Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Celebrate your completion of the Spring Reading Challenge here!

SPRINGTIME CHALLENGE, Mar 1 — May 31
Reading the Rainbow 🌈📚✨ • completed March 13 but still building the colors of spring!

♥️RED: ✔️Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust

💕MAGENTA: ✔️Of Cattle & Men, Ana Paula Mala • 📖Praiseworthy, Alexis Wright

🔥ORANGE: ✔️Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens

⭐️YELLOW: ✔️Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

🧼GREEN: ✔️Unfuck Your Brain, Faith G. Harper

🩵BLUE: ✔️The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy • 📖 Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong, Joyce Carol Oates • 📖 So Much Blue, Percival Everett

💜PURPLE: ✔️Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino

💌WHITE: ✔️Devotions, Mary Oliver • 📖 The Box, Mandy-Suzanne Wong

🖤BLACK: ✔️The Dream Songs, John Berryman

🪑BROWN: ✔️Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy

✨GOLD: ✔️Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar

🪩GREY: ✔️Dixon, Descending, Karen Outen

🌈5+ COLORS: ✔️How to Love the World, ed. James Crews • ✔️The Complete Grimm’s Fairytales, Brothers Grimms

BONUS: Try to find titles that start with a letter in these words!

RAINBOW:
B! ✔️Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino
O! ✔️Of Cattle & Men, Ana Paula Mala
W! ✔️Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens

SHOWER:
S! ✔️Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
W! ✔️Whales and Men, Cormac McCarthy
E! 📖 Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong, Joyce Carol Oates

SPRING:
S! ✔️Scenes of the Crime, Cormac McCarthy • Sx2! 📖 So Much Blue, Percival Everett
P! 📖Praiseworthy, Alexis Wright

COLORFUL:
C! ✔️The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy • Cx2! ✔️Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy • Cx3! ✔️The Complete Grimm’s Fairytales, Brothers Grimms

GROWTH:
W! ✔️Wake for Susan, Cormac McCarthy
H! ✔️How to Love the World, ed. James Crews

✔️ — completed
📖 — currently reading

I finished the challenge today.🥳 This is the link to my completed list.

I finished today. List here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
✅RED: Taming Brooklyn
✅ORANGE: Forget Me Knot
✅YELLOW:Home Sweet Home
✅GREEN: Broken Wolf
✅BLUE: Unbreak Me
✅PURPLE: Believe It or Knot: Part Two
✅WHITE: Cross to Bear
✅BLACK: Blackouts
✅BROWN: Bears in Mind
✅GOLD: For She Is Wrath
✅GRAY: Unveiling the Arcane
✅5+ COLORS: Knot Going Anywhere


BONUS CHALLENGE:
✅RAIN B OW: Believe It or Knot: Part One
✅SHOWE R: Ready or Not: Assurance Security Duet Part Two
✅SPRI N G: Not Ready: Assurance Security Duet Part One
✅C OLORFUL: Clouds & Daydreams: Part 1
✅GROWT H: Hidden Waters

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
✅RED:

Conspirata by Robert Harris - 3/18/24 - 4* - My Review
✅ORANGE:

Mr. Flood's Last Resort by Jess Kidd - 3/12/24 - 4* - My Review
✅YELLOW:

The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 4/1/24 - 4* - My Review
✅GREEN:

The Girl in the Tree by Şebnem İşigüzel - 3/6/24 - 3.5 - My Review
✅BLUE:

Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination by Robert Macfarlane - 3/19/24 - 4* - My Review
✅PURPLE:

The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti - 3/27/24 - 4* - My Review
✅WHITE:

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - 3/31/24 - 4* - My Review
✅BLACK:

milk and honey by Rupi Kaur - 3/8/24 - 3* - My Review
✅BROWN:

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard - 3/5/24 - 4* - My Review
✅GOLD:

In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas - 3/10/24 - 3* - My Review
✅GRAY:

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell - 3/11/24 - 4* - My Review
5+ COLORS:

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - 4/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review

Bonus challenge: try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

✅RAINBOW
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover - 3/24/24 - 2* - My Review
✅SHOWER
The Hunters by James Salter - 3/25/24 - 3* - My Review
✅SPRING
Sourdough by Robin Sloan - 3/18/24 - 4* - My Review
✅COLORFUL
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray - 3/20/24 - 4* - My Review
✅GROWTH
The Hard Blue Sky: A Novel by Shirley Ann Grau - 3/21/24 - 3* - My Review

