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May 2022 Stand Alone
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Read: 6
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
My List:
1. The Overnight Guest Heather Gudenkauf 5/1/22
2. Roommate Sarina Bowen 5/6/22
3. This Is Home Lisa Duffy 5/9/22
4. Wait For It Jenn McKinlay 5/12/22
5. Flight Patterns Karen White 5/13/22
6. Falling for the Undercover Agent Agnes Canestri 5/18/22
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer 5/13/22
2. Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune 5/24/22
--- FINISHED --- Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
✔Solo: Read 1-2 books
✔Single: Read 3-4 books
✔Solitary: Read 5-6 books
finished 5 of 6 books
✔1. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (5/7)
✔2. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (5/4)
✔3. People We Meet on Vacation Emily Henry (5/5)
4. Steer Toward Rock or Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You or Last Night at the Telegraph Club
✔5. Music Is History by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson (5/7)
✔6. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (5/23)
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
COMPLETED
1.) The Oath by Dennis Koller 5/3/2022
2.) The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James 5/7/2022
3.) The Girls Weekend by Jody Gehrman 5/14/2022
4.) I'll See You in Paris by Michelle Gable 5/22/2022
5.) Somebody I Used to Know by David Bell 5/22/2022
May Stand Alone ChallengeDuration: May 1st, 2022 - May 31st, 2022
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
11/6
1. Book Lovers by Emily Henry - May 7th
2. The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman - May 8th
3. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor - May 12th
4. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie - May 18th
5. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo - May 21st
6. Talking to Canadians by Rick Mercer - May 26th
7. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway - May 26th
8. Only in Saskatchewan: Recipes and Stories from the Province’s Best-Loved Eateries by Naomi Hansen - May 27th
9. Borders by Thomas King - May 28th
10. Nightflyers by George R.R. Martin - May 28th
11. That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy - May 31st
May Stand Alone ChallengeDuration: May 1st, 2022 - May 31st, 2022
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Read Bottom Up-Neel Shah 5/8
2. Entwined-Cara Beatrice 5/15
3. Treasure-Oyinkan Braithwaite 5/18
May Stand Alone ChallengeDuration: May 1st, 2022 - May 31st, 2022
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Mod
COMPLETED 6/6Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. If I Were You Lynn Austin 5/3/22
2. The Force Don Winslow 5/10/22
3. Beautiful Exiles Meg Waite Clayton 5/11/22
4. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Jeffrey Archer 5/12/22
5. The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II Stephen E. Ambrose
6. Killer Instinct Joseph Finder
Solitary: Read 5-6 books1. Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox 5/3/22
2. Nemesis by Isaac Asimov 5/4/22
3. Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte 5/4/22
4. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 5/8/22
5. Post Office by Charles Bukowski 5/13/22
6. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar 5/16/22
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Duration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Can't Hide from Me by Cordelia Kingsbridge 5/11/2022
2. Until We Meet Once More by Josh Lanyon 5/17/2022
3. Who Was Julia Child? by Geoff Edgers 5/24/2022
4. What Are Clouds Made Of? by Debbie Vilardi 5/25/2022
5. The Phoenix and the Crow by Graham Sage 5/29/2022
***FINISHED***Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Dirt Music by Tim Winton (11th May)
2. Quicksand by Nella Larsen (14th May)
3. One Night With You by Laura Jane Williams (17th May)
4. Double Booked by Lily Lindon (21st May)
May Stand Alone ChallengeSingle: Read 3-4 books
1. Ogres | Adrian Tchaikovsky - May 6
2. Nettle & Bone | T. Kingfisher - May 15
3. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea | Axie Oh - May 24
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Goal: 7/6
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Táncórák idősebbeknek és haladóknak - Bohumil Hrabal - 05/07/22
2. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr - Ram V. - 05/10/22
3. A romlás virágai - Charles Baudelaire - 05/11/22
4. The Me You Love In The Dark - Skottie Young - 05/11/22
5. Vadászszőnyeg - Gábor Görgey - 05/23/22
6. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman - 05/24/22
7. Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley - 05/28/22
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeMay 2022
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Her Royal Mistake by Laura Ann (5/4/22)
2. Her Ex-Crush Bodyguard by Janette Rallison (5/20/22)
I’m FINISHED!!! Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Goal: 35/6+
1. Change Sings: a Children's Anthem Amanda Gorman 04/01/22
2. Wifey Judy Blume 05/01/22
3. Great Circle Maggie Shipstead 05/01/22
