2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Books 1-50:

1. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence by Carol Berkin - completed 1/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
2. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee - completed 1/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
3. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - completed 1/3/21 - 5 stars - My Review
4. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker - completed 1/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
5. The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion by Aminatta Forna - completed 1/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review
6. The Ballroom by Anna Hope - completed 1/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review
7. Every Note Played by Lisa Genova - completed 1/7/21 - 3 stars - My Review
8. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead - completed 1/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review
9. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell - completed 1/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review
10. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo - completed 1/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review
11. Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane - completed 1/11/21 - 3 stars - My Review
12. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - completed 1/12/21 - 5 stars - My Review
13. Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler - completed 1/13/21 - 3 stars - My Review
14. Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love by Zack McDermott - completed 1/14/21 - 4 stars - My Review
15. Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig - completed 1/15/21 - My Review
16. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton - completed 1/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review
17. The Door by Magda Szabó - completed 1/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
18. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green - completed 1/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review
19. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson - completed 1/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
20. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein - completed 1/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
21. The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon - completed 1/21/21 - 2 stars - My Review
22. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish - completed 1/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review
23. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy - completed 1/23/21 - 2 stars - My Review
24. The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić - completed 1/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review
25. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo - completed 1/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review
26. Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee - completed 1/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review
27. High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver - completed 1/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review
28. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett - completed 1/28/21 - 3 stars - My Review
29. They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy - completed 1/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
30. Dubliners by James Joyce - completed 1/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
31. To Siberia by Per Petterson - completed 1/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review
32. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson - completed 2/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
33. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene - completed 2/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
34. From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan - completed 2/3/21 - 3 stars - My Review
35. The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson - completed 2/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
36. Embers by Sándor Márai - completed 2/5/21 - 5 stars - My Review
37. The Widow and Her Hero by Thomas Keneally - completed 2/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review
38. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - completed 2/7/21 - 5 stars - My Review
39. The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks - completed 2/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review
40. Tin Man by Sarah Winman - completed 2/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review
41. Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat - completed 2/10/21 - 3 stars - My Review
42. War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans - completed 2/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
43. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante - completed 2/12/21 - 3 stars - My Review
44. Deacon King Kong by James McBride - completed 2/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
45. The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. - completed 2/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review
46. Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman - completed 2/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review
47. Country Dark by Chris Offutt - completed 2/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review
48. So Much Blue by Percival Everett - completed 2/17/21 - 5 stars - My Review
49. A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe - completed 2/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review
50. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje - completed 2/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Books 51 - 100:

51. Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan - completed 2/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
52. The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir by Roman Dial - completed 2/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review
53. Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan - completed 2/22/21 - 2 stars - My Review
54. My Interview with Beethoven by L.A. Hider Jones - completed 2/23/21 - 3 stars - My Review
55. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren - completed 2/24/21 - 2 stars - My Review
56. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu - completed 2/25/21 - 3 stars - My Review
57. A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza - completed 2/26/21 - 3 stars - My Review
58. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - completed 2/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review
59. The Fat Lady's Low, Sad Song by Brian Kaufman - completed 2/28/21 - 2 stars - My Review
60. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson - completed 3/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
61. Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt - completed 3/2/21- 4 stars - My Review
62. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese - completed 3/3/21 - 4 stars - My Review
63. The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - completed 3/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
64. Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ - completed 3/5/21 - 3 stars - My Review
65. The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age by Steven R. Gundry - completed 3/6/21 - 3 stars - My Review
66. Ransom by David Malouf - completed 3/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review
67. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe - completed 3/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review
68. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - completed 3/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review
69. Secret Knowledge of Water: There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning by Craig Childs - completed 3/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review
70. Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel by Banesh Hoffmann - completed 3/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
71. African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard - completed 3/12/21 - 3 stars - My Review
72. The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest by Aminatta Forna - completed 3/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
73. In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen - completed 3/14/21 - 4 stars - My Review
74. About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov- completed 3/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review
75. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor - completed 3/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review
76. Afterlife by Julia Alvarez - completed 3/17/21 - 3 stars - My Review
77. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt - completed 3/18/21 - 5 stars - My Review
78. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen - completed 3/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
79. Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant - completed 3/20/21 - 3 stars - My Review
80. An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson - completed 3/21/21 - 5 stars - My Review
81. Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison - completed 3/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review
82. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - completed 3/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
83. Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver - completed 3/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review
84. The Time In Between by María Dueñas - completed 3/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review
85. The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh - completed 3/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review
86. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett - completed 3/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review
87. Mating by Norman Rush - completed 3/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
88. Great House by Nicole Krauss - completed 3/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
89. Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor - completed 3/30/21 - 3 stars - My Review
90. Nutshell by Ian McEwan - completed 3/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review
91. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro - completed 4/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review
92. There There by Tommy Orange - completed 4/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
93. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler - completed 4/3/21- 3 stars - My Review
94. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam M. Grant - completed 4/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
95. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch - completed 4/5/21 - 5 stars - My Review
96. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng - completed 4/6/21 - 2 stars - My Review
97. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - completed 4/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review
98. To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - completed 4/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review
99. The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije - completed 4/9/21 - 5 stars - My Review
100. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass - completed 4/10/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Books 101 - 150:

101. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki - completed 4/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
102. Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia - completed 4/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
103. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel - completed 4/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
104. Petersburg by Andrei Bely - completed 4/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review
105. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson - completed 4/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review
106. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - completed 4/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review
107. River Thieves by Michael Crummey - completed 4/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
108. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - completed 4/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review
109. The Venetians: A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova by Paul Strathern - completed 4/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
110. Alena by Rachel Pastan - completed 4/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
111. The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell - completed 4/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review
112. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - completed 4/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review
113. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver - completed 4/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
114. Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak - completed 4/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review
115. Madam by Phoebe Wynne - completed 4/25/21 - 3 stars - My Review
116. Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald - completed 4/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review
117. Barkskins by Annie Proulx - completed 4/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review
118. The Removed by Brandon Hobson - completed 4/28/21 - 3 stars - My Review
119. Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking - completed 4/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
120. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar - completed 4/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
121. Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes - completed 5/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
122. Middlemarch by George Eliot - completed 5/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
123. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - completed 5/3/21 - 5 stars - My Review
124. On Beauty by Zadie Smith - completed 5/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
125. Watership Down by Richard Adams - completed 5/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review
126. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday - completed 5/6/21 - 2 stars - My Review
127. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri - completed 5/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review
128. The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury - completed 5/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review
129. The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith - completed 5/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review
130. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson - completed 5/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review
131. The Course of Love by Alain de Botton - completed 5/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
132. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor - completed 5/12/21 - 3 stars - My Review
133. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson - completed 5/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
134. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - completed 5/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review
135. Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - completed 5/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review
136. Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters by Jason A. Ramos - completed 5/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review
137. Winter by Ali Smith - completed 5/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
138. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker - completed 5/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review
139. Conclave by Robert Harris - completed 5/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
140. The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping by Aharon Appelfeld - completed 5/20/21 - 3 stars - My Review
141. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver - completed 5/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review
142. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - completed 5/22/21 - 1 star - My Review
143. I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury - completed 5/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
144. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver - completed 5/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review
145. The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar - completed 5/25/21 - 5 stars - My Review
146. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol - completed 5/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review
147. The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash - completed 5/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review
148. Amistad by David Pesci - completed 5/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review
149. The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner - completed 5/28/21 - 5 stars - My Review
150. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft - completed 5/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Books 151 - 200:

151. Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins by Gavin Francis - completed 5/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
152. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich - completed 5/31/21 - 2 stars - My Review
153. Less by Andrew Sean Greer - completed 6/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
154. Grant by Ron Chernow - completed 6/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
155. Home by Toni Morrison - completed 6/3/21 - 2 stars - My Review
156. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick - completed 6/4/21 - 3 stars - My Review
157. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson - completed 6/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review
158. Origin by Dan Brown - completed 6/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review
159. An Owl on Every Post by Sanora Babb - completed 6/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review
160. The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy - completed 6/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review
161. Infinite Country by Patricia Engel - completed 6/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review
162. Random Harvest by James Hilton - completed 6/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review
163. A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes - completed 6/11/21 - 3 stars - My Review
164. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan - completed 6/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
165. Let Me Not Be Mad: My Story of Unraveling Minds by A.K. Benjamin - completed 6/13/21 - 3 stars - My Review
166. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan - completed 6/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review
167. Three Junes by Julia Glass - completed 6/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review
168. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates - completed 6/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review
169. The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani - completed 6/17/21 - 3 stars - My Review
170. Grace by Paul Lynch - completed 6/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review
171. The Third Hill North of Town by Noah Bly - completed 6/19/21 - 2 stars - My Review
172. The Citadel by A.J. Cronin - completed 6/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
173. The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively - completed 6/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review
174. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell - completed 6/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review
175. Camino Island by John Grisham - completed 6/23/21 - 2 stars - My Review
176. A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy - completed 6/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review
177. Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever by Tim Wendel - completed 6/25/21 - 3 stars - My Review
178. An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute - completed 6/26/21 - 3 stars - My Review
179. The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian - completed 6/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review
180. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz - completed 6/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
181. The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck - completed 6/29/21 - 3 stars - My Review
182. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo - completed 6/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
183. By Night Under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz - completed 7/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
184. The Gathering by Anne Enright - completed 7/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
185. Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb - completed 7/3/21 - 2 stars - My Review
186. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan - completed 7/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
187. The Bird Artist by Howard Norman - completed 7/5/21 - 3 stars - My Review
188. All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai - completed 7/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review
189. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - completed 7/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review
190. The Keep by Jennifer Egan - completed 7/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review
191. Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport - completed 7/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review
192. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney - completed 7/10/21 - 2 stars - My Review
193. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - completed 7/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
194. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich - completed 7/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
195. The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill by Julie Klassen - completed 7/13/21 - 3 stars - My Review
196. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney - completed 7/14/21 - 4 stars - My Review
197. Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World by Roy A. Adkins - completed 7/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review
198. Nelson's Purse by Martyn Downer - completed 7/16/21 - 5 stars - My Review
199. Warcross by Marie Lu - completed 7/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
200. Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson - completed 7/18/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Books 201 - 250:

201. The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha - completed 7/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
202. Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik - completed 7/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
203. The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles - completed 7/21/21 - 3 stars - My Review
204. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - completed 7/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review
205. The Only Story by Julian Barnes - completed 7/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
206. All Systems Red by Martha Wells - completed 7/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review
207. Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras - completed 7/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review
208. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman - completed 7/26/21 - 3 stars - My Review
209. Idaho by Emily Ruskovich - completed 7/27/21 - 3 stars - My Review
210. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary F. Marcus and Ernest Davis - completed 7/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
211. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides - completed 7/29/21 - 3 stars - My Review
212. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr - completed 7/30/21 - 5 stars - My Review
213. The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner - completed 7/31/21 - 3 stars - My Review
214. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells - completed 8/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
215. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink - completed 8/2/21- 3 stars - My Review
216. This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan - completed 8/3/21 - 3 stars - My Review
217. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells - completed 8/4/21 - 3 stars - My Review
218. Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique - completed 8/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review
219. Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen - completed 8/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review
220. A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam - completed 8/7/21 - 5 stars - My Review
221. China Room by Sunjeev Sahota - completed 8/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review
222. The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela - completed 8/9/21 - 3 stars - My Review
223. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie - completed 8/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review
224. Missing by Thomas Hauser - completed 8/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
225. The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar - completed 8/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
226. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - completed 8/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
227. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz - completed 8/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review
228. The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna - completed 8/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review
229. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri - completed 8/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review
230. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak - completed 8/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
231. Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov - completed 8/18/21 - 2 stars - My Review
232. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson - completed 8/19/21 - 5 stars - My Review
233. Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh - completed 8/20/21 - 3 stars - My Review
234. The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene - completed 8/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review
235. How to Walk Away by Katherine Center - completed 8/22/21 - 3 stars - My Review
236. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood - completed 8/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
237. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson - completed 8/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review
238. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami - completed 8/25/21 - 5 stars - My Review
239. The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste - completed 8/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review
240. Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera - completed 8/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review
241. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy - completed 8/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
242. American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson - completed 8/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
243. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman - completed 8/30/21 - 3 stars - My Review
244. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells - completed 8/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review
245. The Promise by Damon Galgut - completed 9/1/21 - 3 stars - My Review
246. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan - completed 9/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
247. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead - completed 9/3/21 - 2 stars - My Review
248. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris - completed 9/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
249. Second Place: A Novel by Rachel Cusk - completed 9/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review
250. An Island by Karen Jennings - completed 9/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Books 251 - 300:

251. A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson - completed 9/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review
252. Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford - completed 9/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review
253. Lanny by Max Porter - completed 9/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review
254. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede - completed 9/10/21 - 3 stars - My Review
255. A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold - completed 9/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
256. Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald - completed 9/12/21 - 3 stars - My Review
257. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates - completed 9/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
258. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - completed 9/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review
259. A Man by Keiichirō Hirano - completed 9/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review
260. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones - completed 9/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review
261. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively - completed 9/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
262. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy - completed 9/18/21 - 2 stars - My Review
263. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald - completed 9/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
264. The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle by Laura Coleman - completed 9/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
265. Summit Fever by Andrew Greig - completed 9/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review
266. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - completed 9/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review
267. What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché - completed 9/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
268. LaRose by Louise Erdrich - completed 9/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review
269. Bewilderment by Richard Powers - completed 9/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review
270. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert - completed 9/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review
271. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney - completed 9/27/21 - 2 stars - My Review
272. Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan - completed 9/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
273. The Distant Marvels by Chantel Acevedo - completed 9/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
274. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores - completed 9/30/21 - 3 stars - My Review
275. The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw - completed 10/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review
276. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden - completed 10/2/21 - 3 stars - My Review
277. I Am a Girl from Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro - completed 10/3/21 - 4 stars - My Review
278. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey - completed 10/4/21 - 2 stars - My Review
279. The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck - completed 10/5/21 - 3 stars - My Review
280. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman - completed 10/6/21 - 5 stars - My Review
281. Unsettled Ground: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 by Claire Fuller - completed 10/7/21 - 3 stars - My Review
282. Network Effect by Martha Wells - completed 10/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review
283. Matrix by Lauren Groff - completed 10/9/21 - 3 stars - My Review
284. Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell - completed 10/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review
285. Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough - completed 10/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
286. Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak - completed 10/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
287. The North Water by Ian McGuire - completed 10/13/21 - 3 stars - My Review
288. The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell - completed 10/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review
289. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga - completed 10/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review
290. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood - completed 10/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review
291. Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells - completed 10/17/21 - 3 stars - My Review
292. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead - completed 10/18/21- 3 stars - My Review
293. House in Bali by Colin McPhee - completed 10/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
294. A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert - completed 10/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
295. The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave - completed 10/21/21 - 3 stars - My Review
296. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez - completed 10/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review
297. Zorrie by Laird Hunt - completed 10/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
298. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul - completed 10/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review
299. The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker - completed 10/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review
300. The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain - completed 10/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Books 301 - 350:

301. The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner - completed 10/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review
302. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan - completed 10/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
303. Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China by Karoline Kan - completed 10/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
304. Doña Barbara: A Novel by Rómulo Gallegos - completed 10/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
305. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman - completed 10/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review
306. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey - completed 11/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
307. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin - completed 11/2/21 - 3 stars - My Review
308. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - completed 11/3/21 - 4 stars - My Review
309. Of God and Madness: A Historical Novel by T. Byram Karasu - completed 11/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
310. Violeta by Isabel Allende - completed 11/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review
311. The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker - completed 11/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review
312. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - completed 11/7/21 - 3 stars - My Review
313. The Garden of Burning Sand by Corban Addison - completed 11/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review
314. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener - completed 11/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review
315. The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw - completed 11/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review
316. Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer - completed 11/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
317. Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson - completed 11/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
318. Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac - completed 11/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
319. Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume - completed 11/14/21 - 4 stars - My Review
320. The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky - completed 11/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review
321. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman - completed 11/16/21 - 2 stars - My Review
322. Our Game by John le Carré - completed 11/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
323. Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo - completed 11/18/21 - 4 stars - My Review
324. Insurrecto by Gina Apostol - completed 11/19/21 - 3 stars - My Review
325. In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin - completed 11/20/21 - 3 stars - My Review
326. Native Son by Richard Wright - completed 11/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review
327. Virgil Wander by Leif Enger - completed 11/22/21 - 3 stars - My Review
328. The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs - completed 11/23/21 - 3 stars - My Review
329. Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran - completed 11/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review
330. The Expats by Chris Pavone - completed 11/25/21 - 3 stars - My Review
331. The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti - completed 11/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review
332. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid - completed 11/27/21 - 3 stars - My Review
333. Deadline in Athens: An Inspector Costas Haritos Mystery by Petros Markaris - completed 11/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
334. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth - completed 11/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
335. Ghostwritten by Isabel Wolff - completed 11/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
336. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard: Annotated by Arthur Conan Doyle - completed 11/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
337. Unless by Carol Shields - completed 12/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review
338. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich - completed 12/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
339. Northern Spy by Flynn Berry - completed 12/3/21 - 3 stars - My Review
340. Black Wave by Michelle Tea - completed 12/4/21 - 3 stars - My Review
341. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles - completed 12/5/21 - 3 stars - My Review
342. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe - completed 12/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review
343. Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan- completed 12/7/21 - 3 stars - My Review
344. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich - completed 12/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review
345. The Noel Diary: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans - completed 12/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review
346. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea by Eunsun Kim - completed 12/9/21 - 3 stars - My Review
347. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith - completed 12/10/21 - 3 stars - My Review
348. Purge by Sofi Oksanen - completed 12/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
349. Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck - completed 12/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
350. In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration by Shane O'Mara - completed 12/13/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Books 351 - 400:

351. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott - completed 12/14/21 - 5 stars - My Review
352. Assembly by Natasha Brown - completed 12/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review
353. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman - completed 12/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review
354. The Colour by Rose Tremain - completed 12/17/21 - 5 stars - My Review
355. Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett - completed 12/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review
356. The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff - completed 12/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review
357. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher - completed 12/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
358. The Train by Georges Simenon - completed 12/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
359. Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon - completed 12/21/21 - 2 stars - My Review
360. The Fear Index by Robert Harris - completed 12/21/21 - 2 stars - My Review
361. King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild - completed 12/22/21 - 5 stars - My Review
362. Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji - completed 12/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
363. Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz - completed 12/23/21 - 3 stars - My Review
364. Unchain Your Brain by Daniel G. Amen - completed 12/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review
365. Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell - completed 12/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review
366. Ice by Ulla-Lena Lundberg - completed 12/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review
367. The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage - completed 12/27/21 - 3 stars - My Review
368. White Noise by Don DeLillo - completed 12/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review
369. Silverview by John le Carré - completed 12/28/21 - 3 stars - My Review
370. Snow Hunters: A Novel by Paul Yoon - completed 12/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
371. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich - completed 12/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
372, Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson - completed 12/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
373. A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout - completed 12/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
374. To Asmara: A Novel of Africa by Thomas Keneally - completed 12/29/21 - 3 stars - My Review
375. Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy - completed 12/30/21 - 3 stars - My Review
376. Island Queen by Vanessa Riley - completed 12/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
377. Enchanted Islands by Allison Amend - completed 12/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
378. The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz - completed 12/31/21 - 3 stars - My Review
379. Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic - completed 12/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Best of luck, Joy!

Lisa wrote: "Best of luck, Joy!"
Thanks, Lisa!