100 Years of Wonder:

Disney is observing its 100th anniversary in 2023 and you can join in the celebration! Make all your dreams come true!

Below is a list of memorable events in the history of Walt Disney and his expansive entertainment universe. For this challenge, simply read a book either published or set in the year noted. For an added level of magic, complete one section to become royalty of the category! If you’re up for a big challenge, complete all four sections to reach Ultimate Mickey Mouse status!

Business Ventures
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1923: Walt and Roy Disney form the "Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio"
- The Prophet, Emily of New Moon, Bambi, The Inimitable Jeeves,

1926: The Disneys change their name to the "Walt Disney Studio"
- Winnie the Pooh,
1930: First Disney book (Mickey Mouse Book)
1947: Disney appears before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAAC) and chastises the animator's strike for their association with Communist elements
1949: Walt Disney Music Company is formed
1955: Opening of Disneyland park in Anaheim, California
1963: Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room opens at Disneyland, first use of all-new “Audio-Animatronics” technology
1966: Walt Disney dies of lung cancer
1971: Opening of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida
1972: Disneyland debuts the Main Street Electrical Parade - Watership Down
1977: Roy E Disney, Walt's nephew, resigns and the company suffers for several years
1980: First Home Video titles released
1982: EPCOT Center opens in Orlando, Florida
1983: Tokyo Disneyland opens - The Queen's Gambit
1984: Release of first Touchstone film, Splash
1985: Touchstone Television is founded, home to Boy Meets World and Home Improvement - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
1987: First Disney Store opens, in Glendale, California
1988: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is released and nominated for four Academy Awards
2002: Disney releases its first video game, Kingdom Hearts - Lucky Man
2004: Disney purchases The Muppets franchise from Jim Henson -- Tithe
2006: Disney purchases Pixar Animation - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
2009: Disney purchases Marvel Entertainment - Plum Spooky
2012: Disney purchases LucasFilm from George Lucas - The Age of Miracles
2019: Disney+ streaming service premiers - Strangers She Knows
2023: Disney's 100th Anniversary celebrated all year! - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook

Animation Releases
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1927: Disney begins creating Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which is later distributed through Universal Pictures
1928: Steamboat Willie is released, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon and the first appearance of Minnie Mouse
1932: Release of Flowers and Trees, first full-color cartoon, and first cartoon to win an Academy Award
1934: The Wise Little Hen, first appearance of Donald Duck, is released - Murder on the Orient Express
1935: The Band Concert, first Mickey Mouse cartoon in color, is released - Death in the Clouds
1940: Release of Fantasia - Native Son
1941: Release of Dumbo
1942: Release of Bambi
1943: U.S release of Saludos Amigos, featuring four animated segments set in South America
1945: Release of The Three Caballeros - Animal Farm
1948: Release of Melody Time
1953: Release of Peter Pan
1955: Release of Lady and the Tramp
1967: Release of The Jungle Book
1970: Release of The Aristocats - The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
1973: Release of Robin Hood
1981: Release of The Fox and the Hound
1986: Release of The Great Mouse Detective
1990: Release of Ducktales: the Movie, Treasure of the Lost Lamp
2000: Release of The Emperor's New Groove - Firewing
2003: Release of The Incredibles - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
2007: Release of Ratatouille - The Book of Negroes
2012: Release of Wreck it Ralph - Ashes
2015: Release of Inside Out - Winter
2017: Release of Coco - Parting Shot

Live-Action Releases
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1946: Release of Song of the South
1952: Release of Robin Hood and His Merry Men - Wise Blood
1954: Release of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1956: Release of Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
1957: First program of the Zorro television series - 4:50 from Paddington
1960: Release of Swiss Family Robinson
1961: Release of The Parent Trap
1962: Release of In Search of the Castaways - A Wrinkle in Time
1964: Release of Mary Poppins
1965: Release of That Darn Cat
1968: Release of The Love Bug
1969: Release of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes - Travels with My Aunt
1974: Release of Herbie Rides Again
1975: Release of The Apple Dumpling Gang
1976: Release of The Shaggy D.A.
1978: Release of Return from Witch Mountain
1979: Release of The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again - Kane & Abel
1993: Release of Hocus Pocus - Parable of the Sower
1997: Release of George of the Jungle - Killing Floor
1999: Release of Inspector Gadget - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
2005: Release of Sky High - Shi-shi-etko
2006: Release of High School Musical - Infidel
2011: Release of The Muppets - Love You More
2018: Release of Christopher Robin - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu - Robin
2020: Disney collaborates with 5000 Broadway Productions to bring Hamilton to the masses - The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story, Mexican Gothic, When You Trap a Tiger

Princesses and Leading Ladies
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1937: Release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, first feature-length animated film
1938: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs wins an Academy Honorary Award
1944: Disney is struggling financially, so they re-release Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1950: Release of Cinderella
1951: Release of Alice in Wonderland
1959: Release of Sleeping Beauty
1989: Release of The Little Mermaid - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
1991: Release of Beauty and the Beast - Texas! Sage
1992: Release of Aladdin - Jazz
1994: Beauty and the Beast is Disney's first Broadway production - The Invisible Circus
1995: Release of Pocahontas - Mirror Image
1996: Release of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1998: Release of Mulan - N is for Noose
2001: Release of The Princess Diaries
2002: Release of Lilo and Stitch - Shopaholic Ties the Knot
2004: Release of The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement - Shopaholic and Sister
2005: Release of Ice Princess - The Wreckage
2008: Release of Tinker Bell - Plum Lucky
2009: Release of The Princess and the Frog - The White Queen
2010: Release of Tangled - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1
2013: Release of Frozen - Switch
2014: Release of Maleficent - The Three Monarchs
2016: Release of Moana - Glass Sword
2021: Release of Encanto - The Bookseller: Stories
2022: Release of Turning Red - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement

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message 15: by Sam F (last edited Dec 04, 2023 05:14PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 06:48AM

Bibliopoly:

BIBLIOPOLY PROMPTS
1. Go: Read a book set on two - Going Greek or more continents. - Kane & Abel

2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow -

The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden (-) by Sally Morgan

, garden tool -

No-Waste Kitchen Gardening Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More (No-Waste Gardening) by Katie Elzer-Peters

or plant -

Conscious Crafts Knitting 20 mindful makes to reconnect head, heart & hands by Vanessa Koranteng

on the cover or in the title.

3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?) - Red Queen

4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue. - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases

5. Tax: Read a book with money on the cover -

or in the title. - Moneyball, Three Thousand Dollars

6. Reading Railroad: Read a book from a celebrity book club list, such as Oprah - An American Marriage, Reese Witherspoon - The Guest List, etc. - Mexican Gothic

7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or headwear on the cover -

Braving the World Adventures in Travel and Retirement by Pam Saylor

or in the title. -

8. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest number of ratings. - We Who Can Fly, Born Adventurer, Chaucer the Maker, The Last Shot, Business As Usual, Mary Janeway, Laughing Matters, Comfort Me With Apples, The Empress Letters, Life Money & Illusions, Educated, Steve Jobs, The Odyssey, Tuesdays with Morrie, A Tale of Two Cities, Hamlet, Grapes of Wrath, A Man Called Ove, Crime & Punishment, The Tipping Point,

9. Blue: Read a book with an author - The Girl from the Seaor character whose sexual orientation is different from your own. - Tithe

10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover -

Plum Spooky (Stephanie Plum, #14.5; Between the Numbers/Holiday Novel, #4) by Janet Evanovich

or in the title. -

11. In Jail: Read a banned - Animal Farmor challenged book. - Dear Martin

12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover -

or in the title. - And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life

13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover. -

Parting Shot (Promise Falls, #4) by Linwood Barclay

14. Pink: Read a book with an author - Conversations with Friends or character - The Book of Negroes whose nationality - Please Look After Mother. Kyung-Sook Shin or birth country is different from your own. - Whereabouts: A Novel

15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover -

Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon

or in the title. -

Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2) by Toni Morrison

16. Pennsylvania Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name. - The Woman Inside

17. Orange: Read a book with a ship -

or boat -

Where the Crawdads Sing Reese's Book Club (A Novel) by Delia Owens

on the cover, or involving water travel. - The Catch

18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)

19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time or spiritual beliefs are different from your own. - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover -

Bounce Back Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion by Vanessa Woodburn

21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes! - Love You More

22. Red: Read a book with a car -

Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9) by Agatha Christie

, truck -

Devil’s Delight (Agatha Raisin, #33) by M.C. Beaton

or bus -

Inside the Human Body (The Magic School Bus, #3) by Joanna Cole

on the cover, or involving a road trip - Ashes

23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest - Case Histories, or newest additions. - The Odyssey, A Tale of 2 Cities, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, The Republic of Imagination, The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100 yr old Man, Liar Liar, Drop City, Personal, You are a Badass, Daring Greatly,

24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race - Native Son or ethnicity is different from your own. - The Kiss Quotient

25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover -

or in the title. - Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author or title beginning with B - The Bookseller: Stories or O - Firewing. (Author’s first or last name; title’s first main word. Omit the, and, of, etc.)

27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe -

Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3) by Talia Hibbert

on the cover, or involving foot travel. -

28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability - Wise Blood or impairment, an emotional - Take a Hint, Dani Brown, or mental disorder - The Other Mrs.or a neurodivergent condition - Winter.

29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover. -

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover -

Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Shopaholic, #3) by Sophie Kinsella

or in the title. - Yellow Brick War.

31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction - N is for Noose or true crime book - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising .

32. Green: Read a book with a thimble, sewing -

or craft implement on the cover or in the title. -

Knit the Sky Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting by Lea Redmond

33. Green: Read a book with an author - Dexter's Final Cut or character whose gender is different from your own. - The Iliad

34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?) - Infinite Jest, 100 Secret Senses, Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover -

The Finnish Way Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu by Katja Pantzar

or in the title. -

Plum Lucky (Stephanie Plum, #13.5) by Janet Evanovich

36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long. - All For the Love of You: A Short Story from Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War

37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest average star rating. - We Who Can Fly, The Question, Quartet for the End of Time, Courage My Love, Feathered Serpent 2012, The Tsunami File, The Optimist, Various Positions, My Ghosts, The Reserve, Life Money Illusion, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Written in My Own Hearts Blood, Educated, The Book of Negroes, Echo in the Bone, Mississippi Blood, Ama, All Things Wise & Wonderful

38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title. -

39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone -

The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2) by Philippa Gregory

or precious metal on the cover -

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1 (BTVS Collection, #1) by John Vornholt

or in the title.

40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?) - The Age of Miracles

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message 16: by Sam F (last edited Dec 24, 2023 12:40PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 06:51AM

United in Reading:

January
- World Braille Day, Jan 4: Read a book that features a character who is sight-impaired - Native Sonor a book with a cover that has raised type. - Harvest Home, The Iliad
- International Day of Education, Jan 24: Read a book set at a school - The Secret History or a book where a character is a teacher - Switch
- International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, Jan 27: Read a memoir from a Holocaust survivor - The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War or a book written by someone who is Jewish. - Alice Hoffman, Jennifer Weiner, Sophie's Choice, Tuesdays with Morrie, Neil Gaiman, Joshua Then & Now, No Logo, The Three Monarchs

February
- World Interfaith Harmony Week, first week of February: Read a book featuring characters that are a different faith from yours - Mexican Gothic or a book where characters work together in harmony - When You Trap a Tiger
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Feb 11: Read a book featuring a woman or girl in STEM - Prodigal Summer or a book about science -Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- World Day of Social Justice, Feb 20: Read a book about social justice or featuring a character that advocates for social justice reform - This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

March
- International Day to Combat Islamophobia, Mar 15: Read a book featuring Muslim characters in a positive light - Take a Hint, Dani Brown or read a book written by an author who practices Islam - The Map of Salt and Stars, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
- World Water Day, Mar 22: Read a book set on or near the water - The Odyssey, Death on the Nile, Dead Wake, The Whale Rider, A Long Petal of the Sea or read a climate fiction or nonfiction book - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
- International day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Translatlantic Slave Trade, Mar 25: Read a book written from the perspective of a person who was enslaved or read a book about the repercussions of the slave trade today - The Book of Negroes, Beloved, Roots, Gone with the Wind, Cane River, A Respectable Trade, The Known World

April
- World Health Day, Apr 7: Read a book where characters are involved in the medical field or a book about medical care - The Mind's Eye, Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health
- International Day of Human Space Flight, Apr 12: Read a book set in space or a book featuring a person who is an astronaut - Project Hail Mary, Ender’s Game
- International Mother Earth Day, Apr 22: Read a book about environmentalism - Sleeping Naked is Green Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Futureor a dystopian novel - Red Queen

May
- World Press Freedom Day, May 3: Read a book featuring a person who is a reporter - Going Greek or a book where a character learns something from the news - Where the Crawdads Sing
- World Bee Day, May 20: Read a book featuring plants - No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and Moreor a book with a flower -

or bee on the cover -

Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12) by Agatha Christie

- International Tea Day, May 21: Read a book while drinking tea - Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness or a book with a teapot on the cover -

The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #5) by Alexander McCall Smith

June
- World Day Against Child Labour, Jun 12: Read a book featuring a child - The Queen's Gambit or a book written by a child (under 18) - In the Forests of the Night
- World Refugee Day, Jun 20: Read a book where a character or the author is a refugee - Infidel
- Day of the Seafarer, Jun 25: Read a book featuring a sailor or set on or near the ocean - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

July
- Nelson Mandela International Day, Jul 18: Read a book set in South Africa - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood or a book involving a reconciliation - The Reason You Walk, 5 Little Indians, Shi-shi-etko, City of Girls, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
- International Moon Day, Jul 20: Read a book with the moon on the cover - This World We Live In, or a book set primarily at night - A Caribbean Mystery, The Little Prince, Graffiti Moon
- International Day of Friendship, Jul 30: Read a book you received from a friend - Robin or a book featuring friendship - A Man Called Ove, Project Hail Mary, Swing Time, The Giver of Stars, Pachinko,

August
- International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Aug 9: Read a book written by an indigenous/first nation author - The Orenda
- International Youth Day, Aug 12: Read a young adult book - A Study in Charlotteor a book with a teen main character - Dear Justyce
- International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Aug 30: Read a book featuring a character who is kidnapped - The Woman Insideor a book where something is missing - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

September
- International Day of Charity, Sep 5: Read a book with a character who gives to someone in need - The Wreckage or a read a book and donate it to a local library or organization - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
- International Literacy Day, Sep 8: Re-read a favorite book - Watership Down, read your favorite author, or read on the day - Sweetbitter
- International Translation Day, Sep 30: Read a book in translation - A Man Called Ove

October
- International Day of Older Persons, Oct 1: Read a book with an elder (over 65) main character or a read a book written by an author over 65. - One Perfect Lie
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Oct 17: Read a book featuring someone living in poverty - An American Marriage or a book about combatting poverty
- United Nations Day, Oct 24: Read a book written by a person who lives on a different continent than you - The Guest List

November
- World Science Day for Peace and Development, Nov 10: Read a book featuring something scientific - Robopocalypse or a book featuring something peaceful - Murder on an Irish Farm
- World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, Nov 20: Read a book involving a car trip or a book where a character drives a vehicle - The Lincoln Highwaym Rules of Civility
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Nov 25: Read a book where someone stops a violent attack - Yellow Brick Waror a book written by a survivor - Five Little Indians

December
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Dec 3: Read a book featuring a character with a disability - Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation or written by an author with a disability - Embracing the Wide Sky, El Deafo
- International Civil Aviation Day, Dec 7: Read a book with an airplane -

The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2) by Helen Hoang

or hot air balloon on the cover - 5 weeks in a Balloon, Around the World in 80 Days or a book that involves scenes on a plane - Murder in the Mesopotamia, Travels with My Aunt
- International Human Solidarity Day, Dec 20: Read a book written by an author who is from a different country - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014 , background - My Sister, the Serial Killer or demographic than you - The Poet X

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message 17: by Sam F (last edited May 07, 2023 01:41PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:03AM

FOR ALL HUMANKIND:

Humans have been dreaming about space for centuries. And a few intrepid explorers have dared to boldly go into the unknown, for all humankind. This quarter we are reading books inspired by some famous space firsts!

1. 1902 - Le Voyage dans la Lune, the first space movie: Read a book set in the 20th century - Killing Floor or a book involving movies. - Lucky Man

2. 1961 - Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space: Read a book featuring a competitive race - Red Queen - or a book involving Russian history - Kane & Abel

3. 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space: Read a book with a female character breaking barriers - Winter, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books or a book about gender issues - Prodigal Summer

4. 1966 - first full-earth photo from moon's orbit: Read a book with the earth on the cover -

Earth & Sky (Earth & Sky, #1) by Megan Crewe

- or a book featuring photography - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases

5. 1969 - first person on the moon: Read a book about an explorer - The Map of Salt and Stars or a book with the moon on the cover -

6. 1976 - Viking I is first to successfully land on Mars: Read a book featuring travel - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement or a book with a ship on the cover -

7. 1980 - Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, first person of color in space: Read a book about fighting racism -This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work or a book written by a BIPOC author - Native Son

8. 1984 - Bruce McCandless, first untethered space walk: Read a book where a character is alone - Love You More or book about a person who ventures into the unknown - Mexican Gothic

9. 1990 - Hubble, first space telescope: Read a book about the stars - When You Trap a Tiger and planets or a science fiction book - The Age of Miracles

10. 2000 - first international space station crew: Read a book where people from different nations work together - The Catchor a book written by an author from a country different from where you are from - Ashes

11. 2001 - Dennis Tito, first space tourist: Read a book set during a vacation - The Vacationers - or a book about someone with a lot of money - Lord Edgware Dies

12. 2003 - first marriage in space: Read a book featuring a wedding - Shopaholic Ties the Knot - or a book about marriage - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time

13. 2015 - first successful Pluto mission: Read a book with a dog on the cover - Flush - or a book set far away from where you live - A Long Petal of the Sea

14. 2021 - first helicopter on Mars: Read a book featuring air travel - Death in the Clouds- or a book with a red cover -

15. 2022 - DART, first man-made intentional asteroid impact to change asteroid's motion in space: Read a book featuring a crash of some kind - Switch or a book where a character changes course - Strangers She Knows.

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message 18: by Sam F (last edited Dec 16, 2023 11:10AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:13AM

HINDSIGHT IS 2023:

Fiction set in the 1900's

Best Books of the Decade

Pre-1900’s Blast from the Past:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the BCE (before common era) or nonfiction about the BCE - The Odyssey, The Iliad, The Aeneid
2. Set between 1-1800 CE (common era) or nonfiction about the CE - The White Queen,
3. Set between 1801-1900 - The Three Monarchs
4. That spans multiple decades - Kane & Abel
5. Set in Greece (the first Olympics) - Going Greek

1900’s Zesty Zeros:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1900's - Orphan Train, Pachinko, The Lake House, The Forgotten Garden, The Secret Keeper, Life After Life, Loving Frank, The Angel's Game, The Distant Hours, Winter of the World, Fall of Giants, The Historian,

2. Published in the 1900's - Ozma of Oz
3. By an author born or died in the 1900’s - Native Son,
4. Set in the Balkans (Balkan wars) - Baltic Books - Murder on the Orient Express
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: France - Parenthesis, USA - Plum Spooky, UK - Flush

1910’s: Transformative Teens:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1910's - The Girl You Left Behind

2. Published in the 1910's - Peter Pan, Pygmalion, Dubliners, Portrait of an Artist..., Anne of the Island, The Emerald City of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz,

3. By an author born or died in the 1910's - The Innocents Abroad, O Henry, Anna Karenina, A Wrinkle in Time
4. Set in - Sail or near the ocean (Titanic) - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: Sweden - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases, Germany - Lilac Girls

1920’s: Tremendous Twenties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1920's - Justice Hall
2. Published in the 1920's - A Room of One's Own,
3. By an author born or died in the 1920's - Wise Blood
4. Featuring jazz music or a jazz instrument - Jazz

5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries Belgium - Belgravia, France, Switzerland - The Manticore, A Farewell to Arms, Netherlands - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Infidel

1930’s: Thirsty Thirties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1930's - Three Act Tragedy
2. Published in 1930's - Lord Edgware Dies
3. By an author born or died in 1930's - The Mind's Eye
4. Featuring a character who loses a job or otherwise suffers financial hardship - Killing Floor
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: USA - Love You More , Germany - Perfume, Beneath the Wheel, Inkheart, The Invisible Circus

1940’s: Fatal Forties:
Read a Book…

1. Set in the 1940's - The Storyteller
2. Published in the 1940's - Animal Farm
3. By an author born or died in the 1940's - Plum Lucky
4. Involving war (WWII) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1, The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: Japan - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, , Finland - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu, Italy - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement, UK - The Book of Negroes, Germany - The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100 Yr old man, Baumgartner's Bombay, What the Night Sings

1950’s: Fabulous Fifties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1950's - Mexican Gothic
2. Published in the 1950's - The Old Man and the Sea
3. By an author born or died in the 1950’s - Parting Shot

4. Featuring a Queen - Red Queen or set in a Commonwealth Realm headed by Queen Elizabeth II - Canada - Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion, UK - Shopaholic and Sister, Australia - Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, Ireland - Conversations with Friends, Pakistan - The Night Diary, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, South Africa - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Scotland - The Hanging Garden

5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: Norway - Winter Garden, The Great Alone, Jo Nesbo, Knut Hamson, Henrik Ibsen, The Weight of Water, Sophie's World, , Finland - Letters from Tove, My First Murder, Italy - A Room with a View, Whereabouts, Australia - The Secret River, The Forgotten Garden, On the Beach, The True History of the Kelly Gang, The Secret Keeper, The Distant Hours, Sweden - Sophie's World, A Man Called Ove, Accidental Further Adventures of..., The Lost Boy,

1960’s: The Swingin’ Sixties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1960's - Where the Crawdads Sing
2. Published in the 1960's - In Cold Blood, Dune, A Clockwork Orange, The Giving Tree, A Wizard of Earthsea, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Travels with Charley, Dragonflight, The Feminine Mystique, Encyclopedia Brown, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, , The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Edible Woman, Travels with My Aunt
3. By an author born or died in the 1960’s - Lucky Man
4. Set in space or another celestial body (Moon Landing) - Space Opera, Red Rising, Ender’s Game

5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: USA - Prodigal Summer, Italy, Austria - The Bookstore, Leviathan, Rainer Maria Rilke, Japan - Wind up Bird Chronicle, The Wreckage, France, Mexico - Like Water for Chocolate, The Lacuna

1970’s: Self-Assured Seventies:
Read a Book…
1.Set in the 1970's - The Dutch House
2. Published in the 1970's - Watership Down, The Stand, Interview with a Vampire, Roots, Salem's Lot, The Simarillion, , All the President's Men, All Things Bright & Beautiful, Dragonsong, All Things Wise & Wonderful, Sula, Rumble Fish, Surfacing,
3. By an author born or died - The Affair of the Pink Pearl in the 1970’s - Pearl S Buck, Anais Nin, Sing, Unburied, Sing
4. By a female - Take a Hint, Dani Brown or LGBT+ author (Women’s and Gay Rights) - The Girl from the Sea, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: Canada - Tatouine, West Germany, Japan, Austria - The Lost Letter,

1980’s: The Elegant Eighties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1980's - Three Thousand Dollars
2. Published in the 1980's - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
3. By an author born or died in the 1980’s - Long Way Down
4. Featuring radiation of some kind - The Age of Miracles or set in Ukraine (Chernobyl) - The Diamond Eye
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: USA - Dexter's Final Cut, Canada - And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life, South Korea - Please Look After Mom

1990’s: The Nifty Nineties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1990's - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
2. Book published in the 1990's - The Secret History
3. By an author born or died in the 1990’s - When You Trap a Tiger
4. Featuring character who live off-grid - The Catch or “outside” of a system of government (Waco, Ruby Ridge) - This World We Live In

5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: - A Long Petal of the Sea Norway, USA - Dear Martin, Japan, France, Spain

2000’s: Admirable Aughts:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 2000's - Tithe
2. Published in the 2000's - Firewing

3. By an author born or died in the 2000’s - David Foster Wallace,

4. Set in NYC (World Trade Center attack) - City of Girls

5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: USA - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting, Greece, Italy, China - Crazy Rich Asians, 100 Secret Senses, Australia,

2010’s: The Terrific Teens:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 2010's - The Vacationers
2. Published in the 2010's - Switch
3. By an author born or died in the 2010’s - N is for Noose
4. By an Arab author - The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story, The Map of Salt and Stars

5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: Canada - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising, UK - The House We Grew Up In, Russia - Mirror Image, Brazil - Pedagogy of the Oppressed, South Korea

2020’s and Beyond: You are Here:
Read a Book…
1. Set in current times - Act Your Age, Eve Brown
2. Published in 2020’s - The Bookseller: Stories

3. Set in one of the Olympic host countries:USA - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook, Japan, China, France, Italy,

4. Set in the near future (100 years or less) - Parable of the Sower
5. Set in an imagined future over 100 years from now - Winter

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Dec 05, 2022 07:14AM

Diversity in Reading: #OwnVoices

Read a book featuring a protagonist who identifies as _____ by an author who is also _____.

