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Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2023

1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge.
You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning or add them as you go. You can join this challenge at any time, as long as it's still active. If you don't state your challenge goal when signing up, you might temporarily be assigned a default goal of 6 books.
2. Whenever you finish a book for this challenge, post a new comment here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress. Please be sure to post the number of books you have completed and the number of your original (sign-up) message every time you post an update.
The challenge leader is not able to keep track of your total number of books for you because of the number of participants in the challenge. The number of the original post is used to identify you, as there can be many members with the same name. The challenge leader will not look at this post to track your progress.
Example:
Message 32 updated! 2/25 books read!
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I plan to update the participants list twice a month. Once at the end of each month and once around the 15th of each month.
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Please join us and bend the themes to your 2023 reading plans. Let’s make like oysters and be shelfish!
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PARTICIPANTS:
Allie - 20 / 25 🐛
Amber - 5 / 60 🐛
Ann - 18 / 22 🐛
AnnaG - 0 / 100
Ashleigh - 9 / 10 🐛
bailey - 69 / 20 🐉 Completed!
Beth (#45) - 85 / 100 🐛
Beth (#246) - 200 / 200 🐉 Completed!
Bobbi - 4 / 40 🐛
✨ Brianna Raquel ✨ - 110 / 110 🐉 Completed!
Brittany - 22 / 55 🐛
Chalmation - 40 / 40 🐉 Completed!
Charu - 0 / 18
Chrissie - 27 / 31 🐛
Cordelia - 50 / 50 🐉 Completed!
CrazyAsACupcake - 3 / 20 🐛
Darlene - 30 / 30 🐉 Completed!
Dominique - 0 / 25
Dubhease - 13 / 13 🐉 Completed!
Edie - 7 / 24 🐛
Elaine - 60 / 80 🐛
Gem - 13 / 24 🐛
Greg - 23 / 30 🐛
Gretchen - 0 / 25
Janine - 53 / 43 🐉 Completed!
Julie - 2 / 10 🐛
Kalyn - 16 / 28 🐛
Karen - 20 / 20 🐉 Completed!
Kendra - 136 / 60 🐉 Completed!
Kristin - 9 / 20 🐛
Kristina - 157 / 155 🐉 Completed!
Kylie - 5 / 25 🐛
Laureen - 0 / 25
Leticia - 12 / 20 🐛
Lilli Gilliam - 20 / 20 🐉 Completed!
Linda - 35 / 55 🐛
luna ☾ - 60 / 60 🐉 Completed!
Margie - 70 / 70 🐉 Completed!
Martha - 0 / 20
Mave - 0 / 40
Meera - 2 / 12 🐛
Mouse333 - 0 / 56
MYSTIQUE - 27 / 32 🐛
Nat - 0 / 20
Nathalia - 0 / 40
Nicolle - 0 / 7
Patty - 40 / 40 🐉 Completed!
Rachael - 41 / 40 🐉 Completed!
Rachel - 20 / 20 🐉 Completed!
Robin - 6 / 40 🐛
Robynne - 4 / 40 🐛
Sarah - 55 / 55 🐉 Completed!
Sherri - 60 / 50 🐉 Completed!
Suman - 1 / 10 🐛
.sunflower. - 9 / 9 🐉 Completed!
Sunny - 11 / 11 🐉 Completed!
Suzanne - 69 / 100 🐛
Theresa - 12 / 12 🐉 Completed!
Truitt_T - 89 / 177 🐛
Ziggy - 0 / 12
Last updated on Jan 5.

I am going to read 7 books by Nobel prize winners (literary award)
1. The History of Rome, Vol 1: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy
2. Penguin Island
3. Beloved
4. Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
5. Of Mice and Men
6.. The Fall of the King
7. Doctor Zhivago
And 6 books that are mysteries/thrillers. (genre)
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. Woman on the Edge
3. Survive the Night
4. The It Girl
5. The Hunting Party
6. Zero Days

33/55
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I need to keep the shelf numbers low so I might just do the following 6 shelves [not the 16 shelves I tried and failed to do last year] and maybe a total of 40 books. That should be OK.
4/40
Shelves
Author - J Robert Kennedy - 10 books
Book Genre - Dual Timelines - 5 books
Literary Awards - Pulitzer Prize Winners - 5 books
Memoirs & Biographies - 5 books
Place - Paris - 10 books
Science and Technology - On the Spectrum - 5 books
My BOOKS LIST - more or less done!!
With a few extras to allow for Mood Reading
Author - J Robert Kennedy - 10 books - James Acton Series.
Sins of the Titanic - 13
The Templars Revenge - 19
The Nazi's Engineer - 20
The Cylon Curse - 22
Viking Deception - 23
Keepers of the Lost Ark - 24
Tomb of Genghis Khan - 25
Manila Deception - 26
The Fourth Bible - 27
Embassy of the Empire - 28
No Good Deed (also for Buzzword) - 30
The Last Soviet - 31
Book Genre - Dual Timelines - 5 books
Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe
The Night Portrait - Laura Morelli
The Book of Last Letters - Kerry Barrett
The Riviera House - Natasha Lester
The Sun Down Motel - Simone St James
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks - RR
Literary Awards - Pulitzer Prize Winners - 5 books
The Age of Innocence - 1921 Fiction
The Americans - Democratic Experience - Daniel J Boorstin - 1974 History
Guns, Germs & Steel - Jared Diamond - 1998 Non Fiction
Founding Brothers Revolutionary Generation - 2001
Swerve - 2012 - Non Fiction
Prairie Fires - 2018 - Biography
Memoirs & Biographies - 5 books
Heres the Story - Maureen McCormick - Brady Bunch
Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent
The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure & Betrayal
Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir
Place - Paris - 10 books
The Little Paris Bookshop
The Paris Apartment - Kelly Bowen
Moonlight over Paris
The Race for Paris
The Hidden Gardens of Paris
The Streets of Paris
The Lost Girl in Paris
Paris Never Leaves You
City of Light and Darkness - Rhys Bowen
Ladies of the Secret Circus
To capture what we cannot keep
The Paris Apartment - Lucy Foley (Back up - just in case)
Science and Technology - On the Spectrum - 5 books
Your brain's not broken - Tamara Rosier
ADHD 2.0 - Edward Hallowell
Idiots guide to Adult ADHD
Your life can be better
The power of Neurodiversity
ADHD - Shiny Nickel Survival Guide

Author:
Susan Elizabeth Phillips - 1/5
1. Fancy Pants
Linda Howard - 3/7
1. Troublemaker
2. All That Glitters
3. Mackenzie's Mountain
Lucy Score - 0/5
Kathryn Nolan - 1/3
1. Wild Open Hearts
Genre:
Non-Fiction - 8/3
1. How the World Works: Biology
2. Are You Thinking Clearly?: 29 reasons you aren't, and what to do about it
3. Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality
4. Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
5. I Saw the Dog
6. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
7. The Travelling Vet: From pets to pandas, my life in animals
8. The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
Fantasy - 4/7
1. The Dragon Keeper
2. Untethered Sky
3. The Final Empire
4. The Crown Conspiracy
Graphic Novel - 2/3
1. Neurocomic: A Comic About the Brain
2. Monstress Vol 1: Awakening
Middle Grade - 0/3
Listopia:
Unusual Pets in Romances - 3/5
1. Tempt Me at Twilight
2. Love in the Afternoon
3. Wait for You
MF Romantic Fiction Featuring Interesting Unusual Jobs - 3/5
1. Tempt Me at Twilight
2. Love in the Afternoon
3. Defiant Rose
A Time:
Medieval - 5/10
1. The Prize
2. Highlander Most Wanted
3. His Forsaken Bride
4. An Ill-Made Match
5. Return of the Rogue

Book Genre: Romance 1/5
A Thousand Boy Kisses
Book Genre: Thriller 2/2
How to Kill Your Family
The Couple at the Table
Book Length: 500+ 2/3
Thunderhead
The Toll
Diversity: LGBTQ+ 0/5
Diversity: Translated 3/5
Tender Is the Flesh
The Memory Police
I'm Waiting For You

40/40
Challenge Complete
*A Place: England 3/3
Henry VI Part 1
Henry VI Part 2
√ Henry VI Part 3
*Travel: 3/3
Conspiracy in Kiev (The Russian Trilogy #1)
Midnight in Madrid (The Russian Trilogy #2)
Countdown in Cairo (The Russian Trilogy #3)
*Book Length: <200 pages 3/3
The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Most Famous Trading Companies across the World 179 pages
Around the Moon (Baltimore Gun Club #2) 158 pages
Identity Crisis: The Murder, the Mystery, and the Missing DNA 112 pages
*An Author: Anna Elliott 4/4
The Jubilee Problem (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #4)
Death at the Diogenes Club (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #5)
The Return of the Ripper (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #6)
Die Again, Mr. Holmes (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #7)
*Book Length: >500 pages 3/3
The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike #6) 1,462 pages
The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2) 529 pages
Light Bringer (Red Rising #6) 686 pages
*A Literary Award: Locus Award Nominees 2/2
It
The Dark Half
*Science & Technology: 4/4
The Bone Thief (Body Farm #5)
The Bone Yard (Body Farm #6)
The Inquisitor's Key (Body Farm #7)
Cut to the Bone (Body Farm #8)
*Film & Theater: 4/4
The Clocks (Hercule Poirot #34)
Elephants Can Remember (Hercule Poirot #37)
Rising Sun
The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle #1)
*A Time: Summer 2/2
Dandelion Wine (Green Town #1)
Farewell Summer (Green Town #3)
*An Author: Jules Verne 4/4
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
From the Earth to the Moon (Baltimore Gun Club #1)
The Purchase of the North Pole (Baltimore Gun Club #3)
Paris in the Twentieth Century
*A Book Genre: Crime 5/5
A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #18)
Big Lake Drunk (Big Lake #22)
Missing Persons (DCI Morton #5)
The Evolution of a Serial Killer (DCI Morton #6)
Double Blind (DCI Morton #7)
*A Listopia: Best Horror Novels 3/3
Thinner #70
The Tommyknockers #50
Four Past Midnight #248

