Play Book Tag discussion

2023 Reading

✅Annual goal 120 -150 books- > 191 books

🎇PBT Monthly tags - Read at least 5 books for each tag. ✅Jan - October - completed

January - Food - 10
February - England -12
March - Japan -8
April - Friendship - 18
May - indigenous - 14?
June - Immigration -15
July - Adventure - 10
August - Moral Dilemmas - 8
September - Literary Fiction - 12
October - Winter- 8
November - Dragons - 3+

PBT challenges
✅- 15 Candles - completed!!
✅- 15 Candle Mod challenge - Read at least 1 book rated 5 stars by current and former mods. Completed!
✅ - Subdue the Shelf board game - completed all 8 rounds!

✅ATY 52 week Challenge - 52 books Completed. I'll do another round.
✔️Round 2 completed
Leftover prompt challenge - 52 books (overlaps ok)
✔️Seasonal Challenges - 🎗️Winter 2022, ✔️Spring 2023 - I didn't full complete either one (they're huge), but I was the top rookie fwiw.
🎇Target Lists - Read at least one book from each list.
🎇Read Harder Challenge - 90% of 2023, extras from 2022
✅6 Continents + 6 Centuries challenge- completed

Target Lists

Read at least one book from each list
Winners, finalists, short lists, nominees

1. Tookie's List
✅2. Women's Prize for Fiction - winners or 2023 Shortlist/longlist.
✔️Half of a Yellow Sun- winner of winners
✔️Home Fire winner -
✔️Demon Copperhead 2023 winner
✔️The Marriage Portrait- 2023 shortlist
✔️Trespasses, Louise Kennedy- 2023 shortlist
✔️The Bandit Queens 2023 longlist

✅3. National Book Award
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
✅4. Pulitzer Prize - fiction or nonfiction
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - winner 2023
The Snow Child- nominee 2013
✅5. Nobel Prize Winning author Afterlives byAbdulrazak Gurnah
6. Boxall 1001 list
✅7. Women in Translation - Warwick Prize or the Best books of women in translation list -✔️ Abigail by Magda Szabo
✅8. Obama's List(s) - Land of Big Numbers: Stories ,✔️ Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
✅9. NPR list✔️ Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

10. ✅USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read -Percival Everett (new to me), James McBride,
✔️The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
✔️Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
✔️Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
✔️Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
✔️The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe by Alice Walker

11. ✅Fantasy or sci-fi awards
Winners
✔️The Left Hand of Darkness - Hugo, Nebula
✔️ Elatsoe- Locus Award Winner
✔️Annihilation- nebula
✔️How High We Go in the Dark - Locus first novel
✔️The Crystal Cave - Mythopoeic award
Nominees:
✔️Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea - World fantasy, Locus, Nebula
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars Ignyte, Hugo
✔️Parable of the Sower
The Ghost Bride

✅Australian book award - ✔️Home Fire nominee
✅Dublin Literary Award or international award.
✔️Home Fire- international shortlist
✅Historical fiction prize, Walter Scott - ✔️Afterlives

AUTHOR LIST
✅ Louise Erdrich
Carolina de Robertis - Gods of Tango
✅Claire Keegan - Foster
✅Magda Szabo - Abigail, The Door
✅Elif Shafak- Three Daughters of Eve, The Forty Rules of Love
✅Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower
✅Maggie O'Farrell - The Hand That First Held Mine, The Marriage Portrait
✅James McBride- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
✅Edwidge Danticat
Percival Everett - get recs
Arundhati Roy own 1+ on audio
✅Tan Twan Eng
✔️ Li Yiyun 2022
Rohinton Mistry
✅Charles Martin - The Water Keeper
David Foster Wallace or John Kennedy Toole - 50 pages to try

6 Centuries + 6 Continents Personal Goal.

BCE: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
1st century CE (ad)- Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman, The Book of Longings
✅5th century - The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
7th century - Absolution by murder 664 CE
7th or 8th? Beowulf
11th century - The Pillow Book
14th century - The Name of the Rose 1327 CE
✅15th century - Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke, 1483, 15th century
16th century -The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak - 1540
16th century - The Marriage Portrait 1550
17th (partial) The Last Painting of Sara de Vos 1637, and 1957
18th - Madame Tussaud - French Revolution 1780s, A Tale of Two Cities
✅19th -1800s -
✔️Anne of Green Gables, ✔️Hound of the Baskervilles
✅20th -1900s - ✔️Abigail, ✔️Afterlives, ✔️To Live, ✔️Signal Fires
✅21st -2000s - ✔️With the Fire on High, ✔️Light from Uncommon Stars
22nd -2100s

