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1. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1) - mystery - new Orleans
2. The Mercies - Historical Fiction -Norway
3.The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey- nonfiction - England
4. Wolf Hall- Historical fiction - Henry VIII
5.Aftershocks nonfiction - italy, Ghana, varied locations
6. Memorial
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - historical fiction-WWII -England
8. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country- nonfiction - North Dakota - Native American
9. Ghana Must Go -contemporary fiction - US, Ghana -African
10. Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights - Nonfiction -African American
11. The Clerk's Tale -Mystery, Historical fiction - England
12. The House of Unexpected Sisters - Mystery -Botwana
13. Winter Counts - Mystery - South Dakota - Native American
14. Shadowplay - historical fiction - England
15. Murder in Old Bombay - historical mystery- India
16. Break Shot: My First 21 Years -audio autobiography - James Taylor
17. The Ardent Swarm - contemporary fiction - Tunisia
18. Seabiscuit: An American Legend - nonfiction
19. Dark Mother Earth -contemporary fiction - Croatia
20. The Women of Chateau Lafayette-Historical Fiction-WWII- France
21. The Haunting of Hill House -Gothic Horror- England
22. Infinite Country: A Novel: Infinite Country: A Novel
23. The Thursday Murder Club -Mystery -England
24. Reign of the Marionettes -Historical Fiction- 17th century - England
25. The Missing American - Mystery - Ghana
26. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line - Mystery - India
27. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions- Nonfiction- Immigration issues- US
28, Everything I Never Told You- Contemporary Fiction - Ohio
29. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots - Nonfiction- BLM- African American
30. The Old Girls' Network- Contemporary Fiction - England
31. Hot Milk- Literary Fiction- Spain
32. The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany - Nonfiction- WWII
33. A Burning- Literary Fiction - India
34. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies - Short Story -African American
35. The Undocumented Americans -Nonfiction - Immigration Issues
36. The Vanishing Half- Literary Fiction - African American
37, Golden Hill - Historical Fiction - NYC
38. The Likeness -Mystery - Ireland
39. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Nonfiction- History- African American
40. My Last Continent- Suspense- Antarctica
41. The Seven Day Switch- Beach read-
42. For Rouenna- Literary fiction-NYC, Vietnam war
43. When We Believed in Mermaids -Beach Read-California, New Zealand
44. Detransition, Baby -contemporary - Lgbtq -NYC
45. Why We Swim - Nonficiton
46, In Five Years -time travel, contemporary fiction - NYC
47. Sandcastle Beach - beach read romance - Ontario, Canada
48. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir - memoir -Atlanta, Georgia
49. Less - Literary fiction, Lgbtq
50. Starlight - Literary fiction- Native American- Canada
51. That Camden Summer- Beach-read, Historical fiction- Early 20th century- Maine
52. The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship-nonfiction, travel- Norway
53. The Red Hill- Medieval mystery - Spain
54. Olive Kitteridge -Literary Fiction - Maine
55. Emma -Regency Era - England
56. The Arctic Fury -Historical Fiction - 19th century = Arctic
57. The Sadness - Contemporary fiction - Maine
58. Alfie the Holiday Cat - cat series - England
59. Shadow of the Hangman - Regency Era- Mystery- England
60. The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir -Memoir -African American
61. Thirteen Moons - Historical fiction- 19th century -Blue Ridge Mountains - The South
62. A Murder in Time - Time Travel - Regency England
63. Crow Lake- coming of age/family drama/ literary fiction- Canada
64. Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic- Nonfiction- West Virginia
65. China Room - historical fiction, cultural - India
66. Missing- Jason Vail -Medieval Mystery - England
67. James Madison and the Making of America-founding fathers biography - 1776-1836
68. The Performance - literary fiction- Australia
69. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - literary fiction - England
70. The Yield- literary fiction- Australia, Indigenous
71. The Hired Man- Literary fiction-War, Croatia
72. The Coldest Case-mystery series - France
73. Klara and the Sun - Literary fiction- Futuristic, Booker longlist
74. The Salt Path- Memoir, slow travel, literati- England
75. The Sweetness of Water - literary fiction, Booker Prize- Reconstruction South
76. What Strange Paradise - contemporary fiction - refugee
77. The Bad Muslim Discount -Contemporary fiction- California, refugee, Iraq, Pakistan
78. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald=Historical Fiction- 1920's , Paris, NYC
79. The Rain Heron - Eco-dystopian- Australia
80. The Nightingale - historical fiction - World War II, France
81. The Wild Silence - nonfiction, travelogue - England, Iceland
82. The Promise -literary fiction- South Africa
83. Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town -nonfiction, travelogue -Cornwall, England
84. A Tale for the Time Being-literary fiction, contemporary - Canada, NYC,Japan
85. Matrix -Historical Ficiton, Literary - England
86. I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain - Nonfiction, travelogue, memoir - England
87. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - literary fiction, african-american - NYC, Detroit
88. Once There Were Wolves - Romantic suspense, environment - Scotland
89. On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist- Memoir, journalism - Afghanistan, syria
90. Bewilderment - Wisconsin - literary fiction
91. The Last Garden in England- England - Historical fiction
92. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail- nonfiction, travelogue, memoir - California, Oregon
93. The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle- Nonfiction, memoir - Bolivia
94. The Little Shop in Cornwall- Romance - England
95. Ghost Wall-Horror - England
96. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine - Nonficiton/ Biography - NYC, England
97. This Thing Between Us - Horror, contemporary fiction - Chicago, Illinois, Colorado
98. The Pull of the Stars -historical fiction, literary -Ireland
99. Daughters of the Stone - Historical Fiction-Puerto Rico
100. The Third Witch- retelling, YA- Scotland
101. Cloud Cuckoo Land -literary fiction - Idaho, Turkey
102. Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other-Travelogue- Scotland
103. Home Fire - literary fiction - England, Pakistan
104. Everyman -literary fiction - Chicago, the south
105. The Tattooist of Auschwitz - historical ficiton - Poland
106. The Town House-historical fiction- England
107. The Man in the Tent: My Life under Canvas - The First Four Years - Nonfiction, travelogue - England
108. Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury: A Novel - historical fiction - Michigan, great lakes
109. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground -nonfiction, memoir, essays - Native American, Canada
110. Alfie the Doorstep Cat - contemporary fiction - England
111. Freedom- nonfiction, essay, travelogue - Pennsylvania
112. Among the Beautiful Beasts-historical fiction- Florida
113. Florence Adler Swims Forever - historical fiction- New Jersey
114. Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food-nonfiction, memoir- Denmark, Maine, Poland, Congo, Malaysia(Borneo)
115. Death Scent: A Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery - mystery, animals - Idaho
116. Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could- Politics, nonfiction - Washington DC
117. The Deadliest Sin - medieval mystery - London, England
118. Vera - historical fiction, 1906 -San Francisco.
119. The Reading List - contemporary fiction - England
120. Lily and the Octopus -contemporary fiction, animals - Los Angeles CA
121. Christmas at Fox Farm - romance - England
122.Hell of a Book - literary fiction - USA, San Francisco, South Carolina
123. A Cat Called Alfie - contemporary, animals - England
124. A Fatal Grace - mystery - Canada
125. The Cat Who Saved Books - folk tale - Japan
126. Small Things Like These- historical fiction, Christmas-Ireland
127. Heart Berries - memoir - Canadian author, first nations/native american
128. When the Stars Go Dark -mystery suspense - Northern California/Mendocino
129. Boxes in the Basement -mystery series- Maine
130. Falling -contemporary thriller- LA, NYC
131. Chasing the Sun-contemporary, cozy, elder romance- England, spain, mexico
132. Deadline in Athens - mystery - Greece