Progress: Done!
Full shelves 20/20
Total books 136/60
🏆*A Literary Award - Akutagawa Prize winners (6)
✅ The Memory Police
✅ Nails and Eyes
✅ Terminal Boredom: Stories
✅ The Cat Who Saved Books
✅ The Factory
✅ Tono Monogatari
📚*An Author - Grady Hendrix (4)
✅ How to Sell a Haunted House
✅ The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
✅ My Best Friend's Exorcism
✅ The Final Girl Support Group
🏆📚*A Listopia - mysteries/thrillers in translation (6)
✅ The Law of Lines
✅ The Corpse Flower
✅ Last Rituals
✅ We Had to Remove This Post
✅ Eartheater
✅ Tender is the Flesh
🏆📚*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future) (6)
✅ Here and Now
✅ Last Night at the Telegraph Club
✅ When Two Feathers Fell From The Sky
✅ Dasher Can't Wait for Christmas
✅ Something, Someday
✅ The Year of the Witching
🏆📚*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages) (7)
✅ Orochi: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1
✅ Hotaru's Way, Vol. 1
✅ My Love Mix-Up!, Vol. 1
✅ Nana, Vol. 1
✅ Blood Monster
✅ In the Empty Quarter
✅ Manuscript Found in a Milk Bottle
🏆📚*Film & TV (5)
✅ Mister Magic
✅ Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films
✅ The Golden Spoon
✅ A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
✅ Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
🏆📚*A Hobby or Pastime - Books and Reading (6)
✅ Don't Read Poetry
✅ A Library
✅ How to Read a Book
✅ Even Though I Knew the End
✅ Reading Beauty
✅ A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters
🏆📚*A Book Genre - poetry (6)
✅ The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives
✅ For the Shrew
✅ Time Is a Mother
✅ Ain't Burned All the Bright
✅ Punching the Air
✅ Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation
🏆📚*Celebrations (5)
✅ Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology
✅ All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson
✅ The Teachers March!
✅ Child of the Civil Rights Movement
✅ The ABCs of Black History
🏆📚*Diversity (in any of its forms) - disability (5)
✅ A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
✅ Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
✅ There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
✅ I'm a Terminal Cancer Patient, But I'm Fine.
✅ Azar on Fire
🏆📚*Diversity (in any of its forms) - neurodiversity (5)
✅ My Dyslexia
✅ The Maid
✅ Noor
✅ Buster
✅ Attack of the Teenage Brain: Understanding and Supporting the Weird and Wonderful Adolescent Learner
🏆📚*Friendship, Love, and Marriage (6)
✅ The Bandit Queens
✅ Is This How You See Me?: A Locas Story
✅ I Want to be a Wall, Vol. 1
✅ The Water Dragon's Bride, Vol. 1
✅ Love Me for Who I Am, Vol. 1
✅ Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
🏆📚*A Feeling - pride (6)
✅ Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
✅ Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
✅ This Book Is Gay
✅ Tokyo Love ~ Rica 'tte Kanji!?
✅ Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You
✅ Our Colors
✅ X-Gender, Vol. 1
🏆📚*A Fine Art - Music (7)
✅ Azar on Fire
✅ The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero
✅ Heavy Vinyl #3
✅ Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
✅ Symphony for a Broken Orchestra: How Philadelphia Collected Sounds to Save Music
✅ The Bear and the Piano
✅ Kicks in the Sky
🏆📚*Food & Beverage (8)
✅ Mooncakes
✅ Watercress
✅ Mushroom Rain
✅ Onion Skin
✅ The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
✅ The Dos and Donuts of Love
✅ Garlic and the Vampire
✅ Breadcrumbs
🏆📚*Heritage & Culture - learning about your family history (7)
✅ Soul Food Sunday
✅ A Different Pond
✅ This Is Your Time
✅ The Magic Fish
✅ Healer of the Water Monster
✅ White Horse
✅ Brother's Keeper
🏆📚*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies (6)
✅ Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22
✅ Becoming Muhammad Ali
✅ White Magic
✅ A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
✅ A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
✅ Crying in H Mart
🏆📚*Nature and the Environment - dogs (8)
✅ Scary Stories for Young Foxes
✅ Jackal
✅ Ingrid and the Wolf
✅ Wolfpack
✅ Mooncakes
✅ The Puppets of Spelhorst
✅ Mongrels
✅ The Fox Wish
🏆📚*A Place - home (6)
✅ The World Belonged to Us
✅ The Promised Neverland, Vol. 3
✅ The Hacienda
✅ She Is a Haunting
✅ How to Sell a Haunted House
✅ Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
🏆📚*Science & Technology - Women and minorities in STEM (7)
✅ The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan
✅ Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey
✅ Starcrossed
✅ The Essex Serpent
✅ A Perilous Undertaking
✅ Apsara Engine
✅ Never Give Up: Dr. Kati Karikó and the Race for the Future of Vaccines
🏆📚*Travel - remote vacations (6)
✅ The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
✅ Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
✅ The Writing Retreat
✅ The Guest List
✅ Exiles
✅ The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn
🏆📚*Travel - interstellar (8)
✅ Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine
✅ Bitch Planet #2
✅ Cosmoknights
✅ Cosmoknights, Vol. 2
✅ Saga, Book Three
✅ Maggie the Mechanic: A Love and Rockets Book
✅ The Last Cuentista
✅ Walking Practice

Genre: Historical 5/5
1. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
2. Victoria
3. The Magnolia Palace
4. Doomsday Book
5. A Study in Scarlet Women
Genre: Fantasy 5/5
1. A Fire Endless
2. Half a Soul
3. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
4. Assistant to the Villain
5. The Gilded Cage
Genre: Nonfiction 3/3
1. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
2. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
3. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Listopia: 2022 anticipated fantasy and science fiction
(5/5)
1. One Dark Window
2. House of Sky and Breath
3. The Stardust Thief
4. The Luminaries
5. Station Eternity
Length: Over 500 pages 5/5
1. The Pillars of the Earth
2. Fourth Wing
3. The Eye of the World
4. The Lincoln Highway
5. House of Earth and Blood
Diversity 5/5
1. The Matchmaker's Gift
2. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
3. Parable of the Sower
4. Black Sun
5. The Golem and the Jinni
An author: Alice Hoffman 5/5
1. The Dovekeepers
2. The Museum of Extraordinary Things
3. Faithful
4. The Marriage of Opposites
5. The World That We Knew
Place: Set in the UK 5/5
1. The Thursday Murder Club
2. The Other Bennet Sister
3. Five Little Pigs
4. Coronation Year
5. The Twyford Code
A Hobby: Food: 2/2
1. The Secret, Book & Scone Society
2. Lessons in Chemistry
A Hobby: Reading. Books about books 5/5
1. The Wishing Game
2.The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
3. Bloomsbury Girls
4. No Two Persons
5. Ink Blood Sister Scribe
A Feeling: Excitement - Just Published 5/5
1. Happy Place
2. Morgan Is My Name
3. Divine Rivals
4. The Surviving Sky
5. A Day of Fallen Night

Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
20/20
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
✔ 2.Dark Roads By Chevy Stevens ( British Columbia/ Canada) 8/11 4.5 stars
✔ 3.Dark Corners By Megan Goldin ( Daytona beach, Florida) 8/17 5 stars
✔ 4.The Family Game By Catherine Steadman ( New York) 8/26 3.5 stars
✔ 5.Dead of Winter By Darcy Coates ( Rocky Mountains) 9/3 4.5 stars





*A Book Genre ( Historical fiction)
✔ 2.The Kitchen Front By Jennifer Ryan 3/14 5 stars
✔ 3.The London Séance Society By Sarah Penner 4/4 4 stars
✔ 4.Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen By Alison Weir 6/13 5 stars
✔ 5.The Children's Blizzard By Melanie Benjamin 11/15 5 stars





*A Book Genre (YA)





*A Listopia
Oh, Royalty...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...



*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future) ~ Christmas
✔ 1.Through the Snow Globe By Annie Rains 12/3 5 stars ( Christmas)

*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
✔ 1. You, with a View By Jessica Joyce ( Love/Grief) 12/11 5 stars


5/20
Genre: Biographical fiction:
1. My Father's House
2.
3.
4.
Book Length over 500 pages:
1. The Ferryman
2.
3.
4.
Favorite book rereads:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Genre: Classics
1. War and Peace
2. The Way We Live Now
3. The Romance of a Shop
4.
Author: Elif Shafak
1.
2.
3.
4.

progress: 20/25
An Author: Sarah J Maas
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses
2. A Court of Mist and Fury
3. A Court of Wings and Ruin
4. A Court of Frost and Starlight
5. A Court of Silver Flames
6.
7.
A Book Genre: historical mystery
1. Frog Music
2. Murder at Half Moon Gate
3. Murder at Kensington Palace
4. Murder at Queen's Landing
A Listopia: Best of r/RomanceBooks Recommendations
1. Bet Me
2. The Kiss Quotient
3. Life's Too Short
4. The Heart Principle
5.Truth or Beard
A Listopia: Best Books of the 19th Century
1. North and South
2. Northanger Abbey
3. A Study in Scarlet
A Listopia: Speculative Fiction by Authors of Color
1. Death's End
2. Frankenstein in Baghdad
3.
Nature and the Environment: natural history
1. Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet
2.
3.

2/10
A Genre: Ghost Stories
1. Stir of Echoes
2.
3.
4.
5.
Listopia: Favorite Chick Lit
1. I Still Dream About You
2.
3.
4.
5.

