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Read 70 Books
1.The River- Peter Heller
2.Station Eleven - Emily St.John Mandel
3. Adjustments - Will Willingham
4. Bitch Creek: A Novel - William Tapply
5. Nightwoods - Charles Frazier
6. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal
7. Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton
8. Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back - Jackie Speier
9. The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
10. Mischling - Affinity Konar
11. Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm - from Scratch - Lucie B. Amundsen
12. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl _ Timothy Egan
13. Real Life - Brandon Taylor
14.Empire of the Sun -J.G. Ballard
15. Cat Chase the Moon -Shirley Rosseau Murphy
16. The Burned Man - Jason Vail
17. Run Me to Earth - Paul Yoon
18. In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin - LIndsey Hilsum
19. Victim 2117 - Jussi Adler-Olsen
20. Hollow Kingdom
21. The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast - Michael Scott Moore
22. The New Life of Hugo Gardner - Louis Begly
23. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - Erik Larson
24. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - JD Vance
25. Salt Houses - Hala Alyan
26. Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II -Mitchell Zuckoff
27.The Vanished Birds Simon Jinenez - 4 stars
28, Treme: The Cookbook: In The Kitchen with the Stars of the Award-Winning HBO Series - Lolis Eric Elie - 4 stars
29. The Lizard Cage - Karen Connelly - 4 stars
30. Love, Death & Rare Books -Robert Hellenga - 5 stars
31. A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World - C.A. Fletcher - 4 stars
32. The Kurdish Bike - Alesa Lightbourne - 3 stars
33. Sin Eater Megan Campisi - 5 stars
34. Reproduction Ian Williams - 4 stars
35. The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House - Kate Andersen Brower
36.The Garden Of Lost Memories - Ruby Hummingbird
37. Get a Life, Chloe Brown - Talia Hibbert
38. How Much of These Hills Is Gold - C. Pam Zhang
39. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith - Timothy Egan
40. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal
41. The Art of Inheriting Secrets - Barbara O'Neal
42. Sword of Shadows - Jeri Westerson
43. The Shooting at Chateau Rock - Martin Walker
44. Hold Your Breath, China - Qiu Xiaolong
45. The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yōko Ogawa
46. The Raven's Gift -Don Rearden
47. A Pitying of Doves - Steve Burrows
48. A Cast of Falcons - Steve Burrows
49. The Corpse at Windsor Bridge - Jason Vail
50. The Dry - Jane Harper
51. Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
52. Dessa Rose - Sherley Anne Williams
53. The Book of Lost Names - Kristin Harmel
54. Conjure Women - Afia Atakora
55. Apeirogon - Colum McCann
56. From Sand and Ash - Amy Harmon
57. Jubilee - Margaret Walker
58. The River and the Wall - Ben Masters
59. Spiteful Bones - Jeri Westerson
60. A Ritchie Boy: A Novel - Linda Kass
61. The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe: A Memoir - Alice Walker
62. The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow
63. The Heretics of De'Ath - Howard of Warwick
64. Five Little Indians - Michelle Good
65. Hidden Sins - Selena Montgomery
66. Once a Warrior: How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home - Jake Wood
67. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
68. Behold the Dreamers - Behold the Dreamers
69. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
70. Deacon King Kong - James McBride
71. In a Holidaze - Christina Lauren
Read books for 12 PBT Tags
January - Thrillers - The River
Station Eleven
Eaters of the Dead
Nightwoods
Bitch Creek
February- Survival - Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back
Mischling
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Empire of the Sun
March - Journalism - In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Victim 2117
April - Science Fiction - A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World -
May - Comedy - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
June - Suspense - The Dry
July - Southern - Dessa Rose
August - Witches - Conjure Women
September - Psychological - Apeirogon
October - Animals - The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe: A Memoir
November - Books to Screen - The Secret Garden
December - International - Behold the Dreamers
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
2020 Poll Ballot Challenge
Alabama/Civil Rights - Real Life
Arkansas/Education - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Idaho/Nature - The River
Illinois/Comedy - The Monkey Wrench Gang
Hollow Kingdom
Iowa/Politics - Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Salt Houses- Hala Alyan
The Lizard Cage
Kansas/Weather -Bitch Creek
Michigan/ Great Lakes - Station Eleven -
Minnesota/Vikings -Eaters of the Dead
Montana/wildlife - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Nebraska/Farming -Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm - from Scratch
North Carolina/Appalachia -Nightwoods
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Oklahoma/Great Depression -The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Vermont/Libraries - Cat Chase the Moon
Good for for You BnB! I made this same promise to my self last December, and I have had a great year of reading. In 2018 I read 145, but I probably disliked about 30 of them! In 2019 I am on target for 120-my original goal was 125 and I lowered it in November-but I have an average 4 star rating because I am loving what I am reading! Hope the same happens for you!
