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List #10:1. A memoir
2. Read a book featuring Astrology or Astronomy.
3. Read a book whose author's initials are found in the phrase "PLAY HARDER"
4. A book with a title beginning with Y
5. A book that shows anything that might be purchased in a hardware store on the cover (e.g., wrench, hammer, saw, nails, shovel, paint).
6. The title is one past tense word
7. A book featuring ice skating, figure skating, speed skating, or hockey
8. A book related to health or self-care
9. A book with either today or tonight in the title
10. Read a book from the 2025 Play Book Tag Top Ten list.
11. A book by a Canadian author
✅12. Read a non-fiction book
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future by Neil Shubin - 9/4/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
List #10 Planning:1. A memoir
A Light Through the Cracks by Beth Rodden
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
2. Read a book featuring Astrology or Astronomy.
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
3. Read a book whose author's initials are found in the phrase "PLAY HARDER"
Walk Me to the Distance by Percival Everett
4. A book with a title beginning with Y
Your Absence is Darkness by Jon Kalman Stefansson
5. A book that shows anything that might be purchased in a hardware store on the cover (e.g., wrench, hammer, saw, nails, shovel, paint).
From Scenes Like These by Gordon M. Williams (pitchfork)
6. The title is one past tense word
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
7. A book featuring ice skating, figure skating, speed skating, or hockey
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano - 5 - au wl
One Jump at a Time by Nathan Chen - 5 - cn wc or ho
The Favorites by Layne Fargo (rec by Amy - sounds like romance)
The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey
8. A book related to health or self-care
The Suggestible Brain by Amir Raz - au
9. A book with either today or tonight in the title
42 Today by Michael G. Long, ed. - or mo 6
10. Read a book from the 202
The Turtle House by Amanda Churchill (OM's top 10 list)
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (Hannah's list)
The Bullet Swallower - Gonzalez James (Steven's list)
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting (Rachel's list)
11. A book by a Canadian author
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Larry's Party by Carol Shields
Swann by Carol Shields
Happenstance by Carol Shields
The Box Garden by Carol Shields
The Republic of Love by Carol Shields
Ends of the Earth by Neil Shubin
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Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future (other topics)Malone Dies (other topics)
To Have and Have Not (other topics)
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution (other topics)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Neil Shubin (other topics)Samuel Beckett (other topics)
Ernest Hemingway (other topics)
Peter Hessler (other topics)
Michelle Alexander (other topics)
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✅1. A book with a wild animal in the content, title or cover
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara - 1/23/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅2. Read the next book in a series you started in 2020 or before. If you have no unfinished older series you may move forward a year at a time to find one. If you don't have any series started, start a new one.
Jack by Marilynne Robinson - 1/30/25 - 3* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅3. Read a novel based on a true story.
Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon - 1/21/25 - 3.5* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅4. Read a non-fiction book
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen Czerski - 1/9/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅5. Read one of the top ten longest books on your tbr.
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset - 1/31/25 - 4* -My Review (1169 pages)
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅6. Read 2 books, one fiction, one nonfiction, that have something in common (both books are about rising sea levels)
a. Non-fiction: The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell - 1/12/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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b. Fiction: All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall - 2/3/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅7. A book with a predominantly RED cover. (At least 50%)
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard - 2/3/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅8. A book with a “Fish out of water” theme or trope (e.g. immigrant, new school, alien, travel)
Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen Fisher - 2/6/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅9. Read a travel book
Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic by Adam Shoalts - 1/20/25 - 4.5* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅10. Read a book with a dragon
Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik - 2/7/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅11. Read a book that makes you nervous
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite - 2/4/25 - 3* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅12. Read a book with a character who is an alien (or might be one)
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 1/2/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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