Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

December Reporting Thread


- Please keep this thread for reporting. Any questions or comments should be directed to the challenge details thread
- Keep your reporting to one thread, once you've completed all of your books for the month
- Only list completed tasks and books
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[task description] - [book title] - [how many points]

December Categories: Points: 5 (68 Points Total for 2021)

7. Green Monday: Read a book with a green cover (50%, you can check with http://labs.tineye.com/color/) On Living (1 pt)

9. Choice Awards Winners Announced: Read a book that has nominated for the awards from any year Apples Never Fall (2 pts)

10. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that you've been meaning to read all year We Begin at the End (2 pts)

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D - The Adventurer's Son by Roman Dial - 2pts

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count) - The Giver - 1pt

4. Winter (December, January, February): Read a book with all of the letters W I N T E R in the title and/or author's name. - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - 2 pts

5. Festive Season: Read a book set during the festival season or with a red and/or green cover - Hercule Poirot's Christmas - 1pt

6. Taylor Swift's Birthday: Below is a list of (some) Taylor Swift songs. Read a book with any of the words highlighted in bold in the title:
Lover, You Need to Calm Down, Look What You Made Me Do, Bad Blood, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, I Knew You Were Trouble, Love Story, Blank Space, You Belong With Me, Shake It Off, Cardigan, Willow - The Space Between Worlds - 2pts

9. Choice Awards Winners Announced: Read a book that has nominated for the awards from any year - Confessions on the 7:45 - 2pts

10. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that you've been meaning to read all year - Spinning Silver - 1pt

Total Points: 11 pts

December Categories

✔1. Month: Read a book released in December (any year) The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters 12/27 1pt

✔2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough 12/11 2pts (Goodreads Choice Award for Science & Technology (2020))

✔3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count) Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone 12/16 1pt

✔4. Winter (December, January, February): Read a book with all of the letters W I N T E R in the title and/or author's name. Around the World in Eighty Days 12/20 1pt

✔6. Taylor Swift's Birthday: Below is a list of (some) Taylor Swift songs. Read a book with any of the words highlighted in bold in the title: Brat: An '80s Story 12/4 1pt

✔9. Choice Awards Winners Announced: Read a book that has nominated for the awards from any year You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive 12/8 2pts (Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Humor (2020))

✔10. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that you've been meaning to read all year Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All 12/20 2pts (Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2020))

Total: 10pts

December Categories
Total Points: 9

2. Letter of the Month: starting with D Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life (2 pts) GCA nominee nonfiction
3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters Outlawed (1 pt)
4. Winter (December, January, February): Read a book with all of the letters W I N T E R The Things We Wish Were True The Things We Wish Were True (1 pt)
5. Festive Season: The Holiday Swap (1pt)
7. Green Monday: 53% green (1 pt)
8. Card Playing Day: Read a book with Diamond Gift of Diamonds(1 pt)
9. Choice Awards Winners Announced: 2021 historical fiction The Rose Code (1 pt)
10. Tick Tock Day: The Lost Apothecary (1 pt)

December 4 points

5. Festive Season: Read a book set during the festival season or with a red and/or green cover - Claiming the Rancher's Heir Finished 1 point

9. Choice Awards Winners Announced: Read a book that has nominated for the awards from any year - The Hate You Give - Finished 2 points

10. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that you've been meaning to read all year- Maybe We Will - Finished 12/19 1 point

December Total Points: 10

1. Month: Read a book released in December (any year) - This Time Next Year - 1 pt

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D - The Disappearing Act - 1 pt

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count) - The Twelve Clues of Christmas ("Her Royal Spyness Mystery") - 1 pt

4. Winter (December, January, February): Read a book with all of the letters W I N T E R in the title and/or author's name. - Pretty Little Wife - 1 pt

5. Festive Season: Read a book set during the festival season or with a red and/or green cover - The Christmas Killer - 1 pt

7. Green Monday: Read a book with a green cover (50%, you can check with http://labs.tineye.com/color/) - In a Holidaze - 2 pts (GR nominee)

8. Card Playing Day: Read a book with one of the following words in the title: Heart, Diamond, Spade, Club, King, Queen, Jack, Ace, Joker (plurals are allowed) - Cards on the Table - 1 pt

9. Choice Awards Winners Announced: Read a book that has nominated for the awards from any year - The Lost Symbol - 1 pt

10. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that you've been meaning to read all year - Mr. Dickens and His Carol - 1 pt

December 2021


December Categories



2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count)

4. Winter (December, January, February): Read a book with all of the letters W I N T E R in the title and/or author's name.- Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of The Little House on the Prairie- Donald Zochert*

5. Festive Season: Read a book set during the festival season or with a red and/or green cover- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever- Barbara Robinson*

7. Green Monday: Read a book with a green cover - The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying- Sogyal Rinpoche*

10. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that you've been meaning to read all year- The Book of Luke*

December Total Points: 10


1. Month: Read a book released in December (any year): (+1)
●Dear Daddy, Please Praise Me

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D: (+1)
●Daddy

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count): (+1)
●Snuggled

4. Winter (December, January, February): Read a book with all of the letters W I N T E R in the title and/or author's name: (+2)
●The Wives

5. Festive Season: Read a book set during the festival season or with a red and/or green cover: (+1)
●Blame It on the Mistletoe

6. Taylor Swift's Birthday: Below is a list of (some) Taylor Swift songs. Read a book with any of the words highlighted in bold in the title: (+1)
●Subtle Blood

9. Choice Awards Winners Announced: Read a book that has nominated for the awards from any year: (+2)
●The Empress of Salt and Fortune

10. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that you've been meaning to read all year: (+1)
●Candy Caning

December total points: 8 pts

2. Letter of the month: read a book with a title or author that starts with the letter D - Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (1 pt)

3. Month in numbers: read a book with eight letters or words in the title - No Filter by Sarah Frier (2 pts)

4. Winter: read a book that has the letters WINTER in the title or author’s name - We Met in December by Rosie Curtis (1 pt)

5. Festive Season: read a book set during the festive season or has a red and green cover - In A Holidaze by Christina Lauren (2 pts)

9. Choice Awards Winner: read a nominated book - Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (2 pts)

December Total Points=2

1. Month: Read a book released in December (any year): Bright Burning Things, Lisa Harding, +1

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D: The Ballerinas, Rachel Kapelke-Dale, +1

I hope everyone had a great holiday season. I feel behind with reading this month finally having my family for the holidays.