.01 - 1. The Signal & the Noise (NS) (pb ed. 540 pgs); 3. To the Hilt (Francis=7 lts) (top pb ed. 352 pgs)
30.02 - 1. Six of Crows (rating 4.46) (top pb ed. 491 pgs); The Help (rating 4.45) (top mmp 451 pgs) ratings verified
30.03 - 1. The Broken Promise Land (top pb ed. 400 pgs); 2. One For the Money (JE) (top mmp 320 pgs)
30.04 - 1. The Queen's Accomplice; 2. How I Killed Pluto & Why It Had It Coming
30.05 - Option 1 -1. The Secret Life of Bees (RG p1) (336 pgs); 2. R is for Ricochet (RG p3) (this ed 363 pgs)
30.06 - A. Vinegar Girl (top pb ed 256 pgs); D. 2001: A Space Odyssey (my ed 256 pgs) ; recipe
30.07 - 1. The Book of Love; 2. Scrappy Little Nobody
30.08 - B: 1. Ill Will (hb 480 pgs); 2. Mr. Fox (this ed 336 pgs)


50.01 - 1. Racing the Devil; 2. Sourcery (genre verified); 5. The Hunger Pains

5.1 - Only Natural - The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
5.2 - Location, Location, Location - Independent People Iceland
5.3 - Oh... Craps - FIRST published in a year that contains two 1’s
5.4 - Best Laid Plans - Home Fire
5.5 - September, October, November - Billy Budd, Sailor
5.6 - Michaelmas - The Hours
5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air - shelved as "nature" at least 3 times from this list Popular Nature Books
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
5.9 - Help Yourself - Outliers: The Story of Success
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder - choice

10.1 - Rice is Nice - The Little Friend
10.2 - The Bodyguard - word from this list of track titles in the title or subtitle.
10.3 - No Blindfold - The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
10.4 - It's a Fan Thing - The Passage
10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together - Jack of Spades
10.6 - Highway Patrol - motorcycle on the cover.
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya - The One-in-a-Million Boy
10.8 - Best Original Novel - Amsterdam
10.9 - Members Only - The Master and Margarita
10.10 - Countdown - American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

15.1 - Climbing Everest -Other People We Married(Everest), The Call of the Wild (Kilimanjaro)
15.2 - Opposites Attract - Read TWO books in which the authors' first and last initials are swapped
15.3 - Victoria Falls - Option 1: Read one Book 1 AND one Book 2
Book 1: Read a book with the word "water" or "fall" intact in the title/subtitle/series name.
Book 2: Read a book written by an author named “Victoria” or any of the related names found at Behind the Name - Victoria
Option 2: Read ONE book that fulfills both Book 1 and Book 2 requirements.
15.4 - Stranger Things - Option 2: All Souls
15.5 - Northern Lights - Norse Mythology
15.6 - Rio's Harbor - book with the name of a natural water body found on The Glossary of Bodies of Water list in the title/subtitle.
15.7 - Sea Life - book with a sea creature featured on the cover or one in which a sea creature features prominently in the plot.
15.8 - NaNoWriMo - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins - Gilead
15.10 - Thrills and Chills - The Child

20.1 - Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Option 4: What Maisie Knew
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Siobhan's task: It's a Love Story
Option 3: Happy Endings - The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
20.3 - Best Review - Sam M's task: The Secret History
Option 3: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
20.4 – Golden Oldies – Loafer's task: Golden Oldies
2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... the-metamorphosis
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Fandury's task: The 11 days of the Fantasy Filmiest
Option 5: American Rust
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - SweetMelissa's task: In Memoriam
A)Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Book Concierge's task: National Hispanic Heritage Month
B) Autumn by Ali Smith
20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature
2. Boy or girl? The Violent Bear It Away
20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lauren Jodi's task: Morbid Nursery Rhymes
Option 2: BLOODY MARY - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
20.10 - Group Reads
Fiction Set in a Member State of the Arab League - Death on the Nile
Non-Fiction - Climate and Weather - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

25.1 - Coralie's task: Melbourne’s Spring Holidays
Holiday 1: Grand Final Parade Day + Holiday 2: Melbourne Cup Day -
25.2 - Nick KY's task: Schmoop the Dude
Option 2 Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
Option 5 Portnoy's Complaint
25.3 - Catherine T's task: Seasonal Poems
book must have a word in the title/subtitle that can be found in the text of the poems linked AND be written by an author whose initials can be found in the poet's name.
Book 1: Remembrance Day
Use the stanzas of the Ode of Remembrance found at this wiki link: Ode of Remembrance (Stanzas 3,4 and 5 only)
Poet: Laurence Binyon
Book 2:
To Autumn
Poet: John Keats
OR
Spring
Poet: William Blake
25.4 - Andy P's task: I didn't think I would finish the Summer Challenge but...
Book 1. The Adventures of Augie March
Book 2. The Accidental by Ali Smith
25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS
Option 2: 2. & 4. The Pillars of the Earth
25.6 - M1nks's task: Natural Wonders
2. Drop City
3. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
25.7 - Sandy's task: More is Better
Book 1 – The Animators
Book 2 – City of Thieves

30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Wonders of 7
Option 2: Salvage the Bones
Option 3:A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
30.2 - MAZZA1’S Task: Six Degrees of Separation
Book 1: A Separation 224 pas
Book 2: D) A God in Ruins
30.3 - ElaineL's task: Time Flies
Option 1 & Option 3: A People's History of the United States
30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Vowel Power
Book 1 - The Queen of the Night
Book 2 - The Devil and Miss Prym
30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania
Option 1: Listamania1. Silas Marner
2. The God of Small Things
30.6 - Diana K's task: Fall Baking
at least 500 pages.
Option A: Queen Sugar
Option E: Blueberry Muffin Murder
30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
1.Reading: The Book of Joan
5.Science: Six Years
30.8 - Brooke TX's task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks
Option B: BookRiot
Book 1: Ill Will
Book 2: Geek Love

50.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Outside the box
Option 1: Chemistry
Option 3: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Option 5: The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

5 point tasks - 1 book per task
complete all with 10 point tasks for Nickels and Dimes reward

5.1 Saving Gracie
5.2 The Profiler 02/09/2017
5.3 Fake Kate
5.4 Tales From The Crib (5.3 of summer)
5.5 The Sittaford Mystery (400 pages) 12/09/2017
5.6 All The Talk Is Dead
5.7 The Monkey Wrench Gang
5.8 A Harvest of Thorns 07/09/2017
5.9 Self-Help 18/09/2017
5.10

10 point Tasks
see above re Nickels and Dimes
1 book per task

10.1 South of the Border, West of the Sun
10.2 Love in Rewind
10.3 The English Girl
10.4 Songmaster
10.5 September Sky (john Davidson)
10.6 Chasing June
10.7 Bel-Ami 21/09/2017
10.8 Amsterdam
10.9 The Humans 03/09/2017
10.10 Practical Magic 10/09/2017 286 pages

15 Point taks
First 2 usually 2 book tasks
.3 and .4 often 1 OR 2 book options

15.1
a The 53rd Parallel Aconcagua 19/09/2017
b Better Off Wed 07/09/2017 Dinali
15.2
a. Days Without End 28/09/2017
b. Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places 03/10/2017
15.3 Dead Water 11/09/2017
15.4 The Accidental Tourist 02/10/2017
15.5 The Gospel of Loki
15.6 Salt to the Sea
15.7 Talking To The Sharks
15.8 A Widow for One Year OR The Pale Horse
15.9 The Girlfriend
15.10 Derailed in Chancey


20 Point tasks
Usually 1 book tasks

20.1 The Penelopiad option 3 29/09/2017
20.2 The Bone Collector (option 2 page i of disabled heroes)
20.3 The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend(option 1) 17/09/2017
20.4 The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules (option 3)
20.5 Finders Keepers (option )
20.6 Four Ladies Only (option 1)
20.7 Brass in Pocket (option B)
20.8 The Rowan Tree (option 1)
20.9 The Painted Veil 26/09/2017
20.10 Death on the Nile 24/09/2017 post 30 in group reads https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

25 Point tasks
Often 2 book tasks can come with Page Requirement

25.1 500 page requirement
a) Beneath the Ice 28/09/2017
b) The Green Road (336p)
25.2 500 page requirement
Option 1 Everything We Left Behind (348p)
Option 3 The Reluctant Fundamentalist (184p) 29/09/2017
25.3
a) The Pale Blue Eye Louis Bayard OD
b) The Summer Guest Emma Hannigan (ode to Autumn) OD 29/09/2017
25.4 501 page requirement
a) The Drift KU 374 pages 30/09/2017
b) A Handful Of Pebbles 442 pages
25.5 500 pages
a) Identical 371 pages option 125/09/2017
b) The Furthest Station 144 pages option 2 03/10/2017
25.6 Kafka on the Shore option 1 01/10/2017 505 pages
25.7 500 pages
a) Green Eyes in Las Vegas 248 pages 04/10/2017
b) Wicked Women 320 pages OD 05/10/2017


