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2020 : goal 100, 2019 : goal 100, 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:► Aussie Author Challenge
► What’s in a Name ✅
► Popsugar: Selected ✅
► European Reading ✅
► Audiobook Challenge ✅
► 2020 Challenge: Mix & Match ✅
► My Middle Grade Reading ✅
► Rory Gilmore Mini-Reading Challenge ✅
► Just the Facts, Ma’am ✅
Quarterly Challenges:
► Summer Challenge ✅
► Autumn Challenge
► Pinspiration ✅
► Winter Challenge
► A Special Challenge
► Women of the World ✅
► Spring Challenge ✅
► Summer Challenge
Monthly Challenges:
► January: Happy New Year ✅
► February: Leaping Month ✅
► The Five Love Languages ✅
► March Challenge ✅
► Earth Laughs in Flowers ✅
► Springing Into Green ✅
► May: All About the Genres ✅
► Come Sail Away With Me ✅
► Singing in the Rain ✅
► June: TBR Challenge
► The Solar System ✅
► July: Freedom at Last ✅
► August: I’m With the Band ✅
► Wildlife Refuge ✅
► September: Let’s Party! ✅
► October: Breath of Fresh Air
► An Enchanted World ✅
► What’s Your Sign? ✅
► Zodiac Around the World ✅
► December: Christmas
POPSUGAR CHALLENGE: SELECTED PROMPTS
Start Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31
Read: 11/17
#1. A Great First Line:
✅ Sunburn by Laura Lippman
➜ (“It’s the sunburned shoulders that get him”)
#2. Set in a City Hosted the Olympics:
✅ Broken by Daniel Clay (London)
#3. A Bildungsroman:
✅ The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
#4. Cover with Upside-Down Image:
☐ Deep State by Chris Hauty
✅ The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
☐ Black Swan Affair by K.L. Kreig
#5. Passes Bechdel Test:
✅ Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
#6. Involving Social Media:
☐ Followers by Megan Angelo
✅ Startup by Doree Shafrir
#7. Set in Country with "C":
☐ Cataract City by Craig Davidson (Canada)
☐ The Truth Commission by Susan Juby (Canada)
☐ A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews (Canada)
☐ A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Chechnya)
#8. Title That Caught Your Attention:
✅ Last Winter We Parted by Fuminori Nakamura
☐ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
☐ A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
#9. Author in Their 20s:
✅ Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers (24)
☐ Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (26)
Completed:
#10. Favorite Past Prompt: Seen Read in Public:
✅ The Other People by C.J. Tudor
#11. Cover with No Images:
☐ The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
✅ Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
#12. Meant to Read in 2019:
✅ Magnolia by Kristi Cook
☐ Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne
#13. Three-Word Title:
✅ Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou
#14. Pink Cover:
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
☐ Saltwater by Jessica Andrews
#15. Character with Vision Impairment:
☐ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
☐ The Parfit Knight by Stella Riley
#16. Set in 1920s:
☐ A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
☐ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
#17. More Than 20 Letters in Title:
☐ If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
☐ The Gifted, the Talented and Me by William Sutcliffe
Completed:
AUSSIE AUTHOR CHALLENGE: 2020
Start Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31
Level: WALLAROO
Read: 5/6
• Female author: 2/2
• Male author: 2/2
• New author: 2/2
• Genre: 2/2 (Mystery & Contemporary)
✅ Beautiful Mess by Claire Christian
☐ Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
☐ The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
☐ On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
✅ The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
☐ Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
✅ You Were Made For Me by Jenna Guillaume
☐ Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
☐ The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner
✅ Ruined City by Nevil Shute
☐ Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
✅ Hangman by Jack Heath
☐ Honeybee by Craig Silvey
Completed:
WHAT’S IN A NAME
Start Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31
Read: 6/6
#1. Ampersand:
✅ His & Hers by Alice Feeney
#2. Antonym:
✅ Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
#3. Four Letters:
✅ Crew by Tijan
#4. Given Name:
☐ Saving June by Hannah Harrington
☐ When I Was Joe by Keren David
✅ Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
☐ The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
#5. Reference to Children:
☐ A Boy of Good Breeding by Miriam Toews
✅ Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
#6. Water, Air, Fire, Earth:
✅ How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
Completed:
AUDIOBOOK CHALLENGEStart Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31
Level: My Precious
Read: 30/30
✅ Matilda (Kate Winslet)
☐ Tin Man (Sarah Winman) ⭐️
✅ Startup (Eliana Marianes)
✅ Eileen (Alyssa Bresnahan)
☐ The Night Diary (Priya Ayyar)
☐ I'm Travelling Alone (Laura Paton)
☐ Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie (Joel Johnstone)
✅ Fractured (Teri Clark Linden, Scott Merriman)
✅ Confessions (Elaina Erika Davis, Noah Galvin) ⭐️
✅ Invisible Girl (Donna Banya, Connor Swindells)
✅ Playing Nice (Ben Elliot, Amelia Cormack)
☐ Highly Illogical Behavior (Robbie Daymond)
✅ What Red Was (Eleanor Tomlinson) ⭐️
☐ Us Against You (Marin Ireland)
✅ Late in the Day (Abigail Thaw) ⭐️
☐ A Parchment of Leaves (Kate Forbes)
✅ The Age of Miracles (Emily Janice Card) ⭐️
☐ A Boy of Good Breeding (Susanna Fournier)
✅ Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (Noah Galvin) ⭐️
☐ A Room of One's Own (Natalie Dormer)
✅ Unequal Affections (Carmela Corbett) ⭐️
☐ (Brittany Pressley)
☐ The Lemonade War (Rebecca Soler)
☐ All The Wicked Girls (Vanessa Labrie)
☐ The Truth Commission (Kate Rudd) ⭐️
✅ The End of the Affair (Colin Firth)
✅ Hidden Valley Road (Sean Pratt)
✅ The Rooster Bar (Ari Fliakos)
☐ Crooked Heart (Karen Cass) ⭐️
☐ Spy School (Gibson Frazier)
☐ The Gathering (Fiona Shaw) ⭐️
☐ In An Instant (Jesse Vilinsky) ⭐️
✅ Amberwell (Lesley Mackie) ⭐️
✅ Dog Days (Ramon De Ocampo)
☐ Unbecoming (Jenny Downham)
✅ Lady of Quality (Eve Matheson) ⭐️
✅ The Bone Clocks (Jessica Ball) ⭐️
✅ The Great Gatsby (Frank Muller) ⭐️
✅ The Land Girls (Jennifer Vuletic) ⭐️
✅ The Bell Jar (Maggie Gyllenhaal) ⭐️
☐ How to Build a House (Caitlin Greer)
☐ Allegra in Three Parts (Suzanne Daniel)
✅ Appointment in Samarra (Christian Camargo) ⭐️
☐ The Trouble with Goats and Sheep (Paula Wilcox)
☐ A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (Eimear McBride)
✅ In the Blood (Gretchen Mol, Candace Thaxton)
☐ Ohio (Jayme Mattler, Gibson Frazier)
✅ Outline (Kate Reading) ⭐️
✅ The Giver (Ron Rifkin) ⭐️
☐ Sirens (Lewys Taylor) ⭐️
✅ Hausfrau (Mozhan Marno) ⭐️
✅ The Answers (Megan Tusing)
☐ Nobody's Fool (Ron McLarty)
☐ Washington Square (Jennifer Ehle)
☐ Flowers for Algernon (Jeff Woodman)
✅ Nightingale Point (Daisy Prosper, Liz Sutherland-Lim)
☐ The Winter of Our Discontent (David Aaron Baker)
✅ The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell (Robert Dugoni)
☐ A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Colette Whitaker)
☐ A Fire Sparkling (Sarah Zimmerman, Rosalyn Landor)
☐ Black-Eyed Susans (Patricia Rodriguez, Sarah Borges)
Completed:
2020 READING CHALLENGE: MIX & MATCHStart Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31
Read: 6/6
#7. A book from Project Gutenberg:
✅ Persuasion by Jane Austen
☐ Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
☐ The Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden
#8. Short Stories:
☐ Inheritors by Asako Serizawa
#30. BBC's list of Top 100 Books:
✅ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
#40. NPR's Favorite Book of 2019:
✅ Conviction by Denise Mina
#42. Graphic Novel:
✅ スイートビター by Ayapan
#44. Four-Word Title:
✅ I Saw A Man by Owen Sheers
Completed:
MY MIDDLE GRADE BOOK CHALLENGEStart Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31
Read: 5/5
☐ Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
☐ The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller
✅ My Life as a Potato by Arianne Costner
☐ The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
☐ All the Ways Home by Elsie Chapman
✅ Things You Can't Say by Jenn Bishop
✅ This Is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis
☐ The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
☐ Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
✅ 🎧 The Giver by Lois Lowry
☐ Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
✅ Chirp by Kate Messner
Completed:
SUMMER CHALLENGE
Start Date: Dec 1
End Date: Feb 29
Level: Easy
Read: 5/5
BOOK #3
a) Blue letters on cover
