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✅ Team Sport: American Football
Book: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K. Rowling
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: Series - 7+ primary works
How it Fits: 7 book series
Book: The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
Author: Anthony Galvin
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: Author - Tony
How it Fits: AFN is Anthony
✅ Team Sport: Soccer
Book: Bank 3.0 - Why Banking is No Longer Somewhere You Go, But Something You Do
Author: Brett King
Date Read: Jan 15th
Task: Published - since 2009
How it Fits: 2012
Book: Put Anxiety Behind You: The Complete Drug-Free Program
Author: Peter Bongiorno
Date Read: Jan 15th
Task: Title - starts with a letter in PITCH
How it Fits: P
✅ Team Sport: Basketball
Book: Royal Mysteries of the Tudor Period
Author: Timothy Venning
Date Read: Feb 2nd
Task: Text - 'two'
How it Fits: "two nineteenth-century operas" p.14
Book: Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company
Author: David Howarth
Date Read: Feb 4th
Task: Author - letters of TWO
How it Fits: hOWarTh
✅ Team Sport: Baseball
Book: Energy Harvesting and Energy Efficiency: Technology, Methods, and Applications
Author: Nicu Bizon
Date Read: Feb 16th
Task: Title - double letters
How it Fits: eFFiciency
Book: The Ozempic Revolution: A Doctor's Proven Plan for Success to Help You Reverse Obesity, End Yo-Yo Dieting, and Protect Yourself from Disease
Author: Alexandra Sowa
Date Read: Feb 16th
Task: Author - initials in AMERICAS PASTIME
How it Fits: AS
✅ Team Sport: Softball
Book: Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
Author: Prit Buttar
Date Read: Mar 1st
Task: Title - all initials in GEORGE HANCOCK
How it Fits: COE
Book: Billie Eilish
Author: Billie Eilish
Date Read: Mar 2nd
Task: MC - female
How it Fits: MC is female
✅ Team Sport: Volleyball
Book: The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
Author: Peter Frankopan
Date Read: Mar 16th
Task: Title - all letters of NET
How it Fits: The NEw
Book: I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
Author: Jen Kirkman
Date Read: Mar 16th
Task: Published - 2 of 1964
How it Fits: April 16, 2013
✅ Team Sport: Rowing
Book: The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiversity Affirmative Approach
Author: Davida Hartman
Date Read: Apr 1st
Task: Title - starts with a letter in COXSWAIN
How it Fits: A
Book: Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
Author: Frances Dinkelspiel
Date Read: Apr 1st
Task: Text - 'crew'
How it Fits: "she ordered her entire crew" p.62
✅ Team Sport: Polo
Book: Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?: Olympic-Winning Strategies for Everyday Success
Author: Ben Hunt-Davis
Date Read: Apr 17th
Task: Title - all the letters of MALLET
How it Fits: wiLL iT MAkE
Book: The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine
Author: Michael Kulikowski
Date Read: Apr 18th
Task: Cover - horse
How it Fits:
✅ Team Sport: Water Polo
Book: Flee 9-5: Get 6 - 7 Figures and Do What You Love
Author: Ben Angel
Date Read: May 2nd
Task: Cover - body of water
How it Fits:
Book: Lonely Planet Scotland
Author: Lonely Planet
Date Read: May 3rd
Task: Set - Scotland
How it Fits: It is
✅ Team Sport: Cricket
Book: You Deserve This Sh!t: Get Unstuck, Find Your Path, and Become the Best Version of Yourself
Author: Jordan Tarver
Date Read: May 16th
Task: Cover - white
How it Fits:
Book: Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business
Author: David Edery
Date Read: May 17th
Task: Published - 11
How it Fits: November 11, 2008
✅ Team Sport: Wiffle Ball
Book: Our Place in the Sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era
Author: Robert Wright
Date Read: Jun 2nd
Task: MC - FN initial is in WIFFLE BALL
How it Fits: Fidel
Book: Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir
Author: Wil Wheaton
Date Read: Jun 5th
Task: Plot - char makes a joke
How it Fits: "I am embarrassed and make a joke. I say to the actors walking around the bridge, “If you need any help flying this thing, I’ve totally got your back!” " p.36
✅ Team Sport: Rugby
Book: House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
Author: Kier-la Janisse
Date Read: Jun 17th
Task: Text - 'union'
