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2020 Popsugar Reading ChallengeTotal: 19/50
Regular prompts
√ 1. A book that's published in 2020--Boyfriend Material
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author--The Black Tides of Heaven
√ 3. A book with a great first line--The Gunslinger
4. A book about a book club--The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
√ 5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics--The Family Upstairs
6. A bildungsroman--Assassin's Apprentice
√ 7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed--The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
√ 8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover--The Outsider
√ 9. A book with a map--Senlin Ascends
√ 10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club--Daisy Jones & The Six
√ 11. An anthology--Song for the Unraveling of the World
√ 12. A book that passes the Bechdel test--Get in Trouble
√ 13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it--Skin
√ 14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name--The Lawrence Browne Affair
15. A book about or involving social media--Ghoster
√ 16. A book that has a book on the cover--The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
17. A medical thriller
18. A book with a made-up language--A Dance with Dragons
19. A book set in a country beginning with "C"--Smoke and Shadows
√ 20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention--Mother Night
21. A book published the month of your birthday--The Wanderers
22. A book about or by a woman in STEM
23. A book that won an award in 2019--The Cabin at the End of the World
24. A book on a subject you know nothing about
25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics--Beloved
√ 26. A book with a pun in the title--Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting
27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins--Axel's Pup
√ 28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character--Love and Other Thought Experiments
√ 29. A book with a bird on the cover--The Tolkien Reader
30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader
31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title--Golden Son
32. A book by a WOC
√ 33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads--Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions
34. A book you meant to read in 2019--The Drawing of the Three
√ 35. A book with a three-word title--The Secret Place
36. A book with a pink cover
37. A Western--Doc
√ 38. A book by or about a journalist--Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge--A book you own but never read--Doctor Sleep
Advanced prompts
1. A book written by an author in their 20s--The Priory of the Orange Tree
2. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title--20th Century Ghosts
3. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision)--The Day of the Triffids
4. A book set in the 1920s--Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
5. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics--Pachinko
6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books-- Skeleton Crew
7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title--The Wind Through the Keyhole
8. A book published in the 20th century--The Waste Lands
9. A book from a series with more than 20 books--The Mysterious Affair at Styles
10. A book with a main character in their 20s--On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Around the Year 2020Total: 30/52
√ 1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y--Beguiled
√ 2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable--Truth in the Dark
√ 3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019--A Closed and Common Orbit
√ 4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live--The Road
5. The first book in a series that you have not started--In the Night Garden
√ 6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover--Kick at the Darkness
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere--The Forgotten Garden
√ 8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"--The Elementals
√ 9. A book that can be read in a day--Through the Woods
√ 10. A book that is between 400-600 pages--Broken Harbor
√ 11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number--Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people--The Scar
√ 13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge (Link)-- A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)--The Nameless Dark: A Collection
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link)--Parable of the Talents
√ 15. A book set in a global city--Stephen Sondheim: A life
√ 16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area--Dark Matter
√ 17. A book with a neurodiverse character--My Year of Rest and Relaxation
√ 18. A book by an author you've only read once before--Piranesi
√ 19. A fantasy book--Follow Me to Ground
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]--Dissolution (20th book in my list of books to read for the Winter Seasonal Challenge)
√ 21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720--The Library of the Unwritten
22. A book with the major theme of survival--The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic
√ 23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author--Captive
24. A book with an emotion in the title--As Meat Loves Salt
√ 25. A book related to the arts--Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes
√ 26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards--Recursion
√ 27. A history or historical fiction--Days Without End
28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author--Tigana
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book--In the Cities of Coin and Spice
√ 30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year--The North Water
31. A book inspired by a leading news story--Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan--At Swim, Two Boys
33. A book about a non-traditional family--A Little Life
√ 34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name--Enlightened
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover--Labyrinth
36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim--What Belongs to You
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1 (old)--The Count of Monte Cristo
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2 (new)--Hollow Kingdom
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce--The Rabbit Back Literature Society
√ 40. A book with a place name in the title--Wylding Hall
√ 41. A mystery--The Searcher
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ (link)--The God of Small Things
√ 43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse--NOS4A2
√ 44. A book related to witches--The Ten Thousand Doors of January
√ 45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018--Circe
√ 46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"-- Lost Boi
√ 47. A classic book you've always meant to read--Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
√ 48. A book published in 2020--Real Life
49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win (a book that you already know the ending of)--Gone Girl
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover--Neverland
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title--Wildwood Dancing
52. A book related to time--The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Pick Your Poison ChallengeDuration: 5/15/2019 - 5/15/2020
How To Play: You build a chain of 12 books by linking the first letter of an author's last name to the first letter of the first name of the next author.
