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There's another Heather around here so I guess I'm #2 ;)

Current Challenges:

Decades Bingo
Poll Ballot Tally - Green Team
Trim TBR

Heather’s 2020 Trim List

* = Existing Buddy Reads
** = Noticed others were doing these books, possibly coordinate?

1. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones *
2. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
3. Becoming by Michelle Obama **
4. I Am Malala by Malala Youzafsai - 4 Stars
5. Without You, There is No Us by Suki Kim
6. In the Woods by Tana French - 2 Stars
7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak *
8. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
9. The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - 4 Stars
10. The Secret History by Donna Tartt - checked out
11. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles * - checked out
12. The Terror by Dan Simmons - skipped
13. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas * - 5 Stars
14. Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
15. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward - 5 Stars
16. Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
17. War on Peace by Ronan Farrow - checked out
18. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
19. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou ** - 5 Stars
20. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
21. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal * - 4 Stars
22. A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza - 3 Stars
23. The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna **
24. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Updated 12/26/20

Decades Bingo Card #53

B
1976
1974
1979
1977
1975

I
1980
1981
1986
1982
1988

N
1993 - Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn
1997
[Free]
1999
1995

G
2006
2008
2004
2007 - In the Woods by Tana French
2005

O
2011
2010
2016 - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
2012
2013



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Poll Ballot Tally
States read for

Alabama - civil rights - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Alaska - Inuit
Arizona - Grand Canyon
Arkansas - education - The Book of Longings
California - Hollywood - The Woman in the Window
Colorado - Rocky Mountains
Connecticut - Constitution - No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Delaware - business - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
District of Columbia - presidents - Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
Florida - Disney
Georgia - antebellum
Hawaii - volcanoes
Idaho - nature - In the Woods, In a Dark, Dark Wood
Illinois - comedy - The Dead Mountaineer's Inn, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Indiana - auto racing
Iowa - politics - A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings
Kansas - weather
Kentucky - horses
Louisiana - southern gothic - Sing, Unburied, Sing, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Maine - Stephen King
Maryland - Navy
Massachusetts - witches - The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Michigan - Great Lakes
Minnesota - vikings
Mississippi - blues
Missouri - pioneers - I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Montana - wildlife
Nebraska - farming
Nevada - gambling
New Hampshire - hiking
New Jersey - mafia
New Mexico - extraterrestrials
New York - Broadway
North Carolina - Appalachia
North Dakota - paleontology *
Ohio - industry
Oklahoma - Great Depression
Oregon - ecology
Pennsylvania - Amish
Rhode Island - sailing
South Carolina - pirates A Storm of Swords
South Dakota - frontier
Tennessee - country music
Texas - space - Dark Force Rising
Utah - Mormon
Vermont - libraries - Mexican Gothic
Virginia - FBI*
Washington - coffee
West Virginia - mining
Wisconsin - cheese
Wyoming - western

Books Read: March Update

1. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susanna Cahalan - 4 Stars
2. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware - 4 Stars
3. Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times by Michael Beschloss - 5 Stars
4. A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza - 3 Stars

Books Read: April Update

5. The Dead Mountaineer's Inn by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - 4 Stars
6. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - 5 Stars
7. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald - 4 Stars

Books Read: May Update

8. Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn - 5 Stars
9. In the Woods by Tana French - 2 Stars

Books Read: June Update

10. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin - 5 Stars
11. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou - 5 Stars
12. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal - 4 Stars

Books Read: July Update

13. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd - 4 Stars
14. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander - 5 Stars

Books Read: August Update

15. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward - 5 Stars
16. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe - 2 Stars

Books Read: September Update

17. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai - 4 Stars
18. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn - 4 Stars
19. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware - 4.5 Stars
20. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix - 3 Stars

Books Read: October Update
21. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin - 5 stars
22. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 5 stars
23. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell - 5 Stars

Books Read: November Update
24. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher - 2 stars
25. Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram - 2.5 stars