The Reading Challenge Group discussion

2020 Challenges:

Decades Challenge (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ Clue The Character/Career Challenge (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ Mt. TBR (RCG)
Blast off with Sci-Fi (RCG)
The Game is Afoot (RCG)
✔ ✔ Bookopoly 2020 (RCG)
Fantasy Faire ARCS (RCG)
Alphabet Soup (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ Anti-Alphabet Soup (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ Down with History (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ New to You (RCG)
Doorstoppers (RCG)
Chunksters (RCG)
Featherweight (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ Travel the World (RCG)
Genre Challenges (RCG)
✔ ✔ Winter Bingo (RCG) one blank
✔ ✔ ✔ MiniChallenges (RCG)
Book Trackers (2020)
50 states challenge (RFP)
✔ ✔ ✔ Spring Bingo (RCG)
Mt. TBR part II (RCG)
New to You part II (RCG)
✔ ✔ ✔ April Easter Egg Challenge (CBG)
✔ ✔ ✔ April Monthly Challenge (CBG)
Tea Time Challenge (CBG)
Down with History (RCG), part 2
Clue The Character/Career Challenge (RCG), part 2
✔ ✔ ✔ May Monthly Challenge (CBG)
✔ ✔ ✔ May Create Your Garden Challenge (CBG)

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Decades Challenge:
✔ 1820-1829: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, ✔ The Raven
✔ 1830-1839: The Fall of the House of Usher, ✔ Ligeia
✔ 1840-1849: The Pit and the Pendulum, ✔ The Tell-Tale Heart, ✔ The Masque of the Red Death, ✔ The Cask of Amontillado, ✔ The Black Cat, ✔ The Premature Burial, ✔ The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
✔ 1850-1859: Bleak House
✔ 1860-1869:Les Misérables
✔ 1870-1879: The Return of the Native ✔ 1880-1889: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Study in Scarlet
✔ 1890-1899: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, ✔ The Importance of Being Earnest, ✔ The Reluctant Dragon
✔ 1900-1909: The Call of the Wild
✔ 1910-1919: Something Fresh
✔ 1920-1929: An American Tragedy
✔ 1930-1939: Of Mice and Men, ✔ The Grapes of Wrath
✔ 1940-1949: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, ✔ Cannery Row
✔ 1950-1959: Night, ✔ Sweet Thursday
✔ 1960-1969: The Master and Margarita, ✔ Where the Red Fern Grows
✔ 1970: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
✔ 1971: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, The Tombs of Atuan
✔ 1972: The Farthest Shore
✔ 1973: Sula
✔ 1974: The Killer Angels
✔ 1975: Danny the Champion of the World
✔ 1976: Dragonsong
✔ 1977: Bridge to Terabithia
✔ 1978: The Stand
✔ 1979: Bunnicula, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
✔ 1980: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
✔ 1981: Ramona Quimby, Age 8
✔ 1982: Howliday Inn, The BFG
✔ 1983: The Celery Stalks at Midnight, ✔ The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
✔ 1984: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
✔ 1985: Lonesome Dove
✔ 1986: Hatchet
✔ 1987: Dirk Gently's Holistic Det Agcy, ✔ Swan Song
✔ 1988: The Alchemist
✔ 1989: A Time to Kill, The Remains of the Day
✔ 1990: Dealing with Dragons
✔ 1991: Searching for Dragons
✔ 1992: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, ✔ The Secret History
✔ 1993: The Last Wish
✔ 1994: One for the Money
✔ 1995: The Golden Compass
✔ 1996: Brian's Winter
✔ 1997: Killing Floor, ✔ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
✔ 1998: Holes
✔ 1999: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
✔ 2000: The Ice Limit
✔ 2001: Purgatory Ridge, ✔ The Hob's Bargain
✔ 2002: Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, Lucky Man
✔ 2003: The Wee Free Men
✔ 2004: Brimstone
✔ 2005: No Country for Old Men
✔ 2006: Triptych, The Final Empire
✔ 2007: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
✔ 2008: The Forgotten Garden
✔ 2009: The Child Thief, ✔ Heart's Blood
✔ 2010: I Shall Wear Midnight
✔ 2011: The Monster in the Hollows, ✔ A Discovery of Witches
✔ 2012: A Man Called Ove
✔ 2013: Lighter Than My Shadow
✔ 2014: But For The Grace, Skin Game
✔ 2015: Everything, Everything
✔ 2016: The Sun Is Also a Star
✔ 2017: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
✔ 2018: The Benefits of Being an Octopus
✔ 2019: Right as Rain
✔ 2020: The Forgotten Home Child

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Clue The Character/Career Challenge: ✔ ✔ ✔
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Read a book where the main character has the following careers

✔ Miss Scarlet (law): A Time to Kill
✔ Colonel Mustard (military): Colombiano
✔ Reverend Green (religion): Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Quest
✔ Professor Plum (educator): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
✔ Mrs. Peacock (business): Razor: Becoming a Hero
✔ Sergeant Gray (law enforcement): Boundary Waters
✔ Mr. Brown (con artist/spy): Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
✔ Mr. Black/Boddy (dead or dies): One of Us Is Lying (hide spoiler)]

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Mt TBR: ✔ ✔ ✔
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Read 50 books that you had in your database before 2020

Level 1 Base Camp

✔ 1. Of Mice and Men d/l 5/1/19, read 1/1/2020
✔ 2. The Master and Margarita bought 7/20/19, read 11/10/19-1/29/20
✔ 3. Find Another Dream bought 11/9/19, read 1/2/2020
✔ 4. Thick: And Other Essays bought 9/14/19, read 1/2-3/2020
✔ 5. The Giver of Stars d/l 11/18/19 read 1/3/2020-1/4/2020

Level 2 Start The Climb
✔ 6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower d/l 12/1/17, read 1/27-1/28
✔ 7. Colombiano d/l 11/14/19, read 1/1/2020-1/5/2020
✔ 8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn d/l 5/16/19, read 1/10/2020
✔ 9. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls d/l 6/28/19, read 1/11-1/12
✔ 10. Right as Rain borrowed 11/9/19, read 1/13-14
✔ 11. Leah on the Offbeat d/l 11/29/18, read 1/14-1/15
✔ 12. The Six and the Crystals of Ialana d/l 12/26/19, read 1/18
✔ 13. Boundary Waters d/l 10/1/18, read 1/19-20
✔14. The Forgotten Home Child d/l 11/27/19, read 1/19-20
✔ 15. A Man Called Ove d/l 7/13/16, read 1/21-22

Level 3 Going Higher
✔ 16. The Ice Limit d/l 1/18/19, read 1/24-25
✔ 17. The Golden Compass d/l 4/27/17, read 1/25-26
✔ 18. Bunnicula d/l 5/15/18, read 1/27
✔ 19. Howliday Inn d/l 5/15/18, read 1/27
✔ 20. Ninth House added 8/9/19, read 1/28-29
✔ 21. Night d/l 12/7/19, read 1/29
✔ 22. Cannery Row d/l 4/25/19, read 1/30
✔ 23. Storm Cursed d/l 5/21/19, read 1/31-2/1
✔ 24. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe d/l 12/22/17, read 2/2-2/3
✔ 25. I Am Malala d/l 2/11/19, read 2/3-2/4
✔ 26. Eleanor & Park d/l 8/16/17, read 2/4
✔ 27. The Institute d/l 11/19/19, read 2/5-2/6
✔ 28. Tentacles and Teeth d/l 12/28/19, read 2/3-2/4
✔ 29. The Institute d/l 11/19/19, read 2/5-2/6
✔ 30. City of Dod d/l 12/30/19, read 2/7-2/8

Level 4 Reach The Summit
✔ 31. The Ra Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women d/l 3/12/19, read 2/8-2/9
✔ 32. How Long 'til Black Future Month? d/l 12/23/18, read 2/7- 2/13
✔ 33. The Last Wish d/l 11/18/18, read 2/12-2/13
✔ 34. Everything, Everything d/l 3/14/19, read 2/15
✔ 35. The Sun Is Also a Star d/l 4/17/19, read 2/19
✔ 36. No Country for Old Men d/l 11/9/18, read 2/20
✔ 37. The Upside of Unrequited d/l 12/2/18, read 2/22
✔ 38. Maybe in Another Life d/l 12/29/19, read 2/26
✔ 39. The Grapes of Wrath d/l 6/2/19, read 3/2
✔ 40. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency d/l 10/21/15, read 3/3
✔ 41. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes d/l 9/8/17, read 3/4
✔ 42. One for the Money d/l 2/22/19, read 3/4
✔ 43. Nighty-Nightmare d/l 5/14/18, read 3/7
✔ 44. Return to Howliday Inn d/l 5/14/18, read 3/7
✔ 45. Brimstone d/l 1/16/19, read 3/10
✔ 46. Triptych d/l 12/2/18, read 3/15
✔ 47. Fractured d/l 12/14/18, read 3/16
✔ 48. Then She Was Gone d/l 1/9/19, read 3/17
✔ 49. Dance of Death d/l 1/27/19, read 3/20
✔ 50. The Book of the Dead d/l 2/1/19, read 3/21
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Plant your flag, you made it to the top!

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Blast off with Sci-Fi:

Read 20 books classified as science fiction on the main page of goodreads

✔ 1. A Trick of Light
✔ 2. The Golden Compass
✔ 3. The Ice Limit
✔ 4. Forward Series: Emergency Skin, Summer Frost, Ark, You Have Arrived at Your Destination, The Last Conversation, Randomize
✔ 5. The Institute
✔ 6. How Long 'til Black Future Month?
✔ 7. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
✔ 8. The Stand
✔ 9. Swan Song
✔ 10. Aurora Rising
✔ 11. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
✔ 12. Life, the Universe and Everything
✔ 13. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
✔ 14. Shorefall

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The Game is Afoot:

Read 50 books classified as mystery on the main page of goodreads

✔1. One of Us Is Lying
✔2. Razor: Becoming a Hero
✔3. The Ice Limit
✔4. The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter
✔5. Catch Me if You Can
✔6. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
✔7. The Other People
✔8. Boundary Waters
✔9. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
✔10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
✔11. One for the Money
✔12. Songbird: A Kings Lake Investigation
✔13. The Forgotten Garden
✔14. Nighty-Nightmare
✔15. Return to Howliday Inn
✔16. An Accidental Death
✔17. Brimstone
✔18. The Whisper Man
✔19. We Were Liars
✔20. But For The Grace
✔21. Triptych
✔22. Fractured
✔23. Then She Was Gone
✔24. Tell Me Lies
✔25. Dance of Death
✔26. The Book of the Dead
✔27. In the Dark
✔28. Purgatory Ridge
✔29. Killing Floor
✔30. Big Lies in a Small Town
✔31. A Time to Kill
✔32. The Secret History
✔33. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
✔34. The Silent Patient
✔35. The Night Tiger
✔36. Undead Girl Gang
✔37. Third Grave Dead Ahead
✔38. Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
✔39. Fifth Grave Past the Light
✔40. Sixth Grave on the Edge
✔41. Seventh Grave and No Body
✔42. Eighth Grave After Dark
✔43. The Dirt on Ninth Grave
✔44. Brighter Than the Sun
✔45. Beach Road

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Bookopoly 2020:

Round 1
Roll 1: 8
Task: Purpose, War, or Survival
1
✔ read 1/1-1/5

Roll 2: 7
Task: Travel Along (Different Time)
2
✔ read 1/1-1/8

Roll 3: 8
Task: Highest Average Rating
3
✔ read 1/12

Roll 4: 7
Task: Book Ban!
4
✔ read 11/10/19-1/29/20

Roll 5: 10
Task: Book Sale!
5
✔ read 11/30

Roll 6: 9
Task: Times of Life
6
✔ read 2/1

Roll 7: 7
Task: Chance
7
✔ read 2/5-2/6

Roll 8: 7 pass Go

Round 2
Roll 1: 7 (from previous)
Task: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
8
✔ read 2/7-2/13

Roll 2: 4
Task: Chance
9
✔ read 2/15-2/16

Roll 3: 7
Task: Part of a series
10
✔ read 2/16

Roll 4: 6
Task: Book Sale: Favorite author or old favorite
11
✔ read 2/22

Roll 5: 6
Task: Nature (gone wild)
12
✔ read 2/16-2/24

Roll 6: 9
Task: Travel Away
13
✔ read 3/2-3/3

Roll 7: 2
Task: Contemporary Fiction
14
✔ read 3/3-3/5

Roll 8: 10 Pass Go!

Round 3
Roll 1: 10 (from previous)
Task: Chance
15
✔ read 3/7

Roll 2: 7
Task: Part of a series
16
✔ read 3/7

Roll 3: 9
Task: Highest average rating
17
✔ read 3/11

Roll 4: 12
Task: Travel away
18
✔ read 3/13-3/16

Roll 5: 8 Pass Go!

Round 3
Roll 1: 8 (from previous)
Task: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
19
✔ read 3/20

Roll 2: 10
Task: Recommended
20
✔ read 3/22-3/28

Roll 3: 5
Task: Mystery
21
✔ read 3/27-3/28

Roll 4: 4
Task: Chance
22
✔ read 4/8-4/9

Roll 5: 6
Task: Library Fine
23
✔ read 4/14

Roll 6: 4
Task: Longest Shelved
24
✔ read 4/12-14

Roll 7: 8 Landed on Go!