2020 Decades BINGO
B. 1979 - 1975 - The Monkey Wrench Gang
- 1974 - 1970 - 1972
I. 1985 - 1981 - 1986 - 1984- Empire of the Sun - 1983
N. 1996 - 1998 -space- 1990 - 1993
G. 2004 - 2006 - 2000 - 2003 - 2001
O. 2015 - 2013 - 2014 - 2012 - 2018
Trim 2020 Continuation
1. The White Tiger*
2. Ghana Must Go
3. For Rouenna
(4. .Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo August)
5. Reign of the Marionettes
6.
7. Sea Biscuit: An American Legend*+
8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society*
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10.
11.
12.
13. Lily and the Octopus
14. Hot Milk *
(15. Thirteen Moons *+ July)
(16. Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1) October)
17.
18. A Tale for the Time Being*
19. Baba Yaga Laid an Egg* - June - Witches
20. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail*+
21.
22.
23. The Hired Man
24. The Sadness
*Denotes buddy read
+Denotes Poll Ballot Planning
Poll Ballot Planning
Alabama - civil rights – Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall…, The Invisible Man
Alaska - Inuit – The Raven’s Gift
Arizona - Grand Canyon
Arkansas - education -Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
California - Hollywood- Beautiful Ruins
Colorado - Rocky Mountains -, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail- 20, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Connecticut - Constitution - . James Madison and the Making of America
Delaware - business
Florida - Disney
Georgia - antebellum- The House Girl
Hawaii - volcanoes -The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
Idaho - nature-
Illinois - comedy- Bossypants, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Indiana - auto racing
Iowa - politics -Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 22, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Kansas - weather-
Kentucky - horses -Seabiscuit: An American Legend-7
Louisiana - southern gothic-Bastard Out of Carolina , Tobacco Road, The Heavenly Table, A Land More Kind Than Home , The Moviegoer
Maine - Stephen King- - Under the Dome, Doctor Sleep
Maryland - Navy - Master and Commander, Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
Massachusetts - witches - The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane , The third Witch
Michigan - Great Lakes -
Minnesota - vikings - The Long Ships,
Mississippi - blues
Missouri - pioneers- The Children's Blizzard, Into the Wilderness (Wilderness, #1), Thirteen Moons- 15, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Montana - wildlife - Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide,
Nebraska - farming- Flight Behavior, The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District , Chickens in the Road: An Adventure in Ordinary Splendor, The Accidental Farmers: An urban couple, a rural calling and a dream of farming in harmony with Nature , Prodigal Summer
Nevada - gambling- Divisadero,
New Hampshire - hiking- Girl in the Woods: A Memoir , Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, Life on Foot: A Walk Across America,
New Jersey - mafia
New Mexico - extraterrestrials -
New York - Broadway – The Secret Garden
North Carolina - Appalachia -Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, Flight Behavior , Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap, #1), A Land More Kind Than Home ), Country Dark (Hardcover),
North Dakota - paleontology - The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses (ebook),
Ohio - industry- North and South, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, Two Caravans,
Oklahoma - Great Depression -
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,
Rules of Civility ,
Learning to See,
Brideshead Revisited),
The Shining Girls),
Oregon - ecology - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek), Flight Behavior , The Windup Girl, Song for the Blue Ocean , The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
Pennsylvania - Amish
Rhode Island - sailing -Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1), Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1), We, the Drowned
South Carolina - pirates- Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1), The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
South Dakota - frontier - Into the Wilderness (Wilderness, #1), Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History, The Son, The Sisters Brothers , A Sudden Country
Tennessee - country music
Texas - space
Utah - Mormon- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith,
Vermont - libraries- The Historian
Virginia - FBI- A Murder in Time (Kendra Donovan, #1)
Washington - coffee - The Plot Against America
Washington DC – Presidents - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House , Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, His Excellency: George Washington , The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt), The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace , James Madison and the Making of America , The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, Madison and Jefferson ,
West Virginia - mining
Wisconsin - cheese- The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover),
Wyoming - western - The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover), The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire, #1), The Son (Hardcover),
Joanne wrote: "Good for for You BnB! I made this same promise to my self last December, and I have had a great year of reading. In 2018 I read 145, but I probably disliked about 30 of them! In 2019 I am on target..."Thanks, Joanne. I always aim to read 4 star books, but this year I had a few which were below that. I don't mind a 3 star which was enjoyable and fun but lacks literary merit.
