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Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books


Challenge Rules
*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter.
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge

(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)

Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over.

Anne FINISHED
Ariel FINISHED

Caraina FINISHED

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Ferenc FINISHED
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Genevieve FINISHED
Gretel FINISHED

Jan FINISHED
JoAnne FINISHED
Julesy FINISHED

Katrina FINISHED
Kendra FINISHED

Lali & Michelle FINISHED

Melissa A FINISHED
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Olivermagnus FINISHED

Shash FINISHED
Suzanne FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024
Single: Read 3-4 books


1. The Summer We Started Over Nancy Thayer 5/7/24
2. The Song of Clouds Samantha Wood 5/10/24
3. The Quiet Tenant Clémence Michallon 5/19/24
4. Tourist Season Brenda Novak 5/29/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1.Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll. Read 5/3/24
2.One True Thing by Anna Quindlen Read 5/7/24
3.The Heart Between Us: Two Sisters, One Heart Transplant, and a Bucket List by Lindsay Harrel Read 5/11/24
4.The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule. Read 5/14/24
5.A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Read 5/19/24
6.Between Before and After by Maureen Doyle McQuerry. Read 5/19/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem by Kekla Magoon & Cynthia Leitich Smith - May 1
2. You Cannot Be Serious! The Graphic Guide to Tennis: Grand slams, players and fans, and all the tennis trivia possible by Mark Hodgkinson - May 7
3. Why Is Everybody Yelling?: Growing Up in My Immigrant Family by Marisabina Russo - May 8
4. Buzzing by Samuel Sattin - May 11
5. Tin Man: A Graphic Novel by Justin Madson - May 16
6. Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil - May 18

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge - FINISHED
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Level: Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Completed: 6/6

1. His Only Wife - Peace Adzo Medie 5/3/24
2. The Christmas Spirit - Debbie Macomber 5/5/24
3. Sleigh Bells Ring - RaeAnne Thayne 5/5/24
4. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann 5/6/24
5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride 5/7/24
6. The Woman in Me - Britney Spears 5/8/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

5/5-6 Completed. Finished

1.The Amish Wife-Gregg Olsen 5/06/24
2.Deja Brew-Jessica Gadziala 5/08/24
3.The Survivor-Jessica Gadziala 5/09/24
4.Arsen: A Broken Love Story-Mia Asher 5/24/24
5.Dagger in the Sea-Cat Porter 5/29/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

1. My Corfu Love Story by Effrosyni Moschoudi 5/28/2024

Welcome everyone!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books

1) Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau 04/05/24
2) None of This Is True - Lisa Jewell 16/05/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

📘 A Kind of Paradise by Amy Rebecca Tan 5/1/24
📘The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan 5/4/24
📘 The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella 5/8/24
📘 The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes 5/12/24
📘 Summer at Meadow Wood by Amy Rebecca Tan 5/14/24
📘 The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren 5/16/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

COMPLETED

1.) My Name Is Anton by Catherine Ryan Hyde 5/5/2024
2.) Murder Road by Simone St. James 5/12/2024
3.) Seeing Red by Sandra Brown 5/15/2024
4.) The Flood Girls by Richard Fifield 5/18/2024
5.) Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea 5/28/2024

Welcome Katrina, Michelle and Anne!

May Stand Alone
Duration: May 1st, 2024 - May 31st, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

8/6

1. The Secret World of Og by Pierre Berton - May 1st
2. Why Am I Taller? What Happens to an Astronaut's Body in Space by Dave Williams & Elizabeth Howell - May 4th
3. Funny Story by Emily Henry - May 5th
4. The Huntress by Kate Quinn - May 9th
5. The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo - May 13th
6. Coraline by Neil Gaiman - May 14th
7. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer - May 16th
8. Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse by Maya Phillips - May 24th

FINISHED!!! Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024
(05/03/24)

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

7/5+

1.The Secret Book of Flora Lea Patti Callahan Henry 05/01/24
2. One Moment in Time Shari Low 05/02/24
3. Anita de Monte Laughs Last Xóchitl González 05/02/24
4. The Wren, the Wren Anne Enright 05/03/24
5. How to Plot a Payback Melissa Ferguson 05/03/24
6. Redwood Court DeLana R.A. Dameron 05/03/24
7. The Paris Novel Ruth Reichl 05/04/24

Welcome Kendra and Melissa!

