2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Goal: 200 in 2022

Books 1 - 50:
1. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys - 1/1/22 - 3* - My Review
2. What Willow Says by Lynn Buckle - 1/2/22 - 4* - My Review
3. Learwife: A Novel by J.R. Thorpe - 1/3/22 - 4* - My Review
4. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien - 1/4/22 - 4* - My Review
5. Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky - 1/4/22 - 3* - My Review
6. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong by Paul A. Offit - 1/5/22 - 4* - My Review
7. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - 1/6/22 - 3* - My Review
8. The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution by Susan Hockfield - 1/7/22 - 3* - My Review
9. My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir by Katherine G. Johnson - 1/8/22 - 4* - My Review
10. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - 1/9/22 - 2* - My Review
11. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut - 1/10/22 - 4* - My Review
12. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher - 1/11/22 - 4* - My Review
13, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler - 1/12/22 - 4* - My Review
14. The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing - 1/13/22 - 4* - My Review
15. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert - 1/14/22 - 4* - My Review
16. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg - 1/15/22 - 4* - My Review
17. The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria by Edmund Richardson - 1/16/22 - 4* - My Review
18. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - 1/17/22 - 4* - My Review
19. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green - 1/18/22 - 4* - My Review
20. Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt - 1/19/22 - 2* - My Review
21. The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis - 1/20/22 - 1* - My Review
22. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - 1/21/22 - 5* - My Review
23. Faithful by Alice Hoffman - 1/22/22 - 2* - My Review
24. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - 1/23/22 - 4* - My Review
25. The Secret River by Kate Grenville - 1/24/22 - 4* - My Review
26. Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries by Lisa Sanders - 1/25/22 - 3* - My Review
27. Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz - 1/26/22 - 4* - My Review
28. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - 1/27/22 - 4* - My Review
29. Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck - 1/28/22 - 4* - My Review
30. Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik - 1/29/22 - 3* - My Review
31. Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P.D. James - 1/30/22 - 3 stars - My Review
32. The Head Game: Baseball Seen from the Pitcher's Mound by Roger Kahn - 1/31/22 - 4* - My Review
33. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger - 2/1/22 - 3* - My Review
34. Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy - 2/2/22 - 3* - My Review
35. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 2/3/22 - 3* - My Review
36. The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin - 2/4/22 - 1* - My Review
37. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard - 2/5/22 - 5* - My Review
38. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan - 2/6/22 - 4* - My Review
39. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson - 2/7/22 - 4* - My Review
40. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro - 2/8/22 - 3* - My Review
41. The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury -- 2/9/22 - 3* - My Review
42. Love, Death & Rare Books by Robert Hellenga - 2/10/22 - 4* - My Review
43. Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young - 2/11/22 - 2* - My Review
44. The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson - 2/12/22 - 3* - My Review
45. The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression by Edward Bullmore - 2/13/22 - 3* - My Review
46. When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning - 2/14/22 - 4* - My Review
47. The Other Side of Normal: How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior by Jordan Smoller - 2/15/22 - 4* - My Review
48. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro - 2/16/22 - 4* - My Review
49. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust - 2/17/22 - 4* - My Review
50. Lying Awake by Mark Salzman - 2/18/22 - 4* - My Review

Books 51 - 100:

51. The Late Show by Michael Connelly - 2/19/22 - 3* - My Review
52. Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo - 2/20/22 - 4* - My Review
53. The Far Country by Nevil Shute - 2/21/22 - 4* - My Review
54. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante - 2/22/22 - 3* - My Review
55. The Master by Colm Tóibín - 2/23/22 - 5* - My Review
56. Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout - 2/24/22 - 2* - My Review
57. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate- 2/25/22 - 3* - My Review
58. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks - 2/26/22 - 4* - My Review
59. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis - 2/27/22 - 4* - My Review
60. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See - 2/28/22 - 2* - My Review
61. Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum - 3/1/22 - 4* - My Review
62. The Order of the Day by Éric Vuillard - 3/2/22 - 4* - My Review
63. The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis - 3/3/22 - 3* - My Review
64. The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie - 3/4/22 - 4* - My Review
65. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - 3/5/22 - 5* - My Review
66. Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood - 3/6/22 - 4* - My Review
67. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 3/7/22 - 2* - My Review
68. Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work by Alex Pattakos - 3/8/22 - 3* - My Review
69. Paradise by Toni Morrison - 3/9/33 - 4* - My Review
70. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult - 3/9/22 - 2* - My Review
71. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman - 3/10/22 - 3* - My Review
72. In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut - 3/11/33 - 4* - My Review
73. A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum - 3/12/22 - 4* - My Review
74. Adam Bede by George Eliot - 3/13/22 - 4* - My Review
75. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul - 3/14/22 - 4* - My Review
76. The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat - 3/15/22 - 5* - My Review
77. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari - 3/16/22 - 4* - My Review
78. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon - 3/17/22 - 3* - My Review
79. Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane - 3/18/22 - 5* - My Review
80. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan - 3/19/22 - 4* - My Review
81. July's People by Nadine Gordimer - 3/20/22 - 4* - My Review
82. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah - 3/21/22 - 4* - My Review
83. Spring by Ali Smith - 3/22/22 - 4* - My Review
84. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki - 3/23/22 - 3* - My Review
85. Small Ceremonies: A Novel by Carol Shields - 3/24/22 - 4* - My Review
86. Lady Susan by Jane Austen - 3/25/22 - 3* - My Review
87. The Ambassadors by Henry James - 3/26/22 - 3* - My Review
88. Independent People by Halldór Laxness - 3/27/22 - 4* - My Review
89. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro - 3/28/22 - 4* - My Review
90. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell - 3/29/22 - 4* - My Review
91. Saving Lucia by Anna Vaught - 3/30/22 - 4* - My Review
92. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood - 3/31/22 - 4* - My Review
93. Recapitulation by Wallace Stegner - 4/1/22 - 4* - My Review
94. The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly - 4/2/22 - 3* - My Review
95. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow - 4/3/22 - 5* - My Review
96. The Things Our Fathers Saw: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater by Matthew A. Rozell - 4/4/22 - 4* - My Review
97. Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout - 4/5/22 - 3* - My Review
98. Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston - 4/6/22 - 4* - My Review
99. The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom - 4/7/22 - 3* - My Review
100. Justine by Lawrence Durrell - 4/8/22 - 3* - My Review

Books 101 - 150:

101. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe - 4/9/22 - 4* - My Review
102. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - 4/10/22 - 3* - My Review
103. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - 4/11/22 - 4* - My Review
104. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel - 4/12/22 - 4* - My Review
105. The Cactus League by Emily Nemens - 4/13/22 - 3* - My Review
106. The Candy House: A Novel by Jennifer Egan - 4/14/22 - 4* - My Review
107. Flower Net by Lisa See - 4/15/22 - 3* - My Review
108. Making a Psychopath: My Journey into Seven Dangerous Minds by Mark Freestone - 4/16/22 - 4* - My Review
109. 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin - 4/17/22 - 4* - My Review
110. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nighfall by Kazuo Ishiguro - 4/18/22 - 4* - My Review
111. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro - 4/19/22 - 4* - My Review
112. The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga - 4/20/22 - 2* - My Review
113. Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury - 4/21/22 - 4* - My Review
114. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch - 4/22/21 - 4* - My Review
115. Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow - 4/23/22 - 3* - My Review
116. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman - 4/24/22 - 3* - My Review
117. This Noble Land: My Vision for America by James A. Michener - 4/25/22 - 4* - My Review
118. Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman - 4/26/22 - 3* - My Review
119. Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver - 4/27/22 - 4* - My Review
120. Sepharad: A Novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina - 4/28/22 - 5* - My Review
121. Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West by Heather Hansman - 4/29/22 - 2* - My Review
122. Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold - 4/30/22 - 3* - My Review
123. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princet on, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson - 5/1/22 - 5* - My Review
124. Beloved by Toni Morrison - 5/2/22 - 4* - My Review
125. A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne - 5/3/22 - 5* - My Review
126. Children of God by Mary Doria Russell - 5/4/22 - 4* - My Review
127. A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel - 5/5/22 - 4* - My Review
128. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - 5/6/22 - 4* - My Review
129. The House Of Special Purpose by John Boyne - 5/7/22 - 4* - My Review
130. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo - 5/8/22 - 4* - My Review
131. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah - 5/9/22 - 2* - My Review
132. Jazz by Toni Morrison - 5/9/22 - 3* - My Review
133. The Absolutist by John Boyne - 5/10/22 - 4* - My Review
134. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood - 5/11/22 - 4* - My Review
135. The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga - 5/12/22 - 4* - My Review
136. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty - 5/13/22 - 3* - My Review
137. Eventide by Kent Haruf - 5/13/22 - 3* - My Review
138. Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - 5/14/22 - 4* - My Review
139. Possession by A.S. Byatt - 5/15/22 - 4* - My Review
140. The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed - 5/16/22 - 3* - My Review
141. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker - 5/17/22 - 4* - My Review
142. The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman - 5/18/22 - 5* - My Review
143. Baba Dunja's Last Love by Alina Bronsky - 5/19/22 - 4* - My Review
144. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari - 5/20/22 - 2* - My Review
145. John Adams by David McCullough - 5/21/22 - 4* - My Review
146. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - 5/22/22 - 3* - My Review
147. Judgement Day by Penelope Lively - 5/23/22 - 2* - My Review
148. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman - 5/24/22 - 5* - My Review
149. Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold - 5/25/22 - 2* - My Review
150. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver - 5/26/22 - 3* - My Review

