Play Book Tag discussion

I wanted to make sure I would be able to stick around and before I shared and tracked my goals.

2024 New Years Resolutions:
Read Consistently All Year Long
Read 100 books
Read for every Monthly tag
Have fun reading

Challenges and Goals:
Montly Tags
Presidential Biographies
Series
Reading Everything They Write
May the Fourth
Books with Wife

Monthly Tags

January: Historical Mystery
1) The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

February: Authors of Color
1) Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America - Michael Harriot
2) American War - Omar El Akkad
3) Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
4) A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
5) The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
6) Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi
7) August Wilson: A Life - Patti Hartigan

March: Coming of Age
1) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
2) Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
3) Looking for Alaska - John Green

April: Fantasy Romance
1) Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros

May: Crime
1) I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara
2) The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
3) The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle

June: Europe
1) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany - William L. Shirer
2) The Brothers Karmazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
3) Paris in the Present Tense - Mark Helprin
4) The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World - Larry Zuckerman

July: Debut
1) Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor - Layla F. Saad
2) A Woman Is No Man - Etaf Rum
3) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
4) Forever, Interrupted - Taylor Jenkins Reid
5) Because of Winn-Dixie - Kate DiCamillo
6) There Are Dads Way Worse Than You: Unimpeachable Evidence of Your Excellence as a Father - Glenn Boozan
6) There Are Moms Way Worse Than You: Irrefutable Proof That You Are Indeed a Fantastic Parent - Glenn Boozan
7) River Sing Me Home - Eleanor Shearer
8) Me vs Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life - Hayley Morris
9) When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - Patrisse Khan-Cullors

August: 5 Stars
1) Babylon’s Ashes - James S.A. Corey
2) Strange Dogs - James S.A. Corey
3) Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid
4) One True Loves - Taylor Jenkins Reid
5) Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South - Rick Bragg

September: Sad
1) Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
2) The Road - Cormac McCarthy
3) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
4) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
5) Know My Name - Chanel Miller

October: Travel
1) The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris - David McCullough
2) Persepolis Rising - James S.A. Corey
3) Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat - Chris Stewart
4) The Rookie - Scott Sigler
5) The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - David Grann

November: Steampunk
1) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

December: Mystery - Suspense
1) His Last Bow - Arthur Conan Doyle
2) No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
3) The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
4) I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
5) The Wives - Tarryn Fisher

Presidential Biographies

#8 - Martin Van Buren And The American Political System - Donald B. Cole
#9 - Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy - Robert M. Owens
#10 - President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler - Christopher J. Leahy
#11 - Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America - Walter R. Borneman
#12 - Zachary Taylor - John S.D. Eisenhower
#13 - Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President - Robert J. Rayback
#14 - Franklin Pierce - Michael F. Holt
#15 - James Buchanan - Jean H. Baker
#16 - A. Lincoln - Ronald C. White Jr.
#1 - Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour - William C. Davis
#17 - Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy - David O. Stewart
#18 - Grant - Ron Chernow
#19 - Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President - Ari Hoogenboom
#20 - Garfield - Allan Peskin
#20 - Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President - Candice Millard

Series

Red Rising Saga
#5) Dark Age - Pierce Brown
#6) Light Bringer - Pierce Brown
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Sons of Ares Series
#1) Red Rising: Sons of Ares - Pierce Brown
#2) Red Rising: Sons of Ares, Vol. 2: Wrath - Pierce Brown
#3) Red Rising: Sons of Ares Vol. 3: Forbidden Song - Pierce Brown

The Expanse
#3) Abaddon's Gate - James S.A. Corey
#3.5) The Churn - James S.A. Corey
#4) Cibola Burn - James S.A. Corey
#5) Nemesis Games - James S.A. Corey
#5.5) The Vital Abyss - James S.A. Corey
#6) Babylon’s Ashes - James S.A. Corey
#6.5) Strange Dogs - James S.A. Corey
#7) Persepolis Rising - James S.A. Corey
#7.5) Auberon - James S.A. Corey
#8) Tiamat's Wrath - James S.A. Corey
#8.1) The Last Flight of the Cassandra - James S.A. Corey
#9) Leviathan Falls - James S.A. Corey
#9.5) The Sins of Our Fathers - James S.A. Corey

Canon of Sherlock Holmes
#6) The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
#7) The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle
#8) His Last Bow - Arthur Conan Doyle
#9) The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Empyrean Series
#1) Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Series
#2) All the Broken Places -John Boyne

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series
#19) Hot Mess - Jeff Kinney

Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid Series
#1) Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal -Jeff Kinney
#2) Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure - Jeff Kinney
#3) Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories - Jeff Kinney