Genre: Magical Realism:
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
2. In the Middle of Hickory Lane
3. Garden Spells
4. First Frost
5. Midnight at the Blackbird Café
Diversity: Same Sex Couples
1. The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
2. The First to Die at the End
3. Instructions for Dancing
4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
5. Until You Loved Me
A Time: Christmas
1. The Christmas Spirit
2. The Mistletoe Promise
3. A Seaside Christmas
4. Dashing Through the Snowbirds
5. One Last Gift
6. The Road to Christmas
7. Christmas at Lilac Cottage
8. The Afterlife of Holly Chase
9. A Season for Second Chances
10. Snowed In for Christmas
11. Love Always, Christmas
12. The Mistletoe Inn
13. The Mistletoe Secret
14. A Timeless Christmas
15. A Quilt for Christmas
Genre: Nonfiction
1. The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020
2. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
3. ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
4.
5.

COMPLETED: 41/40
✅ An Author: Neil Gaiman (5)
✔️ Stardust
✔️ The Ocean at the End of the Lane
✔️ Coraline
✔️ Being An Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolous
✔️ Marvel 1602
✅ An Author: William Shakespeare (3)
✔️ The Tempest
✔️ Henry IV, Part 2
✔️ Henry V
✅ Book Length: 500+ pages (17)
✔️ The Name of the Wind
✔️ The Clan of the Cave Bear
✔️ The Ink Black Heart
✔️ The Ambassador's Mission
✔️ A Thousand Heartbeats
✔️ The Wise Man's Fear
✔️ Vengeful
✔️ The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
✔️ The Elder Gods
✔️ Feed
✔️ The Corfu Trilogy
✔️ Morning Star
✔️ Iron Gold
✔️ Dark Age
✔️ Light Bringer
✔️ A Day of Fallen Night
✔️ Elantris
✅ Film and Theater: Book to Screen Adaptations (9)
✔️ The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes)
✔️ The Children of Men
✔️ The Time Machine
✔️ Watership Down
✔️ Catch-22
✔️ Howl's Moving Castle
✔️ Cranford
✔️ Great Expectations
✔️ Mortal Engines
✔️ Half Bad (The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself)
✅ Film and Theater: Disney (3)
✔️ The Isle of the Lost
✔️ Let It Go
✔️ Reflection
✅ A Place: Discworld (3)
✔️ Wyrd Sisters
✔️ A Hat Full of Sky
✔️ Moving Pictures

Children of Memory
*A Listopia - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
*A Literary Award - World Fantasy Award
Alif the Unseen
The Shadow Year
*Nature and the Environment
Complete: 13/16

Books:137/177 - 77%
Themes Begun: 16/18
Themes Completed: 6/18
My themes:
*A Book Genre: History - 7/12
1. Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs 2/8
2. This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together by 3/10
3. Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle 2/13
4. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
5. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 5/5
6. In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors 7/5
7. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster 7/30
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*A Book Genre: Nonfiction that doesn’t fit anywhere else - 9/12
1. The Incredible Journey of Plants 2/3
2. Fly Girl: A Memoir 2/6
3. The Nation of Plants 3/14
4. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone 5/30
5. Detox Your Thoughts: Quit Negative Self-Talk for Good and Discover the Life You've Always Wanted 7/17
6. The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus 7/18
7. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million 7/28
8. The Year of Magical Thinking8/4
9. Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence 12/5
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✔️*A Book Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy - 12/12
1. The Quiet House 3/9
2. Even Though I Knew the End1/27
3. Winter's Wolf 2/9
4. Ocean's Echo 3/9
5. Wayward Son 3/12
6. A Twist in Time 4/2
7. Starcrossed 4/7
8. What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch 4/10
9. Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews 4/17
10. The Sceptic by Lily Morton 4/23
11. PsyCop Briefs: Volume 1 by Jordan Castillo Price 4/26
12. Only Bad Options by Jennifer Estep 5/2
Book Length: Under 100 pages - 20/25
1. Jonty in Russia by Barbara Elsborg (89p) 2/12
2. Sink or Swim by Lissa Kasey (39p) 2/18
3. Out of the Office by Louisa Masters (84p) 2/19
4. Fireman's Carry by Andrew Grey (98p) 2/23
5. Lukos Heat by Megan Derr 2/25
6. The Prince's Frog by Eden Winters (82) 3/2
7. The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor (31) 3/3
8. Red Dirt Christmas N.R. Walker (54) 3/6
9. Halcyon Hush by Indra Vaughn (20) 3/9
10. Red Dirt Heart Imago by N.R. Walker (76) 3/10
11. Trex or Treat by Tara Lain (34) 3/17
12. How To Date a Dragon by Louisa Masters (89) 4/23
13. Still Waters Come Deep by Drake Penn (39) 6/20
14. Follow my Rules: An ABDL MM Pet Play Story vy Michael Levi 6/23
15. Backwoods Asylum by Megan Derr (54) 7/1
16. Rabbit Season by Megan Derr (66) 7/1
17. Totally Covered by Sean Michael (79) 7/11
18. The River’s Edge by Jordan Castillo Price (69) 7/25
19. Ice Around the Edges by Mary Calmes (59)7/25
20. The Tea Master and the Detective (96)9/14
21. Naughty Neil (56) 10/11
22. Merlin in the Library (19) 11/28
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✔️*Book Length: 500 pages & up - 6/6
1. Kind Hearts at Christmas by various - 757p
2. Joey: The Complete Unabridged Story by Angelique Jurd (546p) 2/17
3. Heart2Heart: A Charity Anthology Volume 5 by various (812p)2/20
4. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (549p)2/28
5. Something Wicked by Eden Winters (549p) 3/2
6. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows 3/24
Diversity: Non Romance LGBTQTIA+ books - 3/6
1. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe 5/6
2. Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank by Eric Orner 6/21
3. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel 7/9
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*Diversity: African American History/Experience - 2/3
1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 8/7
2. The Hemingses of Monticello 8/18
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✔️*A Feeling: Excitement - Just Published - 14/14
1. Straight to the Heart by Lynn Van Dorn 1/29
2. Dance with Me by2/5 Veronica Cochrane
3. The Rest of the Story by Tal Bauer 2/7
4. The Husband Hoax by Saxon James 2/10
5. Toucan Love You by Lorelei M. Hart and Aria Grace 2/13
6. Undone by Christina Lee 3/4
7. Prince of Lies by Lucy Lennox 3/12
8. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles 3/17
9. Too Hot to Hold: An MM Romance by Andrew Grey 4/18
10. Woods of the Raven by Mary Calmes 4/26/23
11. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld 4/28
12. Good Boy : (Vanilla Baby Trilogy Book 2) An MM Omegaverse Sugar Daddy Romance by Jett Masterson 5/6
13. Asher by Louisa Masters 5/7
14. Only the Brightest Stars by Andrew Grey 5/30
*Film & Theater: Plays - 4/18
1. I Am My Own Wife
2. Elephant Man 8/27
3. The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts 9/27
4. Fairview 12/3
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✔️*Film & Theater: They Made a Movie/TV series Out of That! 6/6
1. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1987 tv movie) 1/25
2. A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr (1987 feature film) 3/31
3. Chiefs by Stuart Woods (1983 mini-series) 5/26
4. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (feature film 2014) 7/7
5. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (tv series 2023) 7/9
6. Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham (feature film, 2000) 7/20
✔️*A Fine Art: Graphic Fiction & Nonfiction - 12/12
1. Heartstopper: Volume One 1/2
2. Heartstopper: Volume Two 2/1
3. The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint 2/3
4. Heartstopper: Volume Three 2/22
5. El Deafo by Cece Bell 3/4
6. Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman 3/18
7. Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier & Val Wise 6/29
8. A Man's Skin by Hubert & Zanzim 6/29
9. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton 6/30
10. If I Go Missing by Brianna Jonnie, Nahanni Shingoose, & Neal Shannacappo 7/19
11. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio 8/26
12. Shadow Life 9/13
*Heritage & Culture: Fashion/Clothing/Textiles - 0/3
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✔️*A Literary Award: SF&F Award Nominees & Winners per SFADB - 12/12
1. Mammoth (Locus Award nominee) 3/9
2. A Marvellous Light (Autralis Award nominee) 4/24
3. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Hugo Award winner/novella 2022) 5/8
4. A Deadly Education (nominee Dragon, Lodestar 2021) 5/31
5. Silver in the Wood (World Fantasy Award/novella 2020)6/5/
6. Kushiel's Dart 6/16
7. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy 6/26
8. Wakulla Springs (World Fantasy Award/novella 2013) 7/13
9. On a Red Station, Drifting (Nebula & Hugo nominee, best novella, 2012-13) 7/15
10. An Unkindness of Ghosts (James Tiptree nominee) 7/23
11. Signal to Noise (British Fantasy Award nominee) 8/6
12. Into the Riverlands 8/14
*A Place: Africa - 1/3
1. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 7/9
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*A Place: Asia - 4/6
1. A Hanging at Dawn (India) 1/2
2. The Other Man (India) 4/20
3. People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up (Japan) 8/15
4. Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China (China) 8/28
5. Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past 9/17
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*A Place: Latin America - 0/3
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*A Time: 20th Century Fiction - 12/12
1. Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh (1982) 1/8
2. The Camelot Caper 1/29
3. The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov 4/11
4. The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart (1961) 4/14
5. Trouble with Lichen(1960) 8/4
6. The Salzburg Connection (1968) 9/13
7. Dorsai! (1959) 9/15
8. Necromancer 9/18
9. Soldier, Ask Not 9/24
10. Babbacombe's (1941)10/25
11. Sally-Ann 10/27
12. Tactics of Mistake 10/29
*Travel: Places To Visit - 9/12
1. Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King (CA, near San Francisco) 1/6
2. In The Frame (Australia & New Zealand) 1/30
3. Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamunde Pilcher (Scotland) 2/5
4. Mahu Blood by Neil S. Plakcy (Hawaii) 2/12
5. Private Charter by N.R. Walker (Great Barrier Reef) 2/16
6. Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (US Southwest) 3/15
7. Leap of Faith by C.F. White (Guernsey) 4/15
8. Murder at the Mena House by Erica Ruth Neubauer (Egypt) 7/4
9. Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs (Greece) 7/6
10. Volcanic Adventures in Tonga - Species Conservation on Tin Can Island by Ann Göth (Tonga) 7/23
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Tracking
9/10
An author: Victoria Aveyard 2/3
----- Glass Sword ✅
----- King's Cage ✅
----- War Storm
Diversity: POC main characters 4/4
----- The Trouble with Hating You ✅
----- Things We Do in the Dark✅
----- Babel ✅
----- Revenge, Murder in Three Parts ✅
Genre: Retellings 3/3
----- An Arrow to the Moon ✅
----- In the Lives of Puppets ✅
----- Malice ✅

