The Reading Challenge Group discussion
2020 Personal Threads
>
Eileen's 2020 Reading Challenges

.
Decades Challenge:
✔ 1820-1829: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, ✔ The Raven
✔ 1830-1839: The Fall of the House of Usher, ✔ Ligeia
✔ 1840-1849: The Pit and the Pendulum, ✔ The Tell-Tale Heart, ✔ The Masque of the Red Death, ✔ The Cask of Amontillado, ✔ The Black Cat, ✔ The Premature Burial, ✔ The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
✔ 1850-1859: Bleak House
✔ 1860-1869:Les Misérables
✔ 1870-1879: The Return of the Native ✔ 1880-1889: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Study in Scarlet
✔ 1890-1899: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, ✔ The Importance of Being Earnest, ✔ The Reluctant Dragon
✔ 1900-1909: The Call of the Wild
✔ 1910-1919: Something Fresh
✔ 1920-1929: An American Tragedy
✔ 1930-1939: Of Mice and Men, ✔ The Grapes of Wrath
✔ 1940-1949: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, ✔ Cannery Row
✔ 1950-1959: Night, ✔ Sweet Thursday
✔ 1960-1969: The Master and Margarita, ✔ Where the Red Fern Grows
✔ 1970: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
✔ 1971: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, The Tombs of Atuan
✔ 1972: The Farthest Shore
✔ 1973: Sula
✔ 1974: The Killer Angels
✔ 1975: Danny the Champion of the World
✔ 1976: Dragonsong
✔ 1977: Bridge to Terabithia
✔ 1978: The Stand
✔ 1979: Bunnicula, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
✔ 1980: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
✔ 1981: Ramona Quimby, Age 8
✔ 1982: Howliday Inn, The BFG
✔ 1983: The Celery Stalks at Midnight, ✔ The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
✔ 1984: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
✔ 1985: Lonesome Dove
✔ 1986: Hatchet
✔ 1987: Dirk Gently's Holistic Det Agcy, ✔ Swan Song
✔ 1988: The Alchemist
✔ 1989: A Time to Kill, The Remains of the Day
✔ 1990: Dealing with Dragons
✔ 1991: Searching for Dragons
✔ 1992: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, ✔ The Secret History
✔ 1993: The Last Wish
✔ 1994: One for the Money
✔ 1995: The Golden Compass
✔ 1996: Brian's Winter
✔ 1997: Killing Floor, ✔ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
✔ 1998: Holes
✔ 1999: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
✔ 2000: The Ice Limit
✔ 2001: Purgatory Ridge, ✔ The Hob's Bargain
✔ 2002: Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, Lucky Man
✔ 2003: The Wee Free Men
✔ 2004: Brimstone
✔ 2005: No Country for Old Men
✔ 2006: Triptych, The Final Empire
✔ 2007: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
✔ 2008: The Forgotten Garden
✔ 2009: The Child Thief, ✔ Heart's Blood
✔ 2010: I Shall Wear Midnight
✔ 2011: The Monster in the Hollows, ✔ A Discovery of Witches
✔ 2012: A Man Called Ove
✔ 2013: Lighter Than My Shadow
✔ 2014: But For The Grace, Skin Game
✔ 2015: Everything, Everything
✔ 2016: The Sun Is Also a Star
✔ 2017: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
✔ 2018: The Benefits of Being an Octopus
✔ 2019: Right as Rain
✔ 2020: The Forgotten Home Child

.
Blast off with Sci-Fi:
Read 20 books classified as science fiction on the main page of goodreads
✔ 1. A Trick of Light
✔ 2. The Golden Compass
✔ 3. The Ice Limit
✔ 4. Forward Series: Emergency Skin, Summer Frost, Ark, You Have Arrived at Your Destination, The Last Conversation, Randomize
✔ 5. The Institute
✔ 6. How Long 'til Black Future Month?
✔ 7. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
✔ 8. The Stand
✔ 9. Swan Song
✔ 10. Aurora Rising
✔ 11. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
✔ 12. Life, the Universe and Everything
✔ 13. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
✔ 14. Shorefall

.
The Game is Afoot:
Read 50 books classified as mystery on the main page of goodreads
✔1. One of Us Is Lying
✔2. Razor: Becoming a Hero
✔3. The Ice Limit
✔4. The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter
✔5. Catch Me if You Can
✔6. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
✔7. The Other People
✔8. Boundary Waters
✔9. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
✔10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
✔11. One for the Money
✔12. Songbird: A Kings Lake Investigation
✔13. The Forgotten Garden
✔14. Nighty-Nightmare
✔15. Return to Howliday Inn
✔16. An Accidental Death
✔17. Brimstone
✔18. The Whisper Man
✔19. We Were Liars
✔20. But For The Grace
✔21. Triptych
✔22. Fractured
✔23. Then She Was Gone
✔24. Tell Me Lies
✔25. Dance of Death
✔26. The Book of the Dead
✔27. In the Dark
✔28. Purgatory Ridge
✔29. Killing Floor
✔30. Big Lies in a Small Town
✔31. A Time to Kill
✔32. The Secret History
✔33. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
✔34. The Silent Patient
✔35. The Night Tiger
✔36. Undead Girl Gang
✔37. Third Grave Dead Ahead
✔38. Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
✔39. Fifth Grave Past the Light
✔40. Sixth Grave on the Edge
✔41. Seventh Grave and No Body
✔42. Eighth Grave After Dark
✔43. The Dirt on Ninth Grave
✔44. Brighter Than the Sun
✔45. Beach Road

.
Bookopoly 2020:
Round 1
Roll 1: 8
Task: Purpose, War, or Survival

✔ read 1/1-1/5
Roll 2: 7
Task: Travel Along (Different Time)

✔ read 1/1-1/8
Roll 3: 8
Task: Highest Average Rating

✔ read 1/12
Roll 4: 7
Task: Book Ban!

✔ read 11/10/19-1/29/20
Roll 5: 10
Task: Book Sale!

