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B. READING BY MONTHpages: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... message 41
*** JAN ***
6 books; 3 nook; 1 audio, 2,678 pages
1. b The Sentence by Louise Erdrich-287
2. b The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin-106,m
3. b Nine Lessons by Nicola Upson-307
4. b Washington Black by Esi Edugyan-334
5. b Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon-304
6. b The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead-213,m
7. n How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior-355
8. n The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson-372
9. n A Cat Was Involved by Spencer Quinn-64,m
10. a The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden by Kate Saunders-336
*** FEB ***
3 books; 4 nook; 2 audio, 2097 pages....YTD: 9 books; 7 nook; 3 audio; 4,775 pages
11. b A Keeper by Graham Norton-310p,m
12. n The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin-182
13. n Bridges Burned by Annette Dashofy-276
14. b The Midnight Library by Matt Haig-304,m
15. n Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon-208p
16. a Little Weirds by Jenny Slate-304
17. n The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami-204
18. a Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult-310
19. b The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson-309
*** MAR ***
4 books; 6 nook; 0 audio, 3093 pages....YTD: 13 books; 13 nook; 3 audio; 7,868 pages
20. n The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles-331
21. n Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey-320
22. n The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman-422,m
23. b Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀-260
24. n Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto-186
25. n The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray-576
26. b The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware-368
27. b Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi-272,m
28. b The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk-48
29. n Murder in Steeple Martin by Lesley Cookman-310
*** APR ***
4 books; 1 nook; 2 audio, 2,139pages....YTD: 17 books; 14 nook; 5 audio; 10,007 pages
thru April 20:
30. a Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke-310 (approx 65% of this was read in March
31. n The Gauguin Connection by Estelle Ryan-434p
after April 20:
32. b The Secrets of Winter by Nicola Upson-295
33. a Cherringham - Cold Case: A Cosy Crime Series by Michael Costello and Neil Richards-146,m
34. b Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara-308
35. b The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear-352
36. b American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson-294p
*** MAY ***
1 books; 7 nook; 3 audio, 3,303 pages....YTD: 18 books; 21 nook; 8 audio; 13,310 pages
37. n The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas-224p
38. n The Dirty Book Murder: A Rare Book Mystery -- Volume I-220p,m
39. a The Book Club Murders by Leslie Nagel-264
40. k Murder at the Spring Ball: A 1920s Mystery by Benedict Brown-231,m
41. b Yo! by Julia Alvarez-308
42. n The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan-352
43. a A Counterfeit Suitor by Darcie Wilde-437
44. n The Hollywood Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal-368
45. n The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall-211
46. n The Woman in the Photo by Mary Hogan-432
47. a Death in a Blackout by Jessica Ellicott-256
*** JUN ***
1 books; 4 nook; 2 audio, 2,042 pages....YTD: 19 books; 25 nook; 10 audio; 15,352 pages
48. n Girl at War by Sara Nović-320
49. n Moon Signs by Helen Haught Fanick-165
50. a Becoming by Michelle Obama-426
51. a Rotten To The Core by T.E. Kinsey-333, m
52. b 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak-312
53. k Aunt Bessie Assumes by Diana Xarissa-214
54. n The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill-272,m
*** JUL ***
1 books; 3 nook; 2 audio, 1,869 pages....YTD: 20 books; 28 nook; 12 audio; 17,221 pages
55. a Cherringham - No Place to Hide: A Cosy Crime Series-135,m
56. n Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto-299
57. n Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt-360
58. n The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton-528,m
59. a A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum-339
60. b The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio-208
*** AUG ***
4 books; 2 nook; 1 audio, 2671 pages....YTD: 24 books; 30 nook; 13 audio; 19,892 pages
61. b The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson, 273
62. n Seven Days in May by Kim Izzo-368
63. b State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny-495
64. b With a Vengeance by Annette Dashofy-257
65. a Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz-516,m
66. b Greenglass House by Kate Milford,376
67. n Into the Water by Paula Hawkins-386
*** SEP ***
6 books; 2 nook; 2 audio, 3,065 pages....
