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message 1: by Sam F (new)
Jan 06, 2021 03:07PM

Sam F | 1355 comments I haven't made it yet, but I'm getting closer each year - hopefully I'll read more than the 111 books to beat last year. We'll see, but I'll enjoy the journey along the way.


message 14: by Sam F (last edited Aug 30, 2021 10:27AM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 09:49AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Around the Year in 52 Books:

1. A book related to “In the Beginning...” - Mirror Mirror
2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y - Silverwing
3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music - Winter Street (Winter, #1) by Elin Hilderbrand
4. A book with a monochromatic cover - The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1) by Amanda Lovelace
5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read - The Water Dancer
6. A love story - Walking Disaster
7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list - Stranger Planet
8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited - In the Shadow of the Banyan
9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year - Bird Songs in Literature: Bird Songs and the Poems They Have Inspired
10. A book with a female villain or criminal - Cover Her Face
11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum - Davinci Code, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Death Comes as the End, Murder on the Nile, Ender's Game, Ready Player Two, Fingersmith, Turn Right At Machu Picchu, Dreamers of the Day,
12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation - The Heart
13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020 - A Monstrous Regiment of Women
14. A book set in a made-up place - Eragon
15. A book that features siblings as the main characters - Lone Wolf
16. A book with a building in the title - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
17. A book with a Muslim character or author - Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab
18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1 - Everything Is Illuminated
19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2 - The Last Girls
20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3 - The Invasion of the Tearling
21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u" - The Turn of the Key
22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads - Kindred
23. A cross genre novel - Zorgamazoo
24. A book about racism or race relations+ - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
25. A book set on an island - Code
26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author - Dad and Me in the Morning
27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards - The Runaway King
28. A book connected to ice - Woman at 1,000 Degrees
29. A book that you consider comfort reading - Eleven on Top
30. A long book - A Conspiracy of Faith
31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years - And Then You Die
32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people - The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry - Selected Poems, 1968-1996
34. A book with a travel theme - You Shall Know Our Velocity!
35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer - The Headmaster's Wager
36. A book with six or more words in the title - The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list - Crazy Rich Asians, The Shadow of the Wind, Cutting for Stone, Reading Lolita in Tehran, The Whale Rider, My Brilliant Friend, The Blind Assassin, A Suitable Boy, A Fine Balance, The Name of the Rose, A Case of Exploding Mangos, Homecoming, Family Matters, True History of the Kelly Gang, Woman at 1,000 Degrees In the Shadow of the Banyan, Purple Hibiscus
38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator - Strange Planet
39. A book involving an immigrant - Frying Plantain
40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover - The Boy & The Bindi by Vivek Shraya
41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author - I Can Make This Promise
42. A mystery or thriller - I'd Know You Anywhere
43. A book with elements of magic - Savvy
44. A book whose title contains a negative - Indiscretion
45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet - The Bourne Supremacy
46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards - Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?” - The False Prince
49. A book with an ensemble cast - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
50. A book published in 2021 - The Removed
51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name - Normal People
52. A book related to "the end" - Walking on Water


message 15: by Sam F (last edited Jan 02, 2022 02:52PM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 09:56AM

Sam F | 1355 comments PopSugar 2021 Challenge:

1. A book that published in 2021 - The Removed
2. An Afrofuturist book - Kindred
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover - The Boy & The Bindi by Vivek Shraya
4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign - The Bourne Supremacy
5. A dark academia book - The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Historian, Shadow of the Wind, The Lying Game, Hamlet, The Bell Jar, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Mexican Gothic, The Illiad, Hound of the Baskerville, Murder on the Orient Express, Perfume, any Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code, Woman in White, Leaves of Grass, Portrait of a Young Man..., Angels & Demons
6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title - The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job - You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction - The Lacuna, Half of A Yellow Sun, On Beauty,

9. A book with a family tree - Woman at 1,000
Degrees
10. A bestseller from the 1990s - Silverwing
11. A book about forgetting - The Last Girls
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.) - Eragon
13. A locked-room mystery - Cover Her Face
14. A book set in a restaurant - Frying Plantain
15. A book with a black-and-white cover - Selected Poems, 1968-1996 by Joseph Brodsky
16. A book by an indigenous author - I Can Make This Promise
17. A book that has the same title as a song - I'd Know You Anywhere
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about - Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
19. A book that discusses body positivity - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
21. A genre hybrid- Walking Disaster
22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors - Lone Wolf
23. A book with something broken on the cover - The False Prince (Ascendance, #1) by Jennifer A. Nielsen
24. A book by a Muslim American author - Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab
25. A book that was published anonymously - My Brilliant Friend, Jane Austen, Robinson Crusoe, Nectar in a Sieve
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title - Normal People
27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts - An Invisible Thread
28. A magical realism book - Savvy
29. A book set in multiple countries - You Shall Know Our Velocity!
30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021 - My Year of Meats
31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z” - Zorgamazoo
33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) - Everything Is Illuminated
34. A book about a social justice issue - Purple Hibiscus
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels) - Dad and Me in the Morning
36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads - Indiscretion
37. A book you think your best friend would like - The Turn of the Key
38. A book about art or an artist - The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
39. A book everyone seems to have read but you - Nine Perfect Strangers
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - Strange Planet

Advanced Prompts
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list - A Breath of Snow and Ashes
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover - In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover - Eleven on Top (Stephanie Plum, #11) by Janet Evanovich

45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time - A Girl of the Limberlost
46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t - Winter Street
47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing - The Runaway King
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random - And Then You Die
49. A DNF book from your TBR list - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) - The Water Dancer


message 16: by Sam F (last edited Jan 02, 2022 02:05PM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 09:59AM

Sam F | 1355 comments SERIAL READER CHALLENGE

To Start:

Lacey Flint series:
1. Now You See Me
2.



The Black Stallion series:
1. The Black Stallion
2.



Oz series:
1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2. The Marvelous Land of Oz
3. Ozma of Oz
4. Dorothy & the Wizard in Oz
5. The Road to Oz
6. The Emerald City of Oz
7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz ....


Killing Eve Series:
1. Codename Villanelle
2. No Tomorrow
3. Endgame

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency:
1. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
2. Tears of the Giraffe
3. Morality for Beautiful Girls.....

Chet & Berny Mystery Series:
1. Dog on It
2. Thereby Hangs a Tail
3. To Fetch a Thief
4. The Dog who Knew Too Much
5. A Fistful of Collars
6. The Sound & the Furry
7. Paw & Order
8. Scents & Sensability
9. Heart of Barkness
10. Of Mutts & Men
11. Tender is the Bite
12. It's a Wonderful Woof


The Inspector Banks Series:
1. Gallows View
2. A Dedicated Man
3. A Necessary End
4. The Hanging Valley
5. Past Reason Hated
6. Wednesday's Child
7. Dry Bones that Dream
8. Innocent Graves
9. Blood at the Root
10. In a Dry Season
11. Cold is the Grave
12. Aftermath
13. Close to Home
14. Playing with Fire
15. Strange Affair
16. Piece of my Heart
17. Friend of the Devil
18. All the Colours of Darkness
19. Bad Boy
20. Watching the Dark
21. Children of the Revolution
22. Abattoir Blues
23. When the Music's Over
24. Sleeping in the Ground
25. Careless Love
26. Too Many Rivers to Cross
27. Not Yet Dark

Kay Scarpetta Series:
1. Postmortem
2. Body of Evidence
3. All That Remains
4. Cruel & Unusual
5. The Body Farm
6. From Potter's Field
7. Cause of Death
8. Unnatural Exposure
9. Point of Origin
10. Black Notice
11. The Last Precinct
12. Blow Fly
13. Trace
14. Predator
15. Book of the Dead
16. Scarpetta
17. The Scarpetta Factor
18. Post Mortuary
19. Red Mist
20. The Bone Bed
21. Dust
22. Flesh & Blood
23. Depraved Heart
24. Chaos


Adam Dalgliesh Series:
1. Cover Her Face
2. A Mind to Murder
3. Unnatural Causes
4. Shroud for a Nightingale
5. The Black Tower
6. Death of an Expert Witness.....


Ascendance Series:
1. The False Prince
2. The Runaway King


Savvy Series:
1. Savvy


The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Series:
1. The Lady of the Rivers
2. The White Queen
3. The Red Queen
4. The Kingmaker's Daughter
5. The White Princess
6. The Constant Princess
7. The King's Curse
8. Three Sisters, Three Queens
9. The Other Boleyn Girl
10. The Boleyn Inheritance
11. The Taming of the Queen
12. The Queen's Fool
13. The Virgin's Lover
14. The Last Tudor
15. The Other Queen

The Inheritance Cycle #1
1. Eragon
2. Eldest
3. Brisingr
4. Inheritance

Series to finish:


Jason Bourne Series:
2. The Bourne Supremacy
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. The Bourne Legacy
5. The Bourne Betrayal
6. The Bourne Sanction
7. The Bourne Deception
8. The Bourne Objective
9. The Bourne Dominion
10. The Bourne Imperative
11. The Bourne Retribution
12. The Bourne Ascendancy
13. The Bourne Enigma
14. The Bourne Initiative
15. The Bourne Nemesis

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes:
2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women
3. A Letter of Mary
4. The Moor
5. O Jerusalem
6. Justice Hall
7. The Game
8. Locked Rooms
9. The Language of Bees .....

Michael Bennett:
3. Worst Case
4. Tick Tock
5. I Michael Bennet
6. Gone
7. Burn
8. Alert
9. Bullseye
9.5 Chase
10. Haunted
10.5 Manhunt
11. Ambush
12. Blindside
13. The Russian


Bird Family Trilogy:
3. The Orenda


The Lunar Chronicles Series:
2. Scarlet
3. Cress
4. Winter

Patrick Hedstrom Series:
5. The Hidden Child
6. The Drowning
7.
8.
9.
10.

Virals Series:
2.5. Shift
3. Code
3.5. Swipe
4. Exposure
5. Terminal
5.5. Spike


Hannibal Lecter Series:
3. Hannibal
4. Hannibal Rising

Dexter Series:
5. Dexter Is Delicious
6. Double Dexter
7. Dexter's Final Cut
8. Dexter Is Dead

Outlander Series:
6. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
7. An Echo in the Bone
8. Written in My Own Heart's Blood
9. Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone

Temperance Brennan Series:
16.5. Swamp Bones
18. Speaking in Bones
19. A Conspiracy of Bones
20. The Bone Code



The Lord of the Rings Series:
2. The Two Towers
3. The Return of the King


Kinsey Millhone Series:
11. K is for Killer
12. L is for Lawless
13. M is for Malice
14. N is for Noose
15. O is for Outlaw
16. P is for Peril
17. Q is for Quarry
18. R is for Ricochet
19. S is for Silence
20. T is for Trespass
21. U is for Undertow
22. V is for Vengence
23. W is for Wasted
24. X
25. Y is for Yesterday


Stephanie Plum Series:
11. Eleven on Top
12. Twelve Sharp
13. Lean Mean Thirteen
13.5 Plum Lucky
14. Fearless Fourteen
15. Finger Lickin' Fifteen
16. Sizzling Sixteen
17. Smokin' Seventeen
18. Explosive Eighteen
19. Notorious Nineteen
20. Takedown Twenty
21. Top Secret Twenty-One
22. Tricky Twenty-Two
23. Turbo Twenty-Three
24. Hardcore Twenty-Four
25. Look Alive Twenty-Five


Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series
3. The Cruelest Month
4. A Rule Against Murder
5. The Brutal Telling
6. Bury Your Dead
6.5 The Hangman
7. A Trick of the Light
8. The Beautiful Mystery
9. How the Light Gets In
10. The Long Way Home
11. The Nature of the Beast
12. A Great Reckoning
13. Glass Houses
14. Kingdom of the Blind


Inspector Rebus Series:
5. The Black Book
6. Mortal Causes
7. Let It Bleed
8. Black and Blue
9. The Hanging Garden
9.5 Death Is Not the End
10. Dead Souls
11. Set in Darkness
12. The Falls
13. Resurrection Men
13.5 Beggars Banquet
14. A Question of Blood
15. Fleshmarket Close
16. The Naming of the Dead
17. Exit Music
18. Standing in Another Man's Grave
19. Saints of the Shadow Bible
19.5 In the Nick of Time: John Rebus vs. Roy Grace
20. Even Dogs in the Wild
21. Rather Be the Devil
22. In a House of Lies


Lord John Grey Series:
0.5 Lord John and the Hellfire Club
1.5 Legends II
2. Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
2.75 The Custom of the Army
3. The Scottish Prisoner
3.5 A Plague of Zombies


Afdeling Q Series:
3. A Conspiracy of Faith
4. Purity of Vengence
5. Marco Effect
6. The Hanging Girl
7. The Scarred Woman


Charles Lenox Mysteries Series:
0.2 The Vanishing Man
0.3 The Last Passenger

4.5. An East End Murder
7. An Old Betrayal
8. The Laws of Murder
9. Home by Nightfall
10. The Inheritance
10.5. Gone Before Christmas
11. An Extravagant Death


Miss Marple Series:
1.5. The Thirteen Problems
3. The Body in the Library
5. A Murder Is Announced
6. They Do It with Mirrors
7. A Pocket Full of Rye
8. 4:50 from Paddington
9. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
10. A Caribbean Mystery
11. At Bertram's Hotel
12. Nemesis
13. Sleeping Murder
14. Miss Marple's Final Cases
15. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories


Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht Series:
4. Hostage
5. The Chosen
6.


