Challenge: 50 Books discussion

Here's wishing all Gentle Readers a Happy New Year of Great Reading!

LadyCalico wrote: "Here's wishing a Gentle Readers a Happy New Year of Great Reading!"

Happy reading to you, as well! :)

January 2019
1. Michael Chabon--The Yiddish Policemen's Union finished 1/3/19
2. Daniel Woodrell--Winter's Bone finished 1/4/19
3. Michael Connelly--The Gods of Guilt finished 1/5/19
4. Julia Alvarez--In the Time of the Butterflies finished 1/8/19
5. Michael Morpurgo--The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips finished 1/9/19
6. David Almond--Skellig finished 1/10/19
7. Kate Moore--The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women finished 1/13/19
8. Scott Lynch--The Lies of Locke Lamora finished 1/16/19
9. Markus Zusak--I Am the Messenger finished 1/19/19
10. Deric Longden--The Cat Who Came in from the Cold finished 1/20/19
11. Michael Connelly--The Black Box finished 1/21/19
12. Michael Morpurgo--Kaspar: Prince of Cats finished 1/22/19
13. Edwidge Danticat--Breath, Eyes, Memory finished 1/23/19
14. Jodi Picoult--Small Great Things finished 1/24/19
15. Alexander McCall Smith--The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine finished 1/27/19
16. Michael Morpurgo--Shadow finished 1/27/19

February 2019
17. Scott Lynch--The Republic of Thieves finished 2/2/19
18. Eowyn Ivey--The Snow Child finished 2/4/19
19. Kathryn Lasky--Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932 finished 2/5/19
20. James Welch--Fools Crow finished 2/9/19
21. George Selden--Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse finished 2/9/19
22. Emily Cheney Neville--It's Like This, Cat finished 2/10/19
23. Amor Towles--Rules of Civility finished 2/13/19
24. Delia Owens--Where the Crawdads Sing finished 2/16/19
25. Julie Orringer--The Invisible Bridge finished 2/23/19
26. Michael Connelly--The Burning Room finished 2/24/19
27. Michael Connelly--The Wrong Side of Goodbye finished 2/25/19

March 2019
28. Toni Morrison--The Bluest Eye finished 3/2/19
29. Josephine Tey--Brat Farrar finished 3/4/19
30. Josephine Tey--The Daughter of Time finished 3/7/19
31. Terry Pratchett and Gray Jolliffe--The Unadulterated Cat finished 3/8/1 9
32. Patrick O'Brian--Master & Commander finished 3/10/19
33. Philippa Pearce--Tom's Midnight Garden finished 3/11/19
34. Vera Brosgol--Anya's Ghost finished 3/12/19
35. Alison Bechdel--Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic finished 3/12/19
36. J.D. Robb--Connections in Death finished 3/14/19
37. J.D. Robb--Leverage in Death finished 3/17/19
38. Ian McDonald--Time Was finished 3/18/19
39. Glynis Peters--The Secret Orphan finished 3/20/19
40. Gail Honeyman--Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine finished 3/23/19
41. Scott Lynch--Red Seas Under Red Skies finished 3/30/19
42. Bill Wallace and Carol Wallace--The Flying Flea, Callie and Me
finished 3/31/19
43. That Furball Puppy and Me finished 3/31/19
44. Bill Wallace and Carol Wallace--Chomps, Flea, and Gray Cat finished 3/31/19

April 2019
45. Diana Gabaldon--Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade finished 4/4/19
46. J.D. Robb--Dark in Death finished 4/8/19
47. Shaun Tan--The Arrival finished 4/9/19
48. Liane Moriarty-- Nine Perfect Strangers finished 4/10/19
49. Fannie Flagg--The Whole Town's Talking finished 4/11/19
50. Hunter Thompson--Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas finished 4/12/19
51. Roald Dahl--Esio Trot finished 4/13/19
52. E.B. White--The Trumpet of the Swan finished 4/13/19
53. Erskine Childers--The Riddle of the Sands finished 4/16/19
54. Katherine Arden--The Bear and the Nightingale finished 4/17/19
55. Yaa Gyasi--Homegoing finished 4/19/19
56. Sarah McCoy--Marilla of Green Gables finished 4/21/19
57. Kevin Kwan--Crazy Rich Asians finished 4/23/19
58. Mohsin Hamid--The Reluctant Fundamentalist finished 4/25/19
59. Pam Jenoff--The Lost Girls of Paris finished 4/28/19
60. Stephen Greenblatt--Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare finished 4/30/19