I really loved this last year, so count me in again!
Total: 31/31
An Author: Stephen King 4/4




A Book Genre: Gay Romance 3/3



Book Length: 300 - 500 pages 5/5





Diversity: BIPOC 4/4




A Feeling: Bloodlust 3/3



Heritage & Culture: Ireland 3/3



A Listopia: 100 Children's Books to read in a Lifetime 3/3



A Place: France 3/3



A Time: Alternative History/Dystopian 3/3




✅✅✅✅✅An Author





✅✅✅✅✅A Book Genre - Paranormal Mysteries





✅✅✅✅✅Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages) 300pp +/-10%





✅✅✅✅✅Celebrations





✅✅✅✅✅Diversity (in any of its forms)





✅✅✅✅✅Friendship, Love, and Marriage





✅✅✅✅✅A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy) - Grief





✅✅✅✅✅Film & Theater





✅✅✅✅✅A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)





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✅✅✅✅✅Heritage & Culture





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✅✅✅✅✅A Listopia





✅✅✅✅✅A Literary Award





✅✅✅✅✅Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies





✅✅✅✅✅Nature and the Environment





✅✅✅✅✅A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation) - paranormal academy





✅✅✅✅✅Science & Technology





✅✅✅✅✅A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future) - The Regency





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55/55-COMPLETED
A Listopia-Best Female Lead Characters: 2/2
✅1)Outlander (31/10/23)
✅2)The Final Empire (25/5/23)
A Listopia-Books That Everyone Should Read at Least Once: 3/3
✅1)A Clockwork Orange (2/4/23)
✅2)Where the Red Fern Grows (1/7/23)
✅3)The War of the Worlds (5/3/23)
Book Length (under 200 pages): 50/50
✅1)Bambi (25/1/23)
✅2)Winnie-the-Pooh (1/2/23)
✅3)The Little Engine That Could (29/1/23)
✅4)Goodnight Moon (3/3/23)
✅5)Clifford the Big Red Dog (1/1/23)
✅6)Curious George Goes to the Hospital (29/1/23)
✅7)The Lorax (30/1/23)
✅8)Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (3/2/23)
✅9)The Paper Bag Princess (4/2/23)
✅10)Dear Mr. Henshaw (11/3/23)
✅11)Boy: Tales of Childhood (13/2/23)
✅12)If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (30/1/23)
✅13)There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom (25/2/23)
✅14)Guess How Much I Love You (7/2/23)
✅15)Lost London (6/1/23)
✅16)Men Without Women (26/2/23)
✅17)The Boy Who Was (24/4/23)
✅18)Silent Snow, Secret Snow (10/2/23)
✅19)Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business (17/2/23)
✅20)Make Way for Ducklings (6/1/23)
✅21)The Little House (16/2/23)
✅22)Many Moons (16/2/23)
✅23)Stuart Little (6/3/23)
✅24)Blueberries for Sal (25/2/23)
✅25)Madeline's Rescue (12/3/23)
✅26)Beezus and Ramona (2/2/23)
✅27)Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (26/2/23)
✅28)Frog And Toad Are Friends (2/4/23)
✅29)A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (18/2/23)
✅30)A Light in the Attic (15/1/23)
✅31)Love You Forever (10/6/23)
✅32)Oh, the Places You'll Go! (28/2/23)
✅33)Nana, Vol. 1 (27/2/23)
✅34)Tudor Secrets Scandals (8/3/23)
✅35)The Borrowers (23/3/23)
✅36)Horton Hears a Who! (27/2/23)
✅37)The 101 Dalmatians (4/3/23)
✅38)The Cat in the Hat (8/1/23)
✅39)Are You My Mother? (18/2/23)
✅40)Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (19/4/23)
✅41)Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb (1/4/23)
✅42)There's a Wocket in My Pocket! (13/5/23)
✅43)A Color of His Own (15/6/23)
✅44)Letters from Father Christmas (27/12/23)
✅45)Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2/7/23)
✅46)The Kissing Hand (1/7/23)
✅47)Rapunzel (13/3/23)
✅48)Christmas Oranges (14/3/23)
✅49)And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (3/7/23)
✅50)The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1/8/23)

An Author - Mary Stewart
I'll be reading with a group: Madam, Want to Talk About Author Mary Stewart?
✔ 1. Airs Above the Ground
✔ 2. The Gabriel Hounds
✔ 3. The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One
✔ 4. Touch Not the Cat
✔ 5. The Hollow Hills, by Mary Stewart - Book 2 in the Arthurian Saga
✔ 6. The Last Enchantment, by Mary Stewart - Book 3 in the Arthurian Saga
7. Thornyhold
8. Stormy Petrel
9. Rose Cottage
An Author - Grace Livingston Hill
I'll be reading with a group: Grace Livingston Hill (and similar) Fans.
✔ 1. The Challengers, by Grace Livingston Hill - ★★★★★
✔ 2. The Obsession of Victoria Gracen, by Grace Livingston Hill - finished March 24 - ★★★★★ - 207 pages
An Author - C.S. Forester
Hornblower Saga
✔ 1. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, by C.S. Forester - finished January 5 - ★★★★
✔ 2. Lieutenant Hornblower, by C.S. Forester - finished February 15 - ★★★★
✔ 3. Hornblower and the Hotspur - finished March 30 - ★★★★
✔ 4. Hornblower During the Crisis by CS Forester - Finished May 2 - ★★★★★ - 176 pages
✔ 5. Hornblower and the Atropos - finished April 22 - ★★★★
✔ 6. Beat to Quarters, aka. The Happy Return, by C.S. Forester - finished June 9 - ★★★ - 324 pages
✔ 7. Ship of the Line, by C.S. Forester - finished July 3 - ★★★ - 292 pages
✔ 8. Flying Colors, by CS Forester - finished August 11 - ★★★★ - 256 pages
✔ 9. Commodore Hornblower, by C.S. Forester - finished September 13 - ★★★ - 384 pages
10. Lord Hornblower
11. Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
A Book Genre - Christian Nonfiction
✔ 1. Braving the Thin Places: Celtic Wisdom to Create a Space For Grace, by Julianne Stanz - finished February 27 - ★★★★★
✔ 2. The Confession of Saint Patrick, by Saint Patrick - finished March 22 - ★★★★★
✔ 3. The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous - to read during Lent with a Booktube group. Lent is Wed, Feb 22, 2023 - Thu, Apr 6, 2023 - Finished April 8, 2023 - ★★★★★ - 224 pages
✔ 4. How to Journal With God by AmyLu Riley - Finished May 1 - ★★★★ - 85 pages
✔ 5. Purpose in Prayer, by E.M. Bounds - finished July 1 - ★★★★★ - 160 pages
A Book Genre - Historical Fiction
✔ 1. The Indigo Girl, by Natasha Boyd - finished January 14 - ★★★★★
✔ 2. Calico Captive, by Elizabeth George Speare - finished January 19 - ★★★★★
✔ 3. A Perfect Weakness, by Jennifer A. Davids - finished January 22 - ★★★
✔ 4. The Tea Chest, by Heidi Chiavaroli - ★★★★★
✔ 5. Medieval Woman, by Ann Baer - Finished May 4 - ★★★★★ - 240 pages
✔ 6. All Through the Night, by Tara Johnson - Finished May 10 - ★★★★★ - 384 pages
✔ 7. Laurel's Dream, by Pepper Basham - Finished May 16 - ★★★★★ - 272 pages
✔ 8. An Uncommon Woman, by Laura Frantz- Finished May 20 - ★★★★★ - 384 pages
✔ 9. The Daughter's Walk by Jane Kirkpatrick - Finished May 31 - ★★★★ - 388 pages
✔ 10. The Californios, by Louis L'Amour - finished June 5 - ★★★★★ - 240 pages - June on the Range
✔ 11. Shane, by Jack Schaefer - finished June 12 - ★★★★★ - 135 pages - June on the Range
✔ 12. Heart of Gold, by Robin Lee Hatcher - finished June 29 - ★★★★★ - 306 pages - June on the Range
✔ 13. The Gold in These Hills, by Joanne Bischof - finished July 17 - ★★★★★ - 323 pages
✔ 14. A Shelter of Hope, by Tracie Peterson - finished July 20 - ★★★★★ - 308 pages
✔ 15. Freedom's Light, by Colleen Coble - finished September 24 - ★★★★ - 320 pages
✔ 16. In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez - finished October 24 - ★★★★ - 337 pages
A Book Genre - Classics
✔ 1. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James - finished January 19 - ★★★★★
✔ 2. Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne - finished January 21 - ★★★★
✔ 3. Middlemarch, by George Eliot - finished January 26 - ★★★★★
✔ 4. North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell - finished February 9 - ★★★★★
✔ 5. The Painted Veil, by W. Somerset Maugham - Finished March 2 - ★★★★★ - 246 pages
✔ 6. Madam Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert - finished March 16 - ★★★★ - 329 pages
✔ 7. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser - Finished April 13, 2023 - ★★★★★ - 859 pages
✔ 9. A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster - Finished April 24, 2023 - ★★★★ - 376 pages
✔ 10. The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan - Finished April 29 - ★★★★★ - 300 pages
✔ 11. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley - finished July 28 - ★★★★★ - 260 pages
✔ 12. Lady Into Fox, by David Garnett - finished August 17 - ★★ - 55 pages
✔ 13. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark - finished August 29 - ★★★★ - 150 pages
✔ 14. The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad - finished September 1 - ★★★★★ - 188 pages
✔ 15. Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray - finished October 20 - ★★★★ - 696 pages
A Literary Award - Newbery Winners or Honor Books
✔ 1. The Golden Goblet, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw - finished April 10, 2023 - ★★★★ -248 pages
Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
✔ 1. More After the Break: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories, by Jen Maxfield - finished January 1 - ★★★★★
✔ 2. The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir, by Dee Williams (audiobook) - finished January 10 - ★★★★
✔ 3. The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Mifflin, by Margot Oatman - Finished May 22 - ★★★★★ - 280 pages
✔ 4. One Man's Wilderness, by Richard Proenneke and Sam Keith - finished July 25 - ★★★★★ - 224 pages
✔ 5. Out of the Silence: After the Crash, by Eduardo Strauch Urioste - finished August 12 - ★★★★★ - 172 pages
✔ 6. 84 Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff - finished August 21 - ★★★★★ - 106 pages
A Place: California
✔ 1. Camp Far West: A Memoir of Early California, by Randolph H. Pirtle - ★★★★ - 202 pages
✔ 2. The Californios, by Louis L'Amour - finished June 5 - ★★★★★ - 240 pages
✔ 3. Light of the Western Stars, by Zane Grey - finished June 16 - ★★★ - 328 pages - June on the Range
✔ 4. The Mark of Zorro, by Johnston McCulley - finished June 24 - ★★★★★ - 265 pages - June on the Range
Travel
✔ 1. Life Along the Applegate Trail, by Linda D. Lochard - finished March 24 - ★★★★★
✔ 2. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America, by Elizabeth Letts - Finished May 6 - ★★★★★ - 336 pages
✔ 3. News of the World, by Paulette Jiles - finished August 26 - ★★★★★ - 209 pages