Completed 4/3/24

Yay, finished the colours 🥳

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Spring Rainbow Challenge
✅RED: Husband and Wife by K. L. Slater
✅ORANGE: Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
✅YELLOW: Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-Biological Lesbian Moms Tell All ed. by Harlyn Aizley
✅GREEN: River Woman, River Demon by Jennifer Givhan
✅BLUE: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss
✅PURPLE: A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
✅WHITE: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
✅BLACK: Murder at the Savoy by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
✅BROWN: Small Kingdoms & Other Stories by Charlaine Harris
✅GOLD: The Narrator by K. L. Slater
✅GREY: See How They Run by Rachel Howzell Hall
✅5+ COLORS: Much Ado in Maggody by Joan Hess

RED: - 11/22/63 by Stephen King (March 21, 2024)
ORANGE: - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (March 05, 2024)
YELLOW: - Beach Read by Emily Henry (March 06, 2024)
GREEN: - The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany (March 31, 2024)
BLUE: - Book Lovers by Emily Henry (March 11, 2024)
PURPLE: - Once Upon a K-Prom by Kat Cho (March 24, 2024)
WHITE: - The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black (March 10, 2024)
BLACK: - Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James (March 14, 2024)
BROWN: One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus (April 11, 2024)
GOLD: - Legend by Marie Lu (March 02, 2024)
GRAY: - Bared to You by Sylvia Day (March 09, 2024)
5+ COLORS: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (March 08, 2024)



Bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

RAINBOW -
R Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki (May 5, 2024)
A All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (May 19, 2024)
I I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (March 31, 2024)
N November 9 by Colleen Hoover (March 27, 2024)
O Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot (April 8, 2011)
W The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (April 18, 2024)

SHOWER -
H How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (March 22, 2024)
W A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin (May 1, 2023)

SPRING -
P The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Loveless (April 25, 2024)
R Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover (March 24, 2024)
I In Real Life by Cory Doctorow (April 6, 2024)
G The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (May 15, 2024)

COLORFUL -
C A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (March 29, 2024)
F Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (May 6, 2024)
U Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (April 23, 2024)

GROWTH -
G The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (May 25, 2024)
O One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (April 4, 2024)
T The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (April 6, 2024)

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
✅RED:
Nina Balatka - Anthony Trollope ⭐⭐⭐.5

✅ORANGE:
Don’t Forget to Write - Sara Goodman Confino ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅YELLOW:
Crick Crack, Monkey - Merle Hodge ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅GREEN:
The Greengage Summer - Rumer Godden ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅BLUE:
The Paradise Guest House - Ellen Sussman ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅PURPLE:
The Murder of My Aunt - Richard Hull ⭐⭐⭐.5

✅WHITE:
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅BLACK:
The Lady with the Little Dog - Anton Chekhov ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅BROWN:
The Venice Sketchbook - Rhys Bowen ⭐⭐⭐.5

✅GOLD:
An Excellent Mystery - Ellis Peters ⭐⭐⭐

✅GRAY:
Salt to the Sea - Ruta Sepetys ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

5+ COLORS:
Birdie - Tracey Lindberg ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE

RED: - Agatha Christie
ORANGE: - by Terry Pratchett
YELLOW: - by Darren Shan
GREEN: - by KJ Charles
BLUE: - by Timothy Zahn
PURPLE: by Marianne Curley
WHITE: - - KJ Charles (white writing on cover)
BLACK: - By Shelley Puhak
BROWN: - by Talia Hibbert
GOLD: - by Janina Ramirez
GRAY: by KJ Charles
5+ COLORS: by Susan Rogers & ogi Ogas

12/12

RED: Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley 5 Stars *
ORANGE: Maelstrom and Other Martian Tales by Kage Baker 4 Stars*
YELLOW: Satanic Mechanic by Sally Andrew 3 Stars*
GREEN: Brasyl by Ian McDonald 4 Stars*
BLUE: Daughters of Bronze by A.D. Rhine 4 Stars*
PURPLE: Strange Folk by Alli Dyer 4 Stars*
WHITE: The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl 4 Stars*
BLACK: Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo 4 Stars*
BROWN: Godkiller by Hannah Kaner 5 Stars*
GOLD: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett 5 Stars*
GRAY: Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson 2 Stars*
5+ COLORS: Mrs Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford 5 Stars*

I really enjoyed this challenge! I love being aware of color and I think I'm going to redo this challenge for summer season as well, and maybe beyond.

