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Wow, this is seriously ambitious. I wish you the best and I will enjoy trolling your list.
What an amazing list! You've done so much research just to find the dates for each book! I hope you don't mind if I copy it.. I sometimes like to read by era, and this list will help with that.Enjoy working on this -- but give yourself some time :)
Phew that's a long list! Plenty of great books to choose from, good luck :)
This is a truly intimidating looking list but I wish you luck.How far into Clarissa are you? Are you enjoying it? I've had this in mind to read for years but have never quite plucked up the courage to actually start it.
Love this, Clarissa onward! (I have a spreadsheet off goodreads, and have similar years I'm having trouble finding books for.) It's like a novel timeline, and fun to see, for example, how close Jane Austen was to the beginning of it. I look forward to watching your progress.
Terris wrote: "What an amazing list! You've done so much research just to find the dates for each book! I hope you don't mind if I copy it.. I sometimes like to read by era, and this list will help with that.Enj..."
Oh please do. :) I have been wanting to read many of the classics. My problem is... do I want to own all of them. lol :)
Kathleen wrote: "Love this, Clarissa onward! (I have a spreadsheet off goodreads, and have similar years I'm having trouble finding books for.) It's like a novel timeline, and fun to see, for example, how close J..."
Thank you :) I am looking forward to seeing what I can do next year. I did get to page 500 on Clarissa, and I put it down. It is a top goal for 2018 for me. I think it is the longest written novel. My copy is over 1500 pages. I heard you can learn to adapt to reading older works by reading through a timeline. :) I had difficultly reading Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, but his other works got easier after I read Herman Melville. I am hoping after reading many works of the 17th century I can read older works easier than I do now. :)
Hailee wrote: "This is a truly intimidating looking list but I wish you luck.How far into Clarissa are you? Are you enjoying it? I've had this in mind to read for years but have never quite plucked up the coura..."
It is very ambitious list, now that I see it lol. For Clarissa I am on page 500. I put it down a couple of months ago. My favorite parts so far are the letters between Clarissa and her best friend. I adore the way Clarissa writes all her letters. The format is also interesting, there are no chapter headings, but I can't stop thinking about it, so I need to begin reading it again. :)
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This is a great list and a great idea. I may feel compelled to create my own "Life Long" reading list based on this. Thanks for posting and lots of luck with your challenge.
Wow!what a great list and like Sara said you must have really researched a lot to put in all those books with dates .I hope you enjoy reading and planning the books.
And thanks in advance ,Sherri..I may use the books listed here , in the future.
this is a great looking list!I have 2 similar challenge lists which combine to span one book from each year from 1864 to 2017, and I agree that the best part was researching all the dates! [geek_smiley]
Bat-Cat wrote: "This is a great list and a great idea. I may feel compelled to create my own "Life Long" reading list based on this. Thanks for posting and lots of luck with your challenge."Thank you and your welcome :) Anyone can borrow, I noticed I even had three different novels for one year, but I want to read those too. lol :)
Darren wrote: "this is a great looking list!I have 2 similar challenge lists which combine to span one book from each year from 1864 to 2017, and I agree that the best part was researching all the dates! [geek_..."
I saw your amazing lists :) I still have many dates missing on mine but I know some digging around, I will find more that I will want to read/add :) Many of the ones I own personally are before the dates where I started the list, and are on the ever-ending tbr list lol :)
siriusedward wrote: "Wow!what a great list and like Sara said you must have really researched a lot to put in all those books with dates .I hope you enjoy reading and planning the books.
And thanks in advance ,Sherri...."
You are welcome :) I am looking forward to it and I will be looking to see what is on your list. :) The next challenge will be seeing where I can get copies of my own, or if my library can help me out.
Katy wrote: "Very cool and a great list!"Thank you Katy. :) You have some amazing lists too. I am going to scope out yours for a bit if you don't mind. :) They look amazing and I might find some of yours to place onto my list :)
Pink wrote: "Phew that's a long list! Plenty of great books to choose from, good luck :)"Thank you so much. I hope I enjoy the books, they are great for a reason :)
That's a great list! Many of them are books I've read or want to read. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is one I really want to read in 2018. I've started it before, but have always gotten sidetracked. I work full-time and like to work on cross stitch and knitting projects in my spare time. Audiobooks let me listen while I'm in the car, working on my projects, or even working in the kitchen thanks to Amazon Echo. I get through some very large books that way, but Clarissa is not available as an audiobook.
Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "That's a great list! Many of them are books I've read or want to read. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is one I really want to read in 2018. I've started it before, but have..."I know :/ I tried to find it too. :)
This makes me feel better about my challenges. I made my cutoff 1850 for some reason, and it turns out that the two I am currently reading were written prior to that. Good luck!
My original list over maxed the limit of characters...( :o ) So I took the duplicate dates and created a second list of works I would like to check off as my reading experience expands. :) The first list is my top picks, but these are just as important. I have also added a couple 17th century books (pre-1748) that I do own and want to complete sooner than later. Happy Reading Everyone. :)no date = 2018
✔1405 The Book of the City of Ladies★★★★23
✔1669 The Diary of Samuel Pepys 23 ★★★★
✔1717: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems 2019 ★★★
✔1722: A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe ★★★★
✔1722: The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise: Translated from the Original Latin and Now Reprinted from the Edition of 1722; Together with a Brief Account of Their Lives and Work ★★★
1722: Moll Flanders
1724: Roxana
✔1726: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 2017 ★★★
1728: The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
✔1729: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 2017 ★★
1731: Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles
✔1740: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded 2020 ★★★★
1742: Joseph Andrews
✔1749: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 23 ★★★★
1753: Sir Charles Grandison
1759: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
✔1764: The Castle of Otranto 2019 ★★★★
1777: The Old English Baron
✔1778:Evelina by Fanny Burney ★★★★
✔1791: The History of England 2019 ★★★★★
1793: The Castle of Wolfenbach: A German Story
1793: Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, 1793
✔1796: The Monk by Matthew Lewis ★★★★ 2019
1796: The Nun by Denis Diderot
1796: Camilla by Fanny Burney
✔1798: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ★★★ 2020
✔1810: Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley ★★★ 2019
1814: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
1816: Glenarvon by Caroline Lamb
✔1819: Rip Van Winkle ★★★
1831: Transformation by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
✔1833: The Mortal Immortal 2019 ★★★★
1839: Nicholas Nickleby
✔1847: Jane Eyre ★★★★
✔1847: Wuthering Heights ★★★★
1850: The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
✔1853: Cranford ★★★★
1854: Tempest and Sunshine
✔1859: A Tale of Two Cities ★★★★
✔1860: First Love ★★★ 19
✔1860: Great Expectations ★★★★
✔ 1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems ★★★★23
1863: Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
1864: The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
✔1865: From the Earth to the Moon ★★★ 19
1866: Crime and Punishment
✔1866: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ★★★★
1868: The Moonstone
✔1868: Little Women ★★★★ 23
1869: Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau
✔1870: The Mystery of Edwin Drood ★★★
✔1870: Lady Byron Vindicated ★★★
1872: Middlemarch by George Eliot
✔1872: Erewhon 2019 ★★★
1873: Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
1873 A Classic Victorian Erotic Novel
1874: The Temptation of St. Antony
✔1874: The Frozen Deep ★★★★
✔1878: The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson ★★★
✔ 1879: The Prelude and Other Poems ★★★★ 2020
1879: Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
✔1881: Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen ★★★
✔ 1884: The Body Snatcher ★★★
✔ 1886: The Mayor of Casterbridge ★★★★ 20
✔ 1886 A Phantom Lover ★★★ 23
✔ 1887: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle ★★★
✔ 1887: Ten Days in a Mad-House ★★★★
✔ 1888: Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887 ★★★ 2019
✔ 1890: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce ★★★★
✔1898: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ★★★
1899: Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
✔1899: Heart of Darkness ★★
1900: Lord Jim
1904: The Golden Bowl
1905: The Scarlet Pimpernel
1907: Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne ...: 1841-1863
✔1908: A Room with a View ★★★ 2020
✔1909: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux ★★★★
✔1912: Pygmalion ★★★★ 2019
1912: The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France
✔1913: The Lodger: A Tale of the London Fog ★★★ 2019
1913: Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record by William Austen-Leigh
1913: Sons and Lovers
✔ 1915 Herland 2019 ★★★
1917: Anne's House of Dreams by Edith Wharton
✔1918: The Return of the Soldier ★★★
1920: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
✔1921: We 2019 ★★★
✔1921: Mrs. Dalloway 2019 ★★
1921: Sodom and Gomorrah Vol. 4 by Marcel Proust
✔1922: The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald ★★
1923: Bambi: A Life in the Woods by James DeVita
1923: A Lost Lady
1925: Emily Climbs by L.M. Montgomery
1925: The Captive & The Fugitive Vol 5-6 by Marcel Proust
✔1925: The Painted Veil ★★★★
✔1926: My Mortal Enemy★★
✔1927 To the Lighthouse ★★★ 2020
1928: The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
✔1929 A Room of One's Own ★★★★ 2020
✔1929: Letters to a Young Poet ★★★ 2020
✔1932: Brave New World ★★★★ 2019
✔1934: I, Claudius by Robert Graves ★★★★ 2019
✔1934: Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina ★★★ 2019
1935: The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
1935: Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
✔1937: Out of Africa ★★★ 2019
✔1937: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again ★★★★ 2020
1939: Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
✔1939: Murder on the Orient Express ★★★
✔1939: And Then There Were None ★★★★
✔1939 The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway 2018 ★★★
✔1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats ★★★★★
1939: Anne of Ingleside #6 by L.M. Montgomery
✔1942: The Screwtape Letters ★★★
1944: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
1947: A Streetcar Named Desire
1948: The Heat of the Day
✔1948: I Capture the Castle ★★★★
1949: 1984 by George Orwell
1954: Lord of the Flies
✔1955: Lolita ★★★★
1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays byTennessee Williams
1956: Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
1957: Voss by Patrick White
1958: The Greengage Summer
1958: Venetia by Georgette Heyer
1958: Around the World in Eighty Days
1958: The King Must Die: A Novel
1958: The Once and Future King
✔1960: Shadows on the Grass ★★★ 2019
✔1961: Dawn by Elie Wiesel ★★★★
✔1961: Shadows on the Grass ★★★
✔1965: Stoner ★★★★ 2020
✔1962: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson ★★★
✔1967: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★ 2019
✔1967: Picnic at Hanging Rock ★★★★ 2019
✔1969: Slaughterhouse-Five ★★★ 2019
1970: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
✔ 1972: Night by Elie Wiesel ★★★★★
1982: The Mists of Avalon
✔ 1983: The Name of the Rose ★★★★
1983: Cassandra
✔ 1984: The Lover ★★★
✔ 1988: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ★★★★
I found this to be pretty neat, since I don't think I will be physically traveling any time soon... the next best thing is through books :) 2018
Africa: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Africa / Canada: Northern Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) Memoirs of a Doctor's Wife by Moira Richmond
Ancient Rome: An Ember in the Ashes
Canada: Newfoundland: The Frozen Deep
China: The Art of War
England: My Lady Jane
England: Trepassen The Death of Mrs. Westaway
England: Yorkshire: Wuthering Heights
England: London Evelina
England: London The Marvels
England: Devonshire And Then There Were None
France: The Phantom of the Opera
France: Paris The Invention of Hugo Cabret
London to Brighton, to the Continent including Paris, Rome, Brussels (Belgium), and "Pumpernickel," a small German principality Vanity Fair
Mexico: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Prague: Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Iceland: Burial Rites
Ireland: Ulysses
Ireland: The Pig Did It
Russia: Syria: Murder on the Orient Express
Vietnam: Saigon Inside Out & Back Again
Portugal: Azores The Whalemaster
Poland: Krakow Anna and the Swallow Man
Japan: Tokyo/ Austria: Vienna/ Indonesia: Tana Toraga /Mexico: Michoacan/ Spain: Barcelona/ North Carolina/ California From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Jamaica: Wide Sargasso Sea
Spain/Africa: Egypt The Alchemist
Haiti/ Louisiana Island Beneath the Sea
Florence Italy / France The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici
Italy: The Name of the Rose
Netherlands: Amsterdam The Dinner
Iraq: Baghdad Frankenstein in Baghdad
South Korea: Human Acts
Israel: Palestine Dawn
Poland: Night
Hung Kong: The Painted Veil
Cuba: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History
Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile: The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
New Zealand: Auckland Island Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Peru, Venezuela: South America River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Congo: Africa Heart of Darkness
Germany: The Women in the Castle
Gambia: Africa, Puerto Rico Revenge For the Men of the Pequod
United States:
Alaska: The Smell of Other People's Houses
Pennsylvania: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
California: Thirteen Reasons Why
New York: The Beautiful and Damned
New York/ Minnesota : Wonderstruck
San Francisco / Oregon : Go Ask Alice
Kansas/ Oklahoma : Midnight at the Electric
Texas: The Girl in the Well Is Me
Texas: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Massachusetts: The Thing About Jellyfish
Nicholtown / Greenville / South Carolina /New York: Brown Girl Dreaming
Illinois: If We Were Villains
Maine: After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
Washington: The One and Only Ivan
Hawii (?) All That Was by Karen Rivers
New Hampshire: Perfection to a Fault: A Small Murder in Ossipee, New Hampshire, 1916
I found an interesting twist to the classical game of Monopoly recently, and borrowing the image, I am going to be playing Bookopoly for the rest of the coming year. The way I am playing is a bit different from the image, more laid back, to have fun with my reading. Starting May 10th to end of year :) 
Rules: * no dice, just pick what I want to read
Free Parking: Free choice / maybe free book purchase
Railroads *Turned into book challenges - Readathons (finished ones has ✔'s)
Taxes: Books that's 500 pages
Go to Jail * Read/Finish Current Reads
Just Visiting: Give myself a little extra time
Chance/Chest* Turned into TBR/ Library Card
TBR:
1. Choose a book from the beginning of my Goodread's picks (1-20) ✔
2. Find a book cover that pleases the eye (color) ✔
3. Read the next book in a series that I have started ✔
4. Read a classic I have been waiting to read ✔
5. Read from the TBR jar (can pick 3 to choose if need be)
6. Read from my subscription book box (Owlcrate) ✔
7. Re-read a favorite ✔
8. Read someone's current read (in real life/goodread) ✔
9. Pick a # and go to a random shelf to pick that book out
10. Read a book that been on TBR shelf for a long time, (search re-visit book haul pages) ✔
11. Get out of Jail Free - read an imitating book
12. Read a highlighted "didn't get to" previous month's TBR's list ✔
Library Cards:
1. Read a book I "return" back to the library (lack of time) ✔
2. Listen to an audiobook ✔
3. Find someone's else choice at library, a "recommendation" ✔
4. Go down an aisle and choose a book on shelf ✔
5. Read the next book in series from the library stack
6. Pick a book from my "library reads" shelf, the longest one (time/length) on the list
7. Read an author I have only read only 1 book so far ✔
8. Read a book that has an "one" word title ✔
9. Read an author that is new to you ✔
10. Read a book that is a "cover buy", no reading synopsis ✔
11. Read a new release (hype) for the library ✔
12. Request a book ✔
Categories: - each place will total of "5" per square. (Not including taxes book) Can only count 1 book for 1 spot.
