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Monthly TagJanuary: Canada
1) Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montgomery
2) The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life - Alex Trebek
3) The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism - John U. Bacon
February: Science
1) Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World - Rachel Ignotofsky
2) Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics - Jim Al-Khalili
3) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
4) Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife - Mary Roach
5) The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science - Dava Sobel
6) Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War - Mary Roach
7) Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void - Mary Roach
March: Thriller
1) All the Colors of the Dark - Chris Whitaker
2) The Brethren - John Grisham
April: Fun
1) The Refrigerator Monologues - Catherynne M. Valente
2) A Crackup at the Race Riots - Harmony Korine
May: Strong Women
1) The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
2) Dottir: My Journey to Becoming a Two-Time CrossFit Games Champion - Katrin Davidsdottir
3) I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
4) The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom - Shari Franke
June: Summer
1) My Friends - Fredrik Backman
2) Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros
3) The Beach - Alex Garland
4) Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid
5) The Pitch That Killed - Mike Sowell
6) After I Do - Taylor Jenkins Reid
7) The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
8) The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
9) Love & Gelato - Jenna Evans Welch
10) Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
July: Speculative Fiction
1) Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
2) Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3) The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
4) We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
August: Family Drama
1) The Vanishing Half -Brit Bennett
2) Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy
3) Still Alice - Lisa Genova
4) Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
5) The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
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Compass ChallengeOnly read books from "100 Best Inspirational Books that Will Make You Want to Travel the World" article
1) Start in Tifton Georgia. Travel NE to Iceland Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
2) Start in Iceland. Travel E to Moscow, Russia - The Big Red Train Ride - Eric Newby
3) Start in Vladivostok, Russia. Travel S to Syndey, Australia - In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
4) Start in Perth Australia. Travel NW to Fez, Morocco - A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco - Suzanna Clarke
5) Start in Fez, Morocco. Travel E to Swat Valley Pakistan - I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
6) Start in Swat Valley Pakistan. Travel SE to Ko Samui, Thailand - The Beach - Alex Garland
7) Start in Ko Samui, Thailand. Travel NW to Homer Alaska - The Women - Kristin Hannah
8) Start in Homer, Alaska. Travel E to Iverness, United Kingdom - Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
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2. A book with a plot including a circus or carnival - Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline - Tiny Kline
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11. Read a book related to heat. - The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 - Tim Madigan
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Presidential Biographies#21) Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur - Thomas C. Reeves
#22-24) Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character - Alyn Brodsky
#23) - Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior: 1 - Harry J. Sievers
#23) Benjamin Harrison Vol. 2: Hoosier Statesman - Harry J. Sievers
#23 - The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison - Homer E. Socolofsky
#25 - William McKinley and His America - H. Wayne Morgan
#26 - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
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Long Book Once a Month1) Familiaris - David Wroblewski
2) The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron - Howard Bryant
3) The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese
4) Shōgun - James Clavell
5) The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
6) Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros
7) Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros
8) Mark Twain - Ron Chernow
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2) Child of Love and Water - D.K. Marley
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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
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January: #12
February: #3
March: #11
April: #1
May: #10
June: #9
July: #8
August: #7
September: #5
SeriesRed Rising Saga - Pierce Brown
#1) Red Rising
#2) Golden Son
#3) Morning Star
#4) Iron Gold
#5) Dark Age
#6) Light Bringer
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The Empyrean Series - Rebecca Yarros
#1) Fourth Wing
#2) Iron Flame
#3) Onyx Storm
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Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn
#1) Thrawn
#2) Thrawn: Alliances
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Galactic Football League - Scott Sigler
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Captain Nemo Series - Jules Verne
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#2) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Temeraire - Naomi Novik
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#1) His Majesty's Dragon
#1.5) Feast or Famine
#2) Throne of Jade
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Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
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Century Cycle - August Wilson
#1) Gem of the Ocean
#2) Joe Turner's Come and Gone
#3) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
#4) The Piano Lesson
#5) Seven Guitars
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Book of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
#1) The City of Ember
#2) The People of Sparks
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Civilizations Rise and Fall - Jared Diamond
#1) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
#2) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Asian Saga - James Clavell
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Love & Gelato - Jenna Evans Welch
1) Love & Gelato
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Rules in Civility - Amor Towles
1) Rules of Civility
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Read Everything They WriteBelow are the books I haven't read by some of my favorite Authors.
John Grisham
The Widow: A Novel October 2025
Fredrik Backman
All Caught Up!!!
Taylor Jenkins Reid
All Caught Up!!
Walter Isaacson
1) The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
2) American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
3) Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness
4) Pro and Con
John Green
1) An Abundance of Katherines
2) Will Grayson, Will Grayson
3) The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
James S.A. Corey
All Caught Up!!
Dan Brown
1) The Secret of Secrets - 2025
Terrence Real
1) How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
Michael Lewis
1) The Money Culture
2) Trail Fever: Spin doctors, rented strangers, thumb wrestlers, toe suckers, grizzly bears, and other creatures on the road to the White H
3) The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
4) Next: The Future Just Happened
5) The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering The Six Classics of Economics
6) Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
7) Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
8) Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
9) The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
10) The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
11) Playing to Win
12) The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
13) Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Andy Weir
1) Theft of Pride (under the name Jack Sharp)
2) Randomize
3) The Egg and Other Stories
Malcolm Gladwell
1) The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
2) Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
3) Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Khaled Hosseini
All Caught Up!!