Detective D.D. Warren Series:
3. The Neighbor
4. Live to Tell
5. Love You More
5.5 The 7th Month
6. Catch Me
7. Fear Nothing
7.5 3 Truths and a Lie
8. Find Her
9. Look For Me
9.5 The Guy Who Died Twice
10. Never Tell


Rebekah Roberts Series:
3. Conviction

Nina Borg Series:
4. The Considerate Killer


Vanessa Michael Munroe Series:
3. The Doll
3.5 The Vessel
4. The Catch
5. The Mask


Kurt Wallander Series:
9. The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries
9.5 An Event in Autumn
10. The Troubled Man


The Great War Series:
3. Moonlight over Paris
3.5 All For the Love of You: A Short Story from Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War


Vinyl Cafe Series:
2. Home From The Vinyl Cafe: A Year Of Stories
4. Vinyl Cafe Diaries
5. Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe
5.5 Dave Cooks the Turkey
6. Extreme Vinyl Cafe
7. Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks
Vinyl Cafe: Seasons


The Queen of the Tearling Series:
0.5 The Boy
2. The Invasion of the Tearling
3. The Fate of the Tearling


The Night Trilogy:
2. Dawn
3. Day


The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe:
2. No Longer at Ease
3. Arrow of God

Hercule Poirot Series:
4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
5. The Big Four
6. The Mystery of the Blue Train
7. Black Coffee
8. Peril at End House
9. Lord Edgware Dies
10-45


message 17: by Sam F (last edited Sep 20, 2021 05:29PM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:05AM

Sam F | 1355 comments BookRiot's Read Harder Challenge:

1. Read a book you’ve been intimidated to read - This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

2. Read a nonfiction book about anti-racism - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

3. Read a non-European novel in translation - Brothers Karamazov, The Windup Bird Chronicle, Isabelle Allende, Garcia Marquez, Celestial Bodies

4. Read an LGBTQ+ history book - Queer: A Graphic History

5. Read a genre novel by an Indigenous, First Nations, or Native American author - I Can Make This Promise

6. Read a fanfic - The Runaway King

7. Read a fat-positive romance - Eleven on Top

8. Read a romance by a trans or nonbinary author - Red, White & Royal Blue

9. Read a middle grade mystery - The False Prince

10. Read an SFF anthology edited by a person of color -Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite

11. Read a food memoir by an author of color - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

12. Read a work of investigative nonfiction by an author of color = Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

13. Read a book with a cover you don’t like - Selected Poems, 1968-1996 by Joseph Brodsky

14. Read a realistic YA book not set in the U.S., UK, or Canada - Purple Hibiscus

15. Read a memoir by a Latinx author - My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

16. Read an own voices book about disability - Me Talk Pretty One Day

17. Read an own voices YA book with a Black main character that isn’t about Black pain - Smash It!

18. Read a book by/about a non-Western world leader - In the Shadow of the Banyan

19. Read a historical fiction with a POC or LGBTQ+ protagonist - The Water Dancer

20. Read a book of nature poems - Bird Songs in Literature: Bird Songs and the Poems They Have Inspired

21. Read a children’s book that centers a disabled character but not their disability - Dad and Me in the Morning

22. Read a book set in the Midwest - Savvy

23. Read a book that demystifies a common mental illness - Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, Oliver Sacks

24. Read a book featuring a beloved pet where the pet doesn’t die - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats


message 18: by Sam F (last edited Oct 17, 2021 02:27PM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:11AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Home/School/Life Challenge:

1. Read a book with a cover you like. - Walking Disaster (Beautiful, #2) by Jamie McGuire

2. Read a book with a cover in your favorite color. - Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1) by Christopher Paolini

3. Read a book by an author with a name you like. - Purple Hibiscus

4. Read a book with an alcoholic beverage on the cover. - Wine Girl The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier by Victoria James

5. Read a book with a hot beverage on the cover. - The Last Juror by John Grisham

6. Read a book with a summary you like. - Eleven on Top

7. Read a book set in a place you love. - Frying Plantain

8. Read a book set in a place you’d really like to visit. - Normal People

9. Read a book by an author who makes you feel warm and fuzzy. - The Boy & The Bindi

10. Read a book in the Furrowed Middlebrow imprint.

11. Read a book with recipes. - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

12. Read a book that you’d take to the beach. - The Runaway King

13. Read a book that you’d take to the mountains. - Lone Wolf

14. Read a book that you’d take on a trans-Atlantic flight. - The Bourne Supremacy

15. Read a book with a gorgeous title font. - In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner

16. Read a book set during your childhood. - Selected Poems, 1968-1996

17. Read a book set during your teenage years. - I'd Know You Anywhere

18. Read a book set on a farm. - My Year of Meats

19. Read a book that takes place on a vacation. - You Shall Know Our Velocity!

20. Read a book set in the mountains. - Mirror Mirror

21. Read a book set at the beach. - Walking on Water

22. Read a book set in a village or small town. - The Moonstone

23. Read a book that features a librarian. - A Monstrous Regiment of Women

24. Read a book that features a chef. - Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters

25. Read a book set in an old estate house. - Indiscretion

26. Read a book by an author who looks like someone you’d be friends with. - Kindred

27. Read a book by an author who looks like someone you’d like to take a class with. - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

28. Read a book by an author who looks like someone you’d sit next to on the subway. - The Turn of the Key

29. Read a book by an author you’d like to know in real life. - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

30. Read a book with a title that makes you smile. - The Water Dancer

31. Read a book that celebrates Black Joy. - Smash It!

32. Read a book that celebrates Native life. - I Can Make This Promise

33. Read a book that celebrates Asian life. - The Lost and Found Bookshop

34. Read a book that celebrates Latinx life. - My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

35. Read a book that celebrates LGBTQ+ life. - Queer: A Graphic History

36. Read a book that celebrates women. - The Princess Saves Herself in This One

37. Read a book with a happy ending. - Zorgamazoo

38. Read a book that made a friend happy. - The False Prince

39. Read a book that your child or parent loves. - Savvy

40. Reread a book that made you happy. - An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude


message 19: by Sam F (last edited Nov 17, 2021 06:25PM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:13AM

Sam F | 1355 comments #OwnVoices

Read a book featuring a protagonist who identifies as _____ by an author who is also _____.

1. African (e.g, Ghanian, Nigerian) -
Read a book from each major region:
A. Eastern Africa - The Bone Woman by Clea Koff

B. Central or Middle Africa

C. Northern Africa

D. Southern Africa - This Mournable Body

E. Western Africa - Purple Hibiscus

2. Agnostic, Athiest, or Humanist

3. Asexual or Aromantic

4. Asian (e.g., Hmong, Japanese) - The Housekeeper and the Professor
Read a book from each major region:
A. Central Asia

B. Eastern Asia - Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Amy Tan, The Memory Police

C. Northern Asia

D. Southern Asia - A Burning

E. Southeast Asia - In the Shadow of the Banyan

F. Western Asia - De Niro's Game

5. Bisexual or Pansexual - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

6. Black (e.g. African-American, Black British) - The Water Dancer

7. Buddhist

8. Christian-minority (i.e., Christian in a country in which it is not the most common religion)

9. Differently-Abled (e.g., Autistic, Deaf, Paraplegic) - Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism

10. Gay Male or Lesbian Female - Me Talk Pretty One Day

11. Hindu

12. Immigrant - The Headmaster's Wager

13. Incarcerated or Institutionalized

14. Indigenous (e.g., Aboriginal, Inuit, Mojave) - I Can Make This Promise

15. Jewish - Selected Poems, 1968-1996

16. Latin American (e.g., Mexican, Colombian-descent)
Read a book from each major region:
A. Mexico -

B. Carribean

C. Central America

D. South America - Inés of My Soul

17. Living with a Mental Health or Cognitive Disability - The Midnight Library

18. Low-Income or Financially Insecure -

19. Middle Eastern - Celestial Bodies

20. Mixed Race or Multi-racial - My Year of Meats

21. Muslim - Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab

22. Non-binary or Transgender - The Boy & The Bindi

23. Oceanic (e.g., Papuan, Samoan)
Read a book from each major region:
A. Australasia - Nine Perfect Strangers

B. Melanesia

C. Micronesia

D. Polynesia

24. Practitioner of a minor religion or another form of spirituality

25. Refugee, Migrant, or Asylum-Seeker -

26. Survivor of Sexual Assault or Domestic Violence - The Princess Saves Herself in This One


message 20: by Sam F (last edited Nov 01, 2021 05:03PM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:15AM

Sam F | 1355 comments THE NONFICTION GROWTH CHALLENGE

1. Read a book that teaches you how to problem solve. - Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park, Silent Spring

2. Read a book that teaches you how to think critically. - Freakonomics, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Outliers, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

3. Read a book that teaches you how to become more creative. - Color: A Natural History of the Palette, The Artist's Way, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me

4. Read a book that teaches you how to make better decisions. - The Happiness Project, David and Goliath, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

5. Read a book on emotional intelligence. - A Train in Winter, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, The Soul of a Woman

6. Read a book to improve your communication skills. - The Professor and the Madman, - Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab

7. Read a book about how to learn. - The Freedom Writers Diary, Embracing the Wide Sky, Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism, The Spark,

8. Read a book that teaches you leadership skills. - The Opposable Mind, The Tipping Point, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

9. Read a book about extroversion or introversion. - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

10. Read a book about psychology. - An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, The Brain That Changes Itself, Blink, The Mind's Eye, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

11. Read a book about an ideology that is not your own. - Shake Hands with the Devil, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

12. Read a book to help you master social media.

13. Read a book about your favorite hobby to become better at it.
- Food: In Defense of Food, , Life from Scratch, Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters
- Travel: Born Adventurer, Beyond Belfast, Turn Right at Machu Picchu, Drink the Bitter Root, An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude

14. Read a collection of essays. - We Who Can Fly, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

15. Read an autobiography/biography of a woman written by a woman. - Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey, Vanilla Beans & Brodo: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Lucky, Prisoner of Tehran, An Invisible Thread

16. Read an autobiography/biography of a man written by a man. - Mr. Nice, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Little Princes, Here Comes Trouble, ]

17. Read a book about someone’s journey; inner or outer. - Brown Girl Dreaming

18. Read a book about science or technology. - One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient, The Botany of Desire, Possessing Genius: The True Account of the Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain, Spook, The Hedgehog, the Fox & the Magister's Pox, Time Travel: A History, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

19. Read a book about a religion or philosophy - Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, Infidel, Queer: A Graphic History

20. Read a book about a topic you have always wanted to learn more about.
- Politics: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer, The Struggle is My Life, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, The Monuments Men, Conversations With Myself, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Stupid White Men
- Humour: Jerry Seinfeld, the Entire Domain, I'm Just a Person
- Dog Training: Be the Pack Leader
- Climate Change: Sleeping Naked is Green, Silent Spring, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
- Wine: Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier
Travel: Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time


message 21: by Sam F (last edited Jan 02, 2022 02:11PM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:23AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Listopia Challenge 2021:

Possible lists:

Best Survival Stories
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. Sophie's Choice
3. Watership Down
4. On The Beach
5. The Road
6. The Stand
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. The Book of Negroes
9. Cold Cold Heart
10. Vanishing Acts
11. The Nightingale
12. Lucky
13. They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky
14. Kindred
15. Robinson Crusoe


Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
2. Freakonomics
3. Silent Spring
4. The Tipping Point
5. Thinking Fast & Slow
6. The Coming Plague
7. The Botany of Desire
8. The Naked Ape
9. Bonk
10. The Brain that Changes Itself
11. Spook
12. The 13th Element
13. The Teenage Brain


Best Horror Novels
1. Cold Cold Heart
2. It
3. Salem's Lot
4. The Stand
5. Hannibal
6. Harvest Home
7. The Historian
8. The Shadow of the Wind
9. Library at Mount Char
10. Hound of the Baskervilles
11. The Troop
12. The Picture of Dorian Gray


Books that Exceeded Your Expectations
1. The Shadow of the Wind
2. Cane River
3. The Historian
4. The Forgotten Garden
5. Middlesex
6. The Pact
7. The Casual Vacancy
8. Crazy Rich Asians
9. Steppenwolf
10. Lord of the Rings
11. A Fine Balance
12. Loving Frank
13. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
14. Someone Knows My Name
15. The Distant Hours
16. The Sound and the Fury
17. Cutting for Stone
18. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
19. The Silmarillion
20. Fall of Giants
21. My Year of Meats


Humourous Memoirs & Non-Fiction
1. Me Talk Pretty One Day
2. Naked
3. Bonk
4. When You are Engulfed in Flames
5. The Botany of Desire
6. Magical Thinking
7. This is Where I Leave You
8. Stupid White Men
9. Thereby Hangs a Tail


You Read a Book About What?
1. The Professor & the Madman
2. Spook
3. In Cold Blood
4. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
5. Color
6. Dead Wake
7. Infidel
8. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
9. A Stolen Life
10. All the President's Men
11. My Year of Meats
12. Blink
13. Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
14. From Scratch
15. Steve Jobs
16. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Books I would Require if I Taught an English Lit Class
1. Hamlet
2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
3. The Sound and the Fury
4. Reading Lolita in Tehran
5. Grapes of Wrath
6. Breakfast of Champions
7. Sherlock Holmes
8. Middlesex
9. The Brothers Karamazov
10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
11. Beautiful Losers
12. Conversations with Myself
13. The Turn of the Key
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15. The Picture of Dorian Gray


Female Psychological Thrillers Suspense Written by Women

2. K is for Killer
3. Fingersmith
4. Promise Not to Tell
5. Island of Lost Girls
6. Nine Perfect Strangers
7. The Hidden Child
8. M is for Malice
9. Vanishing Girls
10. V is for Vengence
11. The Lying Game
12. The Wonder
13. The Body in the Library
14. Postmortem
15. The One I Left Behind
16. I'd Know You Anywhere


100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime
1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes
3. The Woman in White
4. The Name of the Rose
5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
6. Twelve Sharp
7. Lean Mean Thirteen
8. Tell No One
9. The Shadow of the Wind
10. Case Histories
11. The Husband's Secret
12. A Great Reckoning
13. The Historian
14. The Bourne Supremacy
15. The Turn of the Key
16. The Memory Police
17. Sweet Tooth


Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Half of a Yellow Sun
3. Americanah
4. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
5. White Teeth
6. Cutting for Stone
7. Life After Life
8. The Golem & the Jinni
9. On Beauty
10. A Fine Balance
11. Shadow of the Wind
12. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
13. Breakfast of Champions
14. Spook
15. The Wild Iris
16. The Casual Vacancy
17. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
18. A God in Ruins
19. The Beauty of Humanity Movement
20. Prodigal Summer
21. The Wives of Henry VIII
22. Good Morning Midnight
23. In the Shadow of the Banyan
24. The Memory Police


Major Award Winning Fiction Since 1990
1. The Road
2. The Blind Assassin
3. Alias Grace
4. My Year of Meats
5. Sea of Poppies
6. The Secret River
7. Middlesex
8. The Casual Vacancy
9. The Luminaries
10. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
11. Galore
12. The True History of the Kelly Gang
13. Life After Life
14. Fingersmith
15. White Teeth
16. When We Were Orphans
17. On Beauty
18. The Lacuna
19. Normal People


Best Books to read When Snow is Falling
1. The Snow Child
2. Night Road
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. The Kitchen House
5. The Peach Keeper
6. The Thirteenth Tale
7. The Other Boleyn Girl
8. The Distant Hours
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. Picture Perfect
11. The Other Boleyn Girl
12. The Name of the Rose
13. The Historian
14. The White Queen
15. The Two Towers
16. Angels & Demons
17. The Constant Princess
18. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
19. The Stand
20. Eragon
21. The Golem & The Jinni
22. The Shadow of the Wind
23. Picture Perfect
24. A Breath of Snow and Ashes


Best Feminist Fiction
1. Parable of the Sower
2. Kindred
3. The Kitchen God's Wife
4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
5. North & South
6. Prodigal Summer
7. Lady Oracle
8. The Book of Negroes
9. Loving Frank
10. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
11. Good Morning Midnight
12. Much Ado About Nothing
13. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
14. Leviathan
15. Purple Hibiscus

Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray
2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
3. The Two Towers
4. The Sound and the Fury
5. Julius Caesar
6. Hamlet
7. The Shadow of the Wind
8. The Grapes of Wrath
9. As I Lay Dying
10. High Fidelity
11. Middlesex
12. The Name of the Rose
13. Me Talk Pretty One Day
14. Reading Lolita in Tehran
15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


Top 10 for the Reading Challengers
1. Hamlet
2. The Nightingale
3. The Stand
4. A Man Called Ove
5. The Golem & the Jinni
6. Eragon
7. Shadow of the Wind
8. Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore
9. The Secret Keeper
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11. The Botany of Desire
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. Middlesex
14. The Historian
15. The Forgotten Garden
16. The Two Towers
17. The Brothers Karamazov
18. A Fine Balance
19. Dead Wake
20. Life After Life
21. On the Beach
22. Sophie's Choice
23. We Were Liars


message 22: by Sam F (last edited Jan 02, 2022 02:11PM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:28AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Other Lists:

The Prison Book Club Discussed Books

1. A Fine Balance
2. An Ice-cream War
3. The Tipping Point
4. Blink
5. Outliers
6. The Book of Negroes
7. Someone Knows My Name
8. Infidel
9. Reading Lolita in Tehran


Favourite Travel Books
1. Color
2. Honeymoon in Purdah
3. The Lost Girls
4. The Voluntourist
5. Reading Lolita in Tehran
6. Fresh Air Fiend
7. All Roads Lead to Austen
8. Little Princes
9. Maiden Voyages


Oprah's Book Club Picks
1. Middlesex
2. A Fine Balance
3. Songs in Ordinary Time
4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
5. The Sound and the Fury
6. As I Lay Dying
7. Freedom
8. A New Earth
9. River Cross My Heart
10. Open House
11. Cane River


Everyone's Read it But Me
1. Middlesex
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Eragon
4. Angels & Demons
5. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
6. The Fall of Giants
7. The Name of the Rose
8. The Forgotten Garden
9. The Stand
10. The Goldfinch
11. Outliers
12. Blink
13. Reading Lolita in Tehran
14. The Other Boleyn Girl
15. The Name of the Rose
16. The Tipping Point
17. The Historian
18. Hamlet
19. The Stand
20. House Rules


Around the World in 100 Books
1. The Shadow of the Wind
2. Hamlet
3. Cutting for Stone
4. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
5. A Fine Balance
6. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
7. On the Beach
8. The Beach
9. The Kitchen God's Wife
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11. Reading Lolita in Tehran
12. The True History of the Kelly Gang
13. The Secret River
14. The Girl You Left Behind
15. Once Were Warriors
16. The Secret River
17. Shadows on the Rock
18. Sea of Poppies
19. The Grapes of Wrath
20. All Things Bright & Beautiful
21. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
22. The Glass Palace
23. The Girl You Left Behind
24. Purple Hibiscus


Best Multicultural General Fiction
1. A Fine Balance
2. Cutting for Stone
3. White Teeth
4. The Kitchen God's Wife
5. Family Matters
6. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
7. Crazy Rich Asians
8. A Blade of Grass
9. The Glass Palace
10. Purple Hibiscus


Book of the Month Club Picks
1. The Sun is Also a Star
2. The Nightingale
3. The Lying Game
4. Circling the Sun
5. Pachinko
6. Swing Time


Best Environmental Books
1. Silent Spring
2. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
3. In Defense of Food
4. The Botany of Desire
5. The Coming Plague
6. The Tipping Point
7. Sleeping Naked is Green
8. Sisters of the Earth
9. No Logo


The Orange Prize Winners
1. La Lacuna
2. On Beauty
3. 100 Secret Senses
4. Lullabies for Little Criminals
5. Fault Lines
6. White Teeth
7. Case Histories
8. The Blind Assassin


Pulitzer Prize Winners
1. Our Town
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The Road
4. The Known World
5. Middlesex
6. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
7. The Wild Iris
8. The Nickel Boys


Medicine & Literature

1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
2. Cutting for Stone
3. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
4. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
5. The Professor & the Madman
6. Bonk
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. An Anthropologist on Mars
9. The Murder of Rogery Ackroyd
10. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
11. The Coming Plague
12. The Mind's Eye
13. House Rules
14. The Brain that Changes Itself
15. Lucky
16. The Birth House
17. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

About Racism & Race Relations
1. Kindred
2. Why I'm no Longer Talking to White People About Race
3. Hidden Figures
4. So You Want to Talk About Race
5. The Nickel Boys
6. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
7. White Rage
8. Dreams From My Father
9. The Underground Railroad
10. Homegoing
11. Dear Martin
12. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
13. Everything I Never Told You
14. Parable of a Sower
15. The Fire Next Time
16. Brown Girl Dreaming
17. Eloquent Rage
18. The Water Dancer
19. Sing Unburied Sing
20. The Round House
21. When They Call You a Terrorist
22. Jazz
23. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
24. Shake Hands with the Devil
25.White Teeth
26. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Are You Well Read in Literature
1. Anna Karenina
2. All Quiet on the Western Front
3. Beowolf
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. The Shadow of the Wind
6. Steppenwolf
7. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
8. Sophie's World
9. My Brilliant Friend
10. Homecoming
11. Crazy Rich Asians
12. The Count of Monte Cristo
13. War & Peace
14. Beartown
15. Don Quiote
16. A Suitable Boy
17. Oscar & Lucinda
18. The Name of the Rose
19. Madame Bovary
20. My Sister the Serial Killer
21. Kiss of the Spider Woman
22. Ghana Must Go
23. Smila's Sense of Snow
24. Half of a Yellow Sun
25. The Brothers Karamazov
26. Of Love & Shadows
27. The Messenger
28. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
29. Cutting for Stone
30. In the Shadow of the Banyan

Fargo Public Library's Tea Time Book Club
1. The Night Tiger
2. Pachinko
3. Homegoing
4. Small Great Things
5. The Handmaid's Tale


Own Voices Books
1. The Sun is Also a Star
2. Dear Martin
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
4. Mexican Gothic
5. Homegoing
6. Americanah
7. Brown Girl Dreaming
8. P.S. I Still Love You
9. Crazy Rich Asians
10. Everything I Never Told You
11. Kindred
12. Other Words for Home
13. Pachinko
14. Always & Forever Laura Jean
15. Red, White & Royal Blue
16. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
17. The Nickel Boys
18. Sulwe
19. The Other Black Girl
20. Sing Unburied Sing
21. I Can Make This Promise
22. Purple Hibiscus
23. When They Call You a Terrorist
24. China Rich Girlfriend
25. The Water Dancer
26. Meet Cute Diary
27. Rich People Problems
28. Braiding Sweetgrass
29. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
30. Half of a Yellow Sun
31. The Rose & the Dagger
32. A Burning
33. The Night Tiger


message 23: by Sam F (last edited Dec 22, 2021 07:05AM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:31AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Around the World Challenge:

1st Leg: North America
Canada:
Quebec - The Cruelest Month
Ontario - Frying Plantain
Alberta -
Manitoba -
Newfoundland - The Innocents
Northwest Territories -
British Columbia -
Prince Edward Island - The Troop

Mexico:

USA:
Arizona - Dog on It
California - K is for Killer
Colorado - Meet Cute Diary
Conneticut - The One I Left Behind
Florida - Walking on Water
Georgia - Home
Illinois -
Indiana - You Should See Me in a Crown
Kansas - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Kentucky -
Louisiana - And Then You Die
Maine -
Maryland -
Massachusetts - Winter Street
Michigan - Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab
Minnesota - Linger
Mississippi - The Last Juror
Missouri -
Nebraska - Savvy
Nevada - Never Too Late
New Hampshire - Leaving Time
New Jersey - Eleven on Top
New York - Indiscretion
North Carolina - Speaking in Bones
Ohio -
Oklahoma - The Removed
Oregon - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pennsylvania - Walking Disaster
South Carolina - Code
South Dakota -
Tennessee -
Texas - Zara Hossain Is Here
Utah -
Vermont -
Virginia - The Water Dancer
Washington, DC - I'd Know You Anywhere
Washington - I Can Make This Promise
Wisconsin - The Fourth Hand


2nd Leg: South America & Caribbean
Turks & Caicos -
Grenada - An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude
Argentina -
Chile - Inés of My Soul
Peru - Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Brazil - Robinson Crusoe

3rd Leg: Europe
Croatia - The Doll
Denmark - A Conspiracy of Faith
France - Scarlet
Germany -
Greece -
Iceland - Woman at 1,000 Degrees
Ireland - Normal People
Italy - Mirror Mirror
Poland - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Portugal -
Romania - The Witch of Portobello
Scotland - The Turn of the Key
Spain -
Sweden - Hostage
Switzerland -
UK - The Moonstone
Ukraine - Everything Is Illuminated


4th Leg: Middle East
Afghanistan -
Iraq -
Iran -
Lebanon - De Niro's Game
Oman - Celestial Bodies
Palestine - Dawn

5th Leg: Africa -
Botswana - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Equatorial Guinea -
Egypt - Death Comes as the End
Libya -
Congo -
Burundi - The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship
Nigeria - Purple Hibiscus
Senegal - You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Somalia -
Zimbabwe - This Mournable Body

6th Leg: Asia
Turkey -
India - A Burning
Siberia -
Japan - My Year of Meats
Vietnam - The Headmaster's Wager
Russia -Selected Poems, 1968-1996
Afghanistan -
Tahiti -
Tibet -
Kashmir -
Syria - Other Words for Home
China -
Hong Kong - The Bourne Supremacy
Cambodia - In the Shadow of the Banyan
Phillipines - The Considerate Killer
Malaysia - The Night Tiger


7th Leg: Australia & Oceania
Queensland -
Brisbane -
Sydney - The Husband's Secret
New South Wales - Nine Perfect Strangers
New Zealand -
Tasmania -


message 24: by Sam F (last edited Nov 22, 2021 03:40PM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:32AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Decade Challenge:
(Original publication date)

1710-1719: Robinson Crusoe
1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859:
1860-1869: The Moonstone
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899: The Picture of Dorian Gray
1900-1909: A Girl of the Limberlost
1910-1919:
1920-1929: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1930-1939: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
1940-1949: The Body in the Library
1950-1959: Nectar in a Sieve
1960-1969: Cover Her Face
1970-1979:
1980-1989: The Bourne Supremacy
1990-1999: My Year of Meats
2000-2009: Eragon
2010-2019: I Can Make This Promise
2020: Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2021: The Removed


message 25: by Sam F (last edited Jul 13, 2021 06:32AM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:34AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Magical Mystery Tour: OUR UNSOLVED CASES

WHO: 0/x
Solve cases featuring a main character (sleuth, perp, victim, or suspect) with a unique profession. Be sure they’re distinct; a chef, baker, caterer, and pastry chef are all in the culinary profession.
1. Lone Wolf
2. Indiscretion
3. Eleven on Top
4. The Turn of the Key
5. Purple Hibiscus
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. And Then You Die

WHAT: 0/x
1. Has a punny title. - Speaking in Bones
2. Written by an author of color. - The Water Dancer
3. Has a four-word title. - I'd Know You Anywhere
4. A crime fiction subgenre you rarely or never read. - The House of Silk
5. Has a color in the title. - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
6. Has a plant or animal on the cover.- Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1) by Christopher Paolini
7. Related to the yearly or quarterly theme (state theme) - Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

WHEN: 0/x
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported?
1. In summer. - The Last Girls
2. In the 1800s or earlier. - The Moonstone
3. During an official holiday. - Winter Street
4. Between nightfall and sunrise. Cover Her Face
5. During a special event (festival, convention, party, etc.) - Savvy
6. Reported (original publication or reprint) in your birthday month. - Frying Plantain
7. Reported (published) in 2021. - The Removed

WHERE: 0/x
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
1. In the capital city of your country of residence.
2. In a different capital city. - An Invisible Thread
3. “At home." - The Body in the Library
4. At a workplace. - Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier
5. Inside or on the premises of a public venue (hotel, restaurant, airport, etc.). - Dexter Is Delicious
6. In a Nordic country. - A Conspiracy of Faith
7. In or near a body of water (beach, river, etc.) - The Considerate Killer

HOW: 0/x
For this category, each means of murder must be distinctly different.
For example, pistols and rifles are both firearms; knives and daggers are too similar.
1. The False Prince (The Ascendance Trilogy, #1) by Jennifer A. Nielsen
2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell #2) by Laurie R. King
3. Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
4. A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1) by Christopher Moore
5. Code (Virals, #3) by Kathy Reichs
6. Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason
7. An Old Betrayal (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #7) by Charles Finch

WHY: 0/x
What motivated you to choose a particular case?
1. Your favorite mystery author or series. - The Bourne Supremacy
2. Your favorite mystery subgenre. - Twelve Sharp
3. Appears in a Goodreads listopia (which one?). - You Shall Know Our Velocity!
4. Won a literary prize for crime fiction (which one?). - K is for Killer
5. Read by a fellow participant in this challenge (who?) - Everything Is Illuminated
6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year). - Zorgamazoo
7. Average Goodreads rating of 4 stars or above. - Walking Disaster


message 26: by Sam F (last edited Dec 28, 2021 06:13AM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:38AM

Sam F | 1355 comments A BETTER WORLD

”We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

A Better You
Read a book with a character who shares a trait with you that you once (or still do) considered a flaw, or a book that discusses body positivity. - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Read a book that makes you feel good or helps you relax. - Strange Planet
Read a book with a main female character who does not enter into a romantic relationship - The Runaway King
Read a book featuring a protagonist who's compassionate. - The Moonstone
Read a book about something you would like to learn more about or about a skill you want to improve. - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Read a self-help book. - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Read a book about a public figure or a fictional character that you admire. - A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Read a book on a topic that is new to you. - The Boy & The Bindi
Read an old favorite just to make you smile. - The Black Stallion

A Better Home
Read a book about a family or found family. - I'd Know You Anywhere
Read a book with a house on its cover. - And Then You Die by Iris Johansen
Read a book recommended by a family member or friend. - Eragon
Read a book with a family tree - Mirror Mirror
Read a coming-of-age story. - Frying Plantain
Read a book about marriage. - Indiscretion
Read a book about a unique parent-child relationship - Purple Hibiscus
Read a book which features siblings as its main characters. - Lone Wolf
Read a family saga spanning at least three generations. - Everything Is Illuminated

A Better Community
Read a book for a Buddy Read, TBR Twin, or Group Read activity - The Echo in the Bone, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Read a book outside your comfort zone that a fellow group member has rated highly. - Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Read a book you checked out from the library. - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Read a book recommended by anyone living in your town. - Walking Disaster
Read a book with a central theme of friendship. - Zorgamazoo
Read a book in which teamwork leads to success. - The Bourne Supremacy
Read a book in which a community works together to improve its quality of life. - The Water Dancer
Read a book recommended by someone in our group. - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Read a book with “Community,” “Town,” or “City” in the title. - Floating City

A Better World
Read an #OwnVoices book. - I Can Make This Promise
Read a book about a current global issue. - You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
Read a book about sustainability or characters that strive to preserve nature. - My Year of Meats
Read a book about freedom in any sense of the word. - You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Read a book set in another country than your home country. - Cover Her Face
Read a book with “World” or “Earth” in the title. - Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, World War Z, Winter of the World,
Read a book featuring a culture or religion that differs from your own. - In the Shadow of the Banyan
Read a book involving efforts toward peaceful reconciliation. - The False Prince
Read a book translated into the language you are reading. - Selected Poems, 1968-1996


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Jan 17, 2021 10:41AM

Sam F | 1355 comments GIVE US A CLUE

Suspects
Read a book with any shade of the following colours on the cover:
Mr Green - green - The Runaway King (Ascendance, #2) by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Colonel Mustard - yellow - The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Mrs Peacock - blue - Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Professor Plum - purple - Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Miss Scarlet - red - Bird Songs in Literature Bird Songs and the Poems They Have Inspired Bird Songs and the Poems They Have Inspired by Joseph Wood Krutch
Mrs White - white - Hunger A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Weapons
Read a book with the following word (or related word, not limited to the examples below) on the cover or in the title:
Candlestick or flames or fire - The Invasion of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #2) by Erika Johansen
Dagger or knife or sword - The False Prince (The Ascendance Trilogy, #1) by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Lead Pipe or musical instrument or writing instrument - An Old Betrayal (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #7) by Charles Finch
Revolver or gun or pistol
Rope or string or ribbon = Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Wrench or spanner or any other tool - A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1) by Christopher Moore

Rooms
Ballroom: Read a book which features a character who is a dancer - The Water Dancer

Billiard Room: Read a book that features your favourite hobby, game, sport or craft. - You Shall Know Our Velocity!

Cellar: In the board game, the solution can be found here so read a detective, mystery or true crime book - I'd Know You Anywhere

Conservatory: Read a book where a character has to save or conserve someone or something - Lone Wolf

Dining Room: Read a book with an item of food or drink on the cover - Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1) by P.D. James

Hall: A hall tends to be the first room that welcomes you to the manor so read a book that is the first in a series. - Eragon

Kitchen: Read a cookery book or a book with a chef as a character - My Year of Meats

Library: Read a book you have borrowed from a library or from someone else - Selected Poems, 1968-1996

Lounge: Here you can relax with a book in your favourite genre. - The Bourne Supremacy

Secret Passages: Read a book with "secret" in the title - The Husband's Secret

Study: Read a book about a subject you're passionate about or would like to learn more about - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism


message 28: by Sam F (last edited Dec 03, 2021 05:43PM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:43AM

Sam F | 1355 comments GLOBAL VOICES

Read a book featuring a protagonist who identifies as _____ by an author who is also _____.

