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2024 Series Challenge

Series to complete: 8/#
Series completed: 6/#

Series title
√1. Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel) 1/10
√2. Silo Series (Hugh Howey) 1/26
√3. The Golem and the Jinni series (Helen Wecker) 2/2
4. Shannara series (Terry Brooks)
√5. Crescent City series (Sarah J Maas) 3/8
6. Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells)
√7. Remembrance of Earth's Past (Cixin Liu) 12/31
√8. Legacy of Orïsha (Tomi Adeyemi) 7/12

New Release Challenge 2024
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Completed: 109/#

√1. The Storm We Made 1/14
√2. Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands 2/7
√3. House of Flame and Shadow 3/8
√4. The Women 3/11
√5. The Phoenix Crown 3/13
√6. The Lantern's Dance 3/15
√7. The House of Hidden Meanings 3/16
√8. A Grave Robbery 3/25
√9. In Sunshine or in Shadow 3/18
√10. Grief Is for People 3/31
√11. Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class 4/13
√12. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds 4/16
√13. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection 4/25
√14. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum 5/5
√15. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet 5/6
√16. Murder in Rose Hill 5/9
√17. Death by Chocolate Raspberry Scone 5/11
√18. Sociopath 5/9
√19. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story 5/10
√20. Here After 5/11
√21. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning 5/13
√22. Red Side Story 5/18
√23. I Curse You With Joy 5/14
√24. Anita de Monte Laughs Last 5/24
√25. The Manicurist's Daughter 5/25
√26. James 5/26
√27. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters 5/27
√28. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and √Ascension 5/28
√29. The Last Hope: A Maggie Hope Mystery 5/29
√30. The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson 6/1
√31. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine 5/30
√32. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War 6/3
√33. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me 6/4
√34. Real Americans 6/9
√35. The Tainted Cup 6/16
√36. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today 6/14
√37. Coming Home 6/15
√38. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder 6/26
√39. The Ministry of Time 7/2
√40. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me 6/27
√41. The Warm Hands of Ghosts 7/5
√42. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present 7/1
√43. The Book of Doors 7/9
√44. Children of Anguish and Anarchy 7/12
√45. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America 7/15
√46. The Briar Club 7/15
√47. Joyful Recollections of Trauma 7/16
√48. Glorious Exploits 7/18
√50. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s 7/18
√51. Margo's Got Money Troubles 7/19
√52. The Black Bird Oracle 7/20
√53. The Lost Story 7/22
√54. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury 8/2
√55. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop 7/25
√56. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World 8/3
√57. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service 8/10
√58. Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation 8/17
√59. First Lie Wins 8/28
√60. Between a Flock and a Hard Place 8/26
√61. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis 8/20
√62. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life 8/23
√63. The God of the Woods 8/31
√64. Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You 8/24
√65. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space 8/30
√66. The Fox Wife 9/5
√67. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis 9/2
√68. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between 9/7
√69. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion 9/9
√70. The Backyard Bird Chronicles 9/14
√71. All the Colors of the Dark 9/28
√72. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth 9/17
√73. Nuclear War: A Scenario 9/18
√74. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House 9/23
√75. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir 9/29
√76. The Lion Women of Tehran 9/30
√77. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball 10/2
√78. We Solve Murders 10/7
√79. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty 10/6
√80. Masquerade 10/10
√81. Did I Ever Tell You? 10/7
√82. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books 10/12
√83. Familiaris 10/27
√84. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s 10/12
√85. The Age of Grievance 10/13
√86. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy 10/17
√87. All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians 10/21
√88. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family 10/23
√89. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day 11/9
√90. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI 11/13
√91. The Wedding People 10/30
√92. The Glassmaker 11/3
√93. Rockin' Around the Chickadee 11/5
√94. Candle & Crow 11/8
√95. By Any Other Name 11/15
√96. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir 11/17
√97. There Are Rivers in the Sky 11/24
√98. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning 11/20
√99. Listen for the Lie 11/25
√100. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering 11/23
√101. The Mighty Red 11/30
√102. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World 11/30
√103. Cher: The Memoir, Part One 12/7
√104. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions 12/14
√105. Now or Never 12/3
√106. Daughters of Shandong 12/9
√107. We Three Queens 12/11
√108. War 12/26
√109. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World 12/27

New-to-me Author Exploration Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Completed: 135/#