YTD: 30 books; 32 nook; 15 audio; 22,957 pages
68. b Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy -258
69. b The Crypt Thief by Mark Pryor -255,m
70. a Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown -512
71. b June by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore -379
72. n Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay -368,m
73. a One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters -214
74. b The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood -198
75. b Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman -160,m
76. n Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys -400
77. b Free Reign by Rosemary Aubert -321
*** OCT ***
4 books; 4 nook; 2 audio, 3,488 pages
YTD: 34 books; 36 nook; 17 audio; 26,445 pages
78. b Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman -352
79. n The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin -352
80. b All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny -439
81. b Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon -272
82. n Force of Nature by Jane Harper -326
83. b Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie -288
84. n Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore -293
85. n Ice Blue by Emma Jameson -238
86. a Murder Through the English Post by Jessica Ellicott -304
87. a The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones -624
***NOV ***
6 books; 1 nook; 1 audio, 2,383 pages
YTD: 40 books; 37 nook; 18 audio; 28,828 pages
88. b The Impersonator by Mary Miley -358
89. b The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen -400
90. k In the Frame by Matthew Costello and Neil Richardson -173
91. b The Lost Book of the Grail by Charlie Lovett -321,m
92. b The Blood Promise by Mark Pryor -286,m
93. b Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia -207
94. b The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles -368
95. a Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout -270
***DEC ***
2 books; 1 nook; 2 audio, 1585 pages
YTD: 42 books; 39 nook; 19 audio; 30,413 pages
96. n The War Against Miss Winter by Kathryn Miller Haines -336
97. b The Button Man by Mark Pryor -269,m
98. a The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani -390
99. b The Quiet Side of Passion by Alexander McCall Smith -287,m
100. a The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens -303,m
C. GCAC CHALLENGE ..........completed Nov 22https://
Part 1: 12 / 12 from 2021
Part 2: 15 / 5 from previous years
2021
Apples Never Fall, mystery
☀ Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, ya
Cloud Cuckoo Land, fiction
Crossroads, hist fic
☀ Dial A for Aunties
Eternal, hist fic
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, history
Great Circle
Harlem Shuffle, mystery
☀ Instructions for Dancing, ya
Klara and the Sun, sci fi
Last Night at the Telegraph Club, ya
☀ Of Women and Salt, hist fic, debut
The Book of Magic, fantasy
The Dictionary of Lost Words, hist fic
Great Circle, hist fic
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country, poetry
☀ Once There Were Wolves
The Lost Apothecary, hist fic, debut
☀ The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, fiction, debut
☀ The Paris Library
The Personal Librarian, hist fic
The Plot, mystery
The Reading List, fiction
The Rose Code, hist fic
☀ The Sentence, fiction
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, history
West with Giraffes, hist fic
☀ Firekeeper's Daughter...read in 2021, ya
☀ That Summer...read in 2021
☀ The Four Winds...read in 2021
☀ The Push...read in 2021, debut
previous
* A Woman Is No Man-2019
* All the Devils Are Here -2020
* Becoming-2018
* Elizabeth Is Missing -2014
* Force of Nature -2018
* Girl at War -2015
* Into the Water -2017
* Salt to the Sea -2016
* Stay with Me -2017
* The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle-2018
* The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek -2019
* The Death of Mrs. Westaway -2018
* The Midnight Library -2020
* The Nickel Boys -2019
* Tell the Wolves I'm Home -2012
D. AROUND THE YEAR
....... completed Sep 29
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[X] 1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y: Yvette (Evie): Instructions for Dancing
[X] 2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021: Clark and Division (The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.)
[X] 3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title: The Women of Chateau Lafayette
[X] 4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list: A book in translation: Japanese: The Nakano Thrift Shop
[X] 5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name: Bridges Burned by Annette Dashofy
[X] 6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover: The Color Of Lightning
[X] 7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience, or the mind: effects of COVID on the mind: Wish You Were Here
[X] 8. 3 books set on three different continents - Asia: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
[X] 9. 3 books set on three different continents - Antarctica: How the Penguins Saved Veronica
[X] 10. 3 books set on three different continents - Europe:Croatia: Girl at War
[X] 11. A book from the historical fiction genre: The Unquiet Dead
[X] 12. A book related to glass: stained glass windows and book title: Greenglass House
[X] 13. A book about a woman in STEM: The Gauguin Connection
[X] 14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads: Murder on the Red River
[X] 15. A book without a person on the cover: The Sentence
[X] 16. A book related to Earth Day: Once There Were Wolves
[X] 17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge: Stay with Me
[X] 18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author: Goodbye Tsugumi
[X] 19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history: The Midnight Library
[X] 20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951: The Secrets of Winter
[X] 21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover: airplane- The Consequences of Fear
[X] 22. A book with a Jewish character or author: The Woman in the Photo
[X] 23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship: Nine Lessons
[X] 24. A book related to inclement weather: Cherringham - Cold Case: A Cosy Crime Series, winter blizzard
[X] 25. A book less than 220 pages: The Fire Next Time
[X] 26. 2 books with the same word in the title: The Seed Keeper
[X] 27. 2 books with the same word in the title: A Keeper
[X] 28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards: Elizabeth Is Missing
[X] 29. A book set on or near a body of water: The Death of Mrs. Westaway
[X] 30. A book related to mythology: The Penelopiad
[X] 31. A book published at least 10 years ago: 1968: The Laughing Policeman
[X] 32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer: FBI agent: American Spy
[X] 33. The next book in a series: The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden
[X] 34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role: Becoming
[X] 35. book related to FLORA:The Lost Soul the illustrations
[X] 36. book related to FAUNA: Washington Black
[X] 37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name: Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
[X] 38. A book by a Latin American author: Yo! by Julia Alvarez
[X] 39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time: Salt to the Sea
[X] 40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards: Death: Rotten To The Core
[X] 41. A book with a theme of food or drink: Dial A for Aunties
[X] 42. A book with a language or nationality in the title: The Undocumented Americans
[X] 43. A book set in a small town or rural area: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
[X] 44. A book with gothic elements: The Mad Women's Ball
[X] 45. A book related to a game: The Westing Game
[X] 46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters: A Cat Was Involved
[X] 47. A book with handwriting on the cover: A Counterfeit Suitor
[X] 48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022: The Nickel Boys
[X] 49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons": means dangerous or unexplored territories: Nazis and KKK in LA during WW2: The Hollywood Spy
[X] 50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years: The Man Who Died Twice
[X] 51. A book published in 2022: Death in a Blackout
[X] 52. A book with a time-related word in the title: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
E. DIVERSITY IN READING .......... completed Nov 8, 2022the book must be written by an author(s) who is different from you: race, gender, sexual orientation, geography, nationality, religion, family background, language, ability, etc. I have personally eliminated "straight white males" from this category
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Race or Ethnicity
born in US, other than "white"
* Ausma Zehanat Khan: The Unquiet Dead
* Attica Locke: Bluebird, Bluebird
* Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys
* Diane Wilson: The Seed Keeper
* Esi Edugyan: Washington Black
* Etaf Rum: A Woman Is No Man
* Gabriela Garcia: Of Women and Salt
* James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
* Julia Alvarez: Yo!