From the Go:
Purple (2): Classics group: :)
1. Waiting for Godot ★★
2. Summer by Edith Wharton ★★★
3. Great Expectations ★★★★
4. The Return of the Soldier ★★★
5.
Victorians group :)
1. The Golden Lion of Grand Pere ★★★
2. East Lynne
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4.
5.
TAX: The Mill on the Floss (509 pages) ★★★
Readathon: Scallywag Readathon
A. Monstrous Beauty ✔ ★★★★★
B. To Kill a Kingdom ✔ ★★★★
C. Island Beneath the Sea ✔ ★★★
Brown (3) Fantasy:
1. Norse Mythology ★★★★
2. The Aeneid ★★★
3. Into the Drowning Deep ★★★★★
4.
5.
Lib. Card:
#2) We Have Always Lived in the Castle ★★★★
#7) Bloodstains with Bronte ★★★★
#11) The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons ★★★★
#10) Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty★★★
YA Fantasy:
1. Riders by Veronica Rossi ★★★★★
2. The Lightning Thief ★★★
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4.
5.
A. Fantasy:
1. The Bees ★★★★
2. The Buried Giant ★★★
3.
4.
5.
Just Visiting:
Pink (3) Non-Fic:
1. Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places ★★★★
2. The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea ★★★★★
3. Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World ★★★
4. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women ★★★★★
5. The Case Against Sugar ★★★
Non-Fic Bio
1. Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady ★★★★
2. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey ★★★★★
3. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President ★★★
4. H is for Hawk ★★★★
5. A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal ★★★★
Non-Fic Hist.
1. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World ★★★★
2. Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ★★★★
3. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary ★★★★
4. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded ★★★
5. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon ★★★
B. The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn ✔ ★★★ 7/26
C. The Epic of Gilgamesh ✔ ★★
Orange (3) YA Duo/Series:
1. A Study in Charlotte ★★★
2. What My Mother Doesn't Know ★★★
3. What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know ★★★★
4.
5.
TBR
#1) It was #10 on tbr: The Odyssey ✔ ★★★★★
#8)Goodread's feed: Flipped ✔ ★★★
#9) New Author: The Siren ✔ ★★★★
#6) Owlcrate Book - My Plain Jane ★★★★★
YA/Ad Contemp/Rom
1. All That Was ★★★
2. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl ★★★
3. Speak: The Graphic Novel ★★★★
4. The Painted Veil ★★★★
5. Evidence of the Affair ★★★★★
YA/Ad Myst.
1. The Monster of Florence ★★★
2. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware ★★★★
3. And Then There Were None ★★★★
4. The Dinner ★★★★
5. Into the Water ★★★★
Free Parking The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (soon)
Red (3)Fict/NonFic:
1. Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas ★★★
2. Royal Love Stories: The tales behind the real-life romances of Europe's kings and queens ★★★★
3. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy ★★★
4. The Boleyn Inheritance ★★★★★
5. It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History ★★★
TBR
#7) Re-read fav. book: Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein ★★★★★
#4) Classic wanted to get to: Lolita ★★★★
#10) Human Acts by Han Kang ★★★★
#3) Read next in a series: Dawn ★★★★
Hist. Fic
1. The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown ★★★
2. Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile ★★★
3. A New England Love Story ★★★
4. A Refuge Assured (soon)
5. The Whale: A Love Story ★★★★
Fic Contemp.
1. Longbourn ★★★
2. Seven Days of Us ★★★★
3. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves ★★★★
4. The Queen of Hearts ★★★★
5. My Year of Rest and Relaxation ★★
Readathon: Jane Austen July Readathon: All month long, in celebration of Jane Austen.
A. Read one of Austen's not main six novels:
1. Lady Susan ✔ ★★★★
2. Love and Friendship ✔★★★
B. A modern retelling of a Jane Austen Arsenic with Austen ✔ ★★★★
Lib. Card:
#8 Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening ★★★
#3 Librarian recommendation: Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
#4 Perfection to a Fault: A Small Murder in Ossipee, New Hampshire, 1916 ★★★★
#12 River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon★★★
Yellow: (3) Short Stories:
1. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic ★★★★★
2. Lady Byron Vindicated ★★★
3. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher ★★★
4. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer ★★★★★
5. Night by Elie Wiesel ★★★★★
Classical Short Stories
1. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde ★★★
2. The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson ★★★
3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ★★★
4. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult ★★★
5. A Study in Scarlet ★★★
Tax:
Classic Plays/Poems:
1. An Oresteia ★★★★
2. The Iliad ★★★★★
3. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone bySophocles ★★★★
4. The Oresteia by Aeschylus ★★★★
5. Four Greek Plays by Dudley Fitts ( I read only two plays: Alcestis and The Birds, for I read the other two plays ) ★★★★
Go to Jail What the Night Sings ★★★★★
Green (3) Retellings
1. Medusa, A Love Story bySasha Summers ★★★★
2. Requiem for Ahab ★★★★★
3. And the Ocean Was Our Sky ★★★★★
4. The Silence of the Girls ★★★★★
5. Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe ★★★★
Hist. Retelling
1. For the Love of Hades ★★★
2. The Song of Achilles ★★★★★
3. The Penelopiad ★★★★
4. The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici ★★★
5. The Buried Giant ★★★
Fairy-tale/Folklore Retelling
1. Everland ★★★★
2. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock ★★★★
3. Circe ★★★★
4. Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy ★★★★★
5.
Readathon: August (Harry Potter) N.E.W.T's exams (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests) Readathon. A continuation from an early (April) readathon, OWL's (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) Readathon, hosted by @BookRoast. A (Acceptable pass) E (Exceeded Expectation pass) O (Outstanding pass)
O. Read a translated The Name of the Rose ✔ ★★★★
Class 3: Charms
A. Read a book with magic in it... Caraval ✔ ★★★★
Class 4: Herbology
E. Read a book with illustrations... The Wizards of Once ✔ ★★★★
Blue (2) Tomes
600+ pgs
1. Vanity Fair 694 pgs ★★★
2. Helen of Troy 606 pgs ★★★★
3. The Woman in White 654 pgs ★★★★
4. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley 649 pgs ★★★★★
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1. Paris ★★★★★
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#2) Teal The Prince ★★
#12) Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything ★★★★
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Extra Readathons: 7 in 7 Readathon. Try to read 7 books between July 23rd-29th.
☀️Read 7 things: ✔ completed
☀️Yellow on the cover and/or spine (SUMMER! ☀️): Panic ✔ ★★★ 7/29/18
☀️Read something outside your norm/comfort zone: The Pirate ✔ ★★★ 7/23/18
Rampage ✔ ★★★ 7/29/18
☀️Read a book that starts with your first initial: "S" The Brick Slayer ✔ ★★★ 7/23/18
☀️Read something outside or takes place mostly outside: The Pied Piper ✔ ★★★ 7/23/18
☀️ The Canterville Ghost ✔ ★★★★ 7/24/18
☀️ Carmilla ✔ ★★★ 7/27/18
Extra Readathon: BooktubeAThon. Again, try to read 7 novels between July 30th to Aug 5th.
C. Read/Watch a book/movie adaptation: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ✔ ★★★
E. Read a book wearing a hat: Consequences of Sin: An Edwardian Mystery by Clare Langley-Hawthorne ✔ ★★★★
I been slowly making my way through the written works that I have found from the great book. A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
This book is learning on the friendship between Jane Austen and one of the family servants, playwright Anne Sharp; the daring feminist author Mary Taylor, who shaped the work of Charlotte Brontë; the transatlantic friendship of the seemingly aloof George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe; and Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, most often portrayed as bitter foes, but who, in fact, enjoyed a complex friendship fired by an underlying erotic charge.