✔ read 11/30
Roll 6: 9
Task: Times of Life

✔ read 2/1
Roll 7: 7
Task: Chance

✔ read 2/5-2/6
Roll 8: 7 pass Go
Round 2
Roll 1: 7 (from previous)
Task: Sci-Fi/Fantasy

✔ read 2/7-2/13
Roll 2: 4
Task: Chance

✔ read 2/15-2/16
Roll 3: 7
Task: Part of a series

✔ read 2/16
Roll 4: 6
Task: Book Sale: Favorite author or old favorite

✔ read 2/22
Roll 5: 6
Task: Nature (gone wild)

✔ read 2/16-2/24
Roll 6: 9
Task: Travel Away

✔ read 3/2-3/3
Roll 7: 2
Task: Contemporary Fiction

✔ read 3/3-3/5
Roll 8: 10 Pass Go!
Round 3
Roll 1: 10 (from previous)
Task: Chance

✔ read 3/7
Roll 2: 7
Task: Part of a series

✔ read 3/7
Roll 3: 9
Task: Highest average rating

✔ read 3/11
Roll 4: 12
Task: Travel away

✔ read 3/13-3/16
Roll 5: 8 Pass Go!
Round 3
Roll 1: 8 (from previous)
Task: Sci-Fi/Fantasy

✔ read 3/20
Roll 2: 10
Task: Recommended

✔ read 3/22-3/28
Roll 3: 5
Task: Mystery

✔ read 3/27-3/28
Roll 4: 4
Task: Chance

✔ read 4/8-4/9
Roll 5: 6
Task: Library Fine

✔ read 4/14
Roll 6: 4
Task: Longest Shelved

✔ read 4/12-14
Roll 7: 8 Landed on Go!
Round 4
Roll 1: 8 (from previous)
Task: Book #8

✔ read 4/20
Roll 2: 11
Task: Published this year

✔ read 4/23
Roll 3: 7
Task: Mystery

✔ read 5/1-2
Roll 4: 5
Task: Highest # of ratings

✔ read 5/8
Roll 5: 10
Task: Most recently added

✔ read 5/13
Roll 6: 11 (pass Go, on to Round 5)
Round 5
Roll 1: 11 (from previous)
Task:Partner Pick

✔ read 5/13-14
Roll 2: 9
Task: Published this year

✔ read 5/14-30
Roll 3: 5
Task: YA/Middle Grade

✔ read 5/30-31
Roll 4: 10
Task: Nature

✔ read 6/2-6/3
Roll 5: 5
Task: Most Recently Added

✔ read 6/6
Roll 6: 10 (pass go)
Round 6
Roll 1: 10 (from previous)
Task: Classics

✔ read 6/4-6/10
Roll 2: 7
Task: War

✔ read 6/3-6/11
Roll 3: 5
Task: Recommended

✔ read 6/12
Roll 4: 9
Task: Chance

✔ read 6/18
Roll 5: 2
Task: Shortest book

✔ read 6/20
Roll 6: 5
Task: Times of Life

✔ read 6/24
Roll 7: 5
Task: Longest Book

✔ read 7/1-7/4
Roll 8: 8
Round 7
Roll 1: 8 (from previous)
Task: Partner Pick

✔ read 7/12-7/14
Roll 2: 6
Task: War

✔ read 8/3-8/8
Roll 3: 11
Task: Historical Fiction

✔ read 8/15-8/16
Roll 4: 7
Task: Nature

✔ read 8/15-8/16
Roll 5: 10
Task: Chance

✔ read 8/30-8/31
Roll 6: 6 (pass go)
Round 8
Roll 1: 6 (from previous)
Task: Partner Pick

✔ read 9/1-9/2
Roll 2: 7
Task: Tradition & Change

✔ read 9/10
Roll 3: 5
Task: Part of a Series

✔ read 9/11
Roll 4: 7
Task: Highest number of ratings

✔ read 9/10-9/12
Roll 5: 5
Task: Nature

✔ read 9/20-9/21
Roll 6: 5
Task: Most recently added

✔ read 9/21-9/22
Roll 7: 7
Task: New to you Author

✔ read 9/26-28
Roll 8: 9 (pass go)
Round 9
Roll 1: 9 (from previous)
Task: Chance

✔ read 9/30
Roll 2: 9
Task: Middle Grade/YA/Teen

✔ read 10/12-14
Roll 3: 7
Task: Highest average rating

✔ read 10/16-17
Roll 4: 5
Task: Library Fine

✔ read 10/24-30
Roll 5: 3
Task: Most Recently Added

✔ read 10/31
Roll 6: 6
Task: Contemporary

✔ read 10/27-11/4
Roll 7: 8 (pass go)
Round 10
Roll 1: 8 (from previous)
Task: Travel Afar

✔ read 11/3-5
Roll 2: 7
Task: Electric Company: new setting - India during the 50s/60s

✔ read 11/8-9
Roll 3: 6
Task: Mystery

✔ read 11/20-21
Roll 4: 10
Task: Library Fine

✔ read 12/1
Roll 5: 6
Task: Contemporary

✔ read 12/2
Roll 6: 10 (pass go)
Round 11
Roll 1: 10 (from previous)
Task: Chance

✔ read 12/6-12/7
Roll 2: 10
Task: Partner Pick

✔ read 12/7-12/8
Roll 3: 8
Task: Book Ban

✔ read 9/26-12/11
Roll 4: 8
Task: Mystery

✔ read 12/11-12/12
Roll 5: 3
Task: Highest Number of Ratings (415,680)

✔ read 12/12-12/13
Roll 6: 4
Task: Travel Abroad

✔ read 12/14-12/15
Roll 7: 6
Task: Most recently added

✔ read 12/15
Roll 8: 2
Task: Partner Pick

✔ read 12/19-20
Roll 9: 5
Task: Waterworks - new to me

✔ read 12/20
Roll 10: 9 (pass go)
Round 12
Roll 1: 9 (from previous)
Task: Chance

✔ read 11/27-12/21
Roll 2: 7
Task: Part of a series

✔ read 12/21
Roll 3: 6
Task: Book Sale - favorite book or author

✔ read 12/21-22
Roll 4: 6
Task: Nature

✔ read 12/22-12/23
Roll 5: 5
Task: Recently shelved

✔ read 12/23-12/24
Roll 6: 6
Task: Contemporary

✔ read 12/24
Roll 7: 9 (pass go)
Round 13
Roll 1: 9 (from previous)
Task: Relationships

