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Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 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


Challenge Rules
*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge

(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)

Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over.

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Anne FINISHED

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Elle FINISHED
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Ferenc FINISHED
Frankie FINISHED

Genevieve FINISHED
Grace

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Julia

KarenK2 FINISHED
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Shannon FINISHED
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Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Read: 4

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

My List:
1. The Forever Summer Jamie Brenner 8/6/22
2. The Summer Job Lizzy Dent 8/11/22
3. The Measure Nikki Erlick 8/14/22
4. Beach House Summer Sarah Morgan 8/19/22

Done

I read a lot of stand-alone, 6 in one month shouldn't be too strenuous, lol.

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 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. Quarry Girls/Jess Lourey 8/1/22 2.75☆

2. When Ghosts Come Home/Wiley Cash 8/3/22 2.75☆

3. Under a Gilded Moon/Joy Jordan-Lake 8/6/22 2☆

4. Animal Life/Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir 8/7/22 2☆

5. Immortal North/Tom Stewart 8/16/22 2☆

6. The Old Drift/Namwali Serpell 8/17/22 2☆

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

6 of 5/6 Complete

1. X-Treme Dating - Cathy McDavid - 8/5/22
2. Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon - 8/7/22
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne - 8/8/22
4. Window Shopping - Window Shopping - 8/15/22
5. The Lifeguards - Amanda Eyre Ward - 8/17/22
6. All Together Now - Matthew Norman - 8/18/22

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. In the Middle of Hickory Lane by Heather Webber 8/2/22
2. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 8/4/22
3. Upgrade by Blake Crouch 8/7/22
4. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis 8/8/22
5. A Fig For All The Devils by C.S. Fritz 8/9/22
6. The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James 8/11/22

I’m FINISHED!
Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Read:

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

18/6+

1. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience Brené Brown 08/01/22
2. The Deal of a Lifetime Fredrik Backman 08/03/22
3. The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family Ron Howard 08/03/22
4. Counterfeit Kirstin Chen 08/04/22
5. More Than You'll Ever KnowKatie Gutierrez 08/07/22
6. Several People Are Typing Calvin Kasulke 08/07/22
7, The Ex Talk Rachel Lynn Solomon 08/09/22
8. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy: A Novel Jamie Ford 08/11/22
9. French Braid Anne Tyler 08/12/22
10. Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel 08/16/22
11. More Happy Than Not Adam Silvera 08/20/22
12. West with Giraffes Lynda Rutledge 08/26/22
13. My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier 08/27/22
14. Finding Me Viola Davis 08/27/22
15. Better Than the Movies Lynn Painter 08/28/22
16. The Other Einstein Marie Benedict 08/28/22
17. Young Mungo Douglas Stuart 08/30/22
18. Biloxi Mary Miller 08/30/22

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Goal: 5/6
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Orphan Collector - Ellen Marie Wiseman - 08/04/22
2. My German Brother: A Novel - Chico Buarque - 08/09/22
3. A gyertyák csonkig égnek - Sándor Márai - 08/12/22
4. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor - 28/08/22
5. Iris in the Dark - Elissa Grossell Dickey - 08/30/22

6/6 COMPLETED

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall Kazuo Ishiguro 8/1/22
2. Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World Simon Garfield 8/4/22
3. Burr Gore Vidal 8/5/22
4. A Year of Prayer: Approaching God with an Open Heart Week After Week John F. MacArthur Jr. 8/9/22
5. Will the Real Phony Please Stand Up? Ethel Barrett 8/10/22
6. Mercy Jodi Picoult

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Read:

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

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Welcome Karen, Lynda, Stephanie, Melissa, Ferenc, Jan and Julia!

August Stand Alone Challenge
Single: Read 3-4 books

1. The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Adam Gidwitz - Aug 4
2. Puddle Jumping | Amber L. Johnson - Aug 11
3. Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings | Matthew Burgess - Aug 13
4. The Unlicensed Magician | Kelly Barnhill - Aug 30

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Goal: 3/6

Single: Read 3-4 books


1. Life's Amusement Park: A Whimsical Guide to the Rides of Life by Susan Finelli 8/2/2022
2. Secret Service by Tal Bauer 8/30/2022
3. The Love Season by Elin Hilderbrand 8/31/2022

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Read:

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories-Mary Higgins Clark 8/6

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Solo: Read 1-2 books

1) Dracula by Bram Stoker 8/8
2) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 8/16

Welcome Elle, Genevieve, Grace and Bonita!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Read: 3

COMPLETED!
Single: Read 3-4 books


1.) Four Ways to Wear a Dress by Gillian Libby 8/5/2022
2.) The Bone Cay by Eliza Nellums 8/8/2022
3.) He's Gone by Deb Calletti 8/29/2022

I’ll do this if you guys will let me join in please

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 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.The fair fight by Anna Freeman - 15/08-21/08

Welcome Anne and Laura!