January-Mental Health -
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead Sara Gran - 4 stars
Bonus tag - Historical Fiction -
The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Wolf Hall
February - Family Drama -
Memorial -Bryan Washington
Ghana Must Go Taiye Selasi
March - Africa -
The House of Unexpected Sisters
The Ardent Swarm -Yamen Manei
April - Gothic -
The Haunting of Hill House
May - Shortstories -
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
June - Beach Reads -
The Seven Day Switch
When We Believed in Mermaids
In Five Years
Why We Swim
Sandcastle Beach
That Camden Summer
The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship
July - Regency Era
Emma
Shadow of the Hangman
A Murder in Time
August-Cultural
The Performance
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
The Yield
The Hired Man
The Coldest Case
The Salt Path
The Sweetness of Water
What Strange Paradise
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
September- Made Me Cry
The Nightingale
A Tale for the Time Being
The Last Garden in England
October - Feminist
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Ghost Wall
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
The Pull of the Stars
November - First of a Series
The Town House
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Man in the Tent: My Life under Canvas - The First Four Years
Alfie the Doorstep Cat
Death Scent: A Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery
December - Books About Books
The Reading List
Hell of a Book
The Cat Who Saved Books
Heart Berries

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January - Norway - The Mercies
February - Japan - Memorial
March - Botswana - The House of Unexpected Sisters
April - Colombia - Infinite Country: A Novel: Infinite Country: A Novel
May - India - A Burning
June -Antarctica - My Last Continent
July - Canada - The Arctic Fury
August - Australia - The Yield
September - France -The Nightingale
October - Bolivia - The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle
November - England - The Town House
December - San Francisco - Vera

January -
Prozac (exact word)
group therapy (exact words or situation)
suicidal ideation (exact words or situation) - Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead - exact words
coping skills (exact words)
February
Divorce (exact) -Memorial
Bigamy (exact or situation)
Sibling rivalry (exact or situation) - Ghana Must Go- situation , p.271 between Taiwo and Sadie.
Come/coming/came out (exact, but with any form of the verb “come”) and must discussed in the context of coming out to parents - Memorial
March
The Four categories for March are:
Safari (Exact and character must GO ON a safari, not just talk about it)
Equator (Exact)
Ebola (Exact)
Habitat destruction (Exact or Situation)
April - The 4 categories for April are:
Pointed arch (exact or description of one in architecture)
Graveyard/cemetery (person must visit this place. Either went in the past and describes it in the book or goes in the “present” book time)
Item Collected: Cemetary
Location in Book: P. 17
Book: Infinite Country
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Lights turning of unexpectedly (situation)
Raven (exact)
May
pulp fiction (exact) -- Anna
urgent travel (exact or situation) -- Anita -Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
storytelling Storytelling: a character/person in the book is telling a story to another character/person (this has to be explicitly stated but can be past, present or future.) -- Cindy -Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots -62% -p.195
letter (exact) -- Nicole -Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
I 61% p. 194
June
surfing (situation - could be surging waves or the internet) -- Anna
Surfing - 46% - location 1745
surfing lessons—all these things I don’t have time for, since I’m still working. - My Last Continent
sunburn (exact) -- Anita -Item Collected: Sunburn
Location in book: p.328
Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters
sandcastle(s) (exact) -- Cindy -
but also: 22%- Location 1230 -
Sandcastle Beach -Jenny Holiday
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
beach (situation - person/character has to visit a beach) -- Nicole _-My Last Continent Midge Raymond- 4 stars
Item 1: Beach - 45% - location 1702
"The penguins don’t build nests here, on the unstable black volcanic sand, and their absence gives me a lonely feeling as I pilot the Zodiac toward the beach. When we’re close, I hop out and drag the boat onto dry sand.
July -Ball -- someone must attend a large, formal dance (situation) -- Cindy _ - The ball proceeded pleasantly. The Anxious cares, the incessant attentions of Mrs. Weston were not thrown away- Everybody seemed happy; and the praise of being a delighful ball- 66% pg 4 of 4 chapter 38
Gretna Green - must mention in the context of an elopement (exact) -- Anna
Rake (exact) -- Nicole
Hyde Park (exact) -- Anita -Item Collected: Hyde Park (2/4)Location in book: p, 163
‘No,’ said O’Gara, waving the paper in the air, ‘it isn’t directly about us but it’s just what we need. The Battle of Waterloo is going to be celebrated in Hyde Park with huge crowds milling around. The Home Secretary is bound to be there. Can you guess what I’m thinking, Moses?’Shadow of the Hangman