1. African (e.g, Ghanian, Nigerian) -
Read a book from each major region:

A. Eastern Africa - Cutting for Stone, Infidel

B. Central or Middle Africa

C. Northern Africa - The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story

D. Southern Africa - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

E. Western Africa - My Sister, the Serial Killer

2. Agnostic, Athiest, or Humanist

3. Asexual or Aromantic

4. Asian (e.g., Hmong, Japanese) -

Read a book from each major region:
A. Central Asia

B. Eastern Asia - Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Amy Tan, Please Look After Mom

C. Northern Asia - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014

D. Southern Asia -

E. Southeast Asia -

F. Western Asia - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

5. Bisexual or Pansexual - We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

6. Black (e.g. African-American, Black British) - Native Son

7. Buddhist

8. Christian-minority (i.e., Christian in a country in which it is not the most common religion)

9. Differently-Abled (e.g., Autistic - The Bride Test, Deaf - El Deafo, Paraplegic) - Lucky Man

10. Gay Male or Lesbian Female - The Girl from the Sea

11. Hindu

12. Immigrant -

13. Incarcerated or Institutionalized

14. Indigenous (e.g., Aboriginal, Inuit, Mojave) - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising

15. Jewish - The Storyteller

16. Latin American (e.g., Mexican, Colombian-descent)
Read a book from each major region:
A. Mexico - Mexican Gothic

B. Carribean

C. Central America

D. South America - A Long Petal of the Sea

17. Living with a Mental Health - Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Healthor Cognitive Disability - The Kiss Quotient

18. Low-Income or Financially Insecure - Sing, Unburied, Sing

19. Middle Eastern - The Map of Salt and Stars

20. Mixed Race or Multi-racial - When You Trap a Tiger

21. Muslim -

22. Non-binary or Transgender -

23. Oceanic (e.g., Papuan, Samoan)
Read a book from each major region:
A. Australasia -

B. Melanesia

C. Micronesia

D. Polynesia

24. Practitioner of a minor religion or another form of spirituality

25. Refugee, Migrant, or Asylum-Seeker -

26. Survivor of Sexual Assault or Domestic Violence

GLOBAL VOICES:

Read a book featuring a protagonist who identifies as _____ by an author who is also _____.

Voices From Around The World:

1. African -
2. Asian - The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
3. Caribbean
4. Indigenous - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
5. Latin American - Mouthful of Birds
6. Middle Eastern -
7. Oceanic -
8. From a Dependent Territory (e.g., Puerto Rican) or State with Limited Recognition (e.g., Palestinian)
9. Immigrant, Refugee, Migrant, or Asylum-Seeker -
10. Black or Multiracial - Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Diversity of Beliefs:

11. Agnostic, Atheist, or Humanist
12. Buddhist or Hindu
13. Jewish - The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War
14. Muslim -
15. Practitioner of a Minor Religion or Non-Religious form of Spirituality
16. Activist, Freedom Fighter, or Political Minority

Love is Love is Love:
17. Asexual, Aromantic, or Celibate
18. Gay or Lesbian - And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
19. Bisexual or Pansexual -
20. Adopted, Fostered, or raised by someone other than one's biological parents

Every Body Has Value:

21. Body Positive, Body Neutral, or Fat Positive person who is a size or shape outside of their society's beauty norms (Diet, Weightloss, or other Body Modification books are not allowed for this prompt.) -

22. Non-binary, Genderqueer, Intersex or Transgender -

23. Child (under 18) - In the Forests of the Night or Elder (over 75) - If You Ask Me

24. Differently-Abled (e.g., Autistic, Deaf) - The Mind's Eye

25. Living with a visible or invisible Chronic Health Condition - Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion or Physical Disability -

26. Living with a Mental Health Condition, Cognitive - ADHD Women: A Holistic Approach To ADHD Management / Intellectual Disability - Parenthesis, or Addiction - Xanax Cowboy: Poems

27. Currently or Previously Incarcerated or Institutionalized

28. Low-Income or Financially Insecure

29. Survivor of Abuse, Neglect, Sexual Assault, a Hate Crime, or Human Trafficking -

30. Victim of State-Sponsored Violence - Five Little Indians or Institutional/Systemic Discrimination - Shi-shi-etko

31. Read a book written by people indigenous to where you live or frequently visit. - The Marrow Thieves

32. Read a book translated from a language other than English. -

33. Read a book that addresses social justice - Dear Justyce or ethics or in medicine, law, fashion, food, consumerism, or environmental stewardship as it relates to race, class, sex/gender, etc. - Prodigal Summer

34. Read a “classic,” award-winning - The Book of Negroes, or scholarly #ownvoices book that also meets the criteria for one of the above prompts. -

35. Read a book of poetry - Long Way Down or a graphic novel - Ashes that also meets the criteria for one of the above prompts.

36. Read an #ownvoices book promoted or written by a Bookstagrammer, Booktuber, Book Blogger, Goodreads Super Reviewer, or an Activist or Educator who uses social media as a tool to teach and inspire change. - This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

37. Listen to an #ownvoices book read by the author - Fresh Ink, read the book and attend an author event about the book, or watch a recording of such an event.

38. Read a book about intersectional feminism or Black feminism. - Sula, Black Like Me, The Vanishing Half, Parable of the Sower, Snow Flower & The Secret Fan, The Girl with the Louding Voice, Phoebe Robinson, Braiding Sweetgrass, Eloquent Rage, We Should All Be Feminists, So You Want to Talk About Race, Americanah, The Body is Not An Apology, A Room of One's Own, The Handmaid's Tale, The Beauty Myth, Transcendent Kingdom, Me & White Supremacy, Talking Back, A Woman is No Man, Daring Greatly,

39. Read a book that discusses unearned privilege, colonialism - The Orenda, imperialism, or white supremacy. - The Known World

40. Read a book that helps you understand your own cultural heritage.

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message 20: by Sam F (last edited Dec 25, 2023 09:45AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:17AM

Past PopSugar Reading Challenges

2015
1 More than 500 pages - State of Terror
2 Classic romance
3 Became a movie - Murder on the Orient Express
4 Published in 2015 - Red Queen
5 Number in the title - Three Act Tragedy
6 Written by someone under 30 - Act Your Age, Eve Brown
7 Nonhuman characters - Flush
8 Funny - Devil’s Delight
9 Female author - The Affair of the Pink Pearl
10 Mystery or thriller - Death in the Clouds
11 One word title - Jazz
12 Book of short stories - Muckross Abbey and Other Stories
13 Set in a different country - A Long Petal of the Sea
14 Nonfiction - ADHD Women: A Holistic Approach To ADHD Management
15 Popular author's first book - The Invisible Circus
16 A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet - The Storyteller
17 Recommended by a friend - Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion
18 Pulitzer Prize winner - The Known World
19 Based on a true story - The White Queen
20 At the bottom of your to-read list
21 A book your mom loves
22 A book that scares you - The Orenda
23 A book more than 100 years old - Ozma of Oz
24 A book based entirely on its cover - Sail
25 A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
26 Memoir -
27 A book you can finish in a day - Long Way Down
28 Antonyms in the title - Beyond Good & Evil, The Tipping Point, Thinking Fast & Slow, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, 100 Days, Sweetbitter,
29 Set somewhere you've always wanted to visit - Murder on an Irish Farm
30 Published the year you were born - Travels with My Aunt
31 A book with bad reviews -
32 Trilogy - Lilac Girls,
33 From your childhood - Watership Down
34 A book with a love triangle - An American Marriage
35 Set in the future - Glass Sword
36 Set in high school - Earth & Sky
37 Color in the title - Take a Hint, Dani Brown
38 A book that made you cry - Where the Crawdads Sing
39 Magic - Season of Dragons
40 Graphic novel - Ashes
41 Author you've never read before - Xanax Cowboy: Poems
42 A book you own but never read - Robin
43 Hometown - The Marrow Thieves
44 Originally written in another language - Whereabouts
45 Set during Christmas - Visions of Sugar Plums
46 Written by an author with my initials
47 A Play - Fresh Ink
48 Banned book - Dear Martin
49 Based on or turned into a TV show - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1
50 A book you started but never finished - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

2016
1 Based on a fairy tale - Tithe
2 National Book Award winner - Sing, Unburied, Sing
3 YA bestseller - Dear Justyce
4 Haven't read since high school - Animal Farm
5 Set in your home state - And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
6 Translated into English - Tatouine
7 Romance set in the future - This World We Live In
8 Set in Europe - And Thereby Hangs a Tale
9 Less than 150 pages - A Room of One's Own
10 NYT bestseller - Infidel
11 Becoming a movie this year - Women Talking, A Man Called Ove, Dune, Daisy Jones & the 6, Halloween Party,
12 Recommended by someone you just met - Conversations with Friends
13 Self-improvement - Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness
14 Can finish in a day - The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War
15 Written by a celebrity - Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits
16 Political memoir
17 At least 100 years older than you - The Innocents Abroad
18 More than 600 pages - The Iliad
19 from Oprah's Book Club - Hello Beautiful
20 Science fiction - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
21 Recommended by a family member
22 Graphic novel - The Girl from the Sea
23 Published in 2016
24 Protagonist with your occupation - One Perfect Lie
25 Takes place during summer - The Vacationers
26 A book plus its prequel - First Bones
27 Murder mystery - 4:50 from Paddington
28 Written by a comedian - If You Ask Me
29 Dystopian - Parable of the Sower
30 Blue cover -

31 Poetry - Nothing Burns as Bright as You
32 First book you see in a bookstore
33 Classic from 20th Century - Jamaica Inn
34 From the library - Graffiti Moon
35 Autobiography - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
36 Road trip - Ashes
37 Culture you're unfamiliar with - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
38 Satirical
39 Takes place on an island - The Storied Life of AJ Firky, A Caribbean Mystery, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Odyssey, The Summer Book, The Lighthouse, Anne of Avonlea, Evil Under the Sun, The Guest List
40 Guaranteed to bring joy

2017
1 recommended by a librarian - Please Look After Mom
2 on my TBR list for way too long - The Happiness Project
3 book of letters - Justice Hall
4 audiobook - The Dutch House
5 A book by a person of color - The Book of Negroes
6 one of the four seasons in title - Prodigal Summer
7 a story within a story - The Map of Salt and Stars
8 multiple authors - The Woman Inside
9 espionage thriller - Mirror Image
10 cat on the cover -
11 by an author who uses a pseudonym - Parenthesis
12 bestseller from a genre I don't normally read (Western) - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
13 by or about a person with a disability - The Mind's Eye
14 book involving travel - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement
15 book with a subtitle - Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
16 published in 2017 - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
17 involving a mythical creature - Firewing
18 a book I've read before that never fails to make me smile
19 book about food - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook
20 book with career advice
21 from a nonhuman perspective
22 steampunk
23 red spine
24 set in the wilderness - Die Trying
25 a book I loved as a child - A Wrinkle in Time
26 author from a country I've never visited - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014
27 title that is a character's name - Texas! Sage
28 set during wartime - What the Night Sings
29 unreliable narrator - Wise Blood
30 a book with pictures - No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
31 main character is a different ethnicity than me - The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
32 a book about an interesting woman - The Other Mrs.
33 set in two different time periods - The Girl You Left Behind
34 month or day of the week in title
35 set in a hotel - Shopaholic Ties the Knot
36 written by someone I admire
37 becoming a movie in 2017
38 set around a holiday that's not Christmas - The House We Grew Up In
39 first book in a series I haven't read yet - Case Histories
40 a book I bought on a trip
41 recommended by an author I love
42 bestseller from 2016
43 family-member term in title - Shopaholic and Sister
44 takes place over a character's life span -
45 about an immigrant or refugee -
46 from a sub-genre I've never heard of ("cli-fi") - Robopocalypse
47 book with an eccentric character - The Kiss Quotient
48 more than 800 pages
49 from a used book sale - And Thereby Hangs a Tale
50 book mentioned in another book - The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
51 about a difficult topic - The Swimmers
52 based on mythology - The Pisces

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message 21: by Sam F (last edited Dec 27, 2023 06:02PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:27AM

Reading Women Challenges:

1) A book by a woman in translation (bonus points if it’s also translated by a woman) - Please Look After Mom
2) A fantasy novel written by a woman of color - Mexican Gothic
3) A book set in the American South - Dear Martin
4) A short story collection - Muckross Abbey and Other Stories
5) A graphic novel - The Girl from the Sea or memoir - Parenthesis
6) A book published by an independent press - Akashic Books, Bellevue Literary Press, BOA Editions, C & R Press, Catapult Books, City Lights Publisher, Coffee House Press, Enchanted Lion Books, Europa Editions, Featherproof Books, Feral House, Forest Avenue Press, Future Tense Books, George Braziller, Graywolf Press, Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement,
7) A book set in Russia - The Diamond Eye or by a Russian author - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014
8) A book with a viewpoint character who is an immigrant - The Girl Who Wrote in Silk or a refugee - We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
9) A book by an Australian or a Canadian author - State of Terror
10) An essay collection - A Room of One's Own
11) A book about someone with a chronic illness - The House We Grew Up In
12) A true crime book - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
13) A book by an African American Woman about Civil Rights - An American Marriage
14) A classic novel written by a woman (bonus points if not Austen or a Bronte) - Lord Edgware Dies
15) A poetry collection - Xanax Cowboy: Poems
16) A book where the characters are traveling somewhere - Switch
17) A book with a food item in the title - Plum Spooky
18) A book written by a female Nobel Prize winner - Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, Pearl Buck, Louise Gluck,
19) A book from the Reading Woman Award 2017 shortlists - Pachinko,
20) A memoir by someone who lives in a country different from yours - Infidel
21) A book inspired by a fairytale - Tithe
22) A book by a local author - Earth & Sky or recommended by your local bookstore
23) The book that has been on your TBR the longest (or one that's been there a long time) - The Happiness Project
24) A book in a genre or subgenre you have never read - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time

BONUS
A book by Virginia Woolf - Flush
A book by Flannery O’Connor - Wise Blood

1) A Book Longlisted for the JCB Prize
2) An Author from Eastern Europe - Magda Szabo
3) A Book About Incarceration - Dear Justyce
4) A Cookbook by a Woman of Color - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook
5) A Book with a Protagonist Older than 50 - Plum Lucky
6) A Book by a South American Author in Translation - Mouthful of Birds
7) Reread a Favorite Book - A Wrinkle in Time
8) A Memoir by an Indigenous, First Nations, Native, or Aboriginal Woman - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
9) A Book by a Neurodivergent Author - The Kiss Quotient
10) A Crime Novel or Thriller in Translation -
11) A Book About the Natural World - Prodigal Summer
12) A Young Adult Novel by a Latinx Author - The Poet X
13) A Poetry Collection by a Black Woman - Nothing Burns as Bright as You
14) A Book with a Biracial Protagonist - When You Trap a Tiger
15) A Muslim Middle Grade Novel - The Night Diary
16) A Book Featuring a Queer Love Story - Conversations with Friends
17) About a Woman in Politics - The White Queen
18) A Book with a Rural Setting - Strangers She Knows
19) A Book with a Cover Designed by a Woman - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting
20) A Book by an Arab Author in Translation
21) A Book by a Trans Author - Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
22) A Fantasy Novel by an Asian Author
23) A Nonfiction Book Focused on Social Justice - This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
24) A Short Story Collection by a Caribbean Author

BONUS
25) A Book by Alexis Wright
26) A Book by Tsitsi Dangarembga
27) A Book by Leila Aboulela
28) A Book by Yoko Ogawa

1) A Book by an Author from the Caribbean or India
2) A Book Translated from an Asian Language
3) A Book about the Environment - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
4) Picture Book Written/Illustrated by a BIPOC Author - Blue Sky White Stars
5) A Winner of the Stella Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction - The Lacuna,
6) A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian - The Orchid Thief, The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
7) A Book Featuring Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism - Parable of the Sower
8) An Anthology by Multiple Authors - Fresh Ink
9) A Book Inspired by Folklore - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
10) A Book About a Woman Artist - Where the Crawdads Sing
11) Read and Watch a Book-to-Movie Adaptation - Murder on the Orient Express
12) A Book About a Woman Who Inspires You -
13) A Book by an Arab Woman - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
14) A Book Set in Japan or by a Japanese Author
15) A Biography - El Deafo
16) A Book Featuring a Woman with a Disability - Winter
17) A Book Over 500 Pages - The Secret History
18) A Book Under 100 Pages - All For the Love of You: A Short Story from Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War
19) A Book That’s Frequently Recommended to You - The Guest List
20) A Feel-Good - Conscious Crafts: Knitting: 20 mindful makes to reconnect head, heart hands or Happy Book - Act Your Age, Eve Brown
21) A Book about Food - No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
22) A Book by Either a Favorite or a New-to-You Publisher - The Vacationers
23) A Book by an LGBTQ+ Author -And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
24) A Book from the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlists and Honorable Mentions - Women Talking,

BONUS
25) A Book by Toni Morrison - Jazz
26) A Book by Isabel Allende - A Long Petal of the Sea

1) A mystery or thriller written by a woman of color -
2) A book about a woman with a mental illness - Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion
3) A book by an author from Nigeria - My Sister, the Serial Killer or New Zealand
4) A book about or set in Appalachia - The Giver of Stars
5) A children's book - Shi-shi-etko
6) A multigenerational family saga - The Dutch House
7) A book featuring a woman in science - Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health
8) A play
9) A novella - Visions of Sugar Plums
10) A book about a woman athlete
11) A book featuring a religion other than your own - What the Night Sings
12) A Lambda Literary Award winner
13) A myth retelling - The Pisces
14) A translated book published before 1945
15) A book written by a South Asian author
16) A book by an Indigenous woman - Five Little Indians
17) A book from the 2018 Reading Women Award shortlist - Educated,
18) A romance or love story - Beach Town
19) A book about nature - The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden
20) A historical fiction book - The Invisible Circus
21) A book you bought or borrowed in 2019 - The Library of Lost and Found
22) A book you picked up because of the cover - This World We Live In
23) Any book from a series - O is for Outlaw
24) A young adult book by a woman of color - Fresh Ink

BONUS:
25) A book by Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing
26) A book by Jhumpa Lahiri - Whereabouts

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message 22: by Sam F (last edited Dec 27, 2023 06:03PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:27AM

Past PopSugar Challenges con't:

2019
1. A book becoming a movie in 2019
2. A book that makes you nostalgic
3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction)
4. A book you think should be turned into a movie - My Sister, the Serial Killer
5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads
6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
7. A reread of a favorite book
8. A book about a hobby
9. A book you meant to read in 2018
10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title
11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover -

12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore
13. A book published posthumously - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie
15. A retelling of a classic - A Study in Charlotte
16. A book with a question in the title
17. A book set on college or university campus - The Secret History
18. A book about someone with a superpower - Mexican Gothic
19. A book told from multiple POVs - The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
20. A book set in space - Ender’s Game
21. A book by two female authors
22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title
23. A book set in Scandinavia
24. A book that takes place in a single day
25. A debut novel
26. A book that's published in 2019 - City of Girls
27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature - Winter
28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire
29. A book with LOVE in the title
30. A book featuring an amateur detective - Agatha Raisin: The Quiche of Death & The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin series)
31. A book about a family - The Library of Lost and Found
32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America
33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title
34. A book that includes a wedding - The Full Cupboard of Life
35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter
36. A ghost story
37. A book with a two-word title
38. A novel based on a true story
39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game - The Queen's Gambit
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge
41. A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book
42. A "choose-your-own-adventure" book
43. An "own voices" book - El Deafo
44. Read a book during the season it is set in
45. A LitRPG book
46. A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters
47. Two books that share the same title
48. Two books that share the same title
49. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom
50. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent

2020
1. A book that's published in 2020 - This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author
3. A book with a great first line
4. A book about a book club - Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits
5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics
6. A bildungsroman
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover
9. A book with a map
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club
11. An anthology
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test
13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name
15. A book about or involving social media - Hello, Summer
16. A book that has a book on the cover
17. A medical thriller
18. A book with a made-up language - The Beach of Falesá
19. A book set in a country beginning with "C" - Our Homesick Songs
20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention -
21. A book published the month of your birthday
22. A book about or by a woman in STEM
23. A book that won an award in 2019
24. A book on a subject you know nothing about
25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics
26. A book with a pun in the title
27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins
28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
29. A book with a bird on the cover
30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader
31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title
32. A book by a WOC - Blue Sky White Stars
33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads - Rules of Civility
34. A book you meant to read in 2019
35. A book with a three-word title
36. A book with a pink cover
37. A Western
38. A book by or about a journalist
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
41. A book written by an author in their 20s
42. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title
43. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision)
44. A book set in the 1920s
45. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics
46. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books
47. A book with more than 20 letters in its title
48. A book published in the 20th century
49. A book from a series with more than 20 books - O is for Outlaw
50. A book with a main character in their 20s - The Bride Test

2021
1 A book that's published in 2021
2 An Afrofuturist book - Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
3 A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover
4 A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign
5 A dark academia book
6 A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
7 main character works at your current or dream job
8 A book that has won the Women's Prize For Fiction
9 A book with a family tree
10 A bestseller from the 1990s
11 A book about forgetting
12 A book you have seen on someone's bookshelf
13 A locked-room mystery
14 A book set in a restaurant
15 A book with a black-and-white cover
16 A book by an Indigenous author - Shi-shi-etko
17 A book that has the same title as a song
18 A book about a subject you are passionate about
19 A book that discusses body positivity
20 A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list
21 A genre hybrid
22 A book set mostly or entirely outdoors
23 A book with something broken on the cover
24 A book by a Muslim American author
25 A book that was published anonymously
26 A book with an oxymoron in the title
27 A book about do-overs or fresh starts
28 A magical realism book
29 A book set in multiple countries
30 A book set somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021
31 A book by a blogger etc
32 A book whose title starts with "Q," "X," or "Z"
33 A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
34 A book about a social justice issue
35 A book in a different format than what you normally read
36 fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads - Three Thousand Dollars
37 A book you think your best friend would like
38 A book about art or an artist
39 A book everyone seems to have read but you
40 favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
41 The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
42 The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
43 The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
44 The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
45 The book that's been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
46 A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn't
47 A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
48 A book from your TBR list chosen at random
49 A DNF book from your TBR list
50 A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)

2022
1 A book published in 2022 - Conscious Crafts: Knitting: 20 mindful makes to reconnect head, heart hands
2 A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship
3 A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society
4 A book with a tiger on the cover or "tiger" in the title
5 A sapphic book
6 A book by a Latinx author
7 A book with an onomatopoeia in its title
8 A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid
9 A book about a "found family"
10 An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner
11 A #BookTok recommendation
12 A book about the afterlife
13 A book set in the 1980s
14 A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title
15 A book by a Pacific Islander author
16 A book about witches
17 A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022
18 A romance novel by a BIPOC author
19 A book that takes place during your favorite season
20 A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read
21 A book about a band or musical group
22 A book with a character on the ace spectrum
23 A book with a recipe in it
24 A book you can read in one sitting
25 A book about a secret
26 A book with a misleading title
27 A Hugo Award winner
28 A book set during a holiday
29 A different book by an author you read in 2021
30 A book with the name of a board game in the title
31 A book featuring a man-made disaster
32 A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page
33 A social-horror book
34 A book set in Victorian times
35 A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title
36 A book you know nothing about
37 A book about gender identity
38 A book featuring a party
39 An #OwnVoices SFF (science fiction and fantasy) book
40 A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
41 A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title
42 A book that features two languages
43 A book with a palindromic title
44 A duology (1)
45 A duology (2)
46 A book about someone leading a double life
47 A book featuring a parallel reality
48 A book with two POVs
49 Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (1)
50 Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (2)

This 2020 Fall Challenge was posted on the Popsugar Facebook Book Club by Lauren Oertel and includes the following 10 prompts:

1. A book with a cover with orange and brown.

2. A book that has been on your shelf since at least last fall.

3. A book by an indigenous author.

4. A book that includes someone falling.

5. A book that includes Black joy.

6. A book with a strong friendship.

7. A book that was published in October or November.

8. A book with a title that includes the letters F-A-L-L.

9. A book about or that takes place somewhere you'll likely never visit.

10. A book about or involving nature

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message 23: by Sam F (last edited Dec 16, 2023 11:37AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:28AM

PopSugar 2023 Reading Challenge:

1 A book you meant to read in 2022 - The Storyteller

2 A book you bought from an independent bookstore

3 A book about a vacation - The Vacationers

4 A book by a first-time author - The Age of Miracles

5 A book with mythical creatures - Tithe

6 A book about a forbidden romance - Kane & Abel

7 A book with "Girl" in the title - The Girl from the Sea

8 A celebrity memoir - Lucky Man

9 A book with a color in the title - Plum Lucky

10 A romance with a fat lead - Act Your Age, Eve Brown

11 A book about or set in Hollywood - Beach Town

12 A book published in spring 2023 - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook

13 A book published the year you were born - Travels with My Aunt

14 A modern retelling of a classic - Winter

15 A book with a song lyric as its title - Long Way Down

16 A book where the main character's name is in the title - Lord Edgware Dies

17 A book with a love triangle - Jazz

18 A book that's been banned or challenged in any state in 2022 - The Handmaid's Tale, Homegoing, The Bluest Eye, The Bell Jar, Beloved, The Testaments, So You Want to Talk About Race, I'll Give You the Sun, Dear Martin,

19 A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge - Sing, Unburied, Sing

20 A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023 - Where the Crawdads Sing

21 A book set in the decade you were born - The Dutch House

22 A book with a queer lead - When You Trap a Tiger

23 A book with a map - Ashes

24 A book with a rabbit on the cover -

Watership Down (Watership Down, #1) by Richard Adams

25 A book with just text on the cover -

Beyond Codependency and Getting Better All the Time by Melody Beattie

26 The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list - Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion

27 A #BookTok recommendation - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Secret History, Conversations with Friends

28 A book you bought secondhand - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1

29 A book your friend recommended - Earth & Sky

30 A book that's on a celebrity book-club list - Mexican Gothic

31 A book about a family - Switch

32 A book that comes out in the second half of 2023 - ADHD Women: A Holistic Approach To ADHD Management

33 A book about an athlete/sport - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu

34 A historical-fiction book - A Long Petal of the Sea

35 A book about divorce - Going Greek

36 A book you think your best friend would like - The Known World

37 A book you should have read in high school - Native Son

38 A book you read more than 10 years ago - A Wrinkle in Time

39 A book you wish you could read for the first time again - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

40 A book by an author with the same initials as you

41 A book written during NaNoWriMo - The Calculating Stars, Winter, Fangirl

42 A book based on a popular movie - Ozma of Oz

43 A book that takes place entirely in one day - The Affair of the Pink Pearl

44 A book that was self-published - The Bookseller: Stories

45 A book that started out as fan fiction - Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health

46 A book with a pet character - Flush

47 A book about a holiday that's not Christmas - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement

48 A book that features two languages - The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story,

49 The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list - Fall of Giants

50 A book with alliteration in the title - N is for Noose

2018
1 A book made into a movie you've already seen
2 True Crime
3 The next book in a series - A Conspiracy of Bones
4 A book involving a heist - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
5 Nordic noir
6 A novel based on a real person - The Diamond Eye
7 A book set in a country that fascinates you
8 A book with a time of day in the title - The Night Diary
9 A book about a villain or antihero - The Wreckage
10 A book about death or grief
11 A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym
12 A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist
13 A book that is also a stage play or musical
14 A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you
15 A book about feminism - We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
16 A book about mental health
17 A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift
18 A book by two authors - The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden
19 A book by a local author
20 A book about or involving a sport - Back Spin
21 A book with your favorite color in the title -

Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum, #17) by Janet Evanovich

22 A book with alliteration in the title
23 A book about time travel
24 A book with a weather element in the title
25 A book set at sea - The Old Man and the Sea
26 A book with an animal in the title - Mouthful of Birds
27 A book set on a different planet - Yellow Brick War
28 A book with song lyrics in the title - Five Little Indians
29 A book about or set on Halloween
30 A book with characters who are twins - In the Forests of the Night
31 A book mentioned in another book
32 A book from a celebrity book club
33 A childhood classic you've never read
34 A book published in 2018 - The Poet X
35 A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner
36 A book set in the decade you were born
37 A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to
38 A book with an ugly cover
39 A book that involves a bookstore - Publishable By Death or library - The Giver of Stars
40 Your favorite prompt from a previous Popsugar Challenges
41 A bestseller from the year you graduated high school
42 A cyberpunk book
43 A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place
44 A book tied to your ancestry
45 A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title
46 An allegory - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
47 A book by an author with the same first or last name as you
48 A microhistory - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
49 A book about a problem facing society today - Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health
50 A book recommended by someone else

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message 24: by Sam F (last edited Nov 28, 2023 04:46PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:36AM

SERIAL READER CHALLENGE

To Start:

Dear Martin series:
1. Dear Martin
2. Dear Justyce

Tessa Leoni series:
1. Love You More
2. Touch & Go
3. Crash & Burn

Kane & Abel series:
1. Kane & Abel
2. The Prodigal Daughter
3. Shall We Tell the President

Jack Reacher series:
1. Killing Floor
2. Die Trying
3. Tripwire
4. Running Blind
5. Echo Burning
6. Without Fail
7. Persuader
8. The Enemy
9. One Shot
...

Red Queen series:
1. Red Queen
2. Glass Sword
3. King's Cage
4. War Storm

The Kiss Quotient series:
1. The Kiss Quotient
2. The Bride Test
3. The Heart Principle

Earthseed Series:
1. Parable of the Sower
2. Parable of the Talents

Lilac Girls series:
1. Lilac Girls
2. Lost Roses
3. Sunflower Sisters

Jackson Brodie Series:
1. Case Histories
2. One Good Turn
3. When Will There Be Good News?
4. Started Young Took My Dog
5. Big Sky

Charlotte Holmes series:
1. A Study in Charlotte
2. The Last of August
3. The Case for Jamie
4. A Question of Holmes

Agatha Raisin series:
1. Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
2...
33. Devil’s Delight

Irish Village Mystery series:
1. Murder in an Irish Village
2. Murder at an Irish Wedding
...
8. Murder on an Irish Farm

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message 25: by Sam F (last edited Nov 08, 2023 02:09PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:36AM

SERIAL READER CHALLENGE

Series to finish:

Horowitz's Holmes Series:
1.5. The Three Monarchs
2. Moriarty

The Brown Sisters Series:
2. Take a Hint, Dani Brown
3. Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Shopaholic Series:
3. Shopaholic Ties the Knot
3.5. Shopaholic on Honeymoon
4. Shopaholic and Sister
5. Shopaholic & Baby
...

Elvis Cole & Joe Pike Series:
2. Stalking the Angel
3. Lullaby Town
4. Free Fall
5. Voodoo River.....

Eve Duncan Series:
2. The Killing Game
3. The Search
4. Body of Lies
4.5 Dead Aim
5. Blind Alley
6. Countdown
7. Stalemate
8. Quicksand
9. Eight Days to Live
10...

Dalziel & Pascoe series:
2. An Advancement of Learning
3. Ruling Passion
4. An April Shroud
5...

The Travis Family series:
2. Blue-eyed Devil
3. Smooth Talking Stranger
4. Brown-eyed Girl

Sherri Travis series"
4. Champagne for Buzzards
5. Highball Exit
6. Martini Regrets
7. Last Call

Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series:
2. Deadly Appraisal
3. Antiques to Die For
4. Killers Keepsakes
5. Silent Auction
...

D.I. Lottie Parker series:
2. The Stolen Girls
3. The Lost Child
4. No Safe Place
5. Tell Nobody
6. Final Betrayal
7. Broken Souls
8. Buried Angels
9. Silent Voices
10. Little Bones
11. Guilty Girl

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series:
2. The Angel's Game
3. The Prisoner of Heaven
4.

Sedikhan Series:
2. The Golden Valkyrie
3. The Trustworthy Redhead
4. Capture the Rainbow
5. Touch the Horizon
6. A Summer Smile
7. And the Desert Blooms
8. Always
9. Everlasting
10. ....

The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Series:
2. The White Queen
3. The Red Queen
4. The Kingmaker's Daughter
5. The White Princess
6. The Constant Princess
7. The King's Curse
8. Three Sisters, Three Queens
9. The Other Boleyn Girl
10. The Boleyn Inheritance
11. The Taming of the Queen
12. The Queen's Fool
13. The Virgin's Lover
14. The Last Tudor
15. The Other Queen

Myron Bolitar series:
4. Back Spin
5. One False Move
6. The Final Detail
7. Darkest Fear
8. Promise Me
9. Long Lost
10. Live Wire
11. Home

Holly Barker series:
4. Reckless Abandon
5. Iron Orchid
6. Hothouse Orchid

Mischief Bay series:
3. A Million Little Things
4. Sisters Like Us

Dorothy Must Die series:
0.1-0.9
3. Yellow Brick War
4. The End of Oz

Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series:
4. The Harvest Man
5. Lost & Gone Forever

Inspector Lynley series:
4. A Suitable Vengeance
5. For the Sake of Elena
6. Missing Joseph
...

Penn Cage series:
3. The Devil's Punchbowl
4. Natchez Burning
5. The Bone Tree
6. Mississippi Blood
7. Southern Man

Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James #1 series:
4. Mourn Not Your Dead
5. Dreaming of the Bones
6. Kissed a Sad Goodbye
...

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency:
5. The Full Cupboard of Life
6. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
6.5 The Shape of Ladies
6.6. The Problem of Men
6.7 Doctors Detectives Common Sense
7. Blue Shoes and Happiness
8. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive ...

Lacey Flint series:
3. Like This For Ever
4. A Dark and Twisted Tide
5. The Dark

The Black Stallion series:
3. Son of the Black Stallion
4. The Island Stallion
5. The Black Stallion and Satan
6. The Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt
7. The Island Stallion's Fury ...

Oz series:
3. Ozma of Oz
4. Dorothy & the Wizard in Oz
5. The Road to Oz
6. The Emerald City of Oz
7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz ....

Chet & Berny Mystery Series:
3. To Fetch a Thief
4. The Dog who Knew Too Much
5. A Fistful of Collars
6. The Sound & the Furry
7. Paw & Order
8. Scents & Sensability
9. Heart of Barkness
10. Of Mutts & Men
11. Tender is the Bite
12. It's a Wonderful Woof

The Inspector Banks Series:
5. Past Reason Hated
6. Wednesday's Child
7. Dry Bones that Dream
8. Innocent Graves
9. Blood at the Root
10. In a Dry Season
11. Cold is the Grave
12. Aftermath
13. Close to Home
14. Playing with Fire
15. Strange Affair
16. Piece of my Heart
17. Friend of the Devil
18. All the Colours of Darkness
19. Bad Boy
20. Watching the Dark
21. Children of the Revolution
22. Abattoir Blues
23. When the Music's Over
24. Sleeping in the Ground
25. Careless Love
26. Too Many Rivers to Cross
27. Not Yet Dark

Kay Scarpetta Series:
5. The Body Farm
6. From Potter's Field
7. Cause of Death
8. Unnatural Exposure
9. Point of Origin
10. Black Notice
11. The Last Precinct
12. Blow Fly
13. Trace
14. Predator
15. Book of the Dead
16. Scarpetta
17. The Scarpetta Factor
18. Post Mortuary
19. Red Mist
20. The Bone Bed
21. Dust
22. Flesh & Blood
23. Depraved Heart
24. Chaos

Adam Dalgliesh Series:
4. Shroud for a Nightingale
5. The Black Tower
6. Death of an Expert Witness
7. A Taste for Death
8. Devices & Desires
9. Original Sin
10. A Certain Justice
11. Death in Holy Orders
12. The Murder Room
13. The Lighthouse
14. The Private Patient

The Inheritance Cycle #1
3. Brisingr
4. Inheritance

Jason Bourne Series:
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. The Bourne Legacy
5. The Bourne Betrayal
6. The Bourne Sanction
7. The Bourne Deception
8. The Bourne Objective
9. The Bourne Dominion
10. The Bourne Imperative
11. The Bourne Retribution
12. The Bourne Ascendancy
13. The Bourne Enigma
14. The Bourne Initiative
15. The Bourne Nemesis

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes:
6. Justice Hall
7. The Game
8. Locked Rooms
9. The Language of Bees .....

Michael Bennett:
6. Gone
7. Burn
8. Alert
9. Bullseye
9.5 Chase
10. Haunted
10.5 Manhunt
11. Ambush
12. Blindside
13. The Russian

Bird Family Trilogy:
3. The Orenda

Patrick Hedstrom Series:
8. Buried Angels
9. The Ice Child
10. The Girl in the Woods

Virals Series:
2.5. Shift
3.5. Swipe
4. Exposure
5. Terminal
5.5. Spike

Dexter Series:
7. Dexter's Final Cut
8. Dexter Is Dead

Outlander Series:
6. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
7. An Echo in the Bone
8. Written in My Own Heart's Blood
9. Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone

Temperance Brennan Series:
0.5 First Bones
16.5. Swamp Bones
18.5 Faking a Murderer
19. A Conspiracy of Bones
20. The Bone Code
21. Cold Cold Bones
22. The Bone Hacker

The Lord of the Rings Series:
2. The Two Towers
3. The Return of the King

Kinsey Millhone Series:
14. N is for Noose
15. O is for Outlaw
16. P is for Peril
17. Q is for Quarry
18. R is for Ricochet
19. S is for Silence
20. T is for Trespass
21. U is for Undertow
22. V is for Vengence
23. W is for Wasted
24. X
25. Y is for Yesterday

Stephanie Plum Series:
8.5Visions of Sugar Plums
13.5 Plum Lucky
14.5 - Plum Spooky
17. Smokin' Seventeen
18. Explosive Eighteen
19. Notorious Nineteen
20. Takedown Twenty
21. Top Secret Twenty-One
22. Tricky Twenty-Two
23. Turbo Twenty-Three
24. Hardcore Twenty-Four
25. Look Alive Twenty-Five

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series
5. The Brutal Telling
6. Bury Your Dead
6.5 The Hangman
7. A Trick of the Light
8. The Beautiful Mystery
9. How the Light Gets In
10. The Long Way Home
11. The Nature of the Beast
12. A Great Reckoning
13. Glass Houses
14. Kingdom of the Blind

Inspector Rebus Series:
3.5 A Good Hanging
5. The Black Book
6. Mortal Causes
7. Let It Bleed
8. Black and Blue
9. The Hanging Garden
9.5 Death Is Not the End
10. Dead Souls
11. Set in Darkness
12. The Falls
13. Resurrection Men
13.5 Beggars Banquet
14. A Question of Blood
15. Fleshmarket Close
16. The Naming of the Dead
17. Exit Music
18. Standing in Another Man's Grave
19. Saints of the Shadow Bible
19.5 In the Nick of Time: John Rebus vs. Roy Grace
20. Even Dogs in the Wild
21. Rather Be the Devil
22. In a House of Lies

Lord John Grey Series:
0.5 Lord John and the Hellfire Club
1.5 Legends II
2.75 The Custom of the Army
3. The Scottish Prisoner
3.5 A Plague of Zombies

Afdeling Q Series:
5. Marco Effect
6. The Hanging Girl
7. The Scarred Woman

Charles Lenox Mysteries Series:
4.5. An East End Murder
8. The Laws of Murder
9. Home by Nightfall
10. The Inheritance
10.5. Gone Before Christmas
11. An Extravagant Death

Miss Marple Series:
1.5. The Thirteen Problems
8. 4:50 from Paddington
9. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
10. A Caribbean Mystery
11. At Bertram's Hotel
12. Nemesis
13. Sleeping Murder
14. Miss Marple's Final Cases
15. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht Series:
6. The Flood

Detective D.D. Warren Series:
5. Love You More
5.5 The 7th Month
6. Catch Me
7. Fear Nothing
7.5 3 Truths and a Lie
8. Find Her
9. Look For Me
9.5 The Guy Who Died Twice
10. Never Tell

Vanessa Michael Munroe Series:
4. The Catch
5. The Mask

Kurt Wallander Series:
9. The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
9.5 An Event in Autumn
10. The Troubled Man

Vinyl Cafe Series:
2. Home From The Vinyl Cafe: A Year Of Stories
4. Vinyl Cafe Diaries
5. Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe
5.5 Dave Cooks the Turkey
6. Extreme Vinyl Cafe
7. Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks
Vinyl Cafe: Seasons

The Queen of the Tearling Series:
0.5 The Boy
3. The Fate of the Tearling

The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe:
2. No Longer at Ease
3. Arrow of God

Hercule Poirot Series:
9. Lord Edgware Dies
10. Murder on the Orient Express
11. Three Act Tragedy
12. Death in the Clouds
13. The ABC Murders
14. Murder in Mesopotamia
15-45

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message 26: by Sam F (last edited Dec 20, 2023 06:01PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:37AM

BookRiot's Read Harder Challenge:

This year:

READ HARDER 2023

1. Read a novel about a trans character written by a trans author. - The Map of Salt and Stars

2. Read one of your favorite author’s favorite books. - Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, Lord of the Rings, A Tale of Two Cities, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, The Tsar of Love & Techno, Sherlock Holmes, Crime & Punishment, Good Morning Midnight, The Secret History, Alice Munro, As I Lay Dying,

3. Read a book about activism. - Prodigal Summer

4. Read a book that’s been challenged recently in your school district/library OR read one of the most-challenged/banned books of the year by a queer and/or BIPOC author. - Dear Martin

~~5. Read a completed webcomic. - Lore Olympus~~

6. Finish a book you’ve DNFed (did not finish). - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

7. Listen to an audiobook performed by a person of color of a book written by an author of color. - Native Son

8. Read a graphic novel/comic/manga if you haven’t before; or read one that is a different genre than you normally read. - Ashes

9. Read an independently published book by a BIPOC author. - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

10. Read a book you know nothing about based solely on the cover. - Love You More

11. Read a cookbook cover to cover. - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook

12. Read a nonfiction book about BIPOC - This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work and/or queer history.