Round 4
Roll 1: 8 (from previous)
Task: Book #8
25
✔ read 4/20

Roll 2: 11
Task: Published this year
26
✔ read 4/23

Roll 3: 7
Task: Mystery
27
✔ read 5/1-2

Roll 4: 5
Task: Highest # of ratings
28, 6,633,203 ratings
✔ read 5/8

Roll 5: 10
Task: Most recently added
29
✔ read 5/13

Roll 6: 11 (pass Go, on to Round 5)

Round 5
Roll 1: 11 (from previous)
Task:Partner Pick
30
✔ read 5/13-14

Roll 2: 9
Task: Published this year
31
✔ read 5/14-30

Roll 3: 5
Task: YA/Middle Grade
32
✔ read 5/30-31

Roll 4: 10
Task: Nature
33
✔ read 6/2-6/3

Roll 5: 5
Task: Most Recently Added
34
✔ read 6/6

Roll 6: 10 (pass go)

Round 6
Roll 1: 10 (from previous)
Task: Classics
35
✔ read 6/4-6/10

Roll 2: 7
Task: War
36
✔ read 6/3-6/11

Roll 3: 5
Task: Recommended
37
✔ read 6/12

Roll 4: 9
Task: Chance
38
✔ read 6/18

Roll 5: 2
Task: Shortest book
39, 146 pp
✔ read 6/20

Roll 6: 5
Task: Times of Life
40
✔ read 6/24

Roll 7: 5
Task: Longest Book
41, 960 pages
✔ read 7/1-7/4

Roll 8: 8

Round 7
Roll 1: 8 (from previous)
Task: Partner Pick
42
✔ read 7/12-7/14

Roll 2: 6
Task: War
43
✔ read 8/3-8/8

Roll 3: 11
Task: Historical Fiction
44
✔ read 8/15-8/16

Roll 4: 7
Task: Nature
45
✔ read 8/15-8/16

Roll 5: 10
Task: Chance
46
✔ read 8/30-8/31

Roll 6: 6 (pass go)

Round 8
Roll 1: 6 (from previous)
Task: Partner Pick
47
✔ read 9/1-9/2

Roll 2: 7
Task: Tradition & Change
48
✔ read 9/10

Roll 3: 5
Task: Part of a Series
49
✔ read 9/11

Roll 4: 7
Task: Highest number of ratings
50 over 350,000 ratings
✔ read 9/10-9/12

Roll 5: 5
Task: Nature
51
✔ read 9/20-9/21

Roll 6: 5
Task: Most recently added
52
✔ read 9/21-9/22

Roll 7: 7
Task: New to you Author
53
✔ read 9/26-28

Roll 8: 9 (pass go)

Round 9
Roll 1: 9 (from previous)
Task: Chance
54
✔ read 9/30

Roll 2: 9
Task: Middle Grade/YA/Teen
55
✔ read 10/12-14

Roll 3: 7
Task: Highest average rating
56, 4.32
✔ read 10/16-17

Roll 4: 5
Task: Library Fine
57
✔ read 10/24-30

Roll 5: 3
Task: Most Recently Added
58
✔ read 10/31

Roll 6: 6
Task: Contemporary
59
✔ read 10/27-11/4

Roll 7: 8 (pass go)

Round 10
Roll 1: 8 (from previous)
Task: Travel Afar
60
✔ read 11/3-5

Roll 2: 7
Task: Electric Company: new setting - India during the 50s/60s
61
✔ read 11/8-9

Roll 3: 6
Task: Mystery
62
✔ read 11/20-21

Roll 4: 10
Task: Library Fine
63
✔ read 12/1

Roll 5: 6
Task: Contemporary
64
✔ read 12/2

Roll 6: 10 (pass go)

Round 11

Roll 1: 10 (from previous)
Task: Chance
65
✔ read 12/6-12/7

Roll 2: 10
Task: Partner Pick
66
✔ read 12/7-12/8

Roll 3: 8
Task: Book Ban
67
✔ read 9/26-12/11

Roll 4: 8
Task: Mystery
68
✔ read 12/11-12/12

Roll 5: 3
Task: Highest Number of Ratings (415,680)
69
✔ read 12/12-12/13

Roll 6: 4
Task: Travel Abroad
70
✔ read 12/14-12/15

Roll 7: 6
Task: Most recently added
71
✔ read 12/15

Roll 8: 2
Task: Partner Pick
72
✔ read 12/19-20

Roll 9: 5
Task: Waterworks - new to me
73
✔ read 12/20

Roll 10: 9 (pass go)

Round 12

Roll 1: 9 (from previous)
Task: Chance
74
✔ read 11/27-12/21

Roll 2: 7
Task: Part of a series
75
✔ read 12/21

Roll 3: 6
Task: Book Sale - favorite book or author
76
✔ read 12/21-22

Roll 4: 6
Task: Nature
77
✔ read 12/22-12/23

Roll 5: 5
Task: Recently shelved
78
✔ read 12/23-12/24

Roll 6: 6
Task: Contemporary
79
✔ read 12/24

Roll 7: 9 (pass go)

Round 13

Roll 1: 9 (from previous)
Task: Relationships
80
✔ read 12/24-12/30

Roll 2: 3
Task: Tradition or change
Lore 81

Black Buck

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Fantasy Faire:

Read 15 ARCS classified as fantasy books
NG: NetGalley
BS: Booksirens

Level 1 - Linger with Elves (2 Books)
✔ 1. The Six and the Crystals of Ialana: Book One of the Ialana Series (BS)
✔ 2. Tentacles and Teeth (BS)

Level 2 - Fly with Dragons (4 Books)
✔ 3. City of Dod (BS)
✔ 4. Smailholm (NG)

Level 3 - Eat the Food in Faerie (7 Books)
✔ 5. Nils: The Tree of Life (NG)
✔ 6. The Key Quest (BS)
✔ 7. Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe (NG)

Level 4 - Go on a Quest to Save the World (10 Books)
✔ 8. Paola Santiago and the River of Tears (NG)
✔ 9. Moonscript (BS)
✔ 10. Annalynn the Canadian Spy: Terrible Tissues (BS)

Level 5 - Explore Another World (15 Books)
✔ 11. The Elephant's Girl (NG)
✔ 12. The Court of Miracles (NG)
✔ 13. Master of Madhouse: Sadists, Mansions and Mayhem 1894 (BS)
✔ 14. Cemetery Boys (NG)
✔ 15. Crossings (NG)
✔ 16. NIGHTSHIFTER (BS)
✔ 17. Jerry the Squirrel: Volume One (BS)
✔ 18. 4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace (BS)
✔ 19. The Mouse Watch (NG)
✔ 20. The Stalk: A Science Fiction Retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk (BS)
✔ 21. Chace Ogden and the Golden Golem (BS)
✔ 22. Dragon Pearl (NG)
✔ 23. The Bone Shard Daughter (NG)
✔ 24. Kenny & the Book of Beasts (NG)
✔ 25. The Silvered Serpents (NG)
26. Spellcrest Academy: Year One (NG)
27. Broken Wish (NG)
28. NIGHTSHATTER: A Werewolf Thriller (BS)
29. NIGHTSHAKER: A Werewolf Thriller (BS)

April Challenge (non-ARCs)
✔ 1. Sent
✔ 2. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
✔ 3. Penric's Demon
✔ 4. Penric and the Shaman
✔ 5. A Court of Thorns and Roses
✔ 6. The Cloud Roads
✔ 7. The Cruel Prince
✔ 8. Artemis Fowl
✔ 9. Swan Song
✔ 10. Fairest Son
✔ 11. The Defense Quest
✔ 12. The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
✔ 13. Clockwork Angels
✔ 14. Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
✔ 15. A Curse So Dark and Lonely
✔ 16. Aurora Rising
✔ 17. A Wizard of Earthsea
✔ 18. Penric's Fox
✔ 19. Penric’s Mission
✔ 20. Mira's Last Dance
✔ 21. The Tombs of Atuan
✔ 22. The Farthest Shore
✔ 23. Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit and Friends
✔ 24. The Hob's Bargain
✔ 25. A Discovery of Witches
✔ 26. A Heart So Fierce and Broken
✔ 27. Shadow of Night
✔ 28. The Book of Life
✔ 29. Heart's Blood

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Alphabet Soup:

Read 26 books whose titles begin with the corresponding letter of the alphabet. For "x" you can read a book whose title begins with the letter "x", where "x" is featured prominently in the title, or where a number is used in the title.

✔ A: An American Tragedy
✔ B: The Bootlace Magician
✔ C: Colombiano
✔ D: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
✔ E: Eleanor & Park
✔ F: The Forgotten Home Child
✔ G: The Giver of Stars
✔ H: Home Fire
✔ I: The Ice Limit
✔ J: Jerry the Squirrel
✔ K: Killing Floor
✔ L: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
✔ M: The Master and Margarita
✔ N: Ninth House
✔ O: Of Mice and Men
✔ P: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Q: The Quest
✔ R: Right as Rain
✔ S: The Six and the Crystals of Ialana
✔ T: A Trick of Light
✔ U: The Upside of Unrequited
V: V for Vendetta
✔ W: Where the Red Fern Grows
✔ X: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
✔ Y: Yes No Maybe So
✔ Z: Zinnia and the Bees

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Anti-Alphabet Soup: ✔ ✔ ✔
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Mission: 26 books, each missing one letter of the alphabet

✔ No A: Everything, Everything
✔ No B: Find Another Dream
✔ No C: Lighter Than My Shadow
✔ No D: Bunnicula
✔ No E: Night
✔ No F: Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
✔ No G: Thick: And Other Essays
✔ No H: One of Us Is Lying
✔ No I: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
✔ No J: The Golden Compass
✔ No K: The Benefits of Being an Octopus
✔ No L: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
✔ No M: The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
✔ No N: Sweet Thursday
✔ No O: Sula
✔ No P: Nils: The Tree of Life
✔ No Q: Boundary Waters
✔ No R: A Man Called Ove
✔ No S: Leah on the Offbeat
✔ No T: Smailholm
✔ No U: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
✔ No V: Ask Again, Yes
✔ No W: Razor: Becoming a Hero
✔ No X: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
✔ No Y: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
✔ No Z: Tentacles and Teeth (hide spoiler)]

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Down with History: ✔✔✔

Read 15 books that are classified as historical fiction that cover as many different countries or time periods as possible
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Level 1 - Ancient Ancestors (2 Books)
✔ 1. Of Mice and Men: California, 1930s
✔ 2. Colombiano: Colombia, mid-1950s?

Level 2 - Medieval Mayhem (4 Books)
✔ 3. The Giver of Stars: Kentucky, 1930s
✔ 4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Brooklyn, 1912

Level 3 - Days of Empire (7 Books)
✔ 5. The Forgotten Home Child: Canada/England, 19th and 20th century, most of this story took place in the 1930s-50s.
✔ 6. The Forgotten Garden: Australia and England, 20th century
✔ 7. Sula: Ohio, 1920s - 1965

Level 4 - Wars of Old (10 Books)
✔ 8. Night: Internment camps, holocaust, WWII
✔ 9. Cannery Row: Monterey, CA, Great Depression
✔ 10. Sweet Thursday: Monterey, CA, post WWII

Level 5 - The Past is the Past (15 Books)
✔ 11. Pachinko: 1920s-present, Korea/Japan
✔ 12. Go Tell It on the Mountain: NY, 1930s
✔ 13. The Grapes of Wrath: CA, 1930s
✔ 14. What the Wind Knows: Ireland, 1900s-2000
✔ 15. Big Lies in a Small Town: NC, 1940, 2018
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New to You: ✔ ✔ ✔

Read 50 books by authors who are new to you
(view spoiler)[
Level One: Test the Waters (1 New Author)
✔ 1. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser

Level Two: Wade in the Shallow End (3 New Authors)
✔ 2. Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, Henri J.M. Nouwen
✔ 3. Thick: And Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom

Level Three: Take a Swim (6 New Authors)
✔ 4. The Great Upending, Beth Kephart
✔ 5. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, Margaret Renkl
✔ 6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

Level Four: Dive Right In (10 New Authors)
✔ 7. Sula, Toni Morrison
✔ 8. Colombiano, Rusty Young
✔ 9. Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
✔ 10. One of Us Is Lying, Karen M. McManus

Level Five: Going Deeper (15 New Authors)
✔ 11. Smailholm, C.L. Williams
✔ 12. The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
✔ 13. The Benefits of Being an Octopus, Ann Braden
✔ 14. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
✔15. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, Anissa Gray

Level Six: Going Deeper (20 New Authors)
✔ 16. Nils: The Tree of Life, Jérôme Hamon
✔17. Right as Rain, Lindsey Stoddard
✔ 18. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
✔ 19. Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
✔ 20. The Six and the Crystals of Ialana: Book One of the Ialana Series, Katlynn Brooke

✔ 21. The Forgotten Home Child, Genevieve Graham
✔ 22. Dear Girls: Int Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life, Ali Wong
✔ 23. Ask Again, Yes, Mary Beth Keane
✔ 24. Lighter Than My Shadow, Katie Green
✔ 25. Night, Elie Wiesel
✔ 26. I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai
✔ 27. Catch Me if You Can, Frank W. Abagnale
✔ 28. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
✔ 29. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, Kate Moore
✔ 30. The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, Aaron Reynolds
✔ 31. How Long 'til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin
✔ 32. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton
✔ 33. A Good Neighborhood, Therese Anne Fowler
✔ 34. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski
✔ 35. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
✔ 36. Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon
✔ 37. City Spies, James Ponti
✔ 38. Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
✔ 39. The Other People, C.J. Tudor
✔ 40. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
✔ 41. The Child Thief, Brom
✔ 42. It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover
✔ 43. The First Girl Child, Amy Harmon
✔ 44. Songbird: A Kings Lake Investigation, Peter Grainger
✔ 45. The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
✔ 46. The Whisper Man, Alex North
✔ 47. We Were Liars, E. Lockhart
✔ 48. Triptych, Karin Slaughter
✔ 49. Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, Jennifer De Leon
✔ 50. Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell (hide spoiler)]

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Doorstoppers:

Read books that are longer than 600 pages

Level 1 - A Mighty Tome
✔ 1. An American Tragedy, 896 pp

Level 2 - Stack 'em High
✔ 2. Colombiano, 924 pp
✔ 3. The Forgotten Garden, 645 pp

Level 3 - Weight Matters
✔ 4. Brimstone, 752 pp
✔ 5. The Book of the Dead, 640 pp
✔ 6. The Stand, 1440 pp

Level 4 - A Hefty Pile
✔ 7. Bleak House, 1017 pp
✔ 8. Swan Song, 956 pp
✔ 9. A Discovery of Witches, 610 pp
✔ 10. Shadow of Night, 630 pp
✔ 11. The Book of Life, 637 pp
✔ 12. The Wall of Winnipeg and Me, 673 pp

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Chunksters:

Read books that are between 400-599 pages

Level One - Chunkster
✔ 1. The Giver of Stars, 400 pp
✔ 2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 528 pp
✔ 3. The Bootlace Magician, 416 pp

Level Two - Flower Presser
✔ 4. Boundary Waters, 420 pp
✔ 5. Ask Again, Yes, 400 pp
✔ 6. The Ice Limit, 497 pp

Level 3 - Back Breaker
✔ 7. Lighter Than My Shadow, 516 pp
✔ 8. The Institute, 576 pp
✔ 9. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, 596 pp
✔ 10. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, 512 pp
✔ 11. How Long 'til Black Future Month?, 433 pp
✔ 12. Pachinko, 502 pp
✔ 13. Red, White & Royal Blue, 425 pp
✔ 14. Yes No Maybe So, 448 pp
✔ 15. The Child Thief, 481 pp
✔ 16. The Grapes of Wrath, 479 pp
✔ 17. Songbird: A Kings Lake Investigation, 488 pp
✔ 18. What the Wind Knows, 416 pp
✔ 19. Triptych, 512 pp
✔ 20. Fractured, 530 pp
✔ 21. Then She Was Gone, 422 pp
✔ 22. Dance of Death, 592 pp
✔ 23. In the Dark, 412 pp
✔ 24. Purgatory Ridge, 452 pp
✔ 25. A Time to Kill, 530 pp
✔ 26. Killing Floor, 561 pp
✔ 27. Big Lies in a Small Town, 400 pp
✔ 28. Moonscript, 498 pp
✔ 29. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, 432 pp
✔ 30. Artemis Fowl, 420 pp
✔ 31. Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes, 404 pp
✔ 32. A Curse So Dark and Lonely, 489 pp
✔ 33. Aurora Rising, 480 pp
✔ 34. A Heart So Fierce and Broken, 464 pp
✔ 35. Heart's Blood, 453 pp
✔ 36. The Court of Miracles, 464 pp
✔ 37. Peter and the Starcatchers, 480 pp
✔ 38. The War I Finally Won, 400 pp
✔ 39. Nine Perfect Strangers, 458 pp
✔ 40. Shorefall, 497 pp
✔ 41. Memoirs of a Geisha, 512 pp
✔ 42. Clap When You Land, 432 pp
✔ 43. The Killer Angels, 402 pp
✔ 44. The Night Circus, 401 pp
✔ 45. I Shall Wear Midnight, 434 pp
✔ 46. Genesis Begins Again, 400 pp
✔ 47. 'Til the Well Runs Dry, 400 pp
✔ 48. Behold the Dreamers, 401 pp
✔ 49. The Starless Sea, 498 pp
✔ 50. The Dream Daughter, 400 pp
✔ 51. Necessary Lies, 400 pp
✔ 52. Beach Road, 400 pp


...and then see a chiropractor!

