Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

Off we go to another year ...

Goodreads Group Reads

January
[✔] Winner - Science Fiction: Morning Star (Red Rising #3)
[✔] Additional Nominee Read (The Woman in Cabin 10), Mystery & Thriller
[✔] Additional Nominee Read (Saga, Volume 6), Graphic Novel

February
[✔] Winner - Fiction: Truly Madly Guilty
[] Additional Nominee Read (Heartless), YA Fantasy

March
[✔] Winner - Historical Fiction: The Underground Railroad

April
[✔] Winner - Romance: It Ends with Us

May
[✔] Winner - Middle Grade: The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1)
[✔] Winner - Memoir & Autobiography: When Breath Becomes Air

June
[] Winner - Horror: The Fireman (abandoned at 20%)
[] Winner - Picture Book: The Thank You Book (Elephant & Piggie #25) (not reading this)

July
[✔] Winner - Young Adult: Salt to the Sea
[] Winner - History & Biography: Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man (won't read this)

August
[] Winner - Non Fiction: Hamilton: The Revolution
[] Series Read - Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy #2) (won't read either of these)
[✔] Additional Nominee Read (TBC), Romance ... The Hating Game

September
[] Winner - Mystery & Thriller: End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy #3)
[] Winner - Science & Technology: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (won't read this)
[✔] Series Read - A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)
[] Additional Nominee Read (TBC), Middle Grade

October
[✔] Winner - YA Fantasy: A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2)
[] Winner - Food & Cookbooks: Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat
[✔] Additional Nominee Read (TBC), Memoir & Autobiography - Hillbilly Elegy
[] Additional Nominee Read (TBC), Horror
[] Additional Nominee Read (TBC), Picture Book not reading any of these

November
[] Winner - Humour: The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
[] Winner - Graphic Novel: Adulthood Is a Myth (won't read either of these)
[✔] Additional Nominee Read (TBC), Young Adult: The Sun Is Also a Star
[] Additional Nominee Read (TBC), History & Biography

December
[✔] Winner - Debut Author: Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands #1)
[] Winner - Poetry: The Princess Saves Herself in this One
[] Additional Nominee Read (TBC), Fantasy
[] Additional Nominee Read (TBC), Non Fiction

Popsugar Reading Challenge

[✔] A book recommended by a librarian ... Edgar and Lucy (cheating on this one, but I'm sure they would)
[✔] A book that’s been on your TBR list for way too long ... The Handmaid's Tale
[✔] A book of letters ... The Memory Book
[✔] An audiobook ... The Dry
[✔] A book by a person of color ... The Underground Railroad
[✔] A book with one of the four seasons in the title ... Before the Fall
[✔] A book that is a story within a story ... We Are the Ants
[✔] A book with multiple authors ... Aced
[✔] An espionage thriller ... The Chemist
[✔] A book with a cat on the cover ... Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
[✔] A book by an author who uses a pseudonym ... Pandemic
[✔] A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read ... Totenfang
[✔] A book by or about a person who has a disability ... History Is All You Left Me
[✔] A book involving travel ... The Woman in Cabin 10
[✔] A book with a subtitle ... Places No One Knows
[✔] A book that’s published in 2017 ... Caraval
[✔] A book involving a mythical creature ... Siege and Storm
[✔] A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile ... Openly Straight
[✔] A book about food ... It Ends with Us
[✔] A book with career advice ... Honestly Ben
[✔] A book from a nonhuman perspective ... The Hidden Oracle
[✔] A steampunk novel ... This Monstrous Thing
[✔] A book with a red spine ... Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition Vol. 3
[✔] A book set in the wilderness ... The Wolf Road
[✔] A book you loved as a child ... The Heritage of Hastur
[✔] A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited ... Suleika öffnet die Augen
[✔] A book with a title that’s a character’s name ... My Lady Jane
[✔] A novel set during wartime .. Saga, Vol. 7
[✔] A book with an unreliable narrator ... The Great Gatsby
[✔] A book with pictures ... Gemina
[✔] A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you ... The Hate U Give
[✔] A book about an interesting woman ... Etched in Bone
[✔] A book set in two different time periods ... Girls in the Moon
[✔] A book with a month or day of the week in the title ... Six Ways from Sunday (DNF at ~50% because it's just terrible)
[✔] A book set in a hotel ... A Gentleman in Moscow
[✔] A book written by someone you admire ... Es war einmal Aleppo
[✔] A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 ... The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
[✔] A book set around a holiday other than Christmas ... A Court of Thorns and Roses
[✔] The first book in a series you haven’t read before ... After
[✔] A book you brought on a trip ... Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, Book Two

Bonus level:
[✔] A book recommended by an author you love ... Shadow and Bone
[✔] A bestseller from 2016 ... Truly Madly Guilty
[✔] A book with a family-member term in the title ... Return of the Chauffeur's Son
[✔] A book that takes place over a character’s life span ... When Breath Becomes Air
[✔] A book about an immigrant or refugee ... Salt to the Sea
[✔] A book from a genre/subgenre that you’ve never heard of ... Lincoln in the Bardo
[✔] A book with an eccentric character ... The Serpent King
[✔] A book that’s more than 800 pages ... Das Labyrinth der Lichter: Roman
[✔] A book that you got from a used book sale ... The Daisy Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting
[✔] A book that’s been mentioned in another book ... Hamlet
[✔] A book about a difficult topic ... Bleiben
[✔] A book based on mythology ... Ruin and Rising

you're doing the pop sugar this year?