Camino Island Series
#3) Camino Ghosts - John Grisham

The Handmaid's Tale Series
#1) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
#2) The Testaments - Margaret Atwood

Star Wars: Thrawn Series
#1) Thrawn - Timothy Zahn
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Sawtelle Series
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1) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski

Galactic Football League
#1) The Rookie - Scott Sigler
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Captain Nemo Series
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#2) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
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The Captive's War
#1) The Mercy of Gods - James S.A. Corey
#1.5) Livesuit - James S.A. Corey

The Hate U Give
#0) Concrete Rose - Angie Thomas

Temeraire
#0.5) Vici - Naomi Novik
#1.5) Feast or Famine - Naomi Novik
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Reading Everything They Write, 2024 Releases and Catching up

John Grisham
1) Camino Ghosts
2) Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

Fredrik Backman
1) The Answer Is No: A Short Story

Taylor Jenkins Reid
1) Carrie Soto Is Back
2) Forever, Interrupted
3) Malibu Rising
4) One True Loves
5) Maybe in Another Life
6) Evidence of the Affair

Walter Isaacson

John Green
1) Looking for Alaska

James S.A. Corey
1) Abaddon's Gate
2) The Churn
3) Cibola Burn
4) Nemesis Games
5) The Vital Abyss
6) Babylon’s Ashes
7) Strange Dogs
8) Persepolis Rising
9) Auberon
10) Tiamat's Wrath
11) The Last Flight of the Cassandra
12) Leviathan Falls
13) The Sins of Our Fathers

Dan Brown

Terrence Real
1) I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
2) The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work

Michael Lewis
1) Liar's Poker

Andy Weir

Malcolm Gladwell
1) Outliers: The Story of Success

Neil deGrasse Tyson
1) Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
2) To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
3) Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

Khaled Hosseini

Jon Krakauer

Pierce Brown
1) Dark Age
2) Light Bringer

Jeff Kinney
1) Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal
2) Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
3) Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories
4) Hot Mess

D.K. Marley
1) The Prince of Denmark

Dava Sobel
1) And the Sun Stood Still

Erik Larson
1) The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Mike Greenberg
1) My Father's Wives
2) Got Your Answers: The 100 Greatest Sports Arguments Settled
3) All You Could Ask For

Cormac McCarthy
1) The Road
2) No Country for Old Men

May the Fourth

Thrawn - Timothy Zahn

Books with Wife

1) Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado Pérez
2) The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery - Ian Morgan Cron
3) Wired That Way - Marita Littauer
4) The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work - Terrence Real
5) She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman - Ian Kerner
6) Sociopath: A Memoir - Patric Gagne
7) Me vs Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life - Hayley Morris

Books with release announced that I want to read.

Available
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science - Dava Sobel

January 1st 2025
Red God - Pierce Brown

June 3rd 2025
Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid

On TBR for Sad:
1) The Road - Cormac McCarthy
2) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
3) One Day - David Nicholls
4) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
5) Know My Name - Chanel Miller

On TBR for Travel
1) The Travels - Marco Polo
2) Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains - Jon Krakauer
3) The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris - David McCullough
4) The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
5) The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - David Grann
6) Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet - Xinran
7) Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat - Chris Stewart
8) Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
9) Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
10) Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void - Mary Roach
11) The Rookie] - Scott Sigler
12) Persepolis Rising - James S.A. Corey

On TBR for Steampunk
1) Black Powder War - Naomi Novik
2) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

On TBR for Mystery - Suspense

1) His Last Bow - Arthur Conan Doyle
2) The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
3) No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
4) The Wives - Tarryn Fisher
5) I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
5) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt

Early 2025 Planning:

Monthly Tag
The Compass Challenge
Play Harder Challenge

May the 4th
Thrawn: Alliances - Timothy Zahn

Presidents:
Jan-Feb:Rutherford B. Hayes
March-April:James Garfield
May-June: Chester Arthur - Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur - Thomas C. Reeves
July-August: Grover Cleveland
Sept.-Oct.: Benjamin Harrison
Nov.-Dec.: William McKinley

Long Book once a Quarter
1) Familiaris - David Wroblewski

Trim
1) Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident - Donnie Eichar
2) Child of Love and Water - D.K. Marley
3) The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google - Scott Galloway
4) Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball - Keith Law
5) Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation - Joseph T. Hallinan
6) Shikar - Jack Warner
7) Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything - Philip Ball
8) Pay It Forward - Catherine Ryan Hyde
9) The Pitch That Killed - Mike Sowell
10) Rules for a Knight - Ethan Hawke
11) War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival - Sheri Fink
12) The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life - Steven Pressfield