CONTINENTS:
✅Africa -Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Antarctica -
✅Asia - To Live by Yu Hua
Australia/Oceania -
✅Europe - Abigail by Magda Szabo, Hungary
South America - Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis
✅North America - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery, Canada

Settings:

Tropical Regions- Target 5🎯
1. Southeast Asia -
2. India - PBT 15 Candles
3. Central/South America, Rainforests -
✅4. Equatorial Africa - Afterlives
5. Caribbean, Hawaii

UNESCO cities of literature -
Beirut, Lebanon
Dublin, Ireland
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jakarta, Indonesia - see tropics list
Melbourne, Australia
Milan, Italy
Prague, Czech Republic -
Québec City, Canada
Reykjavík, Iceland
more
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

PBT 15 Candles

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✅1. Read a book that fits our very first tag: historical fiction. Note that our very first tagger was MOM2RUDY who is now a published author, W.J. Small
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/hist...
✅Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
✅Abigail by Magda Szabó
✅To Live by Yu Hua
✅The Crystal Cave
✅The Midwife's Revolt
✅The Garden of Evening Mists
✅The Woman in the White Kimono
Light changes everything
Fall of giants
Rose code

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
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2. PBT was founded in February, 2008. Read a book that represents or relates to any event that occurred (or occurs) in February.
✅Groundhog Day - Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
✅International day of women and girls in science 2.11 -Lessons in Chemistry
✅Valentine's Day - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick
Random Acts of Kindness Day 2.17
National Caregiver's Day 2.17,
✅World Whale Day 2.19 - Not Forgetting the Whale (Also Random Acts of Kindness Day.
President's Day
National Library Lovers Month - The Reading List
Black History Month
National Heart Month
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3. Read a 5 star book from any of our administrators (past or present) "read" shelf. Administrators include: Ladyslott, LibraryCin, Annapi, JoLene, BooknBlues, Nicole R, Kristal and Anita.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

✔️Rules for a Knight (chess prompt) - Jolene
✔️The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kristal
✔️Lessons in Chemistry -NicoleR
✔️Watership Down - BnB, Annapi, Anita
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Anita, BnB, others
✔️Remarkably Bright Creatures -NicoleR,
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Annapi

Anita - [God of Small Things, The Road - Narrow Road, Brain on Fire, Blood Orange Night, All Creatures Great and Small, Colony, Maybe you should talk to someone, Say Nothing, Being Mortal, A Little Life, Tsar, Fates and Furies, Constellation, Signature of all things, Shotgun, East of Eden, Grapes, I know Why the caged birds sing,Half of a yellow sun, Three Little words, Mudbound (Subdue), Fine Balance, Ivan Ilych, Secret History.]
libraryCin - [A Dog's Purpose, 11/22/63]
Annapi -[✔️Watership Down, part-time Indian, Moneyball, Green Mile, KonTiki, Thunder Bay, Snow Child, Lock-in , Galaxy and Ground within]
BnB - [✔️Garden of Evening Mists, Tale of Two Cities, I know why the caged bird sings, Night, Ox-Bow Incident, Beowulf, Children of God, The River of Doubt, Master Butchers, Regeneration, Tsar of Love and Techno,✔️ Watership Down, East of Eden, Constellation of vital Phenomena]
Nicole - [Say Nothing, Empire of Pain, ✔️Lessons in Chemistry, T3, ✔️Bright Creatures, Mudbound, Middlesex, lobster chronicles, Madam Tussaud, Doc. Dog Stars, Constellations, Shotgun, Alice Network, Color of Law, Maybe you should, ✔️Rose Code, Horse, Mudbound,]
Things they carried - bnb jolene
red tent ladyslott, kristal


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4. We have been compiling the PBT Top 10 lists since our inception. Read a book from any of our 15 years of Top 10 selections.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

✅Lessons in Chemistry 2022 #1
✅Remarkably Bright Creatures
✅Carrie Soto Is Back
✅The Rose Code