✔ read 12/24-12/30
Roll 2: 3
Task: Tradition or change
Lore 81
Black Buck

.
Fantasy Faire:
Read 15 ARCS classified as fantasy books
NG: NetGalley
BS: Booksirens
Level 1 - Linger with Elves (2 Books)
✔ 1. The Six and the Crystals of Ialana: Book One of the Ialana Series (BS)
✔ 2. Tentacles and Teeth (BS)
Level 2 - Fly with Dragons (4 Books)
✔ 3. City of Dod (BS)
✔ 4. Smailholm (NG)
Level 3 - Eat the Food in Faerie (7 Books)
✔ 5. Nils: The Tree of Life (NG)
✔ 6. The Key Quest (BS)
✔ 7. Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe (NG)
Level 4 - Go on a Quest to Save the World (10 Books)
✔ 8. Paola Santiago and the River of Tears (NG)
✔ 9. Moonscript (BS)
✔ 10. Annalynn the Canadian Spy: Terrible Tissues (BS)
Level 5 - Explore Another World (15 Books)
✔ 11. The Elephant's Girl (NG)
✔ 12. The Court of Miracles (NG)
✔ 13. Master of Madhouse: Sadists, Mansions and Mayhem 1894 (BS)
✔ 14. Cemetery Boys (NG)
✔ 15. Crossings (NG)
✔ 16. NIGHTSHIFTER (BS)
✔ 17. Jerry the Squirrel: Volume One (BS)
✔ 18. 4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace (BS)
✔ 19. The Mouse Watch (NG)
✔ 20. The Stalk: A Science Fiction Retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk (BS)
✔ 21. Chace Ogden and the Golden Golem (BS)
✔ 22. Dragon Pearl (NG)
✔ 23. The Bone Shard Daughter (NG)
✔ 24. Kenny & the Book of Beasts (NG)
✔ 25. The Silvered Serpents (NG)
26. Spellcrest Academy: Year One (NG)
27. Broken Wish (NG)
28. NIGHTSHATTER: A Werewolf Thriller (BS)
29. NIGHTSHAKER: A Werewolf Thriller (BS)
April Challenge (non-ARCs)
✔ 1. Sent
✔ 2. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
✔ 3. Penric's Demon
✔ 4. Penric and the Shaman
✔ 5. A Court of Thorns and Roses
✔ 6. The Cloud Roads
✔ 7. The Cruel Prince
✔ 8. Artemis Fowl
✔ 9. Swan Song
✔ 10. Fairest Son
✔ 11. The Defense Quest
✔ 12. The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
✔ 13. Clockwork Angels
✔ 14. Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
✔ 15. A Curse So Dark and Lonely
✔ 16. Aurora Rising
✔ 17. A Wizard of Earthsea
✔ 18. Penric's Fox
✔ 19. Penric’s Mission
✔ 20. Mira's Last Dance
✔ 21. The Tombs of Atuan
✔ 22. The Farthest Shore
✔ 23. Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit and Friends
✔ 24. The Hob's Bargain
✔ 25. A Discovery of Witches
✔ 26. A Heart So Fierce and Broken
✔ 27. Shadow of Night
✔ 28. The Book of Life
✔ 29. Heart's Blood

.
Alphabet Soup:
Read 26 books whose titles begin with the corresponding letter of the alphabet. For "x" you can read a book whose title begins with the letter "x", where "x" is featured prominently in the title, or where a number is used in the title.
✔ A: An American Tragedy
✔ B: The Bootlace Magician
✔ C: Colombiano
✔ D: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
✔ E: Eleanor & Park
✔ F: The Forgotten Home Child
✔ G: The Giver of Stars
✔ H: Home Fire
✔ I: The Ice Limit
✔ J: Jerry the Squirrel
✔ K: Killing Floor
✔ L: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
✔ M: The Master and Margarita
✔ N: Ninth House
✔ O: Of Mice and Men
✔ P: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Q: The Quest
✔ R: Right as Rain
✔ S: The Six and the Crystals of Ialana
✔ T: A Trick of Light
✔ U: The Upside of Unrequited
V: V for Vendetta
✔ W: Where the Red Fern Grows
✔ X: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
✔ Y: Yes No Maybe So
✔ Z: Zinnia and the Bees

.
Down with History: ✔✔✔
Read 15 books that are classified as historical fiction that cover as many different countries or time periods as possible
(view spoiler)

.
Doorstoppers:
Read books that are longer than 600 pages
Level 1 - A Mighty Tome
✔ 1. An American Tragedy, 896 pp
Level 2 - Stack 'em High
✔ 2. Colombiano, 924 pp
✔ 3. The Forgotten Garden, 645 pp
Level 3 - Weight Matters
✔ 4. Brimstone, 752 pp
✔ 5. The Book of the Dead, 640 pp
✔ 6. The Stand, 1440 pp
Level 4 - A Hefty Pile
✔ 7. Bleak House, 1017 pp
✔ 8. Swan Song, 956 pp
✔ 9. A Discovery of Witches, 610 pp
✔ 10. Shadow of Night, 630 pp
✔ 11. The Book of Life, 637 pp
✔ 12. The Wall of Winnipeg and Me, 673 pp