Reed wrote: "I’ll do this if you guys will let me join in please"

You need to post the challenge! You have been told this month after month. If you cannot abide by the group's rules, you will no longer be a member!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Solo: Read 1-2 books

1, Swordheart by T. Kingfisher (8/25/2022)

Single3 to 4

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
August 2022

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. False Identity by Jennifer Youngblood (8/4/22)
2. Miss Burton Unmasks a Prince by Jennifer Moore (8/10/22)
3. The Secret Stone by Andrea Pearson (8/15/22)
4. The Silent Governess by Julie Klassen (8/22/22)
5. Seeing Miss Heartstone by Nichole Van (8/27/22)
6. Gone Fishing by Kaylee Baldwin (8/31/22)

Welcome Emma, Kim and Shash!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Dinner Guests by Kiersten Modglin 8/1
2. Nothing But the Truth by Holly James 8/2
3. The Measure by Nikki Erlick 8/5
4. Love from Scratch by Kaitlyn Hill 8/6
5. Thank You, Next by Andie J. Christopher 8/7
6. The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston 8/8

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Read: 5/5 Completed FINISHED

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Tell No One by Harlan Coben 5⭐ Aug-2-2022
2. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley 3.5⭐ Aug-17-2022
3. Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood 5.0⭐ Aug-26-2022
4. Mirror, Mirror by Jen Calonita 4.0 ⭐
5. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 4.5⭐

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

5/5-6 Completed. Finished

1.All Rhodes Lead Here-Mariana Zapata 8/02
2.Liar Liar-L.G. Davis 8/08
3. The Secrets of Us-Lucinda Berry 8/09
4.Renegade Path-Autumn Jones Lake 8/15
5.Always Been You-Q.B. Tyler 8/22

August Stand Alone
Duration: Aug. 1st, 2022 - Aug. 31st, 2022

Level:
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

8/6

1. There There by Tommy Orange - Aug. 2nd
2. Twenty-One Ways to Die in Saskatchewan by R.E. Stansfield - Aug. 6th
3. Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune - Aug. 8th
4. Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab by Huda Fahmy - Aug. 9th
5. Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas by Shea Ernshaw - Aug. 11th
6. Em by Kim Thúy - Aug. 13th
7. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne - Aug. 14th
8. Miss Bingley Requests: A Pride and Prejudice Regency Variation by Judy McCrosky - Aug. 31st

Welcome Amanda, Christene, Frankie and Kendra!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. One Day in December by Josie Silver 8/3/22
2. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 8/7/22
3. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell 8/16/22
4. Yes, No, and Maybe: Living with the God of Immeasurably More by Wendy Pope 8/18/22
5. A Wild Swan: And Other Tales by Michael Cunningham 8/20/22
6. You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love by Allie Beth Stuckey 8/23/22

Welcome Shannon!

The Lost Challenges
August 2022 Stand Alone
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Progress: 6 out of 6
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Challenge Rules
(view spoiler)[*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge

(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)

Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over. (hide spoiler)]

1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - ***** - 8/1/2022 - 85 Pages
2. The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler - **** - 8/5/2022 - 224 Pages
3. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy - ***** - 8/11/2022 - 258 Pages
4. Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood by Kirk Douglas - **** - 8/15/2022 - 240 Pages
5. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick - ***** - 8/15/2022 - 304 Pages
6. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore - ***** - 8/19/2022 - 479 Pages

Welcome Suzanne!

Finished!

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. In the Middle of Hickory Lane by Heather Webber 8/2/22
2. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 8/4/22
3. Upgrade by Blake Crouch 8/7/22
4. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis 8/8/22
5. A Fig For All The Devils by C.S. Fritz 8/9/22
6. The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James 8/11/22

WOOHOO Stephanie!