Constellations
Being mortal
The Martian
Doc
Graveyard book
Thousand days of
Orphan masters
Dog stars
City of thieves
Mudbound subdue
And the mountains echoes
Shotgun love songs
Lost lake
Apeirogon
🎈Say nothing
.🎈Empire of pain
🎈Maybe you should talk to someone
Cloud cuckoo land
✔️Rose code - subdue

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5. Read a book that fits the tag of India. Read in December, 2013, it represents our least read tag (excluding administrator special tags).
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/india
✅Lion: A Long Way Home
The God of Small Things - subdue
Midnight's Children
Family Matters
A Fine Balance
Perveen mistry #4

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6. Surprisingly, our favorite tag as measured by books read in one month was read way back in 2008. Read a book that fits the tag of mystery.
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/mystery
✅A World of Curiosities
✅The Guise of Another

The dry
Violin
Archer
✅The Hound of the Baskervilles

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7. When PBT was 7 years old, we compiled our own top 100 non-fiction books of all time. Read one to blow out this candle.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

🎈I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
🎈Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Night
✅Eat, Pray, Love - subdue

Out of Africa
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Several survival books

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8. When PBT was 8 years old, we compiled our own top 100 fictional books of all time. Read one to blow out this candle.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

✅Anne of Green Gables
✅The Garden of Evening Mists
✅The Road
The Tsar of Love and Techno
The Things They Carried
Half of a yellow sun
God of small things - subdue
Constellation of vital phenomenon
🎈Garden of evening mists - subdue
More

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9. In 2016, we were forced to make the move from Shelfari to Goodreads. 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).

Find the list for 2010 pub date
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/2010
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/worl...

WWII
✅Abigail
Alice network
✅Rose code
Across the winding river
City of thieves
Lilac girl
Things we cannot say
We were the lucky ones
Japan

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10. Our most prolific poster (in the Goodreads era) is Amy (https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...). Amy has posted more than anyone (including the administrators!) with 9301 comments as of this writing. 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). Indicate how you selected the book with your review.
Psychology, spirituality, Judaism, Hoffman, witches.
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
New Alice Hoffman book, violin conspiracy, ✔️Luis Velez,
Snow Child

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11. Read a book that was a buddy read here on PBT that you have not read before. Link to the buddy read thread along with your review.

See message 82 Rachel for the buddy readlist
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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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 PBT stalwarts that is shelved on our PBT bookshelf found
here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Trim the TBR=
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

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13. When PBT was one year old (in its infancy still), we played a game called "Last Tagger Standing", and it was modeled on the famous television show, Survivor. Read a book that is tagged with survival or survivor.
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/surv...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

✅Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

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14. Read a book from your favorite tag of all the tags you've personally read with PBT. - Literary fiction, Psychology or psychological, cultural,
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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15. PBT is 15 years old! Read a book that was published the year YOU turned 15.
The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other True Stories of the Southwest by Tony Hillerman - 1973, Western, 173 pages.
The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart

Subdue the Shelf Gameboard January 1, 2023 ORIGINAL DO NOT EDIT

1. Dubliners
2. Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
3. A List of Cages
4. A Million Things
5. A Million Things To Ask A Neuroscientist
6. Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
7. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
8. Other Birds
9. Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It
10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
11. The God of Small Things
12. Abigail
13. Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
14. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
15. Light Changes Everything
16. Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
17. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
18. Other Birds
19. Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It
20. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
21. The God of Small Things
22. Abigail
23. Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
24. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
25. Light Changes Everything
26. Dubliners
27. Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
28. A List of Cages
29. A Million Things
30. A Million Things To Ask A Neuroscientist
31. The Guise of Another (Detective Max Rupert, #2)
32. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
33. The Story of Arthur Truluv (Mason, #1)
34. Three Daughters of Eve
35. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
36. Parable of the Sower
37. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
38. The Anthropocene Reviewed
39. Where the Lost Wander
40. O Pioneers! (Great Plains Trilogy, #1)
41. All My Puny Sorrows
42. Mockingbird
43. My Brilliant Life
44. The Guise of Another (Detective Max Rupert, #2)
45. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
46. The Story of Arthur Truluv (Mason, #1)
47. Three Daughters of Eve
48. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
49. Parable of the Sower
50. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
51. The Anthropocene Reviewed
52. Where the Lost Wander
53. O Pioneers! (Great Plains Trilogy, #1)
54. All My Puny Sorrows
55. Mockingbird
56. My Brilliant Life
57. Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
58. Fight Night
59. Home Fire
60. Lila (Gilead, #3)
61. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
62. Lock In (Lock In, #1)
63. Mudbound
64. Peace Like a River
65. Rules for a Knight
66. Stay
67. The Things They Carried
68. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
69. Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
70. Fight Night
71. Home Fire
72. Lila (Gilead, #3)
73. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
74. Lock In (Lock In, #1)
75. Mudbound
76. Peace Like a River
77. Rules for a Knight
78. Stay
79. The Things They Carried
80. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
81. The Colour Of Lightning
82. The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story
83. The Forty Rules of Love
84. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
85. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
86. The Wall
87. Three Little Words
88. To Live
89. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
90. Across the Winding River
91. The Colour Of Lightning
92. The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story
93. The Forty Rules of Love
94. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
95. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
96. The Wall
97. Three Little Words
98. To Live
99. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
100. Across the Winding River