How it Fits: "the result of an unholy union between her now-dead mother and Satan himself" p.202
Book: Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
Author: Annik LaFarge
Date Read: Jun 19th
Task: Author - initials in MIDDLE AGES
How it Fits: AL
✅ Team Sport: Beach Volleyball
Book: A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19
Author: Edna Bonhomme
Date Read: Jul 2nd
Task: Pages - 2 of 1915
How it Fits: 315 pages
Book: Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
Author: Alexander Clapp
Date Read: Jul 8th
Task: Cover - beach scene
How it Fits:
✅ Team Sport: Handball
Book: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
Author: Patrick House
Date Read: Jul 18th
Task: Published - Oct
How it Fits: October 1, 2022
Book: The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture
Author: Euny Hong
Date Read: Jul 18th
Task: Set - Asia
How it Fits: South Korea
✅ Team Sport: Tennis
Book: Board Games in 100 Moves
Author: Ian Livingstone
Date Read: Aug 2nd
Task: Published - 2+ of 1988
How it Fits: 2019
Book: The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
Author: Wendy Pearlman
Date Read: Aug 2nd
Task: Text - 'eye'
How it Fits: "work as an eye for the government" p.51
✅ Team Sport: Pickleball
Book: Green Gold: The Avocado's Remarkable Journey from Humble Superfood to Toast of a Nation
Author: Sarah Allaback
Date Read: Aug 16th
Task: Cover - food item
How it Fits:
Book: One for Joy: An introvert’s guide to the secret world of solitude
Author: Tom Albrighton
Date Read: Aug 20th
Task: Published - 2021, 2022, or 2023
How it Fits: January 10, 2023
✅ Team Sport: Ice Hockey
Book: Making Disability Modern: Design Histories
Author: Bess Williamson
Date Read: Sep 1st
Task: Title - starts with letter in MONTREAL
How it Fits: It does
Book: Beating Brain Fog- Your 30-Day Plan to Think Faster, Sharper, Better
Author: Sabina Brennan
Date Read: Sep 1st
Task: Published - March
How it Fits: March 4, 2021
HOB - Richard's D&D Adventures✅ Solo - I'm an Elf Monk
Team: - I'm a Human Wizard
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HOB - Book Quest Adventurehttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Plotline Pathfinders Book Quest
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HOB - 2025 (Impossible) Solar System Challengehttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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CCC - 2024/25 Birthstones by the Monthhttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Total: 37/48 (Sparkler)
✅ DECEMBER - Turquoise
1. Set - France
17/12 - The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA, Deborah Cadbury - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Cover - light blue
19/12 -
, Andrew Hui - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️3. Title - 'x'
18/12 - Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD, Jesse J. Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. Genre - my fave
20/12 - Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living, Mo Gawdat - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Personal development
✅ JANUARY - Garnet
1. Cover - multi-coloured but not blue
7/1 -
, Thomas Maier - ⭐️⭐️⭐️2. MPG - travel
3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole, Anthony Galvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Pages - 501+
1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
559
4. MCs - 2 best friends
2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Harry & Ron
✅ FEBRUARY - Amethyst
1. Cover - purple
4/2 -
, Evelyn Hollow - ⭐️⭐️⭐️2. Char - royal
2/2 - Royal Mysteries of the Tudor Period, Timothy Venning - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Henry VIII
3. Set - South America
6/2 - Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist, Larry Rohter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. MC - religious figure
2/2 - The Secrets of Italy: People, Places, and Hidden Histories, Corrado Augias - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pope Pius IX
✅ MARCH - Aquamarine
1. Cover - blue or green
1/3 -
, Adam Tank - ⭐️⭐️2. Title - compound word
1/3 - Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, Jamie Lendino - ⭐️
3. Cover - ocean
2/3 -
, Darryl Edwards - ⭐️⭐️⭐️4. Char - earns their living working on the water
