The Reading Challenge Group discussion

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Audio: hijab
print: 11/22/63, mother tree, shepherd, defiant, how to end a love story
Educational: late migrations, prequel,

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GO - Read the book on your shelf that matches the number rolled

Dark Blue - Genre: Romance or Book Club
Partner Pick - Most recent book added that is currently available (or book club)
Dark Blue - Genre: Fantasy or Sci Fi
Library Fine - A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple)
Railroad - Book Club Selection
Light Blue - Theme: Science/Nature Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book
Light Blue - Theme: Nonfiction
Light Blue - Theme: Alternate History/Reality or Dystopia

Book Ban - Free Space/Read anything (if not Jail)

Purple - Category: Published in the last few months
Electric Co - Magic/Paranormal
Purple - Category: Earliest Publication date on your list
Purple - Category: Part of a series
Railroad - Travel Along: Set in a different time (past or future)
Orange - Genre: YA, Middle Grade, or Children's A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) or The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3) or Defiant (Skyward, #4) or Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1) The Crossover
Partner Pick - Oldest added that is currently available (or book club)
Orange - Genre: Mystery
Orange - Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Sale! - Any book!

Red - Category: Highest number of ratings on your shelf
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book
Red - Category: Book with the highest average rating on your shelf
Red - Category: The shortest book on your shelf
Railroad - Travel Abroad: Set in a different country
Yellow - Theme: Fitzgerald classes (Three Tales Flaubert, Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee)
Yellow - Theme: Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
Library Fine - Educational
Yellow - Theme: Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (1042 books) | Goodreads

Go to Book Ban! Read the book that’s been on your list longest

Green - Category: A book with five or more words in the title
Green - Category: A book with a two word title
Partner Pick - Most recent book added that is currently available
Green - Category: A book with a single word title
Railroad - Travel Away: Set in another world
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book
Blue - Genre: An Award nominee Night Road, Black Sun, The Consuming Fire,
Water Works - By an author that's new to you
Blue - Genre: An Award winner, Kairos, The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder 11/22/63

