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I've been watching myself beginning to clear my shelves of the books that are taking up space and turning them into a feeling of accomplishment. Given that I am currently reading 46 books that is going to be a tall order, but it is better than the 72 I started with. I didn't read them all off the list, I looked over the older books that I started and then sent back to the library to finish later. There were a lot that I would have to start over again with, so I put them back in the "To Read" section. I also took some off because I am 71 years old and have over 1,000 books on my Kindle alone and at least 10 bookcases surrounding me. Some of those books will never be read, so I pulled them from the list. That left me with about 56 books.Lots of my books are quilting, knitting, cross stitch and sewing books, so they are never "finished." I did put a number of craft books, especially knitting that have a lot of reading in them on my list of books to read. I'll ease them in when I am reading something long and don't have much to post.
Then I got down to business and cleared 10 books out by finishing them. I'm amazed! Some have been on the list for years. Now before I put another book on the list, I think about what it would take to finish it and compare it to my life. I've stopped being such a dabbler and resisted the impulse to switch to a different book when the one I'm reading hits a slow spot. It's simple, but it is working.
Discussion > 2017 Personal Challenge: 101 CompletedPart 1
2017: Goal 180 - read 221
2016: Goal 150 - read 160
2015: Goal 250 - read 242
2014: Goal 220 - read 225
2013: Goal 160 - read 153
2012: Goal 160 - read 160
2011: Goal 150 - read 98 (Wonder what happened that year???)
January to May 2017
January
The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking ManeRelatively Dead - Sheila Connolly
2 from list
The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #5) - Louise Penny
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1) Louise Penny
The Nazi Conscience
The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System
In The Key of Genius: The Extraordinary Life of Derek Paravicini
The Quilter's Apprentice (Elm Creek Quilts, #1)
Gone with the Wind
Bury Your Dead (Armand Gamache, #6)
The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8)
The Hangman (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6.5)
An Irish Country Girl (Irish Country #4)
Down Among the Dead Men (Peter Diamond, #15)
16 books
February
What Did You Do in The War, Daddy? Growing up German
Does Prayer Change Things?
2 from list
Seeing the Dead (Relatively Dead Mysteries Book 2)
Ten Days in a Mad-House
The Bertie Project (44 Scotland Street #11)
Beginners Handbook of Knitting Stitches
Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
The Rivalry
The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3)
A Cold Day For Murder (Kate Shugak, #1)
An Accidental Death (D.C. Smith #1)
Crunch Time (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #16)
How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9)
13 books
March
11 Sewing Room Ideas: How to Organize Your Room
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
2 from list
Twigg Stitch: A New Twist on Reversible Knitting
Till We Have Faces
The Unimaginable
The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #11)
All the Missing Girls
Christmas Carol Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #20)
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7)
Crimson Shore (Pendergast, #15)
Death of a Ghost (Hamish Macbeth, #32)
A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)
A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4)
Guilty as Sin: The Dirty Dealings of Hillary Clinton and how the Clinton Administration Fooled America
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, #14)
The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
The Murder House
18 books
April
The Ant Farm: Reflections, Refraction and Farewells
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Framley Parsonage
My Enemy's Cradle
Cropped to Death
5 from list
Sunshine on Scotland Street (44 Scotland Street #8)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #15)
Designed to Death (Faith Hunter Scrap This Mystery #2)
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
An Irish Country Wedding
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1) - Tom Rob Smith
12 books
May
The Vanishing Conscience
Norah Gaughan's Knitted Cable Sourcebook: A Breakthrough Guide to Knitting with Cables and Designing Your Own
The Seventh Secret
Murder in an Irish Village
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Around the World in 72 Days
