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For my individual challenge I just need to get thru all these free books that I have accumulated from 2021. Those "free take me" library carts that I just couldn't resist. Those Sunday 1/2 half off books from the Thrift Store and Goodreads Giveaway winners, etc.
Goal is to read at least 50 of these books then fill in the other 25 with books that are being released in 2022 that I am looking forward to reading and ones from 2021 that I just didn't get to. I will also plan to read 25 series books. These will be series that I want to start or need to complete.


34/50 (Used Books)
15/25 (New Releases)
7/25 (Series Books)

New Releases 2022:
The Maid - Nita Prose Completed 1/10/2022
The Lifeguards -Amanda Eyre Ward Completed 7/18/2022
The Good Son -Jacquelyn Mitchard
Run, Rose, Run -Dolly Parton
Reminders of Him- Colleen Hoover Completed 6/3/22
Reckless Girls- Rachel Hawkins Completed 7/31/22
Serendipity- Marissa Meyer Completed 1/14/2022
The Horsewoman- James Patterson
Extasia- Claire Legrand
Mercy Street- Jennifer Haigh
The Great Witch of Brittany- Louisa Morgan
The Book of Cold Cases- Simone St. James
The Recovery Agent- Janet Evanovich
Cinder & Glass- Melissa De la Cruz
The Golden Couple -Greer Hendricks Completed 5/31/22
The Children on the Hill- Jennifer McMahon Completed 6/7/2022
The Candy House- Jennifer Egan
Book of Night- Holly Black
Bloomsbury Girls- Natalie Jenner
How to Sell a Haunted House- Grady Hendrix
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau- Silvia Moreno-Garcia Completed 8/13/2022
The It Girl- Ruth Ware
The Hotel Nantucket- Elin Hilderbrand
Nightwork- Nora Roberts
Quicksilver- Dean Koontz
Chain of Thorns- Cassandra Claire
Sister Stardust- Jane Green
One Italian Summer- Rebecca Serle
The Paris Apartment - Lucy Foley
The Saints of Swallow Hill -Donna Everhart
The House Across the Lake -Riley Sager Completed 7/25/2022

2021 New Releases:
The Curse Workers: White Cat; Red Glove; Black Heart- Holly Black
The Reading List Sara Nisha Adams Completed 3/8/2022
The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah
The Holiday Swap Completed 12/31/22
Last Girl Ghosted - Lisa Unger
The Wish - Nicholas Sparks
A History of Wild Places- Shea Ernshaw Completed 1/31/22
The Christmas Promise- Richard Paul Evans
Fear No Evil- James Patterson
The Christmas Promise Completed 12/31/22
All of Us Villains- Amanda Foody
The Sentence- Louise Erdrich
Five Tuesdays in Winter- Lily King
Cackle- Rachel Harrison Completed 10/24/2022
Rock Paper Scissors- Alice Feeney
A Slow Fire Burning- Paula Hawkins
My Heart Is a Chainsaw- Stephen Graham Jones Completed 10/10/2022
The Perfect Family- Robyn Harding
The Younger Wife- Sally Hepworth
The Death of Jane Lawrence -Caitlin Starling

Series Books -
**Start The Series**
The Awakening (The Dragon Heart Legacy, #1)- Nora Roberts
Vicious((Villains #1) - V.E. Schwab Completed 2/16/2022
Once Upon a Broken Heart(Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1) - Stephanie Garber Completed 8/4/2022
The Ex Hex(Ex Hex, #1) - Erin Sterling Completed 8/24/2022
Realm Breaker(Realm Breaker, #1) - Victoria Aveyard
Wolf Hall(Thomas Cromwell #1) - Hillary Mantel
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1) - Holly Jackson Completed 11/9/22
Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly Completed 7/14/2022
Kingdom of the Wicked(Kingdom of the Wicked, #1) -Kerri Maniscalco
The Long Call(Two Rivers, #1) - Ann Cleeves
King of Scars(King of Scars, #1) - Leigh Bardugo
Magpie Murders(Susan Ryeland, #1) - Anthony Horowitz
The Cruel Prince(The Folk of the Air, #1) - Holly Black
Gilded Cage(Dark Gifts, #1) - Vic James
Crave(Crave #1) - Tracy Wolff
Hush(Hush #1) - Dylan Farrow
The Eye of the World(The Wheel of Time #1) - Robert Jordan
Changeling(Sorcery and Society #1) - Molly Harper
For the Wolf (The Wilderwood, #1) - Hannah F. Whitten
Spells Trouble (Sisters of Salem, #1)- P.C. Cast
The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)- Elly Griffiths