Jane Austen & Anne Sharp
Pride and Prejudice ✔ 2019 ★★★★★
Sense and Sensibility ✔ 2019 ★★★★★
Emma ✔ 2020 ★★★★★
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Lady Susan ✔ 2018 ★★★★
Love and Friendship ✔ 2018 ★★★
The History of England✔ 2019 ★★★★★
Anne Sharp: She wrote plays but nothing that I have found publicly
Charlotte Brontë & Mary Taylor
Jane Eyre ✔ 2018 ★★★★
Villette
Shirley
The Professor
Mary Taylor
Miss Miles: Or, a Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) & Harriet Beecher Stowe
Middlemarch
The Mill on the Floss ✔ 2018 ★★★
Silas Marner
Daniel Deronda
Adam Bede
Romola
Felix Holt: The Radical
The Lifted Veil
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lady Byron Vindicated ✔ 2018 ★★★
Virginia Woolf & Katherine Mansfield
Mrs. Dalloway ✔ 2019 ★★
To the Lighthouse ✔ 2020 ★★★
A Room of One's Own ✔ 2020 ★★★★
Orlando
The Waves
Night and Day
The Voyage Out
Jacob's Room
Between the Acts
Katherine Mansfield
Miss Brill ✔ 2021 ★★★
The Garden Party ✔ 2021 ★★★
Prelude
Bliss & Other Stories ✔ 2021 ★★★★
I thought it would help push some of these tomes higher up to my TBR pile if I did a list. 14/18 25/19 21/20 18/21
📚 1600's and earlier 📚
-750 The Iliad 592 pages ✔ 18/19 ★★★★★ 23 ★★★ (Rob Fagles)
-720 The Odyssey 507 pages ✔ 18 ★★★★ 20 ★★★★★ 23 ★★★★ (Rob Fagles)
800: The Arabian Nights 741 pages
985 The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 985 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★
1008: The Tale of Genji 1182 pgs
1190: Arthurian Romances 521 pgs
1353: The Decameron 909 pages ✔ 21 ★★★★★
1390: The Canterbury Tales 528 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★★
1485: Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table 512 pgs
1590: The Faerie Queene 1248 pgs ✔ 19 ★★★★★
1615: Don Quixote 1023 pages
1669: The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1096 pages ✔ 23 ★★★★
1684: Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn 524 pages
📚 1700's 📚
1740: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded 592 pages ✔ 20 ★★★★
1748: Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady 1534 pages ✔ 20 ★★★★★
1749: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 820 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★★
1751: Amelia by Henry Fielding 620 pgs
1753: Sir Charles Grandison 1629 pgs
1759: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 784 pgs
1776: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 3980 pages
1782: Cecilia by Fanny Burney 1056 pages
1794: The Mysteries of Udolpho 654pages
1796: Camilla by Fanny Burney 992 pages
1797: The Italian by Ann Radcliffe 544 pages
📚 1800's 📚
1801: Belinda 544 pages
1812: The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales 977 pages
1813: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Annotated Pride and Prejudice 745 pages ✔ 19 ★★★★★
1814: The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties 1008 pages
1814: The Annotated Mansfield Park 885 pages
1815: The Annotated Emma 928 pages
1817: The Annotated Persuasion 508 pages
1818: The Annotated Northanger Abbey 576 pages
1830: The Red and the Black 541 pages
1831: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 510 pages
1838: Oliver Twist 608 pages
1844: Martin Chuzzlewit 830 pages
1847: Vanity Fair 912 pages ✔ 18 ★★★
1849: Shirley 624 pages
1849: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 1040 pages ✔ 20 ★★★★
1849: David Copperfield 882 pages ✔ 23 ★★★★
1853: Bleak House 760 pages
1855: Little Dorrit 977 pages
1859: The Woman in White 654 pages ✔ 2018 ★★★★
1853: Villette 573 pages
1860: Great Expectations 505 pages ✔ 2018 ★★★★
1860: The Mill on the Floss ✔ 2018 ★★★
1861: East Lynne 704 pages
1862: Les Misérables 928 pages
1863: Sylvia's Lovers 533 pages
1865: Can You Forgive Her? 847 pages ✔ 24 ★★★★
1865: Our Mutual Friend 830 pages
1866: Wives and Daughters 672 pages
1866: Crime and Punishment 671 pages
1868: The Idiot 667
1868: The Moonstone 510 pages
1871: Middlemarch 904 pages
1881: The Portrait of a Lady 797 pages
1897: Farthest North 544 pages
1899: Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy 562 pages
📚 1900's 📚
1901: The Wings of the Dove 741 pages
1904: The Golden Bowl 591 pages
1908: The Fifth Queen ✔ 19 ★★★★
1913: Sons and Lovers 654 pages
1913: Swann's Way 606 pages
1922: Ulysses 682 pages ✔ 2018 ★★★
1925: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters 906 pages ✔ 2019 ★★★★
1925: An American Tragedy 859 pages
1934: Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina 535 pages ✔ 2019 ★★★
1944: Forever Amber 972 pages
1949: The Second Sex 800 pgs ✔22 ★★★
1949: The Hero With a Thousand Faces 596 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★
1952: East of Eden 601 pages
1955: Richard the Third 608 pages
1958: The Once and Future King 639 pages
1959 Hawaii 1136 pages
1974: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders 689 pages ✔21 ★★★★
1975: Shōgun by James Clavell 1152 pages
1978: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 704 pages ✔ 19 ★★★
1982: The Mists of Avalon 884 pages
1983: The Last Boleyn 592 pages
1983: The Name of the Rose 502 pages ✔ 18 ★★★★
1985: Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 623 pages ✔19 ★★★★
1986: The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers 938 pages ✔ 19 ★★★★★
1989: The Pillars of the Earth 973 pages
1990: Possession by A.S. Byatt 605 pages ✔ 20 ★★★★★
1990: Sexual Personae Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to E. Dickinson 718 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★★
1991: The Six Wives of Henry VIII 621 pages ✔ 2019 ★★★★
1992: Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles 870 pages
1993: The Book of Virtues 832 pages ✔ 21 ★★★★★
1995: Songs in Ordinary Time 740 pages
1996: The Life of Elizabeth I 532 pages ✔ 2019 ★★★
1997: London 829 pages
1997:The Memoirs of Cleopatra 963 pages
1998: The Poisonwood Bible 546 pages
1998: I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb 897 pages
1999: Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer 667 pages
📚 2000-2019 📚
2000: House of Leaves 705 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★★★
2001: My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson 764 pages
2001: Marie Antoinette: The Journey 512 pages ✔ 2018 ★★★★
2002: Alaska 868 pages
2003: Gulag: A History 677 pages ✔ 19 ★★★★ (last tome 2019)
2004: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 849 pages
2004: Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII 880 pages
2004: Crank 537 pgs ✔ 21 ★★
2005: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus ✔ 2020 ★★★★
2006: We, the Drowned 688 pages ✔ 2019 ★★★★
2006: Helen of Troy 611 pages ✔ 2018 ★★★★
2006: The Boleyn Inheritance 518 pages ✔ 2018 ★★★★★
2007: The Terror by Dan Simmons 769 pages ✔ 2018 ★★★★
2007: The Company of the Dead by David Kowalski 751 pages ✔ 18 ★★★
2009: Drood 775 pgs
2009: Wolf Hall 650 pgs ✔ 19 ★★★
2009: 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory 640 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★
2010: The Passage 766 pgs
2010: A History of the World in 100 Objects 707 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★★
2010: Android Karenina 541 pages
2011: A Discovery of Witches 579 pages ✔ 20 ★★★★★ (a re-read)
2011: 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created 557 pages
2011: The Night Circus 512 pages
2012: Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I 507 pages ✔ 20 ★★★★ (first tome 2020)
2012: Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion 621 pages
2012: The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England 510 pages ✔ 19 ★★★★
2012: Wanted 502 pages ✔ 20 ★★★★
2013: Paris 805 pages ✔ 18 ★★★★★
2013: Tudor 576 pgs ✔ 23
2013: The Signature of All Things 500 pgs ✔ 19 ★★★★ (1st tome 19)
2013: Night Film 602 pgs ✔ 20 ★★★★★
2013: Life After Life 531 pgs ✔ 19 ★★★★
2013: Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital ✔ 20 ★★★
2014: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War 513 pgs
2014: The King's Curse 612 pgs ✔ 19 ★★★★
2014: A Brief History of Seven Killings 688 pgs
2015: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome 606 pgs ✔ 19 ★★★
2015: Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley 649 pgs ✔ 18 ★★★★★
2015: A Little Life 720 pages
2015: Kulti 570 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★★
2016: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life 608 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★
2016: By Gaslight 600 pgs
2016: Katherine of Aragón: The True Queen 602 pgs ✔ 2020 ★★★★★
2016: The Nightingale 567 pgs
2016: The Wall of Winnipeg and Me 673 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★★★
2017: Pachinko 489 pgs
2017: Dear Aaron 500 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★★
2017: Kill Creek ✔ 2020 ★★★★
2017: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession 544 pages ✔ 20 ★★★★
2017: The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens 554 pages ✔ 19 ★★★★
2017: Time's Betrayal 1170 pages
2018: Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen 560 pages ✔ 20 ★★★★
2018: Bridge of Clay 537 pages ✔ 19 ★★★★
2018: Furyborn 512 pages ✔ 19 ★★★★★
2018: Dracul 512 pages ✔ 2019 ★★★★★
2018: The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 525 pages ✔ 19 ★★★
2018: From Lukov with Love 493 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★★
2019: Middlegame 523 pages ✔ 20 ★★★★★
2019: Black Leopard, Red Wolf 620 pages ✔ 19 ★★★★
2019: Marriage for One 520 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★
2019: Devious Lies 702 pgs ✔ 20 ★★★★
2019: The Priory of the Orange Tree 830 pgs
2019: Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait 499 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★
2019: A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution 640 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★
2019: Kingsbane 594 pages
2019: The Starless Sea 512 pages
2019: Ducks, Newburyport 1020 pages ✔ 20 ★★★★
2019: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 800 pgs
📚 2020's 📚
2020: The Mirror & the Light 784 pgs ✔ 20 ★★★★
2020: The Evening and the Morning 913 pgs
2020: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars 878 pgs ✔ 20 ★★★★★
2020: Midnight Sun 662 pgs ✔ 20 ★★★★
2020: We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence 501 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★★★ x2
2020: The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present 492 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★
2020: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath 1,152 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★★★ ✔ 23
2020: House of Earth and Blood 803 pgs ✔ 22 ★★★★★
2020: Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen 480 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★
2021: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 512 pgs ✔ 21 ★★★★★
2021: Empire of the Vampire 739 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★★
2021: Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife 560 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★★
2022: Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës 576 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★★
2023: Delicious Monsters 512 pgs ✔ 23 ★★★★★
2023 The King's Pleasure 593 pgs ✔ 25 ★★★★
2024 The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I 528 pgs ✔ 25 ★★★★
So little time, so many things I wish to read :) I thought to add another challenge to my ever growing list of reading. I have a tag on my bookshelves, an author bookshelf… "Austen bookshelf" and "Mary Shelley bookshelf" At present, these ladies are my favorite authors that I am focusing on. Through some research I have compiled a list of what these ladies would have read during their time and have sparked my interest. Austen's Bookshelf 📚
(1775-1817) Published (1811-1817)
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
The History Of Sir Charles Grandison Bart
Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World ✔ 2018 ★★★★
Cecilia by Fanny Burney
Adelaide and Theodore: Or, Letters on Education: Containing All the Principles Relative to Three ...