May 2019
61. Sébastien Japrisot--A Very Long Engagement finished 5/1/19
62. David Benioff--City of Thieves finished 5/2/19
63. Wilbur Smith--River God finished 5/6/19
64. Patrick Rothfuss--The Slow Regard of Silent Things finished 5/6/19
65. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie--Americanah finished 5/9/19
66. Julian Barnes--The Sense of an Ending finished 5/10/19
67. Joyce Stranger--Kym finished 5/12/19
68. Lillian Beckwith--The Hills is Lonely finished 5/13/19
69. A.J. Finn--The Woman in the Window finished 5/14/19
70. Kevin Kwan--China Rich Girlfriend finished 5/16/19
71. Raymond Briggs--When the Wind Blows finished 5/17/19
72. Jandy Nelson--I'll Give You the Sun finished 5/17/19
73. Madeline Miller--Circe finished 5/19/19
74. Rupi Kaur--Milk and Honey finished 5/19/19
75. Michael Connelly--Dark Sacred Night finished 5/20/19
76. Sarah Price--Plain Fame finished 5/21/19
77. Vikram Seth--The Golden Gate finished 5/26/19
78. Laura Ingalls Wilder--The Long Winter finished 5/27/19
79. Laura Ingalls Wilder--Little Town on the Prairie finished 5/27/19
80. Laura Ingalls Wilder--These Happy Golden Years finished 5/28/19
81. Laura Ingalls Wilder--The First Four Years finished 5/28/19
82. Laura Ingalls Wilder--On the Way Home finished 5/29/19
83. Alexander McCall Smith--44 Scotland Street finished 5/3.0/19
84. Lemony Snicket--A Bad Beginning finished 5/30/19
85. Lemony Snicket--The Reptile Room finished 5/30/19
86. Lemony Snicket--The Wide Window finished 5/30/19
87. Lemony Snicket--The Miserable Mill finished 5/31/19
88. Lemony Snicket--The Austere Academy finished 5/31/19

June 2019
89. Lemony Snicket--The Ersatz Elevator finished 6/1/19
90. Lemony Snicket--The Vile Village finished 6/1/19
91. Lemony Snicket--The Hostile Hospital finished 6/2/19
92. Lemony Snicket--The Carnivorous Carnival finished 6/2/19
93. Lemony Snicket--The Slippery Slope finished 6/3/19
94. Lemony Snicket--The Grim Grotto finished 6/4/19
95. Lemony Snicket--The Penultimate Peril finished 6/5/19
96. Lemony Snicket--The End finished 6/5/19
97. Megan Whelan Turner--The Thief finished 6/6/19
98. Janet Evanovich--Look Alive Twenty-Five finished 6/7/19
99. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks finished 6/8/19
100. Lee Child--Past Tense finished 6/9/19
101. Louis L'Amour--Hondo finished 6/10/19
102. Louis L'Amour--The Lonesome Gods finished 6/13/19
103. Louis L'Amour--Flint finished 6/14/19
104. Hans Fallada--Every Man Dies Alone finished 6/17/19
105. John Steinbeck--The Moon Is Down finished 6/18/19
107. Megan Whalen Turner--The Queen of Attolia finished 6/20/19
107. Megan Whalen Turner--The King of Attolia finished 6/22/19
108. L.P. Fergusson--A Dangerous Act of Kindness finished 6/24/19