13. Read an author local to you. - Earth & Sky

14. Read a book with under 500 Goodreads ratings. - All For the Love of You: A Short Story from Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War

15. Read a historical fiction book set in an Eastern country. - The Iliad

16. Read a romance with bisexual representation. - Take a Hint, Dani Brown

17. Read a YA book by an Indigenous author. - The Marrow Thieves

18. Read a comic or graphic novel that features disability representation. - Parenthesis

19. Read a nonfiction book about intersectional feminism. - We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

20. Read a book of poetry by a BIPOC - Long Way Down or queer author.

21. Read a book of short stories. - The Bookseller: Stories

22. Read any book from the Ignyte awards shortlist/longlist/winner list. - Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

23. Read a social horror - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, mystery - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror, or thriller novel.

24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!

Last year:

1. Read a biography of an author you admire. - Lucky Man

2. Read a book set in a bookstore. - Mr. Penumbra's, Publishable By Death

3. Read any book from the Women’s Prize shortlist/longlist/ winner list. - The Lacuna, On Beauty, Larry's Party, A God in Ruins, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Americanah, Fingersmith, The Pisces

4. Read a book in any genre by a POC that’s about joy and not trauma. -Act Your Age, Eve Brown

5. Read an anthology featuring diverse voices. - Fresh Ink

6. Read a nonfiction YA comic. - El Deafo

7. Read a romance where at least one of the protagonists is over 40. - A Long Petal of the Sea

8. Read a classic written by a POC. - The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Jazz

9. Read the book that’s been on your TBR the longest. - Fall of Giants

10. Read a political thriller by a marginalized author (BIPOC, or LGBTQIA+). -

11. Read a book with an asexual and/or aromantic main character. - The Dutch House

12. Read an entire poetry collection. - Nothing Burns as Bright as You

13. Read an adventure story by a BIPOC author. - Yellow Brick War

14. Read a book whose movie or TV adaptation you’ve seen (but haven’t read the book). - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1

15. Read a new-to-you literary magazine (print or digital).

16. Read a book recommended by a friend with different reading tastes. - The Age of Miracles

17. Read a memoir written by someone who is trans or nonbinary. - And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life

18. Read a “Best _ Writing of the year” book for a topic and year of your choice. - The Storyteller

19. Read a horror novel by a BIPOC author. - Mexican Gothic

20. Read an award-winning book from the year you were born. - Joyce Carol Oates 'Them', Lillian Hellman 'An Unfinished Woman', Dr. Erik H. Erikson 'Ghandi's Truth', Isaac Bashevis Singer 'A Day of Pleasure', “The Complete Poems,” by Elizabeth Bishop

21. Read a queer retelling of a classic of the canon, fairytale, folklore, or myth. - The Girl from the Sea

22. Read a history about a period you know little about. - The Known World

23. Read a book by a disabled author. - The Mind's Eye

24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!
- Read a book you’ve been intimidated to read - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
- Read a nonfiction book about anti-racism - Infidel
- Read a non-European novel in translation - Brothers Karamazov, The Windup Bird Chronicle, Please Look After Mom

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message 27: by Sam F (last edited Dec 16, 2023 11:38AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:37AM

Out of this World Challenge:

1 and 2. KEPLER-16B - A real life Tatooine, this planet was Kepler's first discovery of a planet that orbits two stars, what is known as a circumbinary planet.
▪ Read a duology. 1. Dear Martin 2. Dear Justyce

3. KEPLER-452 B - One of the most Earth-like planets yet discovered, with almost the same exact size, placement, and habitable zone as Earth. Unfortunately, it's more than 1,000 light years away.
▪ Read a Science Fiction book about humans traveling to live on other planets - Season of Dragons or read an alternate history book. - The Calculating Stars, The Eyre Affair,

4. 55 CANCRI E - One of the first super-Earth planets to be discovered, it was originally thought that to be so abundant in carbon that, due to the immense pressure and 2,700 degree temperatures, its interior was made of diamond. More recent research has contested this assertion, but the nature of the planet's interior remains enigmatic.
▪ Read a book that features a wealthy character - Justice Hall or where diamonds play a key role in the plot. - The Diamond Eye

5. TRES-2 B - Identified by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, it is the darkest known exoplanet, reflecting less than 1% of any light that hits it.
▪ Read a book with a primarily black cover -

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

or a book by a BIPOC author. - Jazz

6. HR 5183 B - A slow-moving exoplanet three times larger than Jupiter, this planet has a bizarre orbit where it loiters on the outer reaches of its system before slingshotting into the center, passing close to its host star before peeling away again. This strange orbit has earned it the nickname of the "whiplash planet."
▪ Read a book with a shocking plot twist - Red Queen or a thriller novel. - The Secret History

7. TOI-1452 B - A large exoplanet thought to be 70% bigger than Earth, astronomers believe water could make up as much as 30% of its mass (compared to Earth, where water is 1% of our mass).
▪ Read a book that takes place underwater - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania or on the ocean. - Sail

8. TYC 8998-760-1 B - This gas giant and its companion orbit an extremely young Sun-like star presumed to be only about 17 million years old. Its planets are likely also brand new and radiate a glow that can be seen by telescopes.
▪ Read an author's debut book - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising or a book published in 2023. - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook

9. PSR B1620-26 B - The oldest known planet, at somewhere around 12.7 billion years old. That's only a little younger than the universe itself!
▪ Read a book you've owned for a long time - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants or a book set in ancient times. - The Iliad

10. WASP-76B - This planet is tidal locked to its parent star: one side permanently faces its star, causing scorching hot temperatures around 4,532°F - hot enough to vaporize iron.
▪ Read a book set in the desert - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West or a hot place. - The Full Cupboard of Life

11. GLIESE 1132B - This Earth-like planet is much closer to its parent star, creating higher surface temperatures. Astronomers have recently discovered that the gravitational influence of the star creates intense tidal forces that "flex" the planet. The flexing creates intense volcanic activity which causes gases to rise to the surface - and those gases are creating a unique second atmosphere.
▪ Read a sequel - Glass Sword or a book where a character who is thought to be gone comes back again - The Known World.

12. HD 189773B - This world is only 64 light years away and looks like a deep blue marble. But its pleasant exterior is deceiving, as winds on this planet blow at 8,700 km/h. Not only that, but the deep blue color is a reflection of the silicate in its atmosphere which, when heated by the planet's deadly 1300°C, forms grains of glass.
▪ Read a book with unexpected danger - Nothing Burns as Bright as You or a book with a blue cover. -

Muckross Abbey and Other Stories by Sabina Murray

13. TOI 849 - This exoplanet orbits so tightly to its star that a year passes in 18 hours. It is dense and rocky, not gaseous, despite being 40 times as massive as Earth. It may even be the first Chthonian planet to be detected: the exposed remnant core of a gas giant that has had its atmosphere blasted away.
▪ Read a book less than 200 pages - Visions of Sugar Plums or more than 500 pages. - Lilac Girls

14. GJ-504B - A newly formed exoplanet in the Virgo constellation, this planet orbits its star at nearly nine times the distance Jupiter orbits the sun. Due to its newness, it glows a deep magenta.
▪ Read a book with a pink cover -

or a book about a new relationship. - Tatouine

15. OGLE-2005-BLG-390LB - Orbiting a red dwarf, this planet is too far away to receive much warmth from its star. It is one of the coldest known planets in the universe with a freezing surface temperature of -220°C (-364°F). The entire planet is covered with a thick layer of ice and it is unlikely any life could survive on the surface, though astronomers believe it is possible life survives underneath the ice.
▪ Read a book set in a cold place - This World We Live In or during winter. - First Bones

16. TRES-4B - Despite being one of the largest exoplanets discovered, this planet has an extremely low density - about the same as a cork. Astronomers attribute this to the extreme heat of 2300 °F (1260 °C) due to its proximity to the star. At only 4.5 million miles (7.2 million kilometers) away from its sun, TrES-4b is able to complete an orbit in three Earth days.
▪ Read a lighthearted book - The Kiss Quotient or a book with a happy ending. - Going Greek

17. HD 106906 - Located 300 light years from Earth in the constellation of Crux, it orbits its star at a distance of 60 billion miles - 20 times the distance between the Sun and Neptune. Estimated to be about eleven times the mass of Jupiter, it is unknown how this planet formed or how it came to have such a distant orbit from its star. Despite being so far from the warmth of its star, it still has a scorching surface temperature of 1500 °C (2732 °F) and still glows from the residual heat left over from its formation.
▪ Read a mystery novel - Three Act Tragedy or a book where a character's motivations are unknown. - Death in the Clouds

18. PSR J1719-14 B - Orbiting a pulsar star, this planet completes its orbital rotation extremely quickly - in only 2.2 hours.
▪ Read a book you can finish in one sitting. - Parenthesis

19. WASP 12B - A doomed planet being torn apart by its star's scorching heat. In 10 million years, this world could be completely consumed.
▪ Read the final book in a series or a book where a character disappears - A Wrinkle in Timeor dies. - Where the Crawdads Sing

20. 1SWASP J1407B - Located around 420 light-years in the constellation of Centaurus, the planet has the most exotic ring system ever discovered, around 200 times bigger than Saturn’s rings. Unfortunately, travelling to see it would take over seven million years.
▪ Read a book with multiple POVs - Mirror Image or a book where the characters travel a long journey - Shopaholic and Sister

Wheel of Feels Challenge:

1. Read a book that makes you happy - No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
2. Read a book with a red cover -

Visions of Sugar Plums (Stephanie Plum, #8.5) by Janet Evanovich

3. Read a book that scares you - Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
4. Read a book with a yellow cover -

Shopaholic and Sister (Shopaholic, #4) by Sophie Kinsella

5. Read a book by an author you love - A Wrinkle in Time
6. Read a book with a pink cover -

7. Read a book about something that makes you mad - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
8. Read a book with a purple/indigo cover -

9. Read a book that makes you sad - Parenthesis
10. Read a book with a blue cover -

Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health by Dr. Kristen Casey

11. Read a book you’re anxious about - The Mind's Eye
12. Read a book with a green cover -

The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1) by Helen Hoang

13. Read a book inspired by any word on the red zone of the wheel - Red Queen
14. Read a book inspired by any word on the yellow zone of the wheel - Yellow Brick War
15. Read a book inspired by any word on the pink zone of the wheel - The Affair of the Pink Pearl
16. Read a book inspired by any word on the indigo/purple zone of the wheel - Lilac Girls
17. Read a book inspired by any word on the blue zone of the wheel - Blue Sky White Stars
18. Read a book inspired by any word on the green zone of the wheel
19. Choose a word on the wheel and spell it with your books titles
20. Choose a color zone of the wheel and found in your books the words in it ( max. 2 words per book) - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

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message 28: by Sam F (last edited Dec 14, 2023 04:55PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:54AM

Listopia Challenge 2023:

Possible lists:

Best Survival Stories
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. Sophie's Choice
3. Watership Down
4. On The Beach
5. The Road
6. The Stand
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. The Book of Negroes
9. Cold Cold Heart
10. Vanishing Acts
11. Lucky
12. They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1. The Origin of Species
2. The Tipping Point
3. Packing for Mars
4. Gulp
5. Thinking Fast & Slow
6. The Coming Plague
7. The Botany of Desire
8. The Naked Ape
9. Bonk
10. The Brain that Changes Itself
11. Spook
12. The 13th Element
13. The Teenage Brain
14. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Best Horror Novels
1. Cold Cold Heart
2. It
3. Salem's Lot
4. The Stand
5. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
6. Harvest Home
7. The Historian
8. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
9. Library at Mount Char
10. Hound of the Baskervilles
11. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Books that Exceeded Your Expectations
1. Gone With the Wind
2. Cane River
3. The Historian
4. The Forgotten Garden
5. Middlesex
6. The Pact
7. The Casual Vacancy
8. Crazy Rich Asians
9. The Road
10. Lord of the Rings
11. A Fine Balance
12. Loving Frank
13. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
14. The Book of Negroes
15. The Distant Hours
16. The Sound & the Fury
17. Cutting for Stone
18. A Breath of Snow & Ashes
19. The Silmarillion
20. Fall of Giants
21. Mexican Gothic
22. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
23. The Giver of Stars
24. City of Girls
25. The Orenda

Humourous Memoirs & Non-Fiction
1. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
2. Naked
3. Bonk
4. When You are Engulfed in Flames
5. The Botany of Desire
6. Magical Thinking
7. This is Where I Leave You
8. Born a Crime
9. All Creatures Great & Small
10. Into Thin Air

You Read a Book About What?
1. The Professor & the Madman
2. Spook
3. In Cold Blood
4. The Brain that Changes Itself
5. Color
6. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
7. Infidel
8. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
9. Bonk
10. All the President's Men
11. Educated
12. Blink
13. The Onion Field
14. From Scratch
15. Steve Jobs
16. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
17. Naked
18. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Books I would Require if I Taught an English Lit Class
1. Hamlet
2. The Handmaid's Tale
3. The Sound & the Fury
4. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
5. Grapes of Wrath
6. Conversations with Myself
7. Sherlock Holmes
8. Middlesex
9. The Brothers Karamazov
10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
11. Beautiful Losers

Female Psychological Thrillers Suspense Written by Women
1. Now You See Me
2. I Let You Go?
3. Fingersmith
4. Promise Not to Tell
5. Island of Lost Girls
6. In The Woods
7. Find Her
8. The Wife Between Us
9. Vanishing Girls
10. V is for Vengence
11. The Lying Game
12. The Wonder
13. Love You More
14. Fingersmith
15. Find Her
16. My Sister, the Serial Killer

100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime
1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes
3. The Woman in White
4. The Name of the Rose
5. In The Woods
6. Killing Floor
7. Get Shorty
8. Tell No One
9. The Secret History
10. Case Histories
11. The DaVinci Code
12. A Great Reckoning - all
13. The Historian
14. As I Lay Dying
15. The Eyre Affair
16. The Silent Patient
17. Natchez Burning
18. The Bourne Ultimatum
19. Cutting for Stone
20. How the Light Gets In
21. Case Histories
22. My Sister, the Serial Killer

Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Americanah
4. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
5. White Teeth
6. Cutting for Stone
7. Life After Life
8. The Golem & the Jinni
9. On Beauty
10. A Fine Balance
11. A Wizard of Earth Sea
12. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
13. Native Son
14. Spook
15. The Wild Iris
16. The Casual Vacancy
17. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
18. A God in Ruins
19. The Beauty of Humanity Movement
20. Prodigal Summer
21. The Wives of Henry VIII
22. Good Morning Midnight

Major Award Winning Fiction Since 1990
1. The Road
2. The Blind Assassin
3. Alias Grace
4. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
5. Sea of Poppies
6. The Secret River
7. Middlesex
8. The Casual Vacancy
9. The Luminaries
10. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
11. Galore
12. The True History of the Kelly Gang
13. Life After Life
14. Fingersmith
15. White Teeth
16. When We Were Orphans
17. On Beauty
18. The Lacuna
19. Galore
20. Pachinko

Best Books to read When Snow is Falling
1. The Snow Child
2. Night Road
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. We Were Liars
5. The Peach Keeper
6. The Luminaries
7. The Other Boleyn Girl
8. The Distant Hours
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. Picture Perfect
11. A Breath of Snow & Ashes
12. The Name of the Rose
13. The Historian
14. The White Queen
15. The Two Towers
16. Picture Perfect
17. The Constant Princess
18. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
19. The Stand
20. The Golem & The Jinni
21. The Orenda

Best Feminist Fiction
1. Parable of the Sower
2. Fingersmith
3. The Kitchen God's Wife
4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
5. North & South
6. Prodigal Summer
7. Lady Oracle
8. The Book of Negroes
9. Loving Frank
10. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
11. Good Morning Midnight
12. Much Ado About Nothing
13. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
14. A Room of One's Own
15. Alias Grace
16. Mexican Gothic

Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
1. Crime & Punishment
2. Gone With the Wind
3. The Two Towers
4. The Sound & The Fury
5. Julius Caesar
6. Hamlet
7. The Return of the King
8. The Grapes of Wrath
9. As I Lay Dying
10. Anna Karenina
11. Middlesex
12. The Name of the Rose
13. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
14. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
15. The Iliad

Top 10 for the Reading Challengers
1. Hamlet
2. Gone With the Wind
3. The Stand
4. A Man Called Ove
5. The Golem & the Jinni
6. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
7. Ender's Game
8. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
9. The Secret Keeper
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11. The Botany of Desire
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. Middlesex
14. The Historian
15. The Forgotten Garden
16. The Two Towers
17. The Brothers Karamazov
18. A Fine Balance
19. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
20. Life After Life
21. On the Beach
22. Sophie's Choice

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message 29: by Sam F (last edited Dec 14, 2023 04:43PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 07:58AM

Other Lists:

The Prison Book Club Discussed Books

1. A Fine Balance
2. An Ice-cream War
3. The Tipping Point
4. Blink
5. Outliers
6. The Book of Negroes
7. Someone Knows My Name
8. Infidel
9. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
10. The Road
11. Alias Grace

Favourite Travel Books
1. Color
2. Honeymoon in Purdah
3. The Lost Girls
4. The Voluntourist
5. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
6. Fresh Air Fiend
7. All Roads Lead to Austen
8. Maiden Voyages
9. Into Thin Air
10. Out of Africa
11. The Innocents Abroad

Oprah's Book Club Picks
1. Middlesex
2. A Fine Balance
3. Songs in Ordinary Time
4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
5. The Sound & The Fury
6. As I Lay Dying
7. Freedom
8. Cane River
9. River Cross My Heart
10. Open House
11. Pillars of the Earth
12. East of Eden
13. The Road
14. Anna Karenina
15. A Tale of Two Cities
16. Tara Road
17. Paradise
18. American Dirt
19. Olive Again
20. Hello Beautiful
21. An American Marriage

Everyone's Read it But Me
1. Middlesex
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Tuesdays With Morrie
4. The Road
5. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
6. The Fall of Giants
7. The Name of the Rose
8. The Forgotten Garden
9. The Stand
10. A Tale of Two Cities
11. Outliers
12. Blink
13. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
14. The Other Boleyn Girl
15. House Rules
16. The Tipping Point
17. The Historian
18. Hamlet

Around the World in 100 Books
1. My Name is Red
2. Hamlet
3. Cutting for Stone
4. Crime & Punishment
5. A Fine Balance
6. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
7. On the Beach
8. The Beach
9. The Kitchen God's Wife
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
12. The True History of the Kelly Gang
13. The Secret River
14. The Girl You Left Behind
15. Anna Karenina
16. The Iliad
17. Shadows on the Rock
18. Sea of Poppies
19. The Grapes of Wrath
20. All Things Bright & Beautiful
21. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
22. The Glass Palace
23. The Girl You Left Behind
24. Please Look After Mom
25. Whereabouts
26. A Man Called Ove

Best Multicultural General Fiction
1. A Fine Balance
2. Cutting for Stone
3. White Teeth
4. The Kitchen God's Wife
5. Family Matters
6. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
7. Crazy Rich Asians
8. A Blade of Grass
9. The Glass Palace
10. Americanah
11. Please Look After Mom

Book of the Month Club Picks
1. Swimming Lessons
2. The Great Alone
3. The Lying Game
4. Turtles All the Way Down
5. Pachinko
6. Swing Time
7. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
8. A Woman is No Man
9. The Wife Between Us
10. Sing, Unburied, Sing

Best Environmental Books
1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
2. Where the Crawdads Sing
3. Fast Food Nation
4. The Botany of Desire
5. The Coming Plague
6. The Tipping Point
7. Sleeping Naked is Green
8. Sisters of the Earth
9. No Logo
10. Diversity of Life

The Orange Prize Winners
1. La Lacuna
2. On Beauty
3. 100 Secret Senses
4. The Lizard Cage
5. Fault Lines
6. White Teeth
7. Case Histories
8. The Blind Assassin
9. Larry's Party
10. The Constant Princess

Pulitzer Prize Winners
1. Our Town
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The Road
4. The Known World
5. Middlesex
6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
7. The Wild Iris
8. The Road
9. The Snow Child
10. Roots
11. The Old Man and the Sea

Medicine & Literature

1. Gulp
2. Cutting for Stone
3. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
4. Death of an Expert Witness
5. The Professor & the Madman
6. Bonk
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. An Anthropologist on Mars
9. The Birth House
10. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
11. The Coming Plague
12. The Mind's Eye
13. House Rules
14. The Brain that Changes Itself
15. Lucky

About Racism & Race Relations
1. Me and White Supremacy
2. Why I'm no Longer Talking to White People About Race
3. Born a Crime
4. So You Want to Talk About Race
5. Noughts & Crosses
6. Americanah
7. White Rage
8. Dreams From My Father
9. Paradise
10. Homegoing
11. Dear Martin
12. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
13. Five Little Indians
14. Parable of the Sower
15. The Fire Next Time
16. The Known World
17. Eloquent Rage
18. Paradise
19. Sing, Unburied, Sing
20. The Round House
21. Dust Tracks on a Road
22. Jazz
23. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
24. Shake Hands with the Devil
25. White Teeth
26. Dear Justyce
27. An American Marriage

Are You Well Read in Literature
1. Anna Karenina
2. Born a Crime
3. Beowolf
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. Perfume
6. The Odyssey
7. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
8. Sophie's World
9. My Name is Red
10. Homecoming
11. Crazy Rich Asians
12. The Count of Monte Cristo
13. War & Peace
14. Beartown
15. Don Quiote
16. A Suitable Boy
17. Oscar & Lucinda
18. The Name of the Rose
19. Madame Bovary
20. My Sister, the Serial Killer
21. Kiss of the Spider Woman
22. Ghana Must Go
23. Smila's Sense of Snow
24. Whale Rider
25. The Brothers Karamazov
26. Of Love & Shadows
27. The Messenger
28. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
29. Cutting for Stone
30. Crime & Punishment