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
August
immigration (situation) -- someone must arrive in a new country for the purpose of permanently living there -- Cindy -Location in Book P.28 "Of course, when you’re leaving behind the only country you’ve ever known, walking away from a caravan of first cousins and second cousins and close friends who have gathered to see you off, possibly forever, it is hard to appreciate that. I didn’t feel very certain of much that day at Jinnah International." Note- After this point the family arrives in the US, live there and become citizens - The Bad Muslim Discount
religious ritual (situation) -- must reference a religion and a ritual associated with it -- Anita -
Location in Book p.3 - "Mikey was the only pet I ever had. He was mine for about a week. I fed him dry straw, brought him buckets of water and asked him if he really wanted to be slaughtered for the sake of Allah at the upcoming Eid because, quite frankly, that seemed like a poor career choice.....Eid al-Adha marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca. The name of the celebration translates to “the Festival of Sacrifice.”....The festival commemorates Prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, either Isaac or Ishmael depending on what you believe or disbelieve, to God. Muslims all over the world purchase and slaughter rams, goats, cows or camels in memory of the moment when God saved Abraham’s son from God’s own command. Mikey was my sacrifice to Allah. Since I was only ten, his purchase was financed by my parents."
Book TitleThe Bad Muslim Discount
food (situation) -- must include a foreign recipe or a description of how to cook a foreign food -- Anna
Location in Book; pp.147-148, 45%It was time to start preparing the meal, the cold soup first—vichyssoise. In the garden, he dug up a single potato plant, which gave him four fat ones, nearly half a kilo. He pulled out two medium-sized leeks and two small onions and snipped off a bunch of chives. Back in the kitchen he peeled the potatoes and onions and stripped off the outer leaves and tops of the leeks, keeping only the whites. He sliced and chopped them into small dice, then began to fry them in duck fat over a very gentle heat. Ten minutes would let them cook without browning as long as he kept turning them. He returned quickly to the garden with a wicker basket, loaded it with three fat carrots, a head of celery, eight shallots, a fat lettuce, a cucumber and some cherry tomatoes and darted back to turn the cooking vegetables of the vichyssoise. When the onions and leeks were soft, he slowly added a half liter of his own chicken stock and a wineglass full of water, bringing the vegetables to a simmer until he was sure the potatoes were cooked through. For the moment he thought there would be enough salt in the chicken stock, but he’d test it later, once the dish had cooled
Book: The Coldest Case
culturally significant location (situation) -- person/character must visit a location that has a historical/cultural/religious significance in a foreign country -- Nicole
Location in book -p. 145 They could have lunch in Montignac, then he’d urge them to take a canoe trip in the afternoon from the fortress of Castelnaud down the Dordogne River to the next fortress, Beynac, that loomed above the river from its clifftop. They did indeed go there.
Book: The Coldest Case
September
Kleenex (exact) -- Cindy
onion(s) (exact) -- Anna
wedding (situation) -- characters/people in the book must attend a wedding -- Anita - Item Collected: Wedding
Location in Book: p. 278 - 72%
Throughout all of it, Philipp had stood by me, loyal and loving. One day, after eight years together, he decided that he wanted to get married and really settle down in one place. I didn’t need to be asked twice. Much of our relationship had been long distance. After I moved to Beijing, he had moved to Geneva, then when I had come to London, he had gone to Singapore.
college (situation) -- character/person must move our of their family's home to go to college; can be told from the departing college student or remaining family's POV-- Nicole - Item Collected : Going away to college
Location in Book: P23-9%
Number Collected 1/4
On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist- Clarissa Ward
October
suffrage (exact) -- Cindy - Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
Elizabeth Blackwell (exact) -- Anna - Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
birth control (situation) -- call be any reference to the Pill, IUD, using it, planning for it, getting it from a doctor, etc. -- Anita
p.258, 80%- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
second-wave feminism (or second-wave feminist) (exact) -- Nicole
November
- sequence (exact) - Cindy
- backstory (exact) - Anna
- to be continued (exact) - Nicole
- cliffhanger (situation) - Anita
Note: for "cliffhanger", please use the spoiler tag < spoiler > blah blah blah < / spoiler > (without spaces) or set is apart in some way like:
*******SPOILER*******
blah blah blah
*******END SPOILER *******
December