4. The Cartographers Peng Shepherd 05/03/22
5. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith Jon Krakauer 05/05/22
6. True Biz Sara Nović 05/06/22
7. Happy Endings Thien-Kim Lam 05/06/22
8. Memphis Tara M. Stringfellow 05/08/22
9. The Age of Misadventure Judy Leigh 05/09/22
10. Redhead by the Side of the Road Anne Tyler 05/10/22
11. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory Caitlin Doughty 05/11/22
12. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev Dawnie Walton 05/11/22
13. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Caitlin Doughty 05/12/22
14. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death Caitlin Doughty 05/13/22
15. The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams 05/13/22
16. The Whale Rider Witi Ihimaera 05/14/22
17. The Paris Wife Paula McLain 05/15/22
18. Talk Bookish to Me Kate Bromley 05/16/22
19. Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do Eve Rodsky 05/16/22
20. Leave the World Behind Rumaan Alam 05/16/22
21. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann 05/18/22
22. How to Wear a Sari Darshana Khiani 05/18/22
23. The Plague Albert Camus 05/21/22
24. Not a Happy Family Shari Lapena 05/22/22
25. The Summer Place Jennifer Weiner 05/23/22
26. Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus 04/24/22
27. Anatomy: A Love Story Dana Schwartz 05/24/22
28. I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blind Side, and Beyond Michael Oher 05/25/22
29. Meet Me in the Margins Melissa Ferguson 05/25/22
30. An Unwanted Guest Shari Lapena 05/26/22
31. The Dating Charade Melissa Ferguson 05/26/22
32. Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt 05/27/22
33. The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles 05/28/22
34. The Change Kirsten Miller 05/29/22
35. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 05/30/22
May Stand Alone***COMPLETE***
1. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes (05/10/22)
2. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (05/12/22)
3. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (05/21/22)
May Stand Alone ChallengeDuration: May 1st, 2022 - May 31st, 2022
Single: Read 3-4 books
3/3-4
1. Are You Really OK?: Getting Real About Who You Are, How You’re Doing, and Why It Matters - Debra K. Fileta 5/19/22
2. 12 - Nolon King 5/25/22
3. Abandoned Virginia: The Forgotten Commonwealth - Joel Handwerk 5/30/21
Mod
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeMay 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
6 of 5-6 Complete
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. All Over Creation - Ruth Ozeki - 5/4/22
2. The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella - 5/7/22
3. Faithful - Alice Hoffman - 5/8/22
4. The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles - 5/11/22
5. Landmarks - Robert Macfarlane - 5/15/22
6. A Holly Jolly Diwali - Sonya Lalli - 5/18/22
Goal | Single: Solo - read 1-2 books1. When All Is Said, Anne Griffin ★★★★ 5/5
2. The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa ★★★★ 5/18
I am In!!! Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Beasts and Beauty (5/2)
The Nature of Witches (5/19)
Pride and Prejudice (5/15)
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
1. Tempest by Julie Cross 07/05-09/05
The Lost Challenges May 2022 Stand Alone
Duration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Progress: 6 out of 6
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Assembly by Natasha Brown - **** - 5/8/2022 - 112 Pages
2. Hurry Up and Meditate by David Michie - ***** - 5/11/2022 - 193 Pages
3. Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner - ***** - 5/11/2022 - 500 Pages
4. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby - ***** - 5/15/2022 - 288 Pages
5. The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag - ***** - 5/17/2022 - 247 Pages
6. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel - ***** - 5/31/2022 - 203 Pages
Finished!Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox 5/3/22
2. Nemesis by Isaac Asimov 5/4/22
3. Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte 5/4/22
4. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 5/8/22
5. Post Office by Charles Bukowski 5/13/22
6. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar 5/16/22
~~~ Complete ~~~Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
6 of 5-6 Complete
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. All Over Creation - Ruth Ozeki - 5/4/22
2. The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella - 5/7/22
3. Faithful - Alice Hoffman - 5/8/22
4. The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles - 5/11/22
5. Landmarks - Robert Macfarlane - 5/15/22
6. A Holly Jolly Diwali - Sonya Lalli - 5/18/22
Mod
May: Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Read: 6
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
My List:
1. The Overnight Guest Heather Gudenkauf 5/1/22
2. Roommate Sarina Bowen 5/6/22
3. This Is Home Lisa Duffy 5/9/22
4. Wait For It Jenn McKinlay 5/12/22
5. Flight Patterns Karen White 5/13/22
6. Falling for the Undercover Agent Agnes Canestri 5/18/22
Jan wrote: "COMPLETED 6/6Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. If I Were You Lynn Austin 5/3/22
