Play Book Tag discussion

Read at least 1 book for PBT's monthly tag

Participate in PBT's annual challenges:
- Compass - 12 books from 12 different countries
- Read Harder - 1 list
- PBT Trim (ongoing)
- Fall Flurries (ongoing)
- Presidential Biographies (ongoing)
- Long Books

Read books from at least 24 countries during the year

Read at least 24 books from the Boxall List

Read at least 24 Booker Prize nominees (past or present)

Read at least 30 Non-fiction books

Read at least 5 books from an author's backlist: Richard Powers

Read at least 12 Tomes (over 500 pages)

Note: One book may be used to satisfy more than one challenge.

PBT Tags

January: Canada
In Winter I Get Up at Night by Jane Urquhart - 1/4/25 - 4* - My Review
Greenwood by Michael Christie - 1/11/25 - 4* - My Review
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay - 1/13/25 - 4* - My Review
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice - 1/18/25 - 3* - My Review
Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic by Adam Shoalts - 1/20/25 - 4.5* - My Review

February: Science
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen - 2/2/25 - 4* - My Review
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall - 2/3/25 - 4* - My Review
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari - 2/4/25 - 4.5* - My Review
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor - 2/5/25 - 4* - My Review
Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity by Steven Shwartz - 2/7/25 - 4* - My Review
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham - 2/8/25 - 5* - My Review
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf - 2/9/25 - 4* - My Review
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick - 2/10/25 - 4.5 - My Review
We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler - 2/12/25 - 4* - My Review
Horizon by Barry Lopez - 2/13/25 - 5* - My Review
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum - 2/16/25 - 4* - My Review
A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of Ai by Max Solomon Bennett - 2/17/25 - 4* - My Review
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue by Buddy Levy - 2/19/25 - 5* - My Review
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich - 2/20/25 - 4* - My Review
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks - 2/21/25 - 4* - My Review
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling - 2/22/25 - 4* - My Review
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller - 2/23/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb - 2/24/25 - 5* - My Review
A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn - 2/25/25 - 3* - My Review
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell - 2/26/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger and John Hawks - 2/27/25 - 4* - My Review
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane - 2/27/25 - 4* - My Review
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition by Stephen R. Bown - 2/28/25 - 4* - My Review
The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island by Terry L. Hunt - 2/28/25 - 4* - My Review

March: Thriller
The Escape by Lisa Harris - 3/6/25 - 3* - My Review
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom - 3/7/25 - 4* - My Review
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith - 3/8/25 - 3* - My Review
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy - 3/9/25 - 3* - My Review
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - 3/10/25 - 4* - My Review
An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson - 3/14/25 - 2* - My Review
The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz - 3/16/25 - 3* - My Review
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami - 3/19/25 - 4* - My Review
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing - 3/19/25 - 3* - My Review
The Family Experiment by John Marrs - 3/21/25 - 3* - My Review
Delta-v by Daniel Suarez - 3/22/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Precipice by Robert Harris - 3/23/25 - 4.5* - My Review
The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl - 3/25/25 - 4* - My Review
The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré - 3/29/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom - 3/30/25 - 4* - My Review
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy - 3/31/25 - 4* - My Review

PBT Tags

April: Fun
The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell - 4/1/25 - 4* - My Review
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson - 4/2/25 - 4* - My Review
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler - 4/4/25 - 4* - My Review
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig - 4/5/25 - 3* - My Review
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig - 4/7/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer - 4/8/25 - 4* - My Review
Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling - 4/10/25 - 4.5 - My Review
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett - 4/11/25 - 3* - My Review
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer - 4/12/25 - 4* - My Review
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett - 4/13/25 - 3* - My Review
Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness by Ingrid Fetell Lee - 4/14/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Welcome to Glorious Tuga by Francesca Segal - 4/15/25 - 3.5* - My Review
My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 4/22/25 - 4* - My Review
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones - 4/23/25 - 3* - My Review
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce - 4/26/25 - 3* - My Review

