Challenge: 50 Books discussion

Wishing all Gentle Readers a Happy New Year of great reading!

LadyCalico wrote: "Wishing all Gentle Readers a Happy New Year of great reading!"

And a happy new year and lots of good books to you, as well!

January 2021
1. Peter Carey--Oscar and Lucinda finished 1/4/21
2. Robin Maxwell--Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan finished 1/5/21
3. Noelle Stevenson--Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max finished 1/6/21
4. Abi Daré--The Girl with the Louding Voice finished 1/8/21
5. Bernard Cornwell--War Lord (The Last Kingdom #13) finished 1/12/21
6. Louise Penny--All the Devils Are Here finished 1/15/21
7. Leslye Walton--The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender finished 1/17/21
8. Helen Dunmore--The Lie finished 1/18/21
9. Erin Morgenstern--The Starless Sea finished 1/19/21
10. William Maxwell--So Long, See You Tomorrow finished 1/20/21
11. Ashley Audrain--The Push finished 1/22/21
12. Adam Johnson--The Orphan Master's Son finished 1/28/21
13. Michael Bowe--The Weight of a Moment finished 1/30/21
14. Janet Evanovich--Fortune and Glory (Stephanie Plum #27) finished 1/31/21

February 2021
15. Lisa Jewell--Then She Was Gone finished 2/3/21
16. Alka Joshi--The Henna Artist finished 2/4/21
17. Matthew McConaughey--Greenlights finished 2/7/21
18. Kristin Hannah--The Four Winds finished 2/9/21
19. James McBride--The Good Lord Bird 2/11/21
20. H.W. Brands--The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom finished 2/13/21
21. Soman Chainani--The School for Good and Evil finished 2/15/21
22. Soman Chainani--A World Without Princes (The School for Good and Evil #2) finished 2/17/21
23. Brit Bennett--The Vanishing Half finished 2/18/21
24. Jude Deveraux--A Knight in Shining Armor finished 2/20/21
25. Lisa Jewell--The Family Upstairs finished 2/22/21
26. Rosemary Sutcliff--The Eagle of the Ninth finished 2/23/21
27. Kate Clayborn--Love Lettering finished 2/24/21
28. Naomi Novik--A Deadly Education finished 2/26/21
29. John Williams--Butcher's Crossing finished 2/27/21

March 2021
30. Knut Hamsun--Growth of the Soil finished 3/1/21
31. Colleen Hoover--It Ends with Us finished 3/2/21
32. Anthony Horowitz--Moriarty finished 3/4/21
33. Sarah Weeks--Pie finished 3/5/21
34. Jamie Ford--Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet finished 3/10/21
35. Peter Carey--Jack Maggs finished 3/11/21
36. Marissa Meyer--Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) finished 3/12/21
37. Marissa Meyer--Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) finished 3/14/21
38. Marissa Meyer--Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3) finished 3/17/21
39. Paulette Jiles--News of the World finished 3/17/21
40. Marissa Meyer--Winter (The Lunar Chronicles #4) finished 3/21/21
41. Nicholas Stuart Gray--Grimbold's Other World finished 3/21/21
42. Raymond Briggs--Ethel and Ernest finished 3/22/21
43. Elizabeth Strout--Olive, Again finished 3/23/21
44. Lee Child and Andrew Child--The Sentinel (Jack Reacher #25) finished 3/24/21
45. Bernard Cornwell--The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles #1) finished 3/27/21
46. Bernard Cornwell--Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles #2) finished 3/29/21
47. Bernard Cornwell--Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles #3) finished 3/31/21