.
Chunksters:
Read books that are between 400-599 pages
Level One - Chunkster
✔ 1. The Giver of Stars, 400 pp
✔ 2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 528 pp
✔ 3. The Bootlace Magician, 416 pp
Level Two - Flower Presser
✔ 4. Boundary Waters, 420 pp
✔ 5. Ask Again, Yes, 400 pp
✔ 6. The Ice Limit, 497 pp
Level 3 - Back Breaker
✔ 7. Lighter Than My Shadow, 516 pp
✔ 8. The Institute, 576 pp
✔ 9. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, 596 pp
✔ 10. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, 512 pp
✔ 11. How Long 'til Black Future Month?, 433 pp
✔ 12. Pachinko, 502 pp
✔ 13. Red, White & Royal Blue, 425 pp
✔ 14. Yes No Maybe So, 448 pp
✔ 15. The Child Thief, 481 pp
✔ 16. The Grapes of Wrath, 479 pp
✔ 17. Songbird: A Kings Lake Investigation, 488 pp
✔ 18. What the Wind Knows, 416 pp
✔ 19. Triptych, 512 pp
✔ 20. Fractured, 530 pp
✔ 21. Then She Was Gone, 422 pp
✔ 22. Dance of Death, 592 pp
✔ 23. In the Dark, 412 pp
✔ 24. Purgatory Ridge, 452 pp
✔ 25. A Time to Kill, 530 pp
✔ 26. Killing Floor, 561 pp
✔ 27. Big Lies in a Small Town, 400 pp
✔ 28. Moonscript, 498 pp
✔ 29. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, 432 pp
✔ 30. Artemis Fowl, 420 pp
✔ 31. Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes, 404 pp
✔ 32. A Curse So Dark and Lonely, 489 pp
✔ 33. Aurora Rising, 480 pp
✔ 34. A Heart So Fierce and Broken, 464 pp
✔ 35. Heart's Blood, 453 pp
✔ 36. The Court of Miracles, 464 pp
✔ 37. Peter and the Starcatchers, 480 pp
✔ 38. The War I Finally Won, 400 pp
✔ 39. Nine Perfect Strangers, 458 pp
✔ 40. Shorefall, 497 pp
✔ 41. Memoirs of a Geisha, 512 pp
✔ 42. Clap When You Land, 432 pp
✔ 43. The Killer Angels, 402 pp
✔ 44. The Night Circus, 401 pp
✔ 45. I Shall Wear Midnight, 434 pp
✔ 46. Genesis Begins Again, 400 pp
✔ 47. 'Til the Well Runs Dry, 400 pp
✔ 48. Behold the Dreamers, 401 pp
✔ 49. The Starless Sea, 498 pp
✔ 50. The Dream Daughter, 400 pp
✔ 51. Necessary Lies, 400 pp
✔ 52. Beach Road, 400 pp
...and then see a chiropractor!

.
Featherweight:
Read books that are less than or equal to 280 pages
Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
✔ 1. Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, 160 pp
✔ 2. Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets..., 224 pp
✔ 3. Find Another Dream, 200 pp
✔ 4. The Six and the Crystals of Ialana, 272 pp
✔ 5. Of Mice and Men, 121 pp
Level 2 Flapping Wings
✔ 6. The Benefits of Being an Octopus, 256 pp
✔ 7. Thick: And Other Essays, 248 pp
✔ 8. The Great Upending, 274 pp
✔ 9. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, 248 pp
✔ 10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 240 pp
Level 3 Taking Flight
✔ 11. Sula, 196 pp
✔ 12. Smailholm, 248 pp
✔ 13. Home Fire, 276 pp
✔ 14. Nils: The Tree of Life, 184 pp
✔ 15. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 259 pp
Level 4 Soaring above the Land
✔ 16. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, 240 pp
✔ 17. Where the Red Fern Grows, 272 pp
✔ 18. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, 256 pp
✔ 19. Just Like Jackie, 246 pp
✔ 20. Razor: Becoming a Hero, 219 pp
Level 5 Starting a New Journey
✔ 21. Bunnicula, 116 pp
✔ 22. Howliday Inn, 195 pp
✔ 23. The Celery Stalks at Midnight, 144 pp
✔ 24. Night, 121 pp
✔ 25. Bridge to Terabithia, 190 pp
✔ 26. Cannery Row, 212 pp
✔ 27. Sweet Thursday, 276 pp
✔ 28. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, 149 pp
✔ 29. Animal Farm, 141 pp
✔ 30. The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, 224 pp
✔ 31. City of Dod, 244 pp
✔ 32. Go Tell It on the Mountain, 256 pp
✔ 33. Nighty-Nightmare, 148 pp
✔ 34. Return to Howliday Inn, 192 pp
✔ 35. An Accidental Death, 251 pp
✔ 36. We Were Liars, 242 pp
✔ 37. Tell Me Lies, ~242 pp
✔ 38. Holes, 272 pp
✔ 39. Penric's Demon, 109 pp
✔ 40. Penric and the Shaman, 160 pp
✔ 41. Penric's Fox, 113 pp
✔ 42. Penric’s Mission, 264 pp
✔ 43. Annalynn the Canadian Spy: Terrible Tissues, 92 pp
✔ 44. The Defense Quest, 270 pp
✔ 45. Fairest Son, 147 pp
✔ 46. The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree, 192 pp
✔ 47. The Importance of Being Earnest, 120 pp
✔ 48. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 108 pp
✔ 49. Mira's Last Dance, 87 pp
✔ 50. The Tombs of Atuan, 196 pp
✔ 51. The Farthest Shore, 272 pp
✔ 52. Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit and Friends, 143 pp
✔ 53. Snow, Glass, Apples, 88 pp
✔ 54. Calypso, 273 pp
✔ 55. The Final Warning, 273 pp
✔ 56. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 255 pp
✔ 57. Life, the Universe and Everything, 242 pp
✔ 58. Jerry the Squirrel: Volume One, 132 pp
✔ 59. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, 273 pp
✔ 60. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, 225 pp
✔ 61. Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, 224 pp
✔ 62. The Mouse Watch, 256 pp
✔ 63. Towers Falling, 240 pp
✔ 64. Ninth Ward, 224 pp
✔ 65. Zinnia and the Bees, 240 pp
✔ 66. Brighter Than the Sun, 112 pp
✔ 67. Chace Ogden and the Golden Golem, 138 pp
✔ 68. Black Brother, Black Brother, 240 pp
✔ 69. Ghost Boys, 224 pp
✔ 70. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, 192 pp
✔ 71. So You Want to Talk About Race, 256 pp
✔ 72. Dear Martin, 226 pp
✔ 73. The Fire Next Time, 128 pp
✔ 74. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, 241 pp
✔ 75. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons & an Unlikely Road to Manhood, 242 pp
✔ 76. Navigate Your Stars, 64 pp
✔ 77. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, 273 pp
✔ 78. Two Boys Kissing, 210 pp
✔ 79. Between the World and Me, 176 pp
✔ 80. Hatchet, 208 pp
✔ 81. Elevation, 160 pp
✔ 82. Laurie, 40 pp

