2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Books 1 - 50:
1. White Tears by Hari Kunzru - completed 1/3/20 - 3 stars - My Review
2. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King - completed 1/5/19 - 4 stars - My Review
3. Button Man by Andrew Gross - completed 1/8/20 - 3 stars - My Review
4. The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman - completed 1/11/20 - 4 stars - My Review
5. In the Distance by Hernán Díaz - completed 1/13/20 - 5 stars - My Review
6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - completed 1/16/20 - 4 stars - My Review
7. The Translator by Nina Schuyler - completed 1/17/20 - 5 stars - My Review
8. Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry - completed 1/19/20 - 4 stars - My Review
9. The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith - completed 1/22/20 - 4 stars - My Review
10. Porgy by DuBose Heyward - completed 1/22/20 - 4 stars - My Review
11. Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin - completed 1/24/20 - 4 stars - My Review
12. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov - completed 1/26/20 - 4 stars - My Review
13. Light in August by William Faulkner - completed 1/28/20 - 4 stars - My Review
14. Autumn by Ali Smith - completed 1/29/20 - 4 stars - My Review
15. Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey - completed 1/31/20 - 3 stars - My Review
16. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls - completed 2/2/20 - 4 stars - My Review
17. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom - completed 2/4/20 - 2 stars - My Review
18. Seasons of the Moon by Julien Aranda - completed 2/5/20 - 5 stars - My Review
19. Blindness by José Saramago - completed 2/7/20 - 4 stars - My Review
20. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks - completed 2/9/20 - 4 stars - My Review
21. Lilli de Jong by Janet Benton - completed 2/10/20 - 3 stars - My Review
22. Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler - completed 2/12/20 - 4 stars - My Review
23. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel - completed 2/13/20 - 4 stars - My Review
24. Pompeii by Robert Harris - completed 2/14/20 - 4 stars - My Review
25. The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead - completed 2/16/20 - 3 stars - My Review
26. Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy - completed 2/18/20 - 4 stars - My Review
27. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie - completed 2/19/20 - 4 stars - My Review
28. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry - completed 2/22/20 - 4 stars - My Review
29. The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy - completed 2/23/20 - 4 stars - My Review
30. The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson - completed 2/24/20 - 4 stars - My Review
31. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - completed 2/26/20 - 4 stars - My Review
32. Orchid and the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes - completed 2/29/20 - 3 stars - My Review
33. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis - completed 3/2/20 - 4 stars - My Review
34. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See - completed 3/4/20 - 4 stars - My Review
35. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry - completed 3/6/20 - 5 stars - My Review
36. The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea - completed 3/7/20 - 4 stars - My Review
37. Dawn by Octavia E. Butler - completed 3/9/20 - 4 stars - My Review
38. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson - completed 3/11/20 - 5 stars - My Review
39. The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau - completed 3/14/20 - 4 stars - My Review
40. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago - completed 3/16/20 - 4 stars - My Review
41. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson - completed 3/18/20 - 4 stars - My Review
42. Small Island by Andrea Levy - completed 3/19/20 - 4 stars - My Review
43. Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini - completed 3/20/20 - 5 stars - My Review
44. Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty - completed 3/21/20 - 4 stars - My Review
45. The Son by Philipp Meyer - completed 3/22/20 - 4 stars - My Review
46. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - completed 3/23/20 - 4 stars - My Review
47. Tinkers by Paul Harding - completed 3/24/20 - 3 stars - My Review
48. The Library Book by Susan Orlean - completed 3/25/20 - 2 stars - My Review
49. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik - completed 3/26/20 - 4 stars - My Review
50. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood - completed 3/27/20 - 5 stars - My Review

