Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Let's Turn Pages (mine is message #289)

Goal: 28000
Final count: 30860

DECEMBER (3133)
343 The Gallery of Vanished Husbands
304 This House is Haunted
232 The Hours Before Dawn
352 The Hand That First Held Mine
42 Star's End
516 The Passing Bells
352 Heft
272 Bird Box
352 A Place Called Winter

NOVEMBER (894)
458 The Monster Baru Cormorant
436 The Binding

OCTOBER (0)

SEPTEMBER (1954)
393 Circe
309 An Ocean of Minutes
400 Tomorrow
368 The Wildlands
484 Living with Ghosts

AUGUST (3123)
229 Freshwater
336 Whistle in the Dark
384 Linesman
248 Zolitude
274 The Book of Memory
304 The Last One
229 Exit West
160 West
271 Over the Plain Houses
320 A Line Made by Walking
368 The Girls

JULY (4001)
294 The Cutting Room
385 The Year of Our War
448 Our Lady of the Ice
318 The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
480 Summerland
220 Passing Strange
288 The Keeper of Lost Things
416 Jane Steele
496 The Book of M
272 The House at the Edge of the World
384 The Silent Companions

JUNE (3259)
400 The Glorious Heresies
208 Fen: Stories
429 Radiance
416 The Traitor Baru Cormorant
276 Home Fire
320 Rooms: A Novel
263 The Falling Sky
371 Whistle Stop
592 The Country of Ice Cream Star

MAY (2095)
312 The Stone Boatmen
432 The Rift
496 The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
464 Defender
400 The Incarnations

APRIL (1611)
304 Spill Simmer Falter Wither
360 How Saints Die
414 Ammonite
301 Clade
232 What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

MARCH (3033)
432 Stray City
335 The Winged Histories
304 The Comet Seekers
277 Disobedience
160 Record of a Night Too Brief
384 Behind Her Eyes
448 We Are Here
336 The Mad Scientist's Daughter
371 Vigil

FEBRUARY (2524)
224 Solar Bones
266 Nimona
464 The Sky is Yours
339 The Book of Speculation
400 The Stars Are Legion
275 Elizabeth Is Missing
320 Quintessence
256 A Wrinkle in Time

JANUARY (5233)
370 The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
400 The Genius Plague by David Walton
209 News of the World by Paulette Jiles
195 A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
351 An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
352 The History of Bees by Maja Lunde
336 Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
608 Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
336 Glass Town by Steven Savile
125 Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
272 The Last to See Me by M. Dressler
191 Woman with a Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine
364 Soleri by Michael Johnston
436 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
368 Paradise City by Elizabeth Day
320 The Wolf in the Attic by Paul Kearney

A-Z (mine is message #308)

Goal: 24 25
Current count: 25/25
COMPLETED AUGUST 12

A: Agents of Dreamland
B: Borne
C: The Comet Seekers
D: Disobedience
E: Elizabeth Is Missing
F: Fen: Stories
G: The Genius Plague
H: The History of Bees
I: The Incarnations
J: Jane Steele
K: The Keeper of Lost Things
L: The Last to See Me
M: The Mad Scientist's Daughter
N: News of the World
O: Our Lady of the Ice
P: A Prayer for the Dying
Q: Quintessence
R: Record of a Night Too Brief
S: Soleri
T: The Traitor Baru Cormorant
U: An Unkindness of Ghosts
V: Vigil
W: The Wanderers
X:
Y: The Year of Our War
Z: Zolitude

Color Challenge (mine is message #225)

Goal: 14
COMPLETED JUNE 18

1. White



2. Pink


3. Red



4. Orange



5. Yellow



6. Green



7. Light Blue



8. Dark Blue



9. Purple



10. Brown



11. Black



12. Metallic



13. Five colors



14. Color in title



15. A word describing colors

I am also participating in many challenges on Worlds Without End. The list of those challenges can be seen HERE.

Women's Prize for Fiction Challenge

Goal: 6
Current count: 9/6


4 Stars
1. Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey (2015 LL)


3 Stars
2. Disobedience by Naomi Alderman (2006 LL)


4 Stars
3. The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (2018 SL)


4 Stars
4. The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney (2016 winner)


4 Stars
5. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (2018 winner)


5 Stars
6. The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman (2015 LL)


5 Stars
7. The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester (2016 LL)


3 Stars
8. The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh (2003 LL)


4 Stars
9. The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah (2016 LL)

Where in the World?

Goal: 12
COMPLETED JULY 24

Africa
Soleri by Michael Johnston (Egypt)
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah (Nigeria)

Antarctica
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke

Asia
The Incarnations by Susan Barker (China)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (Japan)

Australia
Vigil by Angela Slatter (Brisbane)
Clade by James Bradley (Sydney)

Europe
The Wolf in the Attic by Paul Kearney (England)
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Ireland)

South America
The Genius Plague by David Walton (Brazil)
The Falling Sky by Pippa Goldschmidt (Chile)