Books 150 - 200:

151. Taft by Ann Patchett - 5/27/22 - 2* - My Review
152. Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin - 5/28/22 - 2* - My Review
153. The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman - 5/29/22 - 4* - My Review
154. The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet by Henry Fountain - 5/30/22 - 4* - My Review
155. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway - 5/31/22 - 4* - My Review
156. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières - 6/1/22 - 4* - My Review
157. Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton - 6/2/22 - 5* - My Review
158. The White Darkness by David Grann - 6/3/22 - 4* - My Review
159. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee - 6/4/22 - 4* - My Review
160. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey - 6/5/22 - 4* - My Review
161. How to Fly: In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons by Barbara Kingsolver - 6/6/22 - 3* - My Review
162. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - 6/6/22 - 4* - My Review
163. It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo - 6/7/22 - 4* - My Review
164. The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy by Jo Marchant - 6/8/22 - 4* - My Review
165. The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos - 6/9/22 - 3* - My Review
166. Trust by Hernan Diaz - 6/10/22 - 3* - My Review
167. Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle by Gordon Thomas - 6/10/22 - 4* - My Review
168. The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir - 6/11/22 - 4* - My Review
169. Edinburgh by Alexander Chee - 6/12/22 - 2* - My Review
170. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing - 6/12/22 - 3* - My Review
171. Solar Bones by Mike McCormack - 6/13/22 - 4* - My Review
172. House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs - 6/14/22 - 4* - My Review
173. The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge - 6/15/22 - 3* - My Review
174. Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt - 6/16/22 - 4* - My Review
175. Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell - 6/16/22 - 3* - My Review
176. The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason - 6/17/22 - 5* - My Review
177. Sula by Toni Morrison - 6/18/22 - 4* - My Review
178. The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch - 6/18/22 - 3* - My Review
179. Innocent by Scott Turow - 6/19/22 - 4* - My Review
180. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham - 6/20/22 - 4* - My Review
181. The Book of Salt by Monique Truong - 6/21/22 - 4* - My Review
182. The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold - 6/22/22 - 3* - My Review
183. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler - 6/23/22 - 4* - My Review
184. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood - 6/24/22 - 3* - My Review
185. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune - 6/25/22 - 4* - My Review
186. The Dead Wander in the Desert by Rollan Seisenbayev - 6/26/22 - 4* - My Review
187. Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold - 6/26/22 - 2* - My Review
188. A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne- 6/27/22 - 3* - My Review
189. Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold - 6/27/22 - 3* - My Review
190. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman - 6/28/22 - 2* - My Review
191. Elevation by Stephen King - 6/29/22 - 3* - My Review
192. Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin - 6/30/22 - 4* - My Review
193. Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason - 7/1/22 - 3* - My Review
194. Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman - 7/2/22 - 3* - My Review
195. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King - 7/2/22 - 4* - My Review
196. How We Disappear: Novella & Stories by Tara Lynn Masih - 7/3/22 - 4* - My Review
197. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen - 7/4/22 - 3* - My Review
198. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre - 7/5/22 - 4* - My Review
199. These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett - 7/6/22 - 4* - My Review
200. On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides - 7/6/22 - 4* - My Review

Books 201 - 250:

201. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma - 7/7/22 - 2* - My Review
202. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison - 7/8/22 - 3* - My Review
203. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King - 7/9/22 - 4* - My Review
204. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout - 7/10/22 - 4* - My Review
205. MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood - 7/11/22 - 4* - My Review
206. Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver - 7/11/22 - 4* - My Review
207. One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott Turow - 7/12/22 - 4* - My Review
208. The Man in the Empty Boat by Mark Salzman - 7/13/22 - 4* - My Review
209. On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See - 7/14/22 - 4* - My Review
210. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold - 7/14/22 - 3* - My Review
211. News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez - 7/15/22 - 4* - My Review
212. The Dawn's Early Light by Walter Lord - 7/16/22 - 4* - My Review
213. The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead - 7/17/22 - 2* - My Review
214. The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson - 7/18/22 - 4* - My Review
215. Burntcoat by Sarah Hall - 7/19/22 - 3* - My Review
216. James Madison: America's First Politician by Jay Cost - 7/20/22 - 4* - My Review
217. The Telling Time by P.J. McKay - 7/21/22 - 3* - My Review
218. The People of the Abyss by Jack London - 7/22/22 - 4* - My Review
219. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu - 7/23/22 - 3* - My Review
220. The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt - 7/24/22 - 3* - My Review
221. Paula by Isabel Allende - 7/25/22 - 4* - My Review
222. Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow - 7/26/22 - 5* - My Review
223. Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir by Peter Balakian - 7/27/22 - 4* - My Review
224. The Time of the Angels by Iris Murdoch - 7/28/22 - 3* - My Review
225. The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor - 7/29/22 - 3* - My Review
226. War and Me by Faleeha Hassan - 7/30/22 - 4* - My Review
227. The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara - 7/31/22 - 5* - My Review
228. Nobody Will Bury Us If We Die Here by Carolyn Chun - 7/31/22 - 2* - My Review
229. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino - 8/1/22 - 4* - My Review
230. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe - 8/2/22 - 4* - My Review
231. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu - 8/3/22 - 4* - My Review
232. Horse by Geraldine Brooks - 8/4/22 - 4* - My Review
233. Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen - 8/5/22 - 3* - My Review
234. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone - 8/6/22 - 4* - My Review
235. Booth by Karen Joy Fowler - 8/7/22 - 4* - My Review
236. The Great Passage by Shion Miura - 8/8/22 - 4* - My Review
237. The Trees by Percival Everett - 8/9/22 - 4* - My Review
238. French Braid by Anne Tyler - 8/10/22 - 4* - My Review
239. Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs by Marc Lewis - 8/11/22 - 4* - My Review
240. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama - 8/12/22 - 5* - My Review
241. The Colony by Audrey Magee - 8/13/22 - 5* -My Review
242. Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962 by Martin J. Sherwin - 8/14/22 - 4* -My Review
243. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi - 8/15/22 - 4* - My Review
244. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer - 8/16/22 - 3* - My Review
245. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood - 8/17/22 - 4* - My Review
246. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley - 8/18/22 - 2* - My Review
247. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry - 8/19/22 - 5* - My Review
248. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. - 8/19/22 - 2* - My Review
249. Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet - 8/20/22 - 4* - My Review
250. Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood - 8/21/22 - 4* - My Review

Books 251 - 300:

251. Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson - 8/22/22 - 3* - My Review
252. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell - 8/23/22 - 4* - My Review
253. Treacle Walker by Alan Garner - 8/24/22 - 3* - My Review
254. After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz - 8/25/22 - 3* - My Review
255. City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende - 8/26/22 - 3* - My Review
256. Popisho by Leone Ross - 8/26/22 - 2* - My Review
257. Flight From The Enchanter by Iris Murdoch - 8/27/22 - 3* - My Review
258. I Refuse: A Novel by Per Petterson - 8/28/22 - 3* - My Review
259. How to Be Both by Ali Smith - 8/29/22 - 4* - My Review
260. Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 by Barbara Kingsolver - 8/29/22 - 4* - My Review
261. The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick - 8/30/22 - 4* - My Review
262. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González - 8/31/22 - 2* - My Review
263. Glory: A Novel by NoViolet Bulawayo - 9/1/22 - 5* - My Review
264. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - 9/1/22 - 3* - My Review
265. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka - 9/2/22 - 5* - My Review
266. Fight Night by Miriam Toews - 9/3/22 - 3* - My Review
267. The Stand by Stephen King - 9/4/22 - 4* - My Review
268. Sanditon by Jane Austen - 9/5/22 - 3* - My Review
269. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks - 9/6/22 - 5* - My Review
270. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson - 9/7/22 - 3* - My Review
271. The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman - 9/8/22 - 3* - My Review
272. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat - 9/9/22 - 5* - My Review
273. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff - 9/10/22 - 4* - My Review
274. Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra - 9/11/22 - 4* - My Review
275. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami - 9/12/22 - 3* - My Review
276. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner - 9/13/22 - 4* - My Review
277. The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng - 9/14/22 - 5* - My Review
278. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - 9/15/22 - 4* - My Review
279. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald - 9/16/22 - 3* - My Review
280. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard - 9/17/22 - 4* - My Review
281. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - 9/18/22 - 4* - My Review
282. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen - 9/19/22 - 4* - My Review
283. Sweetland by Michael Crummey - 9/20/22 - 4* - My Review
284. Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli - 9/21/22 - 5* - My Review
285. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab - 9/22/22 - 4* - My Review
286. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - 9/23/22 - 4* - My Review
287. When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill - 9/24/22 - 4* - My Review
288. Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh - 9/25/22 - 4* - My Review
289. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams - 9/26/22 - 4* - My Review
290. The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung - 9/27/22 - 5* - My Review
291. The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant - 9/28/22 - 4* - My Review
292. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt - 9/28/22 - 4* - My Review
293. Writers & Lovers by Lily King - 9/29/22 - 3* - My Review
294. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh - 9/29/22 - 4* - My Review
295. Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah - 9/30/22 - 4* - My Review
296. The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen - 10/1/22 - 3* - My review
297. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai - 10/2/22 - 4* - My Review
298. The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 10/3/22 - 4* - My Review
299. The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid - 10/4/22 - 2* - My Review
300. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown - 10/5/22 - 4* - My Review

Books 301 - 350:

301. Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss - 10/6/22 - 3* - My Review
302. Vigil Harbor by Julia Glass - 10/7/22 - 4* - My Review
303. A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - 10/8/22 - 4* - My Review
304. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink - 10/9/22 - 4* - My Review
305. Intimacies by Katie Kitamura - 10/10/22 - 5* - My Review
306. Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout - 10/11/22 - 4* - My Review
307. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell - 10/12/22 - 4* - My Review
308. Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt - 10/13/22 - 3* - My Review
309. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym - 10/14/22 - 5* - My Review
310. HHhH by Laurent Binet - 10/15/22 - 4* - My Review
311. Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson - 10/16/22 - 4* - My Review
312. All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski - 10/17/22 - 3* - My Review
313. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks - 10/18/22 - 4* - My Review
314. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger - 10/19/22 - 4* - My Review
315. Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie - 10/20/22 - 4* - My Review
316. Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada - 10/21/22 - 5* - My Review
317. The Rise & Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman - 10/22/22 - 3* - My Review
318. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm Of 1894 by Daniel James Brown - 10/22/22 - 4* - My Review
319. Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes - 10/23/22 - 3* - My Review
320. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell - 10/24/22 - 4* - My Review
321. Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi - 10/25/22 - 3* - My Review
322. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker - 10/26/22 - 4* - My Review
323. The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr - 10/27/22 - 5* - My Review
324. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler - 10/28/22 - 4* - My Review
325. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - 10/29/22 - 3* - My Review
326. Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell - 10/30/22 - 4* - My Review
327. Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah - 10/31/22 - 4* - My Review
328. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather - 11/1/22 - 4* - My Review
329. Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams - 11/2/22 - 3* - My Review
330. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson - 11/3/22 - 4* - My Review
331. The Revolution of the Moon by Andrea Camilleri - 11/4/22 - 3* - My Review
332. Lessons by Ian McEwan - 11/5/22 - 4* - My Review
333. Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse - 11/6/22 - 4* - My Review
334. Touch by Olaf Olafsson - 11/7/22 - 4* - My Review
335. The Wall by John Lanchester - 11/8/22 - 4* - My Review
336. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson - 11/9/22 - 3* - My Review
337.The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr - 11/9/22 - 4* - My Review
338. Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet - 11/10/22 - 5* - My Review
339. The Winners by Fredrik Backman - 11/10/22 - 4* - My Review
340. Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga - 11/11/22 - 3* - My Review
341. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford - 11/11/22 - 4* - My Review
342. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - 11/12/22 - 4* - My Review
343. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro - 11/12/22 - 3* - My Review
344. The Book of Science and Antiquities by Thomas Keneally - 11/13/22 - 3* - My Review
345. John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life by Paul C. Nagel - 11/13/22 - 4* - My Review
346. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen - 11/14/22 - 3* - My Review
347. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild - 11/15/22 - 4* - My Review
348. Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson - 11/16/22 - 3* - My Review
349. Foundation by Isaac Asimov - 11/17/22 - 4* - My Review
350. The Measure by Nikki Erlick - 11/18/22 - 4* - My Review

