Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

2023 Series Challenge

Series to complete: #
Series completed: 1

Series title
√1. Wayfarers - Becky Chambers 1/6
2. Wolf Hall Trilogy - Hilary Mantel
3. Shannara Series - Terry Brooks
4. Silo Series - Hugh Howey
5. Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker

New Release Challenge 2023
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Completed: 107/#

√1. Spare 1/30
√2. Hell Bent 1/27
√3. Son of the Poison Rose 2/8
√4. The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom 3/20
√5. Two Wars and a Wedding 4/4
√6. A Sinister Revenge 3/27
√7. Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear 3/10
√8. All That Is Hidden 3/31
√9. Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson 3/28
√10. Homecoming 4/8
√11. The Unexpected Benefits of Being Run Over 4/10
√12. A Day of Fallen Night 4/27
√13. Murder on Bedford Street 5/4
√14. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues 5/5
√15. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind 5/13
√16. Swamp Story 5/10
√17. In the Lives of Puppets 5/16
√18. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship 5/20
√19. Death by Chocolate Marshmallow Pie 5/23
√20. Yellowface 5/27
√21. King: A Life 6/4
√22. Maame 6/3
√23. Hijab Butch Blues 6/6
√24. Poverty, by America 6/7
√25. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill 6/15
√26. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater 6/20
√27. Killing Me 6/18
√28. A Living Remedy: A Memoir 6/22
√29. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma 6/23
√30. The Collected Regrets of Clover 7/1
√31. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America 7/1
√32. The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare 6/30
√33. The Road to Roswell 7/7
√34. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness 7/15
√35. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries 7/14
√36. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures 7/18
√37. Weyward 7/17
√38. The Covenant of Water 7/23
√39. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them 7/21
√40. Rough Sleepers 7/24
√41. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom 7/26
√42. Paris: The Memoir 7/28
√43. PAGEBOY 8/1
√44. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir 8/5
√45. You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir 8/11
√46. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism 8/17
√47. Birder, She Wrote 8/19
√48. The Wind Knows My Name 8/16
√49. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe 8/24
√50. Hello Beautiful 8/22
√51. Fourth Wing 8/24
√52. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives 8/29
√53. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store 8/31
√54. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction 9/3
√55. The First Ladies 9/11
√56. My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds 9/4
√57. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears 9/10
√58. The House of Eve 9/13
√59. Banyan Moon 9/18
√60. Lady Tan's Circle of Women 9/20
√61. The House Is on Fire 9/26
√62. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon 9/28
√63. The Keeper of Hidden Books 9/28
√64. The Last Devil to Die 10/2
√65. The Armor of Light 10/11
√66. Leslie F*cking Jones 9/30
√67. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder 10/2
√68. Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs 10/4
√69. Counting the Cost 10/7
√70. Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies 10/12
√71. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence 10/21
√72. Cave 13 10/29
√73. A Furry Little Christmas 10/30
√74. Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow! 11/1
√75. Elon Musk 10/28
√76. Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones 10/28
√77. If You Would Have Told Me: A Memoir 11/2
√78. Starter Villain 11/5
√79. A Stroke of the Pen 11/8
√80. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond 11/8
√81. Thicker than Water: A Memoir 11/9
√82. Dirty Thirty 11/13
√83. The Woman in Me 11/10
√84. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things 11/17
√85. Iron Flame 11/15
√86. The Proof of the Pudding 11/17
√87. A Curse of Krakens 11/26
√88. A Christmas Vanishing 11/28
√89. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life 11/18
√90. My Name is Barbra 11/22
√91. The Square of Sevens 12/5
√92. The Art Thief 11/23
√93. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us 11/25
√94. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History 12/2
√95. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! 12/4
√96. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments 12/4
√97. Ink Blood Sister Scribe 12/15
√98. Liliana's Invincible Summer 12/6
√99. The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts 12/15
√100. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man 12/16
√101. How to Say Babylon: A Memoir 12/18
√102. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told 12/20
√103. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity 12/22
√104. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church 12/26
√105. Romney: A Reckoning 12/27
√106. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds 12/28
√107. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World 12/30

New-to-me Author Exploration Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Completed: 129/#