* Lauren Wilkinson: American Spy
* Louise Erdrich: The Sentence
* Marcie Rendon: Murder on the Red River
* Michelle Obama: Becoming
* Naomi Hirahara: Clark and Division
* Nicola Yoon: Instructions for Dancing
* Nikole Hannah-Jones: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
* Sejal Badani: The Storyteller's Secret
Geography, Nationality, or Native Language
Not born in US. Possibily doesn't live in US. Could be translated. Purposely limited number of England's authors listed here, read 16, added 1.
* Art Spiegelman: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History - Sweden
* Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀: Stay with Me -Nigeria
* Banana Yoshimoto: Goodbye Tsugumi -Japan
* Charlotte McConaghy: Once There Were Wolves -Australia
* Elif Shafak: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World -Turkey
* Estelle Ryan: The Gauguin Connection -South Africa
* Hiromi Kawakami: The Nakano Thrift Shop -Japan
* Jane Harper: Force of Nature -Australia
* Jesse Q. Sutanto: Dial A for Aunties -Indonesia/Singapore
* Jussi Adler-Olsen: The Keeper of Lost Causes -Denmark
* Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: The Undocumented Americans -Ecuador
* Kim Izzo: Seven Days in May -Canada
* Louise Penny: All the Devils Are Here -Canada
* Maj Sjöwall: The Laughing Policeman -Sweden
* Margaret Atwood: The Penelopiad -Canada
* Marianne Cronin: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot -UK
* Olga Tokarczuk: The Lost Soul -Poland
* Paula Hawkins: Into the Water - Zimbabwe
* Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Before the Coffee Gets Cold -Japan
* Victoria Mas: The Mad Women's Ball -France
Sexual Orientation
* Benjamin Alire Sáenz: Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
* Graham Norton: A Keeper
* Jeanette Winterson: The Gap of Time
* Nicola Upson: The Secrets of Winter: A Josephine Tey Mystery
* Nicola Upson: Nine Lessons
Disabilities
* Sara Nović: Girl at War
Religious / Spritual Beliefs
only if it doesn't fit in any other category or it (subjectively) appears to be on a much higher plane than the other categories.
Gender
None will be listed. I have eliminated all white males who do not fit in any other category above.
Possible Fits:
Abdulrazak Gurnah: Afterlives
Afia Atakora: Conjure Women
Andrew Sean Greer: Less Is Lost
Angie Cruz: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water: A Novel
Anna Malaika Tubbs: The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Ayşe Kulin: Last Train to Istanbul
bell hooks: Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown
Chibundu Onuzo: Sankofa
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Palace of Illusions
Fatima Farheen Mirza: A Place for Us
Ibram X. Kendi: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America; Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ijeoma Oluo: Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Irène Némirovsky: The Dogs and the Wolves
Irène Némirovsky: The Fires of Autumn
June Hur: The Silence of Bones
Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans
Malinda Lo: Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Mohsin Hamid: The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Nadeem Aslam: Maps for Lost Lovers
Rainbow Rowell: Eleanor & Park
Randa Abdel-Fattah: When Michael Met Mina
Sara Nisha Adams: The Reading List
Syed M. Masood: The Bad Muslim Discount
Tara M. Stringfellow: Memphis
Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café
F. MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR .......... completed Oct 202242 / 42
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WHO: 7/7 ..........completed
Solve cases featuring a main character (sleuth, perp, victim, or suspect) in one of the below careers.
[X] 1. Law or Law Enforcement: Suspect: Clark and Division
[X] 2. Service Industry: Ladies Maid: Rotten To The Core
[X] 3. Fine Arts, Theater, or Film: Theater-victim and suspects: The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden
[X] 4. Science or Medicine: With a Vengeance
[X] 5. Social Media or Technology:The Gauguin Connection
[X] 6. Clergy: One Corpse Too Many
[X] 7. Bookshop Owner or Librarian: The Dirty Book Murder: A Rare Book Mystery -- Volume I
WHAT: 7/7 ..........completed
[X] 1. Third or last book in a series: Third in the Zoe Chambers mystery series: Bridges Burned
[X] 2. Combines multiple genres: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
[X] 3. Has a one-word title: June
[X] 4. Features a hobby/pastime: Shooting Pool: Murder on the Red River
[X] 5. Has a number in the title: Nine Lessons
[X] 6. Features a sleuth with a non-human "co-star": A Cat Was Involved
[X] 7. Related quarterly theme: Exploring the unknown: Dementia and a missing sibling: Elizabeth Is Missing
WHEN: 7/7 ..........completed
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported?