Total: 9/12
√ 1. Band Sinister by K.J. Charles
√ 2. This Census-Taker by China Miéville
√ 3. Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
√ 4. Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King
√ 5. The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards
√ 6. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
√ 7. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
8. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
9. Sip by Brian Allen Carr
10. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
√ 11. The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
√ 12. The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson
Monochromatic Cover ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2019 - December 31, 2020
We will use 10 base colors for this challenge (red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, brown, black, pink, gray). You will find books with different shades of the base color, depending on your level. In order to count, the shade used must be >40% of the cover. Each shade must be different. Tineye
Level: Amateur - 5 shades per base color (50 books) - 18 months
Total: 35/50
Red:
1. Come Closer | July 17, 2019 | #AC2410, Fire Brick (Red) - 47.4%
2. Something Wicked This Way Comes | October 4, 2019 | #E72D29, Cinnabar (Red) - 55.7%
3. The Chestnut Man | November 24, 2019 | #D71921, Fire Engine Red (Red) - 67.7%
4. The Elementals | January 5, 2020 | #8B1419, Carmine (Red) - 52.6%
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Yellow:
1. Hamilton: The Revolution | August 10, 2019 | #F2DFAE, Wheat (Yellow) - 69.4%
2. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales | September 20, 2019 | #F9F6AD, Shalimar (Yellow) - 74.5%
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Blue:
1. The Drowning Girl | October 15, 2019 | #1A2D37, Tangaroa (Blue) - 90.7%
2. The City & the City | November 14, 2019 | #98B3DB, Echo Blue (Blue) - 75.9%
3. Cat's Cradle | December 3, 2019 | #19BDDB, Iris Blue (Blue) - 75.5%
4. No Exit | December 29, 2019 | #1250A2, Cobalt (Blue) - 42.6%
5. The North Water | January 24, 2020 | #AACAD8, Regent St Blue (Blue) - 83.1%
Green:
1. The Last Days of Jack Sparks | July 11, 2019 | #11AE94, Persian Green (Green) - 40.4%
2. Penguins and Mortal Peril | October 27, 2019 | #36A59C, Java (Green) - 45.9%
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Orange:
1. Slade House | August 8, 2019 | #EDBC32, Bright Sun (Orange) - 65.1%
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Violet:
1. A Clockwork Orange | August 26, 2019 | #9E118C, Dark Magenta (Violet) - 64.3%
2. Strange Grace | December 7, 2019 | #30202D, Melanzane (Violet) - 80.3%
3. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting | May 31, 2020 | #62628D, Governor Bay (Violet) - 64.2%
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Brown:
1. The Scorpio Races | July 9, 2019 | #632818, Caput Mortuum - 53.5%
2. Us | July 30, 2019 | #866E61, Donkey Brown (Brown) - 47.7%
3. The Girls in the Garden | August 7, 2019 | #443B24, Madras (Brown) - 51.5%
4. Dark Harvest | September 21, 2019 | #665C49, Makara - 50.8%
5. The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal November 24, 2019 | #48442E, Woodrush - 77.4%
Black:
1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things | July 6, 2019 | #060606, Black (Black) - 62.6%
2. The Ocean at the End of the Lane | September 8, 2019 | #0A1125, Black Russian (Black) - 51.4%
3. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | October 6, 2019 | #101B1E, Black Pearl (Black) - 48.4 %
4. How to Blow It with a Billionaire | October 20, 2019 | #230F2B, Blackcurrant (Black) - 65.8%
5. Save the Date | November 10, 2019 | #201713, Wood Bark (Black) - 61%
Pink:
1. The Silent Patient | September 29, 2019 | #EDDDCD, Almond (Pink) - 69.2%
2. Senlin Ascends | February 18, 2020 | #F0E4D2, Quarter Spanish White (Pink) - 45.6%
3. Get in Trouble | February 27, 2020 | #E7D49C, Hampton (Pink) - 53.4%
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Gray:
1. This Census-Taker | July 21, 2019 | #648079, Rolling Stone (Grey) - 41.5%
2. Faithful Place | August 29, 2019 | #D5D4D2, Timberwolf (Grey) - 75.1%
3. Unnatural | September 8, 2019 | #D0C3B4, Stark White (Grey) - 70.4%
4. The Bell | December 15, 2019 | #85999D, Submarine (Grey) - 47.9%
5. The Library of the Unwritten | January 31, 2020 | #BCB4AB, Tide (Grey) - 70.7%
Let's Turn Pages 2020Total: 19,305/50,000
Moldy Books ChallengeThe Challenge
Commit to delete x number of books from your TBR. We ask that you commit to at least 100, since this is a no-deadline challenge. Go to random.org and generate a true random number with the conditions Min: 1 and Max: 500. Read a book from your TBR that satisfies the corresponding task. Rinse and repeat until you reach your committed number.