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Subdue the Shelf Round Two Gameboard, January 29, 2023.
Porter Level

1. Eat Pray Love
2. Eat Pray Love
3. Other Birds
4. Kitchen Front
5. The Reading List
6. Not Forgetting the Whale
7. Nothing Ventured
8. Good Omens
9. The Crystal Cave
10. The Hand That First Held Mine
11. Behind the scenes at the museum
12. Three Daughters of Eve
13. Watership Down
14. Three Men in a boat
15. Tale of Two Cities
16. Rose Code
17. Sense and Sensibility
18. The Crystal Cave
19. On Chesil Beach
20. Before I go to Sleep
21. The Reading List
22. Queenie
23. Not Forgetting the Whale
24. Nothing Ventured
25. Watership Down
26. Good Omens
27. Three Daughters of Eve
28. Three Men in a boat
29. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
30. Adam Bede
31. A Million Things to Ask a Neuroscientist
32. Before I Go to Sleep
33. Fall of Giants
34. The End of the Affair
35. Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
36. On Chesil Beach
37. Queenie
38. Adam Bede
39. Exit Strategy
40. Rose Code
41. The Hand That First Held Mine
42. The Music Shop
43. My Brilliant Life
44. O Pioneers! (Great Plains Trilogy, #1)
45. Tale of Two Cities
46. A Room with a View
47. Sense and Sensibility
48. The End of the Affair
49. All My Puny Sorrows
50. Remarkably Bright Creatures
51. Gods of Tango
52. Violin Conspiracy
53. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
54. Garden of Evening Mists
55. Have you seen Luis Velez
56. The Book of Essie
57. A List of Cages
58. A Million Things To Ask A Neuroscientist
59. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
60. Across the Winding River
61. Fall of Giants
62. The Music Shop
63. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
64. Light Changes Everything
65. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
66. Kitchen Front
67. Lock In
68. Mudbound
69. Morbid Taste for Bones
70. Parable of the Sower
71. The God of Small Things
72. The Guise of Another
73. Three Little Words
74. All My Puny Sorrows
75. Remarkably Bright Creatures
76. Exit Strategy
77. Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
78. Morbid taste for bones
79. A Room with a view
80. Gods of Tango
81. Violin Conspiracy
82. Garden of Evening Mists
83. Have you seen Luis Velez
84. The Book of Essie
85. A List of Cages
86. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
87. Across the Winding River
88. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
89. Light Changes Everything
90. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
91. Lock In
92. Mudbound
93. My Brilliant Life
94. O Pioneers! (Great Plains Trilogy, #1)
95. Other Birds
96. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
97. Parable of the Sower
98. The God of Small Things
99. The Guise of Another
100. Three Little Words

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NancyJ's Subdue the Shelf

Books read
*Abigail
*Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It.
* I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
*Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
*Light Changes Everything
*Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
*Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ.
*Anne of Green Gables
*28. A List of Cages
*29. A Million Things
*31. The Guise of Another (Detective Max Rupert, #2)
*35. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
*36. Parable of the Sower
*37. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
*40.O Pioneers! (Great Plains Trilogy, #1)
*41. All My Puny Sorrows
*45. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulan
*57. Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
*58. Fight Night
*59. Home Fire
65. Rules for a Knight
70. Fight Night
73. Lillian Boxfish Takes a walk
84.The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
95.The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
AND ✔️ With the Fire on High , from Cora’s list (#53)
98. To Live✅

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Nancy J's 2023 Around The Year Reading Plan 🌎🗺️