[X] 1. In autumn: The Consequences of Fear
[X] 2. In the 1800s or earlier: A Counterfeit Suitor
[X] 3. While traveling or on vacation: Moon Signs
[X] 4. Between sunrise and sunset: reported: The Crypt Thief
[X] 5. During a special event: Christmas holiday: The Secrets of Winter: A Josephine Tey Mystery
[X] 6. In the season of your birthday month: spring: Murder at the Spring Ball: A 1920s Mystery
[X] 7. Reported (published) in 2022: Death in a Blackout
WHERE: 7/7
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
[X] 1. In a large city: Stockholm: The Laughing Policeman
[X] 2. In the suburbs: Hollywood (a suburb of LA): The Hollywood Spy
[x] 3. In a village or rural area: Murder in Steeple Martin
[X] 4. In or near an office building: State of Terror
[X] 5. Inside or on the premises of a public venue (hotel, restaurant, airport, etc.): reunion at a high school: The Book Club Murders
[X] 6. In the Southern Hemisphere: Force of Nature
[X] 7. In or near a forest: Cherringham - Cold Case: A Cosy Crime Series
HOW: 7/7 ..........completed
Means of murder must be distinctly different; e.g. pistols and rifles are both firearms; knives and daggers are too similar.
[X] 1. Stabbing: A Counterfeit Suitor
[X] 2. Hanging: A Keeper
[X] 3. Struck with Car: The Death of Mrs. Westaway
[X] 4. Firearms: The Man Who Died Twice
[X] 5. Air injected into vein: The Coroner's Lunch
[X] 6. Drowning: Into the Water
[X] 7. Gas Asphyxiation and/or poison: Every Last Fear
WHY: 7/7 ..........completed
What motivated you to choose a particular case?
[X] 1. Your favorite mystery author or series: Louise Penny: All the Devils Are Here
[X] 2. Your favorite mystery subgenre: Historical Mystery: The Unquiet Dead
[X] 3. Appears in a Goodreads listopia: Middle Grade Mysteries: Greenglass House
[X] 4. Won a literary prize for crime fiction: Edgar Award: Bluebird, Bluebird
[X] 5. Involves one of your favorite topics or places (what?): Political intrigue: American Spy
[X] 6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year): Aunt Bessie Assumes
[X] 7. Average Goodreads rating higher than 4 stars: 4.01: The Westing Game
*Neighborhood Snoop: Less than 1 case in each category
*Gumshoe (6 cases): 1 case in each category
*Crime Scene Investigator (12 cases): 2 cases in each category
*Undercover Operative (18 cases): 3 cases in each category
*Forensic Analyst (24 cases): 4 cases in each category (24 books)
*Special Agent in Charge (30 cases): 5 cases in each category
*Assistant Chief of Detectives (36 cases): 6 cases in each category
*Chief of Detectives (42 cases): 7 cases in each category
G. READ HARDER
..........completed Sep 2022
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[X] 2.Read a book set in a bookstore: The Sentence
[X] 3. Read any book from the Women’s Prize Shortlist /longlist/ winner list: Elizabeth Is Missing
[X] 4. Read a book in any genre by a POC that’s about joy and not trauma: Instructions for Dancing
[X] 6. Read a nonfiction YA comic: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
[X] 8. Read a classic written by a POC: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
[X] 10. Read a political thriller by a marginalized author (BIPOC, or LGBTQIA+): American Spy
[X] 13. Read an adventure story by a BIPOC author: Washington Black
[X] 16. Read a book recommended by a friend with different reading tastes: Ronda: Dial A for Aunties
[X] 21. Read a queer retelling of a classic of the canon,
[X] 22. Read a history about a period you know little about: Texas and freed blacks and Indigenous Indians after the Civil War: The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
[X] 23. Read a book by a disabled author: deafness: Sara Nović: Girl at War
[X] 24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!: 2018: A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author: Nine Lessons by Nicola Upson
H. 52 Book Club Challenge
.......... completed Aug 2022
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[X] 2. Featuring a library or bookstore: The Sentence
[X] 3. Title starting with the letter "E": Every Last Fear
[X] 5. Chapters have titles: Instructions for Dancing
[X] 6. Household object on the cover: table and chairs: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
[X] 7. A non-fiction bestseller: Becoming
[X] 8. Involving the art world: Wish You Were Here
[X] 9. A book that sparks joy: How the Penguins Saved Veronica
[X] 10. A book based on a real person: Leon Lewis and others of the LA Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council: The Hollywood Spy
[X] 11. A book with less than 2022 Goodreads ratings: 1,399: Murder on the Red River
[X] 12. Set on at least two continents: Washington Black
[X] 13. Includes a club: The Man Who Died Twice
[X] 14. A character with a superhuman ability: Once There Were Wolves
[X] 15. A five-syllable title: The Mad Women's Ball
[X] 16. A Book You've Seen Someone Reading In A Public Place: The Death of Mrs. Westaway
[X] 17. A Book Picked Based On Its Spine: Stay with Me
[X] 18. Jane Austen-inspired: A Counterfeit Suitor
[X] 19. A book that has an alternate title: Murder at the Spring Ball: A 1920s Mystery
[X] 21. Published by Simon & Schuster: Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
[X] 22. An unlikely detective: Wife of a late church minister: The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden
[X] 23. Author with an X, Y, or Z in their name: Bridges Burned by Annette Dashofy
[X] 24. Addresses A Specific Topic: Race in America: The Fire Next Time
[X] 25. A wealthy character: Moorcroft in Nine Lessons
[X] 26. Has an “Author’s Note”: The Color of Lightning
[X] 27. Includes a map: The Secrets of Winter: A Josephine Tey Mystery
[X] 28. Award-winning book from your country: 2016 ALA Alex Award: Girl at War
[X] 29. Over 500 pages long: The Women of Chateau Lafayette
[X] 30. Audiobook is narrated by the author: Little Weirds
[X] 31. Technology-themed: The Gauguin Connection
[X] 32. A Book That Intimidates You: The ravages of dementia: Elizabeth Is Missing
[X] 33. A bilingual character: Clark and Division (Japanese and English)
[X] 34. An author’s photo on the back cover: Yo!