The Catch
The book HAS to have been on your TBR for a year or longer AND the books have to be read in order!
Start date: June 12, 2019
Total: 4/100
√ 1. 136. Title has more than six words--After the People Lights Have Gone Off | added 10/19/2017 | completed 7/16/2019
√ 2. 109. Title starts with R (ignore A, An and The)--The Road | added 4/30/2017 | completed 3/1/2020
√ 3. 94. Title starts with C (ignore A, An and The)--Cycle of the Werewolf | added 2/28/2019 | completed 5/3/2020
√ 4. 386. Book has a rating of >4.0--The Nameless Dark: A Collection | added 1/9/2018 | completed 5/9/2020
5. 292. Book whose protagonist is a celebrity of some kind (real or fictional)
6. 18. Author's last name begins with an R
7. 20. Author's last name begins with a T
8. 194. Book published in the 19th century
9. 72. Author's last name has only 3 letters
10. 67. Author's last name has double letters (like benioFF)
11. 84. Author is Scandinavian
12. 291. Book whose protagonist is a sportsperson (professional or amateur)
13. 396. Book about politics or with a politician character
14. 106. Title starts with O (ignore A, An and The)
15. 150. Title contains a question word
16. 382. Cover contains books
17. 423. Book you own
18. 476. Title is of the form The _____ who _____
19. 137. Title has a cardinal number written as numbers (1, 2, 3 not One, Two, Three)
20. 221. Total pages contains a 1
21. 254. Book that has been translated from another language
22. 121. Title begins with a four letter word
23. 173. Book #1-#20 on your TBR
24. 52. Author's first name begins with a Z
25. 238. Book from a finished series
26. 400. Book set on an island
27. 311. Cover is mostly yellow
28. 244. Book with "SCIENCE FICTION" genre in the main page
29. 357. Cover is mostly pastel color
30. 180. Book >#300 on your TBR
31. 77.Author's first or last name has a metal in it
32. 164. Title contains the word LOVE
33. 45. Author's first name begins with an S
34. 233. Book with >600p
35. 170. Title has a subtitle
36. 441. Book with a person of color protagonist
37. 283. Book whose protagonist is a first responder
38. 455. Plot contains three generations of the same family
39. 228. Total pages contains a 8
40. 449. Book written by an author with a pseudonym
41. 154. Title has an adjective
42. 218. Book added to your TBR in November
43. 339. Cover contains a silhouette
44. 315. Book title is written in red
45. 418. Longest book on your TBR
46. 397. Espionage book
47. 144. Title contains only two or less than two different vowels
48. 264. Book set in Australia
49. 103. Title starts with L (ignore A, An and The)
50. 181. Book published the year you joined Goodreads
51. 488. Cover contains a famous landmark
52. 436. Cover with an item of clothing
53. 282. Book whose protagonist works a blue collar job
54. 398. Blurb promises "Love and Betrayal"
55. 306. Cover is mostly blue
56. 102. Title starts with K (ignore A, An and The)
57. 342. Title and Author are in different colors
58. 60. Author is related to another author (explain how)
59. 179. Book #201-#300 on your TBR
60. 376. Cover has something that makes you happy
61. 73. Author was born in the same country as you (tell us where)
62. 125. Title has a celestial body in it (sun, moon, star, etc.)