May: Strong Women
My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende - 5/2/25 - 4* - My Review
The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay - 5/8/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain by Margaret Willson - 5/10/25 - 4* - My Review
The Rebel Nun by Marj Charlier - 5/10/25 - 4* - My Review
Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi - 5/11/25 - 3* - My Review
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris - 5/14/25 - 4* - My Review
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy - 5/19/25 - 3* - My Review
Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea - 5/20/25 - 4.5* - My Review
The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga - 5/23/25 - 4* - My Review
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson - 5/25/25 - 5* - My Review
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama - 5/26/25 - 4* - My Review
Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins - 5/29/25 - 4* - My Review
Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan - 5/29/25 - 4* - My Review
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai - 5/31/25 - 4* - My Review

June: Summer
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson - 6/4/25 - 4* - My Review (tagged summer x11)
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman - 6/6/25 - 4* - My Review (tagged summer x18)
Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music by Richard Crawford - 6/9/25 - 5* - My Review
My Friends by Fredrik Backman - 6/11/25 - 4* - My Review (tagged summer x74)
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 6/11/25 - 3* - My Review (tagged summer x19)
Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will by Scott Miller - 6/12/24 - 4* - My Review (baseball is called "the summer game")
Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik - 6/15/25 - 4* - My Review
The Beach by Alex Garland - 6/17/25 - 4* - My Review
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson - 6/21/25 - 4* - My Review
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters - 6/22/25 - 4* - My Review (tagged summer x71)
Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s by Jason Turbow - 6/24/25 - 3* - My Review
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir - 6/25/24 - 4* - My Review
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter - 6/27/25 - 5* - My Review
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien - 6/30/25 - 5* - My Review

PBT Tags:

July: Speculative Fiction
Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip - 7/4/25 - 4* - My Review
Farthing by Jo Walton - 7/6/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Civilizations by Laurent Binet - 7/7/25 - 4* - My Review
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas - 7/8/25 - 3* - My Review
Ubik by Philip K. Dick - 7/9/25 - 4* - My Review
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman - 7/11/25 - 4* - My Review
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett - 7/12/25 - 4.5* - My Review
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein - 7/13/25 - 4* - My Review
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner - 7/14/25 - 4* - My Review
The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker - 7/15/25 - 4* - My Review
On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle - 7/18/25 - 4* - My Review
Starter Villain by John Scalzi - 7/19/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami - 7/20/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Wool by Hugh Howey - 7/21/25 - 4* - My Review
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 7/22/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Rule of One by Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders - 7/23/25 - 3* - My Review
The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler - 7/26/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley - 7/29/25 - 4* - My Review
The Prestige by Christopher Priest - 7/30/25 - 4* - My Review

August: Family Drama
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter - 8/2/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf - 8/4/25 - 3* - My Review
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson - 8/6/25 - 4* - My Review
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - 8/7/25 - 4* - My Review
Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven - 8/8/25 - 3* - My Review
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans - 8/10/25 - 4* - My Review
The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett - 8/12/25 - 2* - My Review
The South by Tash Aw - 8/15/25 - 3* - My Review
Version Control by Dexter Palmer - 8/16/25 - 4.5* - My Review
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett - 8/17/25 - 4* - My Review
Where Butterflies Wander by Suzanne Redfearn - 8/20/25 - 4* - My Review
Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani - 8/22/25 - 4* - My Review
Love Forms by Claire Adam - 8/24/25 - 4* - My Review
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West - 8/26/25 - 4* - My Review
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez - 8/26/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Days of Light by Megan Hunter - 8/27/25 - 4* - My Review
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom - 8/28/25 - 4* - My Review
Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig - 8/30/25 - 3.5* - My Review

September: Around the World
The Curse of the Flores Women by Angélica Lopes - 9/1/25 - 3.5* - My Review (Brazil)
Dictator by Robert Harris - 9/1/25 - 5* - My Review (Italy)
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler - 9/2/25 - 4* - My Review (Egypt)
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway - 9/3/25 - 3.5* - My Review (Cuba)
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future by Neil Shubin - 9/4/25 - My Review (Arctic, Antarctic)
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 9/5/25 - 4* - My Review (literally orbiting the earth)
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 9/5/25 - 3* - My Review (UK-England)
On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor - 9/6/25 - 4* - My Review (many locations around the world)
To Capture What We Cannot Keep by Beatrice Colin - 9/6/25 - 4* - My Review (France & UK-Scotland)

PBT Tag:

October:

November:

December:

Compass - Will track in a separate thread found here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Play Harder - Will track in a separate thread found here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Link to my full challenge tracking spot:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...