Done

I read a lot of stand-alone, 6 in one month shouldn't be too strenuous, lol.

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 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. Quarry Girls/Jess Lourey 8/1/22 2.75☆

2. When Ghosts Come Home/Wiley Cash 8/3/22 2.75☆

3. Under a Gilded Moon/Joy Jordan-Lake 8/6/22 2☆

4. Animal Life/Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir 8/7/22 2☆

5. Immortal North/Tom Stewart 8/16/22 2☆

6. The Old Drift/Namwali Serpell 8/17/22 2☆

WOOHOO Karen!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

5/5-6 Completed. Finished

1.All Rhodes Lead Here-Mariana Zapata 8/02
2.Liar Liar-L.G. Davis 8/08
3. The Secrets of Us-Lucinda Berry 8/09
4.Renegade Path-Autumn Jones Lake 8/15
5.Always Been You-Q.B. Tyler 8/22

Finished!

The Lost Challenges
August 2022 Stand Alone
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Progress: 6 out of 6

1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - ***** - 8/1/2022 - 85 Pages
2. The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler - **** - 8/5/2022 - 224 Pages
3. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy - ***** - 8/11/2022 - 258 Pages
4. Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood by Kirk Douglas - **** - 8/15/2022 - 240 Pages
5. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick - ***** - 8/15/2022 - 304 Pages
6. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore - ***** - 8/19/2022 - 479 Pages

WOOHOO Frankie and Suzanne!

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. One Day in December by Josie Silver 8/3/22
2. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 8/7/22
3. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell 8/16/22
4. Yes, No, and Maybe: Living with the God of Immeasurably More by Wendy Pope 8/18/22
5. A Wild Swan: And Other Tales by Michael Cunningham 8/20/22
6. You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love by Allie Beth Stuckey 8/23/22

WOOHOO Shannon!

~~~ Complete ~~~

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

6 of 5/6 Complete

1. X-Treme Dating - Cathy McDavid - 8/5/22
2. Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon - 8/7/22
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne - 8/8/22
4. Window Shopping - Window Shopping - 8/15/22
5. The Lifeguards - Amanda Eyre Ward - 8/17/22
6. All Together Now - Matthew Norman - 8/18/22

WOOHOO Lynda!

Finished!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Goal: 5/6
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Orphan Collector - Ellen Marie Wiseman - 08/04/22
2. My German Brother: A Novel - Chico Buarque - 08/09/22
3. A gyertyák csonkig égnek - Sándor Márai - 08/12/22
4. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor - 28/08/22
5. Iris in the Dark - Elissa Grossell Dickey - 08/30/22

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Read: 3

COMPLETED!
Single: Read 3-4 books


1.) Four Ways to Wear a Dress by Gillian Libby 8/5/2022
2.) The Bone Cay by Eliza Nellums 8/8/2022
3.) He's Gone by Deb Calletti 8/29/2022

WOOHOO Ferenc and Anne!

I’m FINISHED!
Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Read:

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

18/6+

1. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience Brené Brown 08/01/22
2. The Deal of a Lifetime Fredrik Backman 08/03/22
3. The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family Ron Howard 08/03/22
4. Counterfeit Kirstin Chen 08/04/22
5. More Than You'll Ever KnowKatie Gutierrez 08/07/22
6. Several People Are Typing Calvin Kasulke 08/07/22
7, The Ex Talk Rachel Lynn Solomon 08/09/22
8. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy: A Novel Jamie Ford 08/11/22
9. French Braid Anne Tyler 08/12/22
10. Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel 08/16/22
11. More Happy Than Not Adam Silvera 08/20/22
12. West with Giraffes Lynda Rutledge 08/26/22
13. My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier 08/27/22
14. Finding Me Viola Davis 08/27/22
15. Better Than the Movies Lynn Painter 08/28/22
16. The Other Einstein Marie Benedict 08/28/22
17. Young Mungo Douglas Stuart 08/30/22
18. Biloxi Mary Miller 08/30/22

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Goal: 3/6

Single: Read 3-4 books


1. Life's Amusement Park: A Whimsical Guide to the Rides of Life by Susan Finelli 8/2/2022
2. Secret Service by Tal Bauer 8/30/2022
3. The Love Season by Elin Hilderbrand 8/31/2022