Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

A-Z Challenge 2021

Start date: 1 Jan 2021
End date:

Books completed: 23/26

✔ A - The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life 1/22
✔ B - Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted 3/2
✔ C - City of Gold and Shadows 1/23
✔ D - Death on the Lizard 1/17
✔ E - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures 3/6
✔ F - The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis 1/23
✔ G - God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen 10/21
✔ H - A Hat Full of Sky 1/19
✔ I - Ilse Witch 1/10
✔ J - The Jungle Book 3/24
K -
✔ L - Life Undercover: The explosive first-hand account of a CIA agent hunting the world’s most dangerous terrorists 1/2
✔ M - Making Money 3/17
✔ N - No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram 5/7
✔ O - Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl 1/9
✔ P - A Promised Land 1/20
Q -
✔ R - Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism 1/3
✔ S - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz 2/27
✔ T - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 3/6
✔ U - Unplugged 2/21
✔ V - Vesper Flights 1/7
✔ W - Wow, No Thank You.
X -
✔ Y - Yeager: An Autobiography 8/21
✔ Z - Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 11/27

New Release Challenge 2021
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Completed: 78/78

✔1. City of Schemes 3/22
✔2. Unplugged 2/21
✔3. Concrete Rose 1/31
✔4. Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It 2/2
✔5. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine 2/16
✔6. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted 3/2
✔7. Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle
✔8. Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going 3/12
✔9. The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer 3/10
✔10. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
✔11. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
✔12. Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting 4/1
✔13. The Paris Library 10/5
✔14. Unfinished 7/24
✔15. The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
✔16. Band of Sisters 10/29
✔17. Broken 5/1
✔18. Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World 3/24
✔19. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future 3/31
✔20. Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting 4/1
✔21. Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir 4/11
✔22. Everybody Fights: So Why Not Get Better at It? 4/26
✔23. Death with a Double Edge 5/10
✔24. When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship 5/15
✔25. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know 5/25
✔26. The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany 5/30
✔27. I Am a Girl from Africa 6/7
✔28. Just as I Am 6/15
✔29. Castle Shade 7/24
✔30. Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump 6/25
✔31. The Beauty of Living Twice 7/8
✔32. Rock Force: The American Paratroopers Who Took Back Corregidor and Exacted MacArthur's Revenge on Japan 7/20
✔33. Pup Fiction 7/27
✔34. The Hollywood Spy 7/29
✔35. Relentless 8/3
✔36. Murder Most Fowl 8/12
✔37. Paper & Blood 8/21
✔38. You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism 9/8
✔39. The Chocolate Raccoon Rigmarole 9/9
✔40. Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story 9/14
✔41. A Darker Reality 10/1
✔42. You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories 10/4
✔43. Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall 10/7
✔44. The Plot 10/12
✔45. Broken Horses 10/11
✔46. Persist 10/12
✔47. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020 10/20
✔48. Three Sisters 10/14
✔49. The Lincoln Highway 10/19
✔50. Crying in H Mart 10/26
✔51. God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen 10/21
✔52. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos 10/31
✔53. Light from Uncommon Stars 10/23
✔54. The Twelve Jays of Christmas 11/7
✔55. Child of Light 10/25
✔56. The Venice Sketchbook 10/27
✔57. State of Terror 10/30
✔58. Sunflower Sisters 11/9
✔59. Yearbook 11/1
✔60. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 11/2
✔61. Beautiful Country: A Memoir 11/4
✔62. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear 11/17
✔63. The Twelve Jays of Christmas 11/7
✔64. Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight 11/12
✔65. The Four Winds 11/14
✔66. The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II 11/17
✔67. The Rose Code 11/19
✔68. Somebody's Daughter 11/20
✔69. Project Hail Mary 11/22
✔70. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty 11/23
✔71. Great Circle 12/3
✔72. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 11/24
✔73. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 11/27
✔74. Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors 12/2
✔75. Brat: An '80s Story 12/4
✔76. Malibu Rising 12/5
✔77. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone 12/16
✔78. The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters 12/27

New-to-me Author Exploration Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Completed: 100/100