The Task and Other Poems by William Cowper
The Romance of the Forest
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Camilla or, A Picture of Youth
The Monk by Matthew Lewis ✔ 2019 ★★★★★
Practical Education, Volume I by Maria Edgeworth
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
The Children of the Abbey by Regina Maria Roche
Coelebs in Search of a Wife by Hannah More
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Marmion by Walter Scott
Woman; Or, Ida of Athens, Volumes 1-2 by Sydney Owenson Morgan
The Lady of the Lake
Scottish Women Writers: Self-Control, Memoirs of a Highland Lady, Modern Accomplishments by Mary Brunton
The Heroine, Or, Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader by Eaton Stannard Barrett
Alicia de Lacy: an Historical Romance by Jane West
The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties
The Waverly Novels: Waverly
The Works of the Right Hon. Lord Byron
The Antiquary
Patronage
The Corsair
Sir Charles Grandison
Jan Austen Life (Bio/Memoirs) 📚
Jane Austen: A Life
Jane Austen: A Life Revealed
A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections ✔ 21 ★★★
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf ✔ 2018 ★★★
Jane Austen's First Love
First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record
Cassandra and Jane: A Jane Austen Novel ✔ 2019 ★★★
Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen ✔ 2020 ★★★
Miss Austen ✔ 2020 ★★★★
Mary Shelley Bookshelf 📚
(1797-1851) published (1818-1830)
Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley ✔ 2019 ★★★
Poems created by her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley ✔ 2019 ★★★
Saul by Vittorio Alfieri
Antigone by Vittorio Alfieri
More works by Vittorio Alfieri
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
Orra by Joanna Baillie
The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Vol. 7: Containing Love's Pilgrimage; The Double Marriage; The Maid in the Mill; The Knight of Malta; Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid by Francis Beaumont
Vathek by William Beckford ✔ 2019 ★★★
History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa, Vol. 2: Comprising a Period of Eighty-Four Years, from 1079 to 1163; With Their Genuine Letters, from the Collection of Amboise
Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, Vol. 1 by Thomas Blackwell
Don Quixote
Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea By Sir J.G. Dalyell by 6th Bart ) John Graham Dalyell (Sir
A Journal of the Plague Year ✔ 2018 ★★★★
The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 2
Patronage by Maria Edgeworth
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft ✔ 2019 ★★★
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Inferno by Dante Alighieri ✔ 2018 ★★★★
Amelia by Henry Fielding
The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott
Paradise Lost by John Milton ✔ 2019 ★★★
Paradise Regained
Metamorphoses
The Age of Reason ✔ 2019 ★★★★
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings ✔ 2019 ★★★★
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady ✔ 2020 ★★★★★
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded ✔ 2020 ★★★★
Rob Roy
William Shakespeare Works
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ✔ 2020 ★★★
The Prelude and Other Poems ✔ 2020 ★★★★
Mary Shelley's Life (Bio/Memoirs) 📚
In Defense of Harriet Shelley ✔ 2019 ★★★★
Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein ✔ 2019 ★★★★★
Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle ✔ 2019 ★★★★
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley ✔ 2018 ★★★★★
The Determined Heart: The Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein ✔ 2019 ★★★★★
Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein's Creator ✔ 2019 ★★★
The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece ✔ 2020 ★★★★
Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in "frankenstein"
Claire's Last Secret: A Historical Mystery Featuring Lord Byron
Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein ✔ 2019 ★★★
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
A Shadowed Fate
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction ✔ 2019 ★★★★
She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein ✔ 2019 ★★★★ ✔ 2021 ★★★★★
Mary, Who Wrote Frankenstein ✔ 2021 ★★★★
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Wedding Guest ✔ 21 ★★★★
Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality
England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley
The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
The Poetry of Percy Shelley ✔ 2019 ★★★
Zastrozzi✔ 2019 ★★★
Upcoming soon, are two readathons I want to try in November. They are Non-Fiction November and A-Z Readathon. The challenges for 2018 Non-Fiction are word choices with the freedom of how you wish to interpret those words. 1. Past Time / Pastime
2. Self / Shelf
3. Wander / Wonder
4. Micro and Marco
A to Z Readathon ( I would like to try to read all non-fiction and I know I can't read 26 novels in a month, especially non-fiction so I am giving myself more time to complete :) )
A: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History ✔ Nov ★★★
B: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal ✔Dec 2018 ★★★★
C: City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris ✔ Nov 2018 ★★★
D: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President ✔Nov 2018 ★★★
E: East End Murders: From Jack the Ripper to Ronnie Kray ✔Dec 2018 ★★
F: River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon ✔Dec 2018 ★★★
G: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World ✔Oct 2018 ★★★★
H: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body ✔Mar 2019 ★★
I: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
J: A Journal of the Plague Year ✔ Nov 2018 ★★★★
K: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 ✔ Nov 2018 ★★★
L: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books ✔ Mar 2019 ★★★★
M: Marie Antoinette: The Journey ✔ Nov 2018 ★★★★
N: Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer ✔ Nov 2018 ★★★
O: The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness ✔Oct 2018 ★★★★
P: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary ✔ Nov 2018 ★★★★
Q: Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything ✔ Nov ★★★★
R: Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley ✔ Nov 2018 ★★★★★
S: Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet ✔ Oct 2018 ★★★
T: Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
U:
V: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers ✔ 2019 ★★★
W: Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures ✔ Oct 2018 ★★
X: (wildcard/freebie) The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey ✔ Nov 2018 ★★★★★
Y: Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
Z: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon ✔ Nov 2018 ★★★
Are you in need of titles for empty letters? That’s slot of reading!
I highly enjoyed using the map to track where the books' settings came from, allowing me to explore the world through the pages of books that I will read this year. I am hoping in 2019 I will explore a bit more than my last year. I am excited to know where my next book will takes me :) 
France: Cyrano de Bergerac
Tahiti: French Polynesia: The Signature of All Things
United Kingdom: England: Wolf Hall
Nairobi, Kenya: Africa Out of Africa
Nigeria: Africa Freshwater
Germany: Slaughterhouse-Five
Vietnam: The Best We Could Do
Poland: The Librarian of Auschwitz
Poland: The Boy on the Wooden Box
China: The Undertaking of Lily Chen
Rome: Italy Conclave
Venice: Italy The Merchant of Venice
Pisa: Italy Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
United States: Still Lives
Japan: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Syria: Sea Prayer
Marstal, Denmark: We, the Drowned
Scotland: Macbeth
Chile: 33 Men
Koyanagar: India 5 to 1
Ireland: The Wonder
Iran: Tehran Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Ukrainian: beginning of novel, then move to USA New York: Audacity
Spain: The Monk
Canada: Nova Scotia: The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt
Australia: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Australia: Bob
Sydney Australia: Bridge of Clay
Austria: The Only Woman in the Room
Scotland: The Turn of the Key
Scotland: City of Ghosts
Paris, France: Tunnel of Bones
Darfur, Sudan: Africa: The Red Pencil
Israeli-Palestine: Ronit & Jamil
Guam: Northern Mariana Islands Keeper of the Night
Northern Turkey: Tales from Behind the Window
Syrian desert/ New York City The Golem and the Jinni
Siberia/Russia: Gulag: A History
Siberia/Arctic Circle: In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Siberia Cilka's Journey
India, Iran, France, The Magical Unicorn Society Official Handbook
St. Kilda, Scotland: Where the World Ends
Egypt: When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
🏫 Another challenge I wanted to add to my long list of other challenges. :) I decided this March (2019) to start tackling the many works of William Shakespeare. I would like to do three things for this project. 1. Read the original work. 2. I would like to read a retelling of the original work. 3. Watch/Listen to the original work. I am using The Complete Works of William Shakespeare :)
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1. King Lear ✔ Feb ★★★
2. King Lear by Gareth Hinds ✔ Feb ★★★
The Queens of Innis Lear
A Thousand Acres
Dunbar ✔ Mar ★★★
We Were Liars ✔ 2020 ★★★★
Fool
3.
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1. Macbeth ✔ Mar ★★★★
2. Macbeth by Gareth Hinds ✔ Mar ★★★★
As I Descended
Manga Classics: Macbeth ✔ Oct ★★★★
The Weird Sisters
Macbeth
Macbeth: A Novel
Something Wicked
The Third Witch
Foul Is Fair
3.
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1. The Merchant of Venice ✔ Mar ★★★★
2. The Merchant of Venice ✔ Mar ★★★★
Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel
3.
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1. Hamlet ✔ Mar ★★★★★
2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ✔ Mar ★★
The Dead Fathers Club
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Ophelia
Something Rotten ✔ 2020 ★★★
William Shakespeare’s: Hamlet ✔ Mar ★★★★
The Steep & Thorny Way
3. 1996 Film of Hamlet (4 hrs.) ✔ Mar ★★★★
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1. Othello ✔ Mar ★★★
2. New Boy ✔ Mar ★★★★
I, Iago
3.
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1. The Winter's Tale
2. The Gap of Time
Exit, Pursued by a Bear ✔ Sept ★★★★★
3.
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1. The Tempest ✔ 2020 ★★★
2. Hag-Seed
3.
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1. Anthony and Cleopatra
2.
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1. Coriolanus
2.
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1. The Taming of the Screw ✔ Mar ★★★★
2. Vinegar Girl ✔ Mar ★★★★
If I'm Being Honest
3.
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1. Much Ado About Nothing
2. Speak Easy, Speak Love
3.
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1. Richard III
2. The Daughter of Time
3.
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1. Twelfth Night
2. The Madness of Love
3.
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1. Romeo and Juliet ✔ Mar ★★★★
2. Always Never Yours
Manga Classics: Romeo and Juliet
Juliet
Ronit & Jamil ✔ Aug ★★★
Warm BodiesThe Great Night
These Violent Delights
3.
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1. A Midnight Summer's Dream
2. Shakespeare for Squirrels
3.
🏫 Titus Andronicus ✔ 2020 ★★★
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3. 1999 Film of Titus Andronicus ( 2hrs 45min)
🏫 The Comedy of Errors ✔ 2020 ★★★
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1. Lucrece Poem ✔ Mar ★★★
2. The Rape of the Lock ✔ Apr ★★★
Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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🏫 Troilus and Cressida ✔ 2020 ★★★
1. Troilus and Criseyde (1385) Inspiration for Shakespeare ✔ 2020 ★★★★
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🏫 All's well that ends well
1. All's Well ✔ 2021 ★★★★
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🏫 Some extras for fun: either fun collections of multiple characters/about the bard himself
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts ✔ 2020 ★★★★
That Way Madness Lies
Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 1: A Sea of Troubles
Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 2: The Blast of War
Mod
Lynn wrote: "Wow, I am blown away by your planning. What a wonderful collection of books. I was particularly interested in the historical fiction challenge. Your approach of looking at the various people at one..."Thank you so much :) I will adding and updating as time goes on, for there are so many books about that time frame.