30 Point tasks
Often 2 book tasks can come with Page Requirement
30.1
a.All Hallows at Eyre Hall 23/09/2017
b. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 22/09/2017
Page Requirement 500
30.2
a.Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons 21/09/2017
b.Claire of the Sea Light 18/09/2017
Page Requirement 666
30,3
a.The Unquiet Mind 04/09/2017
b.Away from the Dark 22/09/2017
Page Requirement 500
30,4
a A Beautiful Mind library OD
b.Mr Lynch's Holiday 09/09/2017
Page Requirement NILTears and Trombones
30.5
a.Tears and Trombones 20/09/2017
b.Trumpet 18/09/2017
Page Requirement 500
30.6
a.The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cosy 11/09/2017
b.The Shack 15/09/2017
Page Requirement 500
30.7
a. Love Always, Kate 05/09/2017
b. Then She Was Gone 14/09/2017
Page Requirement NIL
30.8 Option B
a. Ill Will 11/09/2017
b. The Library at Mount Char 12/09/2017
Page Requirement 600


50. 1
a.
b.
c.
Page Requirement

E-book approvals


IN google doc
line 822 Embryo
line 883 Fake Kate

Read but not used
Gone with the Wind 16/09/2017


Posted Tasks
POST 494 - 5.2, 5.5, 5.8,.and 5.9 (20)
POST 495 - 10.9, 10.10. 15.1 and 15.3 (50)
POST 497 - 20.3 (20)
POSt 498 - 30.6, 30.7, and 30.8 (90)
POST 666 - 10.7, 20.10, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 30.4, 30.5
POST 939 - 15.2, 15.4, 20.1,. 20.9, 25.2, 25.5, 25.6

Total to date = 505
Books to date - 38
Tasks to date - 26

ALL 30 point tasks complete

5 Point Tasks

5.2 - Location, Location, Location
Murder in Moscow

5.3 - Oh... Craps
As the Pig Turns

5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Murder on Wheels Summer Task 5.3

5.5 - September, October, November
Deep Fried Homicide

5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air
Lab Girl

5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
In the Blood

5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
Mission to Murder

10 Point Tasks

10.1 - Rice is Nice
Dressed to Kill

10.2 - The Bodyguard
Killer Run Run to You

10.3 - No Blindfold
Casino Royale

10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
The Cat of the Baskervilles by Vicki Delany Vicki Lawrence

10.6 - Highway Patrol
The Patience of the Spider

10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

10.8 - Best Original Novel
Quartet in Autumn

10.9 - Members Only
The Murder on the Links Agatha Christie Lovers Group

10.10 - Countdown
The Richest Woman in America: The Life and Times of Hetty Green

15 Point Tasks

15.1 - Climbing Everest
The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams Denali
Fat Cat Takes the Cake by Janet Cantrell Puncak Jaya

15.8 - NaNoWriMo
Gin & Daggers

15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins
Grime and Punishment

20 Point Tasks

20.1 - Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything
Stirring the Plot

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Siobhan's task: It's a Love Story
Breach of Crust by Ellery Adams Option 3

20.3 - Best Review - Sam M's task: The Secret History
Murder on the Orient Express Option 1

20.4 – Golden Oldies – Loafer's task: Golden Oldies
Old Fashioned Crooks Option 1

20.5 - Bigger is Better - Fandury's task: The 11 days of the Fantasy Film Fest
The Quiche of Death Option 5

20.6 - Seasoned Reader - SweetMelissa's task: In Memoriam
Fruit of All Evil Option C

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Book Concierge's task: National Hispanic Heritage Month
Once Upon a Spine Option C

20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature
Crops and Robbers

20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lauren Jodi's task: Morbid Nursery Rhymes
The Blood of an Englishman

20.10 - Group Reads
Death on the Nile

25 Point Tasks

25.1 - Coralie's task: Melbourne’s Spring Holidays
Dangerous Dough Book 1
White Corridor Book 2

25.4 - Andy P's task: I didn't think I would finish the Summer Challenge but...
The Highland Fling Murders
Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions

25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS
Home All Along Option 1
Bad Bites Option 2

25.7 - Sandy's task: More is Better
The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House
Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen

30 Point Tasks

30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Wonders of 7
Lemon Larceny Option 2
Title Wave Option 3

30.2 - MAZZA1’S Task: Six Degrees of Separation
Hot Six
I Know A Secret Option D

30.3 - ElaineL's task: Time Flies
Custard Crime Option 3
A Fatal Chapter Option 4

30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Vowel Power
The Queen's Jewels Book 1
If Fried Chicken Could Fly Book 2

30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Liztamania
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire R.G. List Page 1

30.6 - Diana K's task: Fall Baking
This Old Homicide Option D
Sweet Suspects Option E

30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
Body on Baker Street Option 3
Book Clubbed Option 1

30.8 - Brooke TX's task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Option B

50 Point Task

50.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Outside the box

A Just Clause Option 1

If the Shoe Kills Option 3

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Option 5

Kelly B's plan

5 Point Tasks-

5.1: The Rose & the Dagger
5.2: How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf
5.3 The Girl of Fire and Thorns
5.4: The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become
5.5: The Walking Dead, Vol. 09: Here We Remain
5.6 Counting Wolves
5.7: The Jungle Book
5.8: The Dead List
5.9: Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
5.10 Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games

0/50

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10 Point Tasks-

10.1: Living Dead in Dallas
10.2: Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues
10.3: Liberty: The Spy Who (Kind of) Liked Me
10.4: Zero Repeat Forever
10.5: The Secret History of Us
10.6: Blonde Ops
10.7: Camp So-and-So
10.8: The Handmaid's Tale
10.9: Wonder Woman: Warbringer
10.10: The Memory Trees

0/100

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15 Point Tasks-

15.1: The Cabin - and Roar
15.2: The Girl from the Well and Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault
15.3: Violet Grenade and Before She Ignites
15.4: The House and Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
15.5: Hounded
15.6: Stillhouse Lake
15.7: Deep Blue
15.8: Eliza and Her Monsters
15.9: Grit
15.10: The Walking Dead, Vol. 08: Made to Suffer

0/150

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20 Point Tasks-

20.1: The Sandcastle Empire
20.2: Berserker
20.3: Kat and Meg Conquer the World
20.4: Retribution Rails
20.5: The Walking Dead, Vol. 07: The Calm Before
20.6: No Good Deed
20.7: Defy the Stars
20.8: Everless
20.9: Contagion
20.10: Death on the Nile

0/200

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25 Point Tasks-
25.1: Their Fractured Light and Hunting Prince Dracula
25.2: Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft and Catch-22
25.3: We All Fall Down and The Hanging Girl
25.4: The Upside of Falling Down and Kids of Appetite
25.5: The Disappearances and Midnight at the Electric
25.6: 100 Hours and A Map for Wrecked Girls
25.7: Renegades and Devils & Thieves


0/175

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30 Point Tasks-

30.1: The Empress and The Breathless
30.2: The Final Six and The Lost Causes
30.3: Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index and 13 Minutes
30.4: Vicious and Earth & Sky
30.5: To Kill a Mockingbird and Frankenstein
30.6: Sprinkle with Murder and There's Someone Inside Your House
30.7: Into the Bright Unknown and Better Read Than Dead
30.8: Vicarious and Love and Other Alien Experiences

0/240

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50 Point Task-

50.1: Genuine Fraud and The Goblins of Bellwaterand Alone

0/50

KTKIZZIE's Fall 2017 Reading Plan

5.1 The Search by Nora Roberts
5.2 The Good Earth
5.3 Divergent 2011
5.4 The Woman in Cabin 10 (summer 5.3, 2016)
5.5 Midnight Crossroad 305pp
5.6 Sphere by Michael Crichton
5.7 Walden pg. 1
5.8 In Cold Blood
5.9 The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
5.10

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10.1 Bangkok 8
10.2 Love Warrior song: I Will Always Love You
10.3 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
10.4 The Dispossessed
10.5 Ghost Story star: Peter Lawford, season 1 guest star
10.6
10.7 Double-Booked for Death
10.8 The Blind Assassin
10.9 Dark Matter October group read in Bookworm Bitches group
10.10 The Christie Curse 304pp

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15.1.a Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch summit: Aconcagua (Neil Gaiman)
15.1.b The Beekeeper's Apprentice summit: Kilimanjaro (Laurie R. King)
15.2.a What Is the What by Dave Eggers
15.2.b The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
15.3.a Water for Elephants
15.3.b Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
15.4.a Ender's Game
15.4.b Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings 1st published: 1985
15.5 Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
15.6 The Ocean at the End of the Lane
15.7
15.8 The Angel's Game list: Fiction Books About Writers
15.9 Garden Spells
15.10 Finders Keepers