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Featherweight:

Read books that are less than or equal to 280 pages

Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
✔ 1. Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, 160 pp
✔ 2. Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets..., 224 pp
✔ 3. Find Another Dream, 200 pp
✔ 4. The Six and the Crystals of Ialana, 272 pp
✔ 5. Of Mice and Men, 121 pp

Level 2 Flapping Wings
✔ 6. The Benefits of Being an Octopus, 256 pp
✔ 7. Thick: And Other Essays, 248 pp
✔ 8. The Great Upending, 274 pp
✔ 9. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, 248 pp
✔ 10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 240 pp

Level 3 Taking Flight
✔ 11. Sula, 196 pp
✔ 12. Smailholm, 248 pp
✔ 13. Home Fire, 276 pp
✔ 14. Nils: The Tree of Life, 184 pp
✔ 15. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 259 pp

Level 4 Soaring above the Land
✔ 16. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, 240 pp
✔ 17. Where the Red Fern Grows, 272 pp
✔ 18. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, 256 pp
✔ 19. Just Like Jackie, 246 pp
✔ 20. Razor: Becoming a Hero, 219 pp

Level 5 Starting a New Journey
✔ 21. Bunnicula, 116 pp
✔ 22. Howliday Inn, 195 pp
✔ 23. The Celery Stalks at Midnight, 144 pp
✔ 24. Night, 121 pp
✔ 25. Bridge to Terabithia, 190 pp
✔ 26. Cannery Row, 212 pp
✔ 27. Sweet Thursday, 276 pp
✔ 28. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, 149 pp
✔ 29. Animal Farm, 141 pp
✔ 30. The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, 224 pp
✔ 31. City of Dod, 244 pp
✔ 32. Go Tell It on the Mountain, 256 pp
✔ 33. Nighty-Nightmare, 148 pp
✔ 34. Return to Howliday Inn, 192 pp
✔ 35. An Accidental Death, 251 pp
✔ 36. We Were Liars, 242 pp
✔ 37. Tell Me Lies, ~242 pp
✔ 38. Holes, 272 pp
✔ 39. Penric's Demon, 109 pp
✔ 40. Penric and the Shaman, 160 pp
✔ 41. Penric's Fox, 113 pp
✔ 42. Penric’s Mission, 264 pp
✔ 43. Annalynn the Canadian Spy: Terrible Tissues, 92 pp
✔ 44. The Defense Quest, 270 pp
✔ 45. Fairest Son, 147 pp
✔ 46. The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree, 192 pp
✔ 47. The Importance of Being Earnest, 120 pp
✔ 48. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 108 pp
✔ 49. Mira's Last Dance, 87 pp
✔ 50. The Tombs of Atuan, 196 pp
✔ 51. The Farthest Shore, 272 pp
✔ 52. Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit and Friends, 143 pp
✔ 53. Snow, Glass, Apples, 88 pp
✔ 54. Calypso, 273 pp
✔ 55. The Final Warning, 273 pp
✔ 56. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 255 pp
✔ 57. Life, the Universe and Everything, 242 pp
✔ 58. Jerry the Squirrel: Volume One, 132 pp
✔ 59. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, 273 pp
✔ 60. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, 225 pp
✔ 61. Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, 224 pp
✔ 62. The Mouse Watch, 256 pp
✔ 63. Towers Falling, 240 pp
✔ 64. Ninth Ward, 224 pp
✔ 65. Zinnia and the Bees, 240 pp
✔ 66. Brighter Than the Sun, 112 pp
✔ 67. Chace Ogden and the Golden Golem, 138 pp
✔ 68. Black Brother, Black Brother, 240 pp
✔ 69. Ghost Boys, 224 pp
✔ 70. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, 192 pp
✔ 71. So You Want to Talk About Race, 256 pp
✔ 72. Dear Martin, 226 pp
✔ 73. The Fire Next Time, 128 pp
✔ 74. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, 241 pp
✔ 75. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons & an Unlikely Road to Manhood, 242 pp
✔ 76. Navigate Your Stars, 64 pp
✔ 77. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, 273 pp
✔ 78. Two Boys Kissing, 210 pp
✔ 79. Between the World and Me, 176 pp
✔ 80. Hatchet, 208 pp
✔ 81. Elevation, 160 pp
✔ 82. Laurie, 40 pp

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Travel the world 2020: ✔ ✔ ✔
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Read one book from each region

Option 1: Around the World

✔ 1st Leg: North America The Giver of Stars America
✔ 2nd Leg: South America Colombiano Colombia/Venezuela
✔ 3rd Leg: Europe Smailholm Scotland
✔ 4th Leg: Middle East 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Istanbul, Turkey
✔ 5th Leg: Africa Homegoing Ghana
✔ 6th Leg: Asia Pachinko Korea and Japan
✔ 7th Leg: Australia & Oceania The Forgotten Garden
✔ Bonus Leg: Antarctica The Final Warning, ✔ Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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January Genre Challenges: ✔ ✔ ✔

January: Literary, Memoirs, Contemporary
(view spoiler)[Literary:
✔ The Master and Margarita: yes, I'm going to finally buckle down and finish this book!
✔ An American Tragedy: Reading List Completists group read
✔ Sula
✔ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
✔ Of Mice and Men
✔ Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
✔ Where the Red Fern Grows
✔ Cannery Row
✔ Sweet Thursday

Memoir:
✔ Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life: ARC
✔ Find Another Dream: audible
✔ Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
✔ Lighter Than My Shadow
✔ Night

Contemporary:
✔ Thick: And Other Essays: audible
✔ The Giver of Stars: Reading for Pleasure group read
✔ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World: Church book study
✔ Ninth House: Coffee Break Club group read
✔ The Forgotten Home Child: ARC
✔ Right as Rain: library book
✔ Colombiano: ARC
✔ The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
A Good Neighborhood, ARC
✔ A Trick of Light: library book
✔ The Benefits of Being an Octopus
The Great Upending, ARC
✔ The Perks of Being a Wallflower
✔ Home Fire
✔ One of Us Is Lying
✔ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
✔ On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
✔ Boundary Waters
✔ Just Like Jackie
✔ A Man Called Ove
✔ Ask Again, Yes
✔ Razor: Becoming a Hero, ARC
✔ The Ice Limit

Can also be read in February (Romance)
Everything, Everything
✔ Eleanor & Park
✔ Leah on the Offbeat
✔ Always and Forever, Lara Jean: library book (hide spoiler)]

Winter Bingo: ✔ ✔
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✔ B1: Award Winner A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
✔ B2: Graphic Novel Lighter Than My Shadow
✔ B3: Silver Lettering
✔ B4: Mystery or Thriller One of Us Is Lying
✔ B5: Current Event Related Thick: And Other Essays

✔ I1: Start a Series Bunnicula
✔ I2: Middle Grade The Bootlace Magician
✔ I3: Blue Cover
✔ I4: > 400 pages Colombiano
I5: Personal Improvement A List is Not Enough: A Modern Woman's Guide to Goal Setting, Time Management & Productivity

✔ N1: Classic An American Tragedy
✔ N2: Made into a Movie Of Mice and Men
✔ N3: FREE The Giver of Stars
✔ N4: Science Fiction The Ice Limit
✔ N5: Humor A Man Called Ove

✔ G1: Magical Realism The Master and Margarita
✔ G2: LGBTQ+ Leah on the Offbeat
✔ G3: White Cover
✔ G4: Published In Your Birth Year Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
✔ G5: Biographical Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

✔ O1: Published Last Year A Trick of Light
✔ O2: Epistolary On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
✔ O3: Gold Lettering The Golden Compass
✔ O4: Based on Mythology Nils: The Tree of Life
✔ O5: Math/Science: Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (hide spoiler)]

Mini-Challenges: ✔ ✔ ✔
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✔ Chinese New Year: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
✔ Frost-bitten Winter 2020: Storm Cursed
✔ Moon Magic Winter 2020: The Bootlace Magician
✔ Books with Heart: Red, White & Royal Blue
✔ Chilly Days Winter 2020: The Ice Limit (hide spoiler)]

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January Reads
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History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp

Starting my January reads!
Goal: 8000 pages. 22 books

TBR (will likely change and morph, as usual):


January 1:
Of Mice and Men, pp 1-121 = 121 pp ✔
Colombiano, pp 1-229 = 229 pp
An American Tragedy, pp 1-188 = 188 pp
☃️daily tally: 538 pp

January 2:
Find Another Dream, pp 1-200 = 200 pp ✔
Thick: And Other Essays, pp 1-141 = 141 pp
Colombiano, pp 229-407 = 178 pp
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, pp 1-29 = 29 pp
☃️daily tally: 548 pp

January 3:
Thick: And Other Essays, pp 141-248 = 107 pp ✔
Colombiano, pp 407-669 = 262 pp
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, pp 29-43 = 14 pp
The Giver of Stars, pp 1-44 = 44 pp
☃️daily tally: 427 pp

January 4:
The Giver of Stars, pp 44-280 = 236 pp
Colombiano, pp 669-807 = 138 pp
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, pp 43-51 = 8 pp
☃️daily tally: 382 pp

January 5:
The Giver of Stars, pp 280-400 = 120 pp ✔
Colombiano, pp 807-924 = 117 pp ✔
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, pp 51-67 = 16 pp
An American Tragedy, pp 188-260 = 72 pp
A Trick of Light, pp 1-89 = 89 pp
☃️daily tally: 414 pp

January 6:
A Trick of Light, pp 89-352 = 263 pp ✔
An American Tragedy, pp 260-439 = 179 pp
Smailholm, pp 1-27 = 27 pp
☃️daily tally: 469 pp

January 7:
An American Tragedy, pp 439-645 = 206 pp
Smailholm, pp 27-60 = 33 pp
☃️daily tally: 239 pp

January 8:
An American Tragedy, pp 645-896 = 251 pp ✔
Smailholm, pp 60-248 pp = 188 pp ✔
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, pp 1-73 = 73 pp
One of Us Is Lying, pp 1-52 = 52 pp
☃️daily tally: 564 pp

January 9:
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, 73-248 = 175 pp ✔
The Benefits of Being an Octopus, pp 1-256 = 256 pp ✔
One of Us Is Lying, pp 52-217 = 165 pp
☃️daily tally: 596 pp

January 10:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, pp 1-528 = 528 pp ✔
One of Us Is Lying, pp 217-361 = 144 ✔
☃️daily tally: 672 pp

January 11:
Always and Forever, Lara Jean, pp 1-325 = 325 pp ✔
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, pp 1-39 = 39 pp
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, pp 1-77 = 77 pp
☃️daily tally: 441 pp

January 12:
The Bootlace Magician, pp 1-416 = 416 pp ✔
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, pp 77-182 = 105 pp
The Master and Margarita, pp 106-119 = 13 pp
☃️daily tally: 534 pp

January 13:
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, pp 182-320 = 138 pp ✔
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, pp 67-84 = 17 pp
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, pp 39-165 = 126 pp
The Master and Margarita, pp 119-154 = 35 pp
Right as Rain, pp 1-104 = 104 pp
☃️daily tally: 420 pp

January 14:
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, pp 165-263 = 98 pp ✔
Right as Rain, pp 104-304 = 200 pp ✔
Leah on the Offbeat, pp 1-98 = 98 pp
Home Fire, pp 1-187 = 187 pp
☃️daily tally: 583 pp

January 15:
Leah on the Offbeat, pp 98-364 = 266 pp ✔
Home Fire, pp 187-276 = 89 pp ✔
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, pp 1-158 = 158 pp
☃️daily tally: 513 pp

January 16:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, pp 158-259 = 101 pp ✔
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pp 1-240 = 240 pp ✔
Nils: The Tree of Life, pp 1-57 = 57 pp
The Master and Margarita, pp 154-166 = 12 pp
☃️daily tally: 410 pp

January 17:
The Lazy Rabbit, pp 1-28 = 28 pp ✔
Nils: The Tree of Life, pp 57-185 = 128 pp ✔
Where the Red Fern Grows, pp 1-272 = 272 pp ✔
☃️daily tally: 428 pp

January 18:
The Six and the Crystals of Ialana: Book One of the Ialana Series, pp 1-272 = 272 pp ✔
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, pp 1-110 = 110 pp
The Master and Margarita, pp 166-196 = 30 pp
☃️daily tally: 412 pp