Preparing myself for the upcoming readathons: The 5th year of Nonfiction November and the A to Z readathon. The challenges for 2019 Non-Fiction are word choices with the freedom of how you wish to interpret those words.1. Design
2. Sport
3. True
4. Voice
A The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
B The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer ✔ Oct ★★★
C Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death ✔ Oct ★★★★★
D Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters ✔ Nov ★★★★
E The Life of Elizabeth I ✔ Nov ★★★
F The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
G Gulag: A History ✔ Dec ★★★★
H Hidden Figures
I In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette ✔ Dec ★★★★
J Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932 ✔ Nov ★★★
K King Leopold's Ghost ✔ ★★★★
L The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece ✔ Apr 2020 ★★★★★
M Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction ✔ Mar 2020 ★★★★
N The Rape of Nanking
O Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
P The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark
Q Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
R A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
S Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife ✔ Oct ★★★
T At the Wolf's Table
U The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper ✔ Oct ★★★★★
V Vengeance Is Mine: A Novel Of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, And Lady Rochford The Woman Who Helped Destroy Them Both
W When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt ✔ Dec ★★★★
X The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America ✔ 21 ★★★★
Y Elizabeth: The Later Years
Z
If I have time I would like to re-read some of these non-fiction gems
Romancing Miss Brontë ✔ 2020 ★★★★★
Burial Rites
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women ✔ 2020 ★★★★★
I have been really into Henry VIII's reign and below are the non-fiction/fiction books I am interested in reading about that era. Henry VIII (Red Rose)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII ✔19 ★★★★
The Last Days of Henry VIII
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers ✔19 ★★★★★
Henry VIII: The King and His Court ✔22 ★★★
Blood Will Tell: A Medical Explanation of the Tyranny of Henry VIII ✔19 ★★★★
VIII
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story from Inside the Vatican
Henry VIII by Scarisbrick
Henry VIII ✔20 ★★
The King's Pleasure ✔25 ★★★★
Wives of Henry VIII
Tudor Queens of England
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
The Wives of Henry VIII ✔25 ★★★★
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
Fatal Throne ✔19/20 ★★★★★
The Jezebel Effect: Why the Slut Shaming of Famous Queens Still Matters ✔19 ★★★
Six of One: A Tudor Riff ✔20 ★★★★★
The Lazy Historian's Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII ✔20 ★★★★
Queen (C)Katherine of Aragon
Katherine of Aragón: The True Queen ✔20 ★★★★★
Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile ✔18 ★★★
The Spanish Bride
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine the Inquisitor ✔20 ★★★★
Katharine of Aragon: The Wives of Henry VIII ✔22 ★★★★
The Constant Princess ✔22 ★★★★
Isabella of Castile (Queen Catherine's Mother)
The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile
Queen Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn's Ghost ✔19 ★★★
Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn ✔18 ★★★
Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession ✔20 ★★★★
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn ✔ 19 ★★★
The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown ✔18 ★★★
The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn ✔22 ★★★★
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn GC
To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn GC
Mistress Anne: The Exceptional Life of Anne Boleyn ✔22 ★★★
The Raven's Widow: A Novel of Jane Boleyn ✔22 ★★★★
The Boleyn King
Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies ✔ x3 ★★★★★
Moth to the Flame: The Story of Anne Boleyn
The Ghost that Haunted a King (Anne Boleyn) ✔20 ★★★
The Lady in the Tower ✔23 ★★★★
Anne the Saint ✔ 20 ★★★
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History ✔23 ★★★★
Queen Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen ✔20 ★★★★
Jane the Quene ✔23 ★★★★
Behind the Mask: The Story of Jane Seymour
Jane the Confidant
I, Jane
Queen Anne/Anna of Clèves
The Boleyn Inheritance ✔19 ★★★★★
Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait ✔ 23 ★★★
Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Unwanted Wife
My Lady of Cleves
Queen Katherine Howard
The Fifth Queen by Ford Madox Ford ✔19 ★★★
The Unfaithful Queen: A Novel of Henry VIII's Fifth Wife ✔19 ★★★★
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII ✔19 ★★★★
The Confession of Katherine Howard ✔19 ★★★★
Catherine Howard: The Queen Whose Adulteries Made a Fool of Henry VIII
The King's Rose
Katheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen ✔23 ★★★
Catherine Howard: Wife and Mistress
The Catherine Howard Conspiracy
Kathryn the Clever
Shadow of Persephone
The Queen's Mistake
Queen Katherine Parr
The Taming of the Queen ✔19 ★★★★
Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love
Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife ✔23 ★★★★
Katherine the Martyr
Queen Lady Jane Gray (great niece)
Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen ✔18 ★★★
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
The Lady of Misrule
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Lady Grey's (Queen Jane Grey sisters)
Sisters of Treason
In the Shadow of Lady Jane
The Last Tudor
A Dangerous Inheritance ✔22 ★★★
Children of Henry VIII
The Children of Henry VIII ✔19 ★★★
Mary Tudor
Mary Tudor: England's First Queen
The Queen In Waiting: Mary Tudor takes the throne
Queen of Martyrs: The Story of Mary I ✔22 ★★★
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I ✔25 ★★★★
Elizabeth Tudor
The Faerie Queene ✔★★★★★
The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen ✔★★★
The Virgin's Lover
The Life of Elizabeth I ✔★★★
Elizabeth I
The Lady Elizabeth ✔ ★★★★
The Marriage Game: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth I
Roses Have Thorns: A Novel of Elizabeth I
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
Elizabeth's Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
Death And The Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart
The Tudor Wench
A Crown For Elizabeth
The Virgin Elizabeth
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens ✔ ★★★
Heretic Queen: Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire ✔★★★
Edward Tudor
Edward VI: The Lost King of England
An Uneasy Crown: Power and politics at the Tudor court
Henry VIII's Mistress & Illegitimate Children
The Mistresses of Henry VIII
The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards
Bessie Blount
Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII
The Queen's Rival
Henry Fitzroy
Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's Lost Son
Mary Boleyn
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings ✔ ★★★★
Mary Boleyn: The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
The Other Boleyn Girl ✔★★★★
Henry VIII's Siblings
The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France
Mary Tudor ( younger sister)
The Secret Bride
Margaret Tudor (Queen of Scotland)
Margaret Tudor: The Life of Henry VIII's Sister
Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: The Life of King Henry VIII's Sister
Other Rulers During Henry VIII's Reign
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
Other People at Court
Tudor Survivor: The Life and Times of William Paulet
Charles Brandon
Charles Brandon: The King's Man
Charles Brandon: Henry VIII's Closest Friend
Thomas Cromwell
Wolf Hall ✔19 ★★★
Bring Up the Bodies ✔19 ★★★
The Mirror & the Light ✔20 ★★★★
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister
Justice For The Cardinal: Thomas Cromwell is out for revenge...
Policy & Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell GC
Thomas Wolsey
The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey
The Cardinal
Thomas More
Utopia written by him ✔ 19 ★★★
The Life of Thomas More
A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg
Francis Bryan
Sir Francis Bryan: Henry VIII's Most Notorious Ambassador ✔ 19 ★★★
Lady Rochford (Anne Boleyn's sister-in-law)
Vengeance Is Mine: A Novel Of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, And Lady Rochford The Woman Who Helped Destroy Them Both
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford ✔23 ★★★
Mary, Queen of Scots (Great Niece)
Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley
Mary Queen of Scots: Truth or Lies
Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley
Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
Marue de Guise (Mary Queen of Scots Mother)
Scourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise ✔ 19 ★★★
Henry VIII's ancestors
Margaret Beaufort (grandmother)
The Red Queen
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother ✔ ★★★
The Women of the Wars of the Roses: Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth of York
Henry VII (Father)
Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
Plantagenet Line (White Rose)
Elizabeth of York ( Mother)
Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen: The Story of Elizabeth of York ✔ 20 ★★★★
The White Princess
The Last White Rose ✔ 23 ★★★
Elizabeth of York's Siblings (Uncles & Aunts)
The Princes in the Tower
Richard III and the Murder in the Tower
The Lady of the Rivers ✔ ★★★★
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England ✔★★★★
Richard the Third
The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues it Holds ✔ 19 ★★★
Elizabeth of York's Relations (Henry VIII's Relations on Mother's side)
The Queen's Sisters: The Lives of the Sisters of Elizabeth Woodville
Margaret Pole (cousin to Elizabeth of York)
The King's Curse ✔ 19 ★★★★
Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower
Faithful Traitor: The story of Margaret Pole ✔ 20 ★★★★
History of England
Tudor ✔23 ★★★★
The Tudor Tutor: Your Cheeky Guide to the Dynasty ✔ 19 ★★★★★
The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens ✔ 2019 ★★★★
Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 GC
The Wars of the Roses ✔22 ★★★★
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Queens of the Conquest
The Elizabethan World Picture GC 2020 ★★-couldn't finish)
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I ✔ 20 ★★★★
A Hidden History of the Tower of London: England's Most Notorious Prisoners
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Revised and Updated ✔ 20 ★★★
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History ✔ 21 ★★★★
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty ✔22 ★★★★
In the upcoming year of 2020 I would like to play catch up, by reading black-list titles, finishing series (😨 I'm horrible at finishing series) and try to read some of the past award winners of Goodreads. I picked 8 out of 21 categories that I will focus on, trying to read the choice pick of the past 11 years . If I prefer not to read/ or it is too far along in a series/or I have read the "winner" I will see what are the runner ups, using a code (RU) to keep a track for myself.
Debut Author Category:
2020: Such a Fun Age
2019: RU The Ten Thousand Doors of January
2018: RU The Poppy War
2017: The Hate U Give
2016: Rebel of the Sands
2015: RU An Ember in the Ashes ✔ 2018 ★★★★★
2014: Red Rising
2013: RU The Golem and the Jinni ✔ 2019 ★★★★
2012: RU Cinder ✔ 2017 ★★★★
2011: A Discovery of Witches ✔ 2017 ★★★★★ ✔ 2020 ★★★★★
RU's 2020: My Dark Vanessa ✔ 2020 ★★★★★
2020: Winter Counts
2020: Cemetery Boys
Young Adult Fantasy/ Sci-if Category: (if it is part of a large series, I will choose another from the finalist list)
2020: RU The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes ✔ 22 ★★★★
2019: The Wicked King (bk #2)
2018: RU Children of Blood and Bone
2017: A Court of Wings and Ruin (bk #3)
2016: RU Crooked Kingdom (bk #2)
2015: RU Red Queen
2014: RU Cress (bk #3)
2013: RU The 5th Wave ✔ 2020 ★★★★
2012: RU Seraphina
2011: Divergent
RU's 2020: Midnight Sun ✔ 2020 ★★★★
2020: Legendborn
2020: Girl, Serpent, Thorn ✔ 2020 ★★★★
Young Adult Fiction
2020: Clap When You Land ✔ 2020 ★★★★
2019: Five Feet Apart ✔ 2020 ★★★★★
2018: RU The Astonishing Color of After
2017: RU One of Us Is Lying
2016: Salt to the Sea ✔ 2017 ★★★★★ (might re-read)
2015: All the Bright Places
2014: We Were Liars ✔ 2020 ★★★★
2013: RU Out of the Easy
2012: The Fault in Our Stars
2011: RU Between Shades of Gray
RU's 2020: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder ✔ 2020 ★★★★
Historical Fiction Category:
2020: The Vanishing Half
2019: Daisy Jones & The Six ✔ 2019 ★★★★ ✔ 2021 ★★★★
2019: 2nd choice: The Huntress
2018: RU The Tattooist of Auschwitz ✔ 2019 ★★★★★ (maybe re-read)
2018: 2nd choice: The Clockmaker's Daughter
2017: RU Lincoln in the Bardo ✔ 2018/19 ★★★★★
2017: 2nd choice: Pachinko
2016: RU A Gentleman in Moscow
2015: The Nightingale
2014:All the Light We Cannot See ✔ 2018 ★★★
2013: Life After Life ✔ 2019 ★★★★
2012: The Light Between Oceans
2011: RU Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
RU 2020: The Book of Longings
2020: The Evening and the Morning
2020: The Pull of the Stars ✔ 2020 ★★★
2020: Hamnet ✔ 2020 ★★★
2020: The Mirror & the Light ✔ 2020 ★★★★
some extras:
The Huntress
The Great Alone
The Last Tudor
The Queen of the Night
Non-Fiction Category:
2020: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
2019: RU Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee ✔ 2019 ★★★
2018: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer ✔ 2021 ★★★★
2017: RU From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death ✔ 2018 ★★★★★
2016: RU Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives ✔ 2020 ★★★★
2015: RU Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship ✔ 2020 ★★★
2014: RU What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions ✔ 2019 ★★★★
2013: RU David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
2012: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
2011: The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
RU 2020: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot ✔ 2020 ★★★
2020: We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence ✔ 2021 ★★★★★ (x2)
some extras:
The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era ✔ 2020 ★★★★
The Age of the Vikings
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World ✔ 2020 ★★★★ (x2)
Underland ✔ 2020 ★★★★
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future ✔ 2020 ★★★
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming ✔ 2020 ★★★
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men ✔ 2020 ★★★★
2021: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty ✔ 21 ★★★★★ x2
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence ✔ 21 ★★★★★ x2
Poetry Category:
2020: Dearly: New Poems ✔ 2021 ★★★★
2019: Shout ✔ 2019 ★★★★
2018: The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One ✔ 2019 ★★★
2017: The Sun and Her Flowers ✔ 2019 ★★★
2016: The Princess Saves Herself in This One ✔ 2019 ★★★
2015: The Dogs I Have Kissed ✔ 2019 ★★
2014: Lullabies ( bk #2)
2013: The Fall of Arthur ✔ 2020 ★★★
2012: A Thousand Mornings ✔ 2021 ★★★
2011: Horoscopes for the Dead
some extras
Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters ✔ 2021 ★★★★★
Empty Bottles Full of Stories ✔ 2019 ★★★
Love Her Wild ✔ 2019 ★★★
New releases:
I Hope You Stay ✔ 2020 ★★★★
Nineteen ✔ 2020 ★★★★
Break Your Glass Slippers ✔ 2020 ★★★★★
Dear Girl ✔ 2020 ★★★★
The Space Between Us: Poetry and Prose ✔ 2020 ★★★★
2021 releases:
Shine your Icy Crown ✔ 2021 ★★★★
Amber and Clay
Your Heart My Sky ✔ 2021 ★★★
Before the Ever After ✔ 2021 ★★★★
Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light ✔ 22 ★★★★
The Seventh Raven ✔ 21 ★★★★ X2
We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire ✔ 21 ★★★★
Watering the Soul ✔ 22 ★★★★
Middle Grade Category: (mostly all are RU or one of the other finalist.)