The Secret Speech Tom Rob Smith
Precious and Grace
Darwin's Radio Greg Bear
Death by a Honeybee
Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Knitting Counterpanes: Traditional Coverlet Patterns for Contemporary Knitters Mary Walker Phillips
13 from list
The Other Side of the Sun - Madeleine L'Engle
The sound of Rain - Gregg Olsen
Crisis of Character - Gary Byrne
Darwin's Children (Darwin's Radio #2) - Greg Bear
Hitler's Forgotten Children - Ingrid Von Oelhafeneg
Death by Drowning - Abigail Keam
Death by Bridle - Abigail Keam
The Obsidian Chamber - Preston & Child
The Sound of Rain - Greg Olsen
22 Books
See booklist 2 for the rest
Serial Reader - 2017 Update - new figures
Total read 125/168
I will finish _11_ series I have started before this year. (# books)
I will start _4_ series this year. (# books)
I will read _2_ series from start to finish this year. (# books)✅ 1/2
I will read _132_ number of books that are part of a series. (# books)
My total number of books is _168 to go__42__
Select from:
Most neglected:
1. William Monk - 17/23 To read: 6
Dark Assassin Anne Perry
Blind Justice Anne Perry
Blood on the WaterAnne Perry
Corridors of the Night Anne Perry
Revenge in a Cold River Anne Perry
An Echo of Murder Anne Perry
2. Pendergast - 13/18 To read: 5
Keep up to date:
1. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache 12/13 To read: 1
2. 44 Scotland Street - 10/11 To read: 1
3. Isabel Dalhousie series 6/11 (Probably go back and reread some more) To read: 7 Northumberland
The Right Attitude to Rain Alexander McCall Smith Northumberland
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate Alexander McCall Smith
The Careful Use of Compliments Alexander McCall Smith Northumberland
The Perils of Morning Coffee Alexander McCall Smith
Sweet, Thoughtful Valentine Alexander McCall Smith
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday Alexander McCall Smith Northumberland
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds Alexander McCall Smith
The Lost Art of Gratitude Alexander McCall Smith Northumberland
The Novel Habits of Happiness Alexander McCall Smith
The Charming Quirks of Others Alexander McCall Smith
At the Reunion Buffet Alexander McCall Smith
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds Alexander McCall Smith
The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth Alexander McCall Smith
A Distant View of Everything Alexander McCall Smith
4. No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 15/16 To read: 1
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party Alexander McCall Smith
Start new series
1. Portuguese Irregular Verbs 0/4 (less)
Portuguese Irregular Verbs Alexander McCall Smith
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs Alexander McCall Smith
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances Alexander McCall Smith
Unusual Uses for Olive Oil Alexander McCall Smith
2. Leo Demidov 2/3 To read: 1 Start to finish
Agent 6 Tom Rob Smith
3. Relatively Dead Mysteries 2/5 To read: 3
Defending the Dead Sheila Connolly
Watch for the Dead Sheila Connolly
Search for the Dead Sheila Connolly
✅4. The Cottage Tales of Beatrix series 8/8
Start to finish
✅The Tale of Hill Top Farm Susan Wittig lbert
✅The Tale of Holly How Susan Wittig Albert
✅The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood Susan Wittig Albert
✅The Tale of Hawthorn House Susan Wittig Albert
✅The Tale of Briar Bank Susan Wittig Albert
✅The Tale of Applebeck Orchard Susan Albert
✅The Tale of Oat Cake Crag Susan Wittig Albert
✅The Tale of Castle Cottage Susan Wittig Albert
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7. Agatha Raison and Busy Body #21
8. Pushing up Daisies #27
9. Agatha Raisin and the Witches Tree #28
✅10. The Vicious Vet #2
✅Love, Lies and Liquor #17
There Goes the Bride #20
Hiss and Hers #23
✅Something Borrowed, Someone Dead #24
The Blood of an Englishman #25
Dishing the Dirt #26
Hamish Macbeth 32/32 Finished
32 in series
To read: 3/3
✅Death of a Dreamer M.C. Beaton
✅Death of Yesterday #28
✅Death of a Liar #30
Total in series 168
To Read 44
Quarterly Challenges > 2nd Quarter - Clear the Shelves Update
Challenge finished! This has been a great challenge for me. I got some books out of "Currently Reading" that have been around a long time. I still need to work on the "physical books" as I have a lot of them and would like to read them and pass them on.
Physical 6/5
E-books 8/6
Audio Books 8/8
√ The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope
√The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
√The Chimes Charles Dickens
Finished!!!!!
This is the challenge I like the most, and also need the most. I'm narrowing the list of choices so that I will work on books I already have at least 50% of the time.