(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

.
.
January Reads
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

.
February Reads
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

.
March Reads
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

✔ Alabama: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (read 5/9/19)
✔ Alaska: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (read 1/6/19)
Arizona:
Arkansas:
✔ California: East of Eden by John Steinbeck (read 11/28/19)
Colorado: A Dog's Way Home
✔ Connecticut: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (read 1/29/20)
Delaware:
Florida:
✔ Georgia: Triptych by Karin Slaughter (read 3/15/20)
✔ Hawaii: Max by James Patterson (read 5/25/20)
✔ Idaho: Educated by Tara Westover (read 2/10/19)
✔ Illinois: Becoming by Michelle Obama (read 12/3/18)
✔ Indiana: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (read 11/14/18)
✔ Iowa: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (read 6/15/19)
✔ Kansas: Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston (read 10/19/19)
✔ Kentucky: The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (read 1/5/20)
✔ Louisiana: Ninth Ward, Jewell Parker Rhodes (read 5/24/20)
✔ Maine: The Institute by Stephen King (read 2/6/20)
✔ Maryland: Every Day by David Levithan (read 2/11/19)
✔ Massuchusetts: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover (read 2/25/20)
✔ Michigan: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (read 3/12/18)
✔ Minnesota: Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger (read 1/20/20)
✔ Mississippi: A Time to Kill by John Grisham (read 4/19/20)
✔ Missouri: Nothing More Dangerous (read 10/5/20)
✔ Montana: Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs (read 4/21/19)
✔ Nebraska: Senile Squad: Adventures of the Old Blues by Chris LeGrow (read 5/28/19)
✔ Nevada: The Passage by Justin Cronin (read 10/15/19)
✔ New Hampshire: Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick (read 11/9/18)
✔ New Jersey: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich (read 3/4/20)
✔ New Mexico: First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones (read 2/2/19)
✔ New York: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (read 1/10/20)
✔ North Carolina: A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler (read 2/15/20)
North Dakota:
✔ Ohio: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (read 2/14/19)
✔ Oklahoma: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (read 1/17/20)
✔ Oregon: The Shack by William Paul Young (read 6/30/18)
✔ Pennsylvania: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (read 10/23/19)
Rhode island:
South Carolina: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
South Dakota:
Tennessee: The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
✔ Texas: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (read 2/20/20)
✔ Utah: Thunderhead by Douglas Preston (read 3/15/19)
✔ Vermont: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (read 4/14/20)
✔ Virginia: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (read 1/30/20)
✔ Washington: The Abs True Diary of a PT Indian by Sherman Alexie (read 1/16/20)
✔ West Virginia: Swan Song (read 4/12/20
Wisconsin:
✔ Wyoming: Shane by Jack Schaefer (read 2/5/19)
✔ Washington, DC: A Curse So Dark and Lonely, by Brigid Kemmerer (read 4/18/20)

(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

.
Mt TBR, part 2:
Read 50 books that you had in your database before 2020
✔
Level 1 Base Camp
✔ 1. The Stand d/l 12/7/15, read 3/22-3/28
✔ 2. Swan Song d/l 5/24/19, read 3/27-4/12
✔ 3. Purgatory Ridge d/l 8/25/18, read 3/29
✔ 4. The Water Dancer d/l 10/11/19, read 4/16-4/17
✔ 5. The Tales of Beedle the Bard gifted 2008, read 4/2
Level 2 Start The Climb
✔ 6. Holes d/l 12/7/17, read 4/3
✔ 7. Penric's Demon d/l 7/29/18, read 4/4
✔ 8. Penric and the Shaman d/l 9/5/18, read 4/4
✔ 9. Penric's Fox d/l 7/29/18, read 4/21
✔ 10. Penric’s Mission d/l 7/29/18, read 4/21
✔ 11. Mira's Last Dance d/l 4/20/19, 4/21
✔ 12. A Court of Thorns and Roses d/l 4/23/19, read 4/4-4/5
✔ 13. The Secret History added 6/26/08, read 4/12-4/14
✔ 14. The Water Dancer d/l 10/11/19, read 4/15-4/16
✔ 15. The Importance of Being Earnest d/l 5/28/19, read 4/18
Level 3 Going Higher
✔ 16. A Wizard of Earthsea d/l 10/19/15, read 4/20
✔ 17. The Tombs of Atuan d/l 4/17/17, read 4/22
✔ 18. The Farthest Shore d/l 4/17/17, read 4/22
✔ 19. The Hob's Bargain d/l 7/20/15, read 4/24
✔ 20. A Discovery of Witches d/l 7/31/18, read 4/24-25
✔ 21. Shadow of Night d/l 7/31/18, read 4/26
✔ 22. The Book of Life d/l 7/31/18, read 4/27-28
✔ 23. Heart's Blood d/l 6/14/19, read 4/28-29
✔ 24. Where'd You Go, Bernadette d/l 12/1/17, read 5/1-2
✔ 25. Calypso d/l 1/24/19, read 5/2
✔ 26. Peter and the Starcatchers d/l 12/13/17, read 5/3
✔ 27. Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports d/l 9/11/17, read 5/5
✔ 28. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents 10/26/15, read 5/6
✔ 29. The Wee Free Men d/l 10/10/15, read 5/8
✔ 30. The Final Warning d/l 8/30/17, read 5/10
Level 4 Reach The Summit
✔ 31. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe d/l 11/2/15, read 5/10-11
✔ 32. Life, the Universe and Everything d/l 10/22/15, read 5/11
✔ 33. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish d/l 10/22/15, read 5/15
✔ 34. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love d/l 10/21/19, read 5/14-5/15
✔ 35. Out of My Mind d/l12/7/18, read 5/16
✔ 36. The Night Tiger 6/16/19, read 5/16-5/17
✔ 37. Nine Perfect Strangers d/l 4/5/19, read 5/17-5/18
✔ 38. A Hat Full of Sky d/l 10/17/15, read 5/24-5/25
✔ 39. Max d/l 8/30/17, read 5/25
✔ 40. Wintersmith d/l 4/6/15, read 5/25
✔ 41. I Shall Wear Midnight d/l 4/6/15, read 5/26
✔ 42. The Shepherd's Crown d/l 11/9/15, read 5/26-5/27
✔ 42. Third Grave Dead Ahead d/l 9/23/18, read 5/28
✔ 43. Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet d/l 9/5/18, read 5/28
✔ 44. Fifth Grave Past the Light d/l 9/6/18, read 5/30
✔ 45. Sixth Grave on the Edge d/l 8/26/18, read 5/29
✔ 46. Seventh Grave and No Body d/l 8/29/18, read 5/30
✔ 47. Eighth Grave After Dark d/l 11/12/18, read 5/31
✔ 48. The Dirt on Ninth Grave d/l 8/19/18, read 5/31-6/1
✔ 49. Home d/l 2/22/19, read 6/3
✔ 50. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption d/l 12/1/19, read 6/4-5
Plant your flag, you made it to the top!