2020: RU The One and Only Bob ✔ 20 ★★★★
2019: RU Tunnel of Bones ✔ 19 ★★★★★ ✔ 20
2018: RU City of Ghosts ✔ 2019 ★★★★ ✔ 20
2017: Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
2016: Pax ✔ 17 ★★★★
2015: The Thing About Jellyfish ✔ 18 ★★★★★
2014: The Iron Trial
2013: Fortunately, the Milk
2012: The False Prince
2011: Liesl & Po
RU 2020: We Dream of Space
extras:
Beyond Me
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
The Line Tender ✔ 21 ★★★★★
The Elephant in the Room ✔ 21 ★★★★
History and Biography Category:
2020: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
2019: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper ✔ 19 ★★★★★ ✔ 20 ★★★★★
2018: RU: Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
2017: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women ✔ 18 ★★★★★ ✔ 20 ★★★★★
2016: The Romanovs: 1613-1918
2015: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania ✔18 ★★★
2014: The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
2013: RU: The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
2012:Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
2011: RU: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
RU 2020: You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington ✔ 20 ★★★
999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
some extras:
Know My Name ✔ 19 ★★★★
Toil & Trouble
Heart Berries
Educated
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
When Breath Becomes Air ✔ ★★★★
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
These 3 Categories are a maybe/give it a try if I need something different.
Mystery/Thriller Category:
2020: The Guest List ✔ 20 ★★★★★
2019: The Silent Patient ✔ 19 ★★★★★
2018: RU The Witch Elm
2017: Into the Water ✔ 18 ★★★★
2016: RU All the Missing Girls
2015: The Girl on the Train
2014: RU The Weight of Blood
2013: RU Reconstructing Amelia
2012: RU its the first book in it's place (bk #8) Still Life
2011: RU it's too far into a series, so going to put the first book in it's place (bk #11) The Beekeeper's Apprentice
RU 2020:Home Before Dark ✔ 20 ★★★★★
2020: The Sun Down Motel
2020: One by One ✔ 20 ★★★
The Devil and the Dark Water
extras:
The Vanishing ✔ 20 ★★★
The Wife Upstairs ✔ 21 ★★★
The Push ✔ 21 ★★★
Fantasy Catergory:
2020: House of Earth and Blood ✔ 22 ★★★★★
2019: Ninth House
2018: Circe ✔ 18 ★★★★
2017: RU Norse Mythology ✔ 18 ★★★★
2016: RU Age of Myth
2015: Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
2014: The Book of Life ✔ 17 ★★★★
2013: RU Vicious
2012: RU Some Kind of Fairy Tale
2011: RU The Night Circus
RU 2020: The House in the Cerulean Sea ✔ 20 ★★★★
2020: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
2020: Piranesi ✔ 20 ★★★★
2020: A Deadly Education
Science Fiction: Sci-if
2020: RU To Sleep in a Sea of Stars ✔ 20 ★★★★★
2019: RU Gideon the Ninth
2018: Vengeful book 2
2017: Artemis
2016: RU Sleeping Giants ✔ ★★★
2015: RU Seveneves
2014: The Martian ✔ ★★★★★
2013: RU The Humans
2012: The Long Earth
2011: 11/22/63
RU 2020: Harrow the Ninth
2020: The Space Between Worlds
2020: The End of October
extras:
A Peculiar Peril
Mod
Katy wrote: "Wow, that is ambitious! You can do it."Thank you Katy, I do hope so. :)
Subconsciously I found myself doing another reading challenge. In February I read a book about George Washington finishing it on the 21st. I looked up his date of birth, and it was Feb 22nd. I thought that was amusing; reading about a historical figure on his/her birthday month. Then this challenge took route. :)I would like to read about a historical person during their birthday month. I do have to play catch up for the first month, since this idea didn't come until February.
Key:
🎆 President
🎨 Artist
🎭 Performing (actresses/actors/play writers)
📖 literature / writer
👑 Ruler
January
6 Joan of Arc The Language of Fire: Joan of Arc Reimagined ✔ ★★★★★
Joan of Arc
9 🎆 Franklin Roosevelt Eleanor and Franklin
11 🖋️ Alexander Hamilton (politician/statesman) Alexander Hamilton
The Hamilton Affair
17 📖 Anne Brontë The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects ✔ ★★★
18 👑 Cleopatra / Mark Anthony (I'm using Mark Anthony's b-day) The Memoirs of Cleopatra
30 🎆 Richard Nixon The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate
February
6 🎆 Aaron Burr Burr
The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr
9 🎆 William Harrison
12 🎆 Abraham Lincoln Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
Courting Mr. Lincoln
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
22 🎆 George Washington Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love ✔ ★★★★★
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington ✔ ★★★
March
15 🎆 Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
April
13 🎆 Thomas Jefferson
21 📖 Charlotte Brontë Romancing Miss Brontë✔ ★★★★★ (X2)
26 🎭 William Shakespeare: The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature ✔ ★★
27 🎆 Ulysses Grant Grant
May
2 👑 Catherine the Great Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
29 🎆 John Kennedy 11/22/63
June
14 🎆 Donald Trump
14 📖 Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
25 📖 George Orwell 1984
30 🎭 John Gay The Beggar's Opera
July
4 🎆 Calvin Coolidge
11 🎆 John Q Adams John Quincy Adams
Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
30 📖 Emily Brontë Emily's Ghost: A Novel of the Brontë Sisters
August
1 📖 Herman Melville Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick
10 🎆 Herbert Hoover
15 Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon's Last Island
30 📖 Mary Shelley In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
September
9 📖 Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy: A Russian Life
15 🎆 William Taft
23 📖 Sophie Peabody - The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
October
14 🎆 Dwight Eisenhower
27 🎆 Theodore Roosevelt
30 🎆 John Adams John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial
November
11 🎆 James Garfield
23 🎆 Franklin Pierce Life of Franklin Pierce
December
5 🎆 Martin Buren
10 📖 Emily Dickinson Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
12 🎆 Woodrow Wilson
15 👑 Nero The Confessions of Young Nero
16 📖 Jane Austen Miss Austen ✔ ★★★★
On Booktube, I found a great challenge called the Booktube Prize Challenge. It has four rounds, 48 fiction and 48 non-fiction titles that many in the book community put together, I think many are 2019 releases. After the fourth round in October there will be three books per genre, a total of 6 book winners. Some of these books are on book prize lists. Judges are assigned a group and in each group there are 6 books to read in a two month period. Out of each round, only 3 from each group will advance to the next round. I am not a judge but want to read the books :)
Key: 🏆 winner in Oct
1️⃣ First Round Feb-Mar 2️⃣ Second Round Apr-May
3️⃣ Third Round June-July 4️⃣ Last Round Aug-Sept
Non-Fiction Groups A to H (the main list)
1️⃣ First Round
Group A:
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
3️⃣2️⃣ A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition ✔ ★★★
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
3️⃣2️⃣ Underland ✔ ★★★★
🏆4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ Know My Name: A Memoir ✔ ★★★★
Group B:
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
2️⃣ American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
2️⃣ Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men ✔ ★★★★
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
2️⃣ Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Group C:
Three Women
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ In the Dream House ✔ ★★★★ ( on my re-read list) ✔ ★★★★
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ Solitary
2️⃣ Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Group D:
Thick: And Other Essays
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
3️⃣2️⃣ Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
2️⃣ She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper ✔ ★★★★★
In the Country of Women
Group E:
3️⃣2️⃣ The Yellow House
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography
2️⃣ Charged: Overzealous Prosecutors, the Quest for Mercy, and the Fight to Transform Criminal Justice in America
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
3️⃣2️⃣ Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Group F:
2️⃣ The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming ✔ ★★★
🏆4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster ✔ ★★★★
2️⃣ The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
How We Fight For Our Lives
Group G
The Ungrateful Refugee
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
🏆4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us ✔ ★★★★
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession ✔ ★★★★
2️⃣ How to Be an Antiracist
2️⃣ The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future ✔ ★★★
Group H
3️⃣2️⃣ The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 ✔ ★★★★★
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee ✔ ★★★
2️⃣ Parkland: Birth of a Movement
2️⃣ Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's "1984"
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
Fiction: Group A to H (main list)
Group A:
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
🏆4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ Girl, Woman, Other
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Your House Will Pay
🏆4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World ✔ ★★★★
Girl✔ ★★★
Group B
🏆4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ Women Talking ✔ ★★★
Ghost Wall ✔ ★★★
Such a Fun Age
3️⃣2️⃣ The Dutch House
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ A Single Thread
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Group C
Inland
2️⃣ Frankissstein: A Love Story ✔ ★★★★★
Where Reasons End
3️⃣2️⃣ A Woman Is No Man
2️⃣ The Far Field
Spring
Group D
3️⃣2️⃣ Red at the Bone ✔ ★★★
An Orchestra of Minorities
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ Lanny ✔ ★★★★
Fleishman Is in Trouble
3️⃣2️⃣ The Innocents
The Water Dancer
Group E
The Topeka School ✔ ★★
2️⃣ Lost Children Archive ✔ ★★★
Black Leopard, Red Wolf ✔ ★★★★
2️⃣ Ducks, Newburyport ✔ ★★★★
2️⃣ Queenie
The Island of Sea Women
Group F
2️⃣ Boy Swallows Universe
2️⃣ Patsy
Dominicana
2️⃣ Middle England
The Starless Sea
The Man Who Saw Everything
Group G
Bunny
Miracle Creek ✔ ★★★★
Disappearing Earth ✔ ★★★
2️⃣ The Other Americans
3️⃣2️⃣ On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ ★★★
2️⃣ The Nickel Boys
Group H
2️⃣ Olive, Again
Normal People ✔ ★★★
2️⃣ City of Girls ✔ ★★★★★
3️⃣2️⃣ The Night Tiger
The Old Drift
Cantoras
Preparing myself for the upcoming readathons: The 6th year of Nonfiction November and the A to Z readathon. The challenges for 2020 Non-Fiction are word choices with the freedom of how you wish to interpret those words.36/2020
1. Time
2. Movement
3. Buzz
4. Discovery
A. American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI ✔ ★★★
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry ✔ ★★★
B. The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants ✔★★★
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" ✔ ★★★
The Burning of the White House: James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812 ✔ ★★★
Bones: Inside and Out ✔ ★★★
C. Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey ✔★★★
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals ✔ ★★★
The Choice: Embrace the Possible
D. The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
E. The End of Everything ✔ ★★★★
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World ✔ ★★★★
F. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust ✔ 21 ★★★
The Feather Thief ✔ ★★★★
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks ✔ ★★★★
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric ✔ ★★★
Fathoms: The World in the Whale ✔ 21 ★★★★
F*ck Whales ✔ ★★★
G.The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
Golem Girl: A Memoir ✔ ★★★★★
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
Grayson ✔ ★★★★★
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex ✔ ★★★★
In the Dream House ✔ ★★★★
I.The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House ✔ ★★★
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York ✔★★★★
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Island: A Story of the Galápagos ✔ ★★★
J.
K.
L. The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures ✔ ★★★★
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong
The World of Lore: Dreadful Places ✔ ★★★
Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature ✔ ★★
M. Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine ✔ ★★★★
Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces
Murder, Witchcraft and the Killing of Wildlife: Police Investigations at the Heart of Africa
N. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge ✔ ★★★★
O. The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards
P. The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual ✔ ★★★★
The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers ✔ 21 ★★★★
Pandemic: How Climate, the Environment, and Superbugs Increase the Risk
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
Q. The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
R. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women ✔ ★★★★★
S. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession ✔ ★★★★
Silent Spring ✔ ★★★
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics ✔ ★★
T. Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship" ✔ ★★★★
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know ✔ ★★★
The Last Jew of Treblinka ✔ ★★★★
U. Untamed ✔ 21 ★★★★
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
V. Vesper Flights ✔ ★★★★
Vengeance Is Mine: A Novel Of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, And Lady Rochford The Woman Who Helped Destroy Them Both
W. Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Why Read Moby-Dick? ✔ ★★★
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life ✔ ★★★★
All The Women Of The Bible
X. (free card) The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway
Y. You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington ✔ ★★★
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body ✔ ★★★★
The Yellow House
Z.
