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message 1: by Ashley Marie (last edited Dec 01, 2020 04:52AM) (new)

Ashley Marie  | 670 comments Level One: Countries - histfic
✔ France: The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici 8Jan20
✔ USA: The Age of Innocence 18Jan20
✔ Great Britain: Medicus 22Jan20

Level Two: Time Periods - histfic
✔ France: All the Light We Cannot See 2Apr20
✔ USA: Brooklyn 29Jun20
✔ Great Britain: Silent in the Grave 24Apr20

Level Three: Authors - any genre
✔ French - The Vagabond by Colette 15Aug20
✔ American - Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco 5Jul20
✔ British - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 10Jun20

Level Four: Nonfiction
✔ France - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss 24Oct20
✔ America - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 16Sep20
✔ Great Britain - She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor 21Nov20


message 2: by Carol (new)

Carol | 84 comments This is an amazing list! Lots I’d like to read on here


message 3: by Ashley Marie (new)

Ashley Marie  | 670 comments Thanks Carol! I'm doing my best to stick to books I own on most of my challenges this year :)


message 4: by Carol (new)

Carol | 84 comments Yes me to. My challenge was designed around my too read shelf.


message 5: by Ashley Marie (new)

Ashley Marie  | 670 comments My list has shrunk thanks to the current health crisis, but maybe if I finish all four levels I'll go back and add another country before the end of the year.


message 6: by Ashley Marie (new)

Ashley Marie  | 670 comments I seem to have stalled on level three, but it's still early for how I've planned everything out, so I refuse to panic yet. :D


message 7: by Ashley Marie (new)

Ashley Marie  | 670 comments Update in September: Only two books to go!


message 8: by Carol (new)

Carol | 84 comments I’ve stalled as well Ashley. We still have time! It’s only September.


message 9: by Ashley Marie (new)

Ashley Marie  | 670 comments It's safe to say my HFU Challenge has crashed and burned, but this one's still going strong and I can see the finish line! One book left, and it's next in my audiobook queue after my current book.


message 10: by Ashley Marie (new)

Ashley Marie  | 670 comments Finished with a month to spare! I'm looking forward to adding more countries in 2021 :)


message 11: by Donna (new)

Donna (drspoon) | 32 comments Congratulations!


message 12: by Jasmine, Gatekeeper of Giveaways. (new)

Jasmine | 1481 comments Mod
Great job!


message 13: by Fiona (new)

Fiona Hurley (fiona_hurley) | 295 comments Congratulations! Your non-fiction picks looks especially interesting. Are there any you'd recommend?


message 14: by Ashley Marie (last edited Dec 29, 2020 12:02PM) (new)

Ashley Marie  | 670 comments Fiona wrote: "Congratulations! Your non-fiction picks looks especially interesting. Are there any you'd recommend?"

Thanks Fiona! I'd recommend all three nonfiction books, as audiobooks or otherwise. I learned a lot from all three of them :)


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