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1. Infinite Country
2. Aftershocks
3.The Women of Chateau Lafayette
4. The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
5. The Seven Day Switch
6. China Room
7. The Performance
8. The Coldest Case
9. What Strange Paradise
10. The Rain Heron
11. The Wild Silence
12. Matrix
13. I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
14. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
15. Once There Were Wolves
16. Bewilderment
17. The Last Garden in England
18. The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle
19. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
20. This Thing Between Us
21. Cloud Cuckoo Land
22. Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury: A Novel
23. Freedom
24. Death Scent: A Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery
25. Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
26. The Deadliest Sin
27. Vera
28. The Reading List
29. Christmas at Fox Farm
30. Hell of a Book
31. The Cat Who Saved Books
32. Small Things Like These
33. Falling
34. When the Stars Go Dark
35. Chasing the Sun

1. The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey
2.Aftershocks
3. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country - Sierra Crane Murdoch
4. Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights -Gretchen Sorin
5. Seabiscuit: An American Legend -Laura Hillenbrand
6. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
7. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
8. The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany - Gwen Strauss
9. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
10. Why We Swim
11. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
12. The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship
13. The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
14. Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
15. James Madison and the Making of America
16. The Salt Path
17. The Wild Silence
18. Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town
19. I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
20. On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist
21. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
22. The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle
23. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
24. Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
25. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
26. Freedom
27. Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food
28. Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
29. Heart Berries

Will add list on January 1, 2021
From the Trim the tbr -
Just One Damned Thing After Another
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo
Also - Baba Yaga Laid an Egg _ But I have placed in it the dnf and I don't expect to return to it, but just in case.

Travel the Stacks
1. Daughters of the Stone
The Third Witch
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3.Olive Kitteridge
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
4. Seabiscuit: An American Legend
The Likeness
Crow Lake
5.That Camden Summer
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8. Ghana Must Go
For Rouenna
James Madison and the Making of America
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Thanks, Amy. We will see if I am still looking good this time next year.