[X] 36. Recommended by a favorite author: John Boyne: A Keeper
[X] 37. Set in a rural area: Bluebird, Bluebird
[X] 38. Don’t judge a book by its cover!: With a Vengeance
[X] 39. A middle-grade novel: Greenglass House
[X] 40. A book with photographs inside: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
[x] 41. Involves a second chance: The Midnight Library
[X] 42. An indie read: Milkweed Editions: The Seed Keeper
[X] 43. Author who’s published in more than one genre: Hillary Clinton: State of Terror
[X] 45. A book with illustrated people on the cover: Rotten To The Core
[X] 46. A job title in the title: The Laughing Policeman
[X] 48. Redo One Of This Year's Prompts But With A Different Genre: Title is 5 syllables: Mystery: A Cat Was Involved
[X] 49. Book title starts with the same letter as your first name: Goodbye Tsugumi
[X] 50. A person of color as the main character: The Nickel Boys
[X] 51. The word “game” in the title: The Westing Game
[X] 52. Published in 2022: Death in a Blackout
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TOTAL books 46/35
Started 24 series this year.
Finished 0 series I started before this year.
Read 23 books that are part of a series I started before this year.
ONGOING
* Aaron Falk (#1): Force of Nature
* Armand Gamache (#1-15): All the Devils Are Here (#16); The Madness of Crowds (#17)
* Beryl & Edwina (#1-5): Murder Through the English Post (#6)
* Brother Cadfael (#1): One Corpse Too Many (#2)
* Canongate's The Myths: The Penelopiad; A Short History of Myth; Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Cemetery of Forgotten Books (#1-2): The Prisoner of Heaven (#3); The Labyrinth of the Spirits (#4)
Charles Lenox (#1-11): caught up
* Cherringham Shorts:(#1-39): Cherringham - Cold Case: A Cosy Crime Series (#40); Cherringham - No Place to Hide: A Cosy Crime Series (#41); Cherringham - In the Frame: A Cosy Crime Series (#42)
Cherringham Novels:
* Chet and Bernie (#1-9): A Cat Was Involved (#0.1)
Cormoran Strike (#1-5): The Ink Black Heart (#6-8/22)
Daniel Pitt (#1-2): One Fatal Flaw (#3); Death with a Double Edge (#4)
Department Q:
Dr. Siri Paiboun:
Harbinder Kaur (#1-2): Bleeding Heart Yard (#2-Nov 22)
* Hogarth Shakespeare Project (Vinegar Girl): The Gap of Time
* Hugo Marsten (#1): The Crypt Thief (#2); The Blood Promise (#3); The Button Man (#4)
Inspector Lynley (#1-5, 7, 10-13, 15-20): Something to Hide (#21)
* Isabel Dalhousie (#1-11): The Quiet Side of Passion (#12)
* Josephine Tey (#1-2, 4-6,8): Nine Lessons (#7); The Secrets of Winter (#9)
* Lady Hardcastle Mystery(#1-7): Rotten To The Core (#8)
* Laetitia Rodd (#1-2): The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden (#3)
* Maggie Hope (#1-10): The Hollywood Spy (#11)
* Maisie Dobbs (#1-15): The Consequences of Fear (#16)
Mary Russell (#1-10, 12-15):
Mrs. Hudson and Mary Watson Investigations (#1):
Murder on Location (#1): Death in an English Cottage (#2 of 7)
Penny Limelight: Limelight
Perveen Mistry (#1-3): caught up
Practical Magic (3): Magic Lessons; The Book of Magic
Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak (#1):
Roaring Twenties Mysteries:
* Rosalind Thorne (#1-4): A Counterfeit Suitor (#5)
The Giver (#1): Gathering Blue (#2)
* Thursday Murder Club (#1): The Man Who Died Twice (#2)
Verity Kent (#1):
Washington Whodunit (#1-3): K Street Killing (#4)
William Warwick (#1-4): caught up
* Zoe Chambers (#1-2): Bridges Burned (#3); With a Vengeance; (also have 5&6)
STARTED
* Aunt Bessie (Isle of Man): Aunt Bessie Assumes (#1)
* Aunties: Dial A for Aunties (#1)
* Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Before the Coffee Gets Cold (#1)
* Cash Blackbear Mysteries: Murder on the Red River (#1)
* Commissario Brunetti: Death at La Fenice (#1)
* Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes
* Dr. Siri Paiboun: The Coroner's Lunch
* Ellis Porter: Free Reign
* Genevieve Lenard: The Gauguin Connection
* Highway 59: Bluebird, Bluebird
Inspector Rudd: Not One of Us (#1)
* Joe Talbert and Max Rupert: The Life We Bury (#1) ,/b>
* Libby Sarjeant: Murder in Steeple Martin
* Lord and Lady Hetheridge: Ice Blue
* Lord Edgington Investigates: Murder at the Spring Ball: A 1920s Mystery
* Martin Beck: The Laughing Policeman(#4)
* Miss Marple: Murder at the Vicarage
* Moon Mystery Series: Moon Signs
* Oakwood Mysteries: The Book Club Murders another?
* Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak: The Unquiet Dead
* Rare Book Mysteries: The Dirty Book Murder: A Rare Book Mystery -- Volume I
* Roaring Twenties Mysteries: The Impersonator (#1)
* Rosie Winters: The War Against Miss Winter (#1)
* WPC Billie Harkness: Death in a Blackout
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FINISHED
STOPPED
Aunt Bessie (#1)
Chet and Bernie (#1-9)
Evan Evans (#1-2)
Rare Book Mysteries (#1)
Rosie Winters (#1)
Moon Mystery Series (#1)
K. NEW TO ME AUTHORS1. Esi Edugyan: Washington Black
2. Hazel Prior: How the Penguins Saved Veronica
3. Diane Wilson: The Seed Keeper
4. Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game
5. Matt Haig: The Midnight Library
6. Marcie Rendon: Murder on the Red River
7. Jenny Slate: Little Weirds
8. Kim Michele Richardson: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
9. Emma Healey: Elizabeth is Missing
10. Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀: Stay With Me
11. Banana Yoshimoto: Goodbye Tsugumi
12. Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
13. Lesley Cookman: Murder in Steeple Martin
14. Attica Locke: Bluebird, Bluebird
15. Estelle Ryan: The Gaugin Connection
16. Naomi Hirahara: Clark and Division
17. Lauren Wilkinson: American Spy
18. Victoria Mas: The Mad Women's Ball
19. Thomas Shawver: The Dirty Book Murder: A Rare Book Mystery
20. Leslie Nagel: The Book Club Murders
21: Benedict Brown: Murder at the Spring Ball
22. Ausma Zehanat Khan: The Unquiet Dead
23. Maj Sjöwall: The Laughing Policeman
24. Mary Hogan: The Woman in the Photo
25. Sara Nović: Girl at War
26. Helen Haught Fanick: Moon Signs
27. Michelle Obama: Becoming
28. Diana Xarissa: Aunt Bessie Assumes
29. Colin Cotterill: The Coroner's Lunch
30. Jesse Q. Sutanto: Dial A for Aunties
31. Carol Rifka Brunt: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
32. Stuart Turton: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
33. Etaf Rum: A Woman is No Man
34. Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: The Undocumented Americans
35. Jeanette Winterson: The Gap of Time
36. Kim Izzo: Seven Days in May
37. Kate Milford: Greenglass House
38. Charlotte McConaghy: Once There Were Wolves
39. Sandra Brown: Blind Tiger
40. Miranda Beverly-Whittemore: June
41. Alex Finlay: Every Last Fear
42. Art Spiegelman: Maus, Book 1
43. Ruta Sepetys: Salt to the Sea
44. Rosemary Aubert: Free Reign
45. Laura Lippman: Wilde Lake
46. Marianne Cronin: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
47. Donna Leon: Death at La Fenice
48. Susan Gregg Gilmore: Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
49. Emma Jameson: Ice Blue
50. Nikole Hannah-Jones: The 1619 Project: A New Origins Story
51. Mary Miley: The Impersonator
52. Jussi Adler-Olsen: The Keeper of Lost Causes
53. Gabriela Garcia: Of Women and Salt
54: Janet Skeslien Charles: The Paris Library
55. Kathryn Miller Haines: The War Against Miss Winters
56. Sejal Badani: The Storyteller's Secret
57. Allen Eskens: The Life We Bury
L. 2022 RELEASES1. Death in a Blackout
2. Rotten To The Core
3. Cherringham - No Place to Hide: A Cosy Crime Series
4. Murder Through the English Post
5. In the Frame
M. BANNED/CHALLENGED 2021/2022this list could get extremely long if I go by the US situation in 2021
* Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
* The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
N. StoryGraph's Ladies First .....
Stopped August 2020
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[X] 1. A book written by a woman author that won an award: Scotiabank Giller Prize (2018): Washington Black
[X] 2. Action, adventure written by a woman author: Enchanted Islands by Allison Amend; Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
[X] 4. History or Historical fiction written by a woman author: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
[X] 5. A memoir or biography written by a woman author: Becoming by Michelle Obama
[X] 6 . A book by an author that is an indigenous woman or a woman of color: The Sentence
[X] 7. Mystery, suspense, or thriller written by a woman author : Nine Lessons
[X] 8. Magical realism or fantasy written by a woman author: The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk
[X] 9. Women's or Romantic fiction written by a woman author: Instructions for Dancing
[X] 10. YA novel written by a woman author: Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
[X] 11. A book written by a
[X] 12. A debut by a woman author: Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon
[X] 13. A book by a woman author currently on the best seller list: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
[X] 14. An audiobook written by and narrated by a woman author: Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
[X] 15. A book written by a woman that was recommended to you by a woman: Peg: The Seed Keeper
[X] 16. A book written by a woman from a different country than yourself: Japan: The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami
[X] 17. A book written by a woman with women on the cover: The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden
[X] 18. Contemporary fiction written by a woman: How the Penguins Saved Veronica
[X] 19. The first book of a series written by a woman: Murder in Steeple Martin
O. BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES ..........
completed 5/31/2021
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A Book Genre: Mysteries:
1. A Cat Was Involved
2. The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden
3. The Westing Game
4. Bridges Burned
5. The Man Who Died Twice
6. The Death of Mrs. Westaway
7. Murder in Steeple Martin
8. Cherringham - Cold Case: A Cosy Crime Series
9. The Consequences of Fear
10. The Dirty Book Murder: A Rare Book Mystery -- Volume I
11. The Book Club Murders
12. Murder at the Spring Ball: A 1920s Mystery
13. A Counterfeit Suitor
14. The Hollywood Spy
15. Death in a Blackout
16. Moon Signs
17. Rotten To The Core
18. Aunt Bessie Assumes
19. The Coroner's Lunch
20. Cherringham - No Place to Hide: A Cosy Crime Series
21. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Diversity (in most of its forms):
1. Diane Wilson: The Seed Keeper
2. Esi Edugyan: Washington Black
3. Graham Norton: A Keeper, mys
4. James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
5. Louise Erdrich: The Sentence
6. Marcie Rendon: Murder on the Red River, mys
7. Nicola Upson: Nine Lessons, mys
8. Nicola Yoon: Instructions for Dancing
9. Hiromi Kawakami: The Nakano Thrift Shop
10. Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀: Stay with Me
11. Goodbye Tsugumi: Banana Yoshimoto
12. Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
13. The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk
14. Bluebird, Bluebird], mys/award
15. The Secrets of Winter, mys
16. Clark and Division, mys
17. American Spy, mys
18. Yo!
19. The Unquiet Dead, mys/award
20. The Laughing Policeman, mys/award
21. Becoming
22. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
23. Dial A for Aunties
24. Tell the Wolves I'm Home, award
25. A Woman Is No Man, award
26. The Undocumented Americans
A Literary Award:
1. The Midnight Library
2. Elizabeth Is Missing, mys
3. The Nickel Boys
4. The Gauguin Connection, mys
5. The Mad Women's Ball, div
6. Girl at War, div
P. A-Z Authors ..........
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* A: Annette Dashofy: Bridges Burned
* B: Banana Yoshimoto: Goodbye Tsugumi
* C: Lesley Cookman: Murder in Steeple Martin
* D: Diane Wilson: The Seed Keeper
* E: Esi Edugyan: Washington Black
* F: Helen Haught Fanick: Moon Signs
* G: Graham Norton: A Keeper
* H: Hazel Prior: How the Penguins Saved Veronica
* I: Kim Izzo: Seven Days in May
* J: James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
* K: Hiromi Kawakami: The Nakano Thrift Shop
* L: Louise Erdrich: The Sentence
* M: Matt Haig: The Midnight Library
* N: Leslie Nagel: The Book Club Murders
* O: Richard Osman: The Man Who Died Twice
* P: Jodi Picoult: Wish You Were Here
* Q: Spencer Quinn: A Cat Was Involved
* R: Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game
* S: Kate Saunders: The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden
* T: Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
* U: Nicola Upson: Nine Lessons, The Unquiet Dead
* V: Victoria Mas: The Mad Women's Ball
* W: Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys
* X: Diana Xarissa: Aunt Bessie Assumes
* Y: Nicola Yoon: Instructions for Dancing
* Z: Ausma Zehanat Khan: The Unquiet Dead
Gail wrote: "Hi! Since I call the Magical Mystery Tour my favorite challenge, I thought I would stop in and say hello!"Hello there! I'm returning your visit.
Strolling through your thread was such a pleasure--you are doing so many challenges!
Warmest wishes to you on completing each and every one!
And thanks for your kind words about Magical Mystery Tour. It is also my favorite yearly! (but I may be biased...)
R. Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends ..... completed 11/4/202223/22
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DETERMINATION BOOKS
using criteria of "owned books" in physical form that had been added to goodreads more than 3 years ago, sitting in my bookshelves (or on the floor, the nightstand, the coffee table, etc etc etc). Does not include audio or ebook. Date represents date added to goodreads.
[X] 1. Washington Black -9/2018
[X] 2. The Death of Mrs. Westaway -6/2018
[X] 3. With a Vengeance -3/2017
[X] 4. June -6/2016
[X] 5. Free Reign -3/2016
[X] 6. Wilde Lake -7/2016
[X] 7. Death at La Fenice -3/2015
[X] 8. Murder at the Vicarage -5/2016
[X] 9. The Impersonator -2015
[X] 10. The Keeper of Lost Causes -10/2014
[X] 11. The Blood Promise -9/2016
CHALLENGE PROMPTS 12 / 12
[X] 11. A book set in a different country than you live in: The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall - Sweden
[X] 12. Read a book by an Author that you never read before or one by a new debut author: The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan
[X] 13. A book that someone recommended to you: The Coroner's Lunch
[X] 14. A book that is a different genre than your normal type of read: middle grade mystery: Greenglass House
15 & 16. Two books from a series you haven't completed yet: Josephine Tey Mystery Series:
[X] 15. Nine Lessons by Nicola Upson
[X] 16. The Secrets of Winter by Nicola Upson
[X] 17. A book that comes out in 2022: Death in a Blackout by Jessica Ellicott
[X] 18. A book that you mean to read in 2021 but never got around to it: Bridges Burned by Annette Dashofy
[X] 19. A book that came out before you were born: 1922: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
[X] 20. A book that is done by more than one author: State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
[X] 21. A book that won an award: Costa Book Award for First Novel (2018): The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
[X] 22. One of the oldest to be read books on your unread mountain: The Crypt Thief by Mark Pryor
YEAR END WRAP UP CATEGORIES
Top Mystery/Thriller Books (list up to 10)
* The Life We Bury
* Once There Were Wolves
* Every Last Fear
* Free Reign
* All the Devils Are Here
* Force of Nature
* The Keeper of Lost Causes
* The Unquiet Dead
* State of Terror
Top M/T Authors (list up to 5)
* Louise Penny
* Jane Harper
* Allen Eskens
* Laura Lippman
* Alex Finlay
* Ausma Zehanat Khan
Top Books any genre (list up to 5)
* Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
* Tell the Wolves I'm Home
* The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
* 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
* The Seed Keeper
* The Life We Bury
Top Series (list up to 5)
* Armand Gamache
* Harbinder Kaur
* Josephine Tey
* Maggie Hope
* Thursday Murder Club
Best "New to Me" Author (list one)
Ausma Zehanat Khan
Bottom of the Barrel Books (list up to 5) 1 or 2 star
* The Dirty Book Murder
* Moon Signs
* Ice Blue
S. I Spy .......... Completed 10/2022 25 / 24
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starting late just for the heck of it. Read a book that contains a word in the title or the cover that fits one of the 25 categories mentioned below.