2. The Force [author:Don Wins..."
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
COMPLETED
1.) The Oath by Dennis Koller 5/3/2022
2.) The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James 5/7/2022
3.) The Girls Weekend by Jody Gehrman 5/14/2022
4.) I'll See You in Paris by Michelle Gable 5/22/2022
5.) Somebody I Used to Know by David Bell 5/22/2022
Done for the month!1. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes (05/10/22)
2. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (05/12/22)
3. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (05/21/22)
May Stand Alone ChallengeDuration: May 1st, 2022 - May 31st, 2022
Single: Read 3-4 books
FINISHED
1. Read Bottom Up-Neel Shah 5/8
2. Entwined-Cara Beatrice 5/15
3. Treasure-Oyinkan Braithwaite 5/18
May Stand Alone ChallengeDuration: May 1st, 2022 - May 31st, 2022
Complete
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
The City Baker's Guide to Country Living. Louise Miller. 5.4.22
Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston. 5.3.22
The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love. Alice A. Carter. 5.11.22
The Saints of Swallow Hill. Donna Everhart. 5.11.22
Sadie on a Plate. Amanda Elliot. 5.13.22
Mod
Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Can't Hide from Me by Cordelia Kingsbridge 5/11/2022
2. Until We Meet Once More by Josh Lanyon 5/17/2022
3. Who Was Julia Child? by Geoff Edgers 5/24/2022
4. What Are Clouds Made Of? by Debbie Vilardi 5/25/2022
5. The Phoenix and the Crow by Graham Sage 5/29/2022
Completed!Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Goal: 7/6
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Táncórák idősebbeknek és haladóknak - Bohumil Hrabal - 05/07/22
2. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr - Ram V. - 05/10/22
3. A romlás virágai - Charles Baudelaire - 05/11/22
4. The Me You Love In The Dark - Skottie Young - 05/11/22
5. Vadászszőnyeg - Gábor Görgey - 05/23/22
6. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman - 05/24/22
7. Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley - 05/28/22
I’m FINISHED!!! Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Goal: 35/6+
1. Change Sings: a Children's Anthem Amanda Gorman 04/01/22
2. Wifey Judy Blume 05/01/22
3. Great Circle Maggie Shipstead 05/01/22
4. The Cartographers Peng Shepherd 05/03/22
5. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith Jon Krakauer 05/05/22
6. True Biz Sara Nović 05/06/22
7. Happy Endings Thien-Kim Lam 05/06/22
8. Memphis Tara M. Stringfellow 05/08/22
9. The Age of Misadventure Judy Leigh 05/09/22
10. Redhead by the Side of the Road Anne Tyler 05/10/22
11. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory Caitlin Doughty 05/11/22
12. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev Dawnie Walton 05/11/22
13. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Caitlin Doughty 05/12/22
14. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death Caitlin Doughty 05/13/22
15. The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams 05/13/22
16. The Whale Rider Witi Ihimaera 05/14/22
17. The Paris Wife Paula McLain 05/15/22
18. Talk Bookish to Me Kate Bromley 05/16/22
19. Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do Eve Rodsky 05/16/22
20. Leave the World Behind Rumaan Alam 05/16/22
21. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann 05/18/22
22. How to Wear a Sari Darshana Khiani 05/18/22
23. The Plague Albert Camus 05/21/22
24. Not a Happy Family Shari Lapena 05/22/22
25. The Summer Place Jennifer Weiner 05/23/22
26. Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus 04/24/22
27. Anatomy: A Love Story Dana Schwartz 05/24/22
28. I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blind Side, and Beyond Michael Oher 05/25/22
29. Meet Me in the Margins Melissa Ferguson 05/25/22
30. An Unwanted Guest Shari Lapena 05/26/22
31. The Dating Charade Melissa Ferguson 05/26/22
32. Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt 05/27/22
33. The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles 05/28/22
34. The Change Kirsten Miller 05/29/22
35. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 05/30/22
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Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
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