THE 2023 LIST - - ROUND ONE is COMPLETE

✅ 1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
1️⃣All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami - Tokyo
✅2. A book by an author you read in 2022

1️⃣Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

✅3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list
1️⃣The Flame by Leonard Cohen - Authors honored by the queen. Poetry.
✔️The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell- literary fiction
✔️Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe - environment

✅4. A book with an interracial relationship (xrace =cross racial relationship)
1️⃣The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns

✅5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
1️⃣With the Fire on High

✅6. A book where books are important
1️⃣The Reading List by Sarah Nisha Adams

✅7. A book with one of the five "W" question words in the title
1️⃣Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman

✅8. An author's debut book
1️⃣Before I Go to Sleep

✅9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
1️⃣Abigail by Magda Szabo - Warwick Women in Translation

✅10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
1️⃣Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

✅11. A book about a person/character with a disability
1️⃣To Live by Yu Hua, Deaf character

✅12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
1️⃣Watership Down by Richard Adams

✅13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
1️⃣Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

✅14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
1️⃣Nothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer

✅15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1:
1️⃣The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart - 5th century

✅16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2:
1️⃣Adam Bede by George Eliot - 1799- 18th century

✅17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3:
1️⃣The Whale at the End of the World by John Ironmomger- 21st century
Others (new goal = 9 centuries)
Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke, set 1483 - 15th century
The Hound of the Baskervilles set 1889 - 19th Century
Abigail by Magda Szabo - mid 20th century

✅18. A book related to science
1️⃣Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Guilia Enders- European author, science
-Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert - environmental, Elizabeth
-Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O’Brien

✅19. A book related to the arts
1️⃣Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

✅20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
1️⃣The Road by Cormac McCarthy

✅21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
1️⃣Home Fire by Kamala Shamsie

✅22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
1️⃣The Rose Code by Kate Quinn


✅23. A book with a body of water in the title
1️⃣The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson

✅24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
1️⃣Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

✅25. A book with a tropical setting
1️⃣Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah Nobel Prize winner. Equatorial Africa - Tropics

✅26. A book related to pride
1️⃣Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

✅27. A book by an author from continental Europe
1️⃣Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny

✅28. A book that is dark
1️⃣Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

✅29. A book that is light
1️⃣A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
✔️Marigold and Rose: A Fiction by Louise Gluck - Short

✅30. A book related to a chess piece
1️⃣Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke

✅31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on ...
1️⃣Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde

✅32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
1️⃣Touch by Olaf Olafsson
Too Loud a Solitude - Prague (planned)

✅33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
1️⃣ Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

✅34. A novella
1️⃣On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

✅35. A book with a school subject in the title
1️⃣Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

✅36. A book that has been translated from another language
1️⃣Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

✅37. A book with the theme of returning home
1️⃣A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierly


✅38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
1️⃣Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro


✅39. A western
1️⃣Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner

✅40. A book with a full name in the title
1️⃣The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

✅41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
1️⃣ Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan (local)

✅42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
1️⃣The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick

✅43. A book that involves a murder
1️⃣A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

✅44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal.
1️⃣Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor


✅45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
1️⃣The Water Keeper by Charles Martin

✅46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe.
1️⃣Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home by Jessica Fechtor

✅47. A book related to a geometric shape -
1️⃣Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home - National Book Critic’s Circle Award

✅48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story.
1️⃣The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

✅49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 -
1️⃣Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

✅50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt - Science (also reject list - environment, water title)
1️⃣Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

✅51. A book published in 2023 -
1️⃣Maureen by Rachel Joyce

✅52. A book with an unusual or surprising title -
1️⃣The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery

Round 2 aty

Rejected prompt challengec

Abigail
Szabó, Magda

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Alexie, Sherman

Adam Bede
Eliot, George

Afterlives
Gurnah, Abdulrazak

The Alice Network
Quinn, Kate *

All Dogs Go to Kevin: Everything Three Dogs Taught Me
Vogelsang, Jessica *

All My Puny Sorrows
Toews, Miriam

All the Lovers in the Night
Kawakami, Mieko

American Street
Zoboi, Ibi *

Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card
Saedi, Sara *

Anatomy of a Murder
Traver, Robert

Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Montgomery, L.M.

Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
VanderMeer, Jeff *

Babel
Kuang, R.F. *

Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny
Dinesen, Isak

The Bandit Queens
Shroff, Parini

Before I Go to Sleep

Behold the Dreamers
Mbue, Imbolo *

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Krug, Nora

The Book of Longings
Kidd, Sue Monk *

Braiding Sweetgrass
Kimmerer, Robin Wall

The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks
Dow, Mike

Breath, Eyes, Memory
Danticat, Edwidge

Briefly, A Delicious Life
Stevens, Nell

The Buddha in the Attic
Otsuka, Julie

Calling for a Blanket Dance
Hokeah, Oscar *

Captains Courageous
Kipling, Rudyard

Carrie Soto Is Back
Reid, Taylor Jenkins *

The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe
Walker, Alice

City of Thieves
Benioff, David

Nancy's 15 Candles Birthday Challenge - lists
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...-


1. Read a book that fits our very first tag: historical fiction

****✅Abigail by Magda Szabó
✅Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
✅To Live by Yu Hua
✅Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
✅Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
✅Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
✅The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
✅Horse by Geraldine Brooks
✅Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
✅Trust by Hernan Diaz
✅The Midwife's Revolt by Jodi Daynard
✅The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
✅Light Changes Everything by Nancy E Turner
✅The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns
✅The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
✅O Pioneers!
✅My Ántonia by Willa Cather
✅ Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
✅The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
✅Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
✅West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
✅The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
✅Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
✅Winter of the World by Ken Follett
✅World Without End by Ken Follett
✅Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
✅Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius
✅People of the Whale by Linda Hogan
✅Even As we Breathe
✅City of Thieves
✅Shanghai Girls
✅Fruit of the Drunken Tree
✅The Master Butchers Singing Club
✅ Front Desk
✅Breath Eyes Memory

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2. PBT was founded in February, 2008. Read a book that represents or relates to any event that occurred (or occurs) in February.
✅Groundhog Day - Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
✅International day of women and girls in science 2.11 - Lessons in Chemistry
✅Valentine's Day - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick
✅World Whale Day 2.19 - People of the Whale by Linda Hogan
✅National Library Lovers Month - The Reading List
✅Black History Month - I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsI know why the caged bird sings
✅Random Acts of Kindness Day 2.17 -Not Forgetting the Whale

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3. Read a 5 star book from any of our administrators (past or present) "read" shelf. Administrators include:✔️ Ladyslott, ✔️LibraryCin, ✔️Annapi, ✔️JoLene,✔️ BooknBlues, ✔️Nicole R, ✔️Kristal and ✔️Anita.

I'm reading 5 star books from all of our mods
✅Watership Down - Anita, Annapi, BooknBlues, Ladyslott
✅Horse - BooknBlues, Nicole R
✅The Road - Anita, ladyslott
✅Indian Horse - BooknBlues
✅The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Annapi
✅Conversations with Friends - Nicole R
✅Rules for a Knight (chess prompt) - Jolene
✅The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kristal
✅The Soul of an Octopus - Nicole R
✅The Rose Code - Nicole R
✅I know why the caged bird sings - many
✅City of Thieves -Ladyslott
✅Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster - Library Cin

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4. We have been compiling the PBT Top 10 lists since our inception. Read a book from any of our 15 years of Top 10 selections.

✅Lessons in Chemistry 2022 #1 2022
✅Horse
✅Remarkably Bright Creatures
✅The Rose Code
✅Constellations of Vital Phenomena

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5. Read a book that fits the tag of India. Read in December, 2013, it represents our least read tag (excluding administrator special tags).
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/india
✅Honor by Thrity Umrigar
✅The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
✅A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley


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6. Surprisingly, our favorite tag as measured by books read in one month was read way back in 2008. Read a book that fits the tag of mystery
T
✅The Hound of the Baskervilles
✅The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
✅Trust by Hernan Diaz
✅If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
✅A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
✅The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
✅The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

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7. When PBT was 7 years old, we compiled our own top 100 non-fiction books of all time. Read one to blow out this candle.

✅Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
✅I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

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8. When PBT was 8 years old, we compiled our own top 100 fictional books of all time. Read one to blow out this candle.
✅The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
✅Watership Down by Richard Adams
✅The Road by Cormac McCarthy
✅Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
✅City of Thieves by David Benioff
✅Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And
✅A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
✅Demon Copperhead
✅The Housekeeper and the Professor
✅The Princess Bride

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9. In 2016, we were forced to make the move from Shelfari to Goodreads. 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)
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/worl...