Voices From Around The World
1. African - Purple Hibiscus
2. Asian - In the Shadow of the Banyan
3. Caribbean
4. Indigenous - I Can Make This Promise
5. Latin American - My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
6. Middle Eastern - De Niro's Game
7. Oceanic - My Year of Meats
8. From a Dependent Territory (e.g., Puerto Rican) or State with Limited Recognition (e.g., Palestinian)
9. Immigrant, Refugee, Migrant, or Asylum-Seeker - The Headmaster's Wager
10. Black or Multiracial - The Water Dancer

Diversity of Beliefs
11. Agnostic, Atheist, or Humanist
12. Buddhist or Hindu
13. Jewish - Selected Poems, 1968-1996
14. Muslim - A Burning
15. Practitioner of a Minor Religion or Non-Religious form of Spirituality
16. Activist, Freedom Fighter, or Political Minority

Love is Love is Love
17. Asexual, Aromantic, or Celibate
18. Gay or Lesbian - Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters
19. Bisexual or Pansexual - Red, White & Royal Blue
20. Adopted, Fostered, or raised by someone other than one's biological parents

Every Body Has Value
21. Body Positive, Body Neutral, or Fat Positive person who is a size or shape outside of their society's beauty norms (Diet, Weightloss, or other Body Modification books are not allowed for this prompt.) - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
22. Non-binary, Genderqueer, Intersex or Transgender - Queer: A Graphic History
23. Child (under 18) or Elder (over 75) - The Soul of a Woman
24. Differently-Abled (e.g., Autistic, Deaf) - Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism
25. Living with a visible or invisible Chronic Health Condition or Physical Disability - Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
26. Living with a Mental Health Condition, Cognitive/Intellectual Disability, or Addiction - The Midnight Library
27. Currently or Previously Incarcerated or Institutionalized
28. Low-Income or Financially Insecure
29. Survivor of Abuse, Neglect, Sexual Assault, a Hate Crime, or Human Trafficking - The Princess Saves Herself in This One
30. Victim of State-Sponsored Violence or Institutional/Systemic Discrimination

Bonus & Advanced Prompts
31. Read a book written by people indigenous to where you live or frequently visit.
32. Read a book translated from a language other than English. - A Conspiracy of Faith
33. Read a book that addresses social justice or ethics or in medicine, law, fashion, food, consumerism, or environmental stewardship as it relates to race, class, sex/gender, etc. - You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
34. Read a “classic,” award-winning, or scholarly #ownvoices book that also meets the criteria for one of the above prompts. - Me Talk Pretty One Day
35. Read a book of poetry or a graphic novel that also meets the criteria for one of the above prompts. - Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab
36. Read an #ownvoices book promoted or written by a Bookstagrammer, Booktuber, Book Blogger, Goodreads Super Reviewer, or an Activist or Educator who uses social media as a tool to teach and inspire change. - Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
37. Listen to an #ownvoices book read by the author, read the book and attend an author event about the book, or watch a recording of such an event. The Boy & The Bindi
38. Read a book about intersectional feminism or Black feminism. - Brown Girl Dreaming
39. Read a book that discusses unearned privilege, colonialism, imperialism, or white supremacy. - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
40. Read a book that helps you understand your own cultural heritage.


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Jan 17, 2021 10:45AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Changes:

Read a book that features:
1. The word "change" (Changes, Changing, or other variations) in its title. - This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

2. The theme of money or money on its cover (loose change). - You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers

3. An adaptation of its original format (book-to-manga, translation, etc.) - The Boy & The Bindi

4. The author's initials found in the word "change" - Purple Hibiscus

5. Separate book sections or part of a series of three or more books (make change) - Eragon

6. An author or character writing under a pseudonym - Cover Her Face

7. A topic or character about which you feel differently now than in the past. - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Read a book about an activity below or someone (real or fictional) who engages in it. - Indiscretion

8. Changing one's mind about a life decision - I Can Make This Promise

9. Switching careers/jobs. - Walking Disaster

10. Relocating to a different city, state/province, or country. - The Turn of the Key

11. Cultivating new daily habits. - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

12. A character who shifts shapes or identities. - The Moonstone

13. Life changes due to age - Selected Poems, 1968-1996

14. A medical transformation - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

15. A life-changing experience. - Zorgamazoo

16. A changing household - The Water Dancer

17. An action or phenomenon that transforms society or the world. - The Bourne Supremacy

18. Replacing one thing with another (change out) - The False Prince

19. Technological innovation - Postmortem

20. A game-changer. - Savvy


message 30: by Sam F (last edited Jan 02, 2022 02:07PM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:52AM

Sam F | 1355 comments NATO Phonetic Alphabet Challenge:
Goodreads List

A - Alpha - Codename Villanelle
B - Bravo
C - Charlie - A Dirty Job
D - Delta - The Bourne Supremacy
E - Echo - An Echo in the Bone
F - Foxtrot
G - Golf - Indiscretion
H - Hotel - At Bertam's Hotel (Miss Marple #11)
I - India - The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship
J - Juliet - Lullabies for Little Criminals
K - Kilo
L - Lima - Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
M - Mike - Worst Case
N - November - An Old Betrayal
O - Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
P - Papa - The Kitchen House
Q - Quebec - The Cruelest Month
R - Romeo
S - Sierra
T - Tango
U - Uniform - Woman at 1,000 Degrees
V - Victor
W - Whisky - A Breath of Snow and Ashes
X - X-ray
Y - Yankee - Stupid White Men
Z - Zulu - Zorgamazoo

Check:
Behind Beautiful Forevers?


message 31: by Sam F (last edited Dec 28, 2021 06:20AM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:54AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Reading Women Challenge:
Group site

2021
1) A Book Longlisted for the JCB Prize - A Burning
2) An Author from Eastern Europe - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
3) A Book About Incarceration - I'd Know You Anywhere
4) A Cookbook by a Woman of Color - Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
5) A Book with a Protagonist Older than 50 - Everything Is Illuminated
6) A Book by a South American Author in Translation - Inés of My Soul
7) Reread a Favorite Book - The Black Stallion
8) A Memoir by an Indigenous, First Nations, Native, or Aboriginal Woman - Braiding Sweetgrass
9) A Book by a Neurodivergent Author - Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism
10) A Crime Novel or Thriller in Translation - The Considerate Killer
11) A Book About the Natural World - Silent Spring
12) A Young Adult Novel by a Latinx Author - Meet Cute Diary
13) A Poetry Collection by a Black Woman - Brown Girl Dreaming
14) A Book with a Biracial Protagonist - The Water Dancer
15) A Muslim Middle Grade Novel - Other Words for Home
16) A Book Featuring a Queer Love Story - Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters
17) About a Woman in Politics - A Monstrous Regiment of Women
18) A Book with a Rural Setting - The Turn of the Key
19) A Book with a Cover Designed by a Woman - Winter Street (Winter, #1) by Elin Hilderbrand
20) A Book by an Arab Author in Translation - Celestial Bodies
21) A Book by a Trans Author - The Boy & The Bindi
22) A Fantasy Novel by an Asian Author - The Night Tiger
23) A Nonfiction Book Focused on Social Justice - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
24) A Short Story Collection by a Caribbean Author - Frying Plantain

BONUS
25) A Book by Alexis Wright
26) A Book by Tsitsi Dangarembga - This Mournable Body
27) A Book by Leila Aboulela - borrow book
28) A Book by Yoko Ogawa - The Housekeeper and the Professor


2020
1) A Book by an Author from the Caribbean or India - Nectar in a Sieve
2) A Book Translated from an Asian Language - The Memory Police
3) A Book about the Environment - This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
4) Picture Book Written/Illustrated by a BIPOC Author - Sulwe
5) A Winner of the Stella Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction - The Lacuna
6) A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian - Seabiscuit: An American Legend
7) A Book Featuring Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism - Kindred
8) An Anthology by Multiple Authors - Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite
9) A Book Inspired by Folklore - Eragon
10) A Book About a Woman Artist - The Cruelest Month
11) Read and Watch a Book-to-Movie Adaptation - Normal People
12) A Book About a Woman Who Inspires You - Purple Hibiscus
13) A Book by an Arab Woman - Reading Lolita in Tehran
14) A Book Set in Japan or by a Japanese Author - My Year of Meats
15) A Biography - Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier
16) A Book Featuring a Woman with a Disability - In the Shadow of the Banyan
17) A Book Over 500 Pages - Lone Wolf
18) A Book Under 100 Pages - Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime
19) A Book That’s Frequently Recommended to You - Where the Crawdads Sing, Tara Road, Something Borrowed, Erebos, Red Queen, The Dutch House, The Glass Hotel
20) A Feel-Good or Happy Book - An Invisible Thread
21) A Book about Food - Life From Scratch, The Coincidence of Coconut Cake,
22) A Book by Either a Favorite or a New-to-You Publisher - Savvy
23) A Book by an LGBTQ+ Author - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
24) A Book from the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlists and Honorable Mentions - My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

BONUS
25) A Book by Toni Morrison - Home
26) A Book by Isabel Allende - The Soul of a Woman


message 32: by Sam F (last edited Dec 28, 2021 06:26AM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:56AM

Sam F | 1355 comments You'll Love This One! Challenges:

Museum 1: Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal

1. Task: Read a book set in Africa or written by an African author. - Purple Hibiscus

2. Task: Read a book originally published in 2019. - The Turn of the Key

3. Task: Read a book with the word "secret" is in the title. Plurals accepted. - The Husband's Secret

4. Interactive Item - based on the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal. Collection - Armor of Dogon Hunter
Dogon art is primarily sculpture that revolves around religious values, ideals, and freedoms. Dogon sculptures are not made to be seen publicly, and are commonly hidden from the public eye. The importance of secrecy is due to the symbolic meaning behind the pieces and the process by which they are made.
Task: Your choice based on your selection from the collection. - You Shall Know Our Velocity!

Museum 2: Museum of the Royal Tombs of Sipán in Chiclayo, Peru

1. Task: Read a book set in South America or written by a South American author. - Inés of My Soul

2. Task: Read a book with the word "Lord" in the title. Plurals are allowed. - Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

3. Task: Read a book with one or more masks on the cover. - A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1) by Christopher Moore

4. Interactive Item - based on the Museum of the Royal Tombs of Sipán in Chiclayo, Peru About - The museum contains most of the important artifacts (ceremonial vessels, necklaces and jewelry) found at Huaca Rajada by archeologist Walter Alva in 1987, including the Lord of Sipán and his entourage - Lord of Sipan was name given to first of several Moche mummies. - Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger


1. Task: Read a book that has a throne on the cover, or has the word "throne" in the title. Plurals are allowed as are series titles. - Guns, Germs, and Steel The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

2. Task: Read a book that has a word in the title that is derived from the letters in the name Chulalongkorn. The word must be at least 4 letters long.

3. Task: Read a book with an elephant on the cover or the word "elephant" in the title. Plurals allowed. - Die Spuren meiner Mutter by Jodi Picoult

4. Interactive Item - based on the Bangkok National Museum. Location - Bangkok, Thailand - The museum was established and opened in 1874 by King Chulalongkorn to exhibit the royal collections of his father King Mongkut.
Bangkok is among the world's top tourist destinations, and has been named the world's most visited city consistently in several international rankings. One attraction is the Chakri Maha Prasat Throne Hall, a 19th-century European-style building with a traditional Thai roof.


Museum 4: The National Art Center in Tokyo

1. Task: Read a book set in Japan. - My Year of Meats

2. Task: Read a book that is the 2nd in a series. - Walking Disaster

3. Task: Read a book with waves on the cover. - The Last Girls by Lee Smith

4. Interactive Item - based on the National Art Center in Tokyo. About - Its Monet exhibition, held between 7 April and 2 July 2007, was the second most visited exhibition of the year, not only in Japan but in the world. - The Housekeeper and the Professor


Museum 5: National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

1. Task: Read a book set in Washington, D.C. - Stupid White Men

2. Task: Read a book written by and African-American writer. You may use this list for assistance. - The Water Dancer

3. Task: Read a book with fruit on the cover. - Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire

4. Interactive Item - based on the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. About - It's the only national museum devoted to the documentation of the African American experience. - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body



Museum 6: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town

1. Task: Read a book set in South Africa or written by a South African Author

2. Task: Read a book with a cover that is 75% yellow. - The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

3. Task: Read a book with "knife" or "knives" in the title.

4. Interactive Item - based on the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town. About - What was once a magnolia-yellow grain silo in Cape Town became the Zeitz Museum. - A Conspiracy of Faith (Department Q, #3) by Jussi Adler-Olsen


Museum 7: National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa

1. Task: Read a book set in Canada or written by a Canadian author. - Frying Plantain

2.Task: Read a book that is in a series with 5 primary works. - The False Prince

3. Task: Read a book with a horse or horses on the cover. - The Black Stallion (The Black Stallion, #1) by Walter Farley

4. Interactive Item - based on the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. About - Following its founding in 1880, the Gallery occupied five different spaces, before finally settling in the stunning building it now calls home. - The Cruelest Month


Museum 8: Tate Modern in London

1. Task: Read a book set in London, England. - A Monstrous Regiment of Women

2. Task: Read a fantasy novel featuring a queen. "Fantasy" must be listed as a genre on the main book page. - The Invasion of the Tearling

3.Task: Read a book that has a main book page genre of science fiction. - Strange Planet

4. Interactive item - based on the Tate Modern in London. About - Tate Modern was opened by the Queen on 11 May 2000.- The Body in the Library