RED:
ORANGE:
YELLOW:
GREEN:
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BLUE:
PURPLE:
WHITE:
BLACK:
BROWN:
GOLD:
GRAY:
5+ COLORS:

And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these ——— maybe later

🌈 Main Challenge - Read the Rainbow
My tracking thread

Red: The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice by C. Alexander Hortis
Orange: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Yellow: Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
Green: The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8) by Louise Penny
Blue: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Purple: Viva Durant and the Mystery at the Masquerade Ball (Viva Durant, #3) by Ashli St. Armant
White: The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13) by Agatha Christie
Black: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Brown: Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #44) by Agatha Christie
Gold: The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
Gray: How To Bury Your Brother by Lindsey Rogers Cook
5+ colors: Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19) by Agatha Christie


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🌧️ Bonus Challenge - Spell out Shower

S: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
H: Husband and Wife by K.L. Slater
O: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
W: Wake the Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne
E: Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin Stevenson
R: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
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🌈Bonus Challenge - Spell out Rainbow

R: Rule Against Murder, A (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4) by Louise Penny
A: Among the Heather (The Highlands, #2) by Samantha Young
I: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
N: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
B: Brutal Telling, The (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #5) by Louise Penny
O: One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5) by Harlan Coben
W: World of Curiosities, A (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny
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🌷Bonus Challenge - Spell out Spring

S: Shadow of the Wind, The (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
P: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
R: Red Sparrow (Red Sparrow Trilogy, #1) by Jason Matthews
I: Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe by Steve Sheinkin
N: Nature of the Beast, The (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #11) by Louise Penny
G: Girlfriend, The by K.L. Slater
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📚Bonus Challenge - Spell out Colorful

C: Cruelest Month, The (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3) by Louise Penny
O: Our House by Louise Candlish
L: Long Way Home, The (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10) by Louise Penny
O: One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2) by Ellis Peters
R: Reader, I Buried Them & Other Stories by Peter Lovesey
F: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
U: Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant; The by Drew Hayes
L: Life We Bury, The (Joe Talbert, #1; Detective Max Rupert, #1) by Allen Eskens
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🪻Bonus Challenge - Spell out Growth

G: Great Reckoning, A (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12) by Louise Penny
R: Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgertons, #4) by Julia Quinn
O: Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures by Connie Wang
W: With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Womans Right to Vote by Ann Bausum
T: Thursday Murder Club, The (Thursday Murder Club, #1) by Richard Osman
H: Heron's Cry, The (Two Rivers, #2) by Ann Cleeves

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE

RED: - 4/17
ORANGE: - 3/14
YELLOW: -4/15
GREEN: - 3/5
BLUE: -3/2
PURPLE: - 3/4
WHITE: - 3/9
BLACK: - 3/9
BROWN: - 3/15
GOLD: - 3/19
GRAY: - 3/10
5+ COLORS: - 5/6


S - The Social Graces - 4/30
H - Head On - 4/3
O - Odd Partners: An Anthology - 4/15
W - What Cannot Be Said - 5/4
E - Everything I Never Told You - 5/6
R - Roadside Picnic - 4/19

I finished.
SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
RED: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
ORANGE: Out Of Range (Joe Pickett, #5) by C.J. Box
YELLOW: Leap In A Woman, Some Waves and the Will to Swim by Alexandra Heminsley
GREEN: The Searcher by Tana French
BLUE: The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1) by Jonathan Stroud
PURPLE: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
WHITE: Trust by Hernan Diaz
BLACK: The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16) by Jacqueline Winspear
BROWN: The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa
GOLD: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty
GRAY: The Wager A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
5+ COLORS: Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See

And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

RAINBOW - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
SHOWER - Florence Adler Swims Forever
SPRING - My Sister, the Serial Killer
COLORFUL - Independence
GROWTH - The Good Earth

Finished - Bring on the Summer Challenge

RED - So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
ORANGE - Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
YELLOW - Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera
GREEN - Weyward by Emilia Hart
BLUE - When We Become Ours ed. Shannon Gibbey and NicoleChung
PURPLE - The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkle
WHITE - The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
BLACK - The Marsh King's Daughter Karen Dionne
BROWN -The Heaven & Earth Grocry Store by James McBride
GOLD - The Unfortunates by J.K. Chukwu
GRAY - March by Geraldine Brooks
5+ COLORS - Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana K. White
RAINBOW - Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
SHOWER - House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
SPRING - The Third Man by Graham Greene
COLORFUL - The Trackers by Charles Frazier
GROWTH - Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston

Finished!


SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE

RED: A Light Most Hateful


ORANGE: Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever


YELLOW: What Stalks Among Us


GREEN: Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World


BLUE: Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark


PURPLE: Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol


WHITE: Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization


BLACK: Mother-Daughter Murder Night


BROWN: Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates


GOLD: The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder


GRAY: Bride


5+ COLORS: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands


And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

RAINBOW - Raiders of the Lost Heart
SHOWER - Eating to Extinction
SPRING - Spying on Whales
COLORFUL - First Lie Wins
GROWTH - Glorious Exploits

💜💙💚💛🧡❤️

❤️ RED ✅️

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Maté
🧡 ORANGE ✅️

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
💛 YELLOW ✅️

The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series edited by Anthony M. Bean
💚 GREEN ✅️

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
💙 BLUE ✅️

Day by Michael Cunningham
💜 PURPLE ✅️

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
🤍 WHITE ✅️

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
🖤 BLACK ✅️

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
🤎 BROWN ✅️

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
🪙 GOLD ✅️

Golden Fool by Robin Hobb
🩶 GRAY ✅️

All Systems Red by Martha Wells
🌈 5+ COLORS ✅️

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

RAINBOW ✅️
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
SHOWER ✅️
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
SPRING ✅️
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Maté
COLORFUL ✅️
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
GROWTH ✅️
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Finished 5/18/24:

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
√RED:Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
√ORANGE: There There by Tommy Orange ( the cover is orange not just his name)
√YELLOW: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
√GREEN: The Wager by David Grann
√BLUE: This Impossible Brightness by Jessica Bryant Klagmann
√PURPLE : The Direction of the Wind by Mansi Shah
√WHITE: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
√BLACK:A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen by Susannah Carson
√BROWN: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
√GOLD: The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh

√GRAY:The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
√5+ COLORS: If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura

And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

√RAINBOW: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
√SHOWER: (The) Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
√SPRING: I Work in a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
√COLORFUL: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
√GROWTH: West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

All Done

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
RED:

ORANGE:

YELLOW:

GREEN:

BLUE:

PURPLE:

WHITE:

BLACK:

BROWN:

GOLD:

GRAY:

5+ COLORS:


bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

RAINBOW

SHOWER:

SPRING

COLORFUL

GROWTH

Challenge completed! I actually finished the challenge back in March, but I decided to keep adding letters to the words. I think this is as far as I'm going to get though.

RED:

Thirst - Marina Yuszczuk
ORANGE:

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
YELLOW:

Piglet - Lottie Hazell
GREEN:

Devil Makes Three - Ben Fountain
BLUE:

Death of a Bookseller - Alice Slater
PURPLE:

Time's Mouth - Edan Lepucki
WHITE:

Dayswork - Jennifer Habel & Chris Bachelder
BLACK:
- Lisa Ko
Memory Piece - Lisa Ko
BROWN:
- Nicola Griffith
Menewood - Nicola Griffith
GOLD:
- Kelly Link
The Book of Love - Kelly Link
GRAY:

The Knockout Queen - Rufi Thorpe
5+ COLORS:
- Michiko Aoyama

And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

R: Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash
A: America Fantastica - Tim O'Brien
N: The Night of the Storm - Nishita Parekh
B: Blackouts - Justin Torres
O: Outlawed - Anna North
W: Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials - Marion Gibson

S: Starter Villain - John Scalzi
H: The Hundred-Year House - Rebecca Makkai
W: White Cat, Black Dog: Stories - Kelly Link
E: Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect - Benjamin Stevenson

S: Study for Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
P: People Collide - Isle McElroy
G: Grief Is for People - Sloane Crosley

C: Come and Get It - Kiley Reid
L: Layers: A Memoir - Pénélope Bagieu
F: The Fraud - Zadie Smith
L: Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It - Greg Marshall

W: Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange
T: Three Rooms - Jo Hamya
H: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