6/3 - 1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half, Stephen R. Bown - ⭐️⭐️
Christopher Columbus, sea explorer
✅ APRIL - Diamond
1. Cover - white
10/4 -
, Nancy Tuckerman - ⭐️⭐️2. Cover - ring-shaped object
4/8 -
, Ralph De La Rosa - ⭐️⭐️⭐️3. Title - 1 word
1/4 - Dracula, Bram Stoker - ⭐️⭐️
4. Author - LN starts with a letter in DIAMOND
1/4 - Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California, Frances Dinkelspiel - ⭐️⭐️
✅ MAY - Emerald
1. Cover - bright green or dark green
9/5 -
, Edward Humes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️2. Cover - bones
3/5 -
, Bailey Brett Williams - ⭐️⭐️⭐️3. Set - ancient times
12/5 - A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors, Anthony Blond - ⭐️⭐️
4. Author - LN starts with Z, B, C, or A
2/5 - Flee 9-5: Get 6 - 7 Figures and Do What You Love, Ben Angel - ⭐️⭐️
✅ JUNE - Pearl
1. Set - island
1/6 - Sicilian Splendors: Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart, John Keahey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Cover - black
12/6 -
, Melania Trump - ⭐️3. Set - Russia
19/6 - The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine, Alexander S. Vindman - ⭐️⭐️
4. Cover - moon
5/6 -
, Rebecca Heisman - ⭐️⭐️✅ JULY - Ruby
1. Cover - deep red
2/7 -
, R.T. Kendall - ⭐️2. Title - 'fire'
15/7 - Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and Attention Deficit - Oh Look! A Chicken!, Stacey Turis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Char - wealthy
1/7 - Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History: From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks, Clifford A. Pickover - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Elon Musk
4. Author - 'King'
13/7 - Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom, Vex King - ⭐️⭐️
✅ AUGUST - Peridot
1. Cover - light green
2/8 -
, David Bienenstock - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️2. Title - alliteration
1/8 - Badass Bonita: Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera, Kim Guerra - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Plot - char cries
1/8 - Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country, Emily Benedek - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Valarie just walked the floor with her constantly crying." p.34
4. Cover - stripes
1/8 -
, Kenneth J. Doka - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️SEPTEMBER - Sapphire
1. Cover - deep blue
2. Title - starts with a letter in BLUE
1/9 - The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo, Brendan Simms - ⭐️⭐️
3. Cover - something sparkly
4. Cover - reptile
OCTOBER - Opal
1. Cover - black
2. Title - starts with O
3. Ratings - 10,001+
4. Title - cardinal number
NOVEMBER - Topaz
1. Cover - yellow
2. Author - an initial is I
3. Set - 1800s
4. MC - works in a medical field
TOAP - Richard's 2025 Genreshttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Jan: Task 2
Book: Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education
Author: Salman Khan
Date Read: Jan 1st
Task: Cover - white
How it Fits:
Jan: Task 1
Book: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K. Rowling
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: MPG - fantasy
How it Fits: 1st MPG
Jan: Task 3
Book: Absolutely
Author: Joanna Lumley
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: Published - Jan
How it Fits: January 1, 2011
Jan: Task 4
Book: Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
Author: Eddie Izzard
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: Author - initials in PENGUIN
How it Fits: EI
Feb: Task 2
Book: The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
Author: Dawn Raffel
Date Read: Feb 2nd
Task: Text - 'valentine'
How it Fits: "what better valentine" p.172
Feb: Task 3
Book: 365 Health & Happiness Boosters:
Author: M.J. Ryan
Date Read: Feb 1st
Task: Published - Feb
How it Fits: February 29, 2000
Feb: Task 4
Book: The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom
Author: Dan Tricarico
Date Read: Feb 2nd
Task: Pages - 1 & 4
How it Fits: 174 pages
Feb: Task 1
Book: 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World
Author: Seán Hewitt
Date Read: Feb 7th
Task: MPG - romance
How it Fits: It doesn't have an MPG of Romance, but it really should. Look at the title!