Museum 9. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

1. Task - Read a book set in New York City. - Indiscretion

2. Task - Read a book that is a chunkster over 500 pages. - Lone Wolf

3. Task - Read a book with a raven(s) on the cover or in the title. - Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason

4. Interactive Item - based on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Task: Your choice based on your selection from the collection. - An Invisible Thread


Museum 10. Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands

1. Task: Read a book set in the Netherlands or written by a Dutch author.

2. Task: Read a book set in the seventeenth century (1601 - 1700) - Robinson Crusoe

3. Task: Read a book with a chair on the cover. - The Last Juror by John Grisham

4. Interactive item - based on Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands. About - The Mauritshuis in The Hague was built in the seventeenth century as a private residence for Count Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen.


message 33: by Sam F (last edited Dec 28, 2021 06:27AM) (new)
Jan 17, 2021 10:58AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Museum 11. The National Palace Museum in Taipei

1. Task: Read a book with the word "night" or "market" is in the title. Plurals are allowed. - The Midnight Library

2. Task: Read a book set in a fictional or fantasy city. - The Runaway King

3. Task: Read a book with dragons in it. - Eragon

4. - Interactive item - based on the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Taipei is known for its many night markets, the most famous of which is the Shilin Night Market in the Shilin District. The surrounding streets by Shilin Night Market are extremely crowded during the evening, usually opening late afternoon and operating well past midnight. About - it originally began as the former Palace Museum in the Forbidden City, whose collection included artwork from the Ming and Qing dynasties. - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil



Museum 12. The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo

1. Task: Read a book set in Egypt. -

2. Task: Read a book in which a river plays a significant role. - The Night Tiger

3. Task: Read a book with "gold" as a root word in the title. (Gold, Golden, etc.)

4. Interactive item - about The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo About - The building lay on the bank of the Nile River, and in 1878 it suffered significant damage in a flood of the Nile River. - The Third Gate



Museum 13. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

1. Task: Read a book set in Austria or written by an Austrian author.

2. Task: Read a book that has a geometric shape of circle, square, triangle, or rectangle on it. This task excludes moons or planet shapes as circles. - White Fragility Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

3. Task: Read a book that has a main page genre of romance. - Winter Street

4. Interactive item - about the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna About - Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. - Floating City by Kerri Sakamoto


Museum 14. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

1. Task: Read a book about a climate disaster. - This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

2. Task: Read a book that was published in 2000. - Me Talk Pretty One Day

3. Task: Read a book that has the word "Daughter" in the title. Plurals are allowed.

4. Interactive item - based on the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Location - Puerto Rico
In September 2017, the island was threatened or hit by two major hurricanes: Irma and Maria. Hurricane Irma narrowly missed the island on September 6 as a category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph (290 km/h). The heart of the storm stayed off-shore, but the northeast of Puerto Rico, including San Juan, saw serious damage. About - The museum was inaugurated in 2000. - An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude


Museum 15. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1. Task: Read a book set in California. - K is for Killer

2.Task: Read a book in which a significant character is a photographer, or there is depiction of a photograph on the cover. - And Then You Die

3. Collection - Andy Warhol
His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture.
Task: Read a memoir/biography of a celebrity who was popular in the 1960's.

4. Interactive item - based on The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. About - In 1936, one year after the museum opened, it established its photography collection, becoming one of the first museums to recognize photography as a fine art.

Museum 16. Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City

1. Task: Read a book set it Mexico or written by a Mexican author.

2. Task: Read a book set in a school, college, or university. - Normal People

3. Task: Read a book that has a single feather on the cover.

4. Interactive item - based on the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. About - Its actions include: literacy campaigns, the creation of rural schools, regional normals and the National Plan of Museums, including Anthropology (along with History, Viceroyalty and Modern Art).


Museum 17: Musée D'Orsay in Paris

1 Task: Read a book set in Paris. - The Heart

2. Task: Read a book with a train on the cover. - Yes, I'm Hot in This The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab by Huda Fahmy

3. Task: Read a book about people who's work is derived from the sea. - The Innocents

4. Interactive item - based on the Musée D'Orsay in Paris. About - The museum was once a railway station. - Scarlet

Museum 18: The Art Institute of Chicago

1. Task: Read a book set in Illinois.

2. Task: Read a book with fire on the cover. - A Burning

3. Collection - The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Task: Read a book with a theme of mental illness. - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

4. Interactive item - based on the Art Institute of Chicago. About - After the Great Fire of 1871, Chicago leaders were devoted to rebuilding and growing the city, which included opening a museum and school for the fine arts. - Eleven on Top

Museum 19: Museo Larco in Lima

1. Task: Read a book with sport as a theme. - Seabiscuit: An American Legend

2. Task: Read a book whose author's first and last initials are any combination of R L H. - De Niro's Game

3. Task: Read a book with jewelry on the cover. - Wine Girl The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier by Victoria James

4. Interactive item - based on the Museo Larco in Lima In October 2013, Lima was chosen to host the 2019 Pan American Games; these games were held at venues in and around Lima, and were the largest sporting event ever hosted by the country. About - In 1925, Rafael Larco Herrera acquired a collection of vases and other archaeological pieces from his brother-in-law, Alfredo Hoyle. - Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time



Museum 20: The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, China

1. Task: Read a book set in historic China - prior to 1900.

2. Task: Read the third book in a series. - The Neighbor

3. Task: Read a book that has "archer" in the title or author's name. Or, a significant character is an archer.

4. Interactive item - based on The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, China. About - The terra-cotta army, dating back to the late third century, was discovered by local farmers in 1974 just outside of Xi'an City. - The Bourne Supremacy


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Jan 17, 2021 10:59AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Museum 21. The Musée du Louvre in Paris

1. Task: Read a book with the word "tower" in the title. Plurals are allowed.

2. Task: Read a book with "pyramid" in the title or on the cover.

3. Task: Read a book with a theme of angels. - Quentins

4. Interactive item - based on The Louvre in Paris. Paris is the home of the famous landmark, the Eiffel Tower. About - Architect I. M. Pei was awarded the project and proposed a glass pyramid to stand over a new entrance in the main court, the Cour Napoléon. Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters


Museum 22. State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg

1. Task: Read a book set in Russia. - The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great

2. Task: Read a book with a significant character or author with the name Catherine. - Speaking in Bones

3. Task: Read a book with filigree on the cover. It may be a design element of the cover, or part of an article. - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #1) by Alexander McCall Smith

4. Interactive item - based on the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. About - The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on 7 December, Saint Catherine's Day.



Museum 23. Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid

1. Task: Read a book set in Spain.

2. Task: Read a book that has 200-299 pages. - Zorgamazoo

3. Task: Read a book with a man wearing a hat on the cover. - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

4. Interactive item - based on the Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid. About - The Museo del Prado opened to the public on 19 November 1819 as a Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture. In 2019, we celebrated our Bicentenary.



Museum 24. The National Gallery in London

1. Task: Read a book set in the UK. - Cover Her Face

2. Task: Read a book that is in a series of seven published works.

3. Task: Read a book that is a mystery, solved by a man & woman duo. - Twelve Sharp

4. Interactive item - based on The National Gallery of London. About - In 2019, The National Gallery was ranked seventh in the world on the List of most visited art museums. - Gallows View



Museum 25. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

1. Task: Read a book with "Windmill, Wind, or Mill" in the title. Plurals are allowed.

2. Task: Read a book with "Swan" in the title, or on the cover. Plurals are allowed.

3. Task: Read a book with a book(s) on the cover. - The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs

4. Interactive item - about the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Location - Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Amstelpark in the Zuid borough houses the Rieker windmill, which dates to 1636. About - The collection consists of one million objects dedicated to art and history with the museum’s first purchase, The Swan by Jan Asselijn, remaining one of Rijksmuseum’s most renowned pieces.



Museum 26. The Vasa Museum in Stockholm

1. Task: Read a book set in Sweden or written by a Swedish author. - Hostage

2. Task: Read a book with the theme of Vikings.

3. Task: Read a book with a lion on the cover or the word "Lion" in the title. Plurals are allowed. - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum

4. Interactive item - based on the The Vasa Museum in Stockholm. About - This museum is a recovered 17th-century Swedish ship. Visitors to the museum, board the ship for the ultimate trip down Scandinavian memory lane. - The Hidden Child



Museum 27. The Acropolis Museum in Athens

1. Task: Read a book set in Greece, or written by a Greek author.

2. Task: Read a book with a main page genre of mythology.

3. Task: Read a book in which a dog is a significant character. - Dog on It

4. Interactive item - based on the Acropolis Museum in Athens. About - The monuments of the Acropolis have withstood the ravages of past centuries, both of ancient times and those of the Middle Ages.



Museum 28. The British Museum in London

1. Task: Read a book based on the Arthurian legend.

2. Task: Read a book with the work "Empire" in the title. Plurals are allowed.

3. Task: Read a book whose cover is at least 75% blue. - Stranger Planet (Strange Planet, #2) by Nathan W. Pyle

4. Interactive item - based on the British Museum in London. Location - London, England A romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, and made popular by its use in Arthurian legend. About - The museum's permanent collection of some eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence, having been widely sourced during the era of the British Empire. - The Thirteenth Tale



Museum 29. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

1. Task: Read a book set in Venice.

2. Task: Read a book set between the years 900 and 1100.

3. Task: The cover has a bearded man, or a signification character has a beard. - Conviction

4. Interactive item - based on the Vincent Van Gogh Museum.
Location - Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", attributed by the large number of canals which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. About - Vincent Van Gogh produced nearly 900 paintings and more than 1,100 works on paper during his lifetime - The One I Left Behind



Museum 30. Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence

1. Task: Read a book set in Italy (excludes Venice), or written by an Italian author. - The Doll

2. Task: Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover, or a significant character plays a musical instrument. - Linger

3. Task: Read a book with a main page genre of Mystery that involves kidnapping. - I'd Know You Anywhere

4. Interactive item - based on the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence. About - The Academia Gallery showcases a collection of antique musical instruments.


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Jan 17, 2021 11:00AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Museum 31. The National WWII Museum in New Orleans


1. Location - New Orleans, Louisiana - Task: Read a book set in New Orleans.

2. About - Read a book originally published in 2000. - Gathering Blue

3. Collection - Read a book with the word "Code" in the title. Plurals are allowed. - Code (Virals, #3) by Kathy Reichs

4. Interactive item - based on the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Two historians, Stephen Ambrose and Gordon H. "Nick" Mueller established the war museum in 2000. The Enigma machine is an encryption device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic and military communication. It was employed extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II, in all branches of the German military. - Everything Is Illuminated


Museum 32. Pergamon Museum in Berlin

1. Location - Read a book set in Germany, or written by a German author. - Zara Hossain Is Here

2. About - Read a book that is set in the future. - Assassin's Heart

3. Collection - Read a book set in Ancient Rome or Ancient Egypt - Death Comes as the End

4. Interactive item - based on the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
Since the end of September 2014 the museum is partially closed for renovation. In November 2016 it was revealed that the renovation would not be finished before 2023. Portraits of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII


Museum 33. The Getty Center in Los Angeles


1. Location - Read a book that was originally published in Spanish and translated to English. 0 The Soul of a Woman

2. About - Read a book from Mazes and Labyrinths List. State the position number when reporting.

3. Collection - Read a book with a human character who is male and over the age of 70. - The Removed

4. Interactive item - based on the Getty Center. Los Angeles CA - The Getty Center features a 34,000-square-foot (12,400 m2) Central Garden. Included in the garden is a maze of azaleas which floats in the pool. Nude Study of an Old Man - The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship


Museum 34. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.