January 19:
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, pp 110-256 = 146 pp ✔
Boundary Waters, pp 1-113 = 113 pp
The Forgotten Home Child, pp 1-134 = 134 pp
☃️daily tally: 393 pp

January 20:
Boundary Waters, pp 113-420 = 307 pp ✔
The Forgotten Home Child, pp 134-384 = 250 pp ✔
☃️daily tally: 557 pp

January 21:
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets...Living Your Best Life, pp 1-224 = 224 pp ✔
The Master and Margarita, pp 196-225 = 29 pp
A Man Called Ove, pp 1-109 = 109 pp
☃️daily tally: 362 pp

January 22:
Just Like Jackie, pp 1-246 = 246 pp ✔
A Man Called Ove, pp 109-353 = 244 pp ✔
Ask Again, Yes, pp 1-92 = 92 pp
Razor: Becoming a Hero, pp 1-77 = 77 pp
☃️daily tally: 659 pp

January 23:
Razor: Becoming a Hero, pp 77-219 = 142 pp ✔
Ask Again, Yes, pp 92-304 = 212 pp
☃️daily tally: 354 pp

January 24:
Ask Again, Yes, pp 304-400 = 96 pp ✔
Lighter Than My Shadow, pp 1-516 = 516 pp ✔
The Ice Limit, pp 1-214 = 214 pp
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, pp 84-105 = 21 pp
The Master and Margarita, pp 225-281 = 56 pp
☃️daily tally: 903 pp

January 25:
The Ice Limit, pp 214-497 = 283 pp ✔
The Golden Compass, pp 1-144 = 144 pp
☃️daily tally: 427 pp

January 26:
The Golden Compass, pp 144-399 = 255 pp ✔
Sula, pp 1-122 = 122 pp
☃️daily tally: 377 pp

January 27:
Bunnicula, pp 1-116 = 116 pp ✔
Howliday Inn, pp 1-195 = 195 pp ✔
The Celery Stalks at Midnight, pp 1-144 = 144 pp ✔
Sula, pp 122-196 = 74 pp ✔
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, pp 1-120 = 120 pp
☃️daily tally: 649 pp

January 28:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, pp 120-240 = 120 pp ✔
Ninth House, pp 1-240 = 240 pp
The Master and Margarita, pp 281-326 = 45 pp
☃️daily tally: 405 pp

January 29:
Ninth House, pp 240-480 = 240 pp ✔
Night, pp 1-121 = 121 pp ✔
The Master and Margarita, pp 326-361 = 35 pp ✔
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, pp 105-129 = 24 pp
☃️daily tally: 420 pp

January 30:
Bridge to Terabithia, pp 1-190 = 190 pp ✔
Cannery Row, pp 1-212 = 212 pp ✔
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, pp 129-160 = 31 pp ✔
☃️daily tally: 433 pp

January 31:
Sweet Thursday, pp 1-276 = 276 pp ✔
Break Shot: My First 21 Years, pp 1-50 = 50 pp ✔
You Have Arrived at Your Destination, pp 1-46 = 46 pp ✔
Ark, pp 1-39 = 39 pp ✔
Storm Cursed, pp 1-150 = 150 pp
☃️daily tally: 561 pp

Total Pages Read: 14,713 pp
Books Finished: 51
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January Genre Books, Contemporary, Literary, and Memoirs:


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February Reads
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History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp

Starting my February reads! ✔ ✔ ✔
Goal: 8000 pages. 28 books

TBR (will likely change and morph, as usual):


February 1:
Storm Cursed, pp 150-384 = 234 pp ✔
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, pp 1-149 = 149 pp ✔
Randomize, pp 1-28 pp ✔
Emergency Skin, pp 1-33 pp ✔
☃️daily tally: 444 pp

February 2:
Animal Farm, pp 1-141 = 141 pp ✔
The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, pp 1-240 = 240 pp ✔
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, pp 1-59 = 59 pp
☃️daily tally: 440 pp

February 3:
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, pp 59-370 = 311 pp ✔
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, pp 1-253 = 253 pp
Tentacles and Teeth, pp 1-56 = 56 pp
☃️daily tally: 620 pp

February 4:
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, pp 253-352 = 99 pp ✔
Eleanor & Park, pp 1-336 = 336 pp ✔
Tentacles and Teeth, pp 56-191 = 135 pp
☃️daily tally: 570 pp

February 5:
Tentacles and Teeth, pp 191-294 = 103 pp ✔
The Institute, pp 1-357 = 357 pp
☃️daily tally: 460 pp

February 6:
The Institute, pp 357-576 = 219 pp ✔
Catch Me if You Can, pp 1-188 = 188 pp
☃️daily tally: 407 pp

February 7:
Catch Me if You Can, pp 188-293 = 105 pp ✔
The Last Conversation, pp 1-56 = 56 pp ✔
Summer Frost, pp 1-75 = 75 pp ✔
How Long 'til Black Future Month?, pp 1-58 = 58 pp
City of Dod, pp 1-85 = 85 pp
☃️daily tally: 379 pp

February 8:
City of Dod, pp 85-244 = 159 pp ✔
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, pp 1-109 = 109 pp
How Long 'til Black Future Month?, pp 58-170 = 112 pp
☃️daily tally: 380 pp

February 9:
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, pp 109-496 = 387 pp ✔
How Long 'til Black Future Month?, pp 170-214 = 44 pp
☃️daily tally: 431 pp

February 10-11:
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, pp 1-512 = 512 pp ✔
How Long 'til Black Future Month?, pp 214-280 = 66 pp
A Good Neighborhood, pp 1-29 = 29 pp
☃️daily tally: 607 pp

February 12:
Tithe, pp 1-340 = 340 pp ✔
The Last Wish, pp 1-123 = 123 pp
How Long 'til Black Future Month?, pp 280-333 = 53 pp
A Good Neighborhood, pp 29-64 = 35 pp
☃️daily tally: 551 pp

February 13-14:
How Long 'til Black Future Month?, pp 333-433 = 100 pp ✔
The Last Wish, pp 123-360 = 237 pp ✔
A Good Neighborhood, pp 64-96 = 32 pp
Pachinko, pp 1-216 = 216 pp
☃️daily tally: 585 pp

February 15:
Everything, Everything, pp 1-320 = 320 pp ✔
A Good Neighborhood, pp 96-320 = 224 pp ✔
Go Tell It on the Mountain, pp 1-72 = 72 pp
☃️daily tally: 616 pp

February 16:
Go Tell It on the Mountain, pp 72-256 = 184 pp ✔
City Spies, pp 1-384 = 384 pp ✔
The Child Thief, pp 1-37 = 37 pp
☃️daily tally: 605 pp

February 17-18:
Red, White & Royal Blue, pp 1-425 = 425 pp ✔
The Child Thief, pp 37-129 = 92 pp
Pachinko, pp 216-316 = 100 pp
☃️daily tally: 617 pp

February 19:
The Sun Is Also a Star, pp 1-384 = 384 pp ✔
☃️daily tally: 384 pp

February 20:
No Country for Old Men, pp 1-320 = 320 pp ✔
The Other People, pp 1-32 = 32 pp
The Child Thief, pp 129-151 = 22 pp
☃️daily tally: 374 pp

February 21:
Yes No Maybe So, pp 1-448 = 448 pp ✔
The Other People, pp 32-235 = 203 pp
Pachinko, pp 316-371 = 55 pp
☃️daily tally: 706 pp

February 22:
The Upside of Unrequited, pp 1-352 = 352 pp ✔
The Other People, pp 235-325 = 90 pp ✔
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, pp 1-34 = 34 pp
☃️daily tally: 476 pp

February 23-24:
Pachinko, pp 371-502 = 131 pp ✔
The Child Thief, pp 151-481 = 330 ✔
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, pp 34-193 = 159 pp
☃️daily tally: 620 pp

February 25:
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, pp 193-308 = 115 pp ✔
It Ends with Us, pp 1-385 = 385 pp ✔
☃️daily tally: 500 pp

February 26:
Maybe in Another Life, pp 1-353 = 353 pp ✔
Don't Read the Comments, pp 1-385 = 385 pp ✔
☃️daily tally: 738 pp

February 27-28:
The First Girl Child, pp 1-408 = 408 pp ✔
☃️daily tally:

Total Pages Read: 11918 pp
Books Finished: 37
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Romance:


Women's Literature, Fiction, Nonfiction:


Western:


Other Books:
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February Genre Challenge: ✔ ✔ ✔
Women's Lit and Contemporary (fiction & nonfiction):
(view spoiler)[A List is Not Enough: A Modern Woman's Guide to Goal Setting, Time Management & Productivity, ARC
✔ The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Second Home, ARC
✔ How Long 'til Black Future Month?
The Forgotten Garden
Have You Seen Luis Velez?, ARC
✔ A Good Neighborhood, ARC
The Great Upending, ARC
✔ I Am Malala
✔ Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
✔ Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
Obasan
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Romance:
✔ Everything, Everything
✔ Red, White & Royal Blue
✔ Eleanor & Park
✔ Storm Cursed
✔ Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
✔ The Sun Is Also a Star
✔ Yes No Maybe So
✔ The Upside of Unrequited
✔ It Ends with Us
✔ Maybe in Another Life
✔ Don't Read the Comments
✔ The First Girl Child

Western:
✔ No Country for Old Men

Horror:
✔ Tentacles and Teeth, ARC
✔ City of Dod, ARC
✔ The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter
✔ The Other People
✔ The Child Thief

Literature:
✔ Animal Farm
✔ Go Tell It on the Mountain
To the Lighthouse
Lonesome Dove (hide spoiler)]

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March Reads
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History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp
February: 37 books, 11918 pp

Starting my March reads!
Goal: 9000 pages. 28 books

TBR (will likely change and morph, as usual):


March 1:
The Grapes of Wrath, pp 1-200 = 200 pp
☃️daily tally: 200 pp

March 2:
The Grapes of Wrath, pp 200-479 = 279 pp ✔
The Great Upending, pp 1-35 = 35 pp
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, pp 1-77 = 77 pp
☃️daily tally: 391 pp

March 3-4:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, pp 77-306 = 229 pp ✔
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, pp 1-389 = 389 pp ✔
One for the Money, pp 1-352 = 352 pp ✔
The Great Upending, pp 35-200 = 165 pp
☃️daily tally: 1135 pp

March 5:
The Great Upending, pp 200-272 = 72 pp ✔
Songbird: A Kings Lake Investigation, pp 1-290 = 290 pp
☃️daily tally: 362 pp

March 6-7:
Songbird: A Kings Lake Investigation, pp 290-488 = 198 pp ✔
Nighty-Nightmare, pp 1-148 = 148 pp ✔
Return to Howliday Inn, pp 1-192 = 192 pp ✔
The Forgotten Garden, pp 1-194 = 194 pp
An Accidental Death, pp 1-163 = 163 pp
☃️daily tally: 895 pp

March 8:
An Accidental Death, pp 163-251 = 88 pp ✔
The Forgotten Garden, pp 194-452 = 258 pp
Brimstone, pp 1-226 = 226 pp
☃️daily tally: 572 pp

March 9:
The Forgotten Garden, pp 452-648 = 196 pp ✔
Brimstone, pp 226-421 = 195 pp
What the Wind Knows, pp 1-21 = 21 pp
☃️daily tally: 412 pp

March 10:
Brimstone, pp 421-752 = 331 pp ✔
What the Wind Knows, pp 21-119 = 98 pp
☃️daily tally: 429 pp

March 11:
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, pp 1-321 = 321 pp ✔
What the Wind Knows, pp 119-245 = 126 pp
The Whisper Man, pp 1-48 = 48 pp
☃️daily tally: 495 pp

March 12:
What the Wind Knows, pp 245-416 = 171 pp ✔
The Whisper Man, pp 48-287 = 239 pp
☃️daily tally: 410 pp

March 13:
The Whisper Man, pp 287-386 = 99 pp ✔
We Were Liars, pp 1-242 = 242 pp ✔
But For The Grace, pp 1-71 = 71 pp
The Monster in the Hollows, pp 1-18 = 18 pp
☃️daily tally: 430 pp

March 14:
But For The Grace, pp 71-296 = 225 pp ✔
Triptych, pp 1-143 = 143 pp
The Monster in the Hollows, pp 18-81 = 63 pp
☃️daily tally: 431 pp

March 15:
Triptych, pp 143-512 = 369 pp ✔
The Monster in the Hollows, pp 81-213 = 132 pp
☃️daily tally: 501 pp

March 16:
Fractured, pp 1-530 = 530 pp ✔
The Monster in the Hollows, pp 213-348 = 135 pp ✔
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, pp 1-47 = 47 pp
☃️daily tally: 712 pp

March 17:
Then She Was Gone, pp 1-422 = 422 pp ✔
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, pp 47-336 = 289 pp ✔
☃️daily tally: 711 pp

March 18:
Tell Me Lies, pp 1-242 = 242 pp ✔
Dance of Death, pp 1-195 = 195 pp
☃️daily tally: 437 pp

March 19-20:
Dance of Death, pp 195-592 = 397 pp ✔
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, pp 1-400 = 400 pp ✔
The Book of the Dead, pp 1-141 = 141 pp
☃️daily tally: 938 pp

March 21:
The Book of the Dead, pp 141-640 = 499 pp ✔
☃️daily tally: 499 pp

March 22:
The Stand, pp 1-259 = 259 pp
Bleak House, pp 1-153 = 153 pp
☃️daily tally: 412 pp

March 23:
The Stand, pp 259-490 = 231 pp
Bleak House, pp 153-305 = 152 pp
☃️daily tally: 383 pp

March 24:
The Stand, pp 490-634 = 144 pp
Bleak House, pp 275-346 = 71 pp
In the Dark, pp 1-185 = 185 pp
☃️daily tally: 400 pp

March 25:
In the Dark, pp 185-412 = 227 pp ✔
The Stand, pp 634-864 = 230 pp
☃️daily tally: 457 pp

March 26:
The Only Child, pp 1-187 = 187 pp
The Stand, pp 864-893 = 29 pp
Bleak House, pp 346-447 = 101 pp
☃️daily tally: 317 pp

March 27:
The Only Child, pp 187-304 = 117 pp ✔
The Stand, pp 893-1008 = 115 pp
Bleak House, pp 447-549 = 102 pp
Swan Song, pp 1-62 = 62 pp
Found, pp 1-46 = 46 pp
☃️daily tally: 442 pp

March 28:
The Stand, pp 1008-1440 = 432 pp ✔
Found, pp 46-320 = 274 pp ✔
Bleak House, pp 549-671 = 122 pp
Swan Song, pp 62-111 = 49 pp
☃️daily tally: 877 pp

March 29:
Purgatory Ridge, pp 1-452 = 452 pp ✔
Swan Song, pp 111-186 = 75 pp
Bleak House, pp 671-692 = 21 pp
☃️daily tally: 548 pp

March 30:
A Time to Kill, pp 1-21 = 21 pp
Big Lies in a Small Town, pp 1-340 = 340 pp
Killing Floor, pp 1-84 = 84 pp
☃️daily tally: 445 pp

March 31:
Big Lies in a Small Town, pp 340-400 = 60 pp ✔
Killing Floor, pp 84-561 = 477 pp ✔
A Time to Kill, pp 21-53 = 32 pp
☃️daily tally: 569 pp

Total Pages Read: 14,810 pp
Books Finished: 32
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Mystery & Suspense:


Book Club Reads:


Other:
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Oh my, this is pretty cool. I think I might fill in some books (at least the ones I've read since joining Goodreads) and see where I am. But I already know there are some states that I haven't gotten to yet. I'm liking this challenge!