0/150 points
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20.1 Option 1
20.2 Option 2 List: Non-Caucasian Protagonists in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, & Paranormal page 1 Cinder
20.3 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo list page 1
20.4 Option 2
20.5 Option 1 Doctor Sleep
20.6 Option C
20.7 Option A Marina Setting: Barcelona, Spain
20.8 Option 3 The Patron Saint of Liars
20.9 Option 1
20.10 Death on the Nile

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25.1.a The Nightingale
25.1.b Red Rising winner 1967: Red Handed
25.2.a Watchmen list: Graphic Novels That Are Quality
25.2.b The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy list: 32 Books Guaranteed To Make You Laugh Out Loud
25.3.a The Big Sleep Sleep in line 12, RC in Laurence
25.3.b The Secret Life of Bees Poem: To Autumn; Bees in line 9, SK in Keats
25.4.a We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
25.4.b The Fountainhead
25.5.a The Portable Door Option 2: 417 pages
25.5.b Flowers for Algernon List: pg. 1 Best Banned Censored and Challenged Books25.6
25.7.a A Thousand Splendid Suns
25.7.b The Women
25.8
25.9
25.10

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30.1.a The Sisters Brothers (Option 2)
30.1.b The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Option 3)
30.2.a Six of Crows
30.2.b A Game of Thrones (Option D/same genre: fantasy)
30.3.a The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
30.3.b Grave Sight Option 4/5-star review ktkizzie's review of Dead as a Doornail
30.4.a The Mysterious Affair at Styles
30.4.b A Cry In The Night
30.5.a 1984 Option 1: 1001 Books list, page 1
30.5.b The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Option 1: 1001 Books list, page 3
30.6.a The Sugar Queen
30.6.b Love Is a Mix Tape
Recipe link: Orange Cranberry Muffins
30.7.a (Writing)
30.7.b The Historian (history "Historical > Historical Fiction")
30.8.a Difficult Women list: BookRiot's Best Books of 2017 (so far)
30.8.b The Library at Mount Char list: Book Riot's 100 Must Read Strange and Unusual Novels
(Option B: BookRiot)
30.9
30.10

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50.1

0/50 points
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Total Points Earned: 0/1100
Total Books Read:

25.1:
25.2:
25.3:
25.4:
25.5:
25.6:
25.7:

30.1:
30.2:
30.3:
30.4:
30.5:
30.6:
30.7:
30.8:

50.1:

5 Point Tasks

5.1 Read a book written by an author whose first and last name initials can be found in NATURAL. Who I Used to Be Alexa Land

5.2 Read a book set at least 50% in ONE location of a natural wonder: Alaska; Arizona; Australia; Canada;

5.3 Read a book that was FIRST published in a year that contains two 1’s such as 1981 or 2011.

5.4 Read a book that fits one of the Summer 2017 5 point tasks
(will use Summer Task 5.9: Read a book with a main page genre that includes “Romance” or “Romantic”. )

5.5 Read a book with the number of pages as listed on Goodreads that includes the number 0, 1 or 9. NO EBOOKS

5.6 Read a book written by an author named “Michael” Sean Michael

5.7 Read a book that has been shelved as "nature" at least 3 times from this list Popular Nature Books

5.8 Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle: corn, barley, harvest, hunter, travel, dying, beaver, blood, frost.

5.9: September is Self-Improvement Month. Read a book with a main page genre that includes “Self Help”. The Four Tendencies: The Surprising Truth about the Hidden Personality Types That Drive Everything We Do

5.10 Read a book of your choice.

Ten Point Tasks

10.1 Read a book set at least 50% in ONE of these top ten rice producing countries: China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Brazil, Japan or top rice-producing US states: Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas.

10.2 Read a book with a word from this list of track titles in the title or subtitle.

10.3 Read a book with the word "spy" in the title, subtitle, or series name or with the genre “spy thriller” on its main book page. Plural, possessive and other forms of the word spy that preserve its meaning work such as spied, spying, or spyness.

10.4 Read a book with a main page genre that contains "Science Fiction".

10.5 Read a book written by an author who shares a name with one of the show's stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, or season 1 guest stars.

10.6 Read a book with a motorcycle (a two-wheeled vehicle that is powered by a motor and has no pedals) on the cover.

10.7 Read a book with a hyphenated word in the title or subtitle.

10.8 Read a book that has made the list for the Booker prize from this list: Man Booker Prize Winners and Nominees

10.9 Read a book that is a Group Read during September thru November for any of your OTHER Goodreads groups or your "Real Life" reading groups.

10.10 Read a book with a number of pages on Goodreads that falls between 244 and 334 inclusive. NO EBOOKS

Elaine's 15 and 20 point books

15 Point Tasks

15.1 Conquer two of the seven summits by reading TWO books by two different authors. The author initials for each book must be found in ONE peak, and you must "summit" two different peaks. Middle initials may be ignored. (Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Puncak Jaya, Vinson)

15.2 Read TWO books in which the authors' first and last initials are swapped. Middle initials should be ignored. (AB and BA)

15.3
Option 1: Read one Book 1 AND one Book 2
Book 1: Read a book with the word "water" or "fall" intact in the title/subtitle/series name.
Book 2: Read a book written by an author named “Victoria” or any of the related names found at Behind the Name - Victoria

Option 2: Read ONE book that fulfills both Book 1 and Book 2 requirements.

15.4 Option 1: Read one Book 1 AND one Book 2
Book 1: Read a book where the beginning letter of each word in the title can be found in STRANGER THINGS. Minimum 2 word title. All words count. Subtitles may be ignored. Letters can be used only as often as they appear in the words STRANGER THINGS.
AND
Book 2: A book first published in the 1980s (1980-1989, inclusive)

Option 2: Read ONE book that fulfills both Book 1 and Book 2 requirements.

15.5 Read a book from the first 10 pages of Popular Norse Mythology Books.

15.6 Read a book with the name of a natural water body found on The Glossary of Bodies of Water list in the title/subtitle.

15.7 Read a book with a sea creature featured on the cover or one in which a sea creature features prominently in the plot. To qualify as a sea creature, the creature must spend at least part of its life underwater. Mythical sea creatures work.

15.8 Read a book about a writer from the list: Fiction Books About Writers OR read a book about writing from the list: Books for Writers

15.9 Read a book with a title that begins with the letter "G." Articles (A, An, The) can be ignored. Gabe 9-9-17

15.10 Read a book with the main page genre "Horror" and/or "Thriller."

20 Point Tasks

20.1: Option 3: Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in the word AUTUMN. Any book by M. Tasia

20.2: Option 2: read a book from the Best of Gay Romance list. Sticks & Stones, With Caution, Shattered Glass, My Fair Captain, Warrior's Cross, A Matter of Time, Vol. 1, The Broken H, Fair Game, Somebody Killed His EditorThe Heart of Texas, The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks, Heaven

20.3: Read a book found on the Best Literary Mysteries list.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (found on p. 3 of list #219)

20.4: Read a book that has all the letters O L D in the title. Sam's Soldiers 9/9/17

20.5: read a book that has at least two edition on Goodreads, that are in another language than your mother language. Come Sundown

20.6 Option D: Jonny Be Good Cade Creek 4 9/4/17

20.7: 250 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSION
Read a book by a single author whose First and Last initials are in HISPANIC HERITAGE. Nalini Singh, Stormy Glenn, Nora Roberts, Gena Showalter

20.8: Read a book published in Jan. of any year. Seduced by Twins Jan. 2016, Kingsley Jan. 2017, Kayson Jan. 2017, The Country Omega Jan. 2016?

20.9: Read a book with "blood" or "bloody" in the title. Blood Moons, Blood of the Demon, Blood Lust

20.10: Death on the Nile 9/9/17

Elaine's 25 point tasks

25.1: Two Book Task...501 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSIONS

Book 1: read a book first published in 2015.
Book 2: read a book with a four letter word from a winning horse's name

25.2: Two Book Task...500 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSIONS

Option 1: read a book written by one woman that was first published since 1998

Option 5: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, A Walk in the Woods,

25.3: Two Book Task...500 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSIONS

Book 1: "With" The Men with the Golden Cuffs by Lexi Blake 426 p.

Book 2: Spring Poem by William Blake "sweet" The Sweet Gum Tree by Katherine Allred (314 p.)

25.4: Two Book Task...501 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSION

1. Read a book whose title contains the following letters IDRETF (No subtitles)

2. Read a book written by a single author whose complete initials are found in ARDUOUS.

25.5: Two Book Task...500 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSION

1. Read a book whose author's initials can be found in SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FIVE. Rock Wedding by Nalini Singh (382 p.)
2. Read a book with a page count that includes a 4 or a 7. Rock Redemption 413 p.