✔ 1. Amaryllis Fox 1/2
✔ 2. Nadya Tolokonnikova 1/3
✔ 3. Helen Macdonald 1/7
✔ 4. Jonathan C. Slaght 1/9
✔ 5. Barack Obama 1/20
✔ 6. Maya Angelou 1/13
✔ 7. Alex Trebek 1/22
✔ 8. Daphne du Maurier
✔ 9. Christiana Figueres 1/23
✔10. Andy Greene 2/1
✔11. Ethan Kross 2/2
✔12. Janice P. Nimura 2/16
✔13. Diana Gabaldon 2/17
✔14. Jules Verne 3/6
✔15. Suleika Jaouad 3/2
✔16. Merlin Sheldrake 3/6
✔17. Liza Rodman 3/10
✔18. Bill Gates 3/14
✔19. Andrea Pitzer 3/24
✔20. Rudyard Kipling 3/24
✔21. Elizabeth Kolbert 3/31
✔22. Lisa Genova 4/1
✔23. James Shapiro 4/6
✔24. Rebecca Carroll 4/11
✔25. Candacy A. Taylor 4/14
✔26. Brian Greene 4/24
✔27. Kim Holderness 4/26
✔28. Patrik Svensson 5/2
✔29. Sarah Frier 5/7
✔30. Martha Teichner 5/15
✔31. Adam M. Grant 5/25
✔32. Gwen Strauss 5/30
✔33. Elizabeth Nyamayaro 6/7
✔34. Floyd Conner 6/10
✔35. Cicely Tyson 6/15
✔36. Christopher Hilton 6/15
✔37. Ben Philippe 6/25
✔38. Amy Stewart 6/19
✔39. Samantha Irby 6/19
✔40. Jay Nordlinger 6/26
✔41. Charles C. Mann 6/30
✔42. José Andrés 7/5
✔43. Sharon Stone 7/8
✔44. Mike Birbiglia 7/9
✔45. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 7/10
✔46. Guy Leschziner 7/17
✔47. Kevin Maurer 7/20
✔48. Priyanka Chopra Jonas 7/24
✔49. Roman Dial 8/2
✔50. John Moe 8/9
✔51. T.J. Klune 8/10
✔52. Roman Mars 8/13
✔53. Gaston Leroux 8/16
✔54. Chris Wallace 8/17
✔55. Sylvia Plath 8/19
✔56. Chuck Yeager 8/21
✔57. Zora Neale Hurston 8/23
✔58. Timothy C. Winegard 9/3
✔59. Matt Haig 8/24
✔60. Mikhail Bulgakov 8/31
✔61. Emily St. John Mandel 9/3
✔62. Duchess Goldblatt 9/3
✔63. Sam Heughan 9/7
✔64. Madeline Miller 9/7
✔65. Amber Ruffin 9/8
✔66. Mazie K. Hirono 9/14
✔67. Taylor Jenkins Reid 9/11
✔68. James Nestor 9/20
✔69. Alfred Lansing 9/28
✔70. Mary Shelly 9/29
✔71. Janet Skeslien Charles 10/5
✔72. Helena Merriman 10/7
✔73. Silvia Moreno-Garcia 10/8
✔74. Jean Hanff Korelitz 10/12
✔75. Brandi Carlile 10/11
✔76. Elizabeth Warren 10/12
✔77. Michelle Zauner 10/26
✔78. Ryka Aoki 10/23
✔79. Judy Batalion 10/31
✔80. Lauren Willig 10/29
✔81. Louise Penny 10/30
✔82. Martha Hall Kelly 11/9
✔83. Seth Rogen 11/1
✔84. Clint Smith 11/2
✔85. Qian Julie Wang
✔86. Kate Moore 11/17
✔87. Brit Bennett 11/12
✔88. Madeline Martin 11/17
✔89. Kate Quinn 11/19
✔90. Ashley C. Ford 11/20
✔91. Andy Weir 11/22
✔92. Maggie Shipstead 12/3
✔93. Carol Leonnig 11/27
✔94. Andrew McCarthy 12/4
✔95. Tom Papa 12/8
✔96. Robert Kolker 12/20
✔97. Rutger Bregman 12/24
✔98. Rachel Trethewey 12/27
✔99. E.M. Forster 12/27
✔100. Ken Kesey 12/30

Colorful Covers 2021
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level:
Completed: 30/36


Blue Cover


Green Cover


Red Cover


Black Cover


White Cover


Yellow Cover


Pink Cover


Purple Cover


Orange Cover


Gray Cover


Brown Cover


Colorful Cover