.
April Reads
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>


(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>


(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

Duration: 1st April - 30th September
After a crazy start to 2020 (natural disasters, weather phenomona and a public health pandemic), let's recharge our batteries with a cup of tea or two for whatever else 2020 will bring.
How to Participate:
There are 4 levels for you to choose from.
Levels:
Tea for One: 1-5 books
Tea for Two: 6-10 books
Tea Party: 11-20 books
High Tea: 21-30 books
Make yourself a cup of tea by reading a book from each step. You can read them in any order you want and skip steps as well. Make yourself just one tea or a few cups!
*Rules
Spell-it-out rules: Use the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter of the series name, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nickname.
Re-reads are welcome.
A different book must be used for each task.
TASKS
1. It's time to make a cup of tea! Spell out tea
✔ T - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
✔ E - The Elephant's Girl
✔ A - Aurora Rising
2. Boil the water
✔ 80°C - Read a book with something hot on the cover

✔ 90°C - Read a book with the letters of 'hot' in the title The Cloud Roads
✔ 100°C - Read a book where a character gets hot Holes
3. Choose your tea cup
Read a book tagged by the genre of the tea cup you choose
✔ Fantasy The Key Quest
✔ Historical Shadow of Night
✔ Young adult Moonscript
✔ New adult A Court of Thorns and Roses
✔ Paranormal Swan Song
✔ Romance Smoke Bitten
✔ Classic Bleak House
✔ Steampunk Clockwork Angels
✔ Mythology Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
4. Choose your tea
Read a book where the cover matches the tea
✔ Black - Black cover

✔ Green - Green cover

✔ White - White cover

✔ Herbal - Yellow cover

✔ Fruit - Pink cover

✔ Oolong - Brown cover

✔ Rooibos - Red cover

5. Is it loose leaf or in a tea bag?
✔ Loose Leaf - Read a book with a male MC Holes
✔ Tea bag - Read a book with a female MC In the Time of the Butterflies
6. Steep the tea
✔ Weak - Up to 100 pages Annalynn the Canadian Spy: Terrible Tissues 92 pages
✔ Medium - 101 to 300 pages The Defense Quest 270 pages
✔ Strong - 301+ pages A Curse So Dark and Lonely 489 pages
7. Add your sweetener
You can add as many as you want
✔ No sugar - Stand alone The Hob's Bargain
✔ Sugar - 1st in series Penric's Demon
✔ Honey - 2nd in series Penric and the Shaman
✔ Lemon - 3rd in series Penric's Fox
✔ Artificial sweetener - 4th in series Penric’s Mission
8. Add your milk
✔ No milk - Under 1,000 ratings Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe
✔ A dash of milk - 1,001 - 2,000 ratings Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours
✔ Lots of milk - 2,001 - 3,000 ratings The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
✔ Mostly milk - 3,001+ ratings The Water Dancer
9. Choose your snack
Will you enjoy your tea with a snack or two?
Read a book with one of the items below on the cover
Biscuit
Cookie
Cake
Cupcake
Pie
Cucumber sandwiches (any sandwich)
✔ Honey - for the tea

✔ Fruit - pomegranate and blueberries

✔ No snack (no food on the cover)


.
Down with History: Round 2
Read 50 books that are classified as historical fiction that cover as many different countries or time periods as possible
Level 1 - Ancient Ancestors (2 Books)
✔ 1. In the Time of the Butterflies, Dominican Republic, 1930s-1960, 1994
✔ 2. Sent, 1483, England
Level 2 - Medieval Mayhem (4 Books)
✔ 3. The Water Dancer, 19th century, Virginia/US
✔ 4. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1790, Tarrytown, NY
Level 3 - Days of Empire (7 Books)
✔ 5. Shadow of Night, 1590/91, London, Saint Lucien, and Prague
✔ 6. Heart's Blood, Ireland, 12th century Norman invasion
✔ 7. The Court of Miracles, France, 1828
Level 4 - Wars of Old (10 Books)
✔ 8. Homegoing, Ghana, 18th century-present, also America, Baltimore and Palo Alto
✔ 9. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Turkey, 20th century
✔ 10. The War That Saved My Life, England, WWII
Level 5 - The Past is the Past (15 Books)
✔ 11. The Night Tiger, Malaya, 1930s
✔ 12. Memoirs of a Geisha, Kyoto, Japan, 1930s
✔ 13. The Killer Angels, America, Civil War
✔ 14. Towers Falling, Contemporary, but covers 911, NYC
✔ 15. Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina
✔ 16. Home, Gilead, Iowa, 20th century
✔ 17. Ghost Boys, Chicago, IL
✔ 18. The Boy Who Saw In Colours, Germany, WWII
✔ 19. Dominicana, NYC, 1960s
✔ 20. 'Til the Well Runs Dry, Trinidad, 1943-1960s.
✔ 21. The Dream Daughter, 1970, NC, 2001, NYC, 2013, NJ
✔ 22. Necessary Lies, mid-20th century, NC
✔ 23. 4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace, multiple time periods, multiple locations
24. The Fountains of Silence, Madrid, 1957; Dallas, TX, 1975; Madrid, 1976;
25. Crossings, 150s years, 7 lifetimes

Read a book where the main character has the following careers
✔
✔ Miss Scarlet (law): Beach Road This is basically a legal crime drama. Tom and Kate are both lawyers.
✔ Colonel Mustard (military): The Killer Angels This is about the Civil war so there are several military men in this one.
✔ Reverend Green (religion): Home Two of the characters are pastors.
✔ Professor Plum (educator): A Discovery of Witches Both main characters are professors
✔ Mrs. Peacock (business): The Wall of Winnipeg and Me Van has her own graphics design business
Sergeant Gray (law enforcement):
✔ Mr. Brown (con artist/spy): The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Maurice is a con artist running a Pied Piper scam
✔ Mr. Black/Boddy (dead or dies): 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Tequila Leila is dead at the beginning of the book (which is the end)

