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PBT Monthly TagsJanuary - Food -
February - England -
March - Japan - Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
April - Friendship -
May - Indigenous -
June - Immigration - Brooklyn; The House of Broken Angels; White Teeth
July - Adventure -
August - Moral Dilemmas -
September - Literary Fiction -
October - Winter -
Novembe - Dragons -
December - Holiday - (The Christmas Bookshop; Maeve Binchy)
Read 100 books, 35,000 Pages January
February
1. *The Hunting Party By Lucy Foley 406 pgs.
2. #King Of Scars By Leigh Bardugo 514 pgs.
3. *The Ravaged By Norman Reedus 292 pgs.
4. *Spare By Prince Harry 410 pgs.
Total - 1622
March
5. *A Dowry of Blood By S.T. Gibson 292 pgs.
6. *Book of Night By Holly Black 304 pgs.
7. *Crying in H Mart By Michelle Zauner 256 pgs.
Total - 852
April
8. #Rule of Wolves By Leigh Bardugo 598 pgs.
9. #Born a Crime By Trevor Noah 264 pgs.
10. *One True Loves By Taylor Jenkins Reid 352 pgs.
11. *All Quiet On The Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque 296 pgs.
12. *The Serpent in Heaven By Charlaine Harris 304 pgs.
Total - 1814
May
13. *The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle By Stuart Turton 458 pgs.
14. *Don't Fear the Reaper By Stephen Graham Jones 457 pgs.
15. *Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club By J. Ryan Stadal 384 pgs.
16. *Lessons in Chemistry By Bonnie Garmus 400 pgs.
17. *Remarkably Bright Creatures By Shelby Van Pelt 368 pgs.
18. *How to Sell a Haunted House By Grady Hendrix 419 pgs.
Total - 2486
June
19. #House of Sky and Breath By Sarah J. Maas 805 pgs.
20. #Head Like a Hole By Andrew Van Wey 382 pgs.
21. *Go Ask Alice By Anonymous 213 pgs.
22. *Weyward By Emilia Hart 329 pgs.
Total - 1729
July
23. *A Touch Of Darkness By Scarlett St. Clair 379 pgs.
24. *Major Pettigrew's Last Stand By Helen Simonson 359 pgs.
25. All the Things We do in the Dark By Saundra Mitchell 296 pgs.
26. We Sold Our Souls By Grady Hendrix 337 pgs.
Total - 1371
August
27. In the Lives of Puppets By T.J. Klune 432 pgs.
28. Project Hail Mary By Andy Weir 476 pgs.
29. The Marriage Portrait By Maggie O'Farrell 355 pgs.
30. *Big Swiss By Jen Beagin 336 pgs.
31. *The Virgin Suicides By Jeffrey Eugenides 250 pgs.
Total - 1849
September
32. Small Island By Andrea Levy 441 pgs.
33. *Hell Bent By Leigh Bardugo 481 pgs.
34. *Make Your Bed By William H. McRaven 144 pgs.
35. *Throne of Glass By Sarah J. Maas 432 pgs.
36. *Vampires of El Norte By Isabel Canas 371 pgs.
Total - 1869
October
37. *Blood Noir By Laurell K. Hamilton 340 pgs.
38. *For You and Only You By Caroline Kepnes 448 pgs.
39. House of Hunger By Alexis Henderson 304 pgs.
40. *The Witches of Eastwick By John Updike 307 pgs.
41. *Eileen By Ottessa Moshfegh 260 pgs.
42. *Starling House By Alix E. Harrow 320 pgs.
43. *What Moves The Dead By T. Kingfisher 176 pgs.
44. *Hester By Laurie Lico Albanese 322 pgs.
45. Fairy Tale By Stephen King 599 pgs.
46. *Silver Nitrate By Silvia Moreno-Garcia 323 pgs.
Total - 3399
November
47. *Demon Copperhead By Barbara Kingsolver 546 pgs.
48. *Tender is the Flesh By Agustina Bazterrica 209 pgs.
49. *The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen By K.J. Charles 352 pgs.
50. *There There By Tommy Orange 294 pgs.
Total - 1401
December
51. *Us Against You By Fredrik Backman 448 pgs.