✔ Alabama: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (read 5/9/19)
✔ Alaska: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (read 1/6/19)
Arizona:
Arkansas:
✔ California: East of Eden by John Steinbeck (read 11/28/19)
Colorado: A Dog's Way Home
✔ Connecticut: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (read 1/29/20)
Delaware:
Florida:
✔ Georgia: Triptych by Karin Slaughter (read 3/15/20)
✔ Hawaii: Max by James Patterson (read 5/25/20)
✔ Idaho: Educated by Tara Westover (read 2/10/19)
✔ Illinois: Becoming by Michelle Obama (read 12/3/18)
✔ Indiana: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (read 11/14/18)
✔ Iowa: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (read 6/15/19)
✔ Kansas: Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston (read 10/19/19)
✔ Kentucky: The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (read 1/5/20)
✔ Louisiana: Ninth Ward, Jewell Parker Rhodes (read 5/24/20)
✔ Maine: The Institute by Stephen King (read 2/6/20)
✔ Maryland: Every Day by David Levithan (read 2/11/19)
✔ Massuchusetts: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover (read 2/25/20)
✔ Michigan: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (read 3/12/18)
✔ Minnesota: Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger (read 1/20/20)
✔ Mississippi: A Time to Kill by John Grisham (read 4/19/20)
✔ Missouri: Nothing More Dangerous (read 10/5/20)
✔ Montana: Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs (read 4/21/19)
✔ Nebraska: Senile Squad: Adventures of the Old Blues by Chris LeGrow (read 5/28/19)
✔ Nevada: The Passage by Justin Cronin (read 10/15/19)
✔ New Hampshire: Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick (read 11/9/18)
✔ New Jersey: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich (read 3/4/20)
✔ New Mexico: First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones (read 2/2/19)
✔ New York: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (read 1/10/20)
✔ North Carolina: A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler (read 2/15/20)
North Dakota:
✔ Ohio: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (read 2/14/19)
✔ Oklahoma: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (read 1/17/20)
✔ Oregon: The Shack by William Paul Young (read 6/30/18)
✔ Pennsylvania: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (read 10/23/19)
Rhode island:
South Carolina: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
South Dakota:
Tennessee: The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
✔ Texas: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (read 2/20/20)
✔ Utah: Thunderhead by Douglas Preston (read 3/15/19)
✔ Vermont: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (read 4/14/20)
✔ Virginia: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (read 1/30/20)
✔ Washington: The Abs True Diary of a PT Indian by Sherman Alexie (read 1/16/20)
✔ West Virginia: Swan Song (read 4/12/20
Wisconsin:
✔ Wyoming: Shane by Jack Schaefer (read 2/5/19)
✔ Washington, DC: A Curse So Dark and Lonely, by Brigid Kemmerer (read 4/18/20)

Spring Bingo ✔ ✔ ✔
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✔ B1: Award Nominated The Stand
✔ B2: Memoir Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
✔ B3: Audio Book Swan Song
✔ B4: Green Cover
✔ B5: Pretty Dress

✔ I1: Published before 1900 Bleak House
✔ I2: Travel The Key Quest
✔ I3: Horror or Suspense In the Dark
✔ I4: Mental Illness The Silent Patient: The First Three Chapters
✔ I5: Fairies or Fae A Court of Thorns and Roses

✔ N1: Published This Year Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe
✔ N2: Yellow Cover
✔ N3: FREE Moonscript
✔ N4: Romance Smoke Bitten
✔ N5: Male POV Killing Floor, Jack Reacher

✔ G1: Tear-Jerker Brave Girl, Quiet Girl: A Novel
✔ G2: In Translation The Only Child, Korean
✔ G3: Minority Studies The Water Dancer
✔ G4: Young Adult Found
✔ G5: Magical Powers Penric and the Shaman

✔ O1: Fairy Tale Retelling Fairest Son Snow White
✔ O2: Historical (F or NF) Big Lies in a Small Town
✔ O3: Play The Importance of Being Earnest
✔ O4: Based on a True story In the Time of the Butterflies
✔ O5: Pink Cover
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Mt TBR, part 2:

Read 50 books that you had in your database before 2020
✔

Level 1 Base Camp

✔ 1. The Stand d/l 12/7/15, read 3/22-3/28
✔ 2. Swan Song d/l 5/24/19, read 3/27-4/12
✔ 3. Purgatory Ridge d/l 8/25/18, read 3/29
✔ 4. The Water Dancer d/l 10/11/19, read 4/16-4/17
✔ 5. The Tales of Beedle the Bard gifted 2008, read 4/2

Level 2 Start The Climb
✔ 6. Holes d/l 12/7/17, read 4/3
✔ 7. Penric's Demon d/l 7/29/18, read 4/4
✔ 8. Penric and the Shaman d/l 9/5/18, read 4/4
✔ 9. Penric's Fox d/l 7/29/18, read 4/21
✔ 10. Penric’s Mission d/l 7/29/18, read 4/21
✔ 11. Mira's Last Dance d/l 4/20/19, 4/21
✔ 12. A Court of Thorns and Roses d/l 4/23/19, read 4/4-4/5
✔ 13. The Secret History added 6/26/08, read 4/12-4/14
✔ 14. The Water Dancer d/l 10/11/19, read 4/15-4/16
✔ 15. The Importance of Being Earnest d/l 5/28/19, read 4/18

Level 3 Going Higher
✔ 16. A Wizard of Earthsea d/l 10/19/15, read 4/20
✔ 17. The Tombs of Atuan d/l 4/17/17, read 4/22
✔ 18. The Farthest Shore d/l 4/17/17, read 4/22
✔ 19. The Hob's Bargain d/l 7/20/15, read 4/24
✔ 20. A Discovery of Witches d/l 7/31/18, read 4/24-25
✔ 21. Shadow of Night d/l 7/31/18, read 4/26
✔ 22. The Book of Life d/l 7/31/18, read 4/27-28
✔ 23. Heart's Blood d/l 6/14/19, read 4/28-29
✔ 24. Where'd You Go, Bernadette d/l 12/1/17, read 5/1-2
✔ 25. Calypso d/l 1/24/19, read 5/2
✔ 26. Peter and the Starcatchers d/l 12/13/17, read 5/3
✔ 27. Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports d/l 9/11/17, read 5/5
✔ 28. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents 10/26/15, read 5/6
✔ 29. The Wee Free Men d/l 10/10/15, read 5/8
✔ 30. The Final Warning d/l 8/30/17, read 5/10

Level 4 Reach The Summit
✔ 31. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe d/l 11/2/15, read 5/10-11
✔ 32. Life, the Universe and Everything d/l 10/22/15, read 5/11
✔ 33. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish d/l 10/22/15, read 5/15
✔ 34. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love d/l 10/21/19, read 5/14-5/15
✔ 35. Out of My Mind d/l12/7/18, read 5/16
✔ 36. The Night Tiger 6/16/19, read 5/16-5/17
✔ 37. Nine Perfect Strangers d/l 4/5/19, read 5/17-5/18
✔ 38. A Hat Full of Sky d/l 10/17/15, read 5/24-5/25
✔ 39. Max d/l 8/30/17, read 5/25
✔ 40. Wintersmith d/l 4/6/15, read 5/25
✔ 41. I Shall Wear Midnight d/l 4/6/15, read 5/26
✔ 42. The Shepherd's Crown d/l 11/9/15, read 5/26-5/27
✔ 42. Third Grave Dead Ahead d/l 9/23/18, read 5/28
✔ 43. Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet d/l 9/5/18, read 5/28
✔ 44. Fifth Grave Past the Light d/l 9/6/18, read 5/30
✔ 45. Sixth Grave on the Edge d/l 8/26/18, read 5/29
✔ 46. Seventh Grave and No Body d/l 8/29/18, read 5/30
✔ 47. Eighth Grave After Dark d/l 11/12/18, read 5/31
✔ 48. The Dirt on Ninth Grave d/l 8/19/18, read 5/31-6/1
✔ 49. Home d/l 2/22/19, read 6/3
✔ 50. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption d/l 12/1/19, read 6/4-5

Plant your flag, you made it to the top!

Spring Mini Challenges: ✔ ✔ ✔
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✔ Spring Cleaning 2020: The Stand
✔ April Fools 2020: Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe
✔ Flag Day 2020:
✔ Earth Day 2020:

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April Reads
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History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp
February: 37 books, 11918 pp
March: 32 books, 14,810 pp

Starting my April reads!
Goal: 10000 pages. 30 books

TBR (will likely change and morph, as usual):


April 1:
Bleak House, pp 692-885 = 193 pp
Sent, pp 1-134 = 134 pp
Swan Song, pp 186-211 = 25 pp
A Time to Kill, pp 53-77 = 24 pp
🌷daily tally: 376 pp

April 2:
Sent, pp 134-336 = 202 pp ✔
Bleak House, pp 885-1017 = 132 pp ✔
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, pp 1-128 = 128 pp ✔
Swan Song, pp 211-261 = 50 pp
🌷daily tally: 512 pp

April 3:
Holes, pp 1-272 = 272 pp ✔
Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, pp 1-432 = 432 pp ✔
Swan Song, pp 261-275 = 14 pp
🌷daily tally: 718 pp

April 4:
Penric's Demon, pp 1-109 = 109 pp ✔
Penric and the Shaman, pp 1-160 = 160 pp ✔
The Key Quest, pp 1-140 = 140 pp
A Court of Thorns and Roses, pp 1-108 = 108 pp
🌷daily tally: 517 pp

April 5:
A Court of Thorns and Roses, pp 108-432 = 324 pp ✔
The Key Quest, pp 140-250 = 110 pp ✔
A Time to Kill, pp 77-111 = 34 pp
In the Time of the Butterflies, pp 1-42 = 42 pp
Moonscript, pp 1-75 = 75 pp
🌷daily tally: 585 pp

April 6:
Moonscript, pp 60-498 = 438 pp ✔
In the Time of the Butterflies, pp 42-155 = 113 pp
Swan Song, pp 275-298 = 23 pp
🌷daily tally: 574 pp

April 7:
In the Time of the Butterflies, pp 155-354 = 199 pp ✔
A Time to Kill, pp 111-143 = 32 pp
Swan Song, pp 298-312 = 14 pp
🌷daily tally: 245 pp

April 8:
The Cloud Roads, pp 1-206 pp
Swan Song, pp 312-526 = 214 pp
🌷daily tally: 420 pp

April 9:
Smoke Bitten, pp 1-368 = 368 pp ✔
The Cloud Roads, pp 206-392 = 186 ✔
🌷daily tally: 554 pp

April 10:
The Cruel Prince, pp 1-385 = 385 pp ✔
The Pit and the Pendulum, pp 1-56 = 56 pp ✔
The Tell-Tale Heart, pp 1-54 = 54 pp ✔
The Masque of the Red Death, pp 1-76 = 76 pp ✔
Ligeia, pp 1-32 = 32 pp ✔
The Raven, pp 1-64 = 64 pp ✔
The Cask of Amontillado, pp 1-25 = 25 pp ✔
🌷daily tally: 692 pp

April 11:
Dream Big, pp 1-48 = 48 pp ✔
Love Big, pp 1-48 = 48 pp ✔
Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours, pp 1-320 = 320 pp ✔
The Fall of the House of Usher, pp 1-36 = 36 pp ✔
The Black Cat, pp 1-24 = 24 pp ✔
The Premature Burial, pp 1-32 = 32 pp ✔
The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar: Short Story, pp 1-25 = 25 pp ✔
Swan Song, pp 526-770 = 244 pp
🌷daily tally: 777 pp

April 12:
Annalynn the Canadian Spy: Terrible Tissues, pp 1-92 = 92 pp ✔
Artemis Fowl, pp 1-420 = 420 pp ✔
Swan Song, pp 770-956 = 186 pp ✔
The Price, pp 1-20 = 20 pp ✔
A Time to Kill, pp 143-239 = 96 pp
The Secret History, pp 1-42 = 42 pp
🌷daily tally: 856 pp

April 13:
Fairest Son, pp 1-147 = 147 pp ✔
The Secret History, pp 42-375 = 333 pp
A Time to Kill, pp 239-276 = 37 pp
🌷daily tally: 517 pp

April 14:
The Secret History, pp 375-559 = 184 pp ✔
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree, pp 1-192 = 192 pp ✔
Clockwork Angels, pp 1-128 = 128 pp
🌷daily tally: 504 pp

April 15:
Clockwork Angels, pp 128-347 = 219 pp ✔
The Water Dancer, pp 1-117 = 117 pp
A Time to Kill, pp 276-371 = 95 pp
🌷daily tally: 431 pp

April 16:
The Water Dancer, pp 117-432 = 315 pp ✔
A Curse So Dark and Lonely, pp 1-46 = 46 pp
Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes, pp 1-115 = 115 pp
🌷daily tally: 476 pp

April 17:
Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes, pp 115-404 = 289 pp ✔
A Curse So Dark and Lonely, pp 46-201 = 155 pp
🌷daily tally: 444 pp

April 18:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, pp 1-108 pp ✔
The Importance of Being Earnest, pp 1-120 = 120 pp ✔
The Tempest, pp 1-218 = 218 pp ✔
A Curse So Dark and Lonely, pp 201-489 = 288 pp ✔
🌷daily tally: 734 pp