**Continue The Series**
The Righteous (The Beautiful, #3) - Renee Ahdieh Completed 4/28/2022
Midnight Sun(The Twilight Saga, #5) - Stephanie Meyer
Finale(Caraval, #3) - Stephanie Garber
Lord of Shadows(The Dark Artifices #2) - Cassandra Clare
King's Cage(Red Queen, #3) - Victoria Aveyard
The Fates Divide(Carve the Mark, #2) - Veronica Roth
Paper and Fire(The Great Library #2) - Rachel Caine
The Rose Society(The Young Elites, #2) - Marie Lu
The Likeness(Dublin Murder Squad, #2) - Tana French
Deadly Heat(Nikki Heat #5) - Richard Castle
22 Seconds(Women's Murder Club #22) - James Patterson
The Bone Code (Temperance Brennan, #20) -Kathy Reichs
The Bounty (Fox and O'Hare #7)- Janet Evanovich
Blessed Monsters(Something Dark and Holy, #3) -Emily A. Duncan

Goodreads Giveaway Winners:
The Fields by Erin Young
The Wild Girls by Phoebe Morgan
Close to Home by Lisa Jackson
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach
The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan Completed 5/25/22
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
Dark Things I Adore by Katie Lattari
The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
The Dressmaker of Paris by Georgia Kaufmann
The Last Chapter by Eleanor Collins
Love Like That by Emma Duffy-Comparone
Where the Truth Lies by Anna Bailey
Find Me In The Snow by Pamela Q. Fernandes
Faye, Faraway by Helen Fisher
Luna City by Joseph Hess
If She Dies by Erik Therme
Shiver by Allie Reynolds
Joint Custody by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly
Daisy Fields by Maki Matsui
Death at a Country Mansion by Louise R. Innes
The Coast-to-Coast Murders by James Patterson

Used Books Read
Little Fires Everywhere 1/13/2022
The Little Red Chairs 1/21/2022
Lucky Man 1/26/2022
The Quiet Game 2/16/2022
The Island 3/2/2022
The Wednesday Sisters 3/16/2022
Orphan Train 3/19/2022
Snow Falling on Cedars 3/30/2022
Midwives 4/7/2022
Cold Cold Heart 4/12/2022
The Year of Pleasures 4/16/2022
The Graveyard Book 4/20/22
Shopaholic & Baby 4/26/2022
Summer Island 4/30/2022
The Blue Bistro 5/11/22
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes 5/21/22
Crazy Rich Asians 5/31/22
The Walk 6/2/2022
The Probable Future 6/25/2022
My Ántonia Completed 6/30/2022
Lucia, Lucia Completed 7/17/2022
The Kite Runner Completed 7/21/2022
The Ninth Hour Completed 7/28/2022
The Tattooist of Auschwitz Completed 8/7/2022
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Completed Completed 8/20/2022
Murder Thy Neighbor Completed 8/28/2022
Virgin River Completed 9/4/2022
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Completed 9/8/2022
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe: A Novel with Recipes Completed 10/5/2022
The End of Your Life Book Club Completed 11/11/22
The Girls of August Completed 11/17/2022
November 9 Completed 11/23/2022
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Completed 12/8/2022
The People We Keep Completed 12/16/2022

2021 New Releases
A History of Wild Places 1/31/2022
The Reading List 3/8/2022
My Heart Is a Chainsaw Completed 10/10/2022
Cackle Completed 10/24/2022
The Holiday Swap Completed 12/31/2022
The Christmas Promise Completed 12/31/2022