1. Location - Read a book set in Washington State. - I Can Make This Promise

2. About - Read a book with a main page genre of Space Opera.

3. Collection - Read a book with a candle(s) on the cover, or in the title.

4. Interactive item - based on the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum collects, preserves, studies, and exhibits artifacts, archival materials, and works of art related to the history, culture, and science of aviation and spaceflight and the study of the universe. Its research and outreach activities serve all audiences, within and beyond its walls. - Red, White & Royal Blue


Museum 35. Instituto Ricardo Brennand in Recife, Brazil

1. Location - Read a book set in Brazil or the Amazon forest.

2. About - Read a book with a bridge on the cover or "bridge" in the title. Plurals are allowed. - Now You See Me (Lacey Flint, #1) by Sharon J. Bolton

3. Collection - Read a book that has two main words with the same initial in the title. - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

4. Interactive item - based on the Instituto Ricardo Brennand. Recife, Brazil (surrounded by a reserve of preserved Amazon) Instituto Ricardo Brennand's architecture is inspired by a Tudor-style castle complete with drawbridge. Margaret Moe's Amazon - The Witch of Portobello


Museum 36. Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem

1. Location - Read a book set in Israel or written by an Israeli author. - Dawn

2. About - Read a book with a proper name in the title. This is restricted to a person's name. - Dexter Is Delicious

3. Collection - Read a book with the theme of Music. "Music" must show on the main page page genres.

4. Interactive item - based on the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. The museum serves as the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, the most notable installations being the Hall of Names, a memorial for each Jewish person murdered in the Holocaust. Heartstrings - Music of the Holocaust
Task: Your choice based on your selection from the collection - Selected Poems, 1968-1996


Museum 37. National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

1. Location - Read a book set in either Maryland or Virginia. - Postmortem

2. About - Read a book set in the 1990's. - Silverwing

3. Collection - Read a book with a significant character who is a nun. This character may be from any religion, real or fictional, as long as she is called a nun. - A Mind to Murder

4. Interactive item - based on the National Gallery of Art. The final element of the National Gallery of Art complex, the Sculpture Garden was completed in 1999 after more than 30 years of planning. The Veiled Nun



Museum 38. Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil

1. Location - Read a book with a theme of Natural Disaster. The book may be about earthquakes, volcanoes, weather (hurricane, tornado), mountain slides, floods, forest fires, etc. It does not include situations like airplane crashes, shipwrecks, etc.- Silent Spring

2. About - Read a book that takes place primarily on a farm, ranch, or plantation. - In the Shadow of the Banyan

3. Collection - Read a book that is set in a fantasy world. - Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite

4. Interactive item - based on the Imhotim. Bumadinho, Brazil
The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on January 25, 2019, resulting in the deaths of 270 people. Carrion Flower
This flower looks fantastical. It was founded by the former mining magnate Bernardo Paz, who turned his ranch into the open air museum. - The Considerate Killer (Nina Borg, #4) by Lene Kaaberbøl


Museum 39. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires

1. Location - Read a book that is on the Kick Ass Military Science Fiction Books list. State position on the list.

2. About - Read a book that is on the Art & Artists in Fiction list. State position on the list.

3. Collection - Read a book where the main character is a ballet dancer. The book may be fiction or non-fiction (memoir, biography). - If Only: A Novel

4. Interactive item - based on the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano. Buenos Aires, Argentina The museum showcases Latin American art spanning from the early 20th century to the present, including works from acclaimed artists like Frida Kahlo.
Every time I hear Buenos Aires, I think of the movie Starship Troopers in which alien bugs wiped out the city of Buenos Aires.
- The Troop


Museum 40. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington

1. Location - Read a book set in New Zealand or written by a New Zealand author.

2. About - Read a book that is on the Pirates! list. State position on the list.

3. Collection - Read a book with Postcard or Letter in the title. Plurals are accepted. - A Letter of Mary

4. Interactive item - based on Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Te Papa Tongarewa translates literally to 'Container of Treasures'. (Treasure chests?)


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Jan 17, 2021 11:08AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Classic Challenge Bingo:

B1: Book From Our Group’s Shelf Prior to 2021 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
B2: Book That Has Been Made Into Film - The Bourne Supremacy
B3: Booker Prize Winner
B4: Classic Romance - A Girl of the Limberlost
B5: Classic of Europe - The Body in the Library

I1: Classic Adventure - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
I2: Book Published or Written 1700 or earlier
I3: Classic Short Story Collection
I4: Book Published in the 19th Century - The Moonstone
I5: New To Me Classic Author - And Then You Die

N1: Nobel Laureate - Selected Poems, 1968-1996
N2: History or Historical Fiction - A Monstrous Regiment of Women
N3: Reader’s Choice - Silverwing
N4: Classic Satire or Comedy - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
N5: Newberry Medal Winner

G1: Classic Female Author - K is for Killer
G2: Book Published in the 18th Century - Robinson Crusoe
G3: Nonfiction - Silent Spring
G4: Book Published in the 20th Century - Dad and Me in the Morning
G5: Book From Another Book Club or Library List - My Year of Meats

O1: Classic of Africa
O2: Classic Mystery, Suspense, or Thriller - Cover Her Face
O3: Pulitzer Prize Winner - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
O4: 100 Must-Read Classics in Translation - Dawn
O5: Book From Our Group’s 2021 Bookshelf


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Jan 17, 2021 11:11AM

Sam F | 1355 comments My fabulous 12 + 2 Old & New Classic Challenge

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2. The Brothers Karamazov
3. The Woman in White

1900-1999/New School
4. The Sound and the Fury
5. The Name of the Rose
6. A Girl of the Limberlost

My Wild Card Six
7. The Moonstone
8. The Kitchen God's Wife
9. Hamlet
10. The Grapes of Wrath
11. When We Were Orphans
12. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Alternates
A-1. The Bourne Supremacy
A-2. Steppenwolf


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Jan 17, 2021 11:11AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Classics: The Year You Were Born and 100 Years Earlier

1969"

1. Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint

2. Mario Puzo, The Godfather

3. Jacqueline Susann, The Love Machine

4. Harold Robbins, The Inheritors

5. Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain

6. Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes

7. Penelope Ashe, Naked Came the Stranger

8. Chaim Potok, The Promise

9. Gwen Davis, The Pretenders

10. Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand

11. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

12. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying

13. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days

14. Pearl S. Buck, The Three Daughters of Madame Liang

15. John Cheever, Bullet Park

1869:

1. Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

2. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

3. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

4. Thomas Bailey Aldrich – The Story of a Bad Boy

5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Idiot

6. Alexandre Dumas, père – The Knight of Sainte-Hermine

7. Gustave Flaubert – Sentimental Education

8. Victor Hugo – The Man Who Laughs

9. Louisa May Alcott – Good Wives

10. Juliana Horatia Ewing – Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances

11. Henry Kendall – Leaves from Australian Forests

12. Mark Twain – The Innocents Abroad


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Jan 17, 2021 11:13AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Classics: Decade/Century Challenge

My Century Challenge, Authors-Some Old Some New:

1830-1839
1840-1849 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
1850-1859 The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
1860-1869 - The Moonstone - Sylvia's Lovers-*Elizabeth Gaskell, 1863
1870-1879 Far From the Madding Crowd-Thomas Hardy,1874
1880-1889 Jack and Jill-*Louisa May Alcott, 1880
1890-1899 - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - 1890
1900-1909 - A Girl of the Limberlost
1910-1919
1920-1929 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926
1930-1939 - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, 1939
1940-1949 -Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library - 1942
1950-1959 - Nectar in a Sieve
1960-1969 - Cover Her Face
1970 - 1979 -
1980 - 1989 - The Bourne Supremacy
1990 - 1999 - Ruth Ozeki - My Year of Meats -

Decade Challenge:

1960 - Dawn
1962 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1963 - A Mind to Murder

1986 - The Bourne Supremacy
1987 - Gallows View
1988 - A Dedicated Man

1990 - Postmortem
1994 - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1995 - A Monstrous Regiment of Women
1996 - A Letter of Mary
1997 - And Then You Die
1998 - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
1999 - Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime

1920-Main Street by *Sinclair Lewis
1921-The Narrow House by Evelyn Scott
1922-by *Hermann Hesse
1923-Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
1924-A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
1925-The Professor's House by *Willa Cather
1926- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1927-To the Lighthouse by *Virginia Woolf
1928-Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
1929-The Sound and the Fury


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Jan 17, 2021 11:13AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Classics: Challenge #7 - 2020 Group Reads Challenge

Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new books per year to go on our book shelf. This challenge is to read 12 of these forty.

1. As I Lay Dying
2. Hamlet
3. Alias Grace
4. 12th Night
5. The Brothers Karamazov
6. The Stand
7. The Moonstone
8. The Grapes of Wrath
9. Journey to the Centre of the Earth
10. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
11. The Woman in White
12. The Sound and the Fury


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Jan 17, 2021 11:13AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Challenge #4 - Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge

1. 18th Century or older - Robinson Crusoe
2. 19th Century, - The Moonstone
3. 20th Century, - Silverwing
4. Current or Past Group Read - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. An Author not read before, - Dad and Me in the Morning
6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. - My Year of Meats
7. Science Fiction,
8. Romance - And Then You Die
9. Historical fiction - A Monstrous Regiment of Women
10. Nonfiction - Silent Spring
11. Mystery/Crime, - The Bourne Supremacy
12. Horror or Humor - The Picture of Dorian Gray


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Jan 17, 2021 11:14AM

Sam F | 1355 comments Classics: Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge
Read 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year.

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Jan 17, 2021 11:19AM

Sam F | 1355 comments What to Read in 2021:

Tasks

1. Go to your home page. Scroll down through the updates and pick any book mentioned. - How the Light Gets In, The Turn of the Key, The Dutch House, The Mystery of the Blue Train, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, The Man in the Brown Suit, Where the Crawdads Sing, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, In the Woods, Always & Forever Laura Jean, The Lost Girls, Before I Fall

2. Go to your home page again. Scroll down through the updates and pick any book mentioned. - You Should Have Known, The Lost and Found Bookshop,

3. Go to a group you are a member of and read a book off of their shelves. You may use a series substitute if needed. - As I Lay Dying, Hamlet, 12th Night, The House of the Spirits, The Brothers Karamazov, Watership Down, The Stand, The Moonstone, The Handmaid's Tale, The Grapes of Wrath, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Murder in the Mews, The Woman in White, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Name of the Rose, The Sound and the Fury , Everything I Never Told You, A Year of Marvellous Ways, The Shadow of the Wind, The Library at Mount Char, Bonk, Gulp, Life After Life, Mudbound, The Age of Miracles, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Hidden Figures, The Nightingale, On the Beach, Red Queen, Murder on the Orient Express, A Man Called Ove, The Sun is Also a Star, White Teeth, Dorothy Must Die, Y is for Yesterday, Americanah, The Golem & the Ginni, The Husband's Secret, The DaVinci Code,

4. Go to your Friends list, click on Books My Friends Are Reading. Choose a book from this list or a another book by an author on this list. - How the Light Gets In, The Man in the Brown Suit, The Nightingale, Fall of Giants, The Dutch House, A Dirty Job

5. Go back to your Friends list, click on Books My Friends Are Reading. Choose another book from this list or a another book by an author on this list. - Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, The Woman in White,

6. Choose a book from a 2020 AMMP or Game Night Challenge (that has ended) that you didn't get read. If you are new to either group or did not participate in challenges in 2020, read a book you wished you would have read in 2020. - Where the Crawdads Sing, The Nightingale, A Man Called Ove, Educated, The Great Alone, Dorothy Must Die, We Were Liars, The Husband's Secret, Tell No One, The Wife Between Us, The DaVinci Code, Murder on the Orient Express,

7. Choose another book from a 2020 AMMP or Game Night Challenge (that has ended) that you didn't get read. If you are new to either group or did not participate in challenges in 2020, read a book you wished you would have read in 2020. - Dorothy Must Die, Kindred, We Were Liars, The Husband's Secret, The Da Vinci Code, Murder on the Orient Express, The Shadow of the Wind, Around the World in 80 Days, Educated, A Man Called Ove, The Nightingale, Small Great Things,

8. Read the earliest book published on your TBR. - The Merchant of Venice

9. Read any book from your TBR. - Walking Disaster

10. Click on Browse, then Recommendations. Pick a book listed for recommendations based on your To-Read Shelf. - Where the Crawdads Sing, A Beautiful Mind, 7 Habits, The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Road, Perfume, Chronicles of a Death Foretold, Braiding Sweetgrass, The Lying Game, Thinking Fast & Slow, Before I Fall, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, You are a Badass, A New Earth, The Sun is Also a Star, The Handmaid's Tale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

11. Click on Browse, then Recommendations. Pick a book listed for recommendations based on any of your shelves. - The Turn of the Key,