Mar: Task 3
Book: Luck by Design: The Science and Serendipity of a Well-Lived Life
Author: Adam Tank
Date Read: Mar 1st
Task: Published - March
How it Fits: March 29, 2024
Mar: Task 2
Book: Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
Author: Prit Buttar
Date Read: Mar 1st
Task: Text - 'clue'
How it Fits: "A clue lies in the letter that Archduke Frederick sent" p.300
Mar: Task 4
Book: Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation
Author: Jamie Lendino
Date Read: Mar 1st
Task: Title - last letter in DETECTIVE
How it Fits: T
Mar: Task 1
Book: A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Mark Dawidziak
Date Read: Mar 2nd
Task: MPG - mystery
How it Fits: It is
Apr: Task 2
Book: A Gentleman from Japan: An Epic Sea Voyage, an Intriguing Tale of Espionage and the Forgotten Story of the First Japanese Explorer in Tudor England
Author: Thomas Lockley
Date Read: Apr 3rd
Task: Text - 'fool'
How it Fits: "actually iron pyrite, “fool’s gold.” Worth nothing." p.38
Apr: Task 3
Book: The Frozen Frontier: Polar Bound through the Northwest Passage
Author: Jane Maufe
Date Read: Apr 4th
Task: Published - April
How it Fits: April 9, 2019
Apr: Task 4
Book: A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand
Author: Philip Short
Date Read: Apr 6th
Task: Author - initials in SPACE AGE
How it Fits: PS
Apr: Task 1
Book: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Date Read: Apr 11th
Task: MPG - science fiction
How it Fits: 2nd MPG
May: Task 2
Book: People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia
Author: Grace Karskens
Date Read: May 1st
Task: Pages - 6
How it Fits: 688 pages
May: Task 4
Book: Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me
Author: Jamie Foxx
Date Read: May 1st
Task: Cover - child
How it Fits:
May: Task 3
Book: Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be
Author: Marshall Goldsmith
Date Read: May 1st
Task: Published - May
How it Fits: May 19, 2015
May: Task 1
Book: All Cats Are on the Autism Spectrum: An affirming introduction to autism
Author: Kathy Hoopmann
Date Read: May 10th
Task: MPG - Childrens
How it Fits: 7th MPG
Jun: Task 2
Book: In Cold Blood
Author: Truman Capote
Date Read: Jun 1st
Task: Title - starts with letter in PRIDE
How it Fits: I
Jun: Task 4
Book: Sicilian Splendors: Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart
Author: John Keahey
Date Read: Jun 1st
Task: Cover - outdoor scene that reminds me of summertime
How it Fits:
Jun: Task 1
Book: The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
Author: Warren Fellows
Date Read: Jun 2nd
Task: MPG - Biography/Autobiography/Memoir
How it Fits: Autobiography
Jun: Task 3
Book: Soul Contracts: Find Harmony and Unlock Your Brilliance
Author: Danielle MacKinnon
Date Read: Jun 6th
Task: Published - June
How it Fits: June 24, 2014
Jul: Task 4
Book: Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Author: R. Barker Bausell
Date Read: Jul 1st
Task: Title - starts with a letter in SUMMER
How it Fits: S
July: Task 2
Book: Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope
Author: Catherine Coleman Flowers
Date Read: Jul 2nd
Task: Pages - 7
How it Fits: 247 pages
July: Task 3
Book: Walking With Plato: A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles
Author: Gary Hayden
Date Read: Jul 12th
Task: Published - July
How it Fits: July 12, 2016
July: Task 1
Book: Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
Author: Jeffrey J. Kripal
Date Read: Jul 14th
Task: MPG - paranormal
How it Fits: 3rd MPG
Aug: Task 2
Book: Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country
Author: Emily Benedek
Date Read: Aug 1st
Task: Text - 'lazy'
How it Fits: "the cops I’ve met are lazy and complacent" p.110
Aug: Task 3
Book: Tennis For Dummies
Author: Patrick McEnroe
Date Read: Aug 4th
Task: Published - Aug
How it Fits: August 11, 1998
Sept: Task 3
Book: The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
Author: Brendan Simms
Date Read: Sep 1st
Task: Published - Sept
How it Fits: September 25, 2014
Sept: Task 2
Book: Being Britney
Author: Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
Date Read: Sep 1st
Task: Author - an initial in LABOR DAY
How it Fits: ALN initial is B
Sep: Task 4
Book: The Morning Mind: Use Your Brain to Master Your Day and Supercharge Your Life
Author: Rob Carter III
Date Read: Sep 2nd
Task: Pages - 9
How it Fits: 197
✅ HOB - Snowball Fight
CCC - Most Spoken Languages Spell with a Twist!https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Total: 823/836
Part 1: 70/80
Mandarin Chinese 929.0
M: 16/2 - When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin, Mick Wall - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 12/6 - Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy, Judd Apatow - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 23/2 - Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 21/1 - Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.90