Fargo Public Library's Tea Time Book Club
1. Love & Ruin
2. Pachinko
3. Homegoing
4. Small Great Things
5. The Handmaid's Tale

Own Voices Books
1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
2. Dear Martin
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
4. Mexican Gothic
5. Homegoing
6. Americanah
7. Native Son
8. P.S. I Still Love You
9. Crazy Rich Asians
10. Take a Hint, Dani Brown
11. Fingersmith
12. The House of the Spirits
13. Pachinko
14. Always & Forever Laura Jean
15. Educated
16. Eloquent Rage
17. The Rose & the Dagger
18. Born a Crime
19. My Sister, the Serial Killer
20. Sing, Unburied, Sing
21. Reading Lolita in Tehran
22. Me & White Supremacy
23. So You Want to Talk About Race
24. China Rich Girlfriend
25. Rich People Problems

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. Crime & Punishment
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4. Gone With the Wind
5. A Tale of Two Cities
6. The Brothers Karmazov
7. The Name of the Rose
8. Middlesex
9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
10. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
11. Anna Karenina
12. The Woman in White
13. The Sound & the Fury
14. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
15. A Fine Balance

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message 30: by Sam F (last edited Dec 25, 2023 09:46AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:15AM

Other Lists:

BBC The Big Read Top 100 Books:
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Winnie the Pooh
3. War and Peace
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Harry Potter
6. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. The Pillars of the Earth
9. Persuasion
10. Dune
11. Watership Down
12. Anna Karenina
13. A Suitable Boy
14. Kane & Abel
15. Crime and Punishment
16. Noughts & Crosses
17. A Tale of Two Cities
18. Perfume
19. The Woman in White
20. Holes

What Women Born in the 1960s have read so far:
1. The Four Winds
2. The Dutch House
3. Educated
4. Project Hail Mary
5. One By One
6. A Man Called Ove
7. The Book of Longings
8. The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. Olive Again
11. The Road
12. The Snow Child
13. My Sister, the Serial Killer
14. Mexican Gothic
15. When the Stars Go Dark
16. Pachinko
17. Winter Garden
18. Love - Toni Morrison
19. The Testaments
20. The Secret History
21. A Promised Land
22. The Peach Keeper
23. A Woman is No Man
24. Outliers
25. Thinking Fast & Slow
26. The Old Man and the Sea
27. City of Girls

Books Mentioned in Reading Lolita in Tehran
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2. Murder on the Orient Express
3. Beyond Good & Evil
4. Don Quixote
5. Not Without My Daughter

Best Non-Fiction:
1. Outliers
2. The Tipping Point
3. Blink
4. Fast Food Nation
5. Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
6. The Professor & the Madman
7. The Origin of Species
8. Moneyball
9. 7 Habits of Highly...
10. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
11. Bonk
12. Botany of Desire
13. The Big Short
14. Thinking Fast & Slow
15. Spook
16. A Room of One's Own
17. No Logo
18. Good to Great
19. In Cold Blood
20. Audacity of Hope
21. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
22. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
23. Packing For Mars
24. Tuesdays with Morrie
25. A Civil Action
26. What the Dog Saw
27. Infidel
28. The Happiness Project
29. The Brain that Changes Itself
30. Dance of Anger
31. The Coming Plague
32. Steve Jobs
33. The Sociopath Next Door
34. Into the Wild
35. The Monuments Men
36. Shake Hands with the Devil
37. Beyond Good & Evil
38. Naked
39. The Lemon Tree
40. Color
41. The Innocents Abroad

The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
1. Animal Farm
2. Crime & Punishment
3. The Handmaid's Tale
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5. The Count of Monte Cristo
6. The Grapes of Wrath
7. Gone With the Wind
8. Anna Karenina
9. The Old Man & the Sea
10. The Name of the Rose
11. Dune
12. A Tale of Two Cities
13. Don Quixote
14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
15. Perfume
16. The Bell Jar
17. The Brothers Karamazov
18. The Road
19. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
20. A Confederacy of Dunces
21. The Woman in White
22. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
23. A Wizard of Earthsea
24. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
25. The Blind Assassin
26. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
27. Hunger
28. A Portrait of a Young Man as an Artist
29. My Name is Red
30. The Complete Maus
31. A Fine Balance
32. Fingersmith
33. White Teeth
34. Native Son
35. The Constant Gardner
36. The Beach
37. The Day of the Triffids
38. True History of the Kelly Gang
39. Middlesex
40. On Beauty
41. Infinite Jest
42. Narcissus & Goldmund
43. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
44. Family Matters
45. The Secret History
46. As I Lay Dying
47. Who Do You Think You Are
48. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
49. An Ice-Cream War
50. Sophie's Choice

Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2022
1. Whereabouts
2. The Four Winds
3. The Sentence
4. Klara and the Sun
5. The Guest List

Toronto Public Library Great Reads Vol. 3
1. The Historian
2. Case Histories
3. On Beauty
4. A Long Way Down
5. The Night Watch
6. The Birth House
7. A Map of Glass
8. Q & A

Books that Stay with You Forever:
1. Born a Crime
2. Jurassic Park
3. Falling Angels
4. Like Water for Chocolate
5. House of the Spirits
6. Sophie's Choice
7. Perfume
8. Crime & Punishment
9. Life After Life
10. A God in Ruins
11. Alias Grace
12. The Silmarillion
13. The Brothers Karamazov
14. The Historian
15. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
16. Tuesdays with Morrie
17. The Grapes of Wrath
18. All Creatures Great & Small
19. The Constant Gardener
20. Don Quixote
21. The Coming Plague
22. The Passage
23. Watership Down
24. Gone With the Wind
25. Dune
26. A Tale of Two Cities
27. The Handmaid's Tale
28. The Two Towers
29. The Road
30. Clockwork Angel
31. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
32. In Cold Blood
33. Tess of the D'Urbervilles

True Crime
Books
1. I'll be Gone in the Dark
2. In Cold Blood
3. Lost Girls
4. Bad Blood
5. Portrait of a Killer

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message 31: by Sam F (last edited Dec 16, 2023 11:39AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:15AM

Around the World Challenge:

1st Leg: North America
Canada:
Quebec - The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War
Ontario - Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion, The Marrow Thieves
Alberta - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
Manitoba -
Newfoundland - Our Homesick Songs
Northwest Territories -
Nova Scotia - The Girl from the Sea
British Columbia - Lucky Man
Prince Edward Island -
Saskatchewan - Five Little Indians

Mexico: - Mexican Gothic

USA:
Alaska -
Arizona -
California - Strangers She Knows
Colorado -
Conneticut - A Wrinkle in Time
Florida - Dexter's Final Cut
Georgia - Killing Floor
Illinois - Native Son
Indiana -
Kansas -
Kentucky - Prodigal Summer
Louisiana - An American Marriage
Maine - The Other Mrs.
Maryland - Publishable By Death
Massachusetts - Love You More
Michigan -
Minnesota -
Mississippi - Sing, Unburied, Sing
Missouri - Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health
Montana - Die Trying
Nebraska - Switch
Nevada -
New Hampshire - The Storyteller
New Jersey - Tithe
New Mexico - The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
New York - Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
North Carolina - Where the Crawdads Sing
Ohio -
Oklahoma -
Oregon -
Pennsylvania - The Dutch House
South Carolina -
South Dakota -
Tennessee - Wise Blood
Texas - Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Utah -
Vermont - The Secret History
Virginia - Jazz
Washington, DC - State of Terror
Washington - When You Trap a Tiger
Wisconsin -
Wyoming -

Britain:

London - Lord Edgware Dies
Cambridge - Case Histories
Cornwall - Jamaica Inn
Hampshire - Watership Down
Herefordshire - Flush
Surrey - Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Cotswolds - Agatha Raisin: The Quiche of Death & The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin series)

2nd Leg: South America & Caribbean
Argentina - Mouthful of Birds
Brazil -
Chile - A Long Petal of the Sea
Cuba - The Old Man and the Sea
Ecuador - The Bookseller: Stories
Grenada -
Paraguay - Travels with My Aunt
Peru -
St. John -
Turks & Caicos -

3rd Leg: Europe
Belarus -
Croatia - Murder on the Orient Express
Denmark -
France - Parenthesis
Finland - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
Germany - Lilac Girls
Greece - Going Greek
Iceland -
Ireland - Conversations with Friends
Italy - Whereabouts
Mallorca - The Vacationers
Monaco - Three Act Tragedy
Poland - Kane & Abel
Portugal -
Romania -
Scotland -
Spain - Ashes
Sweden - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
Switzerland -
Turkey - The Iliad
Ukraine - The Diamond Eye
Wales -

4th Leg: Middle East
Afghanistan -
Iraq -
Iran - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Lebanon -
Oman -
Palestine - The Innocents Abroad
Syria - The Map of Salt and Stars

5th Leg: Africa -
Botswana - The Full Cupboard of Life
Burundi -
Congo -
Djibouti - The Catch
Equatorial Guinea -
Egypt - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement
Kenya -
Libya -
Nigeria - My Sister, the Serial Killer
Senegal -
Sierra Leone - The Book of Negroes
Somalia - Infidel
South Africa - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Zimbabwe -

6th Leg: Asia
Afghanistan -
Cambodia -
China -
Hong Kong -
India -
Japan - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Kashmir -
Malaysia -
Nepal -
Pakistan - The Night Diary
Phillipines -
Russia - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014
Siberia -
South Korea - Please Look After Mom
Sri Lanka -
Syria -
Tahiti -
Tibet -
Turkey -
Vietnam -

7th Leg: Australia & Oceania
Brisbane -
Melbourne - Graffiti Moon
Queensland -
Sydney -
New South Wales -
New Zealand -
Tasmania -

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message 32: by Sam F (last edited Sep 24, 2023 05:57AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:17AM

You'll Love This One Book Challenge:"

Puzzle 1

- 1. Four letters: Filled tortilla - (Taco - hide spoiler) -First made by the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica before colonization, tortillas are a cornerstone of Mesoamerican cuisine.
Read a book set in Mexico. - Mexican Gothic
- 2. Two words, total 6 letters: Town Crier's words - [Hear Ye (hide spoiler)] - We often associate town criers with the 18th century.
Read a book that is MPG Historical Fiction and set in England. - The White Queen
- 3. Six letters: University Grounds - [Campus (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that is set at a university or boarding school. - Dear Martin
- 4. Two words, 13 letters: Snack Food Gadget - [Popcorn Popper (hide spoiler)] - There are 5 P's in Popcorn Popper.
Read a book that is included in a series of 5 primary works series - The Catch
- Five letters: San Antonio Shrine - [ Alamo (hide spoiler)] - Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution.
Read a book set in Texas - The Four Winds, Holes, Texas! Sage
- 6. Six letters: Photographer's Device - [Camera (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a photograph on the cover. -

- 7. Two words, 15 letters: Coffee Gadget - [Espresso Machine (hide spoiler)] - It's a coffee-brewing method of Italian origin.
Read a book set in Italy. - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement
- 8. Five letters: Rodeo Rope - [Lasso (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a significant character that is a cowboy. - Xanax Cowboy: Poems
- 9. Five letters: Vessel that is paddled - [Canoe (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a boat of any kind on the cover. - Hunt for Red October, Jamaica Inn, Sea of Monsters, Cup of Gold, The Million Dollar Bond Robbery,

- 10. Three letters: Salty body of water - [Sea (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with "sea" in the title. - A Long Petal of the Sea

Puzzle 2

- 1. Six letters: 21st Century - [ Modern (hide spoiler)]
The 21st Century began on 1 January 2001 and will end on 31 December 2100.
Read a book that is set in the 21st century. Yes, it may be set in the future, if it takes places prior to December 2100. - The Age of Miracles
- 2. Four letters: Julius Caesar garment - [Toga (hide spoiler)] - By the second century AD the territory of the Roman Empire covered the area occupied by the following modern-day countries: England, Wales, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Rumania, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Israel, Lebanon, Tunisia and parts of Germany, the Soviet Union, Morocco, Algeria, Syria and Egypt. It has been estimated that in the second century AD about 54 million people lived in the Roman Empire.
Read book about the Roman Empire. It may be set in any of the aforementioned countries. For example it could be set in England when they occupied England. but it must be about the Roman Empire, not just the setting. The Skystone is a good example. - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1
- 3. Four letters; Jacket Sleeves - [Arms (hide spoiler)].
Read a book with one person on the cover. Both arms must be showing.

- 4. Two words, total 4 letters: Top Rated - [A One (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a higher than 4.1 average rating on Goodreads. - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
- 5. Four letters: Agent 007's last name - [Bond (hide spoiler)]
James Bond always introduced himself "Bond, James Bond"
Read a book with duplicated (or more) words in the title. Articles such as 'the', and conjoiners like 'and' are not included. eg - Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen. - Sing, Unburied, Sing
- 6. Five letters: Santa _____ is coming to town - [Claus (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a Christmas theme. - Hercule Poirot Christmas, Christmas Shopaholic, Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, The Cricket of the Hearth, The Adventure of the Blue Carbunkle, A Dog Named Christmas, Wishin' & Hopin', Little Lord Fauntleroy, You Better Not Cry, Stuart Mclean, Christmas at Fairacre, Visions of Sugar Plums

- 7. Two words, total of 8 letters: Beefy ingredient in goulash - [stew meat. (hide spoiler)]
- The best (and least expensive) beef stew meat comes from the front shoulder, also known as the chuck. The rear muscle (also called the round) would definitely make a great stew, but we like chuck better because it has more connective tissue.

Read a book with shoulder or round in the title. - The Round House,

- 8. Five letters: Part of a Lincoln costume - [Beard (hide spoiler)] - Most notable things required for a Lincoln's costume is a fake beard or Top hat.

Read a book with a beard - or top hat on the cover.

- 9. Two words , 9 letters total: Short hiking shoe - [Ankle Boot (hide spoiler)]

Read a book with an ankle clearly showing on the cover. -

- 10. Five letters: Grownup - [Adult (hide spoiler)]
Read a book from the first 5 pages of this list. It must be tagged as "adult" on the main book page. - Daisy Jones & the 6, The 7 Husbands of Evelyn..., Da Vinci Code, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, The Silent Patient, A Man Called Ove, The Secret History, The Starless Sea, Crazy Rich Asians, Educated, The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Storied Life of AJ Firky, The Bell Jar, Dune, Mr Penumbra's..., The Casual Vacancy, Project Hail Mary, The Two Towers, Pachinko, Persuasion, My Sister the Serial Killer, Stardust, Bear Town, Homegoing, Born a Crime, In The Woods, The Great Alone, Can You Keep a Secret,

Puzzle 3

- 1. Two words, total 10 letters: Coal or natural gas - [Fossil Fuel (hide spoiler)] - In 2019, 84% of primary energy consumption in the world and 64% of its electricity was from fossil fuels.The large-scale burning of fossil fuels causes serious environmental damage.
Read a book about the environment. - Prodigal Summer
- 2. Six letters: Dictator - [Tyrant (hide spoiler)]
When I googled "which countries are dictatorships", Russia was the first on the list.
Read a book set in Russia. - Mirror Image
- 3. Three words, total 15 letters: Crack up after a joke - [Bust out laughing (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a main page genre of humour. - Plum Lucky
- 4. Four letters: Elm or Eucalyptus - [Tree (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with the name of a tree in the title from this site - http://bhort.bh.cornell.edu/tree/list.... Note, you may only use the name of a tree, You may not use any descriptors (like black, white, American, slippery, etc. - The Wild Palms, Anne of Windy Poplar, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Lilac Girls
- 5. Five letters: Atmospheric layer - [Ozone (hide spoiler)] - The ozone layer sits in the stratosphere between 15 km and 30 km above the earth and shields us and other living things from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. Ozone layer depletion could have serious effects on human health and the environment.
Read a book where someone is protecting someone else. Explain how they are protecting someone else. - Tithe

- 6. Four letters: 50% - [Half (hide spoiler)]

Read a book that is number 50 on your TBR or other personal shelf. Specify which shelf it's on. If you don't have a shelf that big, obtain permission from another member to use theirs. - Embracing the Wide Sky

- 7. Two words, total 8 letters: Begin a journey - [set forth (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where the main character sets forth on a major journey. - The Map of Salt and Stars
- 8. Four letters: Three hours before noon - [Nine (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that is the third - Strangers She Knows or ninth book in a series. - Murder on the Orient Express

- 9. Five letters: Cairo's country - [Egypt (hide spoiler)]

Read a book set in ancient Egypt. - River God, The Quest, The Seventh Scroll, Warlock, The Odyssey, The Aeneid,

- 10. Four letters: Entryway - [Door (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a large door on the cover. Must be the focus of the cover. - Scarlet Feather, Caught, The Kindness of Strangers?, The Forgotten Garden,

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message 33: by Sam F (last edited Nov 28, 2023 04:51PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:17AM

Puzzle 4

1. Five letters: Artist Picasso - [Pablo (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a significant character who is a painter. - The Girl You Left Behind
2. Nine letters: To be ironed - [Unpressed (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a character who is a maid servant whose responsibilities would include ironing clothing. - The Dutch House
3. Four letters: Barnyard Bellows - [Baas, (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with one or more of the following barnyard animals on the cover - Chickens, Cattle, Sheep, Ducks, Goats, or Pigs - All Things Wise & Wonderful,

4. Seven letters: Environmental removal - [Erosion (hide spoiler)]
Tourism puts enormous stress on local land use and can lead to soil erosion.
Read a book with the theme of tourism. - The Innocents Abroad
5. Four letters: Letters after Q - [RSTU (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where all the initials of the author are included in RSTU in any order. You may not duplicate letters as in Ron Rash. A good acceptable answer would be example would be Sarah Rayne. - Conversations with Friends
6. Seven letters: Materializes - [Emerges (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that is a coming-of-age story. - Middlesex, White Teeth, Call Me by Your Name, Tipping the Velvet, The Secret History, Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Infinite Jest, Ender's Game, The Waves, The Bell Jar, Where the Crawdads Sing, Hello Beautiful, The Great Alone, Huck Finn, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Tale of 2 Cities, A Wizard of Earthsea, Our Town, The Name of the Rose, Narcissus & Goldmund, Like Water for Chocolate, Gone With the Wind, House Rules, Beloved, Orlando, Go Set A Watchman, Cat's Eye, Jazz, Of Love & Shadows,
7. Five letters: Ribs, for example - [Bones (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with Bone(s) in the title. - City of Bones, An Echo in the Bone, A Conspiracy of Bones, Children of Blood & Bone, A Conspiracy of Bones
8. Five letters: Alphabet intro - [ABCDE (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where the first letter of the title (not including articles) starts with ABCDE. - Conscious Crafts: Knitting: 20 mindful makes to reconnect head, heart hands

9. Two words, total 10 letters: Capital of Nevada - [Carson City (hide spoiler)]

Read a book set in Nevada. - The Stand, Diamonds are Forever, R is for Ricochet, The Heist,

10. Four letters: Aussie Hoppers - [Roos (hide spoiler)]
Roos is a word with multiple origins. In Dutch, Low German, Swiss German and Estonian “Roos” means “Rose. Climbing roses are commonly grown in South Australia. Read a book with a wreath of flowers or a hedge of flowers on it. There may also be a flower bed full of flowers. -

Murder on an Irish Farm (Irish Village Mystery, #8) by Carlene O'Connor

Puzzle 5

1. Five letters: Spherical Map - [Globe (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that is set in at least 3 different countries across the globe. - Kane & Abel
2. Three words, total 13 letters: Degree of uncertainty - [Margin of error (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that contains the word - error, mistake, or perfect in the title.- One Perfect Lie
3. Four letters: Any of 52 in a deck - [Card (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that has at least one playing card on the cover. - Cards on the Table, Casino Royale, A Line to Kill,

The Affair of the Pink Pearl by Agatha Christie

4. Four letters: Partner at a prom - [Date (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that is main page genre of young adult. - Switch

5. Four letters: Copenhagen citizen - [Dane (hide spoiler)]

Read a book set in Denmark, or written by a Danish author. - Hamlet, Number the Stars, Smilla's Sense of Snow, The Virgin Blue,

6. Four letters: Volcano flow - [Lava (hide spoiler)]

Read a book where there is a volcano in the story or there is a volcano on the cover.

7. Five letters: Mountain chain - [Ridge (hide spoiler)]

By nearly any measure, Bhutan is the world's most mountainous country. Bhutan’s average elevation is 10,760 feet and mountains cover 98.8% of its total area. The Northern parts of Bhutan are dominated by the Greater Himalayas, with the highest point being Gangkhar Puensum at 24,840 feet above sea level.

Read a book that is set in the Himalayans ( India, Pakistan - The Night Diary, China, Bhutan, Nepal)

8. Five letters: Adorable child - [Cutie (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with Child in the title or author's name is Child. - Killing Floor
9. Seven letters: Meeting Schedule - [Agenda (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where the main character is a businessman - Shopaholic Ties the Knot or businesswoman. - Beach Town
10. Four letters: Highway part -[Lane (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a road on the cover where the lanes can clearly be identified. -

Puzzle 6

1. Four letters: Sound of a dog's bark - [Woof (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a dog as a significant character. - Flush
2. Five letters: Jeans Fabric - [Denim (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with someone wearing jeans on the cover. -

3. Five letters: Gem Surface - [Facet (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with the name of a gem in the title Use this list: https://www.britannica.com/list/9-gem.... - The Diamond Eye
4. Four letters: Castle's watery ring - [Moat (hide spoiler)]
The country with the most castles is Germany! It's thought that Germany has around 25,000 castles within its borders.
Read a book set in Germany. - Perfume, The Tin Drum, Beneath the Wheel, The Accidental Adventures of...100.., Baumgartner's Bombay, - What the Night Sings
5. Five letters: Mile-a-second speed - [Sixty (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that was set in the 60's of any century (1960's, 1860's, 1760's etc.) Future 60's will be allowed (2060's) - The Queen's Gambit

6. Four letters: Great Lake - [Erie (hide spoiler)]

The largest city on Lake Erie is Cleveland, Ohio.