√1. Jann S. Wenner 1/2
√2. Huw Lemmey 1/8
√3. Ian McEwan 1/12
√4. Nathalia Holt 1/14
√5. Esther Ahmad 1/16
√6. Tammy Duckworth 1/23
√7. Anthony Ray Hinton 1/27
√8. Prince Harry 1/30
√9. Candice Millard 2/2
√10. Matthew Perry 2/5
√11. Shelby Van Pelt 2/10
√12. Barbara Kingsolver 2/16
√13. Simu Liu 2/17
√14. Isaac Asimov 2/19
√15. T.J. English 2/24
√16. Stacy Schiff 3/6
√17. Hilary Mantel 3/11
√18. D.H. Lawrence 3/16
√19. Erica Berry 3/10
√20. Javier Zamora 3/25
√21. Samantha Shannon 3/24
√22. Rebecca Boggs Roberts 3/28
√23. Selma Blair 4/1
√24. Robert Louis Stevenson 4/6
√25. Margaret A. Burnham 4/15
√26. Naseem Rochette 4/10
√27. Stephen Chbosky 4/15
√28. Jessica Radloff 4/23
√29. Temple Grandin 5/2
√30. Jonathan Kennedy 5/5
√31. Will Schwalbe 5/20
√32. Xóchitl González 5/19
√33. Jonathan Eig 6/4
√34. Brendan Slocumb 5/29
√35. Jessica George 6/3
√36. Lamya H. 6/6
√37. Matthew Desmond 6/7
√38. Geraldine Brooks 6/11
√39. Brené Brown 6/10
√40. Nita Prose 6/12
√41. Charles Todd 6/16
√42. Peggy Orenstein 6/20
√43. Michelle Gagnon 6/18
√44. Tara M. Stringfellow 6/20
√45. Nadia Hashimi 6/23
√46. Nicole Chung 6/22
√47. Claire Dederer 6/23
√48. Neil Bradbury 6/24
√49. Mary Laura Philpott 6/25
√50. Laura Clery 6/27
√51. Dolen Perkins-Valdez 7/6
√52. Mikki Brammer 7/1
√53. Roxanna Asgarian 7/1
√54. John Lisle 6/30
√55. Gary Paulsen 7/2
√56. Daniel James Brown 7/8
√57. Robert Waldinger 7/15
√58. Heather Fawcett 7/11
√59. Sabrina Imbler 7/18
√60. Emilia Hart 7/17
√61. Abraham Verghese 7/23
√62. Timothy Egan 7/21
√63. Tracy Kidder 7/24
√64. Ilyon Woo 7/26
√65. Paris Hilton 7/28
√66. Elliot Page 8/1
√67. Rachel Louise Snyder 8/5
√68. Hugh Howey 8/6
√69. Kenneth Grahame
√70. David Grann 8/7
√71. Helene Wecker 8/14
√72. Maggie Smith 8/11
√73. Jeffrey Toobin 8/17
√74. Isabel Allende 8/16
√75. Philip Plait 8/24
√76. Ann Napolitano 8/22
√77. Rebecca Yarros 8/24
√78. Selma van de Perre 8/25
√79. Siddharth Kara 8/29
√80. James McBride 8/31
√81. Stephen King 9/8
√82. Lynne Olson 9/3
√83. Hannah Pick-Goslar 9/4
√84. Michael Schulman 9/10
√85. Sadeqa Johnson 9/13
√86. Thao Thai 9/18
√87. Lisa See 9/20
√88. Kelly Lytle Hernández 9/14
√89. Tom Felton 9/16
√90. Nina Totenberg 9/18
√91. Rachel Beanland 9/26
√92. Daniel Immerwahr 9/24
√93. Melissa L. Sevigny 9/28
√94. Leslie Jones 9/30
√95. David Grann 10/2
√96. Jill Duggar 10/7
√97. Trae Crowder 10/12
√98. Meg Kissinger 10/21
√99. Alison Arngrim 10/19
√100. John Stamos 11/2
√101. John Scalzi 11/5
√102. Eddie Jaku 11/6
√103. Henry Winkler 11/8
√104. Kerry Washington 11/9
√105. Kazuo Ishiguro 11/3
√106. Britney Spears 11/10
√107. Arnold Schwarzenegger 11/18
√108. Barbra Streisand 11/22
√109. Laura Shepherd-Robinson 12/5
√110. Michael Finkel 11/23
√111. Prachi Gupta 11/25
√112. Rory Carroll 12/2
√113. David Zucker 12/4
√114. Hadley Vlahos 12/4
√115. Emma Törzs 12/14
√116. Cristina Rivera Garza 12/6
√117. Chanel Cleeton 12/16
√118. Francesca Cartier Brickell 12/12
√119. Stephen Hawking 12/12
√120. Loren Grush 12/15
√121. Mark Haddon 12/19
√122. David von Drehle 12/16
√123. Safiya Sinclair 12/18
√124. Harrison Scott Key 12/20
√125. Peter Attia 12/22
√126. Rachel L. Swarns 12/26
√127. McKay Coppins 12/27
√128. Jennifer Ackerman 12/28
√129. Naomi Klein 12/30