Round 1
✔Roll 1: 5 Task: Library Fine - A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple) - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - 1/2/24
✔Roll 2: 10 Task: Purple - Category: Part of a series - Defend the Dawn (Defy the Night, #2) 1/11/24
✔Roll 3: 5 Task: Orange - Genre: Historical Fiction - Tom Lake - 1/2/24
✔Roll 4: 8 Task: Yellow - Theme: Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1/21/24
✔Roll 5: 4 Task: Green - Category: A book with five or more words in the title - Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope - 1/2/24
✔Roll 6: 4 Task: Railroad - Travel Away: Set in another world - Evershore (Skyward, #2.3) - 1/5/24
Round 2
✔Roll 7: 9 Task: Library Fine - A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple) The Lager Queen of Minnesota - 1/4/24
✔Roll 8: 7 Task: Purple - Category: Published in the last few months - Roman Stories - 1/16/24
✔Roll 9: 11 Task: Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book - The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1) - 1/12/24
✔Roll 10: 5 Task: Electric Co - Magic/Paranormal - Wolfsong (Green Creek #1) - 1/10/24
✔Roll 11: 5 Task: Partner Pick - Most recent book added that is currently available - How to Stop Time - 1/15/24
✔Roll 12: 6 Task: Red - Category: Book with the highest average rating on your shelf - Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - 1/10/24
✔Roll 13: 6 Task: Yellow - Theme: Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value - The Catcher in the Rye - reading - 2/13/24
✔Roll 14: 6 Task: Partner Pick - Oldest added that is currently available - The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living - 2/8/24
✔Roll 15: 5 Task: Water Works - By an author that's new to you - Planet of Slums - 1/21/24
Round 3
✔Roll 16: 7 Task: Railroad - Book Club Selection - Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six - 1/13/24
✔Roll 17: 8 Task: Purple - Category: Earliest Publication date on your list - The Custom of the Country - 2/29/24
✔Roll 18: 6 Task: Orange - Genre: Historical Fiction - Horse - 1/16/24
✔Roll 19: 10 Task: Yellow - Theme: NPR Top 100 Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1) - 2/1/24
✔Roll 20: 3 Task: Green - Category: A book with a two word title - The Switch - 1/22/24
Round 4
✔Roll 21: 10 Task: Partner Pick - Most recent book added that is currently available - Sisterhood Everlasting - 2/7/24
✔Roll 22: 10 Task: Electric Co - Magic/Paranormal - The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy - 1/28/24
✔Roll 23: 5 Task: Partner Pick - Oldest added that is currently available - Tastes Like War: A Memoir - 2/13/24
✔Roll 24: 5 Task: Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book -Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project - 2/28/24
✔Roll 25: 7 Task: Yellow - Theme: NPR Top 100 Sci-Fi/Fantasy - The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) - 2/22/24
✔Roll 26: 9 Task: Water Works - By an author that's new to you - Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us - 1/29/24
Round 5
✔Roll 27: 2 Task: GO - Read the book on your shelf that matches the number rolled - The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1) - 2/6/24
✔Roll 28: 7 Task: Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book - The Septembers of Shiraz - 3/3/24
✔Roll 29: 8 Task: Railroad - Travel Along: Set in a different time (past or future) - An Unexpected Peril - 1/23/24
✔Roll 30: 3 Task: Orange - Genre: Mystery - Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - 1/19/24
✔Roll 31: 4 Task: Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book - Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival - 3/4/24
✔Roll 32: 9 Task: Green - Category: A book with five or more words in the title - How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9) - 1/25/24
✔Roll 33: 6 Task: Blue - Genre: An Award nominee - The River We Remember - 1/26/24
Round 6
✔Roll 34: 9 Task: Light Blue - Theme: Science/Nature - The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings - 1/23/24
✔Roll 35: 10 Task: Orange - Genre: YA, Middle Grade, or Children's - The Ten Thousand Doors of January - 2/15/24
✔Roll 36: 10 Task: Yellow - Theme: Fitzgerald classes - What Strange Paradise - 3/7/24
✔Roll 37: 6 Task: Green - Category: A book with a two word title - The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1) - 3/5/24
✔Roll 38: 5 Task: Blue - Genre: An Award nominee - The Covenant of Water - 1/31/24
Round 7
✔Roll 39: 7 Task: Library Fine - A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple) - Symphony of Secrets - 2/11/24
✔Roll 40: 9 Task: Purple - Category: Earliest Publication date on your list - Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2) reading - 03/15/24
✔Roll 41: 7 Task: Book Sale! - Any book! - The Housekeeper and the Professor - 2/2/24
✔Roll 42: 7 Task: Yellow - Theme: Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value - The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War - 3/22/24
✔Roll 43: 7 Task: Green - Category: A book with a single word title - Cytonic (Skyward, #3) - 3/7/24
Round 8
✔Roll 44: 9 Task: Dark Blue - Genre: Fantasy or Sci Fi - Dust (Jacob's Ladder, #1) reading - 2/5/24
✔Roll 45: 5 Task: Light Blue - Theme: Nonfiction - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - 2/19/24
✔Roll 46: 7 Task: Railroad - Travel Along: Set in a different time (past or future) - Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible - 3/2/24
✔Roll 47: 7 Task: Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book - The Women - 3/25/24
✔Roll 48: 3 Task: Railroad - Travel Abroad: Set in a different country - Camino Ready. Backpacks, Boots & (no) Blisters: Preparing for the Camino and Other Long Treks - 2/27/24
✔Roll 49: 5 Task: Book Ban - Read the book that’s been on your list longest - Carnality - 4/4/24
✔Roll 50: 7 Task: Partner Pick - Oldest added that is currently available - The Crane Husband - 3/13/24
✔Roll 51: 4 Task: Red - Category: Highest number of ratings on your shelf - The Secret History - 4/28/24
✔Roll 52: 10 Task: Green - Category: A book with five or more words in the title - The Echo of Old Books - 2/23/24
✔Roll 53: 8 Task: Blue - Genre: An Award winner - Local Woman Missing - 2/27/24
Round 9
✔Roll 54: 6 Task: Railroad - Book Club Selection - Remarkably Bright Creatures - 2/29/24
✔Roll 55: 2 Task: Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book -Goodbye, Vitamin - 4/17/24
✔Roll 56: 8 Task: Railroad - Travel Along: Set in a different time (past or future) - Chenneville - 3/8/24
✔Roll 57: 11 Task: Yellow - Theme: Fitzgerald classes - My Dead Book - 3/27/24
✔Roll 58: 9 Task: Railroad - Travel Away: Set in another world - Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru - 3/11/24
Round 10
✔Roll 59: 8 Task: Dark Blue - Genre: Fantasy or Sci Fi - Whalefall - 3/12/24
✔Roll 60: 4 Task: Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book - Through My Eyes - 4/29/24
✔Roll 61: 8 Task: Railroad - Travel Along: Set in a different time (past or future) - Don’t Forget to Write - 3/9/24
✔Roll 62: 9 Task: Red - Category: The shortest book on your shelf - Two Women Walk into a Bar - 4/29/24
✔Roll 63: 5 Task: Yellow - Theme: NPR Top 100 Sci-Fi/Fantasy -Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1) - 4/2/24
✔Roll 64: 6 Task: Railroad - Travel Away: Set in another world - Eastbound - 3/12/24
Round 11
✔Roll 65: 8 Task: Dark Blue - Genre: Fantasy or Sci Fi - The Peripheral (Jackpot #1) - 3/18/24
✔Roll 66: 8 Task: Purple - Category: Published in the last few months - Random in Death (In Death, #58) - 3/16/24
✔Roll 67: 7 Task: Orange - Genre: Mystery - The Long Way Home - 3/27/24
✔Roll 68: 12 Task: Go to Book Ban! Book Ban - Read the book that’s been on your list longest - Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements - 5/3/24
✔Roll 69: 6 Task: Orange - Genre: YA, Middle Grade, or Children's - The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2) - 3/20/24
✔Roll 70: 2 Task: Orange - Genre: Mystery -The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #11) - 4/23/24
✔Roll 71: 10 Task: Library Fine - Educational - The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People - 5/30/24
Round 12
✔Roll 72: 12 Task: GO - Read the book on your shelf that matches the number rolled - Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating - on hold - 4/19/24
✔Roll 73: 4 Task: Library Fine - A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple) - Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 - 4/1/24
✔Roll 74: 9 Task: Purple - Category: Earliest Publication date on your list - The Eye Of The Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness - 6/2/24
✔Roll 75: 10 Task: Red - Category: Book with the highest average rating on your shelf - Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity - 5/3/24
✔Roll 76: 12 Task: Railroad - Travel Away: Set in another world - Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) - 3/22/24
Round 13
✔Roll 77: 5 Task: GO - Read the book on your shelf that matches the number rolled - White Trash Warlock (Adam Binder, #1) - 4/11/24
✔Roll 78: 5 Task: Railroad - Book Club Selection - Wish You Were Here - 3/30/24