Read a book set in Ohio. - The Bluest Eye, Mr Mercedes, Beloved, Ready Player Two, Sula,

7. Four letters: School room furniture - [Desk (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where there is a character that is a teacher. - This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
8. Two words, total 10 letters: Small rug at the entryway's floor - [Welcome mat (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where the initials of the author are W and M (in any order - Fresh Ink
9. 12-down, 5 letters: Typefaces - [Fonts (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where the title is in a script font on the cover. - Cannot be fonts that are italics. It must look like handwriting. -

10. Five letters: Flower stalk - [Stems (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where the cover has flowers WITH stems -

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message 34: by Sam F (last edited Oct 24, 2023 01:45PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:17AM

Puzzle 7

1. Two words, total 15 letters: Plugged in bedding - [Electric Blankets (hide spoiler)] - The first crude electric blankets were introduced in the early 1900s and the first electric blanket was sold in the US in 1946.
Read a book set between 1901 and 1946. - Native Son

2. Five letters: Fire Department Leader - [Chief (hide spoiler)]

Read a book where a main character is a fireman.

3. Five letters: Bread that is browned - [Toast (hide spoiler)] - One of the first references to toast in print is in a recipe for Oyle Soppys (flavoured onions stewed in a gallon of stale beer and a pint of oil) from 1430. In the 1400s and 1500s, toast was discarded or eaten after it was used as a flavoring for drinks.
Read a book with a type of liquor in the title. - Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits

4. Seven letters: Thick-fabric sleepwear - [Flannel (hide spoiler)] - The origins of flannel fabric can be traced back to late seventeenth-century Wales.

Read a book set in Wales or written by a Welsh author.

5. Four letters: With no decoration - [Bare (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where the cover has only the title and author's name. -

6. Four letters: Frisbee shape - [Disc (hide spoiler)] - A company designer, Ed Headrick, patented the design for the modern Frisbee in December 1967.

Read a book with Ed or Edward as a main character - or author - The Known World

7. Four letters: Small mountain - [Hill (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with Hill in the title or is the author's name. - The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Book of Negroes
8. 11-down, 5 letters: Verse writers - [Poets (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with mpg of poetry. -

9. Three letters: Rustic Hotel - [Inn (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with Inn in the title or subtitle, - Jamaica Inn, The Forsaken Inn
10. Three letters: Initial meaning "alias" - [AKA (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where the author writes under a pseudonym. State the author's name and pseudonym. - Lucky Man

Puzzle 8

1. Five letters Old West pursuit party -[ Posse (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with mpg of Western. - Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
2. Three words, total 6 letters|: Be Right with you - [In a Sec (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a measure of time in the title - ex. Sec, second, minute, etc. - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
3. Two words, total 14 letters: Passenger plane staffer - [Flight Attendant (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where a flight attendant is a character - doesn't need to be a main character, but not just a mention. - Death in the Clouds
4. Two words, total 11 letters: Letter deliverer - [Mail Carrier (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where a letter has a significant role. IE letters back and forth, found letters are significant to story. - The Bookseller: Stories

5. Five letters: Accused's Excuse - [Alibi (hide spoiler)]

Read a book that it is a legal thriller Both words must be on the MBP.

6. Six letters: Store's customer - [Patron (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a store front on the cover. -

Publishable By Death (St. Marin's Cozy Mystery #1) by A.C.F. Bookens

7. Four letters: Minneapolis or Miami - [City (hide spoiler)]
Read a book set in a city that begins with the letter M. - Dexter's Final Cut
8. Five letters: Not in a million years - [Never (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where the author's last name starts with an n, and whom you've never read before. - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
9. Six letters: Horror movie menace- [ Zombie (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with genre dystopia and tagged zombies. Both words must be on the MBP. - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
10. Five letters: Gown for example - [Dress (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with someone wearing a gown on the cover. -

Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4) by Marissa Meyer

Puzzle 9

1. Two words, total 7 letters: Stayed out of sight - [Laid Low (hide spoiler)} -
Best way to say out of sight it to be invisible
Read a book with Invisible in the title. - [book:The Invisible Circus|122986]
2. Seven letters: Wild West Bars -spoiler>Saloons
Read a book that has a bar or saloon featured in it. - The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
3. Two words, total 7 letters: Ruby or Crimson - [Dark Red (hide spoiler)]
Read a book whose cover is 75% dark red. - And Thereby Hangs a Tale

4. Six letters: Rosebush stickers - [Thorns (hide spoiler)]

Read a book with thorns on the cover or in the title.

5. Five letters: Untrue - [False (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with an unreliable narrator. href="https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6... of books for ideas. - The Fight Club, The Secret History, Crime & Punishment, Alias Grace, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Blind Assassin, As I Lay Dying, The Tin Drum, Presumed Innocent, The Silent Patient, Cat's Eye, Middlesex, When We Were Orphans, Surfacing, Jazz, Moriarty, Barney's Version, In a Dark Dark Wood, The Queen's Gambit, Project Hail Mary, Jacob I Have Loved,
6. Four letters: Fence opening - [Gate (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a gate on the cover or in the title. -

7. Five letters: Londoners informally - [Brits (hide spoiler)]
Read a book written by a British author. - A Room of One's Own
8. Five letters: Pacific or Atlantic - [Ocean (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that is set in the ocean on a ship - The Catch or submarine. - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
9. Six letters: Smooched - [Kissed (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where a word in the title contains kiss - may be imbedded. - The Kiss Quotient
10. Seven letters: Onion or mushroom on pizza - [Topping (hide spoiler)]
Read a cozy mystery with food as the main theme. - Agatha Raisin: The Quiche of Death & The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin series)

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message 35: by Sam F (last edited Dec 16, 2023 11:41AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:18AM

Puzzle 10

1. Five letters: Of the moon - [Lunar (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with the moon on the cover or in the title. -

2. Five letters: Courage in battle - [Valor (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that is about the Civil War in the US.

3. Two words, total 15 letters: Fluffy footwear worn with robes - [Bedroom slippers (hide spoiler)]
Slippers in China date from 4700 BCE. They were made of cotton or woven rush, had leather linings, and featured symbols of power, such as dragons.
Read a book that has dragons in it. - Season of Dragons

4. Five letters: Wild guesses - [Stabs (hide spoiler)]

The word "stabs" makes me think of knives.
Read a book with has a knife on the cover. Tableware not included. It must be a weapon.

5. Four letters: Leave the pier in a ship - [Sail (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a ship on the cover that is flying its sails. -

6. Eight letters: Unmarried guy - [Bachelor (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where a significant character is a bachelor or bachelorette - N is for Noose. The character must remain unmarried through the entire book. - The Vacationers
7. Four letters: Inhales quickly in surprise - [Gasp (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where there are significant plot twists, as explained in the book blurb. - The Storyteller

8. Four letters: Birds that hoot -[Owls (hide spoiler)]

People generally consider owl as symbols of wisdom and knowledge, thanks to the endless owl mythology and folklore references.
Read a book from this list: Symbolism Books - The Lost Symbol, DaVinci Code, The Alchemist, The Trial,

9. Two words, total 8 letters: Where a hotel's lifeguard is stationed - >spoiler>Pool area
Read a book from a this list.: Swimmy Titles - A Monk Swimming, The Swimmers
10. Five letters: A Person from Stockholm - [Swede (hide spoiler)]
Read a book set in Sweden or written by a Swedish author. - The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries

Puzzle 11

1. Three words, total 15 letters: 21, by multiplying - [Seven times Three (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that is numbered 7th in a series.

2. Six letters: Playful Pranks - [Antics (hide spoiler)]
Read a book from this list Jesters, Fools, and Tricksters - The Lies of Loch Lamora, King Lear, The Queen's Fool, Lady Susan,

3. Three words, total 15 letters: 21, by adding - [ Sixteen plus five (hide spoiler)]
Read a book set in the 16th century (1501-1600) - The Orenda

4. Four letters: January to December - [Year (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that was/is a new release in 2023. - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook
5. Five letters: Martian, for example - [Alien (hide spoiler)]
Read a book where a significant character is an alien (may be angels/demons too). May not be a fantasy world. - Earth & Sky

6. Two words, total 6 letters: Start of a play - [Act One (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that is tagged as "play". - Travels with My Aunt

7. Six letters: Big city in Massachusetts - [Boston (hide spoiler)]
Read a book set in Boston.

8. Five letters: Young dog - [Puppy (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a puppy or a dog on the cover. -

And a Dog Called Fig Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life by Helen Humphreys

9. Four letters: Underground home for bats - [Cave (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with "Cave" or "Bat" in the title. - on cover -

Firewing (Silverwing, #3) by Kenneth Oppel

10. Four letters: Auto's Wheel Bar - [Axel (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a car on the cover. At least one wheel must be pictured. -

Three Thousand Dollars Stories by David Lipsky

Puzzle 12

1. Two words, total 15 letters: Urban local for borrowing books - [Library Branches (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that shows shelves or stacks of books on the cover. -

The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick

2. Four letters: Actor Pitt - [Brad (hide spoiler)]
Read a book written by an author with the initials BP or PB. - This World We Live In
3. Two words, total 14 letters: Time off work for new moms -[ Maternity Leave (hide spoiler)]
Read a book that has a pregnant a character - Love You More or a new born baby in it. - Going Greek

4. Three words, total 15 letters: "More fun than" bunch - [Barrel of monkies (hide spoiler)]
Types of monkeys - snow, bald, black, Barbary, spider, blue, emperor,
Read a book with one of the aforementioned words in the title. Monkey is another word you may use. - Blue Sky White Stars

5. Six letters: Pieces of broken glass - [Shards (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with something broken in pieces on the cover. -

6. Six letters: Overcooked, as a steak - [Burned (hide spoiler)]

Witchcraft was a felony in both England and its American colonies, and therefore witches were hanged, not burned. However, witches’ bodies were burned in Scotland, though they were strangled to death first.
Read a book about the persecution of witches.

7. Five letters: Titled British Women - [Dames (hide spoiler)]
Read a book with a female title in the title (dame, Lady, Duchess) - Red Queen
8. Five letters: Insect attacks - [Bites (hide spoiler)]
Insects can be carriers of diseases, most notably malaria. Malaria is mostly concentrated in Africa.
Read a book set in Africa - The Full Cupboard of Life

9. Four letters: Wyatt of the Old West - [Earp (hide spoiler)]

Earp arrived in the silver-mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona, in 1879, and eventually found periodic work as a law officer. The famous gunfight took place on the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a lot behind the OK Corral.
Read a book set in Arizona.

10. Five letters: Himalayan nation - [Nepal (hide spoiler)]

The Constitution of Nepal was adopted in 2015.
Read a book originally publishing in 2015. - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting

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message 36: by Sam F (last edited Dec 16, 2023 11:41AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:22AM

GENRE BINGO CHALLENGE:

B1: Thriller - Strangers She Knows
B2: Fantasy - Animal Farm
B3: LGBTQIA+ - Nothing Burns as Bright as You
B4: Children's - The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story
B5: Adventure - Switch

I1: Slasher - Smokin' Seventeen
I2: Historical Fiction - The Dutch House
I3: Gothic - Mexican Gothic
I4: Nonfiction - Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion
I5: Contemporary - Tatouine

N1: Crime - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
N2: Anthology - Fresh Ink
N3: Free Space - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook
N4: Paranormal - Tithe
N5: Memoir - Lucky Man

G1: Victorian - Flush
G2: Travel - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement
G3: Romance - Shopaholic Ties the Knot
G4: Mystery - N is for Noose
G5: Classic - Death in the Clouds

O1: Sci-Fi - The Age of Miracles
O2: Dystopian - Glass Sword
O3: Psychological Thriller - The Woman Inside
O4: Horror - Dexter's Final Cut
O5: Cozy Mystery - Three Act Tragedy

B1 Horror:
B2 Biography: Robin
B3 Romance: Going Greek
B4 Dystopian: Parable of the Sower
B5 Family Saga: Prodigal Summer

I1 Adventure: Yellow Brick War
I2 Contemporary: The House We Grew Up In
I3 Young Adult: Long Way Down
I4 Suspense: Sail
I5 Crime: Lord Edgware Dies

N1 Memoir: The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War
N2 Chick- Lit: Shopaholic and Sister
N3 Free space: Muckross Abbey and Other Stories
N4 General Nonfiction: Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health
N5 Literary Fiction: The Secret History

G1 Historical Nonfiction: Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
G2 Paranormal - In the Forests of the Night
G3 Coming of Age: The Invisible Circus
G4 Magical Realism: Sing, Unburied, Sing
G5 Historical Fiction: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

O1 Fantasy: Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
O2 Mystery or Thriller: Mirror Image
O3 Science Nonfiction: The Mind's Eye
O4 Young Adult Fantasy: Red Queen
O5 Classic - The Queen's Gambit

Winter Bingo Template

B1: Award Winner - Killing Floor
B2: Graphic Novel - Ashes
B3: Silver Lettering -

B4: Mystery or Thriller - Love You More
B5: Current Event Related - Dear Martin

I1: Start a Series - Kane & Abel
I2: Middle Grade - Ozma of Oz
I3: Blue Cover -

I4: > 400 pages - The White Queen
I5: Personal Improvement - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time

N1: Classic - A Room of One's Own
N2: Made into a Movie - Where the Crawdads Sing
N3: FREE - Xanax Cowboy: Poems
N4: Science Fiction - A Wrinkle in Time
N5: Humor - Plum Lucky

G1: Magical Realism - Mouthful of Birds
G2: LGBTQ+ - The Marrow Thieves
G3: White Cover -

G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

O1: Published Last Year - And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
O2: Epistolary - Justice Hall
O3: Gold Lettering -

O4: Based on Mythology - The Girl from the Sea
O5: Math/Science - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Magic Squares:

A1 - Sci-Fi: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
A2 - Bio or Autobio: If You Ask Me
A3 - MC with disability: Wise Blood
A4 - Caribbean author:
A5 - Nonbinary or trans author: The Map of Salt and Stars

B1 - Food-themed: The Storyteller
B2 - Publ in last 3 years: This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
B3 - Set in Africa: The Catch
B4 - Nobel Laureate: Jazz
B5 - Book by Local author: Earth & Sky

C1 - Set in Canada - Our Homesick Songs or Canadian author: - Firewing
C2 - Classic Horror: Jamaica Inn
C3 - Sports and/or Recreation: The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
C4 - Between 100 and 200 pgs: - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting

A1) Translated from India Regional language
A2) Set on an island - The Vacationers
A3) Has character that shares your profession - The Known World
A4) Tropical setting - The Old Man and the Sea
A5) BTBA award winner or nominee -

B1) Fire, flood - The Giver of Stars or hurricane
B2) Dream vacation - The Innocents Abroad
B3) TBR book completion - Sweetbitter
B4) Central or South American author - A Long Petal of the Sea
B5) BIPOC author - Native Son

C1) Set in a Nordic country - A Man Called Ove
C2) Set in hotels, inns, guesthouses etc - The Girl You Left Behind
C3) An African classic
C4) Nonfiction history - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
C5) LBGTQ character - Hello Beautiful

D1) Published in the year you were born - Travels with My Aunt
D2) 2 books set in adjacent countries - Take a Hint, Dani Brown, Conversations with Friends
D3) Planes trains - Murder on the Orient Express & automobiles -

D4) Polar setting - The Diamond Eye
D5) Fewer than 1,000 Goodreads ratings - The Bookseller: Stories

E1) Pacific Islander author -
E2) History mystery set before 1900 - The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
E3) Fairytale or folklore - When You Trap a Tiger
E4) Set during a war - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1
E5) More than 500 pages - The Iliad

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message 37: by Sam F (last edited Dec 04, 2023 05:32PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:28AM

TBR JAR CHALLENGE:

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. - Fall of the Giants,

2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. - Perfume, The Virgin Blue, Cooked, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Our Town, The Onion Field, Pachinko, The Electrical Field, Agatha Christie A Biography, The Power House, A History of Civilizations, The Templars, To Have & Have Not, Beyond Good & Evil, The Aeneid, The Odyssey, A Tale of Two Cites, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, In Custody, Crime & Punishment, Thinking Fast & Slow, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, The Lost Girls,

3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR - Infinite Jest, or one that is over 500 pages. - Robin

4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. - French Toast, All For the Love of You: A Short Story from Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War

5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born. - A History of Civilizations, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Incomparable Atuk, A Wrinkle in Time

6. Read the 20th book on any page of your TBR. - The Freedom Writer's Diary

7. Read a book that has an average rating of 3.8 or higher. - Braiding Sweetgrass, Written in my Own Heart's Blood, Educated, The Book of Negroes, An Echo in the Bone, All Things Wise & Wonderful, A Man Called Ove, The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Winter of the World, Sherlock Holmes, A Fine Balance, The Brothers Karamazov, Bury Your Dead, The Struggle is My Life, Cutting for Stone, Pachinko, Daughters are Forever, Fall of Giants, The Last of the Breed, The Storyteller, Crime & Punishment, The Orenda, Narcissus and Goldmund, Shake Hands with the Devil, Prisoner of Tehran, They Poured Fire on Us..., , The God of the Hive, Necessary as Blood, Pay it Forward, Sophie's Choice, The Brain that Changes Itself, Outliers, Thinking Fast & Slow, Barney's Version, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Steve Jobs, The Spark, The Freedom Writer's Diary, Infidel, The Name of the Rose, The Forgotten Garden, The Secret Keeper, An Anthropologist on Mars, Leaves of Grass, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., The Onion Field, The Library at Mount Char, Long Beach Wild, The Golem & the Jinni, The Lemon Tree, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Cane River, Cooked, Dead Simple, The Botany of Desire, When You are Engulfed in Flames, Mudbound, 100 Days, Family Furnishings, Hamlet, Family Matters, Perfume, The Birth House, Plan B, Middlesex, Here Comes Trouble, The Manticore, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Girl You Left Behind, Born Adventurer, Prodigal Summer, 100 Secret Senses, Inside the O'Briens, Beyond Good & Evil, The Woman in White, The Tipping Point, The Grapes of Wrath, The Glass Palace, All My Puny Sorrows, Lucky Man, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Already Home, T is for Trespass, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, David & Goliath, One Plus One, The Simarillion, Blink, Angels Game , The Beach, The Beauty of Humanity Movement, A God in Ruins, The Piano Man's Daughter, The Mind's Eye, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Agatha Christie Biography, Sweetland, Mr Nice, Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time, Glass Sword

8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases

9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user. - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

10. Read a book with a cover you love. -

11. Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. -

12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. - Steve Jobs

13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title - Dexter's Final Cut or author name. - N is for Noose

14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list). - Mercy Among the Children

15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges. - Native Son

16. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it). - Educated

17. Read the book with the least number of ratings. - We Who Can Fly

18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it. - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

19. Read a book that you have added to at least one other shelf. - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

20. Read a book that you own. - Earth & Sky

21. Read a book that an IRL (in real life) friend, family member, or acquaintance has recommended to you. - The Known World, The Freedom Writer's Guild, The Spark, The Tipping Point, The Age of Miracles

22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read. - The Old Man and the Sea

23. Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish. - Crazy Rich Asians, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. - Killing Floor

25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. - Tithe-

26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. - The Iliad

27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page. - Hot House Flower

28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book. - Mexican Gothic

29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation. - River Cross My Heart, Agatha Christie A Biography, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., The Other Mrs.