Choose from:
Physical Books - 5/5
The Vanishing Conscience
The Ant Farm: Reflections, Refraction and Farewells
Norah Gaughan's Knitted Cable Sourcebook: A Breakthrough Guide to Knitting with Cables and Designing Your Own
My Enemy's Cradle
Precious and Grace
E-books/Kindle 8/6
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Obsidian Chamber
Revenge in a Cold River (William Monk, #22) - Anne Perry
The Obsidian Chamber (Pendergast #16) Preston, Douglas *
Kindle Books (4/6)
Around the World in 72 Days
Death by a Honeybee
Framley Parsonage
Cropped to Death
Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow- Bounds, E.M
The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope
Audio Books 6/8
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Child 44
Darwin's Radio
The Seventh Secret
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
The Sound of Rain Gregg Olsen
The Chimes Charles Dickens
It is amazing to me how differently I feel about the books I have on my lists now that I have started these challenges.I was beginning to see my "Currently Reading" shelf as a ball and chain. It was so hard to get back into those books even though I wanted to read them.
By putting them on my challenges, I am eager to get to them. I like to see those statistics move and there is such satisfaction in finishing one. I just finished a book that was not on any of my challenges other than the 101+ books I wanted to read. It hadn't been hanging around for ages and it was fiction, so it couldn't fit Dewey Decimal or any of the other categories. The only thing I could say extra about it was that it was an Audible book which I already owned. What a disappointment, even though the book was good.
I know some people don't like double dipping, but it works for me if I keep it to a minimum. I am mainly looking at using books that I have already in my library, bought and paid for...not just for the numbers. I am still going to go way over my 101 books. I am already at 79. The challenges stimulate me to read more and in a more disciplined way and that is what the challenges are all about.
I hate to make myself another challenge, but I really need this one and it doesn't fit most of my other challenges.I need to read more of my physical books. I actually need to read my Kindle books and Audible, but they aren't sitting on my overstuffed shelves.
A number of my books are pretty big, so I think I will start with only 1 per month plus 2 shorter books. Since this is the beginning of June, it's a good place to start. I'm listing the books I want to target and some others I can do quickly in case I get bogged down with the bigger ones.
Challenge - read 8 books from "Currently Reading List."
1 Vatican Malachi Martin
2 Texas - Michener
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4 American Voices
5 Caribbean
6 Grammar Smart: A Guide to Perfect Usage
7 Life Is Not a Dress Size
8 More Than a Skeleton - Maier
9 SuperFoods Rx - Currently reading
10 The New Detox Diet - Currently reading
11 Western Civilizations, Their History & Their Culture, 1
12 Letters to an American Lady
13 Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1)
14 Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
15 Justinian's Flea
16 Adolf Hitler - Toland
17 Too Afraid to Cry
18 The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
19 The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
20 Lisa, Bright and Dark
21 A Grief Observed
22 The Killer Angels
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24 Destiny and Deliverance - The Prince of Egypt
25 Self Matters
26 The Story of the World Vol. 1
27 The Story of the World Vol. 2
28 The Story of the World Vol. 3
29 The Story of the World Vol. 4
30 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Currently Reading
31 Les Miserables
32 Cro Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans Is
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The Truth About Trump by D'Antonio, Michael
Update- completedDewey Decimal -
Finished
Update 275
10/10
I'll try for 10. I'll try to go through my TBR list and try to move some of the 3000 books I have already listed.