WWII
✅Abigail by Magda Szabo
✅The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
✅Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
✅Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
✅The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
✅Winter of the World by Ken Follett
✅Even As We Breathe
✅City of Thieves by David Benioff
✅The Alice Network

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10. Our most prolific poster (in the Goodreads era) is Amy. She encouraged me to read these, among others.
✅Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde
✅The Violin Conspiracy
✅The Snow Child

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11. Read a book that was a buddy read here on PBT that you have not read before. Link to the buddy read thread along with your review.
✅West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

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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 PBT stalwarts that is shelved on our PBT bookshelf found
here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Fall Flurries
✅Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II 2022
✅ Elatsoe 2021
✅The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
✅Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

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13. When PBT was one year old (in its infancy still), we played a game called "Last Tagger Standing", and it was modeled on the famous television show, Survivor. Read a book that is tagged with survival or survivor.
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/surv...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

*✅Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
✅Solito by Javier Zamora
✅The Road

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14. Read a book from your favorite tag of all the tags you've personally read with PBT. Literary Fiction was one of the very first tags I read after joining PBT in 2018. It remains a favorite.

*✅Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
✅Demon Copperhead
✅The Door by Magda Szabo
✅Hello Beautiful
✅Tom Lake
✅The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
✅Trust by Hernan Diaz
✅The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
✅All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toewes
✅Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
✅How High we Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamutsu
✅Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
✅The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
✅Touch
✅On Chesil Beach
✅Home Fire
✅Five Little Indians


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15. PBT is 15 years old! Read a book that was published the year YOU turned 15.
*✅ The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
✅The Princess Bride William Goldman

The 52 Book Club 2023 challenge

✅1. A Book With A Subtitle
Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
✅2. Featuring An Inheritance
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
✅3. Title Starting With The Letter "G"
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
The Guise of Another
✅4. Title Starting With The Letter "H"
The Hand That First Held Mine
Harbor Me
Have You Seen Luis Velez?
Horse
Housekeeping
How High We Go in the Dark
✅5. Title Starting With The Letter "I"
If We Were Villains
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
In the Bleak Midwinter
Indian Horse
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
✅6. Under 200 Pages
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
Crazy Brave Joy Harjo
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
✅7. A City Or Country Name In The Title
Shanghai Girls by Lisa Lee
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry
✅8. Dystopian Fiction
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Memory Police byYōko Ogawa
✅9. A Book With A Dedication
The Garden of Evening Mists byTan Twan Eng
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
✅10. Takes Place During The Roaring Twenties
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Trust by Hernan Diaz
✅11. A Book About Secrets
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
The Door by Magda Szabó
✅12. High Fantasy
The Princess Bride
Dragonflight
🔹13. Published Posthumously - Kafka
✅14. A Survival Story
Solito byJavier Zamora
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
✅15. Set In Australia
A Million Things by Emily Spurr
✅16. Featuring One Of The "Seven Deadly Sins"
When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich

✅17. By A Caribbean Author
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
✅18. Set During A War Other Than WWI Or WWII
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena byAnthony Marra
A Tale of Two Cities byCharles Dickens
✅19. Typographic Cover
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
The Bandit Queens byParini Shroff
✅20. A Book About Siblings
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
✅21. A Second-Hand Book
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
✅22. A Body-Positive Message
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
✅23. An Alliterative Title
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
The Hollow Hills byMary Stewart
✅24. Nordic Noir
Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius
✅25. A Fashionable Character
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
✅26. Has An Epilogue
West with Giraffes byLynda Rutledge
✅27. Newbery Medal Winner
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, (Tomb of Atuan)
✅28. Includes A Funeral
The Travelling Cat Chronicles byHiro Arikawa
Demon Copperhead byBarbara Kingsolver
✅29. Sends You Down A Rabbit Hole
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future byElizabeth Kolbert
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe byKeith O'Brien
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
✅30. An Author with A Same Name as You
Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner
✅31. Set In A Workplace
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Hench byNatalie Zina Walschots
✅32. Published By Macmillan
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
✅33. A Banned Book
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A Court of Thorns and Roses
✅34. Featuring Mythology
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
✅35. A Book You Meant to Read Last Year
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Even As We Breathe, byAnnette Saunooke Clapsaddle
✅36. Chapters Have Cliffhangers
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
✅37. Written In Present Tense
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
✅38. An Enemies-To-Lovers Plot
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
✅39. Final Book In A Series
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny. book 18 of 18 published to date.
✅40. Written By A Comedian
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
2- something by David Sedaris
✅41. A Character Who Is A Refugee
Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
Half of a Yellow Sun byChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✅42. Time In The Title
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
✅43. A Book Everyone Has Read
Anne of Green Gables
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Lessons in Chemistry
Turtles All the Way Down
Watership Down
✅44. A Contemporary Setting
Weather byJenny Offill
A List of Cages by Robin Roe
✅45. First Word In The Book Is "The"
The Whale at the End of the World by John Ironmonger
The Woman in the White Kimono byAna Johns
✅46. Script Font On The Spine
Fruit of the Drunken Tree byIngrid Rojas Contreras
City of Thieves
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
✅47. Set In The City Of Dublin
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
✅48. A Book By Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower
✅49. Books On The Cover
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
✅50. Related To The Word "Murder".
Honor by Thrity Umrigar
Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi
The Hound of the Baskervilles
✅51. Doesn’t Fit Any of The Other 51 Prompts
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
✅52. Published In 2023
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Tom Lake