Past Non-Fiction Readathons Catch up
For 2021 I want to be more focus on using my membership to The Great Courses Plus. I would like to finish 12 courses through-out the year and with each course there is a long list of suggesting reading. I will put what I could read/get under the course title. 1. Warriors, Queens and Intellectuals Course
2. A Children's Guild to Folklore and Wonder Tales Course
Ancient Scottish Tales ✔ ★★★★
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World
Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales ✔ ★★★★★
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
The Tale of Tales ✔ ★★★★
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
The Folktale
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales ✔ ★★★★
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland ✔ ★★★★
Preserving the Spell: Basile's "The Tale of Tales", the Grimm's and Brentano's Adaptations, and Its Oral Retellings
3. The Rise of Rome Course
4. Skeptics Guide Great Books Course
5. The Age of Henry VIII & A History of England from Tudors to the Stuarts
6. Classics of British Literature Course
Queen Elizabeth I
Beowulf (re-read)
The Canterbury Tales ✔ ★★★★
The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography
The Riverside Chaucer
The Faerie Queene ✔ ★★★★★
Queen Elizabeth I J.E. Neale
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
The Pilgrim's Progress
Leviathan
Gulliver's Travels ✔ ★★★★
Robinson Crusoe
Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ✔ ★★★★
Joseph Andrews & Shamela
Pamela ✔ ★★★★
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
7. American Literature Course
8. The English Novel Course
9. Classic Novels - Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature
10. Shakespeare's Courses
11. Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World
12. Rise of the Novel Course
The Satyricon
The Golden Ass
Don Quixote
The Princesse de Clèves ✔ ★★★★★
Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver's Travels ✔ ★★★
Manon Lescaut
Joseph Andrews
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady ✔ ★★★★★
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ✔ ★★★★
Candide ✔ ★★★★
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Julie, or the New Heloise
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Pride and Prejudice ✔ ★★★★★
Emma ✔ ★★★★★
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Frankenstein ✔ ★★★★
The Red and the Black
Middlemarch
Extra Course: The Life and Works of Jane Austen - July 2021
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
Reading Jane Austen
How To Study A Jane Austen Novel
Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics
The Letters of Jane Austen ✔ ★★★
A Chronology of Jane Austen and Her Family: 1600-2000
Selected Letters
Jane Austen's Manuscript Works
Juvenilia
Jane Austen, Young Author
Teenage Writings
The Connell Guide to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ✔ ★★★★
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility/ Pride and Prejudice/ Emma
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things ✔ ★★★
Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle
Jane Austen and the Popular Novel: The Determined Author
The Cambridge Companion to ‘Emma'
The Castle of Wolfenbach: A German Story
Clermont
The Mysterious Warning
The Necromancer, or The Tale of the Black Forest
The Midnight Bell
The Orphan of the Rhine
Horrid Mysteries - A Story from the German of the Marquis of Grosse
A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion
Jane Austen and the Enlightenment
A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters Went to the Ball
Jane Austen's Erotic Advice
Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England
Jane Austen and Marriage
Road to Divorce: England, 1530-1987
Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850
Jane Austen in Context
Issues of Class in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Wealth or Poverty?: Jane Austen's Novels Explored
The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
Jane Austen's 'Outlandish Cousin': The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide
Jane Austen's Cousin: The Outlandish Countess de Feuillide
Jane Austen and the French Revolution
Jane Austen and the Clergy
Jane Austen: The Banker's Sister
Jane Austen and the Navy
Jane Austen Among Women
The First Industrial Woman
The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
Jane Austen Fashion
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion
Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style
Jane Austen and Leisure
Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Jane Austen to the New Woman
A Charming Place
Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650 1900
Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health'
A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections
Duologues and Scenes from the Novels of Jane Austen: Arranged and Adapted for Drawing-Room Performance
Jane Austen and Her Readers, 1786-1945
Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated
Lady Susan ✔ ★★★★
Love and Friendship ✔ ★★★
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
Black London: Life Before Emancipation
Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition: 'A Fling at the Slave Trade'
Jane Austen's Family: Through Five Generations
Jane Austen: A Family Record
Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom
The Making of Jane Austen
Jane Austen in Hollywood
Jane Austen in Hollywood
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood
Jane Austen: A Literary Life
A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion
30 Great Myths about Jane Austen
Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood
Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition: 'A Fling at the Slave Trade'
The Annotated Northanger Abbey
The Annotated Mansfield Park
The Annotated Sense and Sensibility
The Annotated Emma
The Annotated Pride and Prejudice ✔ ★★★★★
The Annotated Persuasion
13. American Presidents Investigating Course
Mini courses:
1. Monsters Within
2. Black Plague
3. Cooking through the Ages
4. Women in History
I try to listen to at least 1 Great Courses a year. I am currently in the middle of one on the Civil War, which is pretty intense, but learning a lot!
Susie wrote: "I try to listen to at least 1 Great Courses a year. I am currently in the middle of one on the Civil War, which is pretty intense, but learning a lot!"
I didn't see that course, I will look into that one. :) I am always amazed at how much "suggestive reading" is listed with each course. I figured I can pick and choose what I can get my hands on.
Another Round of the Booktube Prize Challenge will start in February. It is the same rules as 2020, by having four rounds: 48 fiction and 48 non-fiction titles. After the fourth round in October there will be three books per genre, a total of 6 book winners. Some of these books are on other book prize lists.Judges are assigned a group and in each group there are 6 books to read in a two month period. Out of each round, only 3 from each group will advance to the next round. I am not a judge but want to read the books :)
Key: 🏆 winner in Oct
1️⃣ First Round Feb-Mar 2️⃣ Second Round Apr-May
3️⃣ Third Round June-July 4️⃣ Last Round Aug-Sept
Non-Fiction Main List:
1️⃣ First Round
Group A:
Intimations
Just Us: An American Conversation
2️⃣A Promised Land
3️⃣2️⃣The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
2️⃣World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Surviving Autocracy
Group B:
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness ✔ ★★★★
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Group C:
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
2️⃣Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars ✔ ★★★★
3️⃣2️⃣Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life ✔★★★
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
3️⃣2️⃣The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir ✔ ★★★
Group D:
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence ✔ ★★★★★ x2
🏆 4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath ✔ ★★★★★
2️⃣The End of Everything ✔ ★★★★
2️⃣Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir ✔★★★★
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Group E:
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
2️⃣Fathoms: The World in the Whale ✔ ★★★★★
2️⃣Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
The Man in the Red Coat
Vesper Flights ✔ ★★★
2️⃣Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Group F:
2️⃣Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
Fairest: A Memoir
2️⃣Uncanny Valley
🏆 4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
Group G:
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
2️⃣Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
2️⃣The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
3️⃣2️⃣Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
Mozart: The Reign of Love
Group H:
2️⃣Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Eleanor
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
🏆 4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
3️⃣2️⃣Notes on a Silencing
Fiction Main List:
1️⃣ First Round
Group A:
3️⃣2️⃣Interior Chinatown ✔ ★★★★
Sisters
2️⃣Summer
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
3️⃣2️⃣Writers & Lovers ✔★★★★
A Burning
Group B:
🏆 4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣Shuggie Bain
2️⃣Homeland Elegies
2️⃣Swimming in the Dark
White Ivy
A Children's Bible
Jack
Group C:
What Are You Going Through
2️⃣A Girl Is a Body of Water
🏆 4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣Hamnet ✔ ★★★★
Run Me to Earth
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣The Death of Vivek Oji ✔ ★★★★
Leave the World Behind
Group D:
2️⃣Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Weather ✔ ★★
Redhead by the Side of the Road
Actress
2️⃣The Glass Hotel ✔ ★★★
2️⃣Love After Love
Group E:
3️⃣2️⃣The Mirror & the Light ✔ ★★★★
Death in Her Hands
2️⃣Real Life
2️⃣Utopia Avenue
American Dirt
Luster
Group F:
2️⃣Deacon King Kong
Transcendent Kingdom
The Night Watchman
2️⃣Piranesi ✔ ★★★★ (maybe re-read)
3️⃣2️⃣Apeirogon ✔ ★★★★★
Memorial
Group G:
Barn 8
3️⃣2️⃣Things in Jars
Crooked Hallelujah
🏆 4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣The Prettiest Star
2️⃣Pew ✔ ★★★
Mexican Gothic
Group H:
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣My Dark Vanessa ✔ ★★★★★
4️⃣3️⃣2️⃣The Vanishing Half
Cleanness
3️⃣2️⃣The Pull of the Stars ✔ ★★★
Big Girl, Small Town
Parakeet
Preparing myself for the upcoming readathons: The 7th year of Nonfiction November and the A to Z readathon. The challenges for 2021 Non-Fiction are word choices with the freedom of how you wish to interpret those words.The four one-word prompts for Nonfiction November 2021 are:
1. Collection
2. Industry
3. Style
4. Treatment
A: Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life
B: Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
C: 84, Charing Cross Road ✔ ★★★★
D:
E: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (re-read)
F:
G: Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural ✔ ★★★★
H:
I:
J:
K: She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women ✔ ★★★
L: The Life and Times of Chaucer
M: The Curse of the Mummy: Uncovering Tutankhamun's Tomb ✔ ★★★
N:
O: Cursed Objects: Strange But True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items ✔ ★★★★
P:
Q:
R:
S: Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials ✔ ★★★★
T:
U: Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
V:
W: The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
X: (wildcard)
Y: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness ✔ ★★★★
Z:
2022 Booktube Prize Challenge. This year there is another category and that is translated work. It is the same rules as 2020, by having four rounds: 48 fiction, 48 non-fiction titles and 48 translated works. Key: 🏆 winner in Oct
1️⃣ First Round Feb-Mar 2️⃣ Second Round Apr-May
3️⃣ Third Round June-July 4️⃣ Last Round Aug-Sept
Fiction:
A Passage North
Burnt Sugar
Open Water
Harlem Shuffle
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev ✔ ★★★
Oh William!