30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme. - Parenthesis

31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR. - Watership Down

32. Read a book that is retelling or reimagining of a classic story or the classic itself. - Winter

TBR Jar Challenge

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message 38: by Sam F (last edited Dec 14, 2023 04:59PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:28AM

Aliens, Aliens, Aliens:

1. The Great Gazoo
👽Read a book with a green cover (min 50%) -

OR
👽Read a book with a Doomsday Device or Doomsday scenario - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

2. The "Mars Attacks" Martians
👽Read a book where someone is being attacked - A Good Hanging
OR
👽Read a book tagged comedy or humor - Robin

3. E.T.
👽Read a book with all the letters of SECRET in the title/subtitle - The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden
OR
👽Read a book where someone is spying on someone else - The Woman Inside

4. Marvin the Martian
👽Read a book set on Mars
OR
👽Read a book with someone wearing a uniform of any kind on the cover -

Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) by Orson Scott Card

5. Chewbacca
👽Read a book with a warrior character - The Orenda
OR
👽Read a book from the Books About Bad Boys-Smugglers and Pirates list

6. Groot
👽Read a book with a tree on the cover -

A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes, #1) by Brittany Cavallaro

OR
👽Read a book with the author's initials in HERO

7. Superman
👽Read a book from the Super Hero Books list
OR
👽Read a book with a journalist - What the Night Sings

8. Stitch
👽Read a book with an evil character (your interpretation) - Die Trying
OR
👽Read a book set in Hawaii

9. Thy'lek Shran
👽Read a book tagged military or with a military character - The Wreckage
OR
👽Read a book with a politician - Infidel

10. Yautja
👽Read a book from the Dark Obsession and Stalker Books list
OR
👽Read a book from the Kidnapped! list - Back Spin

11. Teek
👽Read a book with a playful character (your interpretation) - And Thereby Hangs a Tale
OR
👽Read a book with all the letters TEEK in the title - My Sister, the Serial Killer

12. Wicket
👽Read a book from the Swords and Warriors list
OR
👽Read a book where someone is defeated - Dear Justyce

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message 39: by Sam F (last edited Dec 24, 2023 09:11AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:37AM

A Bakers Dozen Menu for the 2022 Buffet:

Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2. The Brothers Karamazov
3. The Woman in White

1900-1999/New School
4. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
5. The Name of the Rose
6. The Kitchen God's Wife

My Wild Card Six
7. The Odyssey
8. A Tale of Two Cities
9. Hamlet
10. The Grapes of Wrath
11. When We Were Orphans
12. Good Morning Midnight

Alternates
A-1. The Bourne Ultimatum
A-2. The Prime of Ms. Jean Brodie

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
-go back through the groups past polls and select seven (7) total books that are of interest to you but lost the poll

New School
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2. Perfume the Story of a Murderer

Old School
1. A Tale of Two Cities
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Short Story/Novella
1. Hound of the Baskervilles
2. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Quarterly Long Read
1. A Fine Balance

Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge

My Century Challenge, Authors-Some Old Some New:

1830-1839
1840-1849
1850-1859 -
1860-1869 - The Innocents Abroad
1870-1879
1880-1889 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
1890-1899 - The Beach of Falesá
1900-1909 - Ozma of Oz
1910-1919 -
1920-1929 - A Room of One's Own
1930-1939 - Lord Edgware Dies
1940-1949 - Native Son
1950-1959 - Wise Blood
1960-1969 - A Wrinkle in Time
1970-1979 - Kane & Abel
1980-1989 - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
1990-1999 - N is for Noose

Decade Challenge:

1960 -
1961 -
1962 - A Wrinkle in Time
1963 -
1969 - Travels with My Aunt

1983 - The Queen's Gambit
1985 - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
1986 -
1987 -
1988 -
1989 - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time

1990 -
1991 - Texas! Sage
1992 - Jazz
1993 - Parable of the Sower
1994 - The Invisible Circus
1995 - Mirror Image
1997 - Killing Floor
1998 - N is for Noose
1999 - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases

1920-
1921-The Narrow House by Evelyn Scott
1922-by Hermann Hesse
1923-Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
1924-A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
1925-The Professor's House by *Willa Cather
1926-
1927- 1928-Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
1929- A Room of One's Own

The Millennium Challenge:
Example: (Millennium Challenge)

20th Century - 1952 - Wise Blood
19th Century - 1869 - The Innocents Abroad
18th Century - 1720 Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe
17th Century - 1684 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
16th Century - 1593 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
15th Century - 1438 The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
14th Century - 1353 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
13th Century - 1298 The Travels by Marco Polo
12th Century - 1150 The Life of Merlin by Geoffrey of Monmouth
11th Century - 1001 The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge

1. 19th Century - The Innocents Abroad
2. 20th Century - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
3. 21st Century Potential Future Classic - Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
4. Current or Past Group Read - Murder on the Orient Express, Portrait of an Artist..., Hunger, The Prime of Ms Jean Brodie, The Windup Bird Chronicle, Like Water for Chocolate, Pillars of the Earth, As I Lay Dying, Hamlet, A Wizard of Earthsea, Tender is the Night, A Room of One's Own, Alias Grace, The Odyssey, House of the Spirits, The Brothers Karamazov, Watership Down, To the Lighthouse, The Stand, Perfume, The Bell Jar, A Tale of Two Cities, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror, Handmaid's Tale, Grapes of Wrath, Crime & Punishment, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Woman in White, The Iliad, Name of the Rose,
5. An Author not read before - Kane & Abel
6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. - Native Son
7. Science Fiction - A Wrinkle in Time
8. A book originally written in a language other than your own -
9. A Banned Book - The Bluest Eye, Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, Pillars of the Earth, Lucky, Grapes of Wrath, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Like Water for Chocolate, DaVinci Code, Freedom Writers Diary, Choke, Fight Club, The 10th Circle, Gone with the Wind,
10. Nonfiction - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
11. Mystery/Crime - Lord Edgware Dies
12. Horror - Jamaica Inn or Humor - Travels with My Aunt

1. 19th Century - The Beach of Falesá
2. 20th Century - Flush
3. A book originally written in a language other than your own,
4. Current or Past Group Read - The Secret History
5. An Author not read before - Wise Blood
6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. - Jazz
7. Science Fiction/Fantasy, - Animal Farm
8. Action/Adventure - Mirror Image
9. Childrens/Young Adult, - Ozma of Oz
10. Nonfiction - A Room of One's Own
11. Mystery/Thriller, - Killing Floor
12. Horror or Humor - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge

Read 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year.

1. The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
2. Flush
3. A Room of One's Own
4. Wise Blood
5. Ozma of Oz
6. Jazz
7. Animal Farm
8. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
9. In the Forests of the Night
10. Three Thousand Dollars
11. The Old Man and the Sea
12. The Affair of the Pink Pearl
13. A Good Hanging
14. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
15. Travels with My Aunt
16. The Beach of Falesá
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18.
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Challenge #6 - 2022-3 Group Reads Challenge

The challenge is to read 12 of this years group selections. Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, Revisit the Shelf, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new and 12 reread books per year, giving us plenty of choices.

For example:

1. The House of Mirth
2. The Gambler
3. The Razor's Edge
4. Carmilla
5. The Old Curiosity Shop
6. Cyrano de Bergerac
7. Nausea
8. The Idiot
9. The Wasteland & Other Poems
10. Cider House Rules
11. Breakfast @ Tiffany's
12. 12 Angry Men
13. The Bell Jar

2021 Group Reads Challenge:
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
4. Ender's Game

2020 Group Reads Challenge:

Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new books per year to go on our book shelf. This challenge is to read 12 of these forty.

1. As I Lay Dying
2. Hamlet
3. Alias Grace
4. 12th Night
5. The Brothers Karamazov
6. The Stand
7. The Woman in White
8. The Grapes of Wrath

Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, male or female, from any genre or era you want.

1. Native Son
2. Kane & Abel
3. Killing Floor
4. Wise Blood
5. The Known World
6. The Iliad

Challenge #8 –Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year

List by year 1929
1. A Farewell to Arms
2. The Sound & The Fury
3. Letters to a Young Poet
4. Passing
5. The Art Spirit
6. Red Passing
7. Look Homeward Angel
8. The Seven Dials Mystery
9. Goodbye to All That
10. The Silver Key

Challenge #8 - Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?

Select 10 books from any single year of interest, then select 10 more from 100, 50, or 25 years earlier, for a total of 20 books. Pick a year of your choice and then go back in time 100, 50, or 25 years. You can use your birth year, the birth year of a child, a spouse, a parent, or any other year of interest.

Year of Choice: 1995
1. Mirror Image
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8.
9.
10.

Earlier reads: 1895, 1945, 1970
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10.

Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction

Select five different subjects of interest to you and read a fiction book and a non-fiction book about that subject. Total number of books for this challenge is ten.

Examples:

World War I
Fiction -
Non-Fiction - Somme

Women's Suffrage - A Room of One's Own
Fiction - Hagar
Non-Fiction - Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women

Space Exploration
Fiction - Space - Ender’s Game
Non-Ficton - The Right Stuff

Sea Travels/Adventures
Fiction - The Old Man and the Sea
Non-Fiction - Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea

Horses
Fiction - Black Gold, Animal Farm
Non-Fiction - The Innocents Abroad

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message 40: by Sam F (last edited Dec 24, 2023 09:12AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:38AM

Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult

Select five books from five different centuries, using the same decade for each century you select. They do not have to be consecutive centuries, but must be the same decade.

Example of five consecutive centuries:

20th Century - 1950-1959 - 1952 - Wise Blood
19th Century - 1850-1859 - 1855-Little Dorrit
18th Century - 1750-1759 - 1759-The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
17th Century - 1650-1659 - 1658-The Witch of Edmonton
16th Century - 1550-1559 - 1552-A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

20th Century - 1990-1999 - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
19th Century - 1890 - 1899 - The Beach of Falesá
18th Century - 1790 - 1799
17th Century - 1690 - 1699
16th Century - 1590 - 1599

Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories

Select five categories of your choice or use some of these sample categories. Once you make your category selections, link the categories by finding and reading an Old School (1899 or older) and a New School book (1900-1999) that contains some part or is all about your selected categories. It will be more interesting and more varied if you come up with your own categories.

A Baker's Dozen Sample Ideas:

Contains a Trial - The Secret History
Has a Murder - Lord Edgware Dies
Contains Time Travel
Set in - 4:50 from Paddington or has Winter involved
Coming of Age - The Invisible Circus
Is About a Fallen Woman - Travels with My Aunt
Set on or has The Sea involved - The Old Man and the Sea
Animals - Flush

School -
Travel

Life Changing Action
New - Kane & Abel
Old - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Survival
New - Watership Down
Old - The Beach of Falesá

A book that could make you cry
Old -
New -

Example:

Has a Murder: The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
Old - Crime and Punishment
New - Killing Floor

Contains a Trial
Old -
New - Native Son

Life Changing Action
Old - A Horseman in the Sky
New - Jamaica Inn

Coming of Age
Old - Great Expectations
New - Jazz

Travel
Old - Three Men in a Boat, The Innocents Abroad
New - Pied Piper

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message 41: by Sam F (last edited Dec 04, 2023 05:35PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:53AM

Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge

A - Jeffrey Archer
B - Melody Beattie
C - Agatha Christie
D - Daphne du Maurier
E - Jennifer Egan
F -
G - Sue Grafton
H - Homer
I -
J -
K
L - Madeleine L'Engle
M - Henning Mankell
N
O - Flannery O'Connor
P
Q
R - Jeff Rovin
S - Robert Louis Stevenson
T - Donna Tartt
U
V -
W - Richard Wright
X
Y
Z

Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge

A - A Room of One's Own
B - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
C - The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
D - Death in the Clouds
E - Ender’s Game
F - Flush
G -
H -
I - In the Forests of the Night
J - Jazz
K - Kane & Abel
L - Lord Edgware Dies
M - Murder on the Orient Express
N - Native Son
O - Ozma of Oz
P - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
Q - The Queen's Gambit
R
S - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
T - Three Act Tragedy
U
V
W - Wise Blood
X
Y
Z

Classics: The Year You Were Born and 100 Years Earlier

1969"

1. Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint

2. Mario Puzo, The Godfather

3. Jacqueline Susann, The Love Machine

4. Harold Robbins, The Inheritors

5. Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain

6. Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes

7. Penelope Ashe, Naked Came the Stranger

8. Chaim Potok, The Promise

9. Gwen Davis, The Pretenders

10. Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand

11. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

12. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying

13. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days

14. Pearl S. Buck, The Three Daughters of Madame Liang

15. John Cheever, Bullet Park

1869:

1. Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

2. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

3. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

4. Thomas Bailey Aldrich – The Story of a Bad Boy

5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Idiot

6. Alexandre Dumas, père – The Knight of Sainte-Hermine

7. Gustave Flaubert – Sentimental Education

8. Victor Hugo – The Man Who Laughs

9. Louisa May Alcott – Good Wives

10. Juliana Horatia Ewing – Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances

11. Henry Kendall – Leaves from Australian Forests

12. Mark Twain – The Innocents Abroad

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message 42: by Sam F (last edited Dec 24, 2023 09:12AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 08:55AM

Classic Bingo Challenge:

B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999 - N is for Noose
B2: Classic written in your native language - O is for Outlaw
B3: Classic of Europe - Animal Farm
B4: Classic involving art - Three Thousand Dollars
B5: Classic from your bookshelf

I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2023 - The Portrait of a young Man as an Artist, Hunger, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Death on the Nile, Like Water for Chocolate, Pillars of the Earth, As I Lay Dying, Perfume, Hamlet, A Wizard of Earthsea, Alias Grace, In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The House of the Spirits, The Odyssey, The Brothers Karamazov, Watership Down, The Stand, The Bell Jar, A Tale of Two Cities, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror, The Handmaid's Tale, The Grapes of Wrath, Crime & Punishment, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jamaica Inn, The Woman in White, Dune, Anna Karenina, The Name of the Rose, The Hound of the Baskervilles,
I2: Classic biography/autobiography or memoir
I3: Classic horror - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror or gothic - Jamaica Inn
I4: Classic comedy, satire, or humor - Travels with My Aunt
I5: Book from the group’s Favorites of 2022 - Flush-

N1: Classic of the Americas - The Old Man and the Sea
N2: Classic Western - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
N3: Reader’s Choice - Death in the Clouds
N4: Classic mystery - Three Act Tragedy or thriller
N5: Classic of Africa or Oceania

G1: Classic from a group poll that did not win - On the Beach, The Iliad
G2: Classic action or adventure - Mirror Image
G3: Classic history or historical fiction - The Invisible Circus
G4: Class fantasy or science fiction - A Wrinkle in Time
G5: Book from the Group’s 2023 Bookshelf - Into the Wild,

O1: Book Published before 1900 - The Innocents Abroad
O2: New-To-You Classic Author - Wise Blood
O3: Classic of Asia
O4: Classic in translation -
O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949 - A Room of One's Own

B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999 - In the Forests of the Night
B2: Classic written in your native language - 4:50 from Paddington
B3: Classic Science or Philosophy
B4: Classic Banned Book - Native Son
B5: A Classic NOT on Our Bookshelf that Should be There - Parable of the Sower

I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2022 - The Secret History
I2: New-To-You Classic Author - The Queen's Gambit
I3: Classic Drama or Play
I4: Classic Over 500 pages - Kane & Abel
I5: Literary Prize or Your Country or Region

N1: Classic Involving Music - Jazz
N2: Classic Mythology or Folklore
N3: Free Space - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
N4: Classic Poetry or Essay Collection
N5: Classic by an Author from a Country you didn’t Read in 2022 -

G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize - Killing Floor
G2: Book from a group poll during your birthday month -
G3: Classic Tragedy
G4: Group Bingo Participant Pick
G5: Book from the Group’s 2022 Bookshelf - Murder on the Orient Express-

O1: Book Published before 1900 -
O2: Children’s Classic - Ozma of Oz
O3: Classic Short Story Collection - The Beach of Falesá
O4: Classic in translation - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949 - Lord Edgware Dies

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message 43: by Sam F (last edited Dec 04, 2023 05:39PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 10:55AM

Around the Year in 52 Books:

THE 2023 LIST
1. A book set in a location that begins with A - Dear Justyce, T - Wise Blood, or Y
2. A book by an author you read in 2022 - Strangers She Knows
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list - see post below
4. A book with an interracial relationship - Native Son
5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover -

This Book Is Anti-Racist 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell

6. A book where books are important - The Bookseller: Stories
7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title - What the Night Sings,When You Trap a Tiger, Where the Crawdads Sing,
8. An author's debut book - The Age of Miracles
9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W - Sing, Unburied, Sing

10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" Scary - Firewing, Sporty - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu, Posh - Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Ginger -

The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

, Baby - The House We Grew Up In
11. A book about a person/character with a disability - Lucky Man
12. A book connected to birds - Mouthful of Birds, bees - Death in the Clouds, or bunnies - Watership Down
13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover -

14. A book with a con, deception, or fake - Plum Lucky
15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1 - Flush
16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2 - Love You More
17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3 - Winter

18. A book related to science - Prodigal Summer
19. A book related to the arts - Conversations with Friends
20. A book with a cover -

A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1) by Madeleine L'Engle

or title that includes a route of travel - Murder on the Orient Express
21. A book by an Asian diaspora author - Pachinko, Crazy Rich Asians, Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Family Matters, A Fine Balance, The Glass Palace, Lost in Translation, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Please Look After Mom
22. A book with a faceless person on the cover -

23. A book with a body of water in the title - A Long Petal of the Sea
24. A character that might be called a Tinker - Rules of Civility, Tailor - The Kiss Quotient, Soldier - Killing Floor, or Spy - Mirror Image
25. A book with a tropical setting - Sail
26. A book related to pride - Kane & Abel

27. A book by an author from continental Europe - Ashes
28. A book that is dark -

The Catch (Vanessa Michael Munroe #4) by Taylor Stevens

29. A book that is light -

Dexter's Final Cut (Dexter, #7) by Jeff Lindsay

30. A book related to a chess piece - Red Queen, The White Queen
31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com - Diana Gabaldon, Ken Follett, Rohinton Mistry, Marian Keyes, Jane Austen, Mario Vargas Llosa, Pablo Neruda, Jose Saramago, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, , Anne Lamott, Whereabouts, Laura Esquivel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tracy Chevalier, Margaret Atwood, Jeffrey Eugenides, Barbara Kingsolver, Amy Tan. Alice Hoffman, Anne Tyler, Wally Lamb, Sue Monk Kidd, Carol Shields, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Zora Neal Hurston

32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature - In the Woods, The Luminaries, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Bury Your Dead, On the Beach, The Angel's Game, True History of the Kelly Gang, A Good Hanging
33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923 - A Room of One's Own
34. A novella - The Full Cupboard of Life
35. A book with a school subject in the title - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

36. A book that has been translated from another language - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
37. A book with the theme of returning home - Tithe
38. A book with the sun, moon -

, or stars on the cover -

The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

39. A western - Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

40. A book with a full name in the title - Act Your Age, Eve Brown
41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Sea of Tranquility, Educated, The Anthropocene Reviewed, Daisy Jones & the 6, Homegoing, The Dutch House, Pachinko, A Great Reckoning, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, From Scratch, The Night Diary, Asymmetry, The Buried Giant, Barkskins, A Promised Land, The Splendid & the Vile,
42. A book related to a ghost - Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, spirit - The Known World, phantom, or specter - Mexican Gothic
43. A book that involves a murder - N is for Noose
44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal -

45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books - Lord Edgware Dies
46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe - Visions of Sugar Plums
47. A book related to a geometric shape -

48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story

49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 - Project Hail Mary, The Great Alone, Sea of Tranquility, Parable of the Sower, Life After Life, Pachinko, Family Matters, So You Want to Talk About Race, The Forgotten Garden, Like Water for Chocolate, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Baking Cakes in Kigali, Comfort Me With Apples, Lessons in Chemistry, Daisy Jones & the 6, Where the Crawdads Sing, Beartown, Educated, Hello Beautiful, The Sentence, The Starless Sea, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, A Trick of the Light, Faithful Place, The Mountains Sing, Perfume, 4:50 From Paddington, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry,

50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt : Award begins with W - Long Way Down

51. A book published in 2023 - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook

52. A book with an unusual - Nothing Burns as Bright as Youor surprising title - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting

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message 44: by Sam F (last edited Dec 25, 2023 09:48AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 11:05AM

Suggestions that didn't make it:

A winner or nominee from the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards - Lessons in Chemistry, Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone, The Diamond Eye
A book you wanted to read in 2022 - State of Terror
A book connected to something you read in 2022 - Strangers She Knows
A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 - Act Your Age, Eve Brown, Daisy Jones & The 6, Project Hail Mary, Comfort Me With Apples, Parable of the Sower, The Secret Keeper, Like Water for Chocolate, Pachinko, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Baking Cakes in Kigali, Sea of Tranquility, Life After Life, The Great Alone,
A book by an author no more than two degrees of separation away from you - The Marrow Thieves
A book of poetry - Xanax Cowboy: Poems or free verse - Long Way Down
A book by an author who is NOT cis, white, and male - Jazz
A book with yellow, red and white on the cover -

A work of biographical fiction - Flush
A book that can be found on Project Gutenberg - The Iliad
A book connected to Ireland - Conversations with Friends
A book involving genetics, genealogy, traits, heredity, or heritage - The Known World
A book with a shoe on the cover -

Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2) by Talia Hibbert

A book related to the characters in The Wizard of Oz - Ozma of Oz
A book that involves art - Three Thousand Dollars, music, dancing or acting - Dexter's Final Cut
A book with an animal on the cover -

A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman - Tithe
A book with a color in the title or author’s name -

A book involving genetics, genealogy, traits, heredity, heritage - The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War
A book recommended on Goodreads- East of Eden, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sweetland, Anna Karenina, Unsheltered, The Unexpected Guest, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror, Five Little Indians, The Vanishing Half, The Library of Lost & Found, The Night Watchman, The Stand, Mr Mercedes, Lessons in Chemistry, The Guest List, Sea of Tranquility,
A nonfiction nature book - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
A book with a two - Parting Shot or three word title - Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness
A book with a cat in the story - Publishable By Death, title - When You Trap a Tiger, or cover
A book that’s mentioned in the Rory Gilmore Book Challenge - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
A book with an alliterative title - N is for Noose
A book involving an "ism" - We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
A book whose the author goes by three names - The Age of Miracles
A book with a title beginning with W - What the Night Sings
A book related to dreams or dreaming
A book with a character who has a career or hobby that interests you - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting
A book involving power - The Girl Who Wrote in Silk or politics - Mirror Image
A book with at least 500,000 ratings on Goodreads - Murder on the Orient Express
A book with a female - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement or nonbinary main character who is an explorer/traveller
A book with a child protagonist - Switch
A book that is inspired by - Winter or pays homage to another story - Tatouine
2 Weeks: Two books from two different genres, that are connected in some way
- Plum Lucky
- Lucky Man
3 Weeks: A book related to a Warner Brothers film, related to a Disney film, and related to a BBC film
- Warner Bros - The Girl You Left Behind
- Disney - A Wrinkle in Time
- BBC - Case Histories
3 Weeks: Three books, each of which is set in a different century
- The Innocents Abroad
- The Catch
- This World We Live In
4 Weeks: Four books connected to each other through publication date (week 1), cover color (week 2), country setting (week 3), and title starting letter (week 4)
- 2022, blue, US, T - The Swimmers
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2 Weeks: Read a duology, or two books from a larger series
- Dear Martin
- Dear Justyce
4 Weeks: Four books, with each one related to one of the seasons
- Fall - Plum Spooky
- Winter - 4:50 from Paddington
- Spring - No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
- Summer - Hello, Summer
2 Weeks: A book set in the city, and a book set in the country
- City: Parenthesis
- Country: Our Homesick Songs
3 Weeks: Three books about Hope, Faith, and Love/Charity
- Hope - Parable of the Sower
- Faith -
- Love/Charity - The Full Cupboard of Life
2 Weeks: Two books with words that are opposites in the titles
- Sweetbitter
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3 Weeks: A book written in first person POV, second person POV, and third person POV
- I: And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
- You: Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion
- They: And Thereby Hangs a Tale
3 Weeks: Three books related to Eros (romantic love), Filios (brotherly love), Agape (god's love)
- Eros: The Kiss Quotient
-Filios: The Secret History
-Agape: The Orenda

3 Weeks: Three different books written by the same author in 3 different genres
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4 Weeks: Four books connected to each other through setting (week 1), author commonality (week 2), theme (week 3), and character commonality (week 4)
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2 Weeks: Two books related to lost and found
- The Bookseller: Stories
- The Old Man and the Sea
A book with an interracial relationship (friendship, romance, family) - Sing, Unburied, Sing
A book set in India or Pakistan - The Night Diary
A book related to one of the 12 Western astrological signs - The Pisces
A book involving hope - The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden or hopepunk
A book that is eye-opening or thought provoking - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
A book that includes a ritual or ceremony - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1
A book with one of the four seasons in the title - Prodigal Summer
A book with a character who is an orphan - Kane & Abel
A book with a pronoun in the title - Nothing Burns as Bright as You
A book with orange on the cover -