25.6: 500 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSIONS

1. Rock Hard New Zealand 369 p.


25.7: Two Book Task...500 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSION

Book 1 – Read a book whose title/subtitle contains a regular plural noun. A regular plural noun is one where the plural form is made by adding s, es, or changing a y to an i and adding es. The Best Parts or Sam's Soldiers

Book 2 – Read a book whose title/subtitle contains an irregular plural noun – basically, one that is both singular and plural in one form (e.g. deer), one that is made by changing another end letter (elf>elves, memorandum>memoranda), or one that is just different (woman>women, foot>feet, mouse>mice).

Elaine's 30 point tasks

30 Point Tasks

30.1 500 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSION

Option 2: Read a book with 7 letters in one of the words in the title. The Darkest Pleasure DARKEST (368 p.)

Option 3: Read a book by a single author who has 7 letters in his/her last name. Sean Michael MICHAEL (132 p. minimum)

30.2 666 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSIONS

Book 1: Read a book with one of the words of this task’s title (excluding “of”)--SIX, DEGREES, SEPARATION--in the title of the book. Six must be written out as a word and the word "Degrees" must be plural.

Book 2: Read a book related to Book 1 by one of the following degrees of separation:

A) Read a book written by an author with the same first or last name as Book 1's author. Middle names should be ignored. Book 2 may NOT be by the same author as Book 1.

B) Read a book with a Main Character of the same name, first or last, as the Main Character in Book 1. Book 2 may NOT be about the same character as Book 1. The character MUST be listed in the Goodreads metadata as a character, listed in the title of the book, or mentioned in the book's description.

C) Read a book with a rating separated by no more than 0.3 in either direction from Book 1's rating. Ex: Book 1 has a rating of 3.65. The rating for book 2 must fall between 3.35 and 3.95. Tales From The Crib would work. Its rating is 3.41.
NOTE: Ratings can change quickly. You may want to get rating verified in the Help Thread

D) Read a book of the same genre as Book 1. (ONLY main page genres count and the genres must be EXACT).

E) Read a book in which the page numbers consist ENTIRELY of the numbers seen in the date of FIRST publication for Book 1. Ex: Book 1 was first publish on 07/02/2017. Book 2's page count may only contain the numbers 0, 1, 2, 7.

F) Read a book with a title that includes all of the initial letters of the TITLE for Book 1. Subtitles may not be used. Letter's may be anywhere in the title.

30.3 500 p. minimum MY TASK!!! NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSION
Option 1: Archangel's Viper (400 p.)
Option 2: Stormy Glenn

30.4 Read one Book 1 and one Book 2.

Book 1 - Read a book with a word that contains three consecutive vowels (ONLY a, e, i, o, u; NOT Y) in the title or subtitle. A vowel may be used more than once as in qUEEn.

Book 2 - Read a book with a word of at least 3 letters that contains the letter Y as the ONLY vowel, such as crypt, tryst, spry, rhythm, in the title or subtitle. Shy Guys Finish First

30.5 500 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSIONS

Read two books relating to any combination of the following music topics. Both books may come from the same topic, if desired.

A) Memoir or biography of a composer, musician, or band
B) Book with music as a main page genre Fret (242 p.) or Falcon's Fox (250 p.) AND Rock Addiction (406 p.)
C) Book with the name of a musical instrument in the title

30.6: Two Book Task...500 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT VERSION
Blackberry Cobbler found here
A: Blackberry Summer (376 p.)
B: Verb "Place" Sammy's Place (340 p.) or A Cold Dark Place (364 p.)

30.7: Two Book Challenge
3. Math: four word title w/ four letter word: Farmer in the Dell 9/4/17
5. Science: author's initials in SCIENTIFIC METHOD Sean Michael


30.8: Two Book Task...600 p. minimum NO EBOOKS W/OUT PRINT!

Option C: Sword and Laser: Uprooted, The Night Circus, A Natural History of Dragons, Ready Player One
Vaginal Fantasy: The Darkest Kiss p. 2 of list 9/9/17 (368 p.)

Goals:
Total Points: +595
Tasks completed: +28
Books Read: +45
GO +9/ BB +5

5.1 Author initials in NATURAL
5.2 set 50% in location of a natural wonder: Sweden; The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
5.3 published in a year that contains two 1’s
5.4 fits one of the Summer 2017 5, 10 or 15 point tasks. 5.3 published in a year that contains a 6 such as 1968, 1976 or 2016. Homegoing
5.5 the number of pages includes the number 0, 1 or 9. Black Coffee
5.6 author named “Michael” or any of the related names
5.7 shelved as "nature" at least 3 times from this list Popular Nature Books On Trails: An Exploration
5.8 corn, barley, harvest, hunter, travel, dying, beaver, blood, frost in title/subtitle
5.9 genre “Self Help”. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
5.10 Book of choice

10.1 Set 50% in China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Brazil, Japan or top rice-producing US states: Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas.
10.2 Title has word from The Bodyguard track list
10.3 word "spy" in the title, subtitle, or series name or with the genre “spy thriller” on its main book page
10.4 Genre SciFi
10.5 author who shares a name with one of Carol Burnett stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, or season 1 guest stars.
10.6 motorcycle on the cover
10.7 hyphenated word in the title or subtitle.
10.8 list Man Booker Prize Winners and Nominees
10.9 Book for any of your OTHER Goodreads groups or your "Real Life" reading groups Mao's Last Dancer
10.10 pages on Goodreads that falls between 244 and 334 inclusive. The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better

15.1 Tallest peaks - author initials for each book must be found in ONE peak, and you must "summit" two different peaks. Everest
Aconcagua Denali Kilimanjaro Elbrus Puncak Jaya Vinson
15.2 TWO books in which the authors' first and last initials are swapped.
15.3 or one book w/both req'ts
Book 1: word "water" or "fall" intact in the title/subtitle/series
Book 2: author named “Victoria” or any of the related names found at Behind the Name - Victoria such as Vicky, Tori, Victor.
15.4 or one book w/both req'ts
Book 1: 2+ word title, beginning letter of each word in the title can be found in STRANGER THINGS.
Book 2: first published in the 1980s
15.5 first 10 pages of Popular Norse Mythology Books list
15.6 name of a natural water body found on The Glossary of Bodies of Water list in the title/subtitle.
15.7 sea creature featured on the cover or sea creature features prominently in the plot.
15.8 Fiction Books About Writers or Books for Writers list
15.9 title that begins with the letter "G." Articles (A, An, The) can be ignored.
15.10 genre "Horror" and/or "Thriller."

20.1
20.2
Option 1: set entirely before 1900.
Option 2: lists: Non-Caucasian Protagonists in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Paranormal Romance or Books with Disabled Heroes American Gods
Option 3: initials in HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
20.3
Option 1: Best Literary Mysteries Listopia The Eyre Affair
20.4
Option 1: letters O L D in the title Me Talk Pretty One Day
20.5
Option 1: book by Stephen King or main page genre Horror.
Option 2: set at least 50% in Italy, France, or Switzerland
Option 3: lists: Tales of Adventure, Non-fiction Disaster Books, or Best Books about the Great Outdoors A Walk in the Woods
Option 4: book of short stories, all stories different authors
Option 5: >two editions on Goodreads, that are in another language than your mother language.
20.6
Option A: author named Thomas, Tom or Dennis, Denny.
Option B: Memoirs About Grief list. The Year of Magical Thinking
Option C: garden goodie on the cover.
Option D: LIFE or GOOD in the title
20.7
Option A: set 50% in a Spanish-speaking countries.
Option B: initials are in HISPANIC HERITAGE
Option C: Set 50% in Texas, Florida, California, Arizona, New Mexico, or New York
Option D: first letter of each word in 3+ word title in LATINO LITERATURE
20.8
Option 1: first published in January of any year.
Option 2: gender neutral pronouns in the title/subtitle: It, Its, Itself, They, Them, Their, Theirs, Themselves
Option 3: Novels Featuring Single Parents list
20.9
Option 1: bridge on the cover.
Option 2: "blood" or "bloody" in the title
Option 3: fiction book in which a plague/disease plays a significant role in the story.
20.10 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

25.1 >500 pgs 2 books or 1 satisfies both requirements
Book 1: published in 2015.
Book 2: word in title >4 letters also a word in the name of a horse that has won the Melbourne Cup.
25.2 >500 pgs 2 books
Option 1: written by one woman that was first published since 1998
Option 2: List Graphic novels that are quality
Option 3: won or shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award
Option 4: “Ireland” or “Irish” as a GR main page genre.
Option 5: 46 Hilarious Books Guaranteed To Make You Laugh Out Loud, 32 Books Guaranteed To Make You Laugh Out Loud, or The 20 Funniest Books Ever Written list I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
25.3 word in the title/subtitle that can be found in the text of the poems linked AND be written by an author whose initials (first & last, ignore middle names/initials) can be found in the poet's name.
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.4 >500 pgs
Book 1: title contains the following letters IDRETF
Book 2: initials are found in ARDUOUS.
25.5 one or two books >500 pgs
Option 1: initials in SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FIVE.
Option 2: page count that includes a 4 or a 7.
Option 3: set in or about ancient Rome.
Option 4: lists: Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books or The Most Frequently Challenged Books.
25.6
25.7
Book 1: title/subtitle contains a regular plural noun.
Book 2: title/subtitle contains an irregular plural noun