2021- Brought to the Top
1. Weather - Jenny Offill
2. Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
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7. Rage - Bob Woodward
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10. Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
11. Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu
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17. The Thirty Names of Night - Zeyn Joukhadar
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20. Rodham - Curtis Sittenfeld
21. Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat

PBT tag
Mental Health
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker
Historical Fiction
Fly the Skies Norway
Trim the TBR
Week 1/10 to 1/16: Parts 1 and 2
Week 1/17 to 1/24: Parts 3 and 4
Week 1/25 to 1/31: Parts 5 and 6

Wishlist of Books Released in 2021
All the Children Are Home: A Novel
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
Bride of the Sea
Caul Baby
The Charmed Wife
The Children's Blizzard: A NovelBought
Dark Horses: A Novel
Do No Harm
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
An Emotion of Great Delight
Faye, Faraway
The Five Wounds: A Novel Bought
Foregone: A Novel
Great Circle
Harlem Shuffle
Hour of the Witch: A Novel
How Beautiful We Were: A Novel Bought
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A Novel
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America
My Broken Language: A Memoir
Libertie: A Novel
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
A Net for Small Fishes
Of Women and Salt
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot: A Novel
The Paris Library
Peaces
The Recent East
Red Island House: A Novel
The Rose Code: A Novel
Rule of Wolves
A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
This Close to Okay
We Are All Birds of Uganda
We Begin at the End
We Run the Tides
While Justice Sleeps: A Novel

PBT Tag- Family Drama
Trim the TBR
Edgar Nominees Read
Black History Month - Plan to read some -1 to all
Leftovers
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground - Alicia Elliott

Best Novel
Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney
These Women by Ivy Pochoda
The Distant Dead by Heather Young
Best First Novel
Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
Best Paperback Original
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
The Deep, Deep Snow by Brian Freeman
Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey
The Keeper by Jessica Moor (Penguin Random House - Penguin Books)https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
East of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman
Best Fact Crime
Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
by Mark A. Bradley
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
by Emma Copley Eisenberg (
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
by Eric Eyre
by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
by Ariel Sabar
Best Critical/Biographical
Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club by Martin Edwards
Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock by Christina Lane
Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Erin E. MacDonald
Guilt Rules All: Irish Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction
by Elizabeth Mannion & Brian Cliff
This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughingg by Jacqueline Winspear
Young Adult
The Companion by Katie Alender
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
They Went Left by Monica Hesse
The Silence of Bones by June Hur
The Cousins by Karen M. McManus
The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award
Death of an American Beauty by Mariah Fredericks
The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa Hart
The Lucky One by Lori Rader-Day
The First to Lie by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Cold Wind by Paige Shelton (
The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award
The Burn by Kathleen Kent
Riviera Gold by Laurie R. King
Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery by Rosalie Knecht
Dead Land by Sara Paretsky
The Sleeping Nymph by Ilaria Tuti
Turn to Stone by James W. Ziskin

PBT Tag -Africa One of the following:
Freshwater
How Beautiful We Were: A Novel
Trim the TBR
Edgar Awards-Best First Novel
Follow the Calendar- Dublin Literary Awards
One of the Following:
Homeland
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Leftovers
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground- Alicia Elliott
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic

2021 Longlist of Library Nominations
Clap When You Land- Elizabeth Acevedo
Things that Fall from the Sky - Selja Ahava
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water-António Lobo Antunes
Homeland -Fernando Aramburu _ TBR
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett-TBR
The White Girl -Tony Birch
It Would Be Night in Caracas - Karina Sainz Borgo
The Cat and The City - Nick Bradley
The Confessions of Frannie Langton - Sara Collins -TBR
The Innocents - Michael Crummey
The Pelican: A Comedy - Martin Michael Driessen
Catacombs - Mary Anna Evans
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo - TBR
The Other Name: Septology I-II - Jon Fosse
Gun Island - Amitav Ghosh
When All Is Said - Anne Griffin
The Eighth Life: -Nino Haratischwili
Beyond Yamashita and Percival - Shaari Isa
Tyll -Daniel Kehlmann
The Ditch- Herman Koch
While the Music Played - Nathaniel Lande
The Boy-Marcus Malte
Auē- Becky Manawatu
The Glass Hotel - Emily St John Mandel
Hurricane Season- Fernanda Melchor
Cilka's Journey - Heather Morris
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. Joyce Carol Oates
Inland- Téa Obreht
Mona in Three Acts - Griet Op de Beeck
This Excellent Machine Stephen Orr
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen- Dexter Palmer
The Pine Islands - Marion Poschmann
A Chronicle of Forgetting- Sebastijan Pregelj
We Cast a Shadow- Maurice Ruffin
Beside Myself- Sasha Marianna Salzmann
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World- Elif Shafak
The Subtweet: A Novel - Vivek Shraya
Crossing -Pajtim Statovci
The Trumpet Shall Sound-Eibhear Walshe
The Bird King – G. Willow Wilson
The Yield– Tara Jane Winch