✅ Beautiful Mess by Claire Christian (AA)
b) Set in New York
✅ The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman
c) By Australian author
✅ Holier Than Thou by Laura Buzo (AA)
d) Black, blue, red on cover
✅ Schizo by Nic Sheff
e) Set in school
✅ Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
Completed:
RORY GILMORE MINI-READING CHALLENGE
Start Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31
Read: 3/3
☐ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
✅ The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
✅ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
☐ The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
☐ The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
☐ Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
✅ The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
☐ Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Completed:
JANUARY: HAPPY NEW YEARStart Date: Jan 1
End Date: Jan 31
Read: 8/8
#1. Letter J:
✅ The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
#2. Author's Initials in ‘January’:
✅ This Is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis
#3. Published in January:
✅ The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth (AA)
#4. New to You Author:
✅ Fractured by Catherine McKenzie
#5. Your Choice:
✅ People Like Us by Dana Mele
Completed:
N: Schizo by Nic Sheff
E: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
W: The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Completed:
EUROPEAN READING CHALLENGEStart Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31
Level: Deluxe Entourage
Read: 5/5
✅ Late in the Day (UK)
☐ Crooked Heart (UK)
☐ Saltwater (Ireland)
☐ Solace (Ireland)
✅ Outline (Greece)
☐ Craving (Netherlands)
✅ Hausfrau (Switzerland)
✅ Us Against You (Sweden)
✅ Strike Your Heart (France)
☐ I'm Travelling Alone (Norway)
☐ Why We Took the Car (Germany)
☐ All the Light We Cannot See (France)
Complete:
THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGESStart Date: Feb 1
End Date: Feb 29
Read: 4/4
1. Gifts:
A book set in the "present".
✅ How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
2. Words of Affirmation:
A book recommended to you.
✅ My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
4. Quality Time:
A book read with a group/buddy read.
✅ Confessions by Kanae Minato
5. Physical Touch:
Read a book that includes a romance (any genre).
✅ Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
Completed:
FEBRUARY: 2020'S LEAPING MONTHStart Date: Feb 1
End Date: Feb 29
Level: Easy
Read: 4/4
#1. Read the 2nd book on your TBR:
✅ Beautiful Mess by Claire Christian (AA)
#2. All letters L E A P in title:
✅ Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
#3. BOTH author's initials are in VALENTINE:
✅ Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
#4. With 8, 2 or 9 in the page count:
✅ Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny (322p)
Completed:
AUTUMN CHALLENGEStart Date: Mar 1
End Date: May 31
Level: Easy
Read: 4/6
#1. A Colour:
✅ What Red Was by Rosie Price
#2. A Number:
☐ Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton
#3. A First Name:
✅ Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
#4. A Place:
☐ Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
✅ The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson
#5. “Water” in Title:
☐ Saltwater by Jessica Andrews
#6. A Day, Month or Season:
✅ Summer Skin by Kirsty Eagar (AA)
Completed:
MARCH CHALLENGEStart Date: Mar 1
End Date: Mar 31
Level: Easy
Read: 3/3
🍀 Make reading fun:
✅ Outline by Rachel Cusk
🍀 Book a friend has enjoyed but not on your TBR:
✅ Hangman by Jack Heath (AA)
🍀 Read the third book on your TBR list:
✅ Matilda by Roald Dahl
Completed:
EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERSStart Date: Mar 1
End Date: Mar 31
Read: 6/6
1. Bloom of Youth:
Read a YA novel or coming-of-age novel.
✅ Things You Can't Say by Jenn Bishop
2. The Bloom is Off the Rose:
Read a book written in the decade of your birth.
✅ Matilda by Roald Dahl (1988)
3. Your Year to Bloom:
Read a book that will make you feel inspired.
✅ A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
4. Bloom Where You’re Planted:
Read a fish-out-of-water story.
✅ The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
6. Algae Bloom:
Read a story about the sea, the beach.
✅ Conviction by Denise Mina
7. Bloomin’ ‘eck:
A book where characters speak different language.