12. Click on Browse, New Releases. Click on My Authors at the top and pick a book that shows up on the list for January or beyond. If none of the New Releases appeal, read a different book by an author that shows up in the list but it must be a series you have not read yet (or a standalone if no series). - Angie Thomas, Jennifer Robson, Lisa Gardner, James Patterson, The Midnight Library, The Soul of a Woman

13. Click on Browse, then on Lists. Pick a list that your friends have voted on and pick a book from that list to read. - The Mystery of the Blue Train, 9 Perfect Strangers, Eragon, The Casual Vacancy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Red Queen, The Nightingale, An Echo in the Bone, Cutting for Stone, This is Where I Leave You, The Lacuna, A Dirty Job, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Breakfast of Champions, High Fidelity, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Two Towers, Angels & Demons, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Last of the Breed,

14. Click on Browse, then on Lists. Pick a different list that your friends have voted on (not from the list you used in #4) and pick a book from that list to read. - The Bourne Supremacy

15. Click on Browse, then on Explore. To the right you will see my favorite genres. Pick one and click on it. Read a book on the New Releases for that genre. If nothing appeals, pick a different genre. - Normal People

16. Click on Browse, then on Explore. To the right you will see my favorite genres. Pick one and click on it. Scroll down to Lists. Pick a book from any of the lists and read it. If nothing appeals, pick a different genre. - Steve Jobs, Into the Wild, The Handmaid's Tale, The Bell Jar, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Good to Great, Outliers, We Were Liars, Red Queen, The Bourne Identity, Hamlet, Lies of Locke Lamora, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Hannibal, Eragon, The White Princess, DaVinci Code, Silent Spring, The Stand, Salem's Lot, A Dirty Job, The Name of the Rose, The Historian, The Power of Now, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, A New Earth, Steppenwolf, Walking Disaster, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Freakonomics, Angels & Demons, The Happiness Project, The Shack, A Fine Balance, Linger, Forever, The Peach Keeper, The Strange & Beautiful Sorrows..., Kindred, House of the Spirits,

17. Click on Browse, then on Choice Awards. Pick any book that has been nominated for any year and read that book or any other book by that author. - Smoking 17, Steve Jobs, Little Princes, The Casual Vacancy, Inferno, Life After Life, Written in my Own Heart's Blood, The Nightingale, Dead Wake, Red Queen, Educated, The Water Dancer, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain, Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier

18. On your profile page, scroll down until you see "(Your name) Favorite Authors" on the right side of the page. Click on the link (example: My Favorite Authors Page). Once there, scroll through the list of your favorite authors and choose an author to revisit. You may either re-read an old favorite or continue on with one you haven't read yet. - Jodi Picoult, Nine Perfect Strangers, Margaret Atwood, JoJo Moyes, Erik Larsen, Amy Tam, Inés of My Soul, Alice Hoffman, Michael Pollan, Lisa Genova, Herman Hesse, Barbara Kingsolver, Henning Mankell, Joseph Boyden, Jennifer Robson, John Steinbeck, Alice Munro, Miram Toews, Elizabeth Strout, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

19. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and sort by date added. Pick one book off the first page. - Fall of Giants, The Perfect Present, The Happiness Project, Red Moon, A Girl of the Limberlost, Codebreakers, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Already Home, Sometimes Mine, The Singing Fire, Mercy Among the Children, Plan B, Case Histories, Rush Home Road, The Mind's Eye, The Good Apprentice, Anthropologist on Mars, Sleeping Naked, Book of Negroes, Many Lives & Secret Sorrows...m Mudbound, Good to a Fault, Not My Daughter, Grapes of Wrath, Freedom Writer's Diary, Infidel, Steppenwolf, Shake Hands with the Devil, Bury Your Dead, Golem & Jinni, Last Wife of Henry VIII, The Chronicler of the Winds, The Birth House, The Scorched Wood People, Born Adventurer, Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism, Far to Go, 100 Secret Senses, In Defense of Food, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry,Songs of the Humpback Whale, The Piano Man's Daughter, Shadow of the Wind, Casual Vacancy, A Fine Balance, The Historian, Freakonomics, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Tipping Point

20. Sort your TBR and to show 50 books per page and sort by date added. Pick one book off the last page. - Dorothy Must Die, Raise High the Roof Beam, Lost Girls, Braiding Sweet Grass, The Turn of the Key, Thinking Fast & Slow,

21. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and sort by author, A-Z. Read one book on the first page of that list. - Abraham - Erickson - Assassin's Heart

22. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and sort author by Z-A. Read one book on the first page of that list. -Wroblewski to Ruiz - The Last Girls

23. Read a book from your TBR by a new to you author. - The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

24. Read a book from your TBR by another new to you author. - Purple Hibiscus

25. Read a book that will either finish a series you have read or is the latest book published in a series you have read. - The Considerate Killer

26. Read a another book that will either finish a series you have read or is the latest book published in a series you have read. - The Considerate Killer

27. Pick a series you've been wanting to start and read the first book in that series. - The False Prince

28. Pick a book that you've only read the first book in the series and read the next book in that same series. Walking Disaster

29. Pick a series from a new to you author you've been wanting to start and read the first book in that series. - Savvy

30. Read any book from your TBR. - Everything Is Illuminated


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Sam F | 1355 comments 31. Read a book that you bought in 2020 but haven't read yet. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2020. Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier

32. Read a book that you bought in 2019 but haven't read yet. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2019. - I Can Make This Promise

33. Read a book that you bought in 2018 but haven't read yet. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2018. - Nine Perfect Strangers

34. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and sort by number of pages, shortest to longest. Pick a book found on the first page.
(These books may be under the 100 pages for this task only). - under 297 - An Invisible Thread

35. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and sort by number of pages, longest to shortest. Pick one book found on the first page. - 1149 to 485 - The Invasion of the Tearling

36. Sort your TBR by 50 books per page and sort by title A-Z. Pick a book off of the first page. - Adult Onset to The Darkest Room - And Then You Die

37. Sort your TBR by 50 books per page and sort by title A-Z. Pick a book off of the last page. - You are Not So Smart to The Simarillion, Winter Street

38. List your TBR by 50 books per page and sort by title A-Z. Pick a book off of any page except first or last. - Indiscretion

39. Read a book published in 2021. - The Removed

40. Read a book published in 2020. - Selected Poems, 1968-1996

41. Pick a book that you rated five stars in 2020. Go to the book page and scroll down until you see lists with this book. Click on any of those lists and pick another book from the list to read. - Hunger, Outliers, Hidden Figures, Long Walk to Freedom, The Nickel Boys, White Fragility, Eloquent Rage, The Water Dancer, Educated, Where the Crawdads Sing, The Dutch House, The Turn of the Key, The Nightingale, Nine Perfect Strangers, Crazy Rich Asians, A Man Called Ove, The Handmaid's Tale, , China Rich Girlfriend, Look Alive 25, Everything I Never Told You, Pachinko, Indian Horse, The Orenda, Daughters are Forever, Red Queen, Scarlet, Life After Life, Fall of Giants, The Casual Vacancy, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Name of the Rose, This Historian, The Shadow of the Wind, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Perfume, The 13th Tale, The Forgotten Garden, The Kitchen House, An Echo in the Bone,

42. Pick any book that you rated five stars. Go to the book page and scroll down until you see lists with this book. Click on any of those lists and pick another book from the list to read. - The Husband's Secret

43. Read a book that has a title that starts with the same letter as your first name. - Scarlet

44. Read a book that has a title that starts with the same letter as your last name. - Floating City

45. Read a book whose author's first or last name starts with the same letter as your GR screen name. - Linger

46. List your TBR by 50 books and sort by Random. Pick a book off the first page. - My Year of Meats

47. List your TBR by 50 books and sort by Random. Pick a book off the last page. - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

48. List your TBR by 50 books and sort by Num Ratings. Pick a book off the first page. - Eragon

49. List your TBR by 50 books and sort by Num Ratings. Pick a book off the last page. - Zara Hossain Is Here

50. List your TBR by 50 books and sort by Ave Ratings. Pick a book off the first page. - >4.35- Sulwe

51. List your TBR by 50 books and sort by Ave Ratings. Pick a book off the second page. >4.25 - Walking on Water

52. Read a book published in the same month as your birthday. - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

53. Read a book with a cover that is at least 50% your favorite color - Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum, #12) by Janet Evanovich

54. Read a book with your age intact in the page number. (Example if you are 32 - 320 or 325 or 132 would all work). - Other Words for Home

55. Go to the main book page for the LAST book you read in December 2020. Pick a book to read from the "Readers Also Enjoyed" at the top right. If the book page for the book you read does not have a "Readers Also Enjoyed" list, pick the 2nd to last book you read in December. - The Little Prince, Count of Monte Cristo, Crime & Punishment, Gone with the Wind, Anna Karenina, A Tale of 2 Cities, Hamlet, The Odyssey, Great Expectations, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Old Man & the Sea, The Picture of Dorian Gray Animal Farm

56. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "Can't Wait" in the name of the list. - The Doll

57. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "Best" in the name of the list - Speaking in Bones

58. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "2020" in the name of the list - You Should See Me in a Crown

59. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "2021" in the name of the list - The Soul of a Woman

60. Read any book from your TBR. - Mirror Mirror


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Sam F | 1355 comments 52 Books book challenge:

1. Set in a school - Smash It!

2. Featuring the Legal Profession - The Last Juror

3. A dual timeline - Rush Home Road

4. An author that is deceased - Home

5. Published by Penguin - Happiness™

6. **No listopia for this one!** A character with the same name as a male family member - Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

7. An author with only 1 published book - A Burning

8. A book in the 900’s of the Dewey Decimal System - An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude

9. Set in a Mediterranean country - If Only: A Novel

10. Related to the word “fire” - Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

11. Book with discussion questions inside - Leaving Time

12. Title Starting with the Letter "D" - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

13. Includes an exotic animal - The Night Tiger

14. Written by an author over 65 (when published) - The Soul of a Woman

15. A book mentioned in another book - The Picture of Dorian Gray

16. Set Before the 17th Century - Death Comes As the End

17. A Character "on the run" - Inés of My Soul

18. Author with a nine-letter last name - Red, White & Royal Blue

19. Book with a deckled edge - A Girl of the Limberlost

20. Made into a TV series - Nine Perfect Strangers

21. Book by Kristin Hannah

22. A family saga - The Innocents

23. An ending that surprises you - You Should Have Known

24. A book you think they should read in schools - The Antiracist: How to Start the Conversation about Race and Take Action

25. A book with multiple character POV - The Interestings

26. An author of color - The Memory Police

27. First chapter ends on an odd page number - Library at Mt Char, Educated, The Name of the Rose, The Stand, Pachinko, All the Devils are Here, Me & White Supremacy, The Water Dancer

28. Includes a historical event you know little about - Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

29. Featuring the environment - Silent Spring

30. Watch Out For Dragons - Eragon

31. Book that shares a similar title to another book - Stranger Planet

32. A character who is selfish - The Winter Palace

33. Featuring adoption - The Kitchen House

34. A book you’d rate 5 stars - Lullabies for Little Criminals

35. Set in a country that starts with the letter “S” - Hostage

36. A nameless narrator - The Historian, Swing Time, Cockroach

37. An educational read - Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

38. **No listopia for this one!** Recommended on BookBub (Link to challenge guide if you need ideas.) - Broken Promises (Linwood Barclay), Prodigal Summer, Winter of the Worlds, The Other Black Girl, Postmortem

39. An alternate history novel - Floating City

40. Found via #bookstagram - The Midnight Library

41. An endorsement by a famous author on the cover. - Kindred

42. An epistolary - Everything Is Illuminated

43. A character with a pet cat - A Man Called Ove, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Where the Crawdads Sing, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

44. Includes a garden - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

45. A coming of age novel - Savvy

46. Winner of the National Book Award – any year - Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Brown Girl Dreaming, Behind the Beautiful Forevers,

47. A character with a disability - The Housekeeper and the Professor

48. A cover with a woman who is facing away - Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi

49. A book with a flavour in the title - The Coincidence of Coconut Cake

50. A book with a shoe on the cover - Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger

51. Published in 2021 - Zara Hossain Is Here

52. **No listopia for this one!** Re-do one of the previous 51 categories from this 2021 challenge - My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education


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