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PBT Monthly TagsRead at least 1 book for all 12 monthly tags
Jan Food The Lager Queen of Minnesota
Feb England Maisie Dobbs
Mar Japan The Housekeeper and the Professor
Apr Friendship The Sentence
May Indigenous The Word for World Is Forest, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
Jun Immigrant The Bad Muslim Discount
Jul Adventure Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
Aug Moral Dilemma Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, The Personal Librarian, The Winners
Sep Literary Fiction Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, Girl, Woman, Other, The Violin Conspiracy, Piranesi
Oct Winter Babel
Nov Dragons When Women Were Dragons
Dec Holiday The Enchanted April
Happy Birthday PBT (message 19) https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...✔ 1. Very first tag: historical fiction. The Lager Queen of Minnesota
Tagged historuical fiction 28x
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 2. Any event that occurred in February.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Malcolm X was assassinated on Feb 21, 1965. His teachings and writing were very influential in the lives of both Ta-Nehisi and Paul Coates. The book discusses what his life and death meant to both of them. Malcolm X's speech, The Ballot or the Bulllet, was an important part of Ta-Nehisi Coates rise in consciousness.
✔ 3. Read a 5 star book from any of our administrators (past or present) "read" shelf. Anita--
The Housekeeper and the Professor
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 4 stars
✔ 4. Read a book from any of our 15 years of Top 10 selections.
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 2021
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 5. Read a book that fits the tag of India. Interpreter of Maladies
Tagged India 894x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 6. Read a book that fits the tag of mystery.
Maisie Dobbs
Tagged mystery 3,863 x
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 7. our own top 100 non-fiction books of all time. Read one
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 8. our own top 100 fictional books of all time. Read one
The Road
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 9. Read a book that fits EITHER the last tag we read at Shelfari (2010) or the first tag we read at Goodreads (world war ii).
The Keeper of Happy Endings
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged WWII 44 X
✔ 10. Read a book in Amy's honor that somehow relates to her (either it is on her shelf, or highlights something you know about her personally, or her geography, or her profession).
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Amy and I both gave this one 5 stars. In her review, she talks about how the characters touch one another and binds them together. The book also gives many people the chance to be bound together when they read it.... and isn't that what Amy and PBT do best!
OR
The Winners
I know Amy loved this book as much as I did, 5 stars from both of us.
✔ 11. Read a book that was a buddy read here on PBT that you have not read before.
Ordinary Grace
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Buddy read Discussion here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 12. Fall Flurries and Trim the TBR have been staples for PBT for a very long time! Select a book that has been read for either of these
Trim: Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 13. Read a book that is tagged with survival or survivor.
Zeitoun
Tagged survival 16x
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 14. Read a book from your favorite tag of all the tags you've personally read with PBT.
Science fiction
The Word for World Is Forest
Tagged science fiction 1408x
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
OR
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
Tagged sci-fi 110x
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
✔ 15. PBT is 15 years old! Read a book that was published the year YOU turned 15 (1971)
The Lathe of Heaven https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Accidental Book Club (F2F)Jan The Thursday Murder Club
✔Feb The Keeper of Happy Endings
Mar The Lincoln Highway
✔Apr The Sentence
✔May The Clockmaker's Daughter
✔Jun Harlem Shuffle
✔Jul The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
✔Aug Never Let Me Go
✔Sep The Personal Librarian
✔Oct Unlikely Animals
Nov Gilead DNF
✔Dec Demon Copperhead
italics read previous to bookclub pick
Read from the Bookshelves of Other GR Groups I Have JoinedPossibles
Historical Fictionistas My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
Around the World in 80 Books Braiding Sweetgrass
✔Audiobooks The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared DNF
Literary Fiction by People of Color The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
2023 Reading Challenge If Beale Street Could Talk
✔Sci Fi and Fantasy Book Club Piranesi
✔Apocalypse Whenever The Word for World Is Forest