30.1 >500 pgs
Option 1: initials can be found in the word SEVEN
Option 2: 7 letters in one of the words in the title.
Option 3: single author who has 7 letters in his/her last name.
30.2 > 666 pgs
Book 1: SIX, DEGREES, or SEPARATION in title/subtitle
Book 2: Book 2 may NOT be by the same author or about the same character or person as Book 1.
Option A: same first or last name as Book 1's author.
Option B: Main Character of the same name, first or last, as the Main Character in Book 1
Option C: rating separated by no more than 0.3 in either direction from Book 1's rating.
Option D: same genre as Book 1.
Option E: page numbers consist ENTIRELY of the numbers seen in the date of FIRST publication for Book 1.
Option F: title that includes all of the initial letters of the TITLE for Book 1.
30.3 >500 pgs
Option 1: letters from the month of APRIL found in the title
Option 2: initials come from these letters: S, A, S, S, E, J, G and/or K
Option 3: any of the 10 point challenges from The Winter 2016-2017 Challenge
Option 4: 5 star read for you this year and read another book by that same author.
30.4
Book 1: word that contains three consecutive vowels (ONLY a, e, i, o, u; NOT Y) in the title or subtitle
Book 2: word of at least 3 letters that contains the letter Y as the ONLY vowel, such as crypt, tryst, spry, rhythm, in the title or subtitle.
30.5 >500 pgs, two books from a single option
Option 1: Lists: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Frankenstein,
30.6
Option A: ingredient from baked good in the title/subtitle.
Option B: verb from the recipe in the title/subtitle.
Option C: unit of measure from the recipe in the title/subtitle
Option D: number of pages includes the digits in the number of servings that your recipe says it makes.
Option E: picture of your baked good on the cover.
30.7
Option 1: BOOK found intact in the title/subtitle.
Option 2: 2+ words written in cursive on the cover.
Option 3: 4-word title. When Breath Becomes Air
Option 4: "History" or "Historical" as MPG.
Option 5: initials can be found in SCIENTIFIC METHOD
30.8
Option A: Book 1: Tor book
Book 2: Spaceship on cover

50.1

LAVENDER


SRC Fall Challenge 2017 Reading Plan
DONE for the season

This list is subject to change based on pending validation, availablility of planned books and general whims.

BOLD books are finished. ITALICS books are in progress.
UNDERLINED books are finished, but not yet posted.
{GO} denotes Golden Oldie. {BB} denotes Big Book.

05.03 Alien Animals by Colin Bord

05.04 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë {GO}

05.05 I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson

05.10 Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances, #2) by Alexandre Dumas {GO} {BBx2}

10.01 Angel With A Bullet (Dixie Flynn Mystery #1) by M.C. Grant

10.04 Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson {BBx1}

10.05 Women's Rituals: A Sourcebook by Barbara G. Walker

10.10 Murder on Potrero Hill by M.L. Hamilton

15.01 Silent Dances by A.C. Crispin
AND
15.01 The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman {BBx1}

15.02 John Marr by Herman Melville {GO}
AND
15.02 Murder in the Painted Lady by M.L. Hamilton

15.05 Wolves by C. Gockel

15.07 Everblue by Brenda Pandos

15.09 The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan {BBx1}

15.10 Gateways by F. Paul Wilson

20.01 Half-Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer

20.02 The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances, #1) by Alexandre Dumas {GO} {BBx3}

20.03 Sword of Ice (Tales of Valdemar #1) by Mercedes Lackey

20.04 The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1) by Alexandre Dumas {GO} {BBx2}

20.06 Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine by Michael T. Murray, Joseph Pizzorno {BBx2}

20.08 Rise: How a House Built a Family by Cara Brookins

20.10 Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie {GO}

25.01 Black Wolves by Kate Elliot {BBx2}

25.02 Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice
AND
25.02 Dubliners by James Joyce {GO}

25.06 Mardi by Herman Melville{GO} {BB1}

30.01 Starbridge by A.C. Crispin
AND
30.01 The Fall of Neskaya by Marion Zimmer Bradley {BBx1}

30.02 Rise of the Six by Matt Ryan
AND
30.02 Nothing New Under The Sun by J.C. Ryan

30.03 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling {BBx1}
AND
30.03 Amnesia Bites by Sharon Stevenson

30.04 Black Beauty by Constance Burris
AND
30.04 The Good Spy Dies Twice by Mark Hosack

30.05 Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos {BBx1} {GO}
AND
30.05 Candide by Voltaire {GO}

30.06 Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (The Dowser, #1 by Meghan Ciana Doidge
AND
30.06 The Dog that Laid Eggs by Jonathan Maas

30.07 The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley {GO}
AND
30.07 Celtic Women's Spirituality: Accessing the Cauldron of Life by Edain McCoy

30.08 The Alloy of Law (Mistborn - Alloy Era #1) by Brandon Sanderson
AND
30.08 Space Carrier Avalon (Castle Federation #1) by Glynn Stewart

50.01 Celtic Sacred Landscapes by Nigel Pennick
AND
50.01 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling {BBx2}
AND
50.01 The Haunted Air by F. Paul Wilson {BBx1}



Total Planned Points: 655
Current Points: 655
Total Planned Books: 46
Current Books: 46
Total Planned Tasks: 33
Current Tasks: 33
Total Planned Big Book Tickets: 21
Current Big Book Tickets: 21
Total Planned Golden Oldie Tickets: 11
Current Golden Oldie Tickets: 11

5.1 - Only Natural
A Gentleman in Moscow

5.2 - Location, Location, Location
The Brothers Karamazov

✔5.3 - Oh... Craps
11/22/63

✔5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Dinner at the Center of the Earth

5.5 - September, October, November
My Lady Jane

5.6 - Michaelmas
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir

5.9 - Help Yourself
Grit

5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
Read a book of your choice.

10.1 - Rice is Nice
A Lesson Before Dying

10.2 - The Bodyguard
Do Not Say We Have Nothing

✔10.3 - No Blindfold
Red Sparrow

10.4 - It's a Fan Thing
Kindred

10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Tell the Wolves I'm Home

10.6 - Highway Patrol
Wolf by Wolf

10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

✔10.8 - Best Original Novel
The Sellout

10.9 - Members Only
The Hate U Give

10.10 - Countdown
Euphoria

15.1 - Climbing Everest
Five-Carat Soul
Rainbirds

15.2 - Opposites Attract
Year of Wonders
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

15.3 - Victoria Falls
Snow Falling on Cedars
A Gathering of Shadows

15.4 - Stranger Things
The Talisman

15.5 - Northern Lights
Norse Mythology

15.6 - Rio's Harbor
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

15.7 - Sea Life
Gift from the Sea

15.8 - NaNoWriMo
Fangirl

15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins
Goldenhand

✔15.10 - Thrills and Chills
Force of Nature

20.1 - Most Improved Player
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

20.2 - Rookie at the Top
Option 3: The Golden Compass

✔20.3 - Best Review
Option 2: S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome

20.4 – Golden Oldies
Option 2: The Luminaries

20.5 - Bigger is Better
Option 5: In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

20.6 - Seasoned Reader
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter
The Girl with Ghost Eyes

20.8 - Nickels and Dime
Their Eyes Were Watching God

20.9 - Moderator’s Pet
Year of Wonders

✔20.10 - Group Reads
Death on the Nile

25.1 - Coralie's task: Melbourne’s Spring Holidays
Option 1:
The Rose Society

Option 2:
Reincarnation Blues

25.2 - Nick KY's task: Schmoop the Dude
Option 1:
Crooked Kingdom

Option 3:
The Known World

25.3 - Catherine T's task: Seasonal Poems
Remembrance Day:
The Big Sleep

To Autumn:
I'll Give You the Sun

25.4 - Andy P's task: I didn't think I would finish the Summer Challenge but..
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
The Rook

25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS
Option 2, 2 & 4:
The Amber Spyglass

25.6 - M1nks's task: Natural Wonders
Option 1:
1Q84

25.7 - Sandy's task: More is Better
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Men We Reaped

✔30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Wonders of 7
Option 2:
City of Thieves

Option 3:
Libra

✔30.2 - MAZZA1’S Task: Six Degrees of Separation
Book 1
Six of Crows

Book 2
Northanger Abbey

30.3 - ElaineL's task: Time Flies
Option 1
I Capture the Castle

Option 3: (10.4 Winter Challenge)
The Rules of Magic

30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Vowel Power
Book 1
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Book 2
The Dry

30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania
Julius Caesar

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

30.6 - Diana K's task: Fall Baking
recipe
Option A:
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Option D:
Grief is the Thing with Feathers

30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
History
Grant

Science
The Book of Strange New Things

30.8 - Brooke TX's task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks
Option A: Tor.com
A Conjuring of Light
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Fall Challenge 2017

5 point tasks

5.1 - Only Natural

Read a book written by an author whose first and last name initials can be found in NATURAL.

