75 Books...More or Less! discussion

ABC Book Challenge:

A - Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce; The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson; The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie; The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman; Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu; Arsenic with Austen by Katherine Bolger Hyde; The Alienist by Caleb Carr; The Accidental Beauty Queen by Teri Wilson; Around the World in 72 Days by Nellie Bly; Archenemies by Marissa Meyer; Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials by Ovidia Yu

B - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson; The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown; Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan; The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald; The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson; The Benson Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine

C - The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken by Tarquin Hall; Copper River by William Kent Krueger; Cress by Marissa Meyer; Carswell's Guide to Being Luckyby Marissa Meyer; The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole; The Council of Twelve by Oliver Pötzsch; Chronicles of a Radical Hag by Lorna Landvik; Children of the Street by Kwei Quartey; COVID-128 by Marissa Meyer; The Call of the Wild by Jack London; Claim The Wolf King by Meg Xuemei X.

D - Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris; Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak; Dog Dish of Doom by E.J. Copperman; Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen; Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris; The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; Death of Riley by Rhys Bowen; Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz; Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

E - The Empty Throne by Bernard Cornwell; The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

F - Fairest by Marissa Meyer; Four to Score by Janet Evanovich; The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold; Fishing with RayAnne by Ava Finch; Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3 by Robert Matzen; First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower; From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne; The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien; The First Lady by James Patterson; The Flame Bearer by Bernard Cornwell; From Time to Time by Jack Finney

G - Gone Rogue by Marissa Meyer; The Godfather by Mario Puzo; Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland; The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank by Erma Bombeck

H - Heart of the West by O. Henry; High Five by Janet Evanovich; Hot Six by Janet Evanovich; The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien; Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen; How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry; A Hard Ticket Home by David Housewright; Heaven's Keep by William Kent Krueger

I - The Institute by Stephen King

J - Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne; Jaws 2 by Hank Searls; James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories by James Herriot; The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn

K - Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific By Raft by Thor Heyerdahl

L - A Lone Star Christmas by William W. Johnstone; The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell; The Last Jedi by Jason Fry; Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland; Lady Susan by Jane Austen; The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu; The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

M - Mr. Roberts by Thomas Heggen; The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi; Midnight Blue by Simone van der Vlugt; Mr. Rochester by Sarah Shoemaker; Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor; Murder and Mendelssohn by Kerry Greenwood; Murder on the Minneapolis by Anita Davison; Mansfield Park by Jane Austen; Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan; The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey; Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain; Mrs. Pollifax on Safari by Dorothy Gilman; Manhattans & Murder by Jessica Fletcher; Marlene by C.W. Gortner

N - Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron; Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals by Ken Follett

O - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon; Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz

P - Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie; A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

Q - The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice; A Question of Death: An Illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury by Kerry Greenwood

R - The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1) by Riordan, Rick; The Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts; A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes; Red Knife by William Kent Krueger; Renegades by Marissa Meyer; The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

S - The Sobbin' Women by Stephen Vincent Benét; A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler; Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny; Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by William H. McRaven; Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2) by Meyer, Marissa; The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid; Stranger Things: Zombie Boys by Greg Pak; Stars Above by Marissa Meyer; Straight River by Chris Norbury; The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg; The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy; Stars Over Sunset Boulevard by Susan Meissner; Supernova by Marissa Meyer

T - This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger; These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer; Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger; Turtles All the Way Down by John Green; The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

U - Unnatural Habits by Kerry Greenwood; The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman; The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion by Gerard Way

V - The Vexed Generation by Scott Meyer; Virgins by Diana Gabaldon; Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets: The Official Movie Novelization by Christie Golden

W - Winter by Marissa Meyer; The White Queen by Philippa Gregory; The Wild Inside by Christine Carbo; Wires and Nerve, Volume 1 by Marissa Meyer; Warriors of the Storm by Bernard Cornwell; Wildflower by Drew Barrymore; Weather by Jenny Offill; The White Lioness by Henning Mankell; When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton; A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin; War of the Wolf by Bernard Cornwell

X - Xingu by Edith Wharton

Y - Your Oasis on Flame Lake by Lorna Landvik; The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani

Z - The Zero and the One by Ryan Ruby

ABC Author Challenge:

A - Aaron, Rachel; Austen, Jane

B - Benét, Stephen Vincent; Brown, Daniel James; Bujold, Lois McMaster; Barrymore, Drew; Brower, Kate Andersen; Bombeck, Erma; Berg, Elizabeth; Bowen, Rhys; Bly, Nellie

C - Cornwell, Bernard; Christie, Agatha; Carbo, Christine; Copperman, E.J.; Cather, Willa; Cain, James M.; Carr, Caleb; Cleeton, Chanel

D - Davison, Anita; DiSclafani, Anton

E - Evanovich, Janet

F - Fry, Jason; Finch, Ava; Fitzgerald, Penelope; Forsyth, Frederick; Follett, Ken; Fletcher, Jessica; Finney, Jack; Flynn, Kathleen A.

G - Greenwood, Kerry; Gilman, Dorothy; Gregory, Philippa; Gaynor, Hazel; Gabaldon, Diana; Green, John; Gortner, C.W.; Golden, Christie

H - Heggen, Thomas; Henry, O.; Hall, Tarquin; Harris, Charlaine; Heyer, Georgette; Himes, Chester; Hyde, Katherine Bolger; Heyerdahl, Thor; Herriot, James; Henry, Veronica; Housewright, David

I - Ibsen, Henrik

J - Johnstone, William W.

K - Krueger, William Kent; King, Stephen; Koontz, Dean

L - Landvik, Lorna; Le Guin, Ursula K.; London, Jack

M - McRaven, William H.; Meyer, Marissa ; Meyer, Scott; Matzen, Robert; Matzen, Robert; Meyerson, Amy; Sullivan, Matthew J.; Meissner, Susan; Mankell, Henning

N - Norbury, Chris

O - Orczy, Emmuska; Offill, Jenny

P - Pierce, Tamora; Pasternak, Boris; Pak, Greg; Pötzsch, Oliver; Puzo, Mario; Patterson, James

Q - Quartey,Kwei

R - Riordan, Rick; Richardson, Kim Michele; Ruby, Ryan; Reid, Taylor Jenkins; Roberts, Nora; Rice, Anne

S - Shoemaker, Sarah; Sullivan, Mark T.; Searls, Hank; Sapkowski, Andrzej

T - Tyler, Anne; Tolkien, J.R.R.; Tey, Josephine

U - Ursu, Anne

V - Vlugt, Simone van der; Vreeland, Susan; Verne, Jules; Van Dine, S.S.

W - Wilson, Daniel H.; Way, Gerard; Walpole, Horace; Wharton, Edith; Wilson, Teri

X - X., Meg Xuemei

Y - Yu, Ovidia

Z - Zouroudi, Anne; Zelazny, Roger

Finished! Phew!

Carol wrote: "Finished! Phew!"

Awesome Carol!