✅000-099: Computer Science, Bibliographies, Library Sciences, Encyclopedias & Books of Facts, Associations, Organizations & Museums, News Media, Journalism & Publishing, General Collections, Manuscripts & Rare Books Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg
✅100-199: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Parapsychology & Occultism, Philosophical Schools of Thought, Psychology, Logic, Ethics, Ancient, Medieval & Eastern Philosophy, Modern Western Philosophy Haunted Eau Claire Devon Bell
✅200-299: Religion, Natural Theology, Bible, Christian Theology, Christian Moral & Devotional Theology, Christian Orders & Local Church, Christian Social Theology, Christian Church History, Christian Denominations & Sects, Other & Comparative Religions Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow
✅300-399: Social Sciences, Sociology, General Statistics, Political Science, Economics, Law, Public Administration, Social Services, Education, Commerce, Customs, Etiquette, Folklore. Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters Peter Langman
✅400-499: Language, Linguistics, English & Old English, German, Romance Languages, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italic, Latin, Hellenic, Classical Greek, Other A Way with Words: Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion by Michael D. C. Drout
✅500-599: Sciences, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Paleontology, Life Sciences, Plants, Zoological Sciences The Gene: An Intimate History - Mukherjee, Siddhartha Florida's Fabulous Natural Places Tim Ohr
✅600-699: Technology (Applied Sciences), Medical Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture, Home Economics & Family Living, Management, Chemical Engineering, Manufacturing, Buildings A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy Sue Klebold
✅700-799: Arts, Civic and Landscape Art, Architecture, Plastic Arts and Sculpture, Drawing & Decorative Arts, Painting, Graphic Arts, Photography, Music, Recreational & Performing Arts Knitting Counterpanes: Traditional Coverlet Patterns for Contemporary Knitters - Mary Walker Phillips
✅800-899: Literature, American Literature, English & Old English Literature, German Literature, Literatures of Romance Languages, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italic, Latin, Hellenic, Classical Greek The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare
The Zoophabet Lee Alloway
✅900-999: History, Geography/Travel, Ancient History, General History of Europe, General History of Asia, Far East, Africa, North America, South America, Other The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
Update finished2017 Popsugar Ultimate Reading Challenge Complete
40/40 Regular
12/12 Advanced
Total 52/52,
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Update: Two series start to finish 1/2 (8 books)4. The Cottage Tales of Beatrix series 8/8
Start to finish
✅The Tale of Hill Top Farm Susan Wittig lbert
✅The Tale of Holly How Susan Wittig Albert
✅The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood Susan Wittig Albert
✅The Tale of Hawthorn House Susan Wittig Albert
✅The Tale of Briar Bank Susan Wittig Albert
✅The Tale of Applebeck Orchard Susan Albert
✅The Tale of Oat Cake Crag Susan Wittig Albert
✅The Tale of Castle Cottage Susan Wittig Albert
Serial Reader - 2017 UpdateAs of 7/16/2017
Update - new figures
Total read 127/168
I will finish _11_ series I have started before this year. (# books)
I will start _4_ series this year. (# books = 20) 9/11
I will read _2_ series from start to finish this year. (# books = 11) 7/11
I will read _168_ number of books that are part of a series. (# books)
My total number of books is _122 to go_41___
Fin Hamish Macbeth 32/32 in series – to read 0
Read 4
Death of a dreamer #21
Death of Yesterday #28
Death of a Liar #30
Death of a Nurse – read
Anne Hawn wrote: "Discussion > 2017 Personal Challenge: 101 CompletedPart 2
2017: Goal 180 - read 235
2016: Goal 150 - read 160
2015: Goal 250 - read 242
2014: Goal 220 - read 225
2013: Goal 160 - read 153
2012: Goal 160 - read 160
2011: Goal 150 - read 98 (Wonder what happened that year???)
June
The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope
The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
The Chimes Charles Dickens
The Big Book of Patchwork: 50 Fabulous Quilts from Judy Hopkins
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back Todd Burpo
Dragonwyck Anya Seton
6 from list
The Vicious Vet M.C. Beaton
Murder on a Bad Hair Day Anne George
Death of a Nurse- M.C. Beaton
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News Bernard Goldberg
365 Days of Slow-Cooking Karen Bellessa Petersen
The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare
Haunted Eau Claire Devon Bell
The Tale of Hill Top Farm Susan Wittig Albert
Satan's Hoax: End-Times Prophecies Through the Eyes of a Modern-Day Paul Brad L. Burge
The Tale of Holly How Susan Wittig Albert
The Zoophabet Lee Alloway
The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood Susan Wittig Albert
The Tale of Hawthorn House Susan Wittig Albert
The Tale of Briar Bank Susan Wittig Albert
The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren
The Tale of Applebeck Orchard Susan Wittig Albert
The Tale of Oat Cake Crag Susan Wittig Albert