2022 New Releases
The Maid 1/10/2022
Serendipity 1/14/2022
The Golden Couple 5/31/22
Reminders of Him 6/3/22
The Children on the Hill 6/7/22
The Lifeguards 7/18/2022
The House Across the Lake 7/18/2022
Reckless Girls 7/31/2022
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau 8/13/2022

Series Books
Vicious Completed 2/16/2022
The Righteous Completed 4/28/2022
Lilac Girls Completed 7/14/2022
Once Upon a Broken Heart Completed 8/4/2022
The Ex Hex Completed 8/24/2022
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Completed 11/9/2022
The Handmaid's Tale Completed 12/9/2022

Great challenges. Personally, I hope you never clean off your bookshelves. May you always have books on display.

Wow, Denise! That’s a long list, but good! I’d love to clean off my own bookshelf, but I think I’d end up buying more-so many I have to read! And I couldn’t handle it bare; of course I’m overflowing and need to do so.
Good luck on your challenge! 🐾

Even if I were to get these off my shelves I would still have over 400 more still sitting on them..lol

Good luck

Denise, I love how you have laid out your challenge. Sometimes I find that I don't put new releases on my list and then I don't read as many of them as I like. Good luck with your series challenges. I read the entire Thomas Cromwell - Wolf Hall series, and enjoyed them much more after I got used to the writing style. It was a little challenging at first for me. I loved the first book in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, I hope you enjoy it too. (The other books weren't for me, but a lot of people love them and I hope you will too.) I read The Cruel Prince series last year, and I have to say, it was my favorite series of the year. It was the first time I've read a series by Holly Black, but now I want to read her other series as well. I'm hoping to read the King of Scars series this year also, as well as Midnight Sun, they are on my list. I also need to finish out the Caraval series and the Red Queen series (I only read the first book in both cases), and I'd love to get back to Cassandra Clare. It's been too long! Enjoy your reading!

Great idea Denise. I see Cackle in your list. So many folks have it on their lists, but I will wait until the reviews start coming in.

Good luck and happy reading

edit: moved my comment, so all of your categories would be together. sorry about commenting so soon.

Interesting list, Denise, I like the way you organized it. I will follow your reviews, as you have a lot of titles I am not familiar with. I've only read Caraval (I enjoyed the 1st book, but not the 2nd one), so I'm curious about the 3rd one.
Good luck and happy reading!

Ioana wrote: "Interesting list, Denise, I like the way you organized it. I will follow your reviews, as you have a lot of titles I am not familiar with. I've only read Caraval (I enjoyed the 1st book, but not th..."

Thanks Ioana!

Alondra wrote: "Great idea Denise. I see Cackle in your list. So many folks have it on their lists, but I will wait until the reviews start coming in.

Good luck and happy reading

edit: moved my comment, so all o..."
Its all good. I decided to add the series after you commented.

Lea wrote: "Denise, I love how you have laid out your challenge. Sometimes I find that I don't put new releases on my list and then I don't read as many of them as I like. Good luck with your series challenges..."

Thanks Lea. I am hoping to get to Rule of Wolves and Wolf Hall at the beginning of the year.

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Good luck"

Thanks Desley!

My bookshelf just got bigger. I just had to stop by the 50% off sale at the thrift store. These are the books I snagged:

Ooh, some good books there, a 50% sale is hard to ignore!

And the "Free, Take Me!" cart at the library smacked me right in the face.....Picked these up today.

Wow!

New year has already brought me these five new books. Used my amazon gift card to get these:
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Finished , gave it 4.5 stars. Molly is a quirky, weird, unusual and wonderful character that simply wants to see the best in everyone. A worker bee that takes pride in everything that she does. The story flows so easily that you fall in love with the character and are rooting for her. Mixed in a mystery that needs to be solved and in the end all is revealed that left me very satisfied.

Finished , gave it 4 stars.