April 2021
48. Elena Ferrante--The Lying Life of Adults finished 4/3/21
49. T.S. Stribling--The Store finished 4/5/21
50. J.D. Robb--Faithless in Death (In Death #52) finished 4/7/21
51. Josephine Winslow Johnson--Now in November finished 4/8/21
52. Kate Quinn--The Rose Code finished 4/11/21
53. T.S. Stribling--The Forge finished 4/13/21
54. Margaret Wilson--The Able McLaughlins finished 4/14/21
55. Margaret Ayer Barnes--Years of Grace finished 4/16/21
56. James Welch--The Indian Lawyer finished 4/17/21
57. Ernest Poole--His Family finished 4/18/21
58. Louis Bromfield--Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady finished 4/20/21
59. Robert Dugoni--The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell finished 4/22/21
60. Amy Harmon--Where the Lost Wander finished 4/23/21
61. Marilynne Robinson--Jack finished 4/24/21
62. Leigh Bardugo--King of Scars (King of Scars #1) finished 4/26/
63. Leigh Bardugo--Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2) finished 4/28/21
64. Ellen Glasgow--In This Our Life finished 4/29/21

You are one big reader. I’m amazed how you do it. Congrats can’t wait to see what your going to read next.

Olympia wrote: "You are one big reader. I’m amazed how you do it. Congrats can’t wait to see what your going to read next."

Ditto!

Olympia wrote: "You are one big reader. I’m amazed how you do it. Congrats can’t wait to see what your going to read next."
Thanks! The magic secret is called "retirement." Also, I don't have TV. I didn't read much at all when I was working.

May 2021
65. Edwin O'Connor--The Edge of Sadness finished 5/1/21
66. Martha Hall Kelly--Sunflower Sisters (Lilac Girls, #3)
67. T.J. Klune--The House in the Cerulean Sea finished 5/5/21
68. Christina Baker Kline--The Exiles finished 5/7/21
69. Jessica Brockmole--Letters from Skye finished 5/9/21
70. N. Scott Momaday--House Made of Dawn finished 5/9/21
71. Stephen King--Elevation finished 5/10/21
72. Richard Peck--The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts finished 5/11/21
73. Richard Peck--Here Lies the Librarian finished 5/12/21
74. Melanie Benjamin--The Children's Blizzard finished 5/14/21
75. Shirley Ann Grau--The Keepers of the House finished 5/15/21
76. Yevgeny Zamyatin--We finished 5/17/21
77. John Preston--The Dig finished 5/18/21
78. Jeffrey Brown--Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations finished 5/19/21
79. S.F. Said--Varjak Paw (Varjak Paw #1) finished 5/19/21
80. Jeff Kinney--The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #13) finished 5/20/21
81. Janet Skeslien Charles--The Paris Library finished 5/23/21
82. Richard Powers--The Overstory finished 5/26/21
83. Chris Whitaker--We Begin at the End finished 5/28/21
84. Ben Mikaelsen--Touching Spirit Bear finished 5/29/21
85. Ben Mikaelsen--Ghost of Spirit Bear (Spirit Bear #2) finished 5/30/21
86. Louis L'Amour--Last of the Breed finished 5/31/21

June 2021
87. Julia Quinn--The Duke and I (Bridgertons #1) finished 6/1/21
88. Maggie O'Farrell--Hamnet finished 6/3/21
89. W. Bruce Cameron--A Dog's Courage finished 6/4/21
90. John Grisham--Sooley finished 6/5/21
91. Bernard Cornwell--The Flame Bearer (The Saxon Stories, #10) finished 6/5/21
92. Bernard Cornwell--War of the Wolf (The Saxon Stories, #11) finished 6/7/21
93. Raina Telgemeier--Ghosts finished 6/8/21
94. Kelly Rimmer--The Warsaw Orphan finished 6/9/21
95. Jeff Kinney--The Deep End (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #15) finished 6/10/21
96. Sally Cabot Gunning--Painting the Light finished 6/11/21
97. Madeline Martin--Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II finished 6/13/21
98. Nora Roberts--The Awakening (The Dragon Heart Legacy, #1) finished 6/14/21
99. Bernard Cornwell--Gallows Thief finished 6/16/21
100. Mary Beth Keane--Ask Again, Yes finished 6/25/21
101. Laura Dave--The Last Thing He Told Me finished 6/27/21
102. Lisa Scottoline--Eternal finished 6/30/21