Of Women and Salt ✔ ★★★★
Libertie
Klara and the Sun
Matrix
Appleseed
Milk Fed ✔ ★★★
Fight Night
The Fortune Men
Assembly
The Chosen and the Beautiful
Infinite Country
No One Is Talking About This ✔ ★★★
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch – Rivka Galchen
The Prophets
Beautiful World, Where Are You
China Room
Detransition, Baby ✔ ★★★
The Other Black Girl
1️⃣ Project Hail Mary
1️⃣ Cloud Cuckoo Land ✔ ★★★★
1️⃣ Damnation Spring
1️⃣ Small Things Like These
1️⃣ Hell of a Book
1️⃣ Crossroads
1️⃣ Intimacies
1️⃣ Zorrie ✔ ★★★
1️⃣ What Strange Paradise
1️⃣ The Trees
1️⃣ Bewilderment
1️⃣ The Book of Form and Emptiness
1️⃣2️⃣Unsettled Ground
1️⃣2️⃣How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
1️⃣2️⃣ The Magician
1️⃣2️⃣The Promise
1️⃣2️⃣ The Sentence
1️⃣2️⃣ Still Life
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣The Lincoln Highway
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆 The Island of Missing Trees
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆 Great Circle
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆 The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ 4️⃣How Beautiful We Were ✔ ★★★★
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣ The Five Wounds
Non-Fiction
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆 How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆 Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ 4️⃣Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future ✔ ★★★
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣ A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty ✔ ★★★★★
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣ Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, with a foreword by Bryan Stevenson
1️⃣2️⃣ Somebody's Daughter
1️⃣2️⃣American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
1️⃣2️⃣ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
1️⃣2️⃣Crying in H Mart
1️⃣2️⃣ All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
1️⃣2️⃣ The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
1️⃣ The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
1️⃣ All In: An Autobiography
1️⃣ Islands of Abandonment
1️⃣ Diary of a Young Naturalist
1️⃣ A Ghost in the Throat ✔★★★
1️⃣ The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
1️⃣ The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
1️⃣ Orwell's Roses
1️⃣ Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
1️⃣ Smile: The Story of a Face
1️⃣A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
1️⃣Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
These Precious Days: Essays
Punch Me Up to the Gods
These Precious Days – Ann Patchett
Notes on Grief
The Amur River: Between Russia and China
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer ✔ ★★★★
Real Estate
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
White Magic
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
Girlhood
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Aftershocks
Everybody: A Book about Freedom
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 ✔★★★★
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
On Animals
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Translated
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ 4️⃣🏆The Art of Losing
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆 The Anomaly
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣ The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World ✔ ★★★★
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣How to Order the Universe
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ 4️⃣🏆Brickmakers
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣ Disquiet
1️⃣2️⃣ The Survivors
1️⃣2️⃣ More Than I Love My Life
1️⃣2️⃣ Heaven ✔ ★★★
1️⃣2️⃣Where You Come From
1️⃣2️⃣My Heart
1️⃣2️⃣ Inseparable
2023 Booktube Prize Challenge. This year it went back to 2 categories, so four rounds: 48 fiction, 48 non-fiction titles, and 48 translated works.Key: 🏆 winner in Oct
1️⃣ First Round Feb-Mar 2️⃣ Second Round Apr-May
3️⃣ Third Round June-July 4️⃣ Last Round Aug-Sept
Fiction:
Group A:
Our Missing Hearts
2️⃣The Rabbit Hutch
2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆Demon Copperhead
Memphis
2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣How High We Go in the Dark ✔ ★★★
Liberation Day: Stories
Group B:
2️⃣Either/Or
The Book of Goose
2️⃣Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
2️⃣Lucy by the Sea
2️⃣The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
2️⃣3️⃣Take My Hand
Group C:
2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆Young Mungo
2️⃣3️⃣Our Wives Under the Sea ✔ ★★★★
2️⃣French Braid
2️⃣Blank Pages: And Other Stories
2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣Trust
2️⃣Sea of Tranquility
Group D:
2️⃣Case Study
2️⃣Companion Piece
2️⃣Moon Witch, Spider King
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
2️⃣3️⃣Horse
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
Group E:
The Candy House
2️⃣Lessons
2️⃣Love Marriage
The Marriage Portrait
2️⃣3️⃣Afterlives
The English Understand Wool
Group F
2️⃣The Passenger
Foster
2️⃣Booth
2️⃣3️⃣Nightcrawling
2️⃣Shrines of Gaiety
2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆Trespasses
Group G
2️⃣Night of the Living Rez
2️⃣3️⃣Kaikeyi
2️⃣Dr. No
2️⃣Calling for a Blanket Dance
The Swimmers
Fellowship Point
Group H:
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
2️⃣3️⃣Carrie Soto Is Back ✔ ★★★
2️⃣Bliss Montage
2️⃣Glory
2️⃣All This Could Be Different
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Life Between the Tides
Nonfiction
Group A:
2️⃣3️⃣Sandy Hook
2️⃣A Heart That Works
2️⃣Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
2️⃣Life Between the Tides
3️⃣The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
3️⃣Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Group B:
2️⃣Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
2️⃣Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses
2️⃣Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
2️⃣3️⃣I'm Glad My Mom Died ✔ ★★★
2️⃣3️⃣The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
2️⃣3️⃣We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
Group C
3️⃣How to Stand Up to a Dictator
2️⃣Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
2️⃣3️⃣Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, from FDR through Clinton
2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
2️⃣Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
2️⃣Translating Myself and Others
Group D
2️⃣The Story of Russia
2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
2️⃣3️⃣River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile ✔ ★★★
2️⃣Lost & Found: A Memoir
2️⃣Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
2️⃣3️⃣Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
Group E
2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
2️⃣3️⃣Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
2️⃣Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
2️⃣Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home
2️⃣3️⃣G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
2️⃣The Trayvon Generation
Group F
2️⃣Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
2️⃣3️⃣Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
3️⃣4️⃣🏆An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
2️⃣Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths ✔★★★★
2️⃣3️⃣Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
2️⃣Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Group G
2️⃣3️⃣In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
2️⃣Stay True
2️⃣Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
2️⃣3️⃣Solito
2️⃣3️⃣Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
2️⃣Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life
Group H
2️⃣Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
2️⃣Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣🏆The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
2️⃣Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph ✔★★★
2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
2023 Non-Fiction November hopefuls. The four one-word prompts for Nonfiction November 2023 are:1. Web
2. Fraud
3. Capital
4. Display
A: Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
B: Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants ✔★★★
C:
D: Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
E: Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution ✔★★★★★
F:
G: The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America
H: This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
I: The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime ✔★★★★
J:
K:
L: Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless ✔★★★★
M: The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
N:
O:
P:
Q:
R: The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
S: Spare
T: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
U: Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
V:
W: The World: A Family History of Humanity
A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology ✔★★★★
X: (wildcard) The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Y:
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
Books mentioned in this topic
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I (other topics)The King's Pleasure (other topics)
The Cardinal (other topics)
The King's Pleasure (other topics)
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Henry Fielding (other topics)Aphra Behn (other topics)
Dan Simmons (other topics)
Leo Tolstoy (other topics)
Frances Burney (other topics)
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... Super ambitious. Of course, this will take me a long time to complete, but at least now I can at least prepare, when I go off the tracks reading in another direction. Happy Reading Everyone. :)
✔ 1748 - Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady (full) by Samuel Richardson 2020 ★★★★★
1782- Reveries of the Solitary Walker
1783- The Recess
1784-
1785- Jacques the Fatalist
✔ 1786- Vathek 2019 ★★★
1787-
1788- Emmeline
1789-The Ghost-seer
1790- A Sicilian Romance
1791- The Romance of the Forest (re-read)
✔ 1792- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2019 ★★★
✔ 1793- Love and Friendship by Jane Austen ★★★
1794- The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe
1795-
1796- The Children of the Abbey
1797- The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
1798-Clermont
1799- Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
1800- Castle Rackrent
1801- Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
1802-
1803-
1804-
1805-
1806- Zofloya
1807-
1808- Marmion by Walter Scott
1809- Coelebs in Search of a Wife by Hannah More
1810- The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott
✔1811- Sense and Sensibility (re-read) 2019 ★★★★★
1812- The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (full)
✔1813- Pride and Prejudice 2019 ★★★★★
1814- Mansfield Park (re-read)
✔1815- Emma by Jane Austen 20 ★★★★★
1816- The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott
1817- Persusasion
✔ 1818- Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 17 ★★★★
1819- Don Juan
✔ 1819- Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 2019 ★★★★
✔ 1820- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ★★★
✔1821- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ★★★ 2020
1822-
1823- Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
1824-
1825-
✔ 1826- The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 2019 ★★★★★
1827-
1828-
1829- The Last Day of a Condemned Man
1830- The Red and the Black
1831- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
1832- The Invisible Girl
✔1833- Eugene Onegin ★★ 23
✔ 1834- The Queen of Spades ★★★
1835- Lodore
1836- The Little Mermaid and Other Tales
1837- Dr. Heidigger's Experiment
1838- Oliver Twist
1839- Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific
1840- The Old Curiosity Shop
1841- Barnaby Rudge
1842- The Black Sheep
✔1843- A Christmas Carol ★★★★
1844- The Three Musketeers
1845- Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood
1846- Cousin Bette
✔1847- Vanity Fair ★★★
✔1848- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ★★★★★
1849- David Copperfield
✔ 1850- The Scarlet Letter 2017 ★★★
✔ 1851- Moby-Dick or, The Whale 2017 ★★★★
1852- Basil by Wilkie Collins
1853- Villette by Charlotte Brontë
1854- North and South
✔1855- The Warden ★★★
✔1856- Madame Bovary 2017 ★★★★
1857- The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
1858- Phantastes
✔ 1859- The Woman in White ★★★★
✔1860- The Mill on the Floss ★★★
1861- The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1862- Les Misérables
1863- Sylvia's Lovers
✔1864- Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu ★★★
✔1865- Can You Forgive Her? (#1) by Anthony Trollope ★★★★
1866- Wives and Daughters
1867- Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
✔ 1868 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 2017 ★★★★
1869- Phineas Finn (#2)
✔ 1870- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2017 ★★★
✔ 1871- Lady Susan by Jane Austen★★★★
✔ 1872- Carmilla ★★★
1873- The Eustace Diamonds (#3)
1874- Far from the Madding Crowd byThomas Hardy
1875- The Uninhabited House
1876- The Prime Minister (#5)
✔ 1877- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 2017 ★★★★
1878- The Return of the Native
✔ 1879- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 2017 ★★★
1880- The Duke's Children (#6)
1881- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
✔ 1882- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ★★★
1883-
1884- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1885-
✔1886- The Death of Ivan Ilych ★★★
✔ 1887- The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde ★★★★
1888- Adrift in the Pacific: Two Years Holiday by Jules Verne
✔1889- The Kreutzer Sonata 2017 ★★★★
1890- By the Open Sea by August Strindberg
✔1891- The Picture of Dorian Gray 2019 ★★★★
✔1892- The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 2017 ★★★
1893- Kidnapped and Catriona
1894- The Memories of Sherlock Holmes
1895- The Red Badge of Courage
✔1896- The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells 20 ★★★
✔1897- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 2019 ★★★★
✔ 1898- Futility or the Wreck of the Titan ★★★
✔1899- The Awakening by Kate Chopin 2017 ★★★
✔1900- The Romance of Tristan and Iseult ★★★
1901- The Wings of the Dove
1902- The Hound of the Baskervilles
1903- The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker
✔1904- Peter Pan ★★★ 20
1905- The House of Mirth
1906- In the Days of the Comet by H.G. Wells
✔1907- The Mystery of the Yellow Room ★★★23
1908- Anne of Green Gables
1909- Anne of Avonlea
1910- Howards End by E.M. Forster
1911- Death in Venice and Other Tales
1912- Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
1913- Swann's Way (Vol 1)by Marcel Proust
1914- Dubliners by James Joyce
✔1914: The Dead ★★★
✔1915- The Metamorphosis ★★★
1916- Lost Laysen by Margaret Mitchell
✔1916- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man★★21
✔1917- Summer by Edith Wharton ★★★
1918- Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale by Kafū Nagai
1919- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (Vol 2)
1920- The Guermantes Way (Vol 3)
✔1921- The Garden Party 21★★★
✔1922- Ulysses by James Joyce★★★
✔1922- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2017★★★★★
1923- Emily of New Moon
✔1924- Billy Budd, Sailor ★★★
✔1925- The Great Gatsby 2017 ★★★★★
1926- The Sun Also Rises
1927- Time Regained (Vol. 7)
✔1928- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence ★★★★
1929- The Sound and the Fury
✔1930- As I Lay Dying 2017 ★★
1931- Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
1932- Mutiny on the Bounty
1933- Tender Is the Night
✔1934- Murder on the Orient Express ★★★
✔1935- Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot 2017 ★★★
1936- A City of Bells (1) by Elizabeth Goudge
1937- To Have and Have Not
✔ 1938- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ★★★
✔ 1939- Holiday Romance by Charles Dickens 2017 ★★★
1940- The Bird in the Tree (Eliot #1)
1941- Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer
✔ 1942- Laura by Vera Caspary 2017 ★★★
1943- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
1944- Dragonwyck
1945- The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford (book 1)
1946- This Side of Innocence
1947 -The Pearl by John Steinbeck
1948- Pilgrim's Inn (Eliots #2)
✔1949- The Hero With a Thousand Faces ★★★23
1950- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
1951- My Cousin Rachel
✔ 1952- The Old Man and the Sea 2017 ★★
✔ 1953- Fahrenheit 451 2017 ★★★★
✔ 1954- Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead ★★★23
✔1955- A Night to Remember 2017 ★★★★
1956- Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
1957- The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne
✔ 1958- The Witch of Blackbird Pond 2017 ★★★
✔ 1959- The Haunting of Hill House 2017 ★★★
✔ 1960- To Kill a Mockingbird ★★★★
1961- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
✔ 1962- A Wrinkle in Time 2017 ★★★
1963- False Colours
1964- Beauty and Sadness
1965- The Magus by John Fowles
✔ 1966- Wide Sargasso Seaby Jean Rhys ★★★
1967- One Hundred Years of Solitude
1968- The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
1969- Mary Queen of Scots
1970- Grendel by John Gardner
✔1971- Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks 2018 ★★★
1972- Watership Down by Richard Adams
1973- A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
1974-
1975- Shōgun by James Clavell
1976-
✔1977- Bridge to Terabithia 2017 ★★★
✔1978- The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch ★★★★ 2020
1979- The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole by Roland Huntford
✔ 1980- A New England Love Story ★★★
✔ 1981- Chronicle of a Death Foretold ★★23
1982- The House of the Spirits
✔ 1983- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 2017 ★★★★
1984- Mistress Anne: The Exceptional Life of Anne Boleyn
✔ 1985- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ★★★★★