Books 51 - 100:
51. The Long Home by William Gay - completed 3/28/20 - 3 stars - My Review
52. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy - completed 3/29/20 - 4 stars - My Review
53. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo - completed 3/30/20 - 4 stars - My Review
54. Among the Lesser Gods: A Novel by Margo Catts - completed 3/31/20 - 4 stars - My Review
55. Still Alice by Lisa Genova - completed 4/1/20 - 4 stars - My Review
56. The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin - completed 4/2/20 - 4 stars - My Review
57. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy- completed 4/2/20 - 3 stars - My Review
58. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford - completed 4/3/20 - 3 stars - My Review
59. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel - completed 4/4/20 - 3 stars - My Review
60. Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland by Sarah Moss - completed 4/5/20 - 4 stars - My Review
61. Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival by Tristram Korten - completed 4/7/20 - 5 stars - My Review
62. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein - completed 4/8/20 - 3 stars - My Review
63. White Oleander by Janet Fitch - completed 4/9/20 - 3 stars - My Review
64. The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova - completed 4/10/20 - 3 stars - My Review
65. The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago - completed 4/11/20 - 3 stars - My Review
66. Redshirts by John Scalzi - completed 4/12/20 - 4 stars - My Review
67. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - completed 4/13/20 - 4 stars - My Review
68. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind behind the Silk Road Drugs Empire by Nick Bilton - completed 4/14/20 - 4 stars - My Review
69. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson - completed 4/15/20 - 4 stars - My Review
70. The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner - completed 4/16/20 - 4 stars - My Review
71. The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje - completed 4/17/20 - 4 stars - My Review
72. A Canticle for Leibowitz byWalter M. Miller Jr. - completed 4/18/20 - 5 stars - My Review
73. The Untouchable by John Banville - completed 4/19/20 - 3 stars - My Review
74. Rivers by Michael Farris Smith - completed 4/20/20 - 3 stars - My Review
75. The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis byElizabeth Letts - completed 4/21/20 - 4 stars - My Review
76. Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave - completed 4/21/20 - 3 stars - My Review
77. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson - completed 4/22/20 - 4 stars - My Review
78. The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World by Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips - completed 4/23/20 - 3 stars - My Review
79. Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family’s Secret by Pamela Everett - completed 4/25/20 - 3 stars - My Review
80. Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith - completed 4/26/20 - 4 stars - My Review
81. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin - completed 4/27/20 - 4 stars - My Review
82. The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis - completed 4/28/20 - 3 stars - My Review
83. A Mercy by Toni Morrison - completed 4/29/20 - 5 stars - My Review
84. The Stone Raft by José Saramago - completed 4/30/20 - 4 stars - My Review
85. An Elephant in My Kitchen by Francoise Malby Anthony - completed 5/1/20 - 4 stars - My Review
86. Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris - completed 5/1/20 - 3 stars - My Review
87. Montana 1948 by Larry Watson - completed 5/2/20 - 5 stars - My Review
88. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - completed 5/3/20 - 5 stars - My Review
89. On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser- completed 5/4/20 - 4 stars - My Review
90. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather - completed 5/5/20 - 4 stars - My Review
91. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - completed 5/6/20 - 4 stars - My Review
92. Happiness by Aminatta Forna - completed 5/7/20 - 4 stars - My Review
93. The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N. Aron - completed 5/8/20 - 3 stars - My Review
94. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom - completed 5/9/20 - 5 stars - My Review
95. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel - completed 5/9/20 - 4 stars - My Review
96. Soul Surfer - Movie Tie-In: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board by Bethany Hamilton - completed 5/10/20 - 3 stars - My Review
97. Coming Up for Air by George Orwell - completed 5/10/20 - 3 stars - My Review
98. The Comedians by Graham Greene - completed 5/12/20 - My Review
99. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier - completed 5/13/20 - 5 stars - My Review
100. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - completed 5/15/20 - 5 stars - My Review

Books 101 - 150:

101. The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan - completed 5/16/20 - 4 stars - My Review
102. Refuge by Dot Jackson - completed 5/17/20 - 4 stars - My Review
103. The Sellout by Paul Beatty - completed 5/18/20 - 3 stars - My Review
104. Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf - completed 5/19/20 - 3 stars - My Review
105. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester - completed 5/20/20 - 5 stars - My Review
106. The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna - completed 5/21/20 - 4 stars - My Review
107. Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles - completed 5/22/20 - 3 stars - My Review
108. Vinland by George Mackay Brown - completed 5/23/20 - 3 stars - My Review
109. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - completed 5/24/20 - 5 stars - My Review
110. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara - completed 5/24/20 - 3 stars - My Review
111. The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick - completed 5/25/20 - 3 stars - My Review
112. Stoner by John Williams - completed 5/26/20 - 4 stars - My Review
113. A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark - completed 5/27/20 - 3 stars - My Review
114. Calico Joe by John Grisham - completed 5/27/20 - 3 stars - My Review
115. Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher - completed 5/30/20 - 4 stars - My Review
116. The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch - completed 6/1/20 - 4 stars - My Review
117. Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff - completed 6/1/20 - 4 stars - My Review
118. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner - completed 6/3/20 - 4 stars - My Review
119. Originals: How Nonconformists Move the World by Adam M. Grant - completed 6/4/20 - 3 stars - My Review
120. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer - completed 6/5/20 - 3 stars - My Review
121. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx - completed 6/6/20 - 4 stars - My Review
122. Recursion by Blake Crouch - completed 6/7/20 - 4 stars - My Review
123. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - completed 6/9/20 - 5 stars - My Review
124. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards - completed 6/10/20 - 3 stars - My Review
125. The Turner House by Angela Flournoy - completed 6/11/20 - 4 stars - My Review
126. If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino - completed 6/12/20 - 3 stars - My Review
127. The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible by Simon Winchester - completed 6/13/20 - 5 stars - My Review
128. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - completed 6/14/20 - 3 stars - My Review
129. The Huntress by Kate Quinn - completed 6/14/20 - 2 stars - My Review
130. Wolfsong by T.J. Klune - completed 6/15/20 - 3 stars - My Review
131. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - completed 6/16/20 - 3 stars - My Review
132. Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson - completed 6/17/20 - 3 stars - My Review
133. The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky - completed 6/18/20 - 4 stars - My Review
134. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - completed 6/19/20 - 3 stars - My Review
135. Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert Kurson - completed 6/20/20 - 4 stars - My Review
136. Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen - completed 6/21/20 - 4 stars - My Review
137. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott - completed 6/21/20 - 3 stars - My Review
138. Pines by Blake Crouch - completed 6/22/20 - 4 stars - My Review
139. A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum - completed 6/23/20 - 4 stars - My Review
140. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade - completed 6/24/20 - 3 stars - My Review
141. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - completed 6/25/20 - 4 stars - My Review
142. The Cave by José Saramago - completed 6/26/20 - 5 stars - My Review
143. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger - completed 6/27/20 - 4 stars - My Review
144. Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow - completed 6/28/20 - 3 stars - My Review
145. Outline by Rachel Cusk - completed 6/29/20 - 3 stars - My Review
146. Carry Me Back by Laura Watt - completed 7/1/20 - 4 stars - My Review
147. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid - completed 7/2/20 - 3 stars - My Review
148. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro - completed 7/2/20 - 4 stars - My Review
149. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines - completed 7/3/20 - 4 stars - My Review
150. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - completed 7/4/20 - 3 stars - My Review

Books 151 - 200:

151. Regeneration by Pat Barker - completed 7/5/20 - 5 stars - My Review
152. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey - completed 7/6/20 - 4 stars - My Review
153. The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra - completed 7/7/20 - 4 stars - My Review
154. The Day the World Ended: The Mount Pelée Disaster: May 7, 1902 by Gordon Thomas - completed 7/8/20 - 4 stars - My Review
155. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd - completed 7/9/20 - 4 stars - My Review
156. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain - completed 7/10/20 - 4 stars - My Review
157. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - completed 7/11/20 - 2 stars - My Review
158. Wolves of War by Martin Lake - completed 7/12/20 - 3 stars - My Review
159. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou - completed 7/13/20 - 4 stars - My Review
160. The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop - completed 7/14/20 - 4 stars - My Review
161. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt - completed 7/15/20 - 4 stars - My Review
162. Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb - completed 7/16/20 - 4 stars - My Review
163. The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel - completed 7/17/20 - 5 stars - My Review
164. The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson - completed 7/18/20 - 3 stars - My Review
165. The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith - completed 7/19/20 - 3 stars - My Review
166. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya - completed 7/20/20 - 4 stars - My Review
167. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson - completed 7/21/20 - 4 stars - My Review
168. The Known World by Edward P. Jones - completed 7/22/20 - 4 stars - My Review
169. Nightwoods by Charles Frazier - completed 7/23/20 - 2 stars - My Review
170. All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews - completed 7/23/20 - 4 stars - My Review
171. Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry - completed 7/24/20 - 4 stars - My Review
172. Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor - completed 7/24/20 - 4 stars - My Review
173. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham - completed 7/25/20 - 4 stars - My Review
174. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger - completed 7/26/20 - 4 stars - My Review
175. Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell - completed 7/27/20 - 4 stars - My Review
176. The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk - completed 7/28/20 - 3 stars - My Review
177. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly - completed 7/28/20 - 4 stars - My Review
178. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi - completed 7/30/20 - 4 stars - My Review
179. The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman - completed 7/31/20 - 4 stars - My Review
180. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer - completed 8/1/20 - 1 star - My Review
181. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert - completed 8/2/20 - 5 stars - My Review
182. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein - completed 8/3/20 - 4 stars - My Review
183. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee - completed 8/4/20 - My Review
184. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman - completed 8/5/20 - 2 stars - My Review
185. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - completed 8/6/20 - 4 stars - My Review
186. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari - completed 8/7/20 - 3 stars - My Review
187. The Solace of Water by Elizabeth Byler Younts - completed 8/8/20 - 4 stars - My Review
188. The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber - completed 8/9/20 - 5 stars - My Review
189. Ghost by Jason Reynolds - completed 8/10/20 - 4 stars - My Review
190. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth - completed 8/11/20 - 4 stars - My Review
191. Nickel Mountain by John Gardner - completed 8/12/20 - 3 stars - My Review
192. Heat and Light: A Novel by Jennifer Haigh - completed 8/12/20 - 4 stars - My Review
193. The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff - completed 8/13/20 - 3 stars - My Review
194. Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin - completed 8/14/20 - 3 stars - My Review
195. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward - completed 8/15/20 - 3 stars - My Review
196. The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich - completed 8/16/20 - 4 stars - My Review
197. Robin by Dave Itzkoff - completed 8/17/20 - 4 stars - My Review
198. The March by E.L. Doctorow - completed 8/18/20 - 5 stars - My Review
199. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson - completed 8/19/20 - 4 stars - My Review
200. Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth - completed 8/20/20 - 4 stars - My Review

Books 201 - 250:

201. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls - completed 8/21/20 - 3 stars - My Review
202. Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life by David Treuer - completed 8/22/20 - 4 stars - My Review
203. Company of Liars by Karen Maitland - completed 8/23/20 - 4 stars - My Review
204. When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald - completed 8/24/20 - 3 stars - My Review
205. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett - completed 8/25/20 - 4 stars - My Review
206. Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende - completed 8/26/20 - 4 stars - My Review
207. The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux - completed 8/27/20 - 5 stars - My Review
208. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - completed 8/28/20 - 3 stars - My Review
209. Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort - completed 8/29/20 - 4 stars - My Review
210. American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise by Joe Drape - completed 8/30/20 - 4 stars - My Review
211. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow - completed 8/31/20 - 5 stars - My Review
212. Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter - completed 9/1/20 - 3 stars - My Review
213. The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker - completed 9/2/20 - 3 stars - My Review
214. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman - completed 9/3/20 - 4 stars - My Review
215. West with the Night by Beryl Markham - completed 9/4/20 - 4 stars - My Review
216. The Nowhere Stone by Steve Kaide - completed 9/5/20 - 3 stars - My Review
217. Circling the Sun by Paula McLain - completed 9/6/20 - 2 stars - My Review
218. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley - completed 9/7/20 - 3 stars - My Review
219. Defending Jacob by William Landay - completed 9/8/20 - 4 stars - My Review
220. The River Why by David James Duncan - completed 9/9/20 - 4 stars - My Review
221. The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck - completed 9/10/20 - 3 stars - My Review
222. Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horn - completed 9/11/20 - 4 stars - My Review
223. H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald - completed 9/12/20 - 4 stars - My Review
224. Kartography: A Novel by Kamila Shamsie - completed 9/13/20 - 4 stars - My Review
225. Arthur & George by Julian Barnes - completed 9/14/20 - 5 stars - My Review
226. The Virginian by Owen Wister - completed 9/15/20 - 4 stars - My Review
227. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami - completed 9/16/20 - 5 stars - My Review
228. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver- completed 9/17/20 - 4 stars - My Review
229. Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford - completed 9/18/20 - 3 stars - My Review
230. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell - completed 9/19/20 - 4 stars - My Review
231. The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy - completed 9/19/20 - 4 stars - My Review
232. In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien - completed 9/20/21 - 5 stars - My Review
233. Five Skies by Ron Carlson - completed 9/21/20 - 4 stars - My Review
234. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell - completed 9/22/20 - 3 stars - My Review
235. Plainsong by Kent Haruf - completed 9/23/20 - 4 stars - My Review
236. Fled by Meg Keneally - completed 9/23/20 - 4 stars - My Review
237. True North by Jim Harrison - completed 9/24/20 - 3 stars - My Review
238. From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon - completed 9/24/20 - 3 stars - My Review
239. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell - completed 9/25/20 - 3 stars - My Review
240. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd - completed 9/25/20 - 3 stars - My Review
241. Normal People by Sally Rooney - completed 9/26/20 - 4 stars - My Review
242. Weather by Jenny Offill - completed 9/26/20 - 3 stars - My Review
243. Ancestor Stones: A Novel by Aminatta Forna - completed 9/27/20 - 4 stars - My Review
244. The Barrowfields by Phillip Lewis - completed 9/28/20 - 4 stars - My Review
245. The Good Lord Bird by James McBride - completed 9/29/20 - 4 stars - My Review
246. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright - completed 9/30/20 - 4 stars - My Review
247. Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale - completed 10/1/20 - 2 stars - My Review
248. Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios by Holly Conklin FitzGerald - completed 10/1/20 - 4 stars - My Review
249. Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald - completed 10/2/20 - 4 stars - My Review
250. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham - completed 10/3/20 - 5 stars - My Review

Books beyond #250 are posted in msg 8 below.

In your case, 100 books is indeed a modest goal!
I'm always impressed by your participation in yearly challenges--you are consistently one of the first to finish!

May 2020 bring you much joy and contentment as well as a lot of great books!

oshizu wrote: "In your case, 100 books is indeed a modest goal!
I'm always impressed by your participation in yearly challenges--you are consistently one of the first to finish!

May 2020 bring you much joy and c..."

Thank you very much, oshizu! Happy reading in 2020!

Books 251 - 300:

251. A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline - completed 10/4/20 - 3 stars - My Review
252. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - completed 10/5/20 - 4 stars - My Review
253. Majestic Hollywood: The Greatest Films of 1939 by Mark A. Vieira - completed 10/6/20 - 4 stars - My Review
254. The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú - completed 10/7/20 - 4 stars - My Review
255. Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari - completed 10/8/20 - 3 stars - My Review
256. The Accidental by Ali Smith - completed 10/8/20 - 3 stars - My Review
257. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig - completed 10/9/20 - 3 stars - My Review
258. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis - completed 10/9/20 - 4 stars - My Review
259. The Giver by Lois Lowry - completed 10/10/20 - 4 stars - My Review
260. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields - completed 10/11/20 - 4 stars - My Review
261. Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam - completed 10/12/20 - 3 stars - My Review
262. Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys - completed 10/12/20 - 2 stars - My Review
263. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin - completed 10/13/20 - 4 stars - My Review
264. Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks - completed 10/14/20 - 3 stars - My Review
265. Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by Marianne Monson - completed 10/15/20 - 3 stars - My Review
266. How It All Began by Penelope Lively - completed 10/15/20 - 4 stars - My Review
267. Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke - completed 10/16/20 - 4 stars - My Review
268. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell - completed 10/17/20 - 4 stars - My Review
269. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - completed 10/18/20 - 4 stars - My Review
270. The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd - completed 10/19/20 - 3 stars - My Review
271. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen - completed 10/19/20 - 3 stars - My Review
272. Calypso by David Sedaris - completed 10/20/20 - 4 stars - My Review
273. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier - completed 10/21/20 - 4 stars - My Review
274. Ablutions by Patrick deWitt - completed 10/22/20 - 4 stars - My Review
275. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond - completed 10/22/20 - 4 stars - My Review
276. Galore by Michael Crummey - completed 10/23/20 - 4 stars - My Review
277. Navajo Autumn by R. Allen Chappell - completed 10/24/20 - 3 stars - My Review
278. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai - completed 10/24/20 - 4 stars - My Review
279. The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan - completed 10/25/20 - 3 stars - My Review
280. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - completed 10/25/20 - 2 stars - My Review
281. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai - completed 10/26/20 - 4 stars - My Review
282. Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman - completed 10/26/20 - 4 stars - My Review
283. The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. Weiss - completed 10/27/20 - 4 stars - My Review
284. Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Ahmir Questlove Thompson - completed 10/27/20 - 4 stars - My Review
285. Alex and Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz - completed 10/28/20 - 2 stars - My Review
286. The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry - completed 10/28/20 - 4 stars - My Review
287. West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan - completed 10/28/20 - 4 stars - My Review
288. Then Again by Diane Keaton - completed 10/28/20 - 3 stars - My Review
289. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - completed 10/29/20 - 4 stars - My Review
290. Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs - completed 10/29/20 - 4 stars - My Review
291. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - completed 10/29/30 - 4 stars - My Review
292. Settling the Wind by Kari August - completed 10/30/20 - 2 stars - My Review
293. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman - completed 10/30/20 - 4 stars - My Review
294. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt - completed 10/31/20 - 4 stars - My Review
295. The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic by Richard Sandomir - completed 10/31/20 - 4 stars - My Review
296. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah - completed 11/1/20 - 3 stars - My Review
297. The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty - completed 11/1/20 - 3 stars - My Review
298. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates - completed 11/2/20 - 4 stars - My Review
299. Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio J. Méndez - completed 11/2/20 - 4 stars - My Review
300. Starlight Symphonies of Oak and Glass: A Novel of the Great Lakes by Alexandria V. Nolan - completed 11/2/20 - 4 stars - My Review

Continued on message 11 below.

May i just say....Wow!!!
You've read a mountain of books this year, many of which are classics or literary fiction.
Hats off to you. I hope you take a ,moment (or moments?) to bask in the glory of your achievement. :D

oshizu wrote: "May i just say....Wow!!!
You've read a mountain of books this year, many of which are classics or literary fiction.
Hats off to you. I hope you take a ,moment (or moments?) to bask in the glory of ..."

Thank you, oshizu! Great idea. I had more time to read this year due to the pandemic. I was focusing on some classics that I had not had a chance to read before now.