63. 294. Book set in summer
64. 474. Fairy tale retelling or spinoff
65. 69. Author has passed away
66. 81. Author is Native American
67. 388. Book was on the NYT Bestsellers List at any time
68. 295. Book set in fall
69. 391. Book that someone you know has liked
70. 113. Title starts with V (ignore A, An and The)
71. 249. Book with "YOUNG ADULT" genre in the main page
72. 365. Cover shows an obvious nighttime scene
73. 53. Author's first and last name start with the same letter
74. 280. Book set in a location beginning with a vowel
75. 297. Title contains a season word
76. 90. Author's name has an unusual spelling of a common name
77. 310. Cover is mostly off-white or ivory
78. 36. Author's first name begins with a J
79. 232. Book with 401p - 600p
80. 208. Book added to your TBR in January
81. 117. Title starts with Z (ignore A, An and The)
82. 59. Author is a celebrity known for something other than writing books
83. 369. Cover contains a fence, gate or door
84. 478. Cover contains a fantastic creature
85. 259. Book set in the Middle East
86. 126. Title has a body of water in it
87. 447. Short story collection
88. 480. Book whose protagonist is rich
89. 370. Cover has a repeating pattern
90. 230. Short book (100p - 200p)
91. 359. Title contains a month
92. 322. Cover contains a large body of water
93. 326. Cover contains fruit or vegetable
94. 434. Book whose protagonist is a dressmaker or works with clothes in some fashion
95. 210. Book added to your TBR in March
96. 401. Book set on the sea/ship
97. 472. Southern literature
98. 351. Cover has a triangle shape
99. 307. Cover is mostly purple
100. 110. Title starts with S (ignore A, An and The)
The Twelve Towers ChallengeDates: 4/16/2019 - 4/16/2024
Slow and Steady: up to 5 years
Total: 11/78
12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
1. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
2. The Broken Kingdoms
3. The Kingdom of Gods
4. The Obelisk Gate
5. The Stone Sky
6. The Fifth Season
7. The Landower Legacy
8. The Museum of Extraordinary Things
9. The Serpent's Shadow
10. The Portrait of a Lady
11. The Best Horror of the Year Volume Three
12. Frost & Fire
11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
1. Snow White, Blood Red
2. Dragonsinger
3. Archangel
4. The Light Ages
5. The Briar King
6. Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
7. Twilight Falling
8. Smoke and Shadows
9. Riddle-Master
10. Beneath the Vaulted Hills
11. Lord Foul's Bane
10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
√ 1. The Last Days of Jack Sparks
√ 2. Truth in the Dark
3. In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper
√ 4. Red Sister
5. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
6. Rose Madder
7. The Well of Ascension
√ 8. Glitterland
9. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
10. The Three Musketeers
9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
1. Dust
2. Shift
3. The Girl Who Played with Fire
4. Hannibal
5. The White Road
6. Casket of Souls
7. Treasure
8. Wolves
9. Best Served Cold
8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.
√ 1. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
2. Semley's Necklace
3. Nine Lives
4. Mazes
5. The First Contact with the Gorgonids
6. The Shobies' Story
7. Betrayals
8. The Matter of Seggri
(all from The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin)
7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. The Lovely Bones
3. The Giver
4. The Time Traveler's Wife
5. Beloved
6. Little Women
7. The Pillars of the Earth
6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)
1. Proper English
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3. The Dragon Republic
√ 4. Exhalation: Stories
√ 5. How to Belong with a Billionaire
√ 6. The Starless Sea
5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
√ 1. The Cruel Prince
2. Two Boys Kissing
√ 3. Strange Grace
4. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
√ 5. All Systems Red
4 books that you started but never finished
1. The Shadow of the Wind
2. The Silmarillion
3. Jane Eyre
4. Kraken
3 books that you've already read before
1. Watership Down
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2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
1. Elantris
2. Shards of Honour
1 book that intimidates you
1. Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
Reading University ChallengeAssociate Degree
Read 1 book from each core subject (7 books)
Start Date: 4/10/2019
Books Complete: 3/7
√ Science: Blindsight (scifi)
√ Literature: Freshwater (world novel)
History: Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (American history)
Social Sciences: I Am a Strange Loop (psychology)
Art: Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (art history)
Language: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Indo-European)
√ Athletics: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Olympics)
2019/2020 READING ROULETTEDuration: Jul 01, 2019 - Jun 30, 2020
High Roller: Read a designated book every two weeks.