5.2 - Location, Location, Location The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons set in Russia.

Read a book set at least 50% in ONE location of a natural wonder: Alaska, USA; Arizona, USA; Australia; Brazil; Canada; China; Denmark; Finland; Greenland; Iceland; Mexico; Nepal; Norway; Russia; Scotland; Sweden; Zambia; Zimbabwe.
Required: If the setting is not evident on the book's main page include a reference or quote from the book when you post.

5.3 - Oh... Craps

In gambling dice games throwing an 11 on the first cast is a "natural". Read a book that was FIRST published in a year that contains two 1’s such as 1981 or 2011.

5.4 - Best Laid Plans Sugar Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke The Hannah Swensen Series #6
Task 10.1 - Seven or Six?

Of the 7 wonders of the medieval world, only 6 still survive today. Read a book that is #6 or #7 in a series.
Required: When you post, indicate which Summer 2017 task you are using and include any information required by the task.

5.5 - September, October, November Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke 304 pages finished 10/07/14

Read a book with the number of pages as listed on Goodreads that includes the number 0, 1 or 9.


5.6 - Michaelmas

September 29 is Michaelmas or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels. Read a book written by an author named “Michael” or any of the related names found at Behind the Name - Michael such as Mike, Miguel, Michelle, Lina, The name may be found in any name position. Name variations are limited to those found at the link- NO other variations. Diacritical marks may be ignored.

5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Read a book that has been shelved as "nature" at least 3 times from this list Popular Nature Books page 3
Required: State the page.

5.8 - Under the Fall Moon Before the Frost by Henning Mankell


5.9 - Help Yourself The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder


10 point tasks

10.1 - Rice is NiceCalifornia Thttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18826113-fall-challenge-2017-reading-plans#he Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
.
Required: If the setting is not evident on the book's main page include a reference or quote from the book when you post.

10.2 - The Bodyguard The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman

Required: State the song title. Queen of the Night

10.3 - No Blindfold Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre

10.4 - It's a Fan Thing Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together Being Dead by Jim Crace

Required: State the star's name. Jim Nabors - guest star

10.6 - Highway Patrol by Ewan McGregor

Required: Include the cover.

10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya [book :Britt-Marie Was Here|27406704] by Fredrik Backman

10.8 - Best Original Novel The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The award listing must appear on the Goodreads book page. Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist 2017

10.9 - Members Only

October is National Reading Group Month. Read a book that is a Group Read during September thru November for any of your OTHER Goodreads groups or your "Real Life" reading groups. Books shelved as "Currently Reading" or identified as a Group Read on the group's homepage work. You MUST be a member of the reading group. If you are NOT a member of any other reading group, read one of the 3 SRC Group Reads selections not used for task 20.10.
Required: State the group.

10.10 - Countdown

September 1 is the 244th day of the year and November 30 is the 334th. Read a book with a number of pages on Goodreads that falls between 244 and 334 inclusive.

15 point tasks

15.1 - Climbing Everest

The Seven Summits (highest mountain peaks on each continent/major tectonic plate) are:
Everest
Aconcagua
Denali
Kilimanjaro
Elbrus
Puncak Jaya
Vinson

Conquer two of the seven summits by reading TWO books by two different authors. The author initials for each book must be found in ONE peak, and you must "summit" two different peaks. Middle initials may be ignored. Books with multiple authors work as long as at least one author meets the requirement.
Required: Indicate which two peaks you summited when you post.

15.2 - Opposites Attract

Read TWO books in which the authors' first and last initials are swapped. Middle initials should be ignored.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...#
15.3 - Victoria Falls

Option 1: Read one Book 1 AND one Book 2
Book 1: Read a book with the word "water" or "fall" intact in the title/subtitle/series name. The North Water by Ian McGuire finished 10/14/17
Book 2: Read a book written by an author named “Victoria” Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard


15.4 - Stranger Things

The TV series Stranger Things returns to Netflix for a second season in October.
Choose one of the following options.
Required: Indicate which option you chose when you post.
Book 1: Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance by Patricia Duncker finished 09/30/17

Option 1: Read one Book 1 AND one Book 2
Book 1: Read a book where the beginning letter of each word in the title can be found in STRANGER THINGS. Minimum 2-word title. All words count. Subtitles may be ignored. Letters can be used only as often as they appear in the words STRANGER THINGS.
AND
Book 2: A book first published in the 1980s (1980-1989, inclusive)

Option 2: Read ONE book that fulfills both Book 1 and Book 2 requirements.

15.5 - Northern Lights The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan

Required: State which page the book is on when you post. Page 1

15.6 - Rio's Harbor The Loch by Steve Alten

15.7 - Sea Life The Mermaid's Mirror by L.K. Madigan

15.8 - NaNoWriMo The Writing Class by Jincy Willett

Required: Indicate which list you chose when you post. Fiction Books About Writers

15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

15.10 - Thrills and Chills "Thriller." The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

20 point tasks

20.10 - Group Reads

Fiction Set in a Member State of the Arab League - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

REQUIRED: You must participate in the book's discussion thread with at least one post about the contents of the book or your reaction to the book after you have read the book.

30-Point Tasks

30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Wonders of 7 titles subject to change depending on page count

Option 1: Read a book written by an author whose first and last name initials can be found in the word SEVEN. World After by Susan Ee

Option 2: Read a book with 7 letters in one of the words in the title. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami

30.2 - MAZZA1’S Task: Six Degrees of Separation

Book 1: Read a book with one of the words of this task’s title (excluding “of”)--SIX, DEGREES, SEPARATION--in the title of the book. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 462 pages

Book 2: Read a book related to Book 1 by one of the following degrees of separation.
Required: State which option Book 2 fits and provide any required information when you post.
D) Read a book of the same genre as Book 1. Fantasy The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

30.3 - ElaineL's task: Time Flies

Option 1: Happy Birthday to Me!
Read a book with ALL of the letters from the month of APRIL found in the title
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War by Lynne Olson

Option 3: Hello Seasonal Reading Challenge!
10.3.They're Old!
In honor of ancient wonders, read a book with History or Historical Fiction as a main page genre.
Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh

30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Vowel Power

Book 1 - Read a book with a word that contains three consecutive vowels (ONLY a, e, i, o, u; NOT Y) in the title or subtitle. A vowel may be used more than once as in qUEEn.

Book 2 - Read a book with a word of at least 3 letters that contains the letter Y as the ONLY vowel, such as crypt, tryst, spry, rhythm, in the title or subtitle.


30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania

The Cider House Rules by John Irving 973 pages (book) list: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die page 1
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 288 pages (book) list: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die page 2

30.6 - Diana K's task: Fall Baking

Ann H's List

5.1 - Only Natural

5.2 - Location, Location, Location
The Master and Margarita
5.3 - Oh ... Craps
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Mad Hope (15.3)
5.5 - September, October, November
The Martian
5.6 - Michaelmas
Nefertiti
5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air
The Poisonwood Bible
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
Roman Blood
5.9 - Help Yourself
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
5.10 - Your Own 8th Wonder
Time and Chance
__________________________________
10.1 - Rice is Nice
The Postman Always Rings Twice
10.2 - The Bodyguard

10.3 - No Blindfold
Casino Royale
10.4 - It's a Fan Thing
The Maze Runner
10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Someone Knows My Name
10.6 - Highway Patrol
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
10.8 - Best Original Novel
The Remains of the Day
10.9 - Members Only
10.10 - Countdown
Maisie Dobbs

15.1 - Climbing Everest


15.2 - Opposites Attract
Marie de Bourgogne
Outlander
15.3 - Victoria Falls
15.4 - Stranger Things
The Gunslinger
15.5 - Northern Lights
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
15.6 - Rio's Harbor
The Sound and the Fury
15.7 - Sea Life
15.8 - NaNoWriMo
The Paris Wife
15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins
A Gentleman in Moscow
15.10 - Thrills and Chills
The Bone Thief

20.1 - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Murder at the Vicarage
20.2 - Siobhan's task: It's a Love Story
Time and Chance
20.3 - Sam M's task: The Secret History
Maisie Dobbs
20.4 - Loafer's task: Golden Oldies
Madame Bovary
20.5 - Bigger is Better
The Shoemaker's Wife
20.6 - SweetMelissa's task: In Memoriam
Wildflower Hill
20.7 - Book Concierge's task: National Hispanic Heritage Month
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
20.8 - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature

20.9 - Lauren Jodi's task: Morbid Nursery Rhymes
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea
20.10 (group read)