✅ Departure by A.G. Riddle
Completed:
PINSPIRATIONStart Date: Apr 1
End Date: Jun 30
Read: 5/5
BOARD: FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, AND MARRIAGE:
📍It’s Complicated
BOOK: Prisoner of My Desire by Johanna Lindsey
BOOK: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
BOOK: Strike Your Heart by Amélie Nothomb
📍Grief
BOOK: Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
BOOK: Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
Completed:
SPRINGING INTO GREENStart Date: Apr 1
End Date: Apr 30
Read: 7/7
#3. Green Light:
✅ Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
#4. Greenland:
✅ Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley
#5. Greenpeace:
✅ The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
#6. Evergreen:
✅ Shut Out by Kody Keplinger
#7. “Green”:
✅ How It Ends by Laura Wiess
#9. Blue, Yellow, Green Cover:
✅ Startup by Doree Shafrir
#10. Camouflage:
✅ The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Completed:
MAY: ALL ABOUT THE GENRESStart Date: May 1
End Date: May 31
Read: 5/5
1. Young Adult:
✅ The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson
2. Mental Illness:
✅ Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
3. Contemporary
✅ What Red Was by Rosie Price
4. New Adult:
✅ Summer Skin by Kirsty Eagar (AA)
5. Mystery
✅ The Other People by C.J. Tudor
Completed:
COME SAIL AWAY WITH MEStart Date: May 1
End Date: May 31
Read: 4/4
#1. Blue Cover:
✅ The Other People by C.J. Tudor
#2. Green Cover:
✅ Strike Your Heart by Amélie Nothomb
#4. A Swim in the Ocean:
✅ What Red Was by Rosie Price
#10. “Pollution” in Text:
✅ Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Completed:
WINTER CHALLENGEStart Date: Jun 1
End Date: Aug 30
Read: 4/6
1b. An author you have never read before:
☐ My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
✅ How to Marry a Duke by Vicky Dreiling
2b. A two word title:
☐ Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
☐ The Emissary by Yōko Tawada
✅ Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
3b. The third book on your TBR:
☐ There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett (AA)
4b. Published in April (any year):
✅ The Land Girls by Victoria Purman (AA)
5b. Goodreads friend gave five stars:
☐ I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
☐ If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
✅ Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
6b. Set in winter:
✅ The Swap by Robyn Harding
SINGING IN THE RAIN
Start Date: Jun 1
End Date: Jun 30
Read: 7/7
1. Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me by Elton John:
Black and white cover.
✅ In the Woods by Tana French
2. Against the Wind by Bob Seger:
Written before 1980 (the year this song came out).
✅ Amberwell by D.E. Stevenson (1955)
4. Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland:
Set in an alternate reality.
✅ Wings of the Walker by Coralee June
5. Riders on the Storm by The Doors:
Features some sort of crime.
✅ In the Blood by Lisa Unger
7. The Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler:
With a heroic protagonist.
✅ The Answers by Catherine Lacey
9. Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves:
Book that makes you feel good, from your favorite genre.
✅ The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
10.Hurricane by Neil Young:
Set in the past.
✅ Mr. Darcy’s Pursuit of Elizabeth Bennet: Part 1 by Demi Monde
Completed:
JUNE: TBR CHALLENGE Start Date: Jun 1
End Date: Jun 30
Read: 3/4
#1. Longest on TBR:
☐ Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
☐ Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
☐ Disappointed Hopes by Cassandra Grafton
#2. New Author:
✅ Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
#3. Favourite Author:
✅ Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer
#4. Favourite Genre:
✅ Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (AA)
Completed:
A SPECIAL CHALLENGEStart Date: April 1
End Date: Sep 30
Level: Easy
Read: 13/14
U - Unequal Affections by Lara S. Ormiston
P - Prisoner of My Desire by Johanna Lindsey
D - Amberwell by D.E. Stevenson
A - Academy Street by Mary Costello
A - The Answers by Catherine Lacey
T - August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
E - Summer Skin by Kirsty Eagar (AA)
S - Where the Blame Lies by Mia Sheridan
A - Strike Your Heart by Amélie Nothomb
C - My Life as a Potato by Arianne Costner
T - The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller
I - In the Blood by Lisa Unger
V - The Land Girls by Victoria Purman (AA)
E - The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
THE SOLAR SYSTEMStart Date: July 1
End Date: July 31
Read: 8/8
🚀 The Sun has a surface temperature of 9932°F:
Red, yellow or orange cover or a book involving fire.
