2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Diane's 120 in 2021

Goal: 70/120

January
1. ★★★★☆ (2005, 298 pp) The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino
2. ★★★★☆ (2020, 241 pp) Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam
3. ★★★★☆ (1994, 274 pp) The Memory Police. Yōko Ogawa
4. ★★★★★ (1997, 513 pp) The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
5. ★★★★☆ (2010, 400 pp) Faithful Place, Tana French
6. ★★★★★ (2007, 188 pp) The Vegetarian, Han Kang
7. ★★★★☆ (2018, 304 pp) Pride, Ibi Zoboi
8. ★★★★★ (2017, 263 pp) Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich
9. ★★★★☆ (2019, 432 pp) The Far Field, Madhuri Vijay
10. ★★★★☆ (2018, 384 pp) The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo
11. ★★★☆☆ (2018, 323 pp) The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang
12. ★★★☆☆ (2013, 32 pp) King for a Day, Rukhsana Khan
13. ★★★☆☆ (2018, 336 pp) The Broken Girls, Simone St. James
14. ★★★★★ (1999, 208 pp) The Translator, Leila Aboulela

February
15. ★★★☆☆ (2010, 427 pp) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin
16. ★★★★☆ (2019, 304 pp) Royal Holiday, Jasmine Guillory
17. ★★★★★ (2014, 368 pp) An Untamed State, Roxane Gay
18. ★★★★☆ (2020, 312 pp) Party of Two, Jasmine Guillory
19. ★★★★☆ (2012, 450 pp) Broken Harbor, Tana French
20. ★★★☆☆ (2019, 288 pp) Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir, Kwame Onwuachi
21. ★★★★★ (2019, 403 pp) The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
22. ★★★★★ (2018,248 pp) So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
23. ★★★★★ (2010, 224 pp) One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams-Garcia
24. ★★★★☆ (2019, 207 pp) Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson
25. ★★★★☆ (2019, 213 pp) The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
26. ★★★★★ (2017, 306 pp) Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay
27. ★★★★★ (2014, 372 pp) Queen Sugar, Natalie Baszile
28. ★★★★★ (2019, 330 pp) Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams
29. ★★★☆☆ (2018, 336 pp) Down the River Unto the Sea, Walter Mosley
30. ★★★★★ (2020, 343 pp) The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
31. ★★★★★ (2014, 64 pp) We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
32. ★★★★☆ (2019, 400 pp) With the Fire on High, Elizabeth Acevedo
33. ★★★★☆ (2019, 323 pp) Slay, Brittney Morris

March
34. ★★★☆☆ (2019, 384 pp) We Set the Dark on Fire, Tehlor Kay Mejia
35. ★★★★★ (2020, 224 pp) The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
36. ★★☆☆☆ (2021, 256 pp) The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey
37. ★★★☆☆ (2017, 363 pp) The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, David Lagercrantz
38. ★★★★☆ (2018, 431 pp) The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal
39. ★★★☆☆ (2010, 254 pp) Celestial Bodies, Jokha Alharthi
40. ★★★★☆ (2004, 1,006 pp) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
41. ★★★☆☆ (2020, 338 pp) Before She Was Helen, Caroline B. Cooney
42. ★★★☆☆ (2020, 32 pp) This Telling, Cheryl Strayed
43. ★★★☆☆ (2013, 483 pp) Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
44. ★★★★☆ (2014, 260 pp) The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
45. ★★★★★ (1993, 354 pp) The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
46. ★★★☆☆ (2005, 227 pp) Looking for Alaska, John Green

April
47. ★★★☆☆ (2021, 304 pp) Love Is a Revolution, Renée Watson
48. ★★★★☆ (2020, 288 pp) The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
49. ★★★★☆ (2000, 448 pp) White Teeth, Zadie Smith
50. ★★☆☆☆ (1920, 121 pp) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie
51. ★★★☆☆ (2019, 373 pp) Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert
52. ★★★★☆ (2016, 308 pp) My Last Continent, Midge Raymond
53. ★★★★☆ (2021, 368 pp) The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles
54. ★★★☆☆ (1985, 126 pp) Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid
55. ★★★☆☆ (2013, 264 pp) Aunty Lee's Delights, Ovidia Yu
56. ★★★☆☆ (2012, 48 pp) Some Days, María Wernicke
57. ★★★☆