Jon Krakauer
1) Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
2) Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
3) Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault
Pierce Brown
1) Red God - 2026
Jeff Kinney
All Caught Up!!
D.K. Marley
1) Kingfisher
2) Child of Love and Water
3) the Rowan Tree
Dava Sobel
All Caught Up!!!
Erik Larson
1) Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
2) No One Goes Alone
3) Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
4) The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities
Mike Greenberg
1) Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad
2) Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life
Cormac McCarthy
1) The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
2) The Orchard Keeper
3) Outer Dark
4) Child of God
5) Suttree
6) Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
7) The Passenger
8) Stella Maris
David Grann
1) The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
2) The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
Mary Roach
1) Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
100 Best Inspirational Books that Will Make You Want to Travel the WorldAfrica
Kenya: Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
Rwanda: Gorillas in the Mist - Dian Fossey
Sahara: Sahara - Michael Palin
South Africa: The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
Asia
Burma: The King in Exile - Sudha Shah
Cambodia: The Rent Collector - Camron Wright
India: The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
India: Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
India: The Orphan Keeper - Camron Wright
India: A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Southeast Asia: A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East - Tiziano Terzani
Middle East: The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar
Mongolia: On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads - Tim Cope
Nepal: Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal - Conor Grennan
Singapore: Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
Vietnam: Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam - Andrew X. Pham
Europe
Crete, Greece: The Island - Victoria Hislop
Greece: My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
Kefolonia, Greece: Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
Ireland: Ireland - Frank Delaney
Cork, Ireland: West Cork - Sam Bungey
Cinque Terre, Italy: Beautiful Ruins - Jess Walter
Italian Alps & Milan: Beneath a Scarlet Sky - Mark T. Sullivan
Naples: My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
Pompeii, Italy: Pompeii - Robert Harris
Rome, Italy: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World - Anthony Doerr
Rome, Italy: From Sand and Ash - Amy Harmon
Venice, Italy: The City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
Paris, France: Madeline - Ludwig Bemelmans
Paris, France: Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
Paris, France - The Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George
Provence, France: A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
Spain: The Pilgrimage - Paulo Coelho
Turkey: My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk
Russia: Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russia/Ukraine: Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe - Anne Applebaum
Cornwall England: The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Cotswolds, England: Secrets of a Charmed Life -Susan Meissner
The Island of Guernsey, England: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
Sarajevo: People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
North America
Mexico: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine - Robert L. Moore
Molokai: Moloka'i - Alan Brennert
New York City: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Oahu: Honolulu - Alan Brennert
San Francisco: Book Scavenger - Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Oceania
Australia: Wrong Way Round - Lorna Hendry
Australia: Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback - Robyn Davidson
Australia: Adventures in Caravanastan - Greg Bearup
New Zealand: The Bone People - Keri Hulme
South/Central America
Amazon: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon - David Grann
Central America: Backpacked: A Reluctant Trip Across Central America - Catherine Ryan Howard
Chile, The Straits of Magellan: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe - Laurence Bergreen
Latin America: Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend - Patrick Symmes
Peru: Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time - Mark Adams
Peru, Machu Picchu: The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
Peru: The Heights of Macchu Picchu - Nathaniel translator Neruda, Pablo & Tarn
January Planningon TBR for Canada
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February Planningon TBR for Science
1) The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
2) The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Brian Greene
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4) The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality - Brian Greene
5) The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson
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7) Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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9) The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women - Kate Moore
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11) Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Mary Roach
12) The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery - Sam Kean
13) The Logic of Scientific Discovery - Karl Popper
14) Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military - Neil deGrasse Tyson
15) The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet - John Green
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17) A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? - Kelly Weinersmith
18) The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks - Amy Stewart
19) The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative - Florence Williams
20) Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution - Michael J. Behe
21) Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World - Bill Nye
22) This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay
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24) A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos - Dava Sobel
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March Planning on TBR for Thriller
1) The Push - Ashley Audrain
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President
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2) Benjamin Harrison Vol. 2: Hoosier Statesman - Harry J. Sievers
3) The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison - Homer E. Socolofsky
April PlanningOn TBR for Fun:
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May PlanningOn TBR for Strong Women:
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June PlanningOn TBR for Summer:
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5) Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
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President:
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
July PlanningOn TBR for Speculative Fiction:
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Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
August PlanningOn TBR for Family Drama:
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3) Winter Garden - Kristin Hannah
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President:
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
September PlanningOn TBR for Around the World:
1) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Long Book:
The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses - Leon Goldensohn
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Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation - Joseph T. Hallinan
Compass:
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
President:
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Prince of Tides (other topics)Crime and Punishment (other topics)
The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses (other topics)
Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation (other topics)
Theodore Rex (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Pat Conroy (other topics)Joseph T. Hallinan (other topics)
Leon Goldensohn (other topics)
Edmund Morris (other topics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (other topics)
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