Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

Popsugar 2020 Reading Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Completed: 21/50

[x] A book published in 2020 When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains 3/2
[x] A book by a trans or nonbinary author Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love 2/5
[x] A book with a great first line Love in the Time of Cholera 6/19
[] A book about a book club
[x] A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics Death at Whitechapel 2/8
[x] A bildungsroman The Catcher in the Rye 1/22
[x] The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed The Templars and the Shroud of Christ 2/27
[] A book with an upside-down image on the cover
[x] A book with a map Diggers 2/23
[x] A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club Recursion 2/4
[x] An anthology The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America’s Best--and Worst--Chief Executives 4/9
[x] A book that passes the Bechdel test The Novice's Tale 2/10
[] A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it
[] A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox (flora AND fauna!)
[x] A book published the month of your birthday Children of Virtue and Vengeance 1/24
[x] A book about or by a woman in STEM Recursion 2/4
[x] A book that won an award in 2019 Ninth House 2/2
[x] A book on a subject you know nothing about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 3/21
[x] A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics Twisted Twenty-Six 1/27
[] A book with a pun in the title
[] A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins
[x] A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character Deep Silence 1/6
[x] A book with a bird on the cover This Is How You Lose the Time War 1/12
[x] A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un 1/20
[] A book with “gold,” “silver,” or “bronze” in the title Riviera Gold
[x] A book by a WOC Beloved 1/21
[x] A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads Robin 1/1
[x] A book you meant to read in 2019 In Pieces 1/4
[] A book about or involving social media
[] A book that has a book on the cover The Thirteenth Tale
[] A medical thriller
[] A book with a made-up language
[x] A book set in a country beginning with “C” The Piper on the Mountain 2/15
[x] A book you picked because the title caught your attention The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington 1/30
[x] A book with a three-word title City of Girls 1/1
[x] A book with a pink cover Red, White & Royal Blue 1/28
[x] A Western Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter 2/4
[] A book by or about a journalist
[] Read a banned book during banned book week (Sep 27)
[x] Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge (A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads) 1984 6/23

Advanced:
[] A book written by an author in their 20s
[] A book with “20” or “twenty” in the title
[] A book with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision)
[] A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics
[] A book set in the 1920s
[x] A book by an author who has written more than 20 books The Mysterious Affair at Styles
[x] A book with more than 20 letters in its title Murder on Pleasant Avenue 5/3
[x] A book published in the 20th century A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 4/17
[x] A book from a series with more than 20 books The Elfstones of Shannara 4/21
[x] A book with a main character in their 20s The Tuscan Child

Colorful Covers 2020
Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Level: Hard
Completed: 22/36


Blue Cover
1) 1/10
2) 1/12
3) 2/6

Green Cover
1) 2/15
2) 5/31
3)

Red Cover
1) 1/21
2) 1/27
3) 2/23

Black Cover
1) 1/16
2) 1/20
3) 1/24

White Cover
1) 1/1
2)
3) 2/6

Yellow Cover
1) 2/22
2) 4/14
3)

Pink Cover
1) 1/28
2)
3)

Purple Cover
1) 8/27
2)
3)

Orange Cover
1) 2/4
2) 5/17
3) 7/10

Gray Cover
1) 1/4
2) 2/4
3) 2/25

Brown Cover
1) 1/14
2) 2/8
3) 2/23

Colorful Cover
1) 1/6
2)
3) 3/1

A-Z Challenge 2020

Start date: January 1, 2020
End date:

Books completed: 23/26

✔A - American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI 3/16
✔B - Beloved 1/21
✔C - City of Girls 1/10
✔D - Deep Silence 1/6
✔E - The Elfstones of Shannara 4/21
✔F - The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington 1/30
✔G - The Grass Widow's Tale 4/30
✔H - The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un 1/20
✔I - In Pieces 1/4
✔J - Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America 7/13
✔K - The King's Justice 3/17
✔L - Live Long and...What I Learned Along the Way 1/14
✔M - The Mysterious Affair at Styles 4/28
✔N - The Nickel Boys 1/26
✔O - Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love 2/5
✔P - The Piper on the Mountain 2/15
✔Q - The Queen of Nothing 12/1
✔R - Robin 1/1
✔S - So Here’s the Thing…: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut 3/3
✔T - This Is How You Lose the Time War 1/12
U - Us Against You
✔V - Virtue, Valor, and Vanity: The Inside Story of the Founding Fathers and the Price of a More Perfect Union 2/13
✔W - Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter 2/4
X -
✔Y - You Can't Fall Off the Floor: And Other Lessons from a Life in Hollywood 5/18
Z -

New Release Challenge 2020
Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Completed: 51/25