R: 7/5 - Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart, Rebecca Bradshaw - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 23/8 - It's Always Sunny and Philosophy: The Gang Gets Analyzed - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 8/3 - Classical Feng Shui for Health, Beauty & Longevity: Transform Your Space to Enhance Well-Being in Body & Home - ⭐️⭐️
H: 2/4 - A History of Horror, 2nd Edition - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 22/8 - In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 20/5 - Edible Houseplants: Grow Your Own Citrus, Coffee, Vanilla, and 43 Other Tasty Tropical Plants - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 21/3 - Blood and Fire: The Unbelievable Real-Life Story of Wrestling's Original Sheik, Brian R. Solomon - ⭐️⭐️
E: 17/5 - Exploring Maya Ritual Caves: Dark Secrets from the Maya Underworld - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spanish 474.7
S: 21/3 - Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 1/7 - Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History: From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks, Clifford A. Pickover - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 29/1 - All Tangled Up in Autism and Chronic Illness: A guide to navigating multiple conditions - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.37
I: 21/8 - I Used to Know That: Maths - ⭐️⭐️
S: 21/3 - Stop Stealing Dreams - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 31/3 - Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
English 372.9
E: 31/1 - Everything is Figureoutable - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.98
G: 17/3 - Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars, John Gaudet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 11/3 - Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography, Lesley-Ann Jones - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 19/8 - Imagined Life: A Speculative Scientific Journey among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 20/3 - 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany, Steven Pressman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 28/3 - Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond, Lee Harrington - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hindi 343.9
H: 28/3 - Seeing Through The Singularity: Uncovering The Cosmic Conspiracy, Douglas Haugen - ⭐️
I: 19/8 - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? - ⭐️⭐️
D: 15/2 - Deep Water: The World in the Ocean - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 28/1 - The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.32
Bengali 233.7
B: 15/2 - Being Bad: Breaking the Rules and Becoming Everything You're Not Supposed to Be - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 20/1 - The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.27
G: 15/3 - Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard - ⭐️⭐️
A: 5/6 - Taming The Black Dog Revised Edition, Bev Aisbett - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 1/3 - Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, Jamie Lendino - ⭐️
I: 18/8 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Portuguese 232.4
P: 13/2 - The Power of Ownership: Redeem Your Health, Live Life by Design, and Break the Relentless Pursuit of Normal - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 27/4 - Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change, Olga Khazan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 16/1 - Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.03
T: 28/3 - The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 5/3 - German Made Simple: Learn to speak and understand German quickly and easily - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 17/5 - Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business, David Edery - ⭐️⭐️
S: 18/3 - A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard - ⭐️⭐️
E: 16/5 - Thursday's Child, Eartha Kitt - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Russian 154.0
R: 3/5 - We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation, Matthew Riemer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 31/8 - Unfuck Your Eating: Using Science to Build a Better Relationship with Food, Health, and Body Image - ⭐️⭐️
S: 18/3 - Leviathan and Its Enemies: Mass Organization and Managerial Power in Twentieth-Century America, Samuel T. Francis - ⭐️
S: 18/3 - Success Habits of Super Achievers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 16/8 - Intimate Conversations: How to Talk to the People You Love - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 18/1 - Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.09
Japanese 125.3