Books 301 - 350:
301. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard - completed 11/3/20 - 4 stars - My Review
302. Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy - completed 11/3/20 - 4 stars - My Review
303. The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias - completed 11/3/20 - 4 stars - My Review
304. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett - completed 11/4/20 - 4 stars - My Review
305. A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey - completed 11/6/20 - 3 stars - My Review
306. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene - completed 11/7/20 - 4 stars - My Review
307. Damaged by Pamela Callow - completed 11/8/20 - 3 stars - My Review
308. The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean - completed 11/9/20 - 4 stars - My Review
309. History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund - completed 11/10/20 - 4 stars - My Review
310. The Blind Light by Stuart Evers - completed 11/11/20 - 4 stars - My Review
311. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - completed 11/12/20 - 4 stars - My Review
312. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson - completed 11/13/20 - 4 stars - My Review
313. The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi - completed 11/14/20 - 4 stars - My Review
314. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - completed 11/15/20 - 4 stars - My Review
315. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan - completed 11/16/20 - 4 stars - My Review
316. Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie - completed 11/17/20 - 4 stars - My Review
317. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne - completed 11/18/20 - 4 stars - My Review
318. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong - completed 11/19/20 - 4 stars - My Review
319. Through the Waters and the Wild by Greg Fields - completed 11/20/20 - 4 stars - My Review
320. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden - completed 11/21/20 - 4 stars - My Review
321. My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout - completed 11/22/20 - 3 stars - My Review
322. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer - completed 11/23/20 - 4 stars - My Review
323. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos - completed 11/24/20 - 3 stars - My Review
324. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - completed 11/25/20 - 4 stars - My Review
325. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna - completed 11/26/20 - 5 stars - My Review
326. The Dinner by Herman Koch - completed 11/27/20 - 4 stars - My Review
327. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - completed 11/28/20 - 4 stars - My Review
328. The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers - completed 11/29/20 - 5 stars - My Review
329. The Archivist by Martha Cooley - completed 11/30/20 - 4 stars - My Review
330. Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal - completed 12/1/20 - 4 stars - My Review
331. Passing by Nella Larsen - completed 12/2/20 - 4 stars - My Review
332. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini - completed 12/3/20 - 3 stars - My Review
333. How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang - completed 12/4/20 - 4 stars - My Review
334. A Burning by Megha Majumdar - completed 12/5/20 - 4 stars - My Review
335. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende - completed 12/6/20 - 4 stars - My Review
336. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See - completed 12/7/20 - 3 stars - My Review
337. Silence by Shūsaku Endō - completed 12/8/20 - 4 stars - My Review
338. The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht - completed 12/9/20 - 4 stars - My Review
339. Milkman by Anna Burns - completed 12/10/20 - 4 stars - My Review
340. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart - completed 12/11/20 - 3 stars - My Review
341. Seeing by José Saramago - completed 12/12/20 - 4 stars - My Review
342. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell - completed 12/13/20 - 5 stars - My Review
343. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull - completed 12/14/20 - 4 stars - My Review
344. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell - completed 12/15/20 - 4 stars - My Review
345. The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur by Bernard Cornwell - completed 12/16/20 - 5 stars - My Review
346. First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom - completed 12/17/20 - 3 stars - My Review
347. Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan - completed 12/18/20 - 3 stars - My Review
348. A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming - completed 12/19/20 - 3 stars - My Review
349. Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad - completed 12/20/20 - 3 stars - My Review
350. An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew by Annejet van der Zijl - completed 12/21/20 - 3 stars - My Review

Books 351 to end of 2020:

351. The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis - completed 12/22/20 - 4 stars - My Review
352. Numero Zero by Umberto Eco - completed 12/23/20 - 2 stars - My Review
353. The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama - completed 12/24/20 - 3 stars - My Review
354. Walking the Nile by Levison Wood - completed 12/25/20 - 5 stars - My Review
355. The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham - completed 12/26/20 - 2 stars - My Review
356. Be Still the Water by Karen Emilson - completed 12/26/20 - 3 stars - My Review
357. Waiting by Ha Jin - completed 12/27/20 - 3 stars - My Review
358. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - completed 12/27/20 - 2 stars - My Review
359. The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte - completed 12/28/20 - 3 stars - My Review
360. The Leaving of Things by Jay Antani - completed 12/28/20 - 3 stars - My Review
361. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller - completed 12/29/20 - 2 stars - My Review
362. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri - completed 12/30/20 - 4 stars - My Review
363. The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré - completed 12/31/20 - 4 stars - My Review

updated 12/31/20