✔1. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains (rel 1/7)
✔2. When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains 3/2
✔3. A Blight of Blackwings (rel 2/6)
✔4. American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI 3/16
✔5. Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut (rel 2/25) 5/20
✔6. The King's Justice 3/17
✔7. John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial (rel 3/3)
✔8. Murder on Pleasant Avenue 5/3
✔9. Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel 5/25
✔10. Riviera Gold 6/29
✔11. Game of Dog Bones
✔12. Make Russia Great Again 8/2
✔13. Peace Talks 8/4
✔14. Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War 8/15
✔15. Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs 8/20
✔16. Tommy: The Gun That Changed America 8/20
✔17. Brother & Sister 8/21
✔18. The Art of Resistance 8/21
✔19. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist 8/22
✔20. The Last Mrs. Summers 8/25
✔21. The Falcon Always Wings Twice 8/26
✔22. 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid 8/29
✔23. Ink & Sigil 9/16
✔24. The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President⁠—and Why It Failed 9/20
✔25. Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss 9/22
✔26. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 9/4
✔27. The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II 9/5
✔28. Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt 9/12
✔29. The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship 10/1
✔30. A Question of Betrayal 10/1
✔31. The Evening and the Morning 10/13
✔32. Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In 10/6
✔33. Howloween Murder 10/18
✔34. Battle Ground 10/21
✔35. The Devil and the Dark Water 10/28
✔36. The Constant Rabbit 12/9
✔37. Hold On, But Don't Hold Still 10/10
✔38. Warhol 10/21
✔39. Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act 10/24
✔40. The Gift of the Magpie: A Meg Langslow Mystery 11/3
✔41. Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town 10/31
✔42. Greenlights 11/13
✔43. Serpentine 11/1
✔44. Fortune and Glory
✔45. The Best of Me
✔46. Overstated: A Coast-To-Coast Roast of the 50 States 11/16
✔47. Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
✔48. The End of Everything 11/21
✔49. 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz 11/25
✔50. Why We Swim
✔51. No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality 12/15

New-to-me Author Exploration Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Completed: 107/107

1. Dave Itzkoff 1/1
2. Sally Field 1/4
3. Elizabeth Gilbert 1/10
4. Amal El-Mohtar 1/12
5. Hamish McKenzie 1/16
6. Toni Morrison 1/21
7. Chung Min Lee 1/20
8. Brad Meltzer 1/30
9. J.D. Salinger 1/22
10. Colson Whitehead 1/26
11. Casey McQuiston 1/28
12. Leigh Bardugo 2/2
13. Tom Clavin 2/4
14. Blake Crouch 2/4
15. Jonathan Van Ness 2/5
16. Al Roker 2/12
17. Holly Black 2/6
18. Werner T. Angress 2/23
19. Eric Burns 2/13
20. Richard Adams 2/20
21. Sarah Valentine 2/25
22. Benjamin Jacobs 2/25
23. Barbara Frale 2/27
24. Ariana Neumann 3/2
25. Craig Childs 3/9
26. Tom Standage 3/7
27. Kate Winkler Dawson 3/16
28. Amy Shira Teitel 3/18
29. Rebecca Skloot 3/21
30. Philip K. Dick 3/22
31. Josh Chetwynd 3/25
32. John J. Protopappas 3/30
33. Cassie Chambers 3/26
34. Joseph Menn 3/30
35. Rex Alan Smith 4/6
36. Chanel Miller 4/6
37. Alfred Runte 4/7
38. Betty Smith
39. Brian Lamb 4/9
40. Andrew Rannells 4/12
41. Tom Phillips 4/14
42. Robert Hutton 4/19
43. Andrew Leatherbarrow 5/1
44. Frances Hodgson Burnett 5/1
45. Cara Robertson 5/6
46. Jean Edward Smith 5/7
47. Svetlana Alexievich 5/9
48. Margaret Leslie Davis 5/16
49. Harris Katleman 5/19
50. James Renner 5/19
51. Olivia Newton-John 5/22
52. Megan Mullally 5/31
53. John Patrick Diggins 6/12
54. Roger Daltrey 6/10
55. Gabriel García Márquez 6/19
56. Stephan Guyenet 6/13
57. Ellie Kemper 6/20
58. Anna Fifield 6/27
59. Heather B. Armstrong 6/29
60. Larry Loftis 7/1
61. Lynne Olson 7/3
62. John Paul Stevens 7/7
63. Joyce Appleby 7/8
64. Catherine Kerrison 7/13
65. Ben Goldfarb 7/22
66. Colin Jost 7/26
67. Adam Kay 8/1
68. Ali Wong 8/11
69. Steve Inskeep 8/15
70. Jennifer Finney Boylan 8/20
71. Ibram X. Kendi 8/20
72. Karen Blumenthal 8/20
73. Justus Rosenberg 8/21
74. Judith Heumann 8/22
75. Willie Mays 8/29
76. Isabel Wilkerson 9/4
77. Katherine Sharp Landdeck 9/5
78. H G Wells 9/8
79. Stephen Johnson 9/12
80. Frank Herbert 9/29
81. Greg King 10/1
82. Phuc Tran 10/6
83. Daniel Keyes 10/25
84. Bram Stoker 10/17
85. Donna Tartt 12/22
86. Kristina Kuzmic 10/10
87. Blake Gopnik 10/21
88. Andrew Rannells 4/10
89. Nicholson Baker 10/24
90. Barbara Demick 10/31
91. Yuval Noah Harari 11/9
92. Matthew McConaughey 11/13
93. Arthur Golden 11/9
94. Colin Quinn 11/16
95. Katie Mack 11/21
96. Anthony Doerr 11/22
97. Lulu Miller 11/22
98. Heather Dune Macadam 11/25
99. Bonnie Tsui 11/28
100. Patti Smith 11/30
101. Robert Matzen 12/7
102. Jodi Kantor 12/8
103. Caitlin Doughty 12/10
104. Hallie Rubenhold 12/16
105. Maureen Callahan 12/22
106. John O'Donohue12/28
107. Baby, Don't Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live 12/28