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Piggybacking on my 2021 Reading Goals with a couple stretch goals 😊

20 Books on my want to read list prior to January 1, 2022:
1. Star Mother
2. Crash Site
3. The Dictionary of Lost Words
4. The Orphan Master's Son
5. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
6. Crime and Punishment
7. These Violent Delights
8. All Rhodes Lead Here
9. Hour of Need
10. The Thinnest Air
11. Something Wicked This Way Comes
12. The Paris Apartment
13. Diablo Mesa
14. The Night Circus
15. Where the Drowned Girls Go
16. The Flat Share
17. Neon Gods
18. A History of Wild Places
19. The Cipher
20. Daughters of the Lake
🎉 Goal achieved on 07.19!
21. Winter Counts
21. The Call of Cthulhu
22. Play Dead
23. Rebel Queen
24. The Haunting of Brynn Wilder
25. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
26. Fifty Words for Rain
27. Happily Letter After
28. A Room of One's Own
29. The Brightest Fell
30. The Essex Serpent
31. Nyxia
32. Comfort Me with Apples
33. Life, the Universe and Everything
34. These Toxic Things
35. On Her Father's Grave
36. The Velveteen Rabbit

10 Books that have been on my bookshelf, Kindle, or Audible library prior to January 1, 2022:
1. Star Mother
2. The Dictionary of Lost Words
3. The Thinnest Air
4. Midnight Exposure
5. The Cipher
6. Daughters of the Lake
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8. Winter Counts
9. The Call of Cthulhu
10. Play Dead
🎉 Goal achieved on 07.26!
11. The Haunting of Brynn Wilder
12. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
13. Fifty Words for Rain
14. The Brightest Fell
15. Life, the Universe and Everything
16. These Toxic Things

10 Books from ethnically diverse authors:
1. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
2. The Tiger Came to the Mountains by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3. The Backbone of the World by Stephen Graham Jones
4. A Righteous Man by Tochi Onyebuchi
5. Bloody Summer by Carmen Maria Machado
6. These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
7. All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata
8. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
10. The Cipher by Isabella Maldonado
🎉 Goal achieved on 07.12!
11. A Different Dawn by Isabella Maldonado
12. The Falcon by Isabella Maldonado
13. Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
14. Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
15. Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
16. These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall
17. A Killer's Wife by Victor Methos
18. Crimson Lake Road by Victor Methos
19. An Unreliable Truth by Victor Methos

10 Books from my 100 Books to Read Before You Die shelf:
1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
5. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
6. Dracula by Bram Stoker
7. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
8. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
9. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco
10. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
🎉 Goal achieved on 12.31! 😅

Read 10 books set in 10 different countries:
1. Crash Site (Caribbean)
2. The Dictionary of Lost Words (England)
3. The Orphan Master's Son (North Korea)
4. The Heart's Invisible Furies (Ireland)
5. Cold Cruel Kiss (Argentina)
6. The Tiger Came to the Mountains (Mexico)
7. Crime and Punishment (Russia)
8. A Righteous Man (Africa)
9. These Violent Delights (China)
10. Apples Never Fall (Australia)
🎉 Goal achieved on 03.27!
11. How to Stop Time (England)
12. The Paris Apartment (France)
13. Truth and Lies (England)
14. Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Japan)
15. The Flat Share (England)
16. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (England & Space)
17. Naomi's Gift (Germany)
18. Rebel Queen (India, England)
19. Fifty Words for Rain (Japan)
20. Rock Paper Scissors (Scotland)
21. Magpie Murders (England)
22. The Essex Serpent (England)
23. Dracula (Romania & England)
24. Frankenstein (Switzerland, Germany, and the Arctic Circle)
25. Our Violent Ends (China)

love the idea with the ethically diverse authors! 👏🏼 I'll keep a look on what you're reading there to get some more books for my tbr 😆 have fun with your challenge!

Thanks Kat!

I agree with Kat - lots of great ideas EJ!

Thanks Greg!