SPRINGTIME CHALLENGE, Mar 1 — May 31
Reading Rainbow 🌈📚✨

♥️RED: ✔️Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust • ✔️Listen for the Lie, Amy Tintera • ✔️Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm, Emmeline Clein • 📖 Alan Kitching: A Life in Letterpress, Kitching

💕MAGENTA: ✔️Of Cattle & Men, Ana Paula Mala • 📖Praiseworthy, Alexis Wright • ✔️One in a Millennial, Kate Kennedy • ✔️ A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome, Emma Southon

🔥ORANGE: ✔️Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens • 📖🎧 Butts: A Backstory, Heather Radke

⭐️YELLOW: ✔️Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf • ✔️Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan • 📖🎧 How to ADHD: An Insider’s Guide to Working with Your Brain, Jessica McCabe

🧼GREEN: ✔️Unfuck Your Brain, Faith G. Harper • ✔️Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain • ✔️Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, Leonard Mlodinow • ✔️🎧Breasts: A Natural & Unnatural History, Florence Williams

🩵BLUE: ✔️The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy • ✔️Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong, Joyce Carol Oates • ✔️So Much Blue, Percival Everett • ✔️The Trees, Percival Everett

💜PURPLE: ✔️Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino

💌WHITE: ✔️Devotions, Mary Oliver • ✔️The Box, Mandy-Suzanne Wong • ✔️🎧 Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keefe, Laurie Lisle

🖤BLACK: ✔️The Dream Songs, John Berryman • ✔️The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde • ✔️🎧 The Orchard Keeper, Cormac McCarthy

🪑BROWN: ✔️Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy • ✔️Wrong Norma, Anne Carson

✨GOLD: ✔️Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar • ✔️ James, Percival Everett

🪩GREY: ✔️Dixon, Descending, Karen Outen • ✔️🎧 Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002, David Sedaris

🎞️ Cream: ✔️JonBenét: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation, Steve Thomas • ✔️Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Fraser • ✔️Gospel according to Coco Chanel, Karen Karbo

🌈5+ COLORS: ✔️How to Love the World, ed. James Crews • ✔️The Complete Grimm’s Fairytales, Brothers Grimms • ✔️A Girl Returned, Donatella Di Pietrantonio • ✔️Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy • ✔️ Landscapes, Christine Lai • 📖 Certain American States: Stories, Catherine Lacey • 📖 The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers

BONUS: Try to find titles that start or include with a letter in these words!

RAINBOW:
R! ✔️A Girl Returned, Donatella Di Pietrantonio
A! ✔️Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Fraser
I! ✔️ A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome, Emma Southon
B! ✔️Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino • Bx2! ✔️🎧Breasts: A Natural & Unnatural History, Florence Williams • Bx3! 📖🎧 Butts: A Backstory, Heather Radke
O! ✔️Of Cattle & Men, Ana Paula Mala
W! ✔️Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens

SHOWER:
S! ✔️Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
H! ✔️Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain • Hx2! 📖🎧 How to ADHD: An Insider’s Guide to Working with Your Brain, Jessica McCabe
O! ✔️One in a Millennial, Kate Kennedy
W! ✔️Whales and Men, Cormac McCarthy
E! ✔️ Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong, Joyce Carol Oates
R! ✔️Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, Leonard Mlodinow

SPRING:
S! ✔️Scenes of the Crime, Cormac McCarthy • Sx2! ✔️So Much Blue, Percival Everett
P! 📖Praiseworthy, Alexis Wright • Px2! ✔️Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan • Px3! ✔️🎧 Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keefe, Laurie Lisle
I! ✔️JonBenét: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation, Steve Thomas
G! ✔️ Gospel according to Coco Chanel, Karen Karbo

COLORFUL:
C! ✔️The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy • Cx2! ✔️Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy • Cx3! ✔️The Complete Grimm’s Fairytales, Brothers Grimms • Cx4! 📖 Certain American States: Stories, Catherine Lacey
O!✔️Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy
L! ✔️Listen for the Lie, Amy Tintera • Lx2! ✔️Landscapes, Christine Lai • Lx3! 📖 Alan Kitching: A Life in Letterpress, Kitching
O! 📖 The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
F! ✔️🎧 Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002, David Sedaris

GROWTH:
G!✔️The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
O! ✔️🎧 The Orchard Keeper, Cormac McCarthy
W! ✔️Wake for Susan, Cormac McCarthy • Wx2! ✔️Wrong Norma, Anne Carson
T! ✔️ The Box, Mandy-Suzanne Wong • Tx2! ✔️The Trees, Percival Everett
H! ✔️How to Love the World, ed. James Crews