April 19:
Aurora Rising, pp 1-480 = 480 pp ✔
A Time to Kill, pp 371-530 = 159 pp ✔
A Wizard of Earthsea, pp 1-104 = 104 pp
🌷daily tally: 743 pp

April 20:
A Wizard of Earthsea, pp 104-197 = 93 pp ✔
Brave Girl, Quiet Girl, pp 1-300 = 300 pp ✔
Arestana: The Defense Quest, pp 1-270 = 270 pp ✔
🌷daily tally: 663 pp

April 21:
Penric's Fox, pp 1-113 = 113 pp ✔
Penric’s Mission, pp 1-264 = 264 pp ✔
Mira's Last Dance, pp 1-87 = 87 pp ✔
🌷daily tally: 464 pp

April 22:
The Tombs of Atuan, pp 1-196 = 196 pp ✔
The Farthest Shore, pp 1-272 = 272 pp ✔
🌷daily tally: 468 pp

April 23:
Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit and Friends, pp 1-143 = 143 pp ✔
The Elephant's Girl, pp 1-336 = 336 pp ✔
The Hob's Bargain, pp 1-105 = 105 pp
🌷daily tally: 584 pp

April 24:
The Hob's Bargain, pp 105-292 = 187 pp ✔
A Heart So Fierce and Broken, pp 1-60 = 60 pp
A Discovery of Witches, pp 1-104 = 104 pp
🌷daily tally: 351 pp

April 25:
A Discovery of Witches, pp 104-610 = 506 pp ✔
A Heart So Fierce and Broken, pp 60-88 = 28 pp
🌷daily tally: 534 pp

April 26:
Shadow of Night, pp 1-630 = 630 pp ✔
🌷daily tally: 630 pp

April 27:
A Heart So Fierce and Broken, pp 88-464 = 376 pp ✔
The Book of Life, pp 1-255 = 255 pp
🌷daily tally: 631 pp

April 28:
The Book of Life, pp 255-637 = 382 pp ✔
Heart's Blood, pp 1-138 = 138 pp
The Second Home, pp 1-35 = 35 pp
🌷daily tally: 555 pp

April 29:
Heart's Blood, pp 138-453 = 315 pp ✔
🌷daily tally: 315 pp

April 30:
Dealing with Dragons, pp 1-212 = 212 pp ✔
The Court of Miracles, pp 1-125 = 125 pp
🌷daily tally: 337 pp

Total Pages Read: 16,207 pp
Books Finished: 50
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Fantasy:


Book Club Reads:


Other:
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Easter Egg Hunt: Duration: 1st April to 30th April (CBG) ✔ ✔ ✔

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✔ a. Read a book with "rabbit" in the title Peter Rabbit and Friends
✔ b. Read a book where a character searches for an object Holes
✔ c. Read a book where a character eats chocolate Swan Song
✔ d. Read a book in your sunroom Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
✔ e. Read a book that was published in April Artemis Fowl
✔ f. Read a book where a family share a meal together Clockwork Angels (hide spoiler)]

April Monthly Challenge (CBG) ✔ ✔ ✔



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How to participate:
For this challenge, choose a level you want to read at. Read one book from each task if completing Cafe Latte or Flat White. If aiming for Double Espresso, you may read multiple books from each task.

Duration:
Start - 1st April 2020
Finish - 30th April 2020

Levels:
Cafe Latte - 1 to 5 books
Flat White - 6 to 10 books
Double Espresso - 11 books or more

Tasks
✔ 📚 April 1st - April Fools' Day The Key Quest

✔ 📚 April 2nd - International Children's Book Day The Elephant's Girl

✔ 📚 April 7th - World Health Day Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe FixGabi

✔ 📚 April 11th - International Louie Louie Day Holes, by Louis Sachar

✔ 📚 April 16th - World Voice Day. Celebrate the phenomenon of voice. Read a book whose main character is loves someone's voice or whose voice is heard by many (singer, speaker, politician, boss, etc.) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane is a school teacher and has good an excellent both as a singer and speaker.

✔ 📚 April 21 - National Tea Day (United Kingdom) Read a book with a cup or a pot of tea on the cover, or whilst you are drinking a cup of tea. Swan Song

✔ 📚 April 22 - World Earth Day Moonscript

✔ 📚 April 23rd - World Book & Copyright Day Penric and the Shaman

✔ 📚 April 29th - International Dance Day Read a book where the main character is a dancer or where they perform something (dance, theatre) Clockwork Angels, Owen Hardy juggles

✔ 📚 April 30th - International Jazz Day
Read a book where the main character is a musician or read a book whilst listening to music A Curse So Dark and Lonely, I listened to music while reading this one

Bonus!

✔ 📚 April 1st - International Edible Book Festival. An annual event where edible books are created then displayed in small events. They're then photographed and eaten!
Read a book whilst eating something or where a character eats something.

Rules
[~ Book must be 100 pages in any reading format and in any genre.
~ Re-reads allowed
~ Books only count for one task in this challenge. (hide spoiler)]


**Earn this badge for reaching Flat White (hide spoiler)]

2020 Tea Time (6 Month Challenge) - CBG

Duration: 1st April - 30th September

After a crazy start to 2020 (natural disasters, weather phenomona and a public health pandemic), let's recharge our batteries with a cup of tea or two for whatever else 2020 will bring.

How to Participate:
There are 4 levels for you to choose from.
Levels:
Tea for One: 1-5 books
Tea for Two: 6-10 books
Tea Party: 11-20 books
High Tea: 21-30 books

Make yourself a cup of tea by reading a book from each step. You can read them in any order you want and skip steps as well. Make yourself just one tea or a few cups!

*Rules
Spell-it-out rules: Use the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter of the series name, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nickname.
Re-reads are welcome.
A different book must be used for each task.


TASKS
1. It's time to make a cup of tea! Spell out tea
✔ T - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
✔ E - The Elephant's Girl
✔ A - Aurora Rising

2. Boil the water
✔ 80°C - Read a book with something hot on the cover
✔ 90°C - Read a book with the letters of 'hot' in the title The Cloud Roads
✔ 100°C - Read a book where a character gets hot Holes

3. Choose your tea cup
Read a book tagged by the genre of the tea cup you choose
✔ Fantasy The Key Quest
✔ Historical Shadow of Night
✔ Young adult Moonscript
✔ New adult A Court of Thorns and Roses
✔ Paranormal Swan Song
✔ Romance Smoke Bitten
✔ Classic Bleak House
✔ Steampunk Clockwork Angels
✔ Mythology Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

4. Choose your tea
Read a book where the cover matches the tea
✔ Black - Black cover The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
✔ Green - Green cover Sent
✔ White - White cover The Cruel Prince
✔ Herbal - Yellow cover The Mouse Watch
✔ Fruit - Pink cover The Second Home
✔ Oolong - Brown cover Artemis Fowl
✔ Rooibos - Red cover A Discovery of Witches

5. Is it loose leaf or in a tea bag?
✔ Loose Leaf - Read a book with a male MC Holes
✔ Tea bag - Read a book with a female MC In the Time of the Butterflies

6. Steep the tea
✔ Weak - Up to 100 pages Annalynn the Canadian Spy: Terrible Tissues 92 pages
✔ Medium - 101 to 300 pages The Defense Quest 270 pages
✔ Strong - 301+ pages A Curse So Dark and Lonely 489 pages

7. Add your sweetener
You can add as many as you want
✔ No sugar - Stand alone The Hob's Bargain
✔ Sugar - 1st in series Penric's Demon
✔ Honey - 2nd in series Penric and the Shaman
✔ Lemon - 3rd in series Penric's Fox
✔ Artificial sweetener - 4th in series Penric’s Mission

8. Add your milk
✔ No milk - Under 1,000 ratings Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe
✔ A dash of milk - 1,001 - 2,000 ratings Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours
✔ Lots of milk - 2,001 - 3,000 ratings The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
✔ Mostly milk - 3,001+ ratings The Water Dancer

9. Choose your snack
Will you enjoy your tea with a snack or two?
Read a book with one of the items below on the cover
Biscuit
Cookie
Cake
Cupcake
Pie
Cucumber sandwiches (any sandwich)
✔ Honey - for the tea
✔ Fruit - pomegranate and blueberries Mira's Last Dance
✔ No snack (no food on the cover) The Secret History

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Down with History: Round 2

Read 50 books that are classified as historical fiction that cover as many different countries or time periods as possible

Level 1 - Ancient Ancestors (2 Books)
✔ 1. In the Time of the Butterflies, Dominican Republic, 1930s-1960, 1994
✔ 2. Sent, 1483, England

Level 2 - Medieval Mayhem (4 Books)
✔ 3. The Water Dancer, 19th century, Virginia/US
✔ 4. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1790, Tarrytown, NY

Level 3 - Days of Empire (7 Books)
✔ 5. Shadow of Night, 1590/91, London, Saint Lucien, and Prague
✔ 6. Heart's Blood, Ireland, 12th century Norman invasion
✔ 7. The Court of Miracles, France, 1828

Level 4 - Wars of Old (10 Books)
✔ 8. Homegoing, Ghana, 18th century-present, also America, Baltimore and Palo Alto
✔ 9. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Turkey, 20th century
✔ 10. The War That Saved My Life, England, WWII

Level 5 - The Past is the Past (15 Books)
✔ 11. The Night Tiger, Malaya, 1930s
✔ 12. Memoirs of a Geisha, Kyoto, Japan, 1930s
✔ 13. The Killer Angels, America, Civil War
✔ 14. Towers Falling, Contemporary, but covers 911, NYC
✔ 15. Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina
✔ 16. Home, Gilead, Iowa, 20th century
✔ 17. Ghost Boys, Chicago, IL
✔ 18. The Boy Who Saw In Colours, Germany, WWII
✔ 19. Dominicana, NYC, 1960s
✔ 20. 'Til the Well Runs Dry, Trinidad, 1943-1960s.
✔ 21. The Dream Daughter, 1970, NC, 2001, NYC, 2013, NJ
✔ 22. Necessary Lies, mid-20th century, NC
✔ 23. 4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace, multiple time periods, multiple locations
24. The Fountains of Silence, Madrid, 1957; Dallas, TX, 1975; Madrid, 1976;
25. Crossings, 150s years, 7 lifetimes

Clue The Character/Career Challenge: Round 2

Read a book where the main character has the following careers
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✔ Miss Scarlet (law): Beach Road This is basically a legal crime drama. Tom and Kate are both lawyers.
✔ Colonel Mustard (military): The Killer Angels This is about the Civil war so there are several military men in this one.
✔ Reverend Green (religion): Home Two of the characters are pastors.
✔ Professor Plum (educator): A Discovery of Witches Both main characters are professors
✔ Mrs. Peacock (business): The Wall of Winnipeg and Me Van has her own graphics design business
Sergeant Gray (law enforcement):
✔ Mr. Brown (con artist/spy): The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Maurice is a con artist running a Pied Piper scam
✔ Mr. Black/Boddy (dead or dies): 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Tequila Leila is dead at the beginning of the book (which is the end)

2020 Rainbow Challenge (CBBC)

Start Date: 1st January 2020
End Date: 31st December 2020

How to participate:
The point of the challenge is to create rainbows using the books that you have read (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). You can add in pink, white, brown and black to your rainbow for covers.
No page limit.
Re-reads are welcome.
Books read before you sign up count, as long as they're within the start & end dates.
As you read your books, edit your original comment to let us know your progress.

There are two ways that you can do the challenge.

1. Using the colors on the book cover to create a rainbow


2. Spell out "Rainbow" with author or title.
R Razor: Becoming a Hero
O One for the Money
Y Yes No Maybe So
G Go Tell It on the Mountain
B Big Lies in a Small Town
I The Importance of Being Earnest
V V for Vendetta

R Randomize
A Astrid and Apollo and the Starry Campout
I In the Time of the Butterflies
N No Country for Old Men
B The Bootlace Magician
O Of Mice and Men
W A Wizard of Earthsea

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New to You: Part II ✔ ✔ ✔

Read 100 books by authors who are new to you

Level One: Test the Waters (1 New Author)
✔ 1. Find Another Dream, Maysoon Zayid

Level Two: Wade in the Shallow End (3 New Authors)
✔ 2. A Trick of Light, Stan Lee
✔ 3. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, A.J. Hartley

Level Three: Take a Swim (6 New Authors)
✔ 4. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
✔ 5. Razor: Becoming a Hero, Wilkie Martin
✔ 6. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

Level Four: Dive Right In (10 New Authors)
✔ 7. Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
✔ 8. Tithe, Holly Black
✔ 9. Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, Rachel Simon
✔ 10. Don't Read the Comments, Eric Smith

Level Five: Going Deeper (15 New Authors)
✔ 11. Tell Me Lies, J.P. Pomare
✔ 12. Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez
✔ 13. In the Dark, Loreth Anne White
✔ 14. The Only Child, Mi-ae Seo
✔ 15. Found, Margaret Peterson Haddix

Level Six: Going Deeper (50 New Authors)
✔ 16. Big Lies in a Small Town, Diane Chamberlain
✔ 17. Killing Floor, Lee Child
✔ 18. Holes, Louis Sachar
✔ 19. Moonscript, H.S.J. Williams
✔ 20. In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
✔ 21. The Cloud Roads, Martha Wells
✔ 22. Swan Song, Robert R. McCammon
✔ 23. The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree, Bill Brittain
✔ 24. The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
✔ 25. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, Washington Irving
✔ 26. A Curse So Dark and Lonely, Brigid Kemmerer
✔ 27. Aurora Rising, Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
✔ 28. The Elephant's Girl, Celesta Rimington
✔ 29. A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness
✔ 30. Heart's Blood, Juliet Marillier
✔ 31. The Court of Miracles, Kester Grant
✔ 32. Dear Edward, Ann Napolitano
✔ 33. Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple
✔ 34. Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry
✔ 35. Calypso, David Sedaris
✔ 36. The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
✔ 37. The Second Home, Christina Clancy
✔ 38. Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
✔ 39. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak
✔ 40. The Wall of Winnipeg and Me, Mariana Zapata
✔ 41. The War That Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
✔ 42. Something Fresh, P.G. Wodehouse
✔ 43. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, Jonathan Van Ness
✔ 44. The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo
✔ 45. Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, Jen Hatmaker
✔ 46. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
✔ 47. The Mouse Watch, J J Gilbert
✔ 48. The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
✔ 49. Towers Falling, Jewell Parker Rhodes
✔ 50. Zinnia and the Bees, Danielle Davis
✔ 51. Blood: A Memoir, Allison Moorer
✔ 52. Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, Jen Hatmaker
✔ 53. The Brave, James Bird
✔ 54. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
✔ 55. Chace Ogden and the Golden Golem, Trevor Darby
✔ 56. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
✔ 57. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
✔ 58. How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
✔ 59. So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
✔ 60. A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Moore Ramee
✔ 61. Dear Martin, Nic Stone
✔ 62. Navigate Your Stars, Jesmyn Ward
✔ 63. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, Anthony Ray Hinton
✔ 64. The Black Flamingo, Dean Atta
✔ 65. The Boy Who Saw In Colours, Lauren Robinson
✔ 66. The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré
✔ 67. Genesis Begins Again, Alicia D. Williams
✔ 68. The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance, Matt Ortile
✔ 69. The Voting Booth, Brandy Colbert
✔ 70. Dominicana, Angie Cruz
✔ 71. 'Til the Well Runs Dry, Lauren Francis-Sharma
✔ 72. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
✔ 73. Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
✔ 74. Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon
✔ 75. Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
✔ 76. What You Wish For, Katherine Center
✔ 77. 4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace, Johan Twiss
✔ 78. Today Tonight Tomorrow, Rachel Lynn Solomon
79. Crossings, Alex Landragin