This book will leave you with a lot to think about. I enjoyed the characters and the background on the characters, but the story did drag a bit and I was left at the end wanting more with such an abrupt ending.

Finished , gave it 3 stars.
This book was not for me. 10 short stories that are more for a teen audience than adult. I liked maybe 2 of the stories, the other 8 were just average. My favorite story was Shooting Stars by Marissa Meyer.

Great progress, Denise! Woot!!

Finished , gave it 2 stars.
I had such a hard time reading this book. The writing was so uneven, I felt so disconnected from the characters, and the story was unconvincing. It was a very slow start just dragged until the end.

Finished , gave it 4 stars.
This book will take you on a journey about Michael J Fox's early life and his battle with Parkinson's Disease. I have been a fan of Michael J Fox since his tv series Family Ties and was just a shocked as everyone when he announced his battle with his disease. This book was entertaining as well as inspiring.

Another book sale reeled me in. For only $4 I got:

That's one incredible sale! I wouldn't have been able to resist either!

Finished , gave it 5 stars.
I felt like I was transported to Pastoral and immersed right into the middle of this story. Secrets, Lies and Mystery and that is just the beginning. The story had interesting characters and I loved all the little breadcrumbs that were weaved through out the story.

I finished , gave it 3.5 stars. It was a good story just not as strong as her newer books.

Finished , gave it 5 stars. This was part of a buddy read and I loved it. I was hooked from the first chapter. If I had to create my own reading list to share with others that moved me this would be my list:
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

The Reading List was such a nice book. I love book lists and your list is amazing - making me want to finish that one last book on it! It was a great buddy read!

Finished , gave it 3 stars. It was an ok book. It seemed to drag to me and as much as I wanted to get into the book I had to force myself to finish.

I finished , gave it 5 stars. I absolutely loved everything about this book.

Denise wrote: "I finished , gave it 5 stars. I absolutely loved everything about this book."

So glad you did! I read this back in 2014, it's still one of my favorites.

Denise wrote: "I finished , gave it 5 stars. I absolutely loved everything about this book."

This book is SO sad but incredible!

Pretty good March so far with two 5 stars! I really liked The Reading List and Orphan Train as well. And felt the same way you did about The Wednesday Sisters.

Just Finished , gave it 4 stars. I enjoyed this book especially the historical parts.

In April I managed to cross off my list:
Midwives 4/7/2022
Cold Cold Heart 4/12/2022
The Year of Pleasures 4/16/2022
The Graveyard Book 4/20/22
Shopaholic & Baby 4/26/2022
The Righteous Completed 4/28/2022
Summer Island 4/30/202

Oops I did it again. Just couldn't resist grabbing these books today for a total of $7 bucks,

What a great book haul!! I love when that happens. LOL

Denise wrote: "Oops I did it again. Just couldn't resist grabbing these books today for a total of $7 bucks,
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Amazing set, I've only read a few of them, but they were all 4-5 stars. Enjoy!

Wow, I wouldn't have been able to resist that either!

For June I managed to cross 4 more off my list. , , , and . All good books.

I want to shop where you're shopping! Though I don't really have space for any more books but $7? I'm there.

The Children on the Hill looks very intriguing.

Well I added to my collection yesterday, it has been 2 months since my last haul of books. I got these for a total of $10.

Denise wrote: "Well I added to my collection yesterday, it has been 2 months since my last haul of books. I got these for a total of $10.
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That is a nice haul!

Completed , gave it 5 stars. Definitely one of the more gruesome accounts of what happened at concentration camps during World War II that I have read, but it a story that needed to be told. The author has a way of taking you on a journey with the characters through out the novel and make you fall in love with the characters.

Finished , gave it 4 stars. The book overall was good and I enjoyed the twists and turns. I thought the ending was a little rushed and a few loose ends left up to interpretation with no real explanation. I liked that the characters all had their own secret backstories that they kept from each other. It showed how far a mother would go to protect their child. Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. I voluntarily chose to review it and the opinions contained within are my own.