Total complete: 0/26
BL/HR: Jul 13, 2019: Read the FIFTH book on your TBR with a celestial body on the cover | Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn
HR: Jul 27, 2019: Read the SEVENTH book on your TBR with a verb ending with -ing in its title | Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
BL/HR: Aug 10, 2019: Read the FIRST book on your TBR whose cover shows an object that sparkles or shines (show us the cover). Ignore the gold and silver award seals. | The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
HR: Aug 24, 2019: Read the TENTH book on your TBR whose cover is at least 50% blue (any shade, show us the cover). | Stolen Magic by M.J. Putney
BL/HR: Sep 7, 2019: Read the THIRD book on your TBR whose author uses a middle initial (just the initial, not a middle name). | Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
HR: Sep 21, 2019: Read the SECOND book on your TBR whose title starts with a K. (Ignore A, An and The). | The Keep by Jennifer Egan
BL/HR: Oct 5, 2019: Read the TWELFTH book on your TBR whose title is printed in ALL CAPS. (post the cover). | The Spirit Lens by Carol Berg
HR: Oct 19, 2019: Read the SEVENTH book on your TBR with a two word title. (all words count) | Twilight Falling by Paul S. Kemp
BL/HR: Nov 2, 2019: Read the FIRST book on your TBR in which a word in the title/subtitle ends with the letter L. (In subtitles, ignore A Novel. Everything else counts). | The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer
HR: Nov 16, 2019: Read the FIRST book on your TBR that shows shoes/footwear on the cover. (the shoes may be worn or by themselves, they just need to be clearly visible. Show the cover). | The White Road by Lynn Flewelling
BL/HR: Nov 30, 2019: Read the FOURTH book on your TBR whose title/subtitle contains a female name. | Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
HR: Dec 14, 2019: Read the FIRST book on your TBR whose author’s first name begins with an I. | The Light Ages by Ian R. MacLeod
BL/HR: Dec 28, 2019: Read the LAST book on your TBR that was first published in 2006. | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
HR: Jan 11, 2020: Read the SIXTH book on your TBR whose title contains a verb. | Looking for Jake by China Miéville
BL/HR: Jan 25, 2020: Read the SECOND book on your TBR that has won an award. (Tell us the award). | Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (Hessell-Tiltman Prize, 2004)
HR: Feb 8, 2020: Read the SEVENTH book on your TBR that has a 7 in the year it was first published. Tell us the year. | The Quarters Novels: Volume I by Tanya Huff (2007)
BL/HR: Feb 22, 2020: Read the NINTH book on your TBR whose author's last name begins with a B. | Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
HR: Mar 7, 2020: Read the FIFTH book on your TBR that you added in January. Tell us the year. | The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson - added in January 2018
BL/HR: Mar 21, 2020: Read the THIRD book on your TBR tagged MYSTERY on the main GR page. | Smoke and Shadows by Tanya Huff
HR: Apr 4, 2020: Read the FOURTEENTH book on your TBR whose title contains a word that begins with a T. (Ignore The and To, everything else is fine.) | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
BL/HR: Apr 18, 2020: Read the FOURTH book on your TBR which was first published in January, Tell us which year. | As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann - first published Jan 2001
HR: May 2, 2020: Read the SECOND book on your TBR whose cover shows a book (or multiple books). Post the cover. | Finders Keepers by Stephen King
BL/HR : May 16, 2020 :
HR : May 30, 2020 :
BL/HR : Jun 13, 2020 :
HR : Jun 27, 2020 :
Serial Reader Challenge: The Dark Tower RereadTotal: 1/8
√ The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three
The Waste Lands
Wizard and Glass
The Wind Through the Keyhole
Wolves of the Calla
Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower
Ongoing Personal Challenge: Read all of Stephen King's novels and short story collections
Total: 48/72
(view spoiler)
Clear the Shelves ChallengeTotal: 9/25
Physical books: 8 Ebooks: 1 Audiobooks: 0
√ 1. Kick at the Darkness
√ 2. The Starless Sea
√ 3. The Tolkien Reader
√ 4. The Road
√ 5. Dark Matter
√ 6. The Outsider
√ 7. NOS4A2
√ 8. Circe
√ 9. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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Listopia Challenge5 books from the Best Horror Novels list.