Progress: 69/20
📚Shelf: Authors - Stephen King
🖋️1. Thinner
🖋️2. Later
🖋️3. Gwendy's Button Box
🖋️4. Fairy Tale
🖋️5. Apt Pupil
🖋6. The Eyes of the Dragon
🖋7. Joyland
🖋8. Full Dark, No Stars
📚Shelf: Genre - Romance
🖋️1. All I Want for Christmas
🖋️2. Reminders of Him
🖋️3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
🖋️4. Something Borrowed
🖋️5. It Ends with Us
🖋️6. Happy Place
🖋️7. The Summer I Turned Pretty
🖋8. Twilight
🖋9. New Moon
🖋10. Eclipse
🖋11. Ice Planet Barbarians
🖋12. Breaking Dawn
🖋13. Midnight Sun
📚Shelf: Genre - Fantasy
🖋️1. A Court of Wings and Ruin
🖋️2. A Dance with Dragons
🖋️3. A Court of Frost and Starlight
🖋️4. Legends & Lattes
🖋️5. A Court of Silver Flames
🖋️6. Six of Crows
🖋️7. The Time of Contempt
🖋️8. The Cruel Prince
🖋️9. The Alchemyst
🖋️10. The Wicked King
🖋11. The Princess Bride
🖋12. Thornhedge
🖋13. The House in the Cerulean Sea
🖋14. The Young Elites
📚Shelf: Genre - Classic
🖋️1. A Little Princess
🖋️2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
🖋️3. The Secret Garden
🖋4. Infinite Jest
🖋5. Anne of Green Gables
🖋6. Dracula
📚Shelf: Diversity - LBGTQIA+ Authors/Characters
🖋️1. Heartstopper: Volume One
🖋️2. Heartstopper: Volume Two
🖋️3. Heartstopper: Volume Three
🖋️4. Heartstopper: Volume Four
🖋️5. Solitaire
🖋️6. Heartstopper: Become Human
🖋️7. They Both Die at the End
🖋️8. Nick and Charlie: A Heartstopper Novella
🖋9. The Monster of Elendhaven
🖋10. Every Heart a Doorway
🖋️11. Across the Green Grass Fields
🖋12. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
🖋️13. The Heartstopper Yearbook
🖋14. Loveless
🖋15. The House in the Cerulean Sea
🖋16. A Dowry of Blood
📚Shelf: A Fine Art - Graphic Novels
🖋️1. Black Butler, Vol. 2
🖋️2. Alice in the Country of Hearts, Vol. 1
🖋️3. Black Butler 3
🖋️4. Alice in the Country of Hearts, Vol. 2
🖋️5. Alice in the Country of Hearts, Vol. 3
🖋️6. Black Butler, Vol. 4
🖋️7. Sweet Tooth: Deluxe Edition, Book One
🖋8. Black Butler, Vol. 5
🖋9. Black Butler, Vol. 6
🖋10. Sweet Tooth: Deluxe Edition, Book Two
🖋11. Sweet Tooth: Deluxe Edition, Book Three
🖋12. Maid-sama! (2-in-1 Edition), Vol. 1: Includes Vols. 1 & 2

Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
11/25
An Author: Christopher Ruocchio
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Book Genre: Thrillers
1. Blindsighted 1/3/23
2. The Whisper Man 01/16/23
3. The Broken Room 2/5/23
4. Kisscut 2/19/2023
5. Eeny Meeny 3/14/23
Book length - 500+ pages
1. Before They Are Hanged 1/5/22 570 pages
2. A Dance with Dragons 1/24/23 1016 pages
3. A Court of Wings and Ruin 1/28/23 720 pages
4. Children of Time 1/29/23
5. Royal Assassin 675p. 2/16/23
Literary Award: Nebula
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Listopia - Can't wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy 2022
1. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy 1/6/23
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January 01 - December 31
Progress: 157/155
Put me down for 155 books, please!
Member Corner Tracking Post

Authors:
2 books by David Webb (2/2)
A Rising Thunder
Uncompromising Honor
3 books by Robert B. Parker (3/3)
Chance
Small Vices
Sudden Mischief
4 books by Michael Connelly 4/4
Dark Sacred Night
The Night Fire
The Dark Hours
Desert Star
2 books by David Preston
Genres:
9 Science Fiction books (6/9)
Caliban's War
Tripoint
Downbelow Station
Leviathan Wakes
The X-Ship
Heavy Time
5 Mystery books (5/5)
Remember Me
If It Bleeds
Hidden Order
Easy Prey
Wild Fire
A Time:
5 books from the World War 2 era (1933 to 1945) (3/5)
The Big Nowhere
Cross of Iron
Torpedo Run
23/30

Goal increased to 12 books on Aug. 22.
My progress is shown in the spoiler tag.
(view spoiler)

Genre: Fiction/Strong Females: 0/10
Listopia: Best Books Ever: 0/5
Diversity: 0/10
0/25

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 20/20
Shelves:
An Author - C.J. Peterson
√1. Appointed Time (Sands of Time Trilogy, #1)
√2. Race Against Time (Sands of Time Trilogy, #2)
√A Book Genre (Cozy mystery)
√1. Moving is Murder (Middle Age is Murder, #1) - Nellie H. Steele
√2. Dial M for Meow (Bookshop Kitties Mysteries, #1) - Ruth J. Hartman
√Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
√1. Gingerbread Dead (Christmas Cookies) - Lori L. Robinett (92 pages)
√2. Meringue Snowflake Magic (Christmas Cookies) - Tena Stetler (110 pages)
√Food & Beverage
√1. Cookie Monsters - Erika J. Kendrick
√2. The Pepper Peach Murder (Luscious Delights Mystery, #1) - Meg Benjamin
√Heritage & Culture
√1. The Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict
√2. Under a Veiled Moon (Inspector Corravan, #2) - Karen Odden
√A Hobby or Pastime
√1. Snuffed Out (Magic Candle Shop Mysteries, #1) - Valona Jones
√2. What Meets the Eye - Alex Kenna
√A Listopia
√1. Vampires and Villains (Magical Mystery Book Club, #2) - Elizabeth Pantley (Best Books with "Villain" in the Title) https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
√2. Sun Keep Rising - Kristen R. Lee (2023 YA/MG Books With POC Leads) https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
√A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
√1. In The Shadow of The Apennines - Kimberly Sullivan
√2. Murder, She Wrote: Death on the Emerald Isle (Murder, She Wrote, #56) - Jessica Fletcher
√A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
√1. The Man Who Screams At Nightfall...and other stories - Rush Leaming
√2. Edge of Dusk (Annie Pedersen, #2) - Colleen Coble
√Travel
√1. The Key to Circus-Mom Highway - Allyson Rice
√2. The Low Road (McLaren Mystery, #16) - Jo A. Hiestand

4/12 shelves, 5/25 books
*An Author
*Book Genre - Thriller
1. Fangsters, a novel by Jo-Ann Carson
* Book Genre - Fantasy Romance
1. Wolf Gone Wild by Juliette Cross
2. Don't Hex and Drive by Juliette Cross
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
1. Never Rescue a Rogue by Virginia Heath
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
*Film & Theater
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
*Food & Beverage
*Heritage & Culture
*A Hobby or Pastime
1. The Binding by Bridget Collins - bookbinding
*A Listopia
*A Literary Award
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
*Nature and the Environment
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
*Science & Technology
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
*Travel

0/40
Diversity
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Friendship
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Listopia
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Memoirs
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A Place, location- UK
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A Time, Christmas
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Travel
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BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
January 01 - December 31
Progress: 2/24
Genre: Literary Fiction (2/12)
1. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González 1/2/23
2. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley 1/7/23
Book Lenght: 500+ pages (12)