I think so. Just starting to look into challenges this year.

Raben - Lesechallenge

[✔] ein Buch, das auf einer Insel spielt ... Girls in the Moon
[✔] ein Buch mit einer unsympathischen Hauptfigur ... After
[✔] ein Buch, das an einem einzigen Tag spielt ... Lincoln in the Bardo
[✔] ein Buch, das (teilweise) in einer virtuellen Realität spielt ... Hard Wired
[✔] ein Buch, das in einer Hauptstadt spielt ... A Gentleman in Moscow
[✔] ein Buch mit einer ungewöhnlichen oder unerwarteten Heldin ... The Wolf Road
[✔] ein Buch, das vor 1900 geschrieben wurde .. Hamlet
[✔] ein Buch, das ein anderes Werk neu aufgreift .. The Wrath and the Dawn
[✔] ein Buch, dessen Original weder deutsch noch englisch war .. Das Labyrinth der Lichter: Roman
[✔] ein Buch, das in Neuseeland oder Australien spielt ... The Dry
[✔] ein Buch, das 2017 veröffentlicht wurde ... The Hate U Give
[✔] ein Buch mit 3 oder mehr Erzählebenen ... Bleiben
[✔] ein Groschenroman .. Enemies of the State
[✔] ein Buch aus den Buchempfehlungen einer Zeitung ... When Breath Becomes Air
[✔] ein Buch, dessen Cover nur zweifarbig ist ... Totenfang
[✔] ein Buch mit einem Tier als Hauptcharakter ... Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, Book Two
[✔] ein Buch, in dem Zirkus eine Rolle spielt ... Caraval
[✔] ein Buch über eine Expedition/Entdeckungsreise .. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
[✔] ein Buch über einen Nobelpreisträger/eine Nobelpreisträgerin ... I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
[✔] ein Buch über eine Patchwork-Familie ... Edgar and Lucy
[✔] ein Krimi mit nur einem Opfer ... Der Schnee, das Feuer, die Schuld und der Tod
[✔] ein Buch, das ein Autor mit über 70 Jahren geschrieben hat ... In the Unlikely Event
[✔] ein Buch, das in einer Wüste spielt ... The Rose & the Dagger
[✔] ein Glücksbuch .. We Are the Ants
[✔] ein Buch, das in den 1960er Jahren spielt .. The Girls
[✔] ein Buch, das im Milleniumsjahr 2000 erstmals erschienen ist ... Fatal Shadows
[✔] ein Buch einer osteuropäischen Autorin ... Suleika öffnet die Augen
[✔] ein Buch, in dem das Thema Flucht/Flüchtlinge aufgegriffen wird ... The Underground Railroad
[✔] ein Buch, das bei Erscheinen heftige Kontroversen auslöste / Skandalbuch ... And Tango Makes Three
[✔] eine Erzählung/ein Buch mit unter 100 Seiten ... The Grownup
[✔] ein Buch, in dessen Titel das Wort "Leben" oder "Tod" vorkommt ... Der Schnee, das Feuer, die Schuld und der Tod
[✔] ein (echtes oder fiktives) Tagebuch .. The Memory Book
[✔] ein Buch, das Dich zum Lachen bringt My Lady Jane
[✔] ein Buch, dessen Autor*in aus der arabischen Welt kommt oder das in der arabischen Welt spielt .. Exit West
[✔] ein saisonales Buch, zb Ostern, Halloween, Weihnachten ... History Is All You Left Me
[✔] ein Buch, in dem ein eigener Traum verwirklicht wird ... Truly Madly Guilty
[✔] ein Roadmovie-Buch ... The Chemist
[✔] ein epischer (High) Fantasy Roman .. Empire of Storms
[✔] ein Buch, das (zu großen Teilen) auf hoher See spielt ... The Woman in Cabin 10
[✔] ein feministisches Buch oder eins, das sich mit Frauenrechten befasst .. The Handmaid's Tale
[✔] ein Buch, das in der Zukunft spielt ... Gemina
[✔] ein Buch, das in der Antike spielt ... The Gladiator's Master
[✔] ein Buch mit Monstern ... Shadow and Bone
[✔] ein Buch, in dem es um einen fehlenden Sinn geht (taub, stumm, blind, etc) .. Withered + Sere
[✔] ein Buch, das auf der shortlonglist des deutschen Buchpreises war/ist ..
[✔] ein Buch, in dem Religion eine Rolle spielt ... The Serpent King
[✔] ein Buch, in dem es um Drogen geht ... The Great Gatsby
[✔] ein Campus- oder Wissenschaftsroman ... Honestly Ben Pandemic
[✔] ein Buch, das dir von einer anderen Teilnehmerin vorgeschlagen/empfohlen wurde ... A Court of Thorns and Roses
[✔] ein Buch einer Raben-Autorin .. Es war einmal Aleppo