January Plans
So here is my January plan in no particular order:
Thrillers Tag
The Heavenly Table- Louisiana
The Raven's Gift - Alaska
Doctor Sleep - Maine
Buddy Read
Various and Sundry Other Books
Bonus Points for finishing books planned in a previous month
Diversions- One Thing Leads to Another
Leftovers
from 2019
Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burnstein
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
All This I Will Give to You
The Girl from Oto
Two Kinds of Truth
January
The Heavenly Table- Louisiana
Doctor Sleep - Maine
February
A House in the Sky
The Last One
Blindness
March
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier- Iowa/Politics, South Carolina/Pirates
Learning to See Oklahoma/ Great Depression
The Face of War
The Good Soldiers- David Finkel
February's Plans
Survival Tag
A House in the Sky
The Last One -Alexandra Oliva
Blindness
Bingo
1984 -
TBR Continued
Other
March's Plans
Journalism Tag Possibilities
The Good Soldiers- David Finkel
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier - Iowa/Politics, South Carolina/Pirates
Learning to See Oklahoma/ Great Depression
The Face of War
Bingo
TBR Continued
Other
April's Plan
Science Fiction Tag
The Windup Girl -Oregon/ecology(10 times)
The History of Bees - Iowa/politics (2 times)
This Is How You Lose the Time War -Texas/space(10 times)
Altar of Eden -Montana/wildlife(1 time pg 14)
The Last One
Blindness - Iowa/politics (13 times)
Ninth House
TBR Continued
May's Plan
Comedy
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared- On my Trim continued so will not read it this month.
Bossypants
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
My Man Jeeves
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The Eyre Affair
Emma
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
July's Plan
Southern
The Heavenly Table-Donald Ray Pollock
July bonus tag
Native Son
Invisible Man
The Children- David Halberstam
Deacon King Kong
How to Be an Antiracist
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Trim the TBR
Thirteen Moons- Charles Frazier(also southern and appalacia)
Bingo -I -1986
Dessa Rose(also southern, antebellum & by Black author)
Handling Sin
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Here are my top 10 for 2020:Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Chicken Chronicles - Alice Walker
Apeirogon - Colum McCann
Sin Eater - Megan Campisi
Love, Death and Rarebooks - Robert Hellenga
The Splendid and The Vile - Erik Larson
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal
Five Little Indians - Michelle Good
John wrote: "Booknblues, if you like Robert Hellenga, you might like The Sixteen Pleasures."I've read all of Hellenga's books. He has been one of my favorite author's and I was saddened by his passing this year.
But thank you for that, John. It is an exceptional book.
Play Book Tag
Books mentioned in this topic
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (other topics)Conjure Women (other topics)
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (other topics)
Dessa Rose (other topics)
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Christina Lauren (other topics)James McBride (other topics)
Alix E. Harrow (other topics)
Ben Masters (other topics)
Linda Kass (other topics)
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That being said here are my goals and challenges:
1. Read 70 books
2. Read books for 12 PBT tags (redundant, I know)
3. Participate in 2020 Poll Ballot Challenge
4. Participate in 2020 Decades BINGO
5. Trim 2020 Continuation.
6. Bonus Points for finishing books planned in a previous month
7. Diversions - one thing leads to another.