52. *Fourth Wing By Rebecca Yarros500 pgs.
Total - 948
Pop Sugar 20231. A book you meant to read in 2022 -
2. A book you bought from an independent bookstore - - no Listopia
3. A Book about a Vacation -
4. A book by a first time author -
5. A book with mythical creatures -
6. A book about a fordidden romance -
7. A book with Girl in the title. - (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making; City of Girls; The Girl who Takes an Eye for an Eye)
8. A celebrity memoir -
9. A book with a color in the title - (Gods of Jade and Shadow; A Clockwork Orange; Between Shades of Gray; The Bluest Eye; Yellow Wife)
10. A romance with a fat lead - (From Blood and Ash)
11. A book about or set in Hollywood - (The Girls in the Picture; Radiance; Scandals of Classic Hollywood)
12. A book published in spring 2023 -
13. A book published the year you were born - (Bless Me, Ultima; The Great Bridge; War and Peace)
14. A modern retelling of a classic. -
15. A book with a song lyric as its title -
16. A book where the main character's name is in the title -
17. A Book with a Love Triangle -
18. A book banned or challenged in 2022 - (Gender Queer; The Bluest Eye; Nineteen Minutes; White Fragility; The New Jim Crow)
19. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge - no Listopia
20. A book becoming a show in 2023 -
21. A book set in the decade you were born -
22. A book with a queer lead -
23. A book with a map - (Ninth House; The Ghost Map; Treasure Island; Empire of the Vampire)
24. A book with a rabbit on the cover or in the title -
25. A Book with Only Text on the Cover (2023 version) - (Dark Matter; Sapiens; You Are a Badass; Vox)
26. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list - (Dubliners; Elevation)
27. A #BookTok recommendation (2023 list) -
A #BookTok recommendation (2022 list) -
28 A book you bought secondhand - no Listopia - (London; Centennial; The Elusive Flame; South of Broad; Loving Frank)
29 A book your friend recommended - (Becoming)
30. A book that's on a celebrity book-club list -
31. A book about a family -
32. A book that comes out in the second half of 2023 -
33. A book about an athlete/sport -
34. A historical-fiction book -
35. A book about divorce - (Anna Karenina)
36. A book you think your best friend would like =
37. A book you should have read in high school - (Walden; Cry, the Beloved Country; Don Quixiote)
38. A book you read more than 10 years ago - (The Witching Hour)
39. A book you wish you could read for the first time again - (Gone with the Wind)
40. A book by an author with the same initials as you - (The Porpoise; The Red House; How to Stop Time)
41. A book written during NaNoWriMo - (Fangirl)
42. A book based on a popular movie - (The Cabin in the Woods)
43. A book that takes place entirely in one day -
44. A book that was self-published - (Slammed)
45. A book that started out as fan fiction - (A Deadly Education; Throne of Glass; City of Bones)
46. A book with a pet character -
47. A book about a holiday that's not Christmas - (V for Vendetta; The Guncle)
48. A book that features two languages -
(Note: this is our 2022 Listopia - same category, might as well use the same list!)
49. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list - (Les Miserables; The Count of Monte Cristo; Infinite Jest; Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel; War and Peace; World Without End; Don Quixote; Bleak House; Anna Karenina; Atlas Shrugged)
50. A book with alliteration in the title - (Caleb's Crossing; Sense and Sensibility)
15 Candles - PBT Challenge1. Read a book that fits our very first tag: historical fiction. -
2. PBT was founded in February, 2008. Read a book that represents or relates to any event that occurred (or occurs) in February. - (The Bluest Eye; Roots)
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. -
Ladyslott: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
JoLene: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Kristal: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Nicole R: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
4. We have been compiling the PBT Top 10 list since our inception. Read a book from any of our 15 years of Top 10 selections. -
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
5. Read a book that fits the tag of India. Read in December, 2013, it represents our least read tag (excluding administrator special tags). - (The God of Small Things; Midnight's Children; A Fine Balance)
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. -
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. - (Nicholas and Alexandra; Roots; John Adams; Out of Africa)
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
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. - (Ananthem; A Fine Balance; The Once and Future King; Matterhorn; Heart of Darkness)
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
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). - (The Lost Symbol; City of Bones)
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. - (The Personal Librarian)
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. - (Ninth House)
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...
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. - (Between Shades of Gray; The Sparrow; The River; A Thousand Splendid Suns)
14. Read a book from your favorite tag of all the tags you've personally read with PBT.
15. PBT is 15 years old! Read a book that was published the year YOU turned 15 -
Trim the TBR1. Small Gods By Terry Prachett
2. The Elusive Flame By Kathleen Woodiweis
3. The Last American Vampire By Seth Grahame-Smith
4. Books Fred Bought
6. Travels With George By Nathaniel Philbrick
5. Heaven Below By Joan Lehmann
7. Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood
8. The Lost Symbol By Dan Brown
9. Bono : In Conversation With Michka Assayas By Bono
10. Widow Of The South By Robert Hicks
11. Loving Frank By Nancy Horan
12. The Palace By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
13. Slammerkin By Emma Donoghue
14. Horns By Joe Hill
15. The Musuem of Extraordinary Things By Alice Hoffman
16. Unprotected By Billy Porter
Classics
16. Daughter of Fortune By Isabell Allende
17. The Counte Of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
18. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
19. Sherlock Holmes By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
20. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow By Washington Irving
21. Amistad By David Pesci
Long Books
22. Threat From The Sea By Mel Odom
23. David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
24. Don't Know Much About The Bible By Kenneth C. Davis
25. Mary Chestnut's Civil War By Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut
26. Edgar Sawtelle By David Wroblewski
27. London By Edward Rutherford
28. Under The Dome By Steven King
29. Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
30. The Witching Hour By Anne Rice
31. The Princes Of Ireland By Edward Rutherford
32. John Adams By David Mccullough
33. The Gormenghast Novels By Mervyn Peake
34. Centennial By James Michener
35. The Convenant By James Michener
36. House OF Leaves by Mark Danielewski
37. Roots By Alex Haley
38. A Promised Land By Barak Obama
39. Don Quioxte By Cervantes
40. Les Miserables By Victor Hugo
Last Years Leftovers1. In One Person By John Irving
2. Beauty's Kingdom By A.N. Roguelaure
3. Night Film By Marisha Pessl
4. Empire of the Vampire By Jay Kristoff
5. Inferno By Dan Brown
6. The Seven Sisters By Neil Gaiman
7. The Museum Of Extraordinary Things By Alice Hoffman
8. Missoula By Jon Krakauer
9. 1001 Nights By Christopher Rice
10. Etta and Otto and Russell and James By Emma Hooper
11. Yellow Brick War - Danielle Paige
12. The Seeker - Stephenie Meyer
13. Glory Over Everything By Kathleen Grissom
14. Two If By Sea By Jacquelyn Mitchard
15. The Children's Crusade By Ann Packer
16. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven By Chris Cleave
17. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street By Natasha Pulley
18. Maestra By L.S. Hilton
19. True Crimes A Family Album By Kathryn Harrison
20. The Atomic Weight of Love By Elizabeth J. Church
21. The Mirror and the Light By Hilary Mantel
22. Lincoln in the Bardo By George Saunders
23. Difficult Women By Roxanne Gay
24. The Child By Fiona Barton
25. The Roanoke Girls By Amy Engel
26. The Lost City of the Monkey God By Douglas Preston
27. Wonderland By Steven Johnson
28. The Underworld By Kevin Canty
29. All Our Wrong Todays By Elan Mastai
30. The River at Night By Erica Ferencik
31. Little Deaths By Emma Flint
32. A Separation By Katie Kitamura
33. A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women By Siri H
stvedt
34. The Private Lives of Tudors By Tracy Borman
35. History of Wolves By Emily Fridlund (own)
36. Six Four By Hideo Yokoyama
37. Heather the Totality By Matthew Weiner
38. See What I Have Done By Sarah Schmidt
39. The H Spot By Jill Filopovic
4. The Iron Season By Helene Wecker
41.
42. Remarkable Creatures
43. The Eyre Affair
44. Out of Africa By Isak Denisen
45. The Boys of Summer By Roger Kahn
46. Endurance By Alfred Lansing
47. The Autobiography of Malcolm X By Alex Haley, Malcolm X
48. The Snow Leopard By Peter Matthiessen
49. Reading Lolita In Tehran By Azar Nafisi
50. The Black Count By Tom Reiss
51. The Girls Of Atomic City By Denise Kiernan
52. Roots By Alex Haley
53. Children of Blood and Bone By Tomi Adeyem
54. Darwin Comes To Town By Menno Schilthuizen
55. Varina By Charles Frazier
56. The Trauma Cleaner By Sarah Krasnostein
57. The Monk Of Mokha By Dave Eggers
58. Noir By Christopher Moore
59. The Toymakers By Robert Dinsdale
60. GrIst Mill Road By Christopher J. Yates
61.
62. Love and Ruin By Paula McLain
63. Pops by Michael Chabon
64. The Kiss Quotient By Helen Hoang
65. Latro In The Mist By Gene Wolfe
66.
67. Martha Stewart's Organizing By Martha Stewart - WILL PURCHASE IN FUTURE
68. The Eighth Life By Nino Haratischwili
69. A Promised Land By Barak Obama
70. The Ickabog By J.K. Rowling
71. The Book of Koli By M.R. Carey
72. World of Wonders By Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2022
1. To Paradise By Hanya Yanagihara
3. Young Mungo By Douglas Stuart
4. The Book Of Cold Cases By Simone St. James
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6. Sea of Tranquility By Emily St. John Mandel
7. South to America By Imani Perry
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9. Hotel Portofino by J.P. O'Connell
10. This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi
2023
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3. All the Dead Shall Weep By Charlaine Harris
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11. The Running Grave By Robert Galbraith
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2024
1. The Familiar By Leigh Bardugo 4/24
2. House of Flame and Shadow By Sarah J. Maas 1/24
3. Empire of the Damned By Jay Kristoff 2/24
4. Somewhere Beyond the Sea By TJ Klune 9/24
Long Book Challenge 500 Plus Pages1. Threat From The Sea By Mel Odom
2. David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
3. Mary Chestnut's Civil War By Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut
4. Les Miserables By Victor Hugo
5. Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
6. The Count Of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
7. 2666 By Robert Balano
8. The Children's Book By A.S. Byatt
9. London By Edward Rutherford
10. Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy
11. The Mists of Avalon By Marion Zimmer Bradley
12. The Hour I First Believed By Wally Lamb
13. Ulysses By James Joyce
14. Skippy Dies By Paul Murray
15. Under The Dome By Stephen King
16. The Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood
17. John Adams By David McCullough
18. Night Film By Marisha Pessl
19. War and Peace By Leo Tolstoy
20. Roots By Alex Haley
21. Alexander Hamilton By Ron Chernow
22. The Eighth Life By Nino Haratischwili
23. A Promised Land By Barak Obama
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26. Eye of the World By Robert Jordan
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28. David Copperfield
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Books that are Movies/ShowsAtonement- Need To Watch
Under A Tuscan Sky - Need to Watch
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - Need to Watch
The World According To Garp
Terms Of Endearment
Les Miserables
East Of Eden
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Need To Watch
The Reader - Need to Watch
The Rum Diary
Like Water For Chocolate
War Horse - Need to Watch
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Need To Watch
The Ender's Game - Need To Watch
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Need to Watch
Tracks - Need To Watch
The Secret Scripture
Far From The Maddening Crowd - Need To Watch
Child 44 - Need to Watch
True Story - Need to Watch
11/22/63 - HULU Need To Watch
The Circle - Need to Watch
The Grapes Of Wrath - Need to Watch
Fahrenheit 451 - Need to Watch
The Fellowship of the Ring - Need to Watch
The Two Towers - Need to Watch
Good Omens - May 2019 Need To Watch
Little Fire Everywhere - Hulu Need To Watch
Night Train to Lisbon - Need to Watch
Emma - Need to Watch
Mr. Mercedes - Need To Watch
Barkskins - Need to Watch
The Hate U Give - Need To Watch
Murder in the Bayou - Need to Watch Showtime
The Art of Racing In The Rain - Need to Watch
Catch-22 - Need To Watch Amazon
The Elegance of a Hedgehog
The Luminaries - Need to Watch
The Zookeeper's Wife - Need to Watch
A Court Of Thorns and Roses - Need to Watch Hulu
Red Queen - Peacock Need To Watch
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Need to Watch
The Prince Of Tides - Need to Watch
Meet Me In St. Louis
Maid - Need to Watch Netflix
Passing - Need to Watch Netflix
The Maze Runner - Need To Watchx
American Rust - Need to Watch Showtime
You - Need to Watch Netflix
Anxious People - Need to Watch
Howl's Moving Castle - Need to Watch HBO
Memoirs, Biographies, Autobiographies
Salinger
Manson
The End Of The World As We Know It
A Curious Man
Raising Cubby
Don't Tell Mummy
My Booky Wook
Living History
I am Ozzy
Extreme
Giving
Half Broke Horses
Unprotected
Books to Continue SeriesInheritance - Christopher Paolini
A Storm Of Swords - George R.R. Martin
The Chisellars - Brendan O'Carroll
Shadow of the Workhouse - Jennifer Worth
The People Of Sparks - Jeanne DuPrau
Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
Night Pleasures - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dewey's Nine Lives - Vicki Myron
A Caress of Twilight - Laurell K. Hamilton
The Year Of The Flood - Margaret Atwood
Nicolae - Tim LaHaye
The Iron Council - China Mieville
Dawn - Elie Wiesel
The Palace - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
The Good, The Bad, and The Undead - Kim Harrison
Arch Enemy - Frank Beddor
A Lion Among Men - Gregory Mcguire
Shadow Kiss - Richelle Mead
Zombie Fallout 3.5 By Mark Tufo
Jeremy Poldark - Winston Graham
A Torch Against The Night By Sabaa Tahir
The Return of the King By J.R.R. Tolkein
A Swiftly Tilting Planet By Madeleine L'Engle
World Without End By Ken Follett
Dune Messiah By Frank Herbert
Collapse By Jared Diamond
The Time Of Contempt By Andrzej Sapkowski
Finders Keepers By Stephen King
The Mirror and the Light By Hilary Mantel
Glass Sword By Victoria Aveyard
All The Dead Shall Weep By Charlaine Harris
Crown of Midnight By Sarah J. Maas
Skin Trade By Laurell K. Hamilton
Iron Flame By Rebecca Yarros
1001 BooksKafka On The Shore By Haruki Murakami
Birdsong By Sebastian Faulks
The Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood
House Of Leaves By Mark Z. Danielewski
Cryptonomicon By Neal Stephenson
Infinite Jest By David Foster Wallace
A Fine Balance By Rohinton Mistry
Birdsong By Sebastian Faulks
The Wasp Factory By Iain Banks
The World According To Garp By John Irving
Wild Sargassa Sea By Jean Rhys
On The Road By Jack Kerouac
The Story Of O By Pauline Reage
The Adventures Of Augie March By Saul Bellow
Middlemarch By George Elliot
Foundation By Isaac Asimov
Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison
Gormenghast By Mervyn Peake
I, Robot By Isaac Asimov
On Human Bondage By William Somerset Magham
What Maisie Knew By Henry James
Crime And Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Les Miserables By Victor Hugo
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Walden By Henry David Thoreau
The Count Of Monte Cristo By Alexander Dumas
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Don Quixote By Cervantes
The Once and Future King By T.H. White
Jumbled Musings To MyselfFaulkner
Yarboro
Horwitz
Rutherford
Tolstoy
Zimmerman
Zafron
Slammerkin
City At The End of Time
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1. Read majority of books from my bookcases.
2. Read one book a month for the PBT monthly tag.
3. Write reviews for each book for participation points.
4. Be Present - Relationships, friends, enjoy life.
5. Outdoors - Parks on Weekends, community events and places.
6. Weight Loss - Back on track!
7. Counted Cross Stitch; Embroidery
8. Less Procrastinating.
9. Work on organization Pinterest, House, Purge.
10. Take advantage of community, and free classes; Back to School
11. Practice Knitting, Learn to use Sewing Machine, Quilting
12. Crafting - Xmas, Home
13. Yoga, Meditation
14. Writing, Drawing
15. New Hobbies