J: 17/2 - Jonathan Swift - ⭐️⭐️
A: 5/6 - Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 3/2 - Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band - ⭐️⭐️
A: 4/6 - Angkor and the Khmer Civilization - ⭐️⭐️
N: 31/8 - Nature at Night: Discover the Hidden World That Comes Alive after Dark - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 16/5 - Eat, Pray, #FML - ⭐️⭐️
S: 20/1 - Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.95
E: 15/5 - Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams, Robert Englund - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Western Punjabi 92.7
W: 16/1 - With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 13/5 - My Mama, Cass: A Memoir, Owen Elliot-Kugell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 17/3 - Silk Road - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 27/3 - Through the Woods - ⭐️⭐️
E: 13/5 - Expansive Love: A Practical Guide to Relationship Anarchy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 2/5 - Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 25/8 - The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 15/1 - Put Anxiety Behind You: The Complete Drug-Free Program - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.79
U: 31/8 - Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 25/8 - NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
J: 17/2 - Babylon's Legacy: Unlocking Financial Freedom with Ancient Principles, James O Wellington - ⭐️⭐️
A: 3/6 - All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 15/2 - Best Salty Sweet Snacks: Gooey, Chewy, Crunchy Treats for Every Craving - ⭐️⭐️
I: 10/8 - It All Makes Sense Now: Embrace Your ADHD Brain to Live a Creative and Colorful Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
CCC - Most Spoken Languages Spell with a Twist!https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Part 2: 73/76
Yue Chinese 85.2
Y: 15/3 - The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 10/5 - Energy Magick of the Vampyre: Secret Techniques for Personal Power and Manifestation - ⭐️⭐️
C: 8/3 - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spices and Herbs: A Savory Guide to Spicing Up Your Favorite Dishes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 27/3 - Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 7/8 - Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery - ⭐️⭐️
N: 25/8 - No Bullsh*t Leadership: Why the World Needs More Everyday Leaders and Why That Leader Is You - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 9/5 - Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 6/2 - Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.85
E: 6/5 - Encyclopedia of Garden Plants for Every Location: Featuring More Than 3,000 Plants - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Vietnamese 84.6
V: 26/2 - Voracious - ⭐️
I: 4/8 - Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work, Ian Nathan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 5/5 - Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels, Craig A. Evans - ⭐️
T: 26/3 - Train Your Brain More: 60 Days to an Even Better Brain - ⭐️
N: 18/8 - No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach - ⭐️⭐️
A: 31/5 - The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven, Step-by-Step Techniques for Overcoming your Fear, Martin M. Antony - ⭐️⭐️
M: 15/2 - Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters, Melanie Joy - ⭐️⭐️
E: 2/5 - 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation, Clint Emerson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 10/2 - The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma, Mustafa Suleyman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.86
E: 2/5 - Experimental Psychology - ⭐️⭐️
Marathi 83.1
M: 15/2 - Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know® - ⭐️⭐️
A: 30/5 - The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience, Plestia Alaqad - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 25/1 - The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans and Planners - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.83
A: 24/5 - Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves, Alison Wood Brooks - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 22/3 - This Thing Called Life: Prince's Odyssey, On and Off the Record - ⭐️
H: 24/3 - How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 4/8 - Inside an Honor Killing: A Father and a Daughter Tell Their Story - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Telugu 82.0
T: 22/3 - Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 19/2 - Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.02
L: 1/3 - Luck by Design: The Science and Serendipity of a Well-Lived Life - ⭐️⭐️