Start Date: 1st January 2020
End Date: 31st December 2020
How to participate:
The point of the challenge is to create rainbows using the books that you have read (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). You can add in pink, white, brown and black to your rainbow for covers.
No page limit.
Re-reads are welcome.
Books read before you sign up count, as long as they're within the start & end dates.
As you read your books, edit your original comment to let us know your progress.
There are two ways that you can do the challenge.
1. Using the colors on the book cover to create a rainbow







2. Spell out "Rainbow" with author or title.






V V for Vendetta








.
New to You: Part II ✔ ✔ ✔
Read 100 books by authors who are new to you
Level One: Test the Waters (1 New Author)
✔ 1. Find Another Dream, Maysoon Zayid
Level Two: Wade in the Shallow End (3 New Authors)
✔ 2. A Trick of Light, Stan Lee
✔ 3. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, A.J. Hartley
Level Three: Take a Swim (6 New Authors)
✔ 4. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
✔ 5. Razor: Becoming a Hero, Wilkie Martin
✔ 6. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Level Four: Dive Right In (10 New Authors)
✔ 7. Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
✔ 8. Tithe, Holly Black
✔ 9. Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, Rachel Simon
✔ 10. Don't Read the Comments, Eric Smith
Level Five: Going Deeper (15 New Authors)
✔ 11. Tell Me Lies, J.P. Pomare
✔ 12. Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez
✔ 13. In the Dark, Loreth Anne White
✔ 14. The Only Child, Mi-ae Seo
✔ 15. Found, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Level Six: Going Deeper (50 New Authors)
✔ 16. Big Lies in a Small Town, Diane Chamberlain
✔ 17. Killing Floor, Lee Child
✔ 18. Holes, Louis Sachar
✔ 19. Moonscript, H.S.J. Williams
✔ 20. In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
✔ 21. The Cloud Roads, Martha Wells
✔ 22. Swan Song, Robert R. McCammon
✔ 23. The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree, Bill Brittain
✔ 24. The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
✔ 25. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, Washington Irving
✔ 26. A Curse So Dark and Lonely, Brigid Kemmerer
✔ 27. Aurora Rising, Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
✔ 28. The Elephant's Girl, Celesta Rimington
✔ 29. A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness
✔ 30. Heart's Blood, Juliet Marillier
✔ 31. The Court of Miracles, Kester Grant
✔ 32. Dear Edward, Ann Napolitano
✔ 33. Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple
✔ 34. Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry
✔ 35. Calypso, David Sedaris
✔ 36. The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
✔ 37. The Second Home, Christina Clancy
✔ 38. Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
✔ 39. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak
✔ 40. The Wall of Winnipeg and Me, Mariana Zapata
✔ 41. The War That Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
✔ 42. Something Fresh, P.G. Wodehouse
✔ 43. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, Jonathan Van Ness
✔ 44. The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo
✔ 45. Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, Jen Hatmaker
✔ 46. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
✔ 47. The Mouse Watch, J J Gilbert
✔ 48. The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
✔ 49. Towers Falling, Jewell Parker Rhodes
✔ 50. Zinnia and the Bees, Danielle Davis
✔ 51. Blood: A Memoir, Allison Moorer
✔ 52. Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, Jen Hatmaker
✔ 53. The Brave, James Bird
✔ 54. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
✔ 55. Chace Ogden and the Golden Golem, Trevor Darby
✔ 56. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
✔ 57. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
✔ 58. How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
✔ 59. So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
✔ 60. A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Moore Ramee
✔ 61. Dear Martin, Nic Stone
✔ 62. Navigate Your Stars, Jesmyn Ward
✔ 63. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, Anthony Ray Hinton
✔ 64. The Black Flamingo, Dean Atta
✔ 65. The Boy Who Saw In Colours, Lauren Robinson
✔ 66. The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré
✔ 67. Genesis Begins Again, Alicia D. Williams
✔ 68. The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance, Matt Ortile
✔ 69. The Voting Booth, Brandy Colbert
✔ 70. Dominicana, Angie Cruz
✔ 71. 'Til the Well Runs Dry, Lauren Francis-Sharma
✔ 72. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
✔ 73. Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
✔ 74. Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon
✔ 75. Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
✔ 76. What You Wish For, Katherine Center
✔ 77. 4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace, Johan Twiss
✔ 78. Today Tonight Tomorrow, Rachel Lynn Solomon
79. Crossings, Alex Landragin

.
History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp
February: 37 books, 11918 pp
March: 32 books, 14,810 pp
April:50 books, 16,207 pp
Starting my May reads!
Goal: 10000 pages. 30 books
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

End Date: 12/31/20 (or whenever I finish)
Tasks completed: 125
Status: Zoo helper, training for Zoo keeper
♥ Training for each position:
--- Gift Shop Employee: Finish 2 tasks from HALF the animals [25 books]
--- Zoo Helper: Finish 1 task from every animal [50 books]
--- Zookeeper: Finish 2 tasks from every animal [100 books]
--- Veterinarian: Read 3 books from every animal [150 books]
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

.
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

.
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

For this challenge, choose a level you want to read at. Read one book from each task if completing Cafe Latte or Flat White. If aiming for Double Espresso, you may read multiple books from each task.

Duration:
Start - 1st May 2020
Finish - 31st May 2020
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>


Duration: 1st May to 31st May
Books: 6/6
✔
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>


6/6 completed
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

June Monthly Challenge
How to participate:
For this challenge, choose a level you want to read at. Read one book from each task if completing Cafe Latte or Flat White. If aiming for Double Espresso, you may read multiple books from each task.
Duration:
Start - 1st June 2020
Finish - 30th June 2020
Levels:
Cafe Latte - 1 to 5 books
Flat White - 6 to 10 books
Double Espresso - 11 books or more
Tasks
✔ ☁️ 1st June: Global Day of Parents.
Read a book where parents are important to the plot.

✔ ☁️ 3rd June: World Bicycle Day.
Read a book with a character that rides a bicycle or has a bicycle on the front cover.