Done; 13

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Under an Outlaw Moon/Dietrich Kalteis 5/1/24 3☆

2. Fire Exit/Morgan Talty 5/5/24 2.75☆

3. Seven Hours till Dawn/Carson McCloud 5/8/24 3.5☆

4. Middletide/Sarah Crouch 5/10/24 3.5☆

5. All the Colors of the Dark/Chris Whitaker 5/12/24 2.75☆

6. One Big Happy Family/Jamie Day 5/14/24 3☆

7. Kings of Coweetsee/Dale Neal 5/18/24 2.5☆

8. The Horse: A Novel/Willy Vlautin 5/19/24 4.25☆

9. Jim the Boy/Tony Earley 5/20/24 3.25☆

10. The Oyster Diver's Secret/Caroline Säfstrand 5/22/24 4.25☆

11. Beans, Bourbon, and Blood/William W. Johnstone 5/24/24 3.75☆

12. Catalina/Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 5/26/24 2.25☆

13. The Last Line/Scott Lyerly 5/28/24 2.75☆

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Goal: 4/6
Single: Read 3-4 books

• Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid - 05/07/24
• Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 05/12/24
• Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other - Sam Heughan&Graham McTavish - 05/19/24
• Dominoes - Phoebe Mcintosh - 05/24/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Tavern on Maple Street Sharon Owens 5/2
2. The Wind That Lays Waste Selva Almada 5/8
3. The Nanny Gilly Macmillan 5/10
4. Inca Empire: A History from Beginning to End 5/12
5. Secrets of Answered Prayer Lester Sumrall 5/16
6. The Marquise of O— and Other Stories Heinrich von Kleist 5/19
7. The Old Devils Kingsley Amis5/24
8. Enemy WomenPaulette Jiles 5/25
9. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary UnderbellyAnthony Bourdain 5/28

Welcome Gretel, Ferenc and Jan!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books:

01. The Last Minute First Lady, Tinia Montford - 5/1
02. Twice a Quinceañera, Yamile Saied Mendez - 5/5
03. Homie, Danez Smith - 5/6
04. The Pearl Thief, Noor Al Noaimi - 5/14
05. Dead Silence, S. A. Barnes - 5/17
06. The Nigerwife, Vanessa Walters - 5/21

Welcome Ariel!

The Lost Challenges
May 2024 Stand Alone
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Progress: 4 out of 4

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Effortless Success: How to Get What You Want and Have a Great Time Doing It by Michael Neill - ***** - 5/3/2024 - 6 Pages
2. Bride by Ali Hazelwood - ***** - 5/8/2024 - 416 Pages
3. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai - *** - 5/9/2024 - 438 Pages
4. I Curse You With Joy by Tiffany Haddish - ***** - 5/25/2024 - 269 Pages


Challenge Rules
(view spoiler)[*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter.
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge

(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)

Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over. (hide spoiler)]

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

6 of 5-6 Complete

1. Man Tiger - Eka Kurniawan - 5/6/24
2. The Teacher - Freida McFadden - 5/8/24
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon - 5/13/24
4. The Clinic - Cate Quinn - 5/14/24
5. Columbine - Dave Cullen - 5/16/24
6. The River at Night - Erica Ferencik - 5/23/24

Welcome Suzanne and Lynda!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
May 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. How to Get Over Your Ex in Ninety Days by Jennifer Peel (5/13/24)
2. Miss Newbury's List by Megan Walker (5/18/24)

Welcome Shash!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
May 2024

Single: Read 3-4 books

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Welcome Elle!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge - FINISHED
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Level: Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Completed: 6/6

1. His Only Wife - Peace Adzo Medie 5/3/24
2. The Christmas Spirit - Debbie Macomber 5/5/24
3. Sleigh Bells Ring - RaeAnne Thayne 5/5/24
4. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann 5/6/24
5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride 5/7/24
6. The Woman in Me - Britney Spears 5/8/24

WOOHOO Caraina!

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

📘 A Kind of Paradise by Amy Rebecca Tan 5/1/24
📘The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan 5/4/24
📘 The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella 5/8/24
📘 The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes 5/12/24
📘 Summer at Meadow Wood by Amy Rebecca Tan 5/14/24
📘 The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren 5/16/24

WOOHOO Michelle!