✔️ — completed
📖 — currently reading

Read this very addictive https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Red: the antique hunter’s guide to murder - C.L. Miller
Orange: the royal game - Linda Kier
Yellow: Finlay Donovan rolls the dice - Elle cosimero
Green: You’d look better as a ghost - Joanna Wallace
Blue: Gilded - Christina Farley
Purple: murder at the Mayfair hotel - C.J. Archer
Grey: a court of silver flames - Sarah j Maas
Black: powerless - Lauren Robert’s
White: Station Eternity - mur lafferty
Brown: a feast for starving stone - Beth Cato
Gold: Lady Rogue - Jenn Bennett
5+ colors: the revenant games - Margie fuston

Here you go. My definition was where the cover is at least 50% the colour stated (or >5% for multiple colours), according to TinEye (https://labs.tineye.com/color/) which is the site another challenge I do uses to verify colours on covers; or something relevent to the colour on the cover.

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Text version and percentages are here if they're needed: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

rAiNbow - A Night's Tail, Sofie Kelly - 10/04/24
sHower - Hearing God in Poetry, Richard Harries - 05/04/24
sPring - Proof in the Photo, Kathi Daley - 03/03/24
coLorful - La Vie: A Year In Rural France, John Lewis-Stempel - 24/03/24
Growth - Greenwitch, Susan Cooper - 11/03/24

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5/26/2024
I finished 🎉

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√RAINBOW: Ring
√SHOWER: The Hating Game
√SPRING: Der Puppengräber
√COLORFUL: A Lady for a Duke
√GROWTH: Gorgeous Gruesome Faces

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE

1. RED: The Almost Sisters
2. ORANGE: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3. YELLOW: Night of the Toxic Ostrich
4. GREEN: Tom Lake
5. BLUE: Hex
6. PURPLE: Barking Mad
7. WHITE: Second-Hand Time
8. BLACK: If We Were Villains
9. BROWN: Furies
10. GOLD: A Terrible Kindness
11. GRAY: Hearing Birds Fly
12. 5+ COLOURS: Orbital

And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

RAINBOW - The Rehearsal
SHOWER - Sorrowland
SPRING - Strangers on a Train
COLORFUL - The Conspiracy Tourist
GROWTH - Girl at War

Challenge COMPLETED 5/27/24

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Orange:
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And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

√RAINBOW The Red Scholar's Wake
√SHOWER The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets
√SPRING The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
√COLORFUL The Consolations of Philosophy
√GROWTH The Girls of Slender Means

🌺SPRING🌺 🌈 RAINBOW 🌈CHALLENGE🌺

Red: Spader dam/The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
Orange: Skuggläge av Kristina Ohlsson
Yellow: Pippi Långstrump av Astrid Lindgren
Green: Falska vänner/Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Blue: Kvinnan i hytt 10/The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Purple: Charlie av Margareta Suber
Pink: The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
White: Gallring/Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Black: Vi har alltid bott på slottet/We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Brown: Nötskal by Ian McEwan
Gold: Verity by Colleen Hoover
Grey: Sommaren tar slut av Jonatan Olofsgård
5+ Colours: Fallet från Eden av E.P. Uggla

And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

Rainbow: Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
Shower: Sly av Sara Strömberg
Spring: Ingen rövare finns i skogen av Astrid Lindgren
Colourful: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Growth: The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza

ATYI52B - Spring Reading Challenge

May 25 - May 30 (started late)

✅ Total: 17/17

Cover
RED:
Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania - ⭐️⭐️
ORANGE:
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
YELLOW:
Yellow: The History of a Color - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
GREEN:
The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
BLUE:
Time and How to Spend It: Seven Ways to Better Days - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
PURPLE:
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable - ⭐️⭐️
WHITE:
When Google Met Wikileaks - ⭐️⭐️
BLACK:
Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
BROWN:
The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
GOLD:
The Ego Is Not the Real You: Wisdom to Transcend the Mind and Realize the Self - ⭐️⭐️
GREY:
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
5+ COLOURS:
Who Did It First? 50 Scientists, Artists, and Mathematicians Who Revolutionized the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