25.1

30.1 - Ava Catherine's Task: Wonders of 7
1. Roman Blood
2.
30.2 - MAZZA1's Task: Six Degrees of Separation
1. Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
2.
30.3 - ElaineL's Task: Time Flies
1. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
2. Love Water Memory
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Vowel Power
1. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
2. Under the Never Sky
30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania
1.
The Master and Margarita
30.6 - Diana K's task: Fall Baking
30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
2. My Lord John
3. The Man of Property
30.8 - Brooke TX's task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks
Option B: BookRiot
Pachinko
The Passion

50.1
Madame Serpent
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Bloodfever

Kathy G's Fall Reading Plan 2017


5.1 - Only Natural
Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts
5.2 - Location, Location, Location
When Calls the Heart by Janette Oke
5.3 - Oh... Craps
The Man With a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes
(pub. 1981)
5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington by Mary Higgins Clark
(Summer 5.3 task)
5.5 - September, October, November
One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
(192 pages)
5.6 - Michaelmas
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
5.9 - Help Yourself
Suddenly Frugal: How to Live Happier and Healthier for Less by Leah Ingram
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith

10.1 - Rice is Nice
Jinxed by Carol Higgins Clark
(set in Calif.)
10.2 - The Bodyguard
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
10.3 - No Blindfold
The Princess Spy by Melanie Dickerson
10.4 - It's a Fan Thing
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Ruffles And Drums by Betty Cavanna
10.6 - Highway Patrol
Tex by S. E. Hinton
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
10.8 - Best Original Novel
Holiday by Stanley Middleton
10.9 - Members Only
The Lost Heiress by Roseanna M. White
10.10 - Countdown
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

15.1 - Climbing Everest
The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
The Book of Secrets by Elizabeth Joy Arnold
15.2 - Opposites Attract
Legacy by Danielle Steel
Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
15.3 - Victoria Falls
Arrow's Fall by Mercedes Lackey
The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley
15.4 - Stranger Things
The Shadow Riders by Louis L'Amour
15.5 - Northern Lights
The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer
15.6 - Rio's Harbor
The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber
15.7 - Sea Life
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
15.8 - NaNoWriMo
Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery
15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins
Girl in Blue by Anne Rinaldi
15.10 - Thrills and Chills
Timeline by Michael Crichton

20.1 - Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
To Catch a Bad Guy by Marie Astor
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Siobhan's task: It's a Love Story
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
20.3 - Best Review - Sam M's task: The Secret History
The Maltese Falcon by Dashell Hammett
20.4 – Golden Oldies – Loafer's task: Golden Oldies
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Fandury's task: The 11 days of the Fantasy Filmfest
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - SweetMelissa's task: In Memoriam
204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macaomber
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Book Concierge's task: National Hispanic Heritage Month
Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie
20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature
Sarah's Ground by Ann Rinaldi
20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lauren Jodi's task: Morbid Nursery Rhymes
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
20.10- Group Reads
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

25.1 - Coralie's task: Melbourne’s Spring Holidays
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor
25.2 - Nick KY's task: Schmoop the Dude
Camino Island by John Grisham
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
25.3 - Catherine T's task: Seasonal Poems
Home Front by Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
25.4 - Andy P's task: I didn't think I would finish the Summer Challenge but...
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
Testimony by Anita Shreve
25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS
The Passing Bells by Phillip Rock
(Counts for both books)
25.6 - M1nks's task: Natural Wonders
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
25.7 - Sandy's task: More is Better
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie

30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Wonders of 7
The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
30.2 - MAZZA1’S Task: Six Degrees of Separation
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
30.3 - ElaineL's task: Time Flies
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexis
30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Vowel Power
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice from the Crypt and Other Tales by Donald Thomas
30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
30.6 - Diana K's task: Fall Baking
A Peach of a Murder by Livia J. Washburn
Sugar Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse
Walk Across the Sea by Susan Fletcher
30.8 - Brooke TX's task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

50.1-

Candy's Reading Plan

5-Point Tasks

5.4 - Best Laid Plans
A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
5.3 - Six Pack: Read a book that was FIRST published in a year that contains a 6 such as 1968, 1976 or 2016.

10-Point Tasks

10.9 - Members Only
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Nothing But Reading Challenges
*1 Big Book Ticket*

15-Point Tasks

15.1 - Climbing Everest
Book 1: The Wolf Road *Elbrus*
Book 2: The Last One: A Novel *Aconcagua*

15.10 - Thrills and Chills
Bird Box

20-Point Tasks

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Siobhan's task: It's a Love Story
Option 3: Carry On
*1 Big Book Tickets*

20.3 - Best Review - Sam M's task: The Secret History
Option 1: Rebecca page 1

20.4 – Golden Oldies – Loafer's task: Golden Oldies
Option 2: Under the Harrow

20.5 - Bigger is Better - Fandury's task: The 11 days of the Fantasy Filmfest
Option 1: John Dies at the End

20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature
Option 2: It
*3 Big Book Tickets*

20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lauren Jodi's task: Morbid Nursery Rhymes:
Option 3: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

25-Point Tasks

25.2 - Nick KY's task: Schmoop the Dude
Option 1. - This Monstrous Thing
Option 2. - Afterlife with Archie, Vol. 1: Escape from Riverdale
Graphic Novels that are Quality page 2

25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS
Option 2: Dark Matter
Option 4: The Handmaid's Tale
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books page 1

25.7 - Sandy's task: More is Better
Book 1: Final Girls
Book 2: Suffer the Children

30-Point Tasks

30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Wonders of 7
Option 2: The Valiant
Option 3: We Need to Talk About Kevin

30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
3. Math: Meddling Kids
4. History: The Heart's Invisible Furies
*1 Big Book Ticket*

30.8 - Brooke TX's task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks
Option B:
Book 1: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Book 2: Slade House

50-Point Task

50.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Outside the box

Option 1: The Dazzling Heights
Option 2: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Option 3: Station Eleven

Points: 50
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0

Total Points: 310
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 5

5.1 - Only Natural: Her Fearful Symmetry
5.2 - Location, Location, Location: On the Beach
5.3 - Oh ... Craps: Regeneration
5.4 - Best Laid Plans: The Library at Mount Char 15.4
5.5 - September, October, November: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
5.6 - Michaelmas: The Botany of Desire
5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air: Silent Spring
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
5.9 - Help Yourself: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
5.10 - Your Own 8th Wonder:

10.1 - Rice is Nice: Norwegian Wood
10.2 - The Bodyguard: A Separate Peace
10.3 - No Blindfold: Tinker,
Tailor, Soldier, Spy
10.4 - It's a Fan Thing: Fledgling
10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: Hangsaman
10.6 - Highway Patrol: The Motorcycle Diaries
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
10.8 - Best Original Novel: Wolf Hall
10.9 - Members Only: H is for Hawk
10.10 - Countdown: Murder on the Orient Express

15.1 - Climbing Everest: Life After Life and The Blue Castle
15.2 - Opposites Attract: Lily and the Octopus and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
15.3 - Victoria Falls: Things Fall Apart and Omon Ra
15.4 - Stranger Things: Native Tongue
15.5 - Northern Lights: The Prose Edda
15.6 - Rio's Harbor: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
15.7 - Sea Life: The Old Man and the Sea
15.8 - NaNoWriMo: Possession
15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins: The Goblin Emperor
15.10 - Thrills and Chills: Something Wicked This Way Comes

20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10 (group read): The Sixth Extinction

25.1 - Coralie's Task: Melbourne's Spring Holidays: The Sympathizer and The Name of the Rose
25.2 - Nick KY's Task: Schmoop the Dude: The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace
25.3
25.4
25.5
25.6
25.7 - Sandy's Task: More is Better: The House of the Spirits and Midnight's Children

30.1 - Ava Catherine's Task: Wonders of 7: Wuthering Heights and Lolita
30.2 - MAZZA1's Task: Six Degrees of Separation: The Sixth Wives of Henry VIII and The Mother of All Questions
30.3 - ElaineL's Task: Time Flies: The Historian and The Shadow of the Wind
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Vowel Power: All Quiet on the Western Front and Wyrd Sisters
30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and One Hundred Years of Solitude
30.6 - Diana K's Task: Fall Baking: Milk and Honey and Doomsday Book
30.7 - TessaVanessa's Task: Class is in session: The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Strangers on a Train
30.8 - Brooke TX's Task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks: Cloud Atlas and Swordspoint

50.1

25.1
1. Clockwork Prince
2. Cross Justice

25.2
1. A Week in Winter
5. Me Talk Pretty One Day

25.3
1. Against the Tide
2. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

25.4
1. Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass
2. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Dava Sobel

25.5
4. The Fellowship of the Ring page 2 list

25.6
4. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution biology genre

25.7
1. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
2. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

30.1
2. Three Sisters, Three Queens
3. The King's Curse Philippa Gregory

30.2
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
D. The Boleyn Inheritance
History genre

30.3
Option B
3 & 4 The Other Boleyn Girl

30.4
1. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
2,The Spy

30.5
1. Time magazine
The Sound and the Fury
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