July 2019
109. Bill Bryson--One Summer: America, 1927, finished 7/1/19
110. Mary Doria Russell--The Sparrow finished 7/6/19
111. Mary Doria Russell--Children of God (The Sparrow, #2) finished 7/11/19
112. T.V. Olsen--The Stalking Moon finished 7/12/19
113. Heather Morris--The Tattooist of Auschwitz finished 7/14/19
114. Alex Michaelides--The Silent Patient finished 7/15/19
115. Carolyn Keene--The Secret of the Old Clock finished 7/16/19
116. Michael Ondaatje--The Cat's Table finished 7/18/19
117. Erik Larson-- In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin finished 7/19/19
118. Erik Larson--Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania finished 7/20/19
119. Robert Galbraith--The Silkworm finished 7/22/19
120. Robert Galbraith--Career of Evil finished 7/23/19
121. Richard Peck--A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago #2) finished 7/23/19
122. Richard Peck--A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1) finished 7/26/19
123. Richard Peck--A Season of Gifts (A Long Way from Chicago, #3) finished 7/27/19
124. Tamora Pierce--First Test (Protector of the Small, #1) finished 7/27/19
125. Tamora Pierce--Page (Protector of the Small #2) finished 7/28/19
126. Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi--The Monster of Florence finished 7/30/19

August 2019
127. Hannah Kent--Burial Rites finished 8/1/19
128. Tara Westover--Educated finished 8/2/19
129. Kevin Kwan--Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians #3) finished 8/3/19
130. Greg Iles--Cemetery Road finished 8/5/19
131. Maddie Dawson--Matchmaking for Beginners finished 8/6/19
132. Georgette Heyer--The Grand Sophy finished 8/8/19
133. Tamora Pierce--Squire (Protector of the Small #3) finished 8/10/19
134. Tamora Pierce--Lady Knight (Protector of the Small #4) finished 8/11/19
135. Anne Rivers Siddons--The House Next Door finished 8/13/19
136. Erik Larson--Thunderstruck finished 8/14/19
137. Malcolm Gladwell--Outliers: The Story of Success finished 8/14/19
138. Dave Cullen--Columbine finished 8/16/19
139. Diane Setterfield--Once Upon a River finished 8/18/19
140. Stacy Schiff--Cleopatra: A Life finished 8/20/19
141. Kimberly Brubaker Bradley--The War That Saved My Life finished 8/21/19
142. Laura Hillenbrand--Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption finished 8/22/19
143. David Guterson--East of the Mountains finished 8/24/19
145. Cynthia Kadohata---Kira-Kira finished 8/27/19
146. Phaedra Patrick--The Library of Lost and Found finished 8/28/19
147. Bill Bryson--Shakespeare: The World as Stage finished 8/30/19

September 2019
148. Steven Galloway--The Cellist of Sarajevo finished 9/1/19
149. Eric Metaxas--Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy finished 9/5/19
150. Helen Macdonald-- H is for Hawk finished 9/10/19
151. Ruta Sepetys--Out of the Easy finished 9/12/19
152. Bill Bryson--At Home: A Short History of Private Life finished 9/14/19
153. Jonathan Cahn--The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future finished 9/20/19
154. Colson Whitehead--The Nickel Boys finished 9/22/19
155. Sarah Waters--The Little Stranger finished 9/25/19
156. Rose Tremain--The Road Home finished 9/28/19
157. Sarah Price--Plain Change (Plain Fame #2) finished 9/29/19

October, 2019
158. Sarah Price--Plain Again (Plain Fame #3) finished 10/2/19
159. Jean Lee Latham--Carry On, Mr. Bowditch finished 10/4/
160. Jennifer Chiaverini--Resistance Women finished 10/16/19
161. Emily M. Danforth--The Miseducation of Cameron Post finished 10/30/19

November 2019
162. Oyinkan Braithwaite--My Sister, the Serial Killer finished 11/1/19
163. Robert Crais--The Wanted finished 11/4/19
164. J.D. Robb--Vendetta in Death (In Death, #49) finished 11/19/19