A book with a main character who is an athlete - Hello Beautiful
A book related to a recipient of Time Magazine's Person of the Year award - All the President's Men, Obama, WW2 re: Hitler, Queen Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, Apollo 8, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Bill Clinton, Roosevelt, Gandhi, Einstein, Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Vietnam War, environmental movement - Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future, financial crisis, Facebook, Me Too movement, Journalists prosecuted,
A book related to the Harlem Renaissance - Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, - Native Son
A Christmas book - Visions of Sugar Plums
A book involving wolves or werewolves - The Storyteller
A book with a character that travels as a part of their job - Death in the Clouds
A book from the first 5 books added to your TBR - Fall of Giants, The Happiness Project, Already Home, Codebreakers, Sometimes Mine
A book about a farm, a farmer, or a farming family - Animal Farm
A book about crossing over to another world - Yellow Brick War
A book that involves a moral dilemma - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror or question - Love You More
A book written by an author that is a different race and gender than you are - Fresh Ink
A book with a purple cover -

A book set in an apartment building or house - The Vacationers
A book from the Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books - The Dutch House, N-W, All My Puny Sorrows, Americanah, Sea of Poppies, Asymmetry, Middlesex, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, The Known World
A book that has won a Bookbrowse award - The Splendid & The Vile, Olive Again, Educated, Where the Crawdads Sing, Hoomegoing, A Man Called Ove, How the Light Gets In, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Cutting for Stone,
An author who lives greater than 2023 miles from you - Texas! Sage

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message 45: by Sam F (last edited Dec 25, 2023 09:49AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 11:05AM

A book with a female or nonbinary main character who is an explorer - The Girl from the Sea/traveller
A book featuring a character with paranormal - Mexican Gothic or supernatural abilities - Glass Sword
A book from the point of view of a person with a physical, sensory, learning, mental, or medical disability - The Mind's Eye
A work of fiction based on a real person or real event - A Long Petal of the Sea
A book with fruit or vegetables on the cover -

Makini's Vegan Kitchen 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook (Inspired Plant-Based Recipes from Plum Bistro) by Makini Howell

or in the title
A nominee or winner of an Australian book award - The Testaments, Boy Lost A Family Memoir, The Secret River, A Long Way From Home, Shakespeare's Wife, Graffiti Moon
A "wild" book - Devil’s Delight
A book written by two or more authors - Conscious Crafts: Knitting: 20 mindful makes to reconnect head, heart hands
A children's classic
A book with a cover you consider to be beautiful -

A book involving aspects of language, linguistics, or the spoken word - The Poet X
A book with one of the 7 most used verbs in English in the title: be, have, do, say, get, make, go - Going Greek
A book from your TBR list in a position numbered by a combination of digits from 2023 - The Singing Fire, Bury Your Dead, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, The Happiness Project, The Golem & The Jinni, The Pianoman's Daughter, A Fine Balance, Already Home, When God Was a Rabbit, The Night Villa, The Empress Letters, Death in Sicily, The Day of the Triffids, Lady of Hay, The Orchid Thief, Perfume, Thinking Fast & Slow, The Lost Girls, Pay It Forward
A book where faith is a major theme - Wise Blood
A book related to "soul"
A book celebrating the entertainment industry - City of Girls
A book in which someone is captured, taken hostage, trapped or imprisoned - Killing Floor
A book with a character who time travels - Earth & Sky
A book from the “100 Years of Popular Books on Goodreads” list - As I Lay Dying, Brave New World, Grapes of Wrath, The Bell Jar, Dune, The Bluest Eye, Salem's Lot, The Name of the Rose, The Handmaid's Tale, The Pillars of the Earth, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The Road, Educated,
A book set in more than one country - The Map of Salt and Stars
A book with a person who travels - Shopaholic and Sister
A book where an architectural element is central - The Woman Inside
A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover -

A book set in the Indian subcontinent
A book that involves a moral dilemma or question - A Room of One's Own
A book related to something lucky - Season of Dragons
A family saga - The White Queen
A book in which a main character or main subject is a member of a royal family or the nobility - Lord Edgware Dies
A book related to loneliness or isolation - A Man Called Ove
A book set in an apartment building/complex - O is for Outlaw
A book that answers the question "What if" - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
A book set during the Roaring Twenties (1920's)
A book about a character with a supernatural ability - In the Forests of the Night
A memoir
A book by an author who uses punctuation in their name - Nicola I. Campbell - Shi-shi-etko
A book about words or language, or emphasizing the spoken word -
A book by an author who has been threatened, imprisoned or otherwise persecuted because of their work - Infidel
A book related to King Tut
A book that's unlike what you usually read - Robopocalypse
A book from the NPR "Books We Love" lists - The Anthropocene Reviewed, Taste Tucci, Harlem Shuffle, The Sentence, The Night Watchman, A Promised Land, Transcendent Kingdom, The Vanishing Half, The Splendid & the Vile, Me & White Supremacy, The Freedom Artist, Hood Feminism, Mrs Everything, On the Come Up, Ginger Bread, The Testaments, Women Talking, Moneyland, Daisy Jones & the 6, My Sister, the Serial Killer, Educated, Washington Black, Eloquent Rage, The Night Diary, Glass Houses, The Radium Girls, Pachinko, The Alice Network, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Homegoing, Queen of the Night, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, A Great Reckoning, Barkskins, Sweetbitter, Swing Time, A God in Ruins, A Strangeness in My Mind, All the Bright Places, The Tsar of Love & Techno, Family Furnishings, The Republic of Imagination, The Paying Guests, How the Light Gets In, Americanah, Life After Life, From Scratch, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Doctor Sleep,
A book featuring a character who is engaged in a typically compassionate profession or career - Lilac Girls
An adventure book - Watership Down
A book with rock, paper -

or scissors on the cover
A book that is the 2nd - Die Tryingor 3rd in a series
A book related to "On the Road" - Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
A book by an author you feel you should have read by now
A well-known classic book
A book off the Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books found in Louise Endrich's The Sentence - Fire on the Mountain, All My Puny Sorrows, N-W, Americanah, Sea of Poppies, Asymmetry, Middlesex, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Buried Giant, Imago, Dawn, Adulthood Rites,
A wacky book - Mouthful of Birds
A book by an author with a 2 syllable first/given name and a 3 syllable last name/surname - Whereabouts
A book from one of the Millions Most Anticipated lists - An American Marriage
A winner or nominee of the Goodreads Choice Awards - Rules of Civility
A book with a sign (literal or figurative) on the cover -

A book featuring The Widow, the Wallflower, or the Woman Scorned - Agatha Raisin: The Quiche of Death & The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin series)
A book published at least 23 years before you were born - Three Act Tragedy
A book mainly set underground or underwater - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
A book connected to (100 years of) Hollywood, Disney or the land of Oz
A book with 500+ pages
A book about healing - Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health
A book with a character based on the literary archetypes - Scientist - First Bones, Hero, Everyman, Trickster - The Other Mrs., Maiden - , Devil - Jamaica Inn, Visionary, Jester, Warrior, Scapegoat - One Perfect Lie, Villian - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, Antihero, Tyrant, Hermit, Antagonist, Rags to Riches - Murder on an Irish Farm, Absent minded professor , Bureaucrat
A book featuring a character with a name starting with "W" - If You Ask Me
A book with an unnamed narrator or protagonist - Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
A book involving genetics or DNA
A book inspired by Sherlock Holmes - Justice Hall
A book related to game - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, set, match - The Queen's Gambit
A dark academia book
A young adult novel

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message 46: by Sam F (last edited Dec 24, 2023 09:15AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 11:24AM

A book related to comedy - Robin
A book by an author whose name is a trade or profession
A book whose author has published less than 7 (2+0+2+3) books - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014
A book by a writer honored by Queen Elizabeth II - Travels with My Aunt
A book where the chapters are named - Five Little Indians
A book including a female athlete - Back Spin
A book related to "The Five Love Languages"
A book involving journalism or journalists - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
A book set during the Roaring Twenties - The Affair of the Pink Pearl
A book that could be used for at least five of the 2023 challenge prompts
A book that involves a nomadic lifestyle
A book about someone who has been “banished” - The Beach of Falesá
A book where one of the senses plays an important part - El Deafo
A book set during a holiday - Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits
A book where a battle takes place
A book whose author has published more than 7 (2+0+2+3) books - A Good Hanging
A book using the word "wife" or "daughter" in the title
A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel -
A book related to Animal Crossing
A book about colonialism or imperialism
A book with a "fitness" connection
A book written by an author/or with a character named Elizabeth, Alexandra or Mary
A book with a secret passage
A dystopian book
A book including a justice-impacted character - The Giver of Stars or person
A book that can be found on Project Gutenberg
A book that shifts point of view with each chapter or section - Please Look After Mom
A book inspired by news from the 1950s
A book with a mostly black cover -

A Conspiracy of Bones (Temperance Brennan, #19) by Kathy Reichs

A book which includes addictive behaviour - The Invisible Circus
A book by an Asian diaspora author - Blue Sky White Stars
A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal
A book featuring a blog or a podcast
A book not set on (our) earth - Ender’s Game
A book involving friends, family, or a found family
In honor of Queen Elizabeth II, a book set in Kenya, South Africa, or Scotland
A book with an eye-catching title
A book club read -
A book that provides a view of the future
A book with a door on the cover -

A book from a genre that starts with any letter in your name
A book one of your Goodreads friends is reading
A book related to a poem
A book with an echo
A book set in the workplace of at least one character - The Wreckage
A book that has won a diversity award in the 21st Century (2001-present) - Isabel Allende, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Infidel, On Beauty, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, People of the Deer, A Woman is No Man,
A book told from the villain’s perspective
A romance novel - The Bride Test
A book shelved as literary fiction
A book from genre that inspired, or rekindled, your love of reading
A book about "a fish out of water"
A book set on an island - Sail
A book that is one of the top 23 Goodreads rated books in your TBR - Life Money & Illusion, Braiding Sweetgrass, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Educated, The Book of Negroes, Echo in the Bone, Mississippi Blood, All Things Wise & Wonderful, A Man Called Ove, A Fine Balance, American Dirt, Winter of the World , Boy on the Beach, Brothers Karamazov, Bury Your Dead, Edgar Allen Poe, Annie's Girl, Sherlock Holmes, Long Walk To Freedom, Pachinko, Rainbow of Desire, Fall of Giants,
A magical realism book
A cultural book that depicts a place or time and its culture
A book from a genre that starts with any letter in your name
A book that was shelved as literary fiction
A book that could be used for at least five of the 2023 challenge prompts
A book that has won a diversity award in the 21st Century (2001-present) - - Isabel Allende, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Infidel, On Beauty, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, People of the Deer, A Woman is No Man,
A book from your favorite sub-genre
A book related to first contact
A book told from the villain’s perspective - The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
A book that is one of the top 23 Goodreads rated books in your TBR - Life Money & Illusion, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Educated, The Book of Negroes, Echo in the Bone, Mississippi Blood, All Things Wise & Wonderful, A Fine Balance, American Dirt, Winter of the World , Boy on the Beach, Brothers Karamazov, Bury Your Dead, Edgar Allen Poe, Annie's Girl, Sherlock Holmes, Long Walk To Freedom, Pachinko, Rainbow of Desire, Fall of Giants,
A book set during a revolution or uprising
A book about the environment or nature
A book about "a fish out of water" - ADHD Women: A Holistic Approach To ADHD Management

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message 47: by Sam F (last edited Dec 04, 2023 05:44PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 11:28AM

A BETTER WORLD Challenge:

”We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

A Better You
Read a book with a character who shares a trait with you that you once - The House We Grew Up In (or still do) considered a flaw - Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion, or a book that discusses body positivity. -

Read a book that makes you feel good or helps you relax. - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting

Read a book about something you would like to learn more about - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement or about a skill you want to improve. - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu

Read a self-help book. - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time

Read a book about a public figure or a fictional character that you admire. - Lucky Man

Read a book on a topic that is new to you. - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Read an old favorite just to make you smile. - A Wrinkle in Time

A Better Home
Read a book about a family - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood or found family. - Switch

Read a book with a house on its cover. -

Justice Hall (Mary Russell, #6) by Laurie R. King

Read a book recommended by a family member - The Age of Miracles or friend. - The Orenda

Read a book with a family tree - The Dutch House

Read a coming-of-age story. - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising

Read a book about marriage. - Shopaholic Ties the Knot

Read a book about a unique parent-child relationship - Tithe

Read a book which features siblings as its main characters. - When You Trap a Tiger

Read a family saga spanning at least three generations. - Kane & Abel

A Better Community
Read a book for a Buddy Read, TBR Twin, or Group Read activity - The Echo in the Bone,

Read a book outside your comfort zone that a fellow group member has rated highly. - Long Way Down

Read a book you checked out from the library. - Lord Edgware Dies

Read a book recommended by anyone living in your town. - This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

Read a book with a central theme of friendship. - Ashes

Read a book in which teamwork leads to success. - Plum Spooky

Read a book in which a community works together to improve its quality of life. - Red Queen

Read a book recommended by someone in our group. -

Read a book with “Community,” “Town,” - Beach Town or “City” in the title. - City of Girls

A Better World
Read an #OwnVoices book. - A Long Petal of the Sea

Read a book about a current global issue. - Dear Martin,

Read a book about sustainability - Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future or characters that strive to preserve nature. - Prodigal Summer

Read a book about freedom in any sense of the word. - Native Son

Read a book set in another country than your home country. - The Bookseller: Stories

Read a book with “World” or “Earth” - Earth & Skyin the title. - Around the World in 80 Days, World War Z, Winter of the World, The Known World

Read a book featuring a culture or religion that differs from your own. - The Map of Salt and Stars

Read a book involving efforts toward peaceful reconciliation. - The Girl from the Sea

Read a book translated into the language you are reading. - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases

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message 48: by Sam F (last edited Dec 04, 2023 05:44PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 11:29AM

NATO Phonetic Alphabet Challenge:
Goodreads List

A - Alpha -
B - Bravo
C - Charlie - Killing Floor
D - Delta - Where the Crawdads Sing
E - Echo - An Echo in the Bone
F - Foxtrot
G - Golf - Back Spin
H - Hotel - At Bertam's Hotel (Miss Marple #11) - Beach Town
I - India -
J - Juliet - Parenthesis
K - Kilo
L - Lima -
M - Mike - Lucky Man
N - November - Publishable By Death
O - Oscar -
P - Papa - Switch
Q - Quebec - The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War
R - Romeo
S - Sierra
T - Tango
U - Uniform - The Diamond Eye
V - Victor - A Long Petal of the Sea
W - Whisky - Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits
X - X-ray
Y - Yankee - Mirror Image
Z - Zulu - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

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message 49: by Sam F (last edited Dec 25, 2023 09:50AM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 11:34AM

ATY List from previous years:

The 52 Topics of the 2022 ATY Reading Challenge:

1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A - Sail, T - Where the Crawdads Sing, or Y -
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021 - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title - Murder on the Orient Express
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
- Rock - The Map of Salt and Stars
-paper - Justice Hall
-scissors - City of Girls
- A book related to the year you turned 22 - The Book of Negroes
- a book related to It’s the End of the World as We Know It - The Age of Miracles
- A book where the title and author name are in two different colo(u)rs -

Strangers She Knows (Cape Charade, #3) by Christina Dodd

- A book by an author with 3 names - Tatouine
- A book without the words "a", "an" or "the" in the title - N is for Noose
- parallel novel or spin-off of a well-known story - Winter
- A book about breaking barriers - Native Son
- A book in translation - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
- A non-fiction book without a subtitle - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- A book by an indigenous author - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- A book with someone's back on the cover - Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion
- A book published the month of your birthday - Switch
- A book set in the Arab world - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
- A book that honors Betty White - If You Ask Me
- 3 books connected to The Good,- Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness the Bad - The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, and the Ugly
- A book with furniture on the cover -

- A book from one of Obama's reading lists - Thinking Fast and Slow, Educated, Pachinko, A Long Walk to Freedom, Americanah,
- A book related to a rabbit - Lilac Girls
- A book that features an act of kindness - Kane & Abel
- A book related to the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody - Long Way Down
- A book by an author you might like to meet - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
- A true crime book - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- A book related to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing -
- A book related to The Wizard of Oz - Ozma of Oz
- A book with a word or phrase in the title that describes you - Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health
- A book connected to bees - Death in the Clouds
- A book with a main character that fits at least one of “mad, bad and dangerous to know” - In the Forests of the Night
- A book with a character in a Catch-22 situation - Love You More
- A book within the first 22 listed on your TBR list - Fall of Giants, The Happiness Project, Already Home, Codebreakers, Sometimes Mine, Red Moon, The Singing Fire, Mercy Among the Children, Plan B, Case Histories, The Mind's Eye, The Good Apprentice, An Anthropologist on Mars, Sleeping Naked is Green, The Book of Negroes, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of J..., Mudbound, The Freedom Writers Diary, Infidel, Shake Hands With the Devil, Bury Your Dead, The Golem & the Jinni
- A book about organized crime or families - Mexican Gothic
- A book with a journalist author - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising, journalist character, or journalism topic - We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Musl
- A book with a character who speaks at least two languages - [book:The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story
- A book with a quirky or endearing character - Act Your Age, Eve Brown
- A book connected to a song - Our Homesick Songs
- A fiction book with a character who is a real person (historical or current day) - Flush
- A book relevant to the theme or lyrics of a specific Beatle's Song - Conversations with Friends
- A book with pictures or illustrations - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting
- A book set in a library - Hello Beautiful or bookstore - Publishable By Death
- A book related to the wonders of the world - The Innocents Abroad
- A book that involves an "ism" - racism - Sing, Unburied, Sing ageism - , sexism - A Room of One's Own, ableism, color-sim - Red Queen or a similar types of bias - The Kiss Quotient
- A book that has a character in government - Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future , royal family - The White Queen or governing body - Mirror Image
- A book involving travel: fiction - Shopaholic and Sister or non-fiction - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement, terrestrial - Earth & Sky or other - A Wrinkle in Time

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message 50: by Sam F (last edited Dec 16, 2023 06:30PM) (new)

Dec 05, 2022 11:34AM

ATY List from previous years: con't

The 52 Topics of the 2022 ATY Reading Challenge:

5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name - This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover -

7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind - The Mind's Eye
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1 - The Catch
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2 - Ashes
10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3 - Jazz
11. A book from historical fiction genre - The Invisible Circus
12. A book related to glass -

Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11) by Agatha Christie

13. A book about a woman in STEM - A Conspiracy of Bones
14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads - The Bookseller: Stories
15. A book without a person on the cover -

16. A book related to Earth Day - No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Daisy Jones & the 6, The Starless Sea, American Dirt, Homegoing, The Dutch House, Sea of Tranquility, The Splendid & the Vile, Swing Time,
18. A book by an Asian - Please Look After Mom or Pacific Islander author -
19. A book that involves alternate reality - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1 alternate worlds - Firewing, or alternate history
20. A fiction or nonfiction - The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War book that is set during 1900 -1951 - Wise Blood
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover - scottie dog, racing car -

Texas! Sage (Texas! Tyler Family Saga, #3) by Sandra Brown

, horse -

22. A book with a Jewish character - What the Night Singsor author - The Storyteller
23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship - The Vacationers
24. A book related to inclement weather - This World We Live In
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages - Killing Floor
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1 - Plum Lucky
27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2 - Lucky Man
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards - Life After Life, Looking for Alaska, My Sister, the Serial Killer, Middlesex, Dune, The Night Watchman, Number the Stars, Sophie's Choice, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, The Round House, The Calculating Stars, The Road, The Grapes of Wrath, On Beauty, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, The Tin Drum, Barney's Version, A Mercy, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Arctic Dreams, Larry's Party, Let the Great World Spin,
29. A book set on - The Old Man and the Sea or near a body of water - The Girl from the Sea
30. A book related to mythology - Mythology, Mythos, The Iliad
31. A book published at least 10 years ago - The Full Cupboard of Life
32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye - O is for Outlaw/police officer -
33. The next book in a series - Shopaholic Ties the Knot
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role - The Secret History
35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1 - Prodigal Summer
36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2 - Animal Farm
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name - Nothing Burns as Bright as You - Ashley Woodfolk
38. A book by a Latin American author - A Long Petal of the Sea
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time - Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, A Wizard of Earthsea, Dear Martin
40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards - Card
0 The Fool - Smokin' Seventeen
1 The Magician - Mouthful of Birds
2 The High Priestess - Parable of the Sower
3 The Empress - If You Ask Me
4 The Emperor
5 The Hierophant - The Orenda
6 The Lovers - Hello, Summer
7 The Chariot - Rules of Civility
8 Justice † - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
9 The Hermit - Xanax Cowboy: Poems
10 Wheel of Fortune - The Girl You Left Behind
11 Strength †Shi-shi-etko
12 The Hanged Man - Glass Sword
13 Death - Dexter's Final Cut
14 Temperance - The Marrow Thieves
15 The Devil - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
16 The Tower - The Diamond Eye
17 The Star - Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits
18 The Moon -

19 The Sun - The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden
20 Judgement - The Swimmers
21 The World - Fresh Ink
41. A book with a theme of food - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook or drink -

42. A book with a language or nationality in the title - Going Greek
43. A book set in a small town - Beach Town or rural area - The Known World
44. A book with gothic elements - Mystery and Fear. - State of Terror
Omens and Curses. ... - Murder on an Irish Farm
Atmosphere and Setting. ... 4:50 from Paddington
Supernatural - Visions of Sugar Plums and Paranormal Activity. ... Muckross Abbey and Other Stories
Romance. ... - Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Villain - The Woman Inside
Emotional Distress. ... - Parenthesis
Nightmares. - The Other Mrs.
45. A book related to a game - The Queen's Gambit
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters - Tithe, Watership Down
47. A book with handwriting on the cover -

48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022 - Mexican Gothic, Project Hail Mary,
49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons" - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Season of Dragons
50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years - The House We Grew Up In
51. A book published in 2022 - Conscious Crafts: Knitting: 20 mindful makes to reconnect head, heart hands
52. A book with a time-related word in the title - The Night Diary

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