THE 52 TOPICS OF THE 2024 ATY READING CHALLENGE

✔1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y - How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America- 1/12/24
✔2. A book connected to something you read in 2023 - Evershore (Skyward, #2.3) - 1/5/24
✔3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - 1/2/24
✔4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong The Housekeeper and the Professor - 2/2/24
✔5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world - Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - 1/19/24

✔6. A book with wings on the cover - The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings - 1/23/24
✔7. A book with a pronoun in the title - Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us - 1/23/24
✔8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand - Horse 1/16/24
✔9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads - Camino Ready. Backpacks, Boots & (no) Blisters: Preparing for the Camino and Other Long Treks - 2/27/24

✔10. A history or historical fiction book - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - 2/19/24
✔11. A book with an X connection - Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5) - 2/7/24
✔12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year - The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom - 2/8/24
✔13. A book that is on a Five Books List; reader’s choice of which list - The Catcher in the Rye - reading - 2/13/24

✔14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color - Symphony of Secrets - 2/11/24
✔15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQZX) - Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - 1/10/24
✔16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs" Wolfsong (Green Creek #1) - 1/10/24
✔17. A book involving intelligence Remarkably Bright Creatures - 2/29/24

✔18. A book with a botanical cover - The Ten Thousand Doors of January - 2/15/24
✔19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream Tom Lake - 1/2/24
✔20. A book with a single word title - Dust (Jacob's Ladder, #1) - 2/5/24
✔21. A book with a title containing 6+ words One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1/21/24
22. A book by an author from an African country - Half of a Yellow Sun

✔23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett - The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy - 1/28/24
✔24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple) - The Lager Queen of Minnesota - 1/4/24
25. A book involving a crime other than a murder The Glass Hotel, The Fraud
✔26. A book by an author known by their initials The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1) - 1/12/24

✔27. A book related to land Planet of Slums - 1/21/24
✔28. A book related to sea Don’t Forget to Write - 3/9/24
✔29. A book related to air Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1) - 2/1/24
✔30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea -Roman Stories - 1/16/24
✔31. A book related to “Going for the Gold” - The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1) - 2/6/24

✔32. A book with a number in the title Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six - 1/13/24
✔33. A book involving travel What Strange Paradise - 3/7/24
✔34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs (Doc) The Covenant of Water - 1/31/24
✔35. A science or science fiction book - Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible - 3/2/24