FINISHED!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem by Kekla Magoon & Cynthia Leitich Smith - May 1
2. You Cannot Be Serious! The Graphic Guide to Tennis: Grand slams, players and fans, and all the tennis trivia possible by Mark Hodgkinson - May 7
3. Why Is Everybody Yelling?: Growing Up in My Immigrant Family by Marisabina Russo - May 8
4. Buzzing by Samuel Sattin - May 11
5. Tin Man: A Graphic Novel by Justin Madson - May 16
6. Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil - May 18

WOOHOO Julesy!

COMPLETION POST
Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1.Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll. Read 5/3/24
2.One True Thing by Anna Quindlen Read 5/7/24
3.The Heart Between Us: Two Sisters, One Heart Transplant, and a Bucket List by Lindsay Harrel Read 5/11/24
4.The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule. Read 5/14/24
5.A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Read 5/19/24
6.Between Before and After by Maureen Doyle McQuerry. Read 5/19/24

WOOHOO Michele!

FINISHED!!! Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024
(05/03/24)

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

7/5+

1.The Secret Book of Flora Lea Patti Callahan Henry 05/01/24
2. One Moment in Time Shari Low 05/02/24
3. Anita de Monte Laughs Last Xóchitl González 05/02/24
4. The Wren, the Wren Anne Enright 05/03/24
5. How to Plot a Payback Melissa Ferguson 05/03/24
6. Redwood Court DeLana R.A. Dameron 05/03/24
7. The Paris Novel Ruth Reichl 05/04/24

WOOHOO Mel!

FINISHED!
Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books:

01. The Last Minute First Lady, Tinia Montford - 5/1
02. Twice a Quinceañera, Yamile Saied Mendez - 5/5
03. Homie, Danez Smith - 5/6
04. The Pearl Thief, Noor Al Noaimi - 5/14
05. Dead Silence, S. A. Barnes - 5/17
06. The Nigerwife, Vanessa Walters - 5/21

WOOHOO Ariel!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books

1) Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau 04/05/24
2) None of This Is True - Lisa Jewell 16/05/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

6 of 5-6 Complete

1. Man Tiger - Eka Kurniawan - 5/6/24
2. The Teacher - Freida McFadden - 5/8/24
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon - 5/13/24
4. The Clinic - Cate Quinn - 5/14/24
5. Columbine - Dave Cullen - 5/16/24
6. The River at Night - Erica Ferencik - 5/23/24

WOOHOO Katrina and Lynda!

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

1. My Corfu Love Story by Effrosyni Moschoudi 5/28/2024

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

COMPLETED

1.) My Name Is Anton by Catherine Ryan Hyde 5/5/2024
2.) Murder Road by Simone St. James 5/12/2024
3.) Seeing Red by Sandra Brown 5/15/2024
4.) The Flood Girls by Richard Fifield 5/18/2024
5.) Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea 5/28/2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Tavern on Maple Street Sharon Owens 5/2
2. The Wind That Lays Waste Selva Almada 5/8
3. The Nanny Gilly Macmillan 5/10
4. Inca Empire: A History from Beginning to End 5/12
5. Secrets of Answered Prayer Lester Sumrall 5/16
6. The Marquise of O— and Other Stories Heinrich von Kleist 5/19
7. The Old Devils Kingsley Amis5/24
8. Enemy WomenPaulette Jiles 5/25
9. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary UnderbellyAnthony Bourdain 5/28

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WOOHOO Genevieve, Anne and Jan!

FINISHED
Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024
Single: Read 3-4 books


1. The Summer We Started Over Nancy Thayer 5/7/24
2. The Song of Clouds Samantha Wood 5/10/24
3. The Quiet Tenant Clémence Michallon 5/19/24
4. Tourist Season Brenda Novak 5/29/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

5/5-6 Completed. Finished

1.The Amish Wife-Gregg Olsen 5/06/24
2.Deja Brew-Jessica Gadziala 5/08/24
3.The Survivor-Jessica Gadziala 5/09/24
4.Arsen: A Broken Love Story-Mia Asher 5/24/24
5.Dagger in the Sea-Cat Porter 5/29/24