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History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp
February: 37 books, 11918 pp
March: 32 books, 14,810 pp
April:50 books, 16,207 pp

Starting my May reads!
Goal: 10000 pages. 30 books
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TBR (will likely change and morph, as usual):


May 1:
Dear Edward, pp 1-352 = 352 pp ✔
Where'd You Go, Bernadette, pp 1-211 = 211 pp
🌷daily tally: 563 pp

May 2:
Snow, Glass, Apples, pp 1-88 = 88 pp ✔
Where'd You Go, Bernadette, pp 211-335 = 124 pp ✔
Calypso, pp 1-273 = 273 pp ✔
The Court of Miracles, pp 125-237 = 112 pp
🌷daily tally: 597 pp

May 3:
Peter and the Starcatchers, pp 1-480 = 480 pp ✔
The Court of Miracles, pp 237-464 = 227 pp ✔
The Silent Patient, 1-35 = 35 pp
🌷daily tally: 742 pp

May 4:
The Silent Patient, 35-325 = 290 pp ✔
Macbeth, pp 1-104 = 104 pp
The Second Home, pp 35-53 = 18 pp
🌷daily tally: 412 pp

May 5:
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, pp 1-405 = 405 pp ✔
Macbeth, pp 104-184 = 80 pp
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, pp 1-17 = 17 pp
The Second Home, pp 53-88 = 35 pp
🌷daily tally: 537 pp

May 6:
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, pp 1-368 = 368 pp ✔
The Wee Free Men, pp 1-128 = 128 pp
The Second Home, pp 88-151 = 63 pp
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, pp 17-113 = 96 pp
Macbeth, pp 184-222 = 38 pp
🌷daily tally: 693 pp

May 7:
The Second Home, pp 151-352 = 201 pp ✔
Macbeth, pp 222-329 = 107 = pp ✔
The Wee Free Men, pp 128-255 = 127 pp
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, pp 113-215 = 102 pp
Master of Madhouse: Sadists, Mansions and Mayhem 1894, pp 1-52 = 52 pp
🌷daily tally: 589 pp

May 8:
The Wee Free Men, pp 255-375 = 120 pp ✔
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, pp 215-345 = 130 pp ✔
Master of Madhouse: Sadists, Mansions and Mayhem 1894, pp 52-185 = 133 pp
Homegoing, pp 1-77 = 77 pp
🌷daily tally: 460 pp

May 9:
The Reluctant Dragon, pp 1-96 = 96 pp ✔
Homegoing, pp 77-211 = 134 pp
Master of Madhouse: Sadists, Mansions and Mayhem 1894, pp 185-232 = 47 pp
🌷daily tally: 277 pp

May 10:
Homegoing, pp 211-320 = 119 pp ✔
The Final Warning, pp 1-273 = 273 pp ✔
Master of Madhouse: Sadists, Mansions and Mayhem 1894, pp 232-369 = 137 pp ✔
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, pp 1-161 = 161 pp
🌷daily tally: 690 pp

May 11:
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, pp 161-255 = 94 pp ✔
Life, the Universe and Everything, pp 1-242 = 242 pp ✔
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me, pp 1-193 = 193 pp
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, pp 1-83 = 83 pp
🌷daily tally: 612 pp

May 12:
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me, pp 193-673 = 480 pp ✔
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, pp 83-170 = 87 pp
The War That Saved My Life, pp 1-106 = 106 pp
🌷daily tally: 673 pp

May 13:
The War That Saved My Life, pp 106-322 = 216 pp ✔
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, pp 170-320 = 150 pp ✔
Something Fresh, pp 1-142 = 142 pp
🌷daily tally: 508 pp

May 14:
Something Fresh, pp 142-284 = 142 pp ✔
The War I Finally Won, pp 1-400 = 400 pp ✔
Jerry the Squirrel: Volume One, pp 1-132 = 132 pp ✔
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, pp 1-150 = 150 pp
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, pp 1-27 = 27 pp
🌷daily tally: 851 pp

May 15:
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, pp 150-276 = 126 pp ✔
The Tablet, pp 1-44 = 44 pp ✔
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, pp 1-225 = 225 pp ✔
Shorefall, pp 1-53 = 53 pp
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, pp 27-43 = 16 pp
🌷daily tally: 464 pp

May 16:
Out of My Mind, pp 1-320 = 320 pp ✔
The Night Tiger, pp 1-134 = 134 pp
Shorefall, pp 53-210 = 157 pp
🌷daily tally: 611 pp

May 17:
The Night Tiger, pp 134-384 = 250 pp ✔
Nine Perfect Strangers, pp 1-192 = 192 pp
Shorefall, pp 210-327 = 117 pp
🌷daily tally: 559 pp

May 18:
Nine Perfect Strangers, pp 192-458 = 266 pp ✔
Clap When You Land, pp 1-121 = 121 pp
Memoirs of a Geisha, pp 1-133 = 133 pp
Shorefall, pp 327-341 = 14 pp
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, pp 43-60 = 17 pp
🌷daily tally: 551 pp

May 19:
Shorefall, pp 341-497 = 156 pp ✔
Memoirs of a Geisha, pp 133-343 = 210 pp
Clap When You Land, pp 121-161 = 40 pp
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, pp 60-76 = 16 pp
🌷daily tally: 422 pp

May 20:
Clap When You Land, pp 161-432 = 271 pp ✔
Memoirs of a Geisha, pp 343-512 = 169 pp ✔
The Mouse Watch, pp 1-258 = 258 pp ✔
Astrid and Apollo and the Starry Campout, pp 1-66 = 66 pp ✔
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, pp 76-92 = 16 pp
🌷daily tally: 780 pp

May 21:
The Killer Angels, pp 1-245 = 245 pp
🌷daily tally: 245 pp

May 22:
The Killer Angels, pp 245-402 = 157 pp ✔
Undead Girl Gang, pp 1-302 = 302 pp ✔
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, pp 92-112 = 20 pp
🌷daily tally: 479 pp

May 23:
The Night Circus, pp 1-401 = 401 pp ✔
🌷daily tally: 401 pp

May 24:
Towers Falling, pp 1-240 = 240 pp ✔
Ninth Ward, pp 1-224 = 224 pp ✔
Zinnia and the Bees, pp 1-240 = 240 pp ✔
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, pp 112-146 = 34 pp
A Hat Full of Sky, pp 1-180 = 180 pp
🌷daily tally: 918 pp

May 25:
A Hat Full of Sky, pp 180-352 = 172 pp ✔
Max, pp 1-320 = 320 pp ✔
Wintersmith, pp 1-400 = 400 pp ✔
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, pp 146-157 = 11 pp
🌷daily tally: 903 pp

May 26:
I Shall Wear Midnight, pp 1-434 = 434 pp ✔
The Shepherd's Crown, pp 1-100 = 100 pp
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, pp 157-164 = 7 pp
🌷daily tally: 541 pp

May 27:
The Shepherd's Crown, pp 100-352 = 252 pp ✔
Blood: A Memoir, pp 1-320 = 320 pp ✔
Third Grave Dead Ahead, pp 1-132 = 132 pp
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, pp 164-177 = 13 pp
🌷daily tally: 717 pp

May 28:
Third Grave Dead Ahead, pp 132-330 = 198 pp ✔
Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet, pp 1-368 = 368 pp ✔
🌷daily tally: 566 pp

May 29:
Sixth Grave on the Edge, pp 1-337 = 337 pp ✔
🌷daily tally: 337 pp

May 30:
Fifth Grave Past the Light, pp 1-353 = 353 pp ✔
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, pp 164-224 = 60 pp ✔
Seventh Grave and No Body, pp 1-352 = 352 pp ✔
The Brave, pp 1-48 = 48 pp
🌷daily tally: 813 pp

May 31:
Eighth Grave After Dark, pp 1-352 = 352 pp ✔
Brighter Than the Sun, pp 1-112 = 112 pp ✔
The Brave, pp 48-320 = 272 pp ✔
The Dirt on Ninth Grave, pp 1-127 = 127 pp
🌷daily tally: 863 pp

Total Pages Read: 18,374 pp
Books Finished: 56
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Tragedy and Humor:


Sad, but not Tragic:


ARCs:


Reading with Goodreads:


Other:


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Start Date: 01/01/20
End Date: 12/31/20 (or whenever I finish)
Tasks completed: 125
Status: Zoo helper, training for Zoo keeper

♥ Training for each position:
--- Gift Shop Employee: Finish 2 tasks from HALF the animals [25 books]
--- Zoo Helper: Finish 1 task from every animal [50 books]
--- Zookeeper: Finish 2 tasks from every animal [100 books]
--- Veterinarian: Read 3 books from every animal [150 books]
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Frogs
✔ Read a book with a cover that is very bright and colorful.
WHY IT COUNTS: Bright yellow
Throne of Glass Read a book with the word "glass" in the title.
WHY IT COUNTS: The series and this first book has "Glass" in the title.
✔ Read a book where a character is bullied at some point during the story.
WHY IT COUNTS: The main character is bullied by Harry

Crocodiles & Alligators
✔ Read a book from the Books Containing Dangerous Ideas Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list!
___ Read a book where the main characters closest relatives are either strange or dead.
WHY IT COUNTS:
✔ Read an English book with characters who have Spanish name.
WHY IT COUNTS: The book is full of characters of Latinx descent

Lizards
✔ Read a book with diverse characters.
WHY IT COUNTS: The two main characters have very unique names and are also lgtbq and POC.
✔ Read a book in which a significant character is almost blind or completely blind.
WHY IT COUNTS: Miss Treason (who Tiffany stays with and is working with) is blind
The Mists of Avalon Read a book written by an author with the letters LIZARD in his or her name.
WHY IT COUNTS: MARIon Zimmer BraDLey

Tortoises
✔ Read a book in which a character is a serious creep.
WHY IT COUNTS: Creepy bad guy sitting in prison
✔ Read a book in which a character has a pet tortoise or turtle.
WHY IT COUNTS: Nalan has a pair of turtles, Tutti and Frutti
✔ Read a book from the Popular Slow Reads Genre Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list

Snakes
✔ Read a book with a mother who tries to hurt her child(ren) is some way.
WHY IT COUNTS: The main scientist and creator of all the genetic crosses (which she calls her "children") kills them off once they lose their usefulness.
✔ Read a book that you have been afraid to pick up, for whatever reason.
WHY IT COUNTS: I'm always reluctant to read Westerns because they're just not my usual genre. This was pretty good though.
✔ Read a book in which the main character is given poison.
WHY IT COUNTS: 4 of the main characters are poisoned - Hamlet, Gertrude, Laertes, and Claudius

Komodo Dragon
✔ Read a book set on an island and/or Indonesia.
WHY IT COUNTS: It takes place on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
✔ Read a book with at least a small amount of each of these 4 colors on the cover. Use TinEye to determine this.
WHY IT COUNTS: TinEye says there's shades of blue, green, grey, and orange on the cover
✔ Read a book from the Dragons/Serpents Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list

Owls
✔ Read a book that is tagged "philosophy".
WHY IT COUNTS: It is tagged as philosophy on the main page
✔ Read a book set primarily in the United Kingdom.
WHY IT COUNTS: Most of it takes place in England or the outskirts
City of Bones Read a book from the Keep You Up All Night Romance Books Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list

Flamingos
✔ Read a book with a pink cover.
WHY IT COUNTS: The cover is primarily pink
✔ Read a book with the letters FLAMINGO in the title.
WHY IT COUNTS: The word "Flamingo" is in the title
✔ Read a book where a character travels a long distance.
WHY IT COUNTS: The character not only travels to London, France, and Czech Republic, but she also time travels from present to 1590.

Ostriches
✔ Read a book from the Best Books for Long Flights Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list
✔ Read a book from the Popular Quick Reads genre list.
WHY IT COUNTS:
✔ Read a book with a physically powerful MC.
WHY IT COUNTS: Mercy is a shapeshifting Coyote and her husband Adam is a Werewolf. They are surrounded by many physically powerful werewolves and vampires.

Eagles
✔ Read a book set in or based on the Roman empire.
WHY IT COUNTS: The Romans have invaded Gaul and Asterix and Obelix are two guys in a village that is the last holdout against the Romans.
✔ Read a book by an author with the letters EAGLE in their name.
WHY IT COUNTS: mArGarEt rEnkL
✔ Read a book primarily set in a location very far away from where you live.
WHY IT COUNTS: It takes place in Korea and Japan

Hawks
___ Read a book with a kettle or tea on the cover.
WHY IT COUNTS:
✔ Read a book from the Kick-Ass Heroines Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list and Kaye definitely qualifies as Kick-Ass.
✔ Read a book that is tagged "war".
WHY IT COUNTS: This book is historical fiction that takes place during World War II.

Tropical Birds
✔ Read a book that is tagged "retelling".
WHY IT COUNTS: It's a retelling of Beauty and the Beast
✔ Read an anthology of short stories.
WHY IT COUNTS: This is an anthology of short stories
✔ Read a book with 500 or more pages.
WHY IT COUNTS: This was 579 pages

Waterfowl
✔ Read a book that is tagged "horror" or "thriller".
WHY IT COUNTS: This is tagged as a thriller
✔ Read a book with an ugly cover that has an average rating of 4.0 or greater.
WHY IT COUNTS: It has an average rating of 4.13, but I think that cover is ugly.
✔ Read a book with a character who is a diver or dives into the water at some point.
WHY IT COUNTS: Sancia and Gregor end up diving into the water to escape the sinking Galleon.