Starting a Journey with Jesus: Fourteen Days of Praying with Matthew Ron Oltmanns
The Strange Case of Finley Jayne Kady Cross
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy Sue Klebold
27 Books
July
Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters Peter Langman
The Tale of Castle Cottage Susan Wittig Albert
School Shooters: How to Recognize Schoolroom and Campus Killers Before They Attack Peter Langman
Free Soul Kyuyu Yoneyama
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb Melanie Benjamin
Scandal of the Sexes: The Frightening Consequences of the Denial of Difference Ashley McGuire
Those Who Save Us Jenna Blum
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry Fredrik Backman
I'm (No Longer) a Mormon: A Confessional Regina Samuelson
Death of a Dreamer M.C. Beaton
Death of a Liar M.C. Beaton
Death of Yesterday M.C. Beaton
Lord Foulgrin's Letters Randy Alcorn
Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse Is Making Our Kids Dumber Joe Clement Tanis Gray
Booked For Murder CeeCee James
The Horse and His Boy C.S. Lewis
The Orphan's Tale Pam Jenoff
Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell M.C. Beatonbell
The Deadly Dance M.C. Beaton
Love, Lies and Liquor M.C. Beatonliquor
Knitting Brioche: The Essential Guide to the Brioche Stitch Nancy Marchant
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens
A Killer in the Family Peter Ross Range
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman
The Thirty-Nine Steps: John Buchan
Pancakes and Corpses Agatha Frost
Who Was Galileo? Patricia Brennan Demuth
Strangers on a Train Patricia Highsmith
28 Books
August
Battlefield Of The Mind: Winning The Battle In Your Mind Joyce Meyer
The Dieting Mind Book 1: Addiction & Emotional Eating Shawn Boutwell
Essential Oils for Novices: How to Use Essential Oils to Rejuvenate Your Skin, Improve Your Hair, and Relax Your Body and Mind Ben Night
Deadly Reservation CeeCee James
What the Bishop Saw Vannetta Chapman
Big Mushy Happy Lump Sarah Andersen
Fresh Start: Welcome to Your New Life! Joel Osteen
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign Jonathan Allen
BEGONE SATAN![author:Reverend Carl Vogl
The Yada Yada Prayer Group Neta Jackson
The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President Edward Klein
Amazing Benefits of Soymilk : Samantha K. Spangler
Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver
Mother at Seven: The Shocking True Story of an Armenian Girl's Stolen Childhood Veronika Gasparyan
Our Favorite Slow-Cooker Recipes Cookbook: 18834405 Gooseberry Patch
15 Books
September
Destiny and Deliverance Philip Yancey
Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words Andrew Morton
See What I Have Done Sarah Schmidt
The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland Rebekah Crane
Triumph of the Lentil: Soy-Free Vegan Wholefoods for All Appetites Hilda Jorgensen
The Nightingale Kristin Hannah
Mrs. Saint and the Defectives Julie Lawson Timmer
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Katherine Howe
Sock-Yarn Accessories: 20 Knitted Designs with Style and Savvy Jen Lucas
The Charming Quirks of Others Alexander McCall Smith
The Last Sin Eater Francine Rivers
Multiple WoundsAlan Russell
October
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[book:Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption|4446] M. Scott Peck
Beneath the Bleeding Val McDermid
An Exorcist Tells His StoryGabriele Amorth
Fever of the Bone Val McDermid
The Retribution Val McDermid
A Darker Domain Val McDermid
Death of Yesterday M.C. Beaton
Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House M.C. Beaton
Cranberry Bluff Deborah Garner
Killing Mr. Griffin Lois DuncanThe All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion Fannie Flagg
Helen Hath No Fury Gillian Roberts
Wormwood Susan Wittig Albert
Update2017: Goal 180 - read 235
December
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi
Don't Look Behind You and Other True Cases Ann Rule
Something Borrowed, Someone Dead M.C. Beaton
Tuesdays at the Castle Jessica Day George
NOT ALL BOOKS ARE LISTED - three separate lists
Total books off *Currently Reading Shelf* 30/30
Update2017: Goal 180 - read 235
December
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi
Don't Look Behind You and Other True Cases Ann Rule
Something Borrowed, Someone Dead M.C. Beaton
Tuesdays at the Castle Jessica Day George
NOT ALL BOOKS ARE LISTED - three separate lists
Total books off *Currently Reading Shelf* 30/30
Note: There are 4 lists here, but the total of the 4 lists is 60 books. Some categories have more than I expect to read.Every year I have to have at least one challenge that helps me get rid of some of the hundreds of physical books I have on my shelves. I also need to check off some of the Audible and Kindle books too, but they don't take up physical space. However, I have paid for them, so they are haunting me. I am limiting the e-books to ones I have paid over $5 for, or are on a subscription list like Scribd. I am also going to try to do an Audible Challenge of 10 books
This list does have books that I have used on other challenges this year, so I am going to try to read 60 with at least 10 of them physical books and 20 from my Currently Reading List.