30.6
A. Like Water for Chocolate
B. Easy Bake Coven

30.7
2. Murder on the Orient Express
4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

30.8
1. Difficult Women
2. The Country of Ice Cream Star

Elise's Fall Reading Plan 2017


5.1 - Only Natural
Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction by Tom Raabe
5.2 - Location, Location, Location
Land of Plenty: A Treasury of Authentic Sichuan Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop
5.3 - Oh... Craps
Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists by Anthony M. Amore (published 2011)
5.4 - Best Laid Plans
5.5 - September, October, November
5.6 - Michaelmas
The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby by Michael K. Jones
5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World by Lawrence Goldstone
5.9 - Help Yourself
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder


10.1 - Rice is Nice
10.2 - The Bodyguard
10.3 - No Blindfold
10.4 - It's a Fan Thing
10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
10.6 - Highway Patrol
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
10.8 - Best Original Novel
10.9 - Members Only
10.10 - Countdown

15.1 - Climbing Everest
15.2 - Opposites Attract
15.3 - Victoria Falls
15.4 - Stranger Things
15.5 - Northern Lights
15.6 - Rio's Harbor
15.7 - Sea Life
15.8 - NaNoWriMo
15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins
15.10 - Thrills and Chills


20.1-
20.2-
20.3-
20.4-
20.5-
20.6-
20.7-
20.8-
20.9-
20.10- Group Reads


25.1 - Coralie's task: Melbourne’s Spring Holidays
25.2 - Nick KY's task: Schmoop the Dude
25.3-
25.4-
25.5-
25.6-
25.7 - Sandy's task: More is Better


30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Wonders of 7
30.2 - MAZZA1’S Task: Six Degrees of Separation
30.3 - ElaineL's task: Time Flies
30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Vowel Power
30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania
30.6 - Diana K's task: Fall Baking
30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
30.8 - Brooke TX's task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks


50.1-

Jen UT

5 Point Tasks
1. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
2. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
3. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
4. 10.10 - Gimme S’more Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan Also read: Dad Is Fat This book is new to me.
5. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

10 Point Tasks
1.
2. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
3.
4. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Season 1 Guest Star: Lesley Ann Warren

15 Point Tasks
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds by Gareth Hinds

Total Points: 80
Total Books: 10

LaureY- Fall 2017 Reading Plan

5.1 The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
5.2 Knots and Crosses #1 by Ian Rankin
5.3 The Magician King #2 by Lev Grossman
5.4 Glass Sword #2 by Victoria Aveyard
5.5 Tagged & Ashed #2 by CM Owens
5.6 Rise of Empire #3#4 by Michael J Sullivan
5.7 The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
5.8 Blood Rites #6 by Jim Butcher
5.9 Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy
5.10 Death Masks #5 by Jim Butcher

5/50 points
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10.1 Silence by Shusaku Endo
10.2 Shadow of Night #2 by Deborah Harkness
10.3 The Honourable Schoolboy #2 by John Le Carre
10.4 Speaker for the Dead #2 by Orson Scott Card
10.5 The Lewis Man #2 by Peter May
10.6 The Rosie Effect #2 by Graeme Simsion
10.7 The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband #2 by Julia Quinn
10.8 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
10.9 Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
10.10 The Colour of Magic #1 by Terry Pratchett

10/100 points
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15.1.a Postmortem#1 by Patricia Cornwell
15.1.b It Happened One Autumn #2 by Lisa Kleypas
15.2.a Murder of Crows #2 by Anne Bishop
15.2.b Rivers of London #1 by Ben Aaronovitch
15.3.a Darker Water #1 by Lauren Stewart
15.3.b A Conjuring of Light #3 by VE Schwab
15.4.a/b Equal Rites #3 by Terry Pratchett
15.5 Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
15.6 A River Runs Through It by Norman McLean
15.7 In Over Her Head #1 by Judi Fennell
15.8 How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers by Richard Cohen
15.9 Golden Son by Pierce Brown
15.10 Hornet's Nest #1 by Patricia Cornwell

0/150 points
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20.1 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #1 by Alexander McCall Smith
20.2 It's in His Kiss #7 by Julia Quinn
20.3 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
20.4 Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
20.5 The Stand by Stephen King
20.6 Splendid #1 by Julia Quinn
20.7 Beard in Mind #4 by Penny Reid
20.8 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
20.9 Titus Groan #1 by Mervyn Peake
20.10 Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

20/200 points
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25.1.a Confess by Colleen Hoover
25.1.b Vision in Silver #3 by Anne Bishop
25.2.a Ruin and Rising #3 by Leigh Bardugo
25.2.b Bossypants by Tina Fey
25.3.a Death Is Not the End #10.5 by Ian Rankin
25.3.b Eden Close by Anita Shreve
25.4.a Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fanny Flag
25.4.b Autumn by Ali Smith
25.5.a The Thief #1 by Megan Whaler Turner
25.5.b Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard
25.6 a/b The Glass Palace by Amitav Gosh
25.7.a Night Soldiers #1 by Alan Furst
25.7.b A Monstrous Regiment of Women #2 by Laurie R King

0/175 points
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30.1.a Shadows of Self #5 by Brandon Sanderson
30.1.b Secrets of a Summer Night #1by Lisa Kleypas
30.2.a Separation #2 by Stylo Fantome
30.2.b Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert
30.3.a Saint's Blood #3 by Sebastien de Castell
30.3.b Dictator #3 by Robert Harris
30.4.a Beautiful Player #3 by Christina Lauren
30.4.b I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
30.5.a Ulysses by James Joyce
30.5.b The House of the Spirits by Isabel Alliende
30.6.a Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay #3 by Elena Ferrante
30.6.b The Dragons of Nova #2 by Elise Kova
30.7.a The Rebels of Gold #3 by Elise Kova
30.7.b The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery
30.8.a The Three-Body Problem #1 by Liu Cixin
30.8.b Iced #6 by Karen Marie Moning


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*Thanks to KTKizzie for the template*

Michelle in Alaska - reading plan

*Goodness, you all have some very intimidating plans! It's ok though... I'll just set my own personal goal and feel satisfied with that. :)

15.10 - Thrills and Chills: The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter: Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz
20.10 - Group Reads: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
30.1a - Wonders of 7: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
30.1b - Wonders of 7: Some Enchanted Evening by Christina Dodd
30.2a - Six Degrees of Separation: Separation by Babette Brown
30.2b - Six Degrees of Separation: Envy by Sandra Brown
30.3a/b - Time Flies: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
30.4a - Vowel Power: Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
30.4b - Vowel Power: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
30.5a - Listamania/Lisztomania: 1984 by George Orwell
30.5b - Listamania/Lisztomania: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Goal: 0/205 points
GO: 0/2
BB: 0/2

Diana S Fall Reading Plan
Books Read:

5.1 - Only Natural
5.2 - Location, Location, Location
5.3 - Oh ... Craps
5.4 - Best Laid Plans
5.5 - September, October, November
5.6 - Michaelmas
5.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
5.9 - Help Yourself
5.10 - Your Own 8th Wonder

10.1 - Rice is Nice
10.2 - The Bodyguard
10.3 - No Blindfold
10.4 - It's a Fan Thing
10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
10.6 - Highway Patrol
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
10.8 - Best Original Novel
10.9 - Members Only
10.10 - Countdown

15.1 - Climbing Everest
15.2 - Opposites Attract
15.3 - Victoria Falls
15.4 - Stranger Things
15.5 - Northern Lights
15.6 - Rio's Harbor
15.7 - Sea Life
15.8 - NaNoWriMo
15.9 - Ghouls and Goblins
15.10 - Thrills and Chills

20.1 - Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's Task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Siobhan's Task: It's a Love Story
20.3 - Best Review - Sam M's Task: The Secret History
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Loafer's Task: Golden Oldies
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Fandury's Task: The 11 Days of the Fantasy Filmfest
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - SweetMelissa's Task: In Memoriam
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Book Concierge's Task: National Hispanic Heritage Month - Sourdough by Robin Sloan
20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - MegSCL's Task: My Own Wonder of Nature
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Lauren Jodi's Task: Morbid Nursery Rhymes
20.10 (group read)

25.1 - Coralie's Task: Melbourne's Spring Holidays
25.2 - Nick KY's Task: Schmoop the Dude
25.3 - Catherine T's Task: Seasonal Poems
25.4 - Andy P's Task: I didn't think I would finish the Summer Challenge but
25.5 - Perletwo's Task: HAPPY RETURNS
25.6 - M1NKS's Task: Natural Wonders
25.7 - Sandy's Task: More is Better

30.1 - Ava Catherine's Task: Wonders of 7
30.2 - MAZZA1's Task: Six Degrees of Separation
30.3 - ElaineL's Task: Time Flies
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Vowel Power
30.5 - Diane's Task: Listamania/Lisztomania
30.6 - Diana K's Task: Fall Baking
30.7 - TessaVanessa's Task: Class is in session
30.8 - Brooke TX's Task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks

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