One Letter
RAINBOW: W - What Would Wednesday Do?: Gothic Guidance and Macabre Musings from Your Favorite Addams Family Member - ⭐️⭐️
SHOWER: W - With Sprinkles on Top: Everything Vanilla People and Their Kinky Partners Need to Know to Communicate, Explore, and Connect - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
SPRING: N - Jack White: How He Built an Empire from the Blues - Nick Hasted - ⭐️⭐️
COLORFUL: C - City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
GROWTH: T - Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future - ⭐️⭐️

RED: Interesting Facts about Space by Emily R. Austin (completed 3/19)
ORANGE: The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie (completed 4/11)
YELLOW: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (completed 3/3)
GREEN: Trust by Hernan Diaz (completed 3/5)
BLUE: The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York by Tom Roston (completed 3/6)
PURPLE: Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen (completed 4/26)
WHITE: The Future by Naomi Alderman (completed 5/9)
BLACK: End of Story by A.J. Finn (completed 3/10)
BROWN: Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh (completed 5/12)
GOLD: The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden (completed 4/23)
GRAY: Down the Drain by Julia Fox (completed 3/18)
5+ COLORS: The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer (completed 3/14)

ATY SPRING READING CHALLENGE
March 1, 2024-May 31, 2024

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE:
RED: The True Love Experiment
ORANGE: The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel
YELLOW: The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories
GREEN: Seoulmates
BLUE: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass: The Graphic Novel
PURPLE: Just My Type
WHITE: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
BLACK: Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
BROWN: Two Tribes
GOLD: Dragons Beware!
GRAY: The Fox Maidens
5+ COLORS: Brooms

Bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

RAINBOW: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
SHOWER: Run, Rose, Run
SPRING: New Kid
COLORFUL: Frozen 2: Forest of Shadows
GROWTH: Tom Lake

🌈 Roxana's Spring Rainbow Challenge 🌈

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🌈 Bonus Title Challenge 🌈

RAINBOW: The Raven Boys
SHOWER: Spirit Hunters
SPRING: Sufferance
COLORFUL: Curtain
GROWTH: How to Solve Your Own Murder

Completed :

RED :
Anatomie de l'Affiche rouge by Annette Wieviorka ★★★ 1/2

ORANGE :
Les maîtres de Bayreuth by Charlie Roquin ★★★★

YELLOW :
Lettres à un jeune romancier sénégalais by Alain Mabanckou ★★★1/2

GREEN :
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung ★★★★★

BLUE :
Le voyage de Shuna (Shuna's Journey) by Hayao Miyazaki ★★★★

PURPLE :
The Mitford Secret by Jessica Fellowes ★★★★

WHITE :
La Carte postale (The Postcard) by Anne Berest ★★★★

BLACK :
Nous voulions tuer Hitler (Valkyrie: The Story of the Plot to Kill Hitler, by Its Last Member) by Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager ★★★★

BROWN :
Le Dernier Pharaon - Autour de Blake & Mortimer by François Schuiten and Jaco Van Dormael ★★★

GOLD :
Margaret of Austria: Governor of the Netherlands and Early 16th-Century Europe's Greatest Diplomat by Rozsa Gaston ★★★ 1/2

GRAY :
Le clan Snæberg (You Can't See Me) by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir ★★★★ 1/2

5+ COLORS :
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny★★★

RAINBOW : Bel Canto by Ann Patchett ★★★★ 1/2

SHOWER : Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger ★★★★★

SPRING : Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen ★★★★

COLORFUL : Les Contes d'Eva Luna (The Stories of Eva Luna) by Isabel Allende ★★★★★

GROWTH : The Tempest by William Shakespeare★★★★★

🌈 KATHERINE'S SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
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🌈 BONUS CHALLENGE
RAINBOW: North Woods
SHOWER: The Shamshine Blind
SPRING: 'Salem's Lot
COLORFUL: The Fury
GROWTH: The Tattooist of Auschwitz

I finished the other day but forgot to post! Only one round this time, I had difficulty with some of the colors - purple and gold were harder than I thought they would be!

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Completed!

RED: The Okay Witch -
ORANGE: Where There Was Fire -
YELLOW: The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir -
GREEN: Strong Poison -
BLUE: Z For Zachariah -
PURPLE: Where the Guilty Hide -
WHITE: The Second Ending -
BLACK: The Sister -
BROWN: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts -
GOLD: Three Apples Fell from the Sky -
GRAY: Food of Ghosts -
5+ COLORS: Stargazing -