July 2021
103. Alex Michaelides--The Maidens finished 7/1/21
104. Steven Pressfield--A Man at Arms finished 7/7/21
105. Alka Joshi--The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Henna Artist, #2) finished 7/10/21
106. Kim Harrison--Million Dollar Demon (The Hollows #15) finished 7/13/21
107. Kazuo Ishiguro--Klara and the Sun finished 7/16/21
108. Meg Medina--Merci Suárez Changes Gears (Merci Suárez #1) finished 7/17/21
109. Meg Medina--Merci Suárez Can't Dance (Merci Suárez #2) finished 7/19/21
110. Andy Weir--Project Hail Mary finished 7/24/21
111. Jerry Craft--New Kid finished 7/25/21
112. Tae Keller--When You Trap a Tiger finished 7/25/21
113. Michelle Zauner--Crying in H Mart finished 7/27/21
114. Jeff Kinney--Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #14) finished 7/28/21
115. Taylor Jenkins Reid--Malibu Rising finished 7/29/21
116. Laura Amy Schlitz--Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village finished 7/30/21
117. Elly Griffiths--The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway #13) finished 7/31/21

August 2021
118. Douglas Stuart--Shuggie Bain finished 8/2/21
119. Connie Willis--Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) finished 8/7/21
120. Julie Berry--Lovely War finished 8/9/21
121. Matt Haig--The Humans finished 8/11/21
122. Bernard Cornwell--Sword of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #12) finished 8/13/21
123. Michael Ende--Momo finished 8/18/21
124. Colleen Hoover--Verity finished 8/21/21
125. Jane Harper--The Survivors finished 8/23/21
126. Andrew Sean Greer--Less finished 8/26/21
127. Edgar Rice Burroughs--The War Chief (Apache, #1) finished 8/27/21
128. Edgar Rice Burroughs--Apache Devil (The Apache Novels #2)
finished 8/28/21
129. Deborah and James Howe--Bunnicula (Bunnicula, #1) finished 8/29/21
130. Louise Erdrich--The Night Watchman finished 8/31/21

September 2021
131. Kelly Rimmer--The Things We Cannot Say finished 9/3/21
132. Tracey Lange--We Are the Brennans finished 9/5/21
133. Sally Thorne--The Hating Game finished 9/6/21
134. Soman Chainani--The Last Ever After (The School for Good and Evil, #3) finished 9/9/21
135. Martin Flavin--Journey in the Dark finished 9/11/21
136. Caroline Miller--Lamb in His Bosom finished 9/13/21
137. Megan Whalen Turner--A Conspiracy of Kings (The Queen's Thief, #4) finished 9/14/21
138. Megan Whalen Turner--Thick as Thieves (The Queen's Thief, #5) finished 9/17/21
139. Megan Whalen Turner--Return of the Thief (The Queen's Thief, #6) finished 9/20/21
140. Willa Cather--The Professor's House finished 9/20/21
141. Charles Martin--Chasing Fireflies finished 9/23/21
142. Zakiya Dalila Harris--The Other Black Girl finished 9/25/21
143. S.A. Cosby--Razorblade Tears finished 9/26/21
144. Charles Martin--The Mountain Between Us finished 9/27/21
145. Romain Gary--The Kites finished 9/30/21