Bats
✔ Read a book that is tagged "supernatural". For ideas, visit the "Supernatural" genre page .
WHY IT COUNTS: This is tagged paranormal on the main page and supernatural later. People seem to use the two terms interchangeably but use paranormal more often (I do).
✔ Read a book from the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Books with Strong Female Characters Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list and Tehanu is definitely a strong female character in a fantasy book
✔ Listen to an audiobook.
WHY IT COUNTS: I listened to it as an audiobook
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Wolves
✔ Read a book that is at least 50% blue. Use TinEye to help determine this.
WHY IT COUNTS: The cover is mostly shades of blue
✔ Read a book with the letters WOLVES in the title.
WHY IT COUNTS: OVEr the top: a raW journey to Self-Love
✔ Read a book from the Best Friendship Books Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: This is on the list

Foxes
✔ Read a book that is less than 200 pages.
WHY IT COUNTS: It has 195 pages
✔ Read a book whose author's initials can be found in the word FOXES.
WHY IT COUNTS: The author is Eric Smith, E.S.
✔ Read a book that is set in someplace cold.
WHY IT COUNTS: It takes place off the coast of the southern tip of Chile, both in the frigid waters as well as on a desolate island.

Hyenas
✔ Read a book tagged Humor.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's tagged as humor
✔ Read a book with a cannibal.
WHY IT COUNTS: There were cannibals mentioned in the story
✔ Read a book where the MC is a female.
WHY IT COUNTS: Main character is a girl, Jackie.

Tigers
✔ Read a book with the number 6 in the page count.
WHY IT COUNTS: 160 pages
✔ Read a book from the Big Fat Books Worth the Effort Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list
✔ Read a book with stripes on the cover.
WHY IT COUNTS: There are horizontal stripes on the cover.

Lions
✔ Read a book with food on the cover.
WHY IT COUNTS: It has celery on the cover
✔ Read a book where a male is the MC.
WHY IT COUNTS: Pendergast is the main character
✔ Read a book about a group of related female family members who live together (4 or more, males in the household are okay too).
WHY IT COUNTS: Gabi lives with a huge family, both adopted and real. Her mother, and then all of her fathers, who are a mix of males and females.

Cougars
✔ Read a book with any of the four words "puma", "mountain", "lion" or "panther" in the title.
WHY IT COUNTS: It has the word "mountain" in the title
✔ Read a book with a character who you would consider a "cougar".
WHY IT COUNTS: In the book, Scarlett the ancient evil woman is called a "Cougar" by Angus. He means that in the sense of a predator, but also because she is an ancient being searching for hosts to propagate. She has possessed Rachel's body to try to propagate with Angus.
✔ Read a book with a house cat on the cover.
WHY IT COUNTS: It has a house cat (Chester) on the cover.

Leopards
✔ Read a book with a rose on the cover.
WHY IT COUNTS: It has a single rose on the cover
✔ Read a book while it's raining (at least half of the book should be read when it's raining outside.
WHY IT COUNTS: It was pouring for most of the day
✔ Read a book that is tagged "survival".
WHY IT COUNTS: It is tagged as "survival" on the main page

Cheetahs
✔ Read a book from the Popular Fast Book genre list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list
✔ Read a book with a main or secondary character who is a football player.
WHY IT COUNTS: The "Wall of Winnipeg" is a football player
✔ Read a book with the number 8 in the page count.
WHY IT COUNTS: 896 pages

Gazelles, Impalas, Deer, Kudos, etc.
✔ Read a book with a character who likes to drive fast.
WHY IT COUNTS: Marva drives like a maniac,
✔ Read a book where a character does something big that deserves high kudos.
WHY IT COUNTS: She establishes an Elephant sanctuary
___ Read a book of love poems. Any page count is accepted for this task, as long as it is a book of poetry and not just A poem.
WHY IT COUNTS:

Zebras
✔ Read a book that is tagged "murder mystery"
WHY IT COUNTS: It has been tagged "murder mystery" by over 100 people and "mystery" by many more. It IS a murder mystery.
✔ Read a book set primarily in Africa.
WHY IT COUNTS: It takes place in Ghana and America. Much of the first half takes place in Africa.
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WHY IT COUNTS:

Giraffes
✔ Read a book from a series that has exactly 6 books in the series.
WHY IT COUNTS: There are 6 books in the series. There are some short stories, but 6 official books.
✔ Read a book with a character who rarely or never sleeps.
WHY IT COUNTS: Charley is barely sleeping in this book.
✔ Read a book that is set in a land with very little water.
WHY IT COUNTS: This occurs at a time when many of the crops in America are failing because of a lack of water.

Hogs/Boar
✔ Read a book set primarily in Antarctica.
WHY IT COUNTS: It takes place in Antarctica
✔ Read a book about doctors and/or nurses.
WHY IT COUNTS: The main character is a doctor (psychologist) and he works with other doctors and nurses in an asylum as he tries to help a patient convicted for murdering her husband.
✔ Read a book where a character has to do something very desperate to survive.
WHY IT COUNTS: Nina (Eponine) does things most of The Wretched would never do over and over as she tries to save both her life and her sisters' lives. Several times other characters call on her insane for doing so.

Hippos
✔ Read a book with the letters RIVERHORSE or WATERHORSE in the title and/or author's name.
WHY IT COUNTS: the RestauRant at tHe end Of the unIVERSE.
✔ Read a book that addresses weight issues.
WHY IT COUNTS: This book is about the author's battle with eating disorders and is a graphic novel
✔ Read a book with water on the cover.
WHY IT COUNTS: Water is both in the title and on the cover

Elephants
✔ Read a book from the Circus/Carnival Books Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list
✔ Read a book with a character who is over 70 years old.
WHY IT COUNTS: Mother Abigail is over 100 years old
✔ Read a book with a character who is a teenage mother.
WHY IT COUNTS: One of the three main characters becomes a teenage mother

Rhinos
___ Read a book from the Popular Pregnancy Books genre list.
WHY IT COUNTS:
✔ Read a book where a very valuable item is part of the main storyline.
WHY IT COUNTS: The book of life is THE item that everyone is searching for throughout the trilogy.
✔ Read a book with a character who is a vegetarian or vegan.
WHY IT COUNTS: Geoffrey is a vegetarian

Bison & Buffalo
✔ Read a book with characters who are twins, or a character who had a twin that died.
WHY IT COUNTS: Two of the main characters were twins.
✔ Read a book from the Popular Mistaken Identity Books genre list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list.
___ Read a book set primarily in one of these three states: Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, USA.
WHY IT COUNTS:
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Bears
___ Read a book where two characters are embracing on the cover.
WHY IT COUNTS:
✔ Read a book that is 500 pages or more.
WHY IT COUNTS: It has 561 pages
✔ Read a book set in WW2.
WHY IT COUNTS: This takes place during WW2

Pandas
___ Read a book set primarily in China.
WHY IT COUNTS:
✔ Read a book with the letters BAMBOO in the title.
WHY IT COUNTS: i Am Malala: the stOry of the girl whO stood up for education and was shot By the taliBan
✔ Read a book that has 1000 or less ratings.
WHY IT COUNTS: It has 12 ratings

Sloths
✔ Read a book from the Slow Build Romance Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list
✔ Read a book with a significant character who is said to be ugly.
WHY IT COUNTS: Granny and Auntie is described as very ugly. Also, many of the Geisha saw Nobu as ugly, although he was just burned and injured in the war.
✔ Read a book about a failed romance or about two characters who are in a relationship but have very little (if any) sex.
WHY IT COUNTS: Two of the main characters have a strange relationship full of sexual tension (eventually) but never have sex in this book.

Monkeys
✔ Read a book with one of these words in the title: ‘tribe’, ‘troop’ or ‘mission’.
WHY IT COUNTS: Penric's Mission
✔ Read a book from an author who is a different ethnicity than you.
WHY IT COUNTS: I am Taiwanese and the author is African American
✔ Read a book that was published in the year of the monkey.
WHY IT COUNTS: It was published in 1980

Apes
2001: A Space Odyssey___ Read a book from the Monkey Business Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list
✔ Read a book where one of the characters uses sign language.
WHY IT COUNTS: Charley uses sign language to communicate with one of the boys.
✔ Read a book by an author who originated from one of these continents, or currently lives there: Africa & Asia.
WHY IT COUNTS: He was born in Saigon, Vietnam

Skunks
✔ Read a book that has a character who stinks, figuratively or literally.
WHY IT COUNTS: One of Jerry's boarders, Gary, really really stinks!
✔ Read a book that has a punk-rock character or has a punk-rock feel.
WHY IT COUNTS: The book/project was co-created by Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart (Rush drummer). It is also classified as Steampunk and the whole book has a feel of punk rock to me.
✔ Read a book that is completely black & white (grays are ok).
WHY IT COUNTS: It's black

Porcupines
✔ Read a book with something sharp on the cover.
WHY IT COUNTS: Geralt is holding a sword
✔ Read a book that has a medical aspect to it.
WHY IT COUNTS: The main character has Marfan's syndrome and it plays a big role in the plot.
✔ Read a "bad romance" or a book about a couple with a not-so-healthy relationship.
WHY IT COUNTS: This book covers domestic violence

Weasels
✔ Read a book with a character who is a weasel.
WHY IT COUNTS: A weasel is one of the characters
✔ Read a book with a fierce character who overcomes something that seems 10 times their size.
WHY IT COUNTS: The Wee Free Men/Pictsies/NacMacFeegles are tiny fierce warriors and will definitely go after those that are way bigger than they are.
✔ Read a book with a bomb on the cover or that mentions a bomb at some point in the book.
WHY IT COUNTS: A nuclear bomb destroys much of the world and this is the story of the survivors in the aftermath. There is also the explosion of the bomb on the cover.

Kangaroos
✔ Read a book set primarily in Australia.
WHY IT COUNTS: Most of it takes place in Australia although some of it also takes place in Cornwall, England.
✔ Read a book from a series that has exactly 4 books in the series.
WHY IT COUNTS: This is the fourth book in a 4-book series
✔ Read a book with a character named Joey.
WHY IT COUNTS: One of Collin's brother's friends is Joey.

Koalas
✔ Read a book where a character is not who they seem.
WHY IT COUNTS: Without revealing any spoilers, there were some creepy surprises.
✔ Read a book that you chose because you were trying to find "only the best".
WHY IT COUNTS: I read this because I am trying to find "only the best" in myself and also in others.
✔ Read a book where human women do this, or about a lesbian or bisexual woman.
WHY IT COUNTS: Leah is coming to terms as a bisexual

Opossum
✔ Read a book where a character fakes his or her death.
WHY IT COUNTS: We find out that Diogenese Pendergast faked his own death.
✔ Read a book at night (over half of the book should be read at nighttime).
WHY IT COUNTS: Most of this was read at night
✔ Read a book that is very odd.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's funny, but it's definitely odd. That's British humour for you!

Manatees
___ Read a book with the word "gentle" in the title.
WHY IT COUNTS:
✔ Read a book from the Best Mermaid Books Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list
✔ Read a book that has a cover that is mainly blue, green and/or gray, but has no red on it. Use TinEye to determine this.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's mostly green (and black) with no red

Sea Lions & Seals
___ Read a book with two characters who seem similar but are actually very different.
WHY IT COUNTS:
--- Read a book with a seal on the cover. It can be the animal, what is on documents and/or envelopes, Navy Seal...
WHY IT COUNTS:
✔ Read a book with over 2,500 ratings.
WHY IT COUNTS: It has over 6500 ratings

Walruses
✔ Read a book with whiskers on the cover (walrus, cat, dog, man, etc."
WHY IT COUNTS: The mice have whiskers
✔ Read a book that has the genre tag "comedy" on the main page.
WHY IT COUNTS:
✔ Read a book that takes place primarily in Canada, Greenland, Russia or Alaska.
WHY IT COUNTS: This mostly takes place in Canada

Penguins
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Read a book with the letters WADDLE in the title.
WHY IT COUNTS: WilD: from Lost to founD on the pAcific crEst trail
✔ Read a book that takes place at some point during Christmas time.
WHY IT COUNTS: They celebrate Christmas her senior year
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers Read a book that has something catastrophic happen.
WHY IT COUNTS: This is the story of 9/11

Sharks
___ Read a book with a character who loves food a little too much.
WHY IT COUNTS:
✔ Read a book with over 3.7 million ratings.
WHY IT COUNTS: It has over 6 million ratings
___ Read a book with teeth on the cover.
WHY IT COUNTS:

Turtles
✔ Read a book that has a dinosaur in it, whether it be alive or a fossil, even for a small moment in the book.
WHY IT COUNTS: At the beginning there is a little boy who has a toy dinosaur.
The Testaments Read a book where there is a problem with society that makes it difficult for reproduction.
WHY IT COUNTS: The society that Offred lives in has difficulty with reproduction.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Read a book with the genre tag "travel" on the main page, or has a main character that travels a lot (not just from one place to another, but does it frequently).
WHY IT COUNTS: It's tagged Travel on the main page

Dolphins
✔ Read a book with a character that is fun and playful.
WHY IT COUNTS: Charley often doesn't take things seriously and is totally fun and full of snark.
___ Read a book set primarily in Mexico.
WHY IT COUNTS:
✔ Read a book with a character who is extremely intelligent.
WHY IT COUNTS: Jack Brigance is quite intelligent, but his volunteer paralegal, Ellen Roark is off the charts smart.

Whales
✔ Read a book about a serial killer.
WHY IT COUNTS: Diogenese Pendergast is the serial killer
Les Misérables Read one of the top 10 books with the largest number of pages on your TBR.
WHY IT COUNTS: It has 1463 pages, making it the longest book on my list thus far
✔ Read a book with a very steamy relationship or a "womanizer", a man who is good with the ladies.
WHY IT COUNTS: Reyes is basically the focus of every woman's attention when he walks into a room.

Fish
✔ Read a book that at some point takes place underwater.
WHY IT COUNTS: There are parts in Hawaii that takes place underwater.
✔ Read a book with fish on the cover (cooked & sushi count).
WHY IT COUNTS: There's a goldfish on the cover
✔ Read a book from the One Fish, Two Fish Listopia list.
WHY IT COUNTS: It's on the list
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