* 1. Color - Murder on the Red River
* 2. Number - 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in This Strange World
* 3. Things That Grow - Bluebird, Bluebird (trees)
* 4. Seasons - Murder at the Spring Ball
* 5. First Name - Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
* 6. Places - The Hollywood Spy
* 7. Body Part - The Lost Soul
* 8. Weapon - The Consequences of Fear (knife)
* 9. Body of Water - The Unquiet Dead (cover)
* 10. Form of Water - Cherringham: Cold Case (snow on cover)
* 11. Product of Fire - Bridges Burned
* 12. Celestial Body - Moon Signs
* 13. Architecture - The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden (house)
* 14. Senses -touch: The Women of Chateau Lafayette (picture of woman and child)
* 15. Royal Title - Looking for Salvation at the Diary Queen
* 16. Family Member - Dial A for Aunties
* 17. Elements - The Color of Lightning
* 18. Time of Day - The Midnight Library
* 19. Metal - The Nickel Boys
* 20. Emotion/Feeling - Every Last Fear
* 21. Animal/Insect - A Cat Was Involved
* 22. Something to Read - The Book Club Murders
* 23. Sports - The Westing Game (the word "game")
* 24. Paranormal Beings - The Greenglass House (ghost)
* 25. Occupation - The Coroners Lunch
T. READING THE WORLD12/?
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AUSTRALIA: Force of Nature by Jane Harper
DENMARK: The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Yo! by Julia Alvarez
ENGLAND : Nine Lessons by Nicola Upson
FRANCE: The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas
IRELAND: A Keeper by Graham Norton
JAPAN: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
LAOS: The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
NIGERIA: Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
SCOTLAND: The Quiet Side of Passion by Alexander McCall Smith
TURKEY: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
USA: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
YEAR END REVIEW2022: I read 100 books against my goal of 90. 75% of my reading this year was from female authors as compared to <70% in prior years. 51% were mysteries, which is only slightly lower than my highest ever in "crazy" 2020. 57% of my total books read were from new authors, 47 of whom were female authors. Audiobooks at 19% are significantly lower than in previous years, mainly because my work commute is minimal; however, ebooks increased because I am spending more time away from home on family issues and it is easier to travel with the e-reader. I made a concerted effort to read physical books from my shelves that were put on GoodReads more than 3 years ago, but this only served to reduce the number of books read that were published in the current year. I joined two new groups mid-year: Mystery/Thriller and Reading the World. I found their challenges fun and wanted to give them a try.
I have already scheduled myself for their challenges in 2023. I have overscheduled myself already for too many challenges for 2023 and will need to pare back on some to reduce the required reading quantity. But rather than quit any of them, I will look to simply complete fewer prompts on a few of them.
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
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The Quiet Side of Passion (other topics)
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The Storyteller's Secret (other topics)
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BOOKS:
Genre
Action and Adventure:
Biography/Memoir: 2
Classics:
Collection (essays/poems/shorts):
Comic Book or Graphic Novel:
Fantasy/Mythical/ Magical Realism: 5
Literary Fiction/General Fiction: 14
Historical Fiction: 18
History:
Horror:
Mystery: 52
Nonfiction: 4
Romance: 2
Science:
Science Fiction:
Suspense/Thriller: 3
True Crime:
Length:
Very Short (<70 pages): 2
Short (<250 pages): 21
Medium (250-500 pages): 72
Long (501-800 pages): 5
Very Long (>800 pages):
Media
Book: 42
eBook: 39
Audio: 19
Series: 47
Banned/Challenged: 2
Debut: 11
Translated: 7
Middle Grade: 2
YA: 3
Publication Date
<1900: ........ 0
1900-1959: 1
1960-1979: 4
1980-1999: 5
2000-2009: 7
2010-2019: 48
2020-2021: 30
2022: .......... 5
AUTHOR:
* New to Me: 57
* Female: 75
* POC: 18
* LGBTQIA+: 6
a book can be included across multiple challenges
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** Action and Adventure: the main character repeatedly finds themselves in risky, dangerous, situations.
** Fantasy/Mythical/ Magical Realism: includes prominent elements of magic, mythology, or the supernatural
** Horror: meant to cause discomfort and fear for both the character and readers
** Mystery: The plot always revolves around a crime of sorts that must be solved—or foiled—by the protagonists
** Science Fiction: leans heavily on themes of technology and future science
** Suspense/Thriller: hero attempts to stop and defeat the villain to save their own life rather than uncover a specific crime