The History Book Club discussion

Sample Format Choices:

Sample Format for initial set up before completing books:

✓1. The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations Hardcover – May 22, 2018 by John McCain

by John McCain

2. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

by Rick Atkinson

3. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

by Mark Kurlansky

Note: See the sample checkmark in number one that would show that I completed that book.

And if you like to see the strikethrough example that the book has been completed - see number 2.

On the Personal Reading Lists - you have a choice of either using checkmarks or strikethroughs.

For comprehensive assistance - we always have the "how to" thread.

See link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

You can always check Bentley's Thread for the Personal Reading List Thread.

See Bentley's Sample Thread for the Personal Reading List Thread.

Link:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Basic Information to help you get started:



For 2020, we are going to set up for all participants two threads - the first will be each participant's Personal Reading List thread where they can create lists of books that they want to read for the 50 Books Read challenge.

And as they read them - they can check them off or do a strikethrough.

It is your working thread.

You can check off each book as you read it by adding & # 10003 ; (with no spaces in between) right before the title of the book with additionally no spaces after the semicolon and before the title of the book.

If you would like to bold the title of the book and author - and number them - in addition to adding a checkmark - you would then add & # 10003 ;(with no spaces) and then < b >1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson< /b > with no spaces. You can easily preview what you have done to see if your code works.

✓1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

or without a number

✓The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

You can also do strikethroughs if you like - that is the same as bolding but using an s instead of b.

For example: < s > The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson < / s>
You would use this code without the spaces within the brackets or in front of the book title or after the name of the author.

It would look like this:

The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

If you want it bolded as well:

< s >< b >The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson < / b >< / s >
You would use this code without the spaces within the brackets or in front of the book title or after the name of the author.

It would end up looking like this:

The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

The second thread is just like it has always been.

If you want to also number the books as well as bold them using a strike through:

< s > < b >1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson < / b > < / s>
You would use this code without the spaces within the brackets or in front of the book title number or after the name of the author.

It would end up looking like this:

1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

The second thread is the formatted reading thread for 50 Books that we always have done and includes your reviews using the designated format.

You must sign up for 50 Books Read in 2020 to get both threads - the Personal Reading List thread just for you and your own 2020 Books Read in 2020 thread. You must use the format on the Books Read in 2020 thread. If you would like to participate - then please add your name here and I will set up both threads. Active participants in the 2019 50 Books Read in 2020 get their own two threads.

The format for the Personal Lists when setting them up is easy:

Just number or list and skip one line in between.
After skipping one line - just add the citation.

bookcover, the word by, the author's photo and then the author's link

Then skip another line before adding your next book. As you read and complete them - either use a strikethrough or a checkmark - that means that you have added your review according to the standard format on your review thread (same as every other year).

Check the how to thread for additional directions and assistance. We will always be there to assist.

And even if you do not finish all of the books on your list or many on your list - remember whatever books are not completed on the list can be carried over to the 2021 Personal Reading List thread. All you have to do is to do an edit, copy and then a paste on next year's thread. So the sky is the limit.

Have fun with your list thread - you are ready to go!

✓1. John Adams

by David McCullough

2. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

by Jon Meacham

3. Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow

4. Colonel Roosevelt

by Edmund Morris

5. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

6. Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

by Bob Woodward

✓7. Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel

8. Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

9. The Mirror and the Light

by Hilary Mantel

10. Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume I, 1884-1933

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

11. Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume II: The Defining Years, 1933-1938

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

12. Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume III: The War Years and After, 1939-1962

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

✓13. A Promised LandBarack Obama

by

✓14. Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President

by Michael S. Schmidt (no photo)

✓15. Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, at Home and Abroad

by John O. Brennan

✓16. Fear: Trump in the White House

by Bob Woodward

✓17. Rage

by Bob Woodward

✓18. Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

by Peter Strzok (no photo)

✓19. Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation

by Andrew Weissmann (no photo)

✓20. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

by Fareed Zakaria

✓21. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

by Rick Atkinson

✓22. Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975

by Neal Gabler

23. The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President

by Noah Feldman

✓24. The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom

by H.W. Brands

✓ 25. Caste: The Origins of our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson

26. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson

27. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

by Annette Gordon-Reed

28. Mornings on Horseback

by David McCullough

✓29. Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West

by H.W. Brands

✓30. Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

by Les Standiford

✓31. Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide

by Tony Horwitz

✓32. The Madonnas of Leningrad

by Debra Dean

✓33. Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For

by Susan Rice (no photo)

✓34. On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey

by Paul Theroux

✓35. The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s

by Maggie Doherty (no photo)

✓36. The Road From Raqqa; A Story of Brotherhood, Borders, and Belonging

by Jordan Ritter Conn

Oh, Lorna, how adventurous of you!. Will there be a forthcoming Review?
Regards
Andrea

✓37. The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

by Charlotte Alter (no photo)

Andrea wrote: " Oh, Lorna, how adventurous of you!. Will there be a forthcoming Review?
Regards
Andrea"

Actually, Andrea, there is a review up if you search the book. It was such a beautiful and heartbreaking book. I loved it. Thank you..

✓38. Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs

by Wallace Stegner

✓39. A Christmas Memory

by Truman Capote

✓40. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel García Márquez

✓41. News of a Kidnapping

by Gabriel García Márquez

✓42. The Most They Ever Had

by Rick Bragg

✓43. Where I Come From: Stories From the Deep South

by Rick Bragg