✅ It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood
🚀 Mercury is the smallest planet:
Less than 150 pages.
✅ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (130p)
🚀 Earth is the third planet from the sun:
Three words title
✅ Fallen Fourth Down by Tijan
🚀 Jupiter is the largest planet with strong magnetic field:
Book you've been drawn to recently.
✅ Before We Were Strangers by Brenda Novak
🚀 Saturn is known for its beautiful rings:
Book containing a ring of some kind.
✅ More Than a Mistress by Mary Balogh
🚀 Uranus is also known as an ice giant:
Set during winter.
✅ Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
🚀 Neptune is farthest away from the Sun:
Book that has been on your shelf >2 years.
✅ Fallen Crest Public by Tijan
🚀 Pluto is no longer a planet:
Read a book about a character missing out.
✅ The Holdout by Graham Moore
Completed:
WOMEN OF THE WORLDStart Date: July 1
End Date: Sep 30
Read: 8/8
🌏 Asia:
Japan: Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
Japan: The Emissary by Yōko Tawada
India: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
Indonesia: The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao
South Korea: The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
🌍 Europe:
England: Notes On A Scandal by Zoë Heller
England: Unequal Affections by Lara S. Ormiston
England: Autumn by Ali Smith
France: This Little Family by Inès Bayard
France: Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faïza Guène
Switzerland: Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Ireland: A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume
Netherlands: Craving by Esther Gerritsen
Czech Republic: There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
Netherlands: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
🌎 Americas:
Canada: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Dominican Republic: In the Time of the Butterflies
USA: My Life as a Potato by Arianne Costner
USA: Bully Me by Selena .
USA: Easy Virtue by Mia Asher
Completed:
JULY: FREEDOM AT LASTStart Date: July 1
End Date: July 31
Read: 7/7
G - The Holdout by Graham Moore
R - Ruined City by Nevil Shute (AA)
A - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
N - It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood (AA)
D - How to Marry a Duke by Vicky Dreiling
M - More Than a Mistress by Mary Balogh
A - August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Completed:
JUST THE FACTS, MA’AMStart Date: Jan 1
End Date: Dec 31
Level: 🔎 Inspector 🔎
Read: 18/18
🔎 WHO:
✅ 4. In the medical field: 🎧 Invisible Girl
6. A Photographer: 🎧 The Body in Question
✅ 8. A Watson narrator: The Other People
Notes On A Scandal
✅ 10. Lawyer/barrister/judge, etc.: The Holdout
🔎 WHAT:
2. Number: 🎧 The One
3. Color: 🎧 Black-Eyed Susans
✅ 4. Animal: In the Time of the Butterflies
7. Humorous: 🎧 Her Royal Spyness
✅ 9. Letters: 🎧 Playing Nice
✅ 10. Title with a literary allusion: I Saw A Man
🔎 WHEN:
✅ 1. During a holiday: Sunburn (Labor Day)
🎧 Her Last Secret (Christmas Eve)
✅ 4. Timing of crime is crucial: Silent Lies
✅ 8. Set during trip: His & Hers
🔎 WHERE:
✅ 1. At a country house: 🎧 Magpie Murders
✅ 3. On an island: The Swap
4. At a school: 🎧 Only Child
✅ 7. Non US/UK: Lying in Wait (Ireland)
The Erasure Initiative (Australia)
This Little Family (France)
🔎 HOW:
✅ 1. Death by drowning: 🎧 Confessions
✅ 2. Crime involving fire: Sister of Mine
4. Death by strangulation: 🎧 I'm Travelling Alone
✅ 10. Death by poison: The Mother-in-Law
🔎 WHY:
✅ 6. Author not from your country: The Accident (US)
✅ 8. Read by fellow challenger: Conviction (Margie)
✅ 9."Simon says": Last Winter We Parted
🎧 The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
10. Made into TV: Pieces of Her (Netflix)
Completed:
I'M WITH THE BANDStart Date: Aug 1
End Date: Aug 31
Level: 🎻 Quartet 🎻
Read: 4/4
🥁 1. Musical Instrument:
✅ 🎧 Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
🎼 3. Harmonious Title & Cover:
✅ Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faïza Guène