Total: 0/5
1. Harvest Home
2. Hannibal
3. Black House
4. Song of Kali
5. NOS4A2
Serious Readers Challenge 2020Level 1
Start date: January 1, 2020
Progress: 43/100
1. Kick at the Darkness | 1/3/2020
2. Recursion | 1/3/2020
3. The Elementals | 1/5/2020
4. Song for the Unraveling of the World | 1/7/2020
5. Beguiled | 1/7/2020
6. The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly | 1/9/2020
7. Truth in the Dark | 1/14/2020
8. The Starless Sea | 1/19/2020
9. The Gunslinger | 1/20/2020
10. Lost Boi | 1/21/2020
11. The North Water | 1/24/2020
12. A Closed and Common Orbit | 1/26/2020
13. Wylding Hall | 1/27/2020
14. The Library of the Unwritten | 1/31/2020
15. Days Without End | 2/4/2020
16. Exhalation | 2/8/2020
17. How to Belong with a Billionaire | 2/9/2020
18. Captive | 2/11/2020
19. The Tolkien Reader | 2/14/2020
20. Senlin Ascends | 2/18/2020
21. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | 2/20/2020
22. The Book of M | 2/21/2020
23. Get in Trouble | 2/27/2020
24. The Road | 3/1/2020
25. Enlightened | 3/22/2020
26. Mother Night | 4/9/2020
27. Skin | 4/10/2020
28. Broken Harbor | 4/15/2020
29. Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes | 4/25/2020
30. Shutter Island | 5/3/2020
31. Cycle of the Werewolf | 5/3/2020
32. The Nameless Dark: A Collection | 5/9/2020
33. Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies | 5/11/2020
34. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting | 5/31/2020
35. Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions | 6/1/2020
36. The Lawrence Browne Affair | 6/7/2020
37. Hot Head
38. The Family Upstairs
39. Daisy Jones & The Six
40. Stephen Sondheim: A life
41. Through the Woods
42. Waiting for Godot
43. Love and Other Thought Experiments
Random Travel ChallengeTotal: 0/5
Guyana
Germany
Australia
Morocco
Botswana
January Marathon ChallengeTotal: 3,135/3000 pages - complete!
Lost in Space Reading Challenge4/10
√ Pluto: Read a science fiction book--Recursion
√ Neptune: Read a science fiction book--A Closed and Common Orbit
√ Uranus: Read a science fiction book--Exhalation
√ Saturn: Read a science fiction book--The Book of M
√ Jupiter: Read a science fiction book--The Road
Mars
Earth
Venus
Mercury
the Sun
TCF Science Fiction and Fantasy ChallengeBoard: Fantasy
Level: 20-30 Heroic Warrior
Duration: 1/4/2020 to 12/31/2020
Books read: 1
√ 1. Rolled a 2, landed on Indies/Lesser Known: Senlin Ascends
2. Rolled a 6, landed on Dragons/Elves/Fairies: The Stolen Child
2025 Reading Challenge
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Personal Challenge Thread
Year-Long Challenges
Let's Turn Pages 2020: 19,305/50,000 pages
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2020: 18/50 books
Around the Year 2020: 30/52 books
Clear the Shelves 2020: 7/25 books
Pick Your Poison Challenge: 9/12 books
Monochromatic Cover Challenge: 35/50 books
Serial Reader 2020: 1/8 books
Listopia 2020: 0/5 books
Serious Reader Challenge 2020: 41/100 books
Random Travel Challenge: 0/5 books
Multi-Year Challenges
The Twelve Towers Challenge: 11/78 books (five years)
Reading University Challenge: 3/7 books (no time limit)
Moldy Books Challenge: 4/100 books (no time limit)
Monthly Challenges
January Marathon Challenge: 3000 pages - complete!
Readathons and Games
Winter Seasonal Reading Challenge: December 1, 2019 - February 29, 2020
2019/2020 Reading Roulette
Lost in Space Reading Challenge
TCF Science Fiction and Fantasy Challenge
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