G: 4/3 - Different Loving: A Complete Exploration of the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission, Gloria G. Brame - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Turkish 82.2
T: 9/2 - Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special, Thom Scott-Phillips - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.22
U: 20/7 - You're Stronger Than You Think: Tapping into the Secrets of Emotionally Resilient People, Peter A. Ubel - ⭐️⭐️
R: 4/5 - The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine, Andrea Stuart - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 20/3 - Greek and Roman Mythology A to Z, Kathleen N. Daly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 3/8 - Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics - ⭐️⭐️
S: 25/3 - Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 2/7 - Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope - ⭐️⭐️
Wu Chinese 81.7
W: 13/1 - Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, Revised Edition: How the Words You Choose Shape Your Destiny - ⭐️⭐️
U: 30/7 - Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 3/3 - Celestial Geometry: Understanding the Astronomical Meanings of Ancient Sites - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 19/3 - Horror Films of the 1990s - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 2/8 - Board Games in 100 Moves, Ian Livingstone - ⭐️⭐️
N: 14/8 - The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 29/4 - The Science of Fairy Tales : An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology, Edwin Sidney Hartland - ⭐️⭐️
S: 28/1 - Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.87
E: 28/4 - Bizarre World: A Collection of the World's Creepiest, Strangest, and Sometimes Most Hilarious Traditions, E. Reid Ross - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Korean 81.7
K: 19/3 - Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis, Michael S. Kimmel - ⭐️⭐️
O: 25/4 - A Therapist’s Guide to Consensual Nonmonogamy: Polyamory, Swinging, and Open Marriage, Rhea Orion - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 5/2 - Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.18
E: 25/4 - The Youtube Formula: How Anyone Can Unlock the Algorithm to Drive Views, Build an Audience, and Grow Revenue, Derral Eves - ⭐️⭐️
A: 24/5 - You Untangled: A DBT Skills Workbook, Practical Tools To Manage Your Emotions And Improve Your Life, Amy Tibbitts - ⭐️⭐️
N: 14/8 - Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species, Peter Nowak - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
French 79.9
F: 9/1 - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 30/4 - There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History, Rory Carroll - ⭐️⭐️
E: 25/4 - Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations, Erika Engelhaupt - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 10/8 - Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy, Andrew B. Newberg - ⭐️⭐️
C: 27/2 - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi - ⭐️⭐️
H: 4/5 - If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.79
German 75.6
G: 27/2 - The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us - ⭐️⭐️
E: 23/4 - The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, ... Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage, Erika Fatland - ⭐️⭐️
R: 30/4 - Fear: An Alternative History of the World, Robert Peckham - ⭐️⭐️
M: 14/2 - Memory Palaces and Masonic Lodges: Esoteric Secrets of the Art of Memory - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 27/1 - Anubis―Ancient Egypt’s Lord of Death and Protection - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.56
N: 9/8 - Stop Procrastinating: A Simple Guide to Hacking Laziness, Building Self Discipline, and Overcoming Procrastination, Nils Salzgeber - ⭐️
Tamil 75.0
T: 20/3 - The Third Perspective: Brave Expression in the Age of Intolerance - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 24/5 - An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 9/2 - Chasing We-ness: Cultivating Empathy and Leadership in a Polarized World, William Marsiglio - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.50
I: 27/7 - International Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Fraternal Orders - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 26/2 - Life of Extremes: The Life and Times of a Polar Filmmaker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Urdu 70.2
U: 19/7 - The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace - ⭐️⭐️
R: 20/2 - The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order, Robert S. Westman - ⭐️ - 4.20
D: 24/1 - Doctor Strange and Philosophy: The Other Book of Forbidden Knowledge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.27
U: 9/7 - The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists - ⭐️⭐️
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