21st Century Literature The Overstory
Diversity in All Forms The Night Watchman
Non Fiction Book Club Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
Trim the TBR 2023Hope to read 12 over the year
13/24 as of December 16
1. Profiles in Courage
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3. The Overstory
4. The Dutch House [#4]
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7. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
8. Look Homeward, Angel
9. Apeirogon
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11. A Brief History of Seven Killings [#11]
12. The Night Watchman
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2. If Beale Street Could Talk [#12]
3. Plainsong
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6. [book:Practical Magic|22896] [#10]
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Parking lot2024 Nominations F2F
Horse (Contemporary)
Lessons in Chemistry (contemporary)
The Overstory (contemporary, 500 pages)
If Beale St Could Talk (classic)
Betty (Appalachian setting)
Ghosts of the Tsunami (non fiction)
2024 Picks
January - Normal Rules Don't Apply
February - The Book of Two Ways
March - Bringing Nature Home
April - Before we were Yours
May - Plainsong
June - Horse
July - The River of Doubt
August - The Secret Life of Sunflowers
Sept - Becoming Nicole
Oct - Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Nov - The Covenant of Water
Candles
Sci fi April 2020
Favs
BnB-Horse, Violin Conspiracy, Apeirogon, Exit West,
Ladyslott- Room, Shotgun Lovesongs, The Nix,
JoLene-Room, Erotic stories
LibraryCin-Buses are a comin
Annapi-KonTiki, The Winners
Anita-Half a yellow sun, Pipe Dreams, Dutch House
NicoleR-Notorious RBG, Immortalists, Say Nothing, Tomorrowx3, Demon Copperhead,
Top 100
Room
The Road
David Copperfield
Half of the Yellow Sun
Hot Milk
Survival
Tatooist of Auschwitz
A Long Way Gone
The River of Doubt (Available Oakley)
Zeitun 16x
Non-fiction
River of Doubt
A Long Way Gone
The Boys of Summer
The Professor and the Madman (Available Oakley)
The Water is Wide (Available Oakley)
Trim
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Brothers K
Discovery of Witches
Driving Ms. Norma
Exit West
If Beale Street Could Talk
Three Body Problem
Fat Summer Books
The Winners (671)
Look Homeward Angel (544)
Love Songs of WEB DuBois (815)
The Covenant of Water (724) Just published, maybe next summer!
The Eighth Life (944)
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (509)
New York (862)
The Name of the Rose (536)
A Brief History of Seven Killings (688)
The Ministry for the Future (563)
A Discovery of Witches (579) Also Trim candle
Top TenDemon Copperhead - Kingsolver
Sooner of Later Everything Falls Into the Sea = Pinsker
The Road - McCarthy
The Winners - Backman
Babel - Kuang
Ordinary Grace - Krueger
Interpreter of Maladies - Lahiri
The Word for World is Forest - LeGuin
Night - Wiesel
Empire of Pain - Keefe
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First Goal: 36 books
My 2023 Bookshelf
January
1. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (2008) 4 stars
2. The Lager Queen of Minnesota (2019) 4 stars
3. Interpreter of Maladies (1999) 5 stars
4. The Lathe of Heaven (1971) 4 stars
Feb
5. Between the World and Me (2015) 5 stars
6. Ordinary Grace (2013) 5 stars
7. Maisie Dobbs (2003) 3 stars
Intermission--articles by Ta-Nehisi Coates
This is How We Lost to the White Man
American Girl
The Case for Reparations
My President was Black
The First White President
8. The Keeper of Happy Endings (2021) 3.5 stars
9. Night (1956) 5 stars
10. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (2021) 5 stars
March
11. The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life (1998) 4 stars
12. Clap When You Land (2020) 3.5 stars
13. The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003) 4 stars
April
14. The Sentence 3.5
15. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time 4 stars
16. Remarkably Bright Creatures 5 stars
May
17. The Word for World Is Forest 5 stars
18. The Clockmaker's Daughter 3.5 stars
19. Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival 4 stars
20. Legends & Lattes 4 stars
June
21. Harlem Shuffle 3 stars
22. The Bad Muslim Discount 3 stars
23. The Road 5 stars
July
24. Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living 3.5 stars
25. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Reread and still 5 stars
26. Zeitoun 4 stars
27. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 3 stars
August
28. Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea 5 stars
29. Never Let Me Go 4 stars
30. The Personal Librarian 4 stars
31. The Winners 5 stars
September
32. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows 4 stars
33. Girl, Woman, Other 4 stars
34. The Violin Conspiracy 3.5 stars
35. Piranesi 3 stars
36. Unlikely Animals 4 stars
October
37. Room 4.5 stars
38. Babel 5 stars
November
39. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus 4 stars
40. When Women Were Dragons 3 stars
December
41. Demon Copperhead 5 stars and a favorite
42. The Enchanted April 4 stars