📕📚📖Bookworms take Shelfies - 2023📖📚📕
January 1 - December 31, 2023
(🥀 = task completed)
Updated message #38
Progress: 24/32
***An Author*** 1/6
- Tal Bauer 1/3
🥀1. You & Me 1/12/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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- K.A. Merikan 0/3
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***Book Length (500+ pages)*** 0/3
🥀1. Bite Me! - You Know I Like It 7/12/23 (600p) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀2. Broken Beasts of Beauty 9/6/23 (577p)⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀3. The Necromancer's Smile 10/12/23 (501p) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


***A Listopia*** 8/20
- Beauty and the Beast - 1/13
🥀1. Beauty, Inc. 1/26/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀2. Beauty and His Beast 4/20/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀3. Beau and the Beast 9/1/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀4. Beauty and the Beast 9/4/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀5. Fairytale Shifters: Beauty and the Beast 9/4/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀6. Thorn in His Side 9/29/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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- Best Gay Friends Become Lovers 7/7
🥀1. Beyond the Surface 1/30/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀2. Blindsided 1/13/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀3. The Locker Room 3/5/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀4. On Point 3/7/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀5. My Best Friend’s Secret 1/30/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀6. You're My Home 2/13/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀7. Memory Lane 2/10/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀8. Five Dares 4/27/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️








***A Literary Award*** 3/3
🥀1. Under the Rushes 2/23/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rainbow Award for Best Gay Sci-Fi/Futuristic (2013)
🥀2. You Had One Job 2/27/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rainbow Award for Gay Romantic Suspense (tied) (2021)
🥀3. Off Base 3/6/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award (RT Award) Nominee for Indie/Digital Contemporary Romance (2017)
🥀4. Must Love Demons 3/29/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rainbow Award Nominee for Gay Fantasy Romance and Best Gay Book (2021)
🥀5. The Demon's in the Details 8/25/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rainbow Award (2019)
🥀6. Be Fairy Game 10/4/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rainbow Award Nominee for Gay Paranormal Romance (2021)







Progress: 70/70 books
6/6 shelves
☑️Diversity: Black American Authors -15/15
1924 Jessie Redmon Fauset: There Is Confusion
1981 bell hooks: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
2010 Nnedi Okorafor: Who Fears Death
2013 Patricia Smith: Blood Dazzler
2016 Cheryl Head: Bury Me When I'm Dead
2017 Hanif Abdurraqib: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
2020 Eddie Glaude: Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
2021 Jill Louise Busby: Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity
2021 Nicole Glover: The Undertakers
2021 Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ: Unbury Our Dead With Song
2022 Saeed Jones: Alive At The End Of The World
2023 SA Cosby: All the Sinners Bleed
2023 Christina Sharpe: Ordinary Notes
2023 James McBride: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
2023 Camille Dungy: Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
☑️Diversity: Women In Translation - 15/15
1952 Italy: The Forbidden Notebook translated from Italian
1977 Egypt: Woman at Point Zero translated from Arabic
2005 New Caledonia: The Kanak Apple Season: Selected Short Fiction of Dewe Gorode translated from French
2011 Russia: Eastbound translated from French
2014 Japan: All the Lovers in the Night translated from Japanese
2015 Argentina: Things We Lost in the Fire translated from Spanish
2016 Croatia: We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day translated from Croatian
2017 Algeria, France: The Art of Losing translated from French
2018 Japan: The Pachinko Parlor translated from French
2019 Rwanda: All Your Children, Scattered translated from French
2020 British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos): An Impossible Return txl from French
2020 Japan: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library translated from Japanese
2020 Mexico: Witches translated from Spanish
2020 Palestine: Passage to the Plaza translated from Arabic
2022 Malaysia: The Age of Goodbyes translated from Chinese
☑️Genre: Short Stories - 5/5
2007 Nepal: Tilled Earth : Stories
2012 Multiple: A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories
2015 Philippines: In the Country
2016 Zimbabwe: Rotten Row
2018 Grenada: Tell No-One About This
☑️ Listopia: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - 15/15
1766 England: The Vicar of Wakefield
1839 The Fall of the House of Usher
1842 Spain: The Pit and the Pendulum
1899 Hungary: Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
1901 Germany: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
1925 South Africa: Chaka
1928 Germany, France: All Quiet on the Western Front
1939 US: The Grapes of Wrath
1945 England: Brideshead Revisited
1948 England: The Heat of the Day
1954 Guinea: The Dark Child
1956 France: Giovanni's Room
1984 China: Empire of the Sun
1992 Spain: A Heart So White
2002 Israel: A Tale of Love and Darkness
☑️ Place: Greece (location or author) - 10/10
1945 Greece: Apartment in Athens
1946 Greece: Three Summers
1950 Greece: Ill Met by Moonlight
1987 Greece: The Jaguar
1992 Greece: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
2010 Greece: Spies of the Balkans
2012 Greece: The Green Shore
2013 Greece: The Book of Katerina
2015 Greece: Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know
2021 Greece: The Wrong End of the Telescope
☑️Travel: Travelogues, Road Trips, Adventures, Reportage -10/10
1993 Balkans: Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
1998 China - Taklamakan Desert: Crossing the Desert of Death
2000 Turkey: Out of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road
2002 Benin: Show Me the Magic: Travels Round Benin by Taxi
2004 Balkans, Middle East: The 8:55 to Baghdad
2013 Morocco: A Significant Year
2014 Yemen: Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
2018 Africa: A Stranger's Pose
2021 Colombia: Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena
2021 Madagascar: The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story

An Author - Terry Fallis
1. FINISHED. Albatross.
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A Book Genre - Historical Fiction
1. FINISHED. The Red Address Book. Sofia Lundberg
2. FINISHED. Pull of the Stars. Emma Donoghue
3. FINISHED. The Great Alone. Kristin Hannah
4. FINISHED. The Beekeeper of Aleppo. Christy Lefteri
5. FINISHED. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Kim Michele Richardson
A Listopia A Listopia - 2022: What Women Born in the 1960s Have Read so Far
1. FINISHED. Sea of Tranquility. Emily St. John Mandel
2. Lessons in Chemistry. Bonnie Garmus
3. FINISHED. Remarkably Bright Creatures. Shelby Van Pelt
4. People We Meet on Vacation. Emily Henry
5. FINISHED. Piranesi. Susanna Clarke
6. FINISHED. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person. Shonda Rhimes
Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
1. FINISHED. We Were Dreamers. Simu Liu
2. FINISHED. A Heart That Works. Rob Delaney
3. FINISHED. Crying in H-Mart
4. FINISHED. Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family. Ron Howard. Clint Howard
5. FINISHED. Out of the Corner. Jennifer Grey
6. FINISHED. Spare.
7. FINISHED. Finding Me. Viola Davis
8. FINISHED. How Y'all Doing? Leslie Jordan
18/22

5/60
The 20 shelf themes are:
*An Author...James Patterson
*A Book Genre....Futuristic
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*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
under 200
1)

*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
*Film & Theater
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
*Food & Beverage...Goldy bear catering series
Double Shot
Dark Tort
Sweet Revenge
*Heritage & Culture
*A Hobby or Pastime
*A Listopia
*A Literary Award
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
*Nature and the Environment
animals
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2)

*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
*Science & Technology
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
*Travel

40/40
An Author Gregg Hurwitz
1. Orphan X by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
2. The Nowhere Man by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
A Book Genre Mystery Thriller
1. Into the Fire by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
2. Prodigal Son by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
1. Maureen by Rachel Joyce
2. Buy a Bullet by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Celebrations (of Women)
1. Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting by Anna Quindlen
2. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Diversity (in any of its forms)
1. Out of the Dark by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
2. The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
Friendship, Love, and Marriage
1. The Friendship Breakup by Annie Cathryn
2. Just My Type by Falon Ballard
A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
1. Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
2. Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
Film & Theater
1. Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
2. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
1. Unlock Your Storybook Heart by Amanda Lovelace
2. The Mozart Season by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Food & Beverage
1. Anna Olson's Baking Wisdom: The Complete Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Make You a Better Baker by Anna Olson
2. Cucina Povera: Tuscan Peasant Cooking by Pamela Sheldon Johns
Heritage & Culture
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen
A Hobby or Pastime
1. Yoga Living in the Light: Yoga for Self-Realization by Deepak Chopra
2. Yoga Where You Are: Customize Your Practice for Your Body and Your Life by Dianne Bondy
A Listopia Can't Wait Books of 2022
1. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
2. The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
A Literary Award
1. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien International Fantasy Award For Fiction 1957
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (too many awards to list!)
Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
1. Spare by Prince Harry
2. The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Nature and the Environment
1. Riven by Mindee Arnett
2. Lola at Last by J.C. Peterson
A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
1. The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
2. Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
Science & Technology
1. Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton
2. A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel
A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
1. Until the Last of Me by Sylvain Neuvel
2. For the First Time, Again by Sylvain Neuvel
Travel
1. The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes
2. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