Books 351 - 400:

351. Mecca by Susan Straight - 11/19/22 - 4* - My Review
352. Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap by David Roberts - 11/20/22 - 4* - My Review
353. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie - 11/21/22 - 4* - My Review
354. Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel - 11/22/22 - 3* - My Review
355. The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li - 11/23/22 - 4* - My Review
356. Speak by Louisa Hall - 11/24/22 - 5* - My Review
357. Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang - 11/25/22 - 3* - My Review
358. A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi - 11/26/22 - 4* - My Review
359. Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi - 11/27/22 - 3* - My Review
360. Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic - 11/27/22 - 4* - My Review
361. Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly - 11/28/22 - 4* - My Review
362. The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams - 11/29/22 - 4* - My Review
363. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan - 11/30/22 - 3* - My Review
364. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey - 12/1/22 - 4* - My Review
365. The Every by Dave Eggers - 12/2/22 - 4* - My Review
366. Zorro by Isabel Allende - 12/3/22 - 4* - My Review
367. Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje - 12/4/22 - 4* - My Review
368. If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery - 12/5/22 - 4* - My Review
369. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk - 12/5/22 - 3* - My Review
370. The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch - 12/6/22 - 3* - My Review
371. Seven Steeples by Sara Baume - 12/7/22 - 5* - My Review
372. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff - 12/8/22 - 4* - My Review
373. Abigail by Magda Szabó - 12/8/22 - 4* - My Review
374. The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka - 12/9/22 - 4* - My Review
375. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow - 12/9/22 - 3* - My Review
376. Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris - 12/10/22 - 5* - My Review
377. The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale - 12/10/22 - 4* - My Review
378. The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler - 12/11/22 - 4* - My Review
379. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss - 12/11/22 - 4* - My Review
380. Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé - 12/12/22 - 4* - My Review
381. Rose Nicolson by Andrew Greig - 12/12/22 - 3* - My Review
382. Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien - 12/13/22 - 4* - My Review
383. Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian - 12/13/22 - 4* - My Review
384. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi - 12/14/22 - 4* - My Review
385. Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity by Ejnar Mikkelsen - 12/14/22 - 4* - My Review
386. The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar - 12/15/22 - 4* - My Review
387. Clea by Lawrence Durrell - 12/15/22 - 4* - My Review
388. When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich - 12/16/22 - 4* - My Review
389. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - 12/16/22 - 4* - My Review
390. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker - 12/17/22 - 4* - My Review
391. Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert - 12/17/22 - 3* - My Review
392. What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri - 12/18/22 - 5* - My Review
393. The Night Ship by Jess Kidd - 12/18/22 - 3* - My Review
394. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng - 12/19/22 - 4* - My Review
395. The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn - 12/19/22 - 3* - My Review
396. On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - 12/20/22 - 4* - My Review
397. Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner - 12/20/22 - 4* - My Review
398. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - 12/21/22 - 4* - My Review
399. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai - 12/22/22 - 3* - My Review
400. Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen - 12/22/22 - 4* - My Review

Books 401 to 410:

401. The Singularities by John Banville - 12/23/22 - 3* - My Review
402. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham - 12/24/22 - 4* - My Review
403. Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks by Mark Woods - 12/25/22 - My Review
404. Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel - 12/26/22 - 3* - My Review
405. Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer - 12/26/22 - 4* - My Review
406. West by Carys Davies - 12/27/22 - 4* - My Review
407. Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Michael Punke - 12/28/22 - 4* - My Review
408. Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin - 12/29/22 - 3* - My Review
409. Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee - 12/30/22 - 4* - My Review
410. Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough - 12/31/22 - 4* - My Review

Challenge Completed 12/31/22
410 books read

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