2019 Yearly Challenges > Clear the Shelves - 2019 #314
books:
Total read: 27/60 6/14/19
Physical books 10: 3/60
⭐️1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards
⭐️2. The Quintland Sisters Shelley Wood
⭐️3. Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver
4. Complete Guide to Bible Journaling - Joanne Fink
5. Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe - Rosen, William
(This has been on my list for years!!!
6. Life Is Not a Dress Size - Farro, Rita
7. The COPD Solution: - Fielding, Dawn Lesley
8. The Devil's Diary: Hitler's High Priest and the Hunt for the Lost Papers of the Third Reich - Wittman, Robert K.
9. People Types & Tiger Stripes - Gordon Lawrence
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E-books: 22/60
⭐️1. Ship of Fools: Tucker Carlson
⭐️2. Has Anyone Seen the President? Michael Lewis
⭐️3. Mount Vernon Love Story - Mary Higgins Clark
⭐️4. Siege: Trump Under Fire - Michael Lewis
5. Shocking True Story - Gregg Olsen
⭐️6. Know Your Power - Nancy Pelosi
⭐️7. Commander in Cheat - Rick Reilly
⭐️8. The Coming Storm - Michael Lewis
⭐️9. Hell's Princess - Harold Schechter
⭐️10. Siege: Trump Under Fire - Michael Lewis
⭐️11. Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President
⭐️12. The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump - Bandy X Lee
⭐️13. The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis
⭐️14. The Death of Outrage - William J. Bennett
⭐️15. Everything Trump Touches Dies - Rick Wilson
⭐️16. American Tantrum - Anthony Atamanuik
⭐️17. The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club Wanda E. Brunstetter
⭐️18. Ivanka Trump: A Portrait of Her Life, Family, and Career Lee Lyons
⭐️19. Before She Was Found - Heather Gudenkauf
20. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
⭐️21. Gaslighting America - Amanda Carpenter
⭐️22. Raising Trump - Trump, Ivana
⭐️23. Everything Trump Touches Dies - Rick Wilson24.
25. Quilted Bags and Gifts - Akemi Shibata
26. Murder and Misfortune - J.A. Whiting
⭐️27. Trumpocracy - David Frum
28. Oryx and Crake - Atwood, Margaret
29. The Tattered Quilt - Brunstetter, Wanda E.
30. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Skloot, Rebecca
31. A Climate Carol and Other Cli-Fi short stories - Friedman, Richard
32. Library of Souls - Ransome Riggs
Audible: 1/10
1. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
2. Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
3. The Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope
4. Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter
5. Siege: Trump Under Fire - Michael Wolff
6. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audry Niffenegger
7. Stone Maidens - Lloyd Devereux Richards
8. The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon
9. The Remains - Vincent Zandri
10. This Year I Will - M. J. Ryan
11. At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovercraft
12. Facts and Fears - James R. Clapper
⭐️13. The Mystery of Alice - Lee Bacon
Currently Reading/Stalled : 1/60 (Finish and give away)
1. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles - Borrowed (Physical Book)
2. The Girl They Left Behind - Roxanne Veletzos (Physical Book)
3. In Defense of a Liberal Education - Fareed Zakaria (Physical Book)
4. The Threat: How the FBI Protects America - McCabe, Andrew G.
5. The Truth About Trump - D'Antonio, Michael
6. The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty - Kitty Kelley (Physical Book)
7. Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations - Harris, Alex
8. The Devil You Know (Felix Castor, #1) - Max Carey
9. ATaste for Truth - Barb Raveling
10. History of the Chippewa Valley - Randall, Thomas E.
11. The Complete Works of Nellie Bly - Nellie Bly
12. 10 Minutes to Knowing the Men and Women of the Bible - George, Jim (Physical Book)
13. Boys in the Trees - Carly Simon
14. Crisis Point: Why We Must - and How We Can Overcome...Politics - Lott, Trent
15. Because He Could - Morris, Dick
16. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Franklin, Benjamin
17. Freedom from Emotional Eating: A Weight Loss Bible Study - Raveling, Barb
18. The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors - Krauthammer, Charles
19. Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics - Krauthammer, Charles
20. The Mueller Report - Mueller, Robert S. III (reading second time)
21. The Faith - Colson, Charles W.
22. Journal Me Organized: - Spooner, Rebecca
23. The Wedding Gift - McKenna, Kathleen
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