Edgar Awards- Best Novel
PBT -Monthly Tag- Gothic
This House Is Haunted - John Boyne
Lady Audley's Secret
Fly the Skies
Colombia-
Trim the Tbr
Crossing the Border With so much interest focused on the refugees coming in across the Mexican border I am going to read (a) book(s) about it.
TBR-
Signs Preceding the End of the World
Unaccompanied
Wishlist-
The Devil's Highway: A True Story
The Undocumented Americans
Children of the Land
The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
AAPI Read
Leftovers
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground- Alicia Elliott
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
How Beautiful We Were: A Novel
Homeland
The Confessions of Frannie Langton

I find I need to make sure to read my kindle unlimited books to make it worth it or make a decision to get rid of it.
Dear Jane
Footloose: Sydney To London Without Flying
Three Things About Elsie
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
What Did You Do In The War, Sister?: Catholic Sisters in the WWII Nazi Resistance
Take What You Can Carry
Sins in Blue
Chasing the Sun
Black Boy Out of Time
Monkey Beach
The Silence of Scheherazade
Death Scent: A Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery
Cross Country: A 3,700-Mile Run to Explore Unseen America
Cotswolds Memoir: Discovering a Beautiful Region of Britain on a Quest to Buy a 17th Century Cottage
The Cruelest Month
Florence Adler Swims Forever
Boxes in the Basement

PBT-Short Story
Girl, Woman, Other
The Yellow Wallpaper
Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Fly the Skies
Unofficial Trim -#6
Currently Reading
Crossing the Border - With so much interest focused on the refugees coming in across the Mexican border I am going to read (a) book(s) about it.
Unaccompanied
Signs Preceding the End of the World
AAPI Read
Preordered for May
Women's Prize for Fiction
Transcendent Kingdom
Leftovers/To Read Soon
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground- Alicia Elliott
How Beautiful We Were: A Novel
Homeland

PBT - Beach Read
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Unofficial Trim - #3
Fly the Skies
Pursue it
surfing (situation - could be surging waves or the internet) -- Anna - My Last Continent
sunburn (exact) -- Anita -Detransition, Baby
sandcastle(s) (exact) -- Cindy- Sandcastle Beach
beach (situation - person/character has to visit a beach) -- NicoleMy Last Continent
Other
The Literati Book Club
Heavy
The Ocean
The Deep
Pride Month Read
Leftovers
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground- Alicia Elliott
How Beautiful We Were: A Novel
Homeland
Transcendent Kingdom

The Literati Book Clubs
Steph Curry -
June -

JUly - Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian - My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph
August - Live Free: Exceed Your Highest Expectations
September - Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Pregnancy, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families
October -This Bright Future: A Memoir
November -Sisters in Arms
Joseph Campbell
June _

July - A River Sutra
August - Piranesi
September -Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine Women of the Plains
October - Ariadne
November - The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga
Jesmyn Ward
June -

July - Last One Out Shut Off the Lights
August - The Removed
September -Caul Baby
October - Her Body and Other Parties
November -
Austin Kleon
June -

July- The Summer Book
August - Arbitrary Stupid Goal
September -The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
October - Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
November - Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Roxanne Gay
June -

July -The Five Wounds: A Novel
August - Somebody's Daughter
September - The Renunciations: Poems
October - The Heart Principle
November - Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be
Kelly McGonigal -
June -

July -
August - Peaces
September - The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
October -Watch Over Me
November - Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Richard Branson
June -

July - Happiness
August - Wind, Sand and Stars
September - The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
October - Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs
November - The Promised Land
Malala
June -

JUly - Are You Enjoying?
August -
September - Girl A
October -
November - Land of Big Numbers: Stories
Elin Hilderbrand
June _

July - It Had to Be You
August - There's a Word for That
September - Mrs.
October - The Plot
November - Euphoria
Susan Orlean
June -

July _ Hamnet
August - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
September -
October - On Animals
November
Cheryl Strayed
June -

July _
August -
September -
October - Festival Days
November-
Atlas Obscura -
June

July - Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
August - The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
September - How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
October - From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
November -
Megan Rapinoe - September -

October - Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
November Felix Ever After

PBT - Regency Era
Finding Napoleon
Unofficial Trim
Fly the Skies
Pursue It
Ball -- someone must attend a large, formal dance (situation) -- Cindy - Emma
Gretna Green - must mention in the context of an elopement (exact) -- Anna
Rake (exact) -- Nicole
Hyde Park (exact) -- Anita-Shadow of the Hangman
4th of July
- RAGE- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...Bob Woodward
Rodham - Curtis Sittenfeld
Christmas in July
From Conversations
The Literati Book Club
Hamnet
Booker Longlist
Leftovers
Just One Damned Thing After Another
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground- Alicia Elliott
How Beautiful We Were: A Novel
Homeland
Transcendent Kingdom
The Deep
Heavy

PBT - Cultural
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Transit of Venus
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev*
Unofficial Trim
#11 -
Fly the Skies
Australia
The Transit of Venus
Fled
Pursue It
immigration (situation) -- someone must arrive in a new country for the purpose of permanently living there -- Cindy -The Bad Muslim Discount
religious ritual (situation) -- must reference a religion and a ritual associated with it -- Anita -The Bad Muslim Discount
food (situation) -- must include a foreign recipe or a description of how to cook a foreign food -- Anna
The Coldest Case
culturally significant location (situation) -- person/character must visit a location that has a historical/cultural/religious significance in a foreign country -- Nicole
The Coldest Case
Booker Longlist
Obama's Summer Reading List
Literati
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
From Conversations
Buddy READS
Leftovers
Just One Damned Thing After Another
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground- Alicia Elliott
How Beautiful We Were: A Novel
Homeland
Transcendent Kingdom
The Deep
Heavy
Hamnet
Rodham
Rage -Bob Woodward

At Night All Blood is Black: A Novel - David Diop
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty - Patrick Radden Keefe
Intimacies -Katie Kitamura
Land of Big Numbers: Stories - Te-Ping Chen
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Things We Lost to the Water - Eric Nguyen
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future - Elizabeth Kolbert
When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut

A Passage North
Second Place
An Island
A Town Called Solace
No One Is Talking About This
The Fortune Men
Great Circle
Light Perpetual

PBT- Made Me Cry
The Great Believers
Fly the Skies
Pursue It
Kleenex (exact) -- Cindy
onion(s) (exact) -- Anna
wedding (situation) -- characters/people in the book must attend a wedding -- Anita - On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist
college (situation) -- character/person must move our of their family's home to go to college; can be told from the departing college student or remaining family's POV -- Nicole - Item Collected: Wedding
Location in Book: p. 278 - 72%
On All Fronts
Trim the TBR
#9
The Wainwright Prize
Literati
Arbitrary Stupid Goal
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
Booker Nominees
A Town Called Solace
Light Perpetual
Conversations about Books
A Woman Is No Man
Thinking about Afghanistan
The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan
Going on a walk
Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness
The Man in the Tent: My Life under Canvas - The First Four Years
Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
Possibilities
Moon and the Mars
Love After Love
Chasing the Sun
Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family
Unsettled Ground
Among the Beautiful Beasts
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Leftovers
Just One Damned Thing After Another
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground- Alicia Elliott
How Beautiful We Were: A Novel
Homeland
Transcendent Kingdom
The Deep
Heavy
Hamnet
Rodham
Rage -Bob Woodward
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Transit of Venus
Fled

https://wainwrightprize.com/
Nature







Conservation:







https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2...
Journey through the 20th Century
1900
The Personal Librarian
Vera
Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce
1910
The Pull of the Stars*
Passage West
As Bright as Heaven
1920
Wild Women and the Blues
The Chosen and the Beautiful
Dead Dead Girls
The Paris Hours
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Call Your Daughter Home
What the Wind Knows
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
1930
The Night Tiger
The Animals at Lockwood Manor
A Long Petal of the Sea
This Tender Land*
The Four Winds
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
West with Giraffes*
When Stars Rain Down
1940
City of Girls*
Big Lies in a Small Town
The Yellow Bird Sings
The Rose Code
White Chrysanthemum
A Single Swallow*
The Paris Library
The Woman with the Blue Star
1950
Mexican Gothic
The Summer Wives
Betty
The Henna Artist
The Night Watchman
The Stationary Shop
1960
When We Left Cuba
Utopia Avenue
Summer of '69
Where the Crawdads Sing*
1970's
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev*
Hades, Argentina
Valentine
Mary Jane
The Great Alone
Songs in Ursa Major
Clover Blue
1980
Trust Exercise
Shuggie Bain*
We Ride Upon Sticks
Malibu Rising
The Great Believers*
We Run the Tides
After Francesco
1990
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Writers & Lovers
Fruit of the Drunken Tree*
The Lying Life of Adults
The People We Keep
28 Summers
Survive the Night
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
*TBR, cross out -read

I've read some of them but not all and thought it would be fun to read through the century and maybe to the present at one book a month.
I have a number of them on my TBR as well.