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Selina's Shelves
Completed: 60 / 60
╰☆☆ Authors: 15 / 15
╰☆☆ Genres: 35 / 35
╰☆☆ Book Length: 10 / 10
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AUTHORS
╰☆☆ Brandon Sanderson: (7 / 7)
[x] The Lost Metal
[x] The Way of Kings
[x] Skyward (reread to prep for last book)
[x] Starsight (reread to prep for last book)
[x] Cytonic (reread to prep for last book)
[x] Sunreach
[x] Defiant
╰☆☆ Rick Riordan: (5 / 5)
[x] The Sword of Summer
[x] The Hidden Oracle
[x] The Dark Prophecy
[x] The Burning Maze
[x] The Hammer of Thor
╰☆☆ Sarah J. Maas rereads: (3 / 3)
[x] A Court of Thorns and Roses
[x] A Court of Mist and Fury
[x] A Court of Wings and Ruin
GENRES
╰☆☆ Fantasy: (9 / 10)
[x] This Woven Kingdom
[x] Fourth Wing
[x] The Ballad of Never After
[x] The Trials of Morrigan Crow
[x] Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
[x] Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow
[x] Assistant to the Villain
[x] The Lost Metal
[x] The Ship of the Dead
[x] Iron Flame
╰☆☆ Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/Horror: (10 / 10)
[x] Rock Paper Scissors
[x] Five Survive
[x] The Hacienda
[x] Nine Liars
[x] The Silent Patient
[x] My Lovely Wife
[x] Murder in the Family
[x] Her Every Fear
[x] The Writing Retreat
[x] Dead Eleven
╰☆☆ Classic Literature: (5 / 5)
[x] Lord of the Flies
[x] To Kill a Mockingbird
[x] Memoirs of a Geisha
[x] The Velveteen Rabbit
[x] The Secret Garden
╰☆☆ Non-fiction: (5 / 5)
[x] I'm Glad My Mom Died
[x] Long Walk to Freedom
[x] Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
[x] The Woman in Me
[x] Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
╰☆☆ Poetry: (0 / 5)
[x] The Poetry of John Keats
[x] Break Your Glass Slippers
[x] Unlock Your Storybook Heart
[x] Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart
[x] All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
BOOK LENGTH
╰☆☆ Under 250 pages: (5 / 5)
[x] A Charmed Christmas
[x] Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
[x] The Giving Tree
[x] ReDawn
[x] Evershore
╰☆☆ Over 500 pages (5 / 5)
[x] Babel: An Arcane History
[x] The Secret History
[x] The Right Move
[x] The Reckoning
[x] Shadow Princess
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1. The Lost Hero
2. The Son of Neptune
3. The Mark of Athena
4. The House of Hades
5. The Blood of Olympus
* Author - Terry Pratchett - 3/3 books
1. The Light Fantastic
2. Making Money
3. Mort
* Diversity - Bisexual characters - 7/8 books
1. The Henna Wars
2. A Day of Fallen Night
3. The Marriage Act
4. Imogen, Obviously
5. Strong Female Character
6. Rated
7. How to Find a Missing Girl
* Diversity - Trans/non-binary authors or characters - 9/10 books
1. Her Majesty's Royal Coven
2. I Wish You All the Best
3. Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
4. Spell Bound
5. The Butterfly Assassin
6. The Hummingbird Killer
7. The Shadow Cabinet
8. Trouble
9. Sixteen Souls
* Literary Award - Past Goodreads Choice nominees - 11/15 books
1. Sea of Tranquility (2022 Sci Fi winner)
2. The First to Die at the End (2022 YA nominee)
3. Raybearer (2020 Debut nominee)
4. Ninth House (2019 Fantasy winner)
5. The Book Eaters (2022 Fantasy nominee)
6. I Wish You All the Best (2019 YA nominee)
7. The Shadow of the Gods (2021 Fantasy nominee)
8. The Lost Metal (2022 Fantasy nominee)
9. Legends & Lattes (2022 Fantasy nominee)
10. The House of Hades (2013 Middlegrade winner)
11. Lessons in Chemistry (2022 Debut winner, Historical nominee)
12. A Darker Shade of Magic (2015 Fantasy nominee)
Total: 35/43 books

January - December 2023
Please count me in for 100 books.
90/100 completed
Author - Sherwood Anderson
1. Winesburg, Ohio - 2/28 ★★★★
2. Poor White - 3/15 ★★★★★
3. The Triumph of the Egg - 4/2 ★★★★
4. Death in the Woods and Other Stories - 6/27 ★★★★
Author - Isaac Asimov
1. Earth Is Room Enough - 1/13 ★★★★
2. Second Foundation - 1/24 ★★★★★
3. Foundation's Edge - 1/28 ★★★★★
4. Foundation and Earth - 2/26 ★★★★
5. Robot Dreams - 3/25 ★★★★★
6. The Martian Way - 4/1 ★★★★
7. The Robots of Dawn - 4/16 ★★★★
8. Prelude to Foundation - 4/19 ★★★★
9. Forward the Foundation - 5/9 ★★★★
Author - E.F. Benson
1. Lucia's Progress - 4/8 ★★★★★
2. Trouble for Lucia
Author - Orson Scott Card
1. Songmaster - 1/19 ★★★★
2. Shadow Puppets - 2/22 ★★
Author - Raymond Chandler
1. The Big Sleep - 1/21 ★★★★
2. Farewell, My Lovely - 3/16 ★★★
Author - Arthur C. Clarke
1. The Songs of Distant Earth - 1/2 ★★★★
2. The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night - 1/16 ★★★★
3. The Fountains of Paradise - 6/14 ★★★★
Author - Jeanne M. Dams
1. Holy Terror in the Hebrides - 1/4 ★★★★
2. Malice in Miniature - 1/9 ★★★★
3. The Victim in Victoria Station - 1/10 ★★★
4. Killing Cassidy - 1/14 ★★★
5. To Perish in Penzance - 1/18 ★★★
6. Sins Out of School - 2/4 ★★★★
7. Winter of Discontent - 2/13 ★★★
8. A Dark and Stormy Night - 3/8 ★★★★
9. The Evil That Men Do - 3/12 ★★★
10. The Corpse of St. James's - 3/20 ★★
11. Murder at the Castle - 3/28 ★★★
12. Shadows of Death - 4/3 ★★★★
13. Day of Vengeance - 5/17 ★★★
14. The Gentle Art of Murder - 6/30 ★★★★
15. Blood Will Tell - 7/16 ★★★★
16. Smile and Be a Villain
Author - Philip K. Dick
1. Counter-Clock World - 3/7 ★★★★
2. Eye in the Sky - 5/27 ★★★★★
3. The Penultimate Truth
Author - Raúl Garbantes
1. El Asesino del Lago - 5/19 ★★★
2. El Misterio del Lago - 6/3 ★★★★
Author - Robert A. Heinlein
1. The Puppet Masters - 3/5 ★★★★
2. Job
Author - Patricia Highsmith
1. The Talented Mr. Ripley - 5/3 ★★★★★
2.
Author - Larry Niven
1. Dream Park (with Steven Barnes) - 1/31 ★★★★
2. The Ringworld Engineers - 2/24 ★★★
3. Flatlander - 3/21 ★★★★
4. Neutron Star - 4/14 ★★★★
Author - Charles Portis
1. Masters of Atlantis - 6/8 ★★★
2. Escape Velocity
Author - Elizabeth Taylor
1. A View of the Harbour - 6/16 ★★★
2.
Author - Helene Tursten
1. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good - 2/10 ★★★★
2. An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed - 2/23 ★★★★
Author - John Varley
1. Titan - 2/17 ★★★★
2. Wizard - 5/26 ★★★★
Author - Richard Yates
1. Cold Spring Harbor - 2/18 ★★★★
2. Collected Stories - 4/6 ★★★★★
3. A Special Providence
4. Young Hearts Crying
Book Genre - Mystery
1. A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny - 1/25 ★★★
2. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth - 6/23 ★★★★
3. The New Shoe by Arthur W. Upfield - 7/20 ★★★★
Book Genre - Science Fiction
1. The Quality of Mercy by D.G. Compton - 1/3 ★★★★
2. Where Time Winds Blow by Robert Holdstock - 1/28 ★★★★
3. Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz - 1/29 ★★★
4. Star of Gypsies by Robert Silverberg - 1/31 ★★★★
5. The Guns of Terra 10 by Don Pendleton - 2/4 ★★★
6. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi - 3/2 ★★★★
7. Upgrade by Blake Crouch - 3/9 ★★★★
8. Other Worlds, Other Times (anthology) - 4/12 ★★★
9. The Best of L. Sprague de Camp by L. Sprague de Camp - 4/26 ★★★
10. Consider Her Ways and Others by John Wyndham - 5/13 ★★★★
11. Tom O'Bedlam by Robert Silverberg - 5/31 ★★★★
Book Genre - Short Stories
1. The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - 1/5 ★★★★
2. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger - 1/7 ★★★★★
3. The Maples Stories by John Updike - 2/15 ★★★★
4. Liberation Day by George Saunders - 4/4 ★★★★
5. Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood - 4/17 ★★★★
Diversity - LGBT
1. Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote - 2/3 ★★★
2. Wounded by Percival Everett - 2/9 ★★★★
3. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel - 3/18 ★★★★
4. Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood - 6/10 ★★★★
Food & Beverage
1. Beef by Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser - 1/9 ★★★
2. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Science & Technology
1. A Molecule Away from Madness by Sara Manning Peskin - 3/21 ★★★★★
2. The Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal - 3/26 ★★★★
3. Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos - 4/25 ★★★★
4. Elastic by Leonard Mlodinow - 4/29 ★★★★
5. Factfulness by Hans Rosling - 5/7 ★★★★★
6. Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell - 5/23 ★★★★★
7. Perv by Jesse Bering - 6/7 ★★★★★
8. The Social Lives of Animals by Ashley Ward - 6/7 ★★★★
9. The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis - 6/30 ★★★★★
Travel
1. The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston - 1/12 ★★★★
2. Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey - 2/5 ★★
3. Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson - 7/4 ★★★

Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2023
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Moved to Make More Room


Start: January 1, 2023
End: December 31, 2023
Read: 26/40
An Author: Jonathan Maberry 2/10
1. Dark of Night - Flesh and Fire - Jonathan Maberry 📸📸📸 3/9/23
2. V-Wars - Jonathan Maberry 📸📸📸📸 5/10/23
3. Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology - Jonathan Maberry 📸📸📸📸 6/1/23
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A Book Genre: Horror 15/20
1. A Midsummer Night's Scream - R.L. Stine 📸📸📸📸 1/4/23
2. How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills - Seth Grahame-Smith 📸📸📸📸 1/14/23
3. The Deep - Alma Katsu 📸📸📸📸 1/21/23
4. Noah's Ark - Andrew J. Morgan 📸📸 1/25/23
5. The Whispering Dead - Darcy Coates 📸📸📸 2/20/23
6. The Island - Adrian McKinty 📸📸📸📸📸 2/25/23
7. Contagion - Erin Bowman 📸📸📸 3/5/23
8. Kill Hill Carnage - Tim Meyer 📸📸📸 3/8/23
9. Sour Candy - Kealan Patrick Burke 📸📸📸📸 4/3/23
10. How to Sell a Haunted House - Grady Hendrix 📸📸📸📸 4/6/23
11. The Cabin at the End of the World - Paul Tremblay 📸📸📸 4/7/23
12. Final Destination #1: Dead Reckoning - Natasha Rhodes 📸📸📸 4/13/23
13. Episode Thirteen - Craig DiLouie 📸📸📸📸📸 5/15/23
14. Kismet - Amina Akhtar 📸📸📸📸 5/24/23
15. Sole Survivor - Zachary Ashford 📸📸📸 5/27/23
16. Jurassic Dead - David Sakmyster 📸📸 6/8/23
17. Zero Hour - S.D. Perry 📸📸📸 6/16/23
18. The Deep - Nick Cutter 📸📸 6/17/23
19. Allison Hewitt Is Trapped: A Zombie Novel - Madeleine Roux 📸📸📸📸📸 6/18/23
20. The Shuddering - Ania Ahlborn 📸📸📸 6/27/23
A Book Genre: Young Adult 10/10
1. How You Ruined My Life - Jeff Strand 📸📸 1/2/23
2. Two Truths and a Lie - April Henry 📸📸📸 1/27/23
3. The Getaway - Lamar Giles 📸📸📸📸 2/4/23
4. The Fear - Charlie Higson 📸📸📸📸 2/21/23
5. Pretty Little Liars - Sara Shepard 📸 3/1/23
6. Clown in a Cornfield - Adam Cesare 📸📸📸 3/15/23
7. How to Survive Your Murder - Danielle Valentine 📸📸📸📸 3/19/23
8. Five Survive - Holly Jackson 📸📸📸📸 5/3/23
9. Room Service - Maren Stoffels 📸📸 5/23/23
10. Sounder - William H. Armstrong 📸📸📸 6/6/23
Feeling: Love 6/10
1. Magic Bleeds - Ilona Andrews 📸📸📸📸 1/9/23
2. James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories - James Herriot 📸📸📸📸📸 1/12/23
3. Changeless - Gail Carriger 📸📸 2/16/23
4. I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy 📸📸📸📸📸 4/2/23
5. Beloved - Toni Morrison 📸📸📸📸 4/30/23
6. Magic Slays - Ilona Andrews 📸📸📸📸 5/13/23
7. The City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty 📸📸📸 6/8/23
8. The Perfect Marriage - Jeneva Rose 📸📸📸📸📸 6/10
9. Lying in the Deep - Diana Urban 📸📸📸📸 6/23/23
10.

Genre: Romantic 0/5
Thrilled 0/5
Author: Nora Roberts : 0/4
Stephen King : 0/4

An Author
Nina LaCour – 7/7
1. Hold Still🌸
2. Everything Leads to You🌸
3. You Know Me Well🌸
4. We Are Okay🌸
5. Watch Over Me🌸
6. Yerba Buena🌸
7. The Disenchantments🌸
Carrie Fisher (fiction) – 4/4
1. Postcards From the Edge🌸
2. Surrender the Pink🌸
3. Delusions of Grandma🌸
4. The Best Awful🌸
A Book Genre
Mystery/Thriller – 20/20
1. The Book of Cold Cases by Nicole St. James🌸
2. Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen🌸
3. I’m the Girl by Courtney Summer🌸
4. The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe🌸
5. Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht🌸
6. One of Us is Back by Karen McManus🌸
7. Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht🌸
8. Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano🌸
9. Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala🌸
10. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Suntanto🌸
11. Forever Home by Graham Norton🌸
12. Murder and Mamon by Mia P. Manansala🌸
13. To Have and to Heist by Sara Desai🌸
14. A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette🌸
15. A Game of Cones by Abby Collette🌸
16. A Killer Sundae by Abby Collette🌸
17. The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson🌸
18. The Night in Question by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson🌸
19. A Fatal Glow by Valerie Wilson Wesley🌸
20. A Shimmer of Red by Valerie Wilson Wesley🌸
Poetry – 20/20
1. milk and honey by Rupi Kaur🌸
2. Some Things I Still Can’t Tell You: Poems by Misha Collins🌸
3. Gay Poems for Red States by Willie Carver🌸
4. twenty poems to bless your marriage by Roger Housden🌸
5. you’ll come back to yourself by Michaela Angemeer 🌸
6. Shy by Max Porter 🌸
7. Above Ground by Clint Smith 🌸
8. Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom 🌸
9. Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi 🌸
10. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi 🌸
11. Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones 🌸
12. Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades 🌸
13. Musical Tables by Billy Collins 🌸
14. I Do Everything I’m Told by Megan Fernandes 🌸
15. Forever Is Now by Mariama J. Lockington 🌸
16. The Truth Project by Dante Medema 🌸
17. And Yet: Poems by Kate Baer 🌸
18. Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans 🌸
19. Poukahangatus: Poems by Tayi Tibble 🌸
20. All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living by Morgan Harper Nichols 🌸
Nonfiction – 20/20
1. all about love by bell hooks 🌸
2. You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith 🌸
3. Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad 🌸
4. Inciting Joy by Ross Gay 🌸
5. Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom 🌸
6. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos 🌸
7. Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity by Thomas Page McBee 🌸
8. Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More by Dustin Hansen 🌸
9. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Elim 🌸
10. The Montessori Baby by Simone Davies 🌸
11. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain 🌸
12. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear 🌸
13. Unfuck Your Boundaries by Faith G. Harper 🌸
14. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain 🌸
15. The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry 🌸
16. The Izumi Shikibu Diary: A Romance of the Heian Court by Izumi Shikibu 🌸
17. Don't F*cking Panic by Kelsey Darragh 🌸
18. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas 🌸
19. Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere by Andre Aciman🌸
20. She Who Wins: Ditch Your Inner Good Girl, Overcome Uncertainty, and WIN at Your Life by Renee Bauer🌸
Diversity
Books written by a Trans or NB Author – 10/10
1. The Scapegracers by H. A. Clarke🌸
2. The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver🌸
3. Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton🌸
4. Miss Meteor by Anna-Marie McLemore🌸
5. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi🌸
6. The Deep by Rivers Solomon🌸
7. You’ll Come Back to Yourself by Michaela Angemeer🌸
8. Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom🌸
9. Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between by Meg-John Baker and Alex Iantaffi🌸
10. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'shaun L. Harrison🌸
A Feeling
Grief – 5/5
1. He Gets That From Me by Jacqueline Friedland🌸
2. History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera🌸
3. City of Orange by David Yoon🌸
4. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones🌸
5. Waiting on Wendy by Tanzania Glover🌸
Film & Theater
Plays – 3/3
1. Mrs. Harrison by R. Eric Thomas🌸
2. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry🌸
3. The Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams🌸
A Fine Art
Music – 3/3
1. Orchestration by Walter Piston🌸
2. The Technique of Orchestration by Kent Kennan🌸
3. Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation by Elaine Gould🌸
Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies
10/10
1. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher🌸
2. Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher🌸
3. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher🌸
4. Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Brown🌸
5. Token Black Girl by Danielle Prescod🌸
6. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee🌸
7. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy🌸
8. Pageboy by Elliot Page🌸
9. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi🌸
10. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears🌸
Travel
Time Travel – 5/5
1. One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle 🌸
2. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 🌸
3. The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston 🌸
4. The Do-Over by Lynn Painter🌸
5. Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale🌸
Listopia
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
2023 Fantasy and Science Fiction Books by Black Authors – 3/3
1. Daughters of Oduma by Moses Ose Utomi 🌸
2. Speculation by Nisi Shawl🌸
3. Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton🌸
Books mentioned in this topic
Todesmarsch (other topics)Achterbahn (other topics)
Der Sturm in meinem Herzen (other topics)
BENNI - Pink geht immer (other topics)
TIPTOE - Auf Zehenspitzen ins Glück (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Franz Kafka (other topics)Willa Cather (other topics)
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Gaston Leroux (other topics)
Frederick Douglass (other topics)
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Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
It’s time to take control of your reading and rearrange your virtual bookshelves!
This yearly challenge (a variation of the 2019 Pinspiration challenge by Regina) will help you organize your reading plans around "thematic bookshelves.” Although you’re given the general concept of each of the 20 shelves, it’s up to you to fine-tune your chosen shelves to accommodate your reading tastes and plans.
You may repeat a shelf theme, if you wish, but your challenge should consist of at least two different themes, with two books minimum per shelf. Also note that you may count each book only once within this challenge, but feel free to apply that book to any of our other yearly, quarterly, and monthly challenges.
The 20 shelf themes are:
*An Author
*A Book Genre
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
*Film & Theater
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
*Food & Beverage
*Heritage & Culture
*A Hobby or Pastime
*A Listopia
*A Literary Award
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
*Nature and the Environment
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
*Science & Technology
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
*Travel
To see a sample set-up, click the spoiler tag. (view spoiler)[
Sample Challenge Set-up
Progress: 0/36 books
An Author: Ellis Peters: 0/3
Book Length: Chunksters (500 or more pages): 0/6
Diversity: Transgender or Non-Binary Author/Protagonist: 0/4
A Listopia: Women in Translation: 0/12
A Literary Award: Hugo Award for Best Novel (Winners & nominees): 0/4
Lois MacMaster Bujold, Ursula K. LeGuin, Anne Leckie, Catherynne M. Valente, Rebecca Roanhorse
A Place: Literature by Asian Authors: 0/4
Various authors and cultures
A Time: Renaissance Era (14th-17th centuries): 0/3
House of Niccolo series, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (hide spoiler)]