Play Book Tag discussion

Trim the TBR:

1. House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs
✅2. The Doctor's Daughter: Journey to Justice by Belle Blackburn - completed 12/4/19 - 457 pages - My Review
✅3. Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors by James D. Hornfischer - completed 9/4/19 - 4 stars - 546 pages - My Review
4. Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral by Mary Doria Russell
5. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
6. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
7. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
8. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943) by Rick Atkinson
9. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Greatest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
10. Heat and Light: A Novel by Jennifer Haigh
11. From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon
✅12. Educated by Tara Westover - completed 4/13/19 - 4 stars - 352 pages - My Review
13. The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler
14. Damaged by Pamela Callow
15. Wolfsong by T.J. Klune
✅16. The Brothers K by David James Duncan - completed 8/9/19 - 4 stars - 645 pages - My Review
✅17. The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay - completed 2/3/19 - 3 stars - 448 pages My Review
18. Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy
✅19. Winter Journey by Diane Armstrong - completed 1/7/19 - 3 stars - 496 pages - My Review
20. The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
21. The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
22. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
✅23. Testimony of Two Men by Taylor Caldwell - completed 7/21/19 - 4 stars - 614 pages - My Review
✅24. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry - completed 5/13/19 - 5 stars - 624 pages - My Review
25. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner
26. The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
27. The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
✅28. Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris - completed 11/12/19 - 3 stars - 730 pages - My Review
29. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese - HC
✅30. The Rainmaker by John Grisham - completed 6/4/19 - 4 stars - 711 pages - My Review
31. Spill Summer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
✅32. The Humans by Matt Haig - completed 10/5/19 - 5 stars - 285 pages - My Review
33. Bearskin by James McLaughlin
✅34. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - completed 3/4/19 - 3 stars - 658 pages - My Review
35. Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly
36. A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

Books Read for 2019 Monthly Tags:

January - Action/Adventure
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt - completed 1/2/19 - 4 stars

Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides - completed 1/15/19 - 5 stars

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - completed 1/28/19 - 4 stars

February - Life
Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request by Mitch Albom - completed 2/1/19 - 3 stars

We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt - completed 2/2/19 - 2 stars

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne - completed 2/7/19 - 4 stars

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande - completed 2/9/19 - 4 stars

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan - completed 2/12/19 - 4 stars

March - Debut
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - completed 3/4/19 - 3 stars

The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob - completed 3/20/19 - 4 stars

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - completed 3/24/19 - 4 stars

Pickle's Progress by Marcia Butler - completed 3/25/19 - 2 stars

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford - completed 3/27/19 - 4 stars

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue - completed 3/27/19 - 4 stars

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker - completed 3/31/19 - 4 stars

April - History
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck by Gary Kinder - completed 4/3/19 - 4 stars

The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism by John U. Bacon - completed 4/11/19 - 5 stars

The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr - completed 4/21/19- 3 stars

May - Beautiful
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry - completed 5/13/19 - 5 stars

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - completed 5/18/19 - 4 stars

To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey - completed 5/20/19 - 5 stars

The Hours by Michael Cunningham - completed 5/23/19 - 5 stars

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare - completed 5/26/19 - 3 stars

June - Retellings
Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood - completed 6/11/19 - 4 stars

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski - completed 6/14/19 - 4 stars

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - completed 6/18/19 - 4 stars

July - London
Atonement by Ian McEwan - completed 7/7/19 - 5 stars

White Teeth by Zadie Smith - completed 7/14/19 - 4 stars

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - completed 7/23/19 - 4 stars

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake - completed 7/27/19 - 3 stars

August - 21st Century
Quichotte: A Novel by Salman Rushdie - completed 8/2/19 - 4 stars

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong - completed 8/11/19 - 3 stars

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson - completed 8/17/19 - 4 stars

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak - completed 8/20/19 - 5 stars

September - Cultural
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk - completed 9/6/19 - 3 stars

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - completed 9/8/19 - 4 stars

The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild by Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence - completed 9/10/19 - 4 stars

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi - completed 9/12/19 - 3 stars

October - Crime Fiction
Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent - completed 10/8/19 - 4 stars

The Dry by Jane Harper - completed 10/14/19 - 3 stars

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: A Novel by Ron Hansen - completed 10/21/19 - 3 stars

November - American History
Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin - completed 11/7/19 - 4 stars

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser - completed 11/16/19 - 4 stars

A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial by James Reston Jr. - completed 11/18/19 - 4 stars

December - 2005

The Sea by John Banville - completed 12/12/19 - 4 stars

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy - completed 12/15/19 - 3 stars

All my challenges are being tracked in one place (the first GR group I joined where I participated regularly):

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Joy D wrote: "All my challenges are being tracked in one place (the first GR group I joined where I participated regularly):

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Out of curiosity I followed your link and fojnd morw chal,enges. I cannot do another challengw! But I joined anyway. 😉

You have read some excellent books!

Karen wrote: "Out of curiosity I followed your link and fojnd morw chal,enges. I cannot do another challengw! But I joined anyway...."

Thanks, Karen. I joined a bunch of them not really knowing if I could complete them all. Best of luck!

updated 12/13/19