October 2021
146. V.E. Schwab--A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3) finished 10/2/21
147. John Hersey--Bell for Adano finished 10/4/21
148. Marissa Meyer--Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5) finished 10/5/21
149. Daniel Mason--The Winter Soldier finished 10/8/21
150. Louisa Young--My Dear I Wanted to Tell You finished 10/10/21
151. Louisa Young--The Heroes' Welcome (My Dear I Wanted to Tell You #2) finished 10/17/21
152. Robert Crais--A Dangerous Man (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #18) finished 10/18/21
153. Paul Gallico--Jennie finished 10/19/21
154. Stacey Lee--The Downstairs Girl finished 10/20/21
155. Ronald H. Balson--Defending Britta Stein finished 10/23/30
156. Lois Simmie--Mister Got To Go and Mister Got To Go and Arnie finished 10/24/21
157. Amor Towles--The Lincoln Highway finished 10/27/21
158. Luis Sepúlveda--The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly finished 10/28/21
159. J.D. Robb--Forgotten in Death (In Death, #53) finished 10/29/21
160. Veronica Roth--Four: A Divergent Story Collection finished 10/30/21
161. Bret Baier--To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876 finisned 10/31/21

November 2021
162. Simone St. James--The Sun Down Motel finished 11/1/21
163. Graeme Simsion--The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3) finished 11/3/21
164. Alan Bradley--Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce #8) finished 11/4/21
165. Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone--This Is How You Lose the Time War finished 11/5/21
166. Alan Bradley--The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9) finished 11/6/21
167. Kristin Harmel--The Forest of Vanishing Stars finished 11/7/21
168. Lauren Groff--Matrix finished 11/8/21
169. Alan Bradley--The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10) finished 11/9/21
170. Victor LaValle--The Ballad of Black Tom finished 11/10/21
171. Douglas Adams--So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish finished 4/13/21
172. Wiley Cash--When Ghosts Come Home finished 11/17/21
173. Colson Whitehead--Harlem Shuffle finished 11/18/21
174. Qian Julie Wang--Beautiful Country: A Memoir finished 11/22/21
175. Jojo Moyes--Still Me (Me Before You #3) finished 11/27/21
176. Ali Smith--Autumn (Seasonal #1) finished 11/28/21
177. Nikolai Gogol--The Night Before Christmas finished 11/29/21
178. Erin Sterling--The Ex Hex finished 11/30/21

December 2021
179. Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples--Saga, Vol. 1 finished 12/1/21
180. John Steinbeck--Cannery Row (Cannery Row #1) finished 12/2/21
181. Fredrik Backman--The Deal of a Lifetime finished 12/4/21
182. Fredrik Backman--And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer finished 12/4/21
183. Nathan Harris--Sweetness of Water finished 12/6/21
184. Brian Kilmeade--The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul finished 12/8/21
185. J.K. Rowling--The Christmas Pig finished 12/10/21
186. Samantha Silva--Mr. Dickens and His Carol finished 12/11/21
187. Barbara Robinson--The Best Christmas Pageant Ever finished 12/12/21
188. Philip Van Doren Stern--The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale finished 12/12/21
189. Pearl S. Buck--Christmas Day in the Morning finished12/12/21
190. Christopher Moore--The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (Pine Cove #3) finished 12/13/21
191. Louise Erdrich--The Sentence finished 12/15/21
192. Sally Rooney--Beautiful World, Where Are You finished 2/16/21
193. William Kent Krueger--Lightning Strike (Cork O'Connor #0) finished 12/19/21
194. E.T.A. Hoffmann and Maurice Sendak--Nutcracker finished 12/20/21
195. Natalie Savage Carlson and Garth Williams--The Family Under the Bridge finished 12/20/21
196. Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb--Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I finished 12/22/21
197. Julie Klassen--An Ivy Hill Christmas finished 12/23/21
198. Lili Hayward--The Cat of Yule Cottage finished 12/25/21
199. Owen Wister--A Journey in Search of Christmas finished 12/25/21
200. Glenn Beck--The Christmas Sweater finished 12/27/21
201. Joanne Huist Smith--The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle finished 12/28/21
202. Kevin Alan Milne--The Paper Bag Christmas finished 12/29/21
203. Julia Quinn--The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons #2) finished 12/31/21