2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Continuing keeping track of my reading challenges. 2019 here I come.

2019: goal 70, read 111

2018: goal 52, read 60
2017 : goal 41, read 42
2016 : goal 25, read 69
2015 : goal 11, read 9
2014 : goal 16, read 6
2013 : goal 30, read 24

Year-Long Challenges:

► Kind of a BIG Deal ✅
► European Reading Challenge ✅
► Epistolary Challenge ✅
► Audiobook Challenge ✅

Quarterly Challenges:
► Looking Back at the Best ✅
► Summer Color Challenge ✅
► Autumn Challenge ✅
► Q2: Globetrotter ✅
► Winter Challenge ✅
► Q3: Historical Landmarks - UK
► Yellow Submarine ✅
► Spring Challenge ✅
► Q4: Casting Call ✅
► Summer Challenge

Monthly Challenges:
► February: Love Is in the Air ✅
► Celebrating the Blues ✅
► March: Spell It Out ✅
► April Playlist ✅
► May: Mother’s Day ✅
► June: Hot & Cold ✅
► Reading In Style ✅
► July: Something ✅
► July: Independent Reading ✅
► August: Author Appreciation ✅
► September: Celebrating Libraries ✅
► October: Halloween Spell-it-Out ✅
► October: Trick or Treat ✅
► November: Veteran Authors ✅
► December: Counting to 2020 ✅

2019 Wish List:
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Courtney Summers
Split
Recursion
Anne Tyler
The Thief
The Mars Room
Out Stealing Horses
Starry Eyes / Serious Moonlight
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Saving June
Ordinary Grace
What The Wind Knows
The God of Small Things
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
Wall of Winnipeg and Me
David Sedaris
Am I Normal Yet?
C. K. Kelly Martin
Speak
Elizabeth Strout
Friday Brown
Kate Atkinson (Life After Life?)
Ali Smith
Beautiful Ruins
Burial Rites
Goodbye Days
The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time
The Eye of the Sheep
Lonesome Dove
Sara Barnard
Tana French
Days Without End
The Humans
The Stoner
A.S. King

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KIND OF A BIG DEAL



Start Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31

Read: 10/10

LONG BOOKS:
✅ The Heart's Invisible Furies (592p)
✅ The Good Daughter (592p)
✅ Night Film (624p)

SHORT BOOKS:
✅ Speak (208p)
✅ The Fourteenth Goldfish (208p)
✅ We Have Always Lived in the Castle (146p)
✅ The Picture of Dorian Gray (144p)
✅ Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (153p)
✅ The Simple Gift (188p)
✅ The Bad Beginning (188p)

Completed:

EUROPEAN READING CHALLENGE



Start Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31

Level: Four Star (Honeymooner)
Read: 4/4

✅ Normal People - Ireland
☐ Flights - Poland
✅ The Secret Garden - UK
✅ A Nearly Normal Family - Sweden
☐ Beware of Pity - Austria
☐ Often I Am Happy - Denmark
☐ Oksana, Behave! - Russia
☐ Oneiron - Finland
☐ The Dinner - The Netherlands
✅ The Aftermath - Germany
☐ Out Stealing Horses - Norway
☐ All the Light We Cannot See - France

Completed:

EPISTOLARY READING CHALLENGE



Start Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31

Read: 11/11

☐ Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
✅ What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum
✅ Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
☐ We'll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss
✅ We Are Still Tornadoes by Michael Kun
☐ Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton
☐ Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
✅ Love You Hate You Miss You by Elizabeth Scott
✅ Where the Hell is Tesla? by Rob Dircks
✅ Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
✅ Entangled by Cat Clarke
✅ Hold Still by Nina LaCour
✅ The Neighbors by Hannah Mary McKinnon
☐ The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
☐ This is Not Forgiveness by Celia Rees
✅ I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka
✅ The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty

Completed:

AUDIOBOOK CHALLENGE



Start Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31

Level: My Precious
Read: 38/38

✅ Dry (Jenni Barber, Noah Galvin, Michael Crouch)
✅ An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (Kristen Sieh)
☐ Unbecoming (Jenny Downham)
✅ Entangled (Elloise Thomson) ⭐️
☐ The Truth Commission (Kate Rudd)
☐ Feed (Paula Christensen, Jesse Bernstein)
✅ A Very Large Expanse of Sea (Priya Ayyar) ⭐️
☐ The Exact Opposite of Okay (Laura Aikman)
✅ Forget Me Not (Heather Costa, Matt Godfrey)
✅ The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (Morgan Hallett)
☐ Orphan Train (Jessica Almasy, Suzanne Toren)
✅ Listen to Me (Xe Sand) ⭐️
✅ April Lady (Eve Matheson)
✅ The Painted Veil (Sophie Ward)
✅ Moon Over Manifest (Jenna Lamia)
✅ The Good Daughter (Susie James) ⭐️
✅ The Life We Bury (Zach Villa)
✅ Hold Still (Emma Galvin)
✅ The History of Love (George Guidall)
✅ Something in the Water (Catherine Steadman) ⭐️
✅ Our Kind of Cruelty (Nick Hendrix)
✅ The Snow Child (Debra Monk)
✅ The One Memory of Flora Banks (Rosie Jones) ⭐️
✅ Nothing to See Here (Marin Ireland) ⭐️
✅ Before She Knew Him (Sophie Amoss)
✅ The Other Daughter (Brittany Pressley) ⭐️
✅ Rust & Stardust (Therese Plummer)
✅ Watching You (Gabrielle Glaister)
✅ Heroine (Brittany Pressley)
☐ Tin Man (Sarah Winman)
✅ Educated (Julia Whelan) ⭐️
✅ Ask Again, Yes (Molly Pope)
☐ The Night Diary (Priya Ayyar)
✅ The Bad Beginning (Tim Curry)
✅ The Secret Garden (Karen Savage) ⭐️
✅ Good Me, Bad Me (Imogen Church)
☐ The End of the Affair (Colin Firth)
✅ Cabin Fever (Ramon De Ocampo)
✅ The Ruin (Aoife McMahon)
☐ The Litigators (Dennis Boutsikaris)
✅ Where the Hell is Tesla? (Rob Dircks)
☐ The Nowhere Child (Katherine Littrell)
✅ The Secrets She Keeps (Lucy Price-Lewis) ⭐️
☐ How to Set a Fire and Why (Emma Galvin)
✅ The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Sheen)
✅ The Silent Patient (Jack Hawkins, Louise Brealey)
✅ Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (Laura Hamilton) ⭐️
✅ We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Bernadette Dunne)
✅ Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Will Damron) ⭐️
✅ As Bright as Heaven (Tavia Gilbert, Abigail Revasch, Jorjeana Marie, Cassandra Morris) ⭐️

Completed:

LOOKING BACK AT THE BEST



Start Date: Jan 1
End Date: Mar 31

Read: 9/9

PRINTZ:
✅ Please Ignore Vera Dietz (2011)
✅ Speak (2000)

MAN BOOKER:
✅ Normal People (2018)

NEWBERY:
✅ The War that Saved My Life (2016)
✅ Moon Over Manifest (2011)

GOODREADS CHOICE:
✅ The Heart's Invisible Furies (2017)
✅ Everything I Never Told You (2014)
✅ An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (2018)
✅ Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (2018)

Completed:

FEBRUARY: LOVE IS IN THE AIR



Start Date: Feb 1
End Date: Feb 28

Read: 3/3

► Genre You Love
Book from your favourite genre.
✅ Love You Hate You Miss You by Elizabeth Scott

► Cover You Love
Book where the cover says to you ‘Read Me - NOW’
✅ Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead

► Holiday You Love
Book that is set in that country.
✅ Beatle Meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams (AA)

Completed:

SUMMER COLOR CHALLENGE



Start Date: Dec 1
End Date: Feb 28

Level: Easy
Read: 6/6

✅ Yellow
📒 Naked by Kevin Brooks
✅ Orange
📙 Normal People by Sally Rooney
✅ Red
📕 Beatle Meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams (AA)
✅ Green
📗 My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
✅ Blue
📘 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
✅ Purple
📚 Angelfall by Susan Ee

Completed:

CELEBRATING THE BLUES



Start Date: Feb 1
End Date: Feb 28

Read: 6/6

► Blue Ribbon Winner
Read an award-winning book
✅ Speak

►"The Cure For Anything is Saltwater”
Read a book about an activity that makes you sweat
✅ Ruined

► Fly a Blue Flag
Read a book set in a country with blue in its flag
✅ The War that Saved My Life

►"Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue..."
Read a book of love poems or flowers on the cover
✅ Love You Hate You Miss You

►"Keep Calm and Read On”
Read a book with a cover that relaxes you
✅ Everything I Never Told You

►"Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue”
Read a book that relates to any of these "something”
✅ Nothing Like You

Completed:

AUTUMN CHALLENGE



Start Date: Mar 1
End Date: May 31

Read: 6/6

► St Patrick's Day
Read a book written by an Irish author
✅ The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan

► Colours of Autumn
Read a book with a cover primarily an Autumn colour
✅ Dry by Neal Shusterman

► International Womans Day
Read a book with a strong female character
✅ Bad Girls with Perfect Faces by Lynn Weingarten

► Chinese Year of the Pig
Read a book that has a reference/character of a PIG in it
✅ Yellow by Megan Jacobson (AA)

► Easter
Read a book depicting families & family activities
✅ My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

► Australian Labour Day
Choose a book whose MCs are from the working class
✅ All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda (teacher)

Completed:

MARCH CHALLENGE: SPELL IT OUT



Start Date: Mar 1
End Date: Mar 31

Read: 5/5

► M is for male
Read a book whose title starts with M
✅ Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

► A is for Australia
Read a book whose title starts with A
✅ April Lady by Georgette Heyer

► R is for reminiscing
Read a book from the genre of Historical Fiction
✅ Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (AA)

► C is for colour
Read a book with a brightly coloured cover
✅ Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

► H is for home
Read a book set in the country where you lived
✅ The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (AA)

Completed:

GLOBETROTTER



Start Date: Apr 1
End Date: Jun 30

Read: 11/11

► Diaspora
Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
✅ Night Film by Marisha Pessl

► Walk in Another's Shoes
Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
✅ Educated by Tara Westover

► Fictionalized History
Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
✅ The Unthinkable Triangle: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Joana Starnes

► Borderlines
Read a book about cultural or geopolitical boundaries.
✅ A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

► Transcontinental Cruising
Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
✅ I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka

► World Traveler
Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
✅ The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner

► Global Reader
Choose a book written by an author from a country not your own.
✅ The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines

► Home Away From Home
Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
✅ Because of You by Pip Harry

► Minority Voices
Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
✅ There There by Tommy Orange

► Our Little Corner of the World
Read 2 books that take place in countries that border each other.
✅ All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda (US)
✅ Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill (Canada)

Completed:

APRIL PLAYLIST



Start Date: Apr 1
End Date: Apr 30

Read: 6/6

► Eagle Rock by Daddy Cool
Read a book with a really "cool" dad
✅ Once by Morris Gleitzman (AA)

► Puppy Love by Paul Anka
Read a Romance
✅ The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines

► Stray Cat Strut by The Stray Cats
Read a book with a cat on the cover
✅ We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

► A Horse With No Name by America
Read a book with a person's name in the title
✅ Yellow by Megan Jacobson (AA)

► Little Red Rooster by Rolling Stones
Read a book with a red cover
✅ There There by Tommy Orange

► Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent
Read a book with a character in medical profession
✅ My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

Completed:

MAY CHALLENGE: MOTHER’S DAY



Start Date: May 1
End Date: May 31

Level: A Premier Bouquet
Read: 6/6

► Blue irises
✅ The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan
► Yellow daffodils
✅ The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner
► Orange gerberas
✅ Hold Still by Nina LaCour
► White daisies
✅ I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka
► Pink carnations
✅ Because of You by Pip Harry (AA)
► Green ferns
✅ The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty (AA)

Completed:

WINTER CHALLENGE



Start Date: Jun 1
End Date: Aug 31

Read: 6/6

► The Queen's birthday, June 10th
Read a book from the genre Historical Fiction.
✅ The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

► World Environment Day, June 5th
Read a book with a green cover.
✅ Beautiful Broken Things by Sara Barnard

► Independence Day, July 4th
Read a stand alone book.
✅ The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr

► Canada Day, July 1st
Read a book which has some link to Canada.
✅ Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill (author)

► Friendship Day, July 30th
Read a book which a friend on Goodreads gave five stars.
✅ Zac and Mia by A.J. Betts (AA)

► Women's Equality Day, August 26th
Read a book which features a strong woman.
✅ Untidy Towns by Kate O'Donnell (AA)

Completed:

READING IN STYLE



Start Date: Jun 1
End Date: Jun 30

Read: 4/4

1. Read a book in epistolary style
✅ What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum
2. You're cramping my style
✅ The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
3. Do you like my hair?
✅ What He Always Knew by Kandi Steiner
4. Read a book where someone gets a makeover
✅ The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm

Completed:

JUNE: A HOT & COLD CHALLENGE



Start Date: Jun 1
End Date: Jun 30

Read: 4/4

1. Read a book with summer scene on the cover
✅ P is for Pearl by Eliza Henry-Jones (AA)
2. Read a book with a title that evokes summer
✅ A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
3. Read a book that is set in winter
✅ Trouble by Non Pratt
4. Read a book that warms your heart
✅ Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols

Completed:

YELLOW SUBMARINE



Start Date: Jul 1
End Date: Dec 31

Read: 15/15

► Yellow Submarine
Read a book with a yellow cover.
✅ Holier Than Thou by Laura Buzo

► Hey Bulldog
Read a book with a dog on the cover.
✅ The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time by Mark Haddon

► Eleanor Rigby
Read a book where a character is lonely.
✅ The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman

► Love You To
Read a book from the Romance genres.
✅ Repeat by Kylie Scott

► All Together Now
Read a book with the word ALL in the title.
✅ All We Could Have Been by T.E. Carter

► Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Read a book with a character named Lucy.
✅ The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty

► Think for Yourself
Read a book that can be described as "angsty".
✅ Slip of the Tongue by Jessica Hawkins

► Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Read a book with a character named BILLY.
✅ The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick

► With a Little Help from My Friends
Read a book with a group of friends as the prominent characters OR a book that a friend recommends.
✅ When I Am Through with You by Stephanie Kuehn

► Baby, You're a Rich Man
Read a book with a "Rich Man".
✅ The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

► Only a Northern Song
Read book set in the Northern hemisphere.
✅ Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson

► All You Need Is Love
Read a book with a FIVE WORD title.
✅ Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer

► When I'm Sixty-Four
Read a book with a number in the title.
✅ 99 Days by Katie Cotugno

► Nowhere Man
Read a book with a man on the cover.
✅ Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennett

► It's All Too Much
Read a book with a psychedelic cover.
✅ Where the Hell is Tesla? by Rob Dircks

Completed:

JULY: SOMETHING CHALLENGE



Start Date: Jul 1
End Date: Jul 31

Read: 8/8

► Something old
Read a book that published more than ten years ago.
✅ The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick (AA)
✅ The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

► Something new
Read a book by a new to you author.
✅ The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook
✅ The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes

► Something borrowed
Read a book given or loaned to by a friend.
✅ Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
✅ Repeat by Kylie Scott (AA)

► Something blue
Read a book with a very blue cover.
✅ Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner
✅ Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry

Completed:

JULY: INDEPENDENT READING



Start Date: Jul 1
End Date: Jul 31

Read: 3/3

✅ The V Girl by Mya Robarts
✅ Watching You by Lisa Jewell
✅ The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes

Completed:

AUGUST: AUTHOR APPRECIATION



Start Date: Aug 1
End Date: Aug 31

Read: 4/4

1. By a favorite author.
✅ Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer
3. By a still new to you favorite author.
✅ Untidy Towns by Kate O'Donnell (AA)
4. By a favorite author but in different genre.
✅ Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
6. By a new but highly recommended to you author.
✅ The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

Completed:

HISTORICAL LANDMARKS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Start Date: Jul 1
End Date: Sep 30

Read: 4/6

► STONEHENGE:
Read a book whose title begins with S or ends with E.
✅ The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

► OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE:
Read a book in which a hospital is mentioned.
✅ We Are Still Tornadoes by Michael Kun

► CHESTER ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE:
Read a book published between 2000 - 2006.
☐ A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb (2005)
☐ Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta (2003)
☐ It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini (2006)

► RAGLAN CASTLE:
Read a book with a park, water or terrace on the cover.
✅ As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner (park)

► GRAIN TOWER BATTERY:
Read a book with over 1,850 ratings shown here on GR.
✅ Beautiful Broken Things by Sara Barnard

► BYLAND ABBEY:
Read a book with the letters "Y" and "B" in title.
✅ Untidy Towns by Kate O'Donnell

Completed:

SPRING CHALLENGE: MINI BOOK BINGO



Start Date: Sep 1
End Date: Nov 30

Read: 10/10

1 Across
#1. On Bestseller List:
✅ Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
#2. Dog On Cover:
✅ The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time by Mark Haddon
#3. Male MC:
✅ Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
#4. Aussie Author:
✅ Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein (AA)
#5. Suspense/Crime:
✅ Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Completed:


2 Across
#1. Received An Award:
✅ Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
#2. Snow On Cover:
✅ The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
#3. Male Author:
✅ Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
#4. Red Cover:
✅ Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta (AA)
#5. TBR > 2 years:
✅ Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall

Completed:

SEPTEMBER: CELEBRATING LIBRARIES



Start Date: Sep 1
End Date: Sep 30

Read: 4/4

#2. Set In Another Country:
✅ The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
#3. Favourite Genre:
✅ Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
#6. 10th on TBR
✅ Missing Molly by Natalie Barelli (AA)
#8. Celebrating Memory of Kim-Marie:
✅ Proof by Seduction by Courtney Milan

HARVESTING KNOWLEDGE



Start Date: Sep 1
End Date: Sep 30

Read: 5/5

► On Time For Class
Read a book set in a school.
✅ Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land

► Teacher's Pet
Read a book where the main character is a student.
✅ Nest by Esther Ehrlich

► Foreign Exchange Student
Read a memoir by an author whose way of life differs from yours.
✅ Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

► Recess
Read a book written from the pov of a school-age kid.
✅ When I Am Through with You by Stephanie Kuehn

► Extracurriculars
Read a book about a topic new to you.
✅ Listen to Me by Hannah Pittard (PTSD)

Completed:

OCTOBER: HALLOWEEN SPELL-IT-OUT

Start Date: Oct 1
End Date: Oct 31
Finished Date: Oct 27



Read: 6/6

S: Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein (AA)
P: Places No One Knows by Brenna Yovanoff
I: It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
R: Rust & Stardust by T. Greenwood
I: Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
T: The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham (AA)

Completed:

OCTOBER: TRICK OR TREAT



Start Date: Oct 1
End Date: Oct 31
Finished Date: Oct 28

Read: 7/7

►Full-Size Candy Bar
Read a book that frightens you due to its subject matter.
✅ The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

► Sleep With The Lights On
Read a horror story or thriller.
✅ Rust & Stardust by T. Greenwood

►Bump in the Night
Choose a fiction book featuring paranormal activity.
✅ Places No One Knows by Brenna Yovanoff

►Gumshoe
Read a story featuring a detective or investigation.
✅ Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker

►It's Complicated
Read a story featuring a main character who is not easily identified as a hero nor a villain.
✅ Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall

► I Want Candy
Read a story featuring a character with a sweet tooth.
✅ 99 Days by Katie Cotugno

►Playing Dress Up
Choose a story in which a characters dresses in costumes.
✅ All We Could Have Been by T.E. Carter

Completed:

VETERAN AUTHORS



Start Date: Nov 1
End Date: Nov 30

Read: 3/3

► Prolific Writers:
Read works by an author who's published at least 3 books over a ten-year period.
✅ Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
✅ Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
✅ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Completed:

Q4: CASTING CALL



Start Date: Oct 1
End Date: Dec 31

Read: 3/3

For each book read during this challenge, choose an actor for the main character.
☐ Olive Kitteridge
→ Kathy Bates as Olive.
✅ The Neighbors
→ Natalie Dormer as Abby Morris née Sanders
✅ Where the Hell is Tesla?
→ Daniel Kaluuya as Pete...(LOL!)
✅ The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
→ Bonnie Wright circa Ginny Wesley in HP.

Completed:

SUMMER CHALLENGE

Start Date: Dec 1
End Date: Feb 29

Level: Easy
Read: 2/5

BOOK #3


a) Cityscape on cover
☐ Tin Man by Sarah Winman ©️
b) Blue letters on cover
☐ Beautiful Mess by Claire Christian (AA)
c) People’s back on cover
☐ Small Mercies by Eddie Joyce
c) Four people on cover
☐ The Green Road by Anne Enright
c) Set in New York
✅ The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman
d) By Australian author
✅ Holier Than Thou by Laura Buzo (AA)
e) Eye-catching cover
☐ Unbecoming by Jenny Downham ©️
e) Set in school
☐ Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne ©️
e) Black, blue, red on cover
☐ Schizo by Nic Sheff
e) Dystopian
☐ Feed by Mira Grant

Completed:

COUNTING TO 2020



Start Date: Dec 1
End Date: Dec 31

Read: 5/5

2. Title that contains a non-letter symbol.
✅ Where the Hell is Tesla? by Rob Dircks
4. Book that involves "counting on" someone.
✅ The Neighbors by Hannah Mary McKinnon
5. Numbers-heavy profession. (accounting)
✅ The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman
6. With term for collection of animals.
☐ How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball (badgers)
7. Featuring a "Count" or "Countess”
☐ The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan
☐ The Heir by Johanna Lindsey
9. Includes a countdown or an impending big event.
✅ Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennett
10. Symmetric design on the cover.
✅ Faithful by Alice Hoffman

Completed:

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