💃 6. It Takes Two to Tango:
✅ Make Me Hate You by Kandi Steiner
🎷 7. Jazz Up!:
✅ 🎧 Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
Completed:
SPRING CHALLENGEStart Date: Sep 1
End Date: Nov 30
Level: Easy
Read: 8/8
🦞 Allergies:
✅ Ecstasy by K.V. Rose -title-
@🌹 Blooms:
✅ The End of the Affair by Graham Greene -cover-
@🎏 Breeze:
✅ Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou -cover-
⛳️ Green Grass:
✅ Magnolia by Kristi Cook -cover-
🐰 Rabbits:
✅ The Bargain by Mary Jo Putney -title-
🧥 Raincoat:
✅ Silent Lies by Kathryn Croft -cover-
@🌱 Springtime:
☀️ Sunshine
✅ The Giver by Lois Lowry -cover-
@☔️ Umbrella
✅ The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath -cover-
WILDLIFE REFUGEStart Date: Sep 1
End Date: Sep 30
Read: 3/3
#1. Animal in the wild:
✅ Chirp by Kate Messner (crickets)
#4. Animal on the cover/title:
✅ The Good House by Ann Leary (bird)
✅ In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Completed:
SEPTEMBER: LET’S PARTY!Start Date: Sep 1
End Date: Sep 30
Read: 2/4
1. Choose a venue:
Goodbye from Nowhere by Sara Zarr (AA)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
2. Select a theme: (mascot costume party🎭)
✅ My Life as a Potato by Arianne Costner
3. Invite your guests:
✅ 🎧 Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney
☐ There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett (AA)
4. PARTY!:
☐ The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Completed:
OCTOBER: BREATH OF FRESH AIR!Start Date: Oct 1
End Date: Oct 31
Read: 5/5
#1. 10th Book on TBR:
✅ You Were Made For Me by Jenna Guillaume (AA)
#2. Spell TEN in Title:
✅ 🎧 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
#3. “O”:
✅ I Saw A Man by Owen Sheers
#4. Author’s Initials in SCORPIO:
✅ Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
#5. Your Choice:
✅ 🎧 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Completed:
AN ENCHANTED WORLDStart Date: Oct 1
End Date: Oct 31
Read: 5/5
2. MassKara Festival: A Masked Character.
✅ 🎧 Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
3. Mehregan: Set in Middle East. (Iraq)
✅ Heartbreak Warfare by Heather M. Orgeron
4. Mid-Autumn Festival: About Werewolves.
✅ Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
7. Navaratri: Battle of Good vs Evil.
✅ 🎧 The Giver by Lois Lowry
9. Samhain: Bonfire.
✅ Sunburn by Laura Lippman
Completed:
WHAT'S YOUR SIGN?Start Date: Nov 1
End Date: Nov 30
Read: 4/4
♐️ 3. Horoscope - SAGITTARIUS:
✅ Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin (change)
👯♀️ 4. Author Shares Sign:
✅ Persuasion by Jane Austen (birthday twins!)
🔥 7. Elements - FIRE:
✅ Last Winter We Parted by Fuminori Nakamura
🪐 8. Ruling Celestial Body - JUPITER:
✅ 🎧 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (healing)
Completed:
ZODIAC AROUND THE WORLDStart Date: Nov 1
End Date: Nov 30
Read: 3/3
3. Forest Cover:
✅ His & Hers by Alice Feeney
6. Morally Grey:
✅ Ecstasy by K.V. Rose
9. Share Traits:
✅ Persuasion by Jane Austen
Completed:
DECEMBER: CHRISTMASStart Date: Dec 1
End Date: Dec 31
Read: 4/5
🎄 1. Merry Christmas:
☐ The Erasure Initiative by Lili Wilkinson (AA)
🎅🏼 2. Twelve Days of Christmas:
✅ Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (Beartown 2)
📕 3. Friends & Family:
☐ The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (Scarlet)
✅ The Accident by Linwood Barclay (Matt)
🧦 4. Stocking Fillers:
✅ The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
🎁 5. Presents:
✅ Rules and Roses by Heather Long (Cap)
Completed:
SUMMER CHALLENGEStart Date: Dec 1
End Date: Feb 28
Read: 1/9
FAVORITE: Frederica by Georgette Heyer
F: Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan
R: Love by Roddy Doyle
E: The Erasure Initiative by Lili Wilkinson (AA)
D: The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner (AA)
E: Because She Loves Me by Mark Edwards
R: Rules and Roses by Heather Long
The Witness by Nora Roberts
I: The Captives by Debra Jo Immergut
C: Crew by Tijan
A: Autumn by Ali Smith
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