NancyJ. 2023 Read Harder Challenge

✅1. Read a novel about a trans character written by a trans author.
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
✅2. Read one of your favorite author’s favorite books
✔️The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Ann Patchett discussed it in her memoir.)
✔️Heart Berries (recommended in Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence)
✅3. Read a book about activism.
✔️Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith OBrien
✅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.
✔️O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
✔️Solito by Javier Zamora
✔️Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
✔️The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
✅6. Finish a book you’ve DNFed (did not finish).
✔️I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
✅7. Listen to an audiobook performed by a person of color of a book written by an author of color.
✔️Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, narrated by Lynne Thigpen
✔️Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah, narrated by Damian Lynch
✔️Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue, narrated by Prentice Onayemi
✔️Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, narrated by Rainy Fields
✔️Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley, narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc
✔️Crazy Brave by Joy Harbo
✔️Five Little Indians by Michelle Good, narrated by Kyla Garcia
✔️Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger, narrated by Kinsale Hurston
✔️Front Desk by Kelly Yang, narrated by Sunny Lu
✔️Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, narrated by Robin Miles
✔️American Street, by Ibi Zoboi, narrated by a Robin Miles
✔️Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras narrated by Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra
✅9. Read an independently published book by a BIPOC author
✔️Moon of the Crusted Snow
✅10. Read a book you know nothing about based solely on the cover.
✔️How High We Go in the Dark
✅11. Read a cookbook cover to cover. Sub- food related book with recipes.
✔️Search by Michelle Huneven,
✔️Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It
✅12. Read a nonfiction book about BIPOC and/or queer history.
✔️The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
✔️Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami
✔️Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
13. Read an author local to you.
14. Read a book with under 500 Goodreads ratings.
The Enduring Echo of Words Unsaid by Michael Bowe
✅15. Read a historical fiction book set in an Eastern country.
To Live by Yu Hua - China 20th century
✅16. Read a romance with bisexual representation.
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars
✅17. Read a YA book by an Indigenous author.
✔️The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
✔️Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley.
✔️Five Little Indians
✔️Indian Horse
✔️ Elatsoe
✅18. Read a comic or graphicnovel that features disability representation.
✔️Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
✅19. Read a nonfiction book about intersectional feminism.
✔️Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
✅20. Read a book of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author.
✔️Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
✅21. Read a book of short stories.
✔️Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
✔️The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
✔️Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
✅22. Read any book from the Ignyte awards. Shortlist/longlist/winner.
✔️Babel
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars
✅23. Read a social horror, mystery, or thriller novel.
✔️Yellowface
✔️Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

✅24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!
2022
✔️Read any book from the Women’s Prize shortlist/longlist/winner list. - Home Fire
✔️Read a classic written by a POC. - Parable of the Sower
✔️Read the book that’s been on your TBR the longest. - The Alice Network
✔️Read an adventure story by a BIPOC author. - Trail of Lightning
✔️Read a book whose movie or TV adaptation you’ve seen (but haven’t read the book).- The Princess Bride
✔️Read a queer retelling of a classic of the canon, fairytale, folklore, or myth.- In the Lives of Puppets
✔️Read a history about a period you know little about. Throne of Jade