PBT- Feminist
The Tenth Muse
Girl, Woman, Other
Bossypants
The Blind Assassin
The Girl with the Louding Voice
The Silence of the Girls
When She Woke
The Hours
The Natural Way of Things
Ninth House
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Deep
Frog Music
A Woman Is No Man
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
Fly the Skies
Bolivia -
Pursue It
suffrage (exact) -- CindyWomen in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
Elizabeth Blackwell (exact) -- Anna - Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
birth control (situation) -- call be any reference to the Pill, IUD, using it, planning for it, getting it from a doctor, etc. -- Anita
second-wave feminism (or second-wave feminist) (exact) -- Nicole
Trim
#10
Literati
Arbitrary Stupid Goal
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
National Book Awards
Fall Flurry
The Ninth House
This House Is Haunted
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Children of the Land
Two Spies in Caracas
Autumn
Going on a walk - Continuation
Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness
The Man in the Tent: My Life under Canvas - The First Four Years
Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France
Conversations
Blue Highways
Possibilities
Moon and the Mars
Love After Love
Chasing the Sun
Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family
Unsettled Ground
Among the Beautiful Beasts
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Leftovers
Just One Damned Thing After Another
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground- Alicia Elliott
How Beautiful We Were: A Novel
Homeland
Transcendent Kingdom
The Deep
Heavy
Hamnet
Rodham
Rage -Bob Woodward
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Transit of Venus
Fled
A Town Called Solace
Light Perpetual

PBT - First of a Series
Fly the Skies
Pursue it
- sequence (exact) - Cindy
- backstory (exact) - Anna
- to be continued (exact) - Nicole
- cliffhanger (situation) - Anita
Note: for "cliffhanger", please use the spoiler tag < spoiler > blah blah blah < / spoiler > (without spaces) or set is apart in some way like:
*******SPOILER*******
blah blah blah
*******END SPOILER *******
Trim the TBR
The White Tiger
Literati
Arbitrary Stupid Goal
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Five Wounds: A Novel
Fall Flurry
Monkey Beach
Rodham
Rage -Bob Woodward
War
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Going on a walk - Continuation
Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness
Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France
To a Mountain in Tibet
Distant Sunflower Fields
Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
Possibilities
Moon and the Mars
Love After Love
Chasing the Sun
Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family
Unsettled Ground
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Leftovers
Just One Damned Thing After Another
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo
How Beautiful We Were: A Novel
Homeland
Transcendent Kingdom
The Deep
Heavy
Hamnet
Rodham
Rage -Bob Woodward
Fled
A Town Called Solace
Light Perpetual

PBT Tag - Books about Books
Fly the Skies
Trim the TBR
Fall Flurry
December 6
Literati
Light Perpetual
Conversations
The Beantown Girls - Amy
Other

WWII - resistance
Nuns
big cats
jungle & forest habitats
Cornwall
refugees & immigration
Reconstruction
wolves
Plagues and pandemics

December
Megan Rapinoe
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Susan Orlean
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaRoddy Doyle
Cheryl Strayed
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Atlas Obscura
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Joseph Campbell
Sapiens: a Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind
Steph Curry
Beasts of Prey
Jesmyn Ward
Austin Kleon
What It Is
Roxane Gay
Afterparties
Kelly McGonigal
Light Perpetual*
Richard Branson
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
Malala
The Poet X
Elin Hilderbrand
The Good House
January 2022
Tinx -
Going There
Megan Rapinoe
The Undocumented Americans
Susan Orlean
Station Eleven
Cheryl Strayed
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Atlas Obscura
Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar
Nicole Laeno
One of Us Is Lying
Joseph Campbell
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Steph Curry
I Am Restored: How I Lost My Religion but Found My Faith
Jesmyn Ward
Lot: Stories
Chloe Lukasiak
The Bear and the Nightingale
Austin Kleon
We Learn Nothing
Roxane Gaye
Noor
Kelly McGonigal
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Brynn Elliot
A Little History of Philosophy
Richard Branson
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Malala
Call Us What We Carry
Elin Hilderbrand
The Lotus Eaters
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Perhaps, I will manage to track my 2021 newly released books and my nonfiction reads. I was a complete fail and tracking any of my challenges for 2020.