✔☁️ 5th June: World Environment Day.
Read a book with a character who appreciates nature in some way.

✔ ☁️ 8th June: World Oceans Day.
Read a book with a blue cover or where a character visits the ocean.

✔☁️ 9th June: Donald Duck Day.
Read a book that has a duck in the story or whose author's or a character's name is Donald or Don. Or a book published in June.

✔☁️ 12th June: Red Rose Day - It is an annual celebration of the universal symbol of love and romance - the humble, but beautiful red rose.
Read a book with a rose on the cover or the letters of ROSE in the title.

✔☁️ 15th June: Nature Photography Day.
Read a book whose MC is a photographer or the cover is or has a photograph on it.

✔☁️ 20th June: World Juggling Day - World Juggling Day is held annually on a Saturday closest to June 17 to commemorate the anniversary of the foundation of the International Jugglers Association (IJA) in 1975."
Read a book where circus is a part of the plot or where a character is juggling many things (work, school, saving the world, etc.).

✔☁️ 21st June: International Day of Yoga.
Read a book where a character does yoga, Pilates and/or meditation.

☁️ 26th June: Chocolate Pudding Day - This unofficial holiday celebrates everyone's favorite lunch dessert snack - the chocolate pudding.
Read a book where a character eats chocolate, or pudding or chocolate pudding.
Bonus!
✔☁️ 28th June: CAPS LOCK DAY
Read a book where the title is in caps lock.

Rules
**Earn this badge for reaching Flat White

.
History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp
February: 37 books, 11918 pp
March: 32 books, 14,810 pp
April:50 books, 16,207 pp
May: 56 books, 18,374 pp
Starting my June reads!
Goal: 10000 pages. 30 books
TBR (will likely change and morph, as usual):










(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

✔ No Z: Black Brother, Black Brother, Jewell Parker Rhodes
✔ No Y: The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
✔ No X: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
✔ No W: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
✔ No V: The Boy Who Saw In Colours, Lauren Robinson
✔ No U: Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes
✔ No T: Genesis Begins Again , Alicia D. Williams
✔ No S: The Black Flamingo, Dean Atta
✔ No R: Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan
✔ No Q: How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
✔ No P: So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
✔ No O: 'Til the Well Runs Dry, Lauren Francis-Sharma
✔ No N: A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Moore Ramee
✔ No M: The Voting Booth, Brandy Colbert
✔ No L: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, Jesmyn Ward
✔ No K: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, Anthony Ray Hinton
✔ No J: Dominicana, Angie Cruz
✔ No I: Beach Road, James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
No H:
✔ No G: Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon
✔ No F: 4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace, Johan Twiss

Duration: 1st June - 31st August
Books that increase my awareness of racial and social injustice, culture, and history
Goal: As Many as possible, but hopefully 30
What does "Summer books" mean to me: A time to educate myself in an area I want to improve on.
35/30 COMPLETED
1st June - 30th June:
✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

1st July - 31st July:
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

1st August - 31st August:
✔

✔

✔

✔


Duration: 1st June - 31st August
Books that increase my awareness of racial injustice, culture, and history
Goal: As Many as possible, but hopefully 30
What does "S..."
Eileen, great idea. I would love to hear about your top 3 in this category. I am a slow reader, but would like to read at least one of these books this year, and a recommendation would be very helpful. Good luck with your challenge!

Thanks! As I make progress, I'll let you know what my top 3 are! So far I've found the ones I've read to be quite eye-opening, but I'm just getting started!

✔ Afghanistan:

✔ Antarctica:

✔ Argentina:

✔ Australia:

✔ Austria:

✔ Cambodia:

✔ Canada:

✔ Chile:

✔ China:

✔ Columbia:

✔ Denmark:

✔ Dominican Republic:

Egypt --Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
✔ England:

✔ Ethiopia:

✔ France:

✔ Germany:

✔ Ghana:

✔ Greece:

✔ India:


✔ Ireland:

✔ Japan:

✔ Korea:

✔ Malaysia:

✔ Mexico:

✔ Nigeria:

✔ Norway:

✔ Pakistan:

✔ Poland

✔ (East) Prussia:

✔ Romania:

✔ Russia:

✔ Scotland:

✔ South Africa:

✔ Spain:

✔ Sweden:

✔ Switzerland:

✔ Tibet/Atlantic Ocean

✔ Trinidad/Tobago

✔ Turkey:

✔ United States:

✔ Wales:


.
History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp
February: 37 books, 11918 pp
March: 32 books, 14,810 pp
April:50 books, 16,207 pp
May: 56 books, 18,374 pp
June: 53 books, 15617 pp
(view spoiler)
Total Pages Read: 16913 pp
Books Finished: 42
✔
(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>
Books mentioned in this topic
Dragonsinger (other topics)Front Desk (other topics)
By the Light of the Moon (other topics)
River Secrets (other topics)
Enna Burning (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Abraham Verghese (other topics)Bryce Courtenay (other topics)
Douglas Preston (other topics)
Johan Twiss (other topics)
Lincoln Child (other topics)
More...
Decades Challenge (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ Clue The Character/Career Challenge (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ Mt. TBR (RCG)
Blast off with Sci-Fi (RCG)
The Game is Afoot (RCG)
✔ ✔ Bookopoly 2020 (RCG)
Fantasy Faire ARCS (RCG)
Alphabet Soup (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ Anti-Alphabet Soup (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ Down with History (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ New to You (RCG)
Doorstoppers (RCG)
Chunksters (RCG)
Featherweight (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ Travel the World (RCG)
Genre Challenges (RCG)
✔ ✔ Winter Bingo (RCG) one blank
✔ ✔ ✔ MiniChallenges (RCG)
Book Trackers (2020)
50 states challenge (RFP)
✔ ✔ ✔ Spring Bingo (RCG)
Mt. TBR part II (RCG)
New to You part II (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ April Easter Egg Challenge (CBG)
✔ ✔ ✔ April Monthly Challenge (CBG)
Tea Time Challenge (CBG)
Down with History (RCG), part 2
Clue The Character/Career Challenge (RCG), part 2
✔ ✔ ✔ May Monthly Challenge (CBG)
✔ ✔ ✔ May Create Your Garden Challenge (CBG)