√1. Patrick Stewart 1/5
√2. Vanessa Chan 1/14
√3. Neil Price 1/8
√4. Daniel Mason 1/21
√5. Elizabeth Keckley 1/18
√6. Kristen Harmel 1/23
√7. Michael Harriot 1/22
√8. Eliot Schrefer 1/24
√9. Tyler Merritt 1/29
√10. Ann Patchett 2/10
√11. Kate Zernike 2/5
√12. Paul Kalanithi 2/7
√13. Patricia Highsmith 2/24
√14. Indra Nooyi 2/7
√15. Travis Baldree 3/17
√16. Martha Wells 5/7
√17. Gail Honeyman 3/21
√18. Adam Savage 2/11
√19. Maria Ressa 2/13
√20. Danyel Smith 2/24
√21. Daniel O'Brien 3/1
√22. Peter Allison 3/5
√23. Eoin Colfer 3/1
√24. Chris Gethard 3/6
√25. Eli Saslow 3/9
√26. RuPaul 3/16
√27. John O. Brennan 3/23
√28. L. Frank Baum 3/26
√29. Sloane Crosley 3/31
√30. Tim O'Brien 3/29
√31. John Vaillant 4/30
√32. Andrew Leland 3/30
√33. Tim Alberta 4/3
√34. Lisa Fenn 4/12
√35. Liu Cixin 5/3
√36. Rob Henderson 4/13
√37. Michelle Horton 4/16
√38. Charles Duhigg 4/25
√39. Neil Strauss 4/19
√40. Antonia Hylton 5/5
√41. Hannah Ritchie 5/6
√42. Patric Gagne 5/9
√43. Kara Swisher 5/10
√44. Amy Lin 5/11
√45. Toshikazu Kawaguchi 5/12
√46. Susan Lieu 5/25
√47. Percival Everett 5/26
√48. Brian Klaas 5/27
√49. Mike Tyson 5/22
√50. Hanif Abdurraqib 5/28
√51. Ellen Baker 6/1
√52. Uché Blackstock 5/30
√53. Amita Parikh 6/6
√54. Rachel Khong 6/9
√55. Whoopi Goldberg 6/4
√56. Ian Manuel 6/5
√57. Arthur C. Clarke 6/12
√58. Edward Abbey 6/7
√59. Robert Jackson Bennett 6/16
√60. Elizabeth Comen 6/14
√61. Susan Cain 6/8
√62. Fintan O'Toole 6/13
√63. Brittney Griner 6/15
√64. William Kent Krueger 6/20
√65. Alexis de Tocqueville 6/25
√66. Salman Rushdie 6/26
√67. Kaliane Bradley 7/2
√68. Rex Chapman 6/27
√69. Katherine Arden 7/5
√70. Fareed Zakaria 7/1
√71. Gareth Brown 7/9
√72. Joy-Ann Reid 7/15
√73. Paul Scheer 7/16
√74. Ferdia Lennon 7/18
√75. Rufi Thorpe 7/19
√76. Meg Shaffer 7/21
√77. Geraldine DeRuiter 8/2
√78. Samantha Power 7/24
√79. Jennifer L. Eberhardt 7/26
√80. Hwang Bo-Reum 7/25
√81. Rebecca Ross 7/29
√82. Truman Capote 8/7
√83. Jen Psaki 8/3
√84. Anthony Fauci 8/10
√85. Jen Gunter 8/16
√86. Diane Setterfield 8/10
√87. Gustave Flaubert 8/23
√88. Ashley Elston 8/28
√89. Jonathan Blitzer 8/20
√90. Giles Milton 8/14
√91. Katie Ledecky 8/23
√92. Liz Moore 8/31
√93. A'ja Wilson 8/24
√94. Yangsze Choo 9/5
√95. George Stephanopoulos 9/2
√96. Jonathan Rosen 9/6
√97. Gretchen Whitmer 9/7
√98. Daniel Defoe 9/17
√99. Julie Satow 9/9
√100. Stephen Fry 9/24
√101. Chris Whitaker 9/28
√102. Zoë Schlanger 9/17
√103. Annie Jacobsen 9/18
√104. Nancy Pelosi 9/23
√105. Michael McDonald 9/29
√106. Marjan Kamali 9/30
√107. Keith O'Brien 10/2
√108. Valerie Bauerlein 10/6
√109. O.O. Sangoyomi 10/10
√110. Genevieve Kingston 10/7
√111. Gavin Edwards 10/6
√112. Kirsten Miller 10/12
√113. David Wroblewski 10/27
√114. John Ganz 10/12
√115. Frank Bruni 10/13
√116. Tia Levings 10/17
√117. Phil Elwood 10/21
√118. Jesselyn Cook 10/23
√119. Garrett M. Graff 11/9
√120. Alison Espach 10/30
√121. Tracy Chevalier 11/3
√122. Jodi Picoult 11/15
√123. Ina Garten 11/17
√124. Elif Shafak 11/24
√125. Liz Cheney 11/20
√126. Amy Tintera 11/25
√127. Louise Erdrich 11/30
√128. Cher 12/7
√129. John Grisham 12/14
√130. Eve J. Chung 12/9
√131. Suzanne Collins 12/13
√132. Stephen E. Ambrose 12/19
√133. Oliver Sacks 12/21
√134. Natsume Sōseki 12/23
√135. Robin Wall Kimmerer 12/27