✔36. A book featuring a character in education - Tastes Like War: A Memoir - 2/13/24
✔37. A book that is part of a series - How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9)- 1/25/24
✔38. Two books with similar covers: Book 1 - How to Stop Time - 1/15/24


✔39. Two books with similar covers: Book 2 - An Unexpected Peril - 1/23/24


✔40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover - Whalefall - 3/12/24
✔41. A book with a chilling atmosphere Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival - 3/4/24
✔42. A book with a sound-related word in the title - The Echo of Old Books - 2/23/24
✔43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author - The River We Remember - 1/26/24
✔44. A book with a touch of magic - The Crane Husband - 3/13/24

✔45. A book that is not a novel Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope - 1/2/24
✔46. A book related to night The Final Empire - 2/22/24
✔47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE - The Peripheral (Jackpot #1) - 3/18/24
✔48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt - a history/historical fiction -Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project - 2/28/24

✔49. A book with a senior citizen character The Switch - 1/22/24
✔50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024 Cytonic (Skyward, #3) - 3/7/24
✔51. A book published in 2024 - Random in Death (In Death, #58) - 3/16/24
✔52. A cozy mystery - Legends & Lattes - 3/22/24

✔Roll 79: 6 Task: Purple - Category: Published in the last few months - Fourteen Days - 4/11/24
✔Roll 80: 7 Task: Orange - Genre: Mystery - The Glass Hotel - 4/25/24
✔Roll 81: 6 Task: Red - Category: The shortest book on your shelf - Proto Zoa - 4/30/24
✔Roll 82: 7 Task: Green - Category: A book with five or more words in the title - The Wet Engine: Exploring Mad Wild Miracle of Heart - 3/23/24
✔Roll 83: 8 Task: Blue - Genre: An Award winner - This Is How You Lose the Time War - 4/8/24
Round 14
✔Roll 84: 5 Task: Library Fine - A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple) - When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today - reading - 4/15/24
✔Roll 85: 4 Task: Light Blue - Theme: Nonfiction - How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older - 4/5/24
✔Roll 86: 9 Task: Partner Pick - Oldest added that is currently available - Born on a Blue Day - 4/29/24
✔Roll 87: 7 Task: Red - Category: The shortest book on your shelf - The Butcher of Anderson Station (The Expanse, #1.5) - 5/6/24
✔Roll 88: 5 Task: Yellow - Theme: NPR Top 100 Sci-Fi/Fantasy -Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2) - 5/9/24
✔Roll 89: 9 Task: Water Works - By an author that's new to you - Agatha of Little Neon - 4/7/24
Round 15
✔Roll 90: 12 Task: Book Ban - Free Space - Mercury Pictures Presents - 4/18/24
✔Roll 91: 3 Task: Purple - Category: Earliest Publication date on your list - A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) - 5/20/24
✔Roll 92: 5 Task: Orange - Genre: Mystery - An Impossible Impostor (Veronica Speedwell, #7) - 5/23/24
✔Roll 93: 5 Task: Red - Category: Book with the highest average rating on your shelf -Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1) - 5/29/24
✔Roll 94: 6 Task: Yellow - Theme: NPR Top 100 Sci-Fi/Fantasy - 2001: A Space Odyssey - 5/5/24
✔Roll 95: 8 Task: Blue - Genre: An Award nominee -Spinning Silver - 5/18/24
Round 16
Roll 96: 7 Task: Light Blue - Theme: Science/Nature - Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
✔Roll 97: 7 Task: Purple - Category: Earliest Publication date on your list - Portnoy’s Complaint - 5/8/24
Roll 98: 9 Task: Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book - Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women reading
✔Roll 99: 7 Task: Yellow - Theme: Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (1042 books) | Goodreads - Accelerando - didn't finish
✔Roll 100: 10 Task: Blue - Genre: An Award winner - Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) - 5/23/24
Round 17
Roll 101: 9 Task: Light Blue - Theme: Nonfiction - Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
✔Roll 102: 9 Task: Partner Pick - Oldest added that is currently available (or book club) - Our Missing Hearts - 5/28/24
✔Roll 103: 6 Task: Red - Category: Book with the highest average rating on your shelf - James - 6/4/24
Roll 104: 6 Task: Yellow - Theme: Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (1042 books) | Goodreads - The Windup Girl
✔Roll 105: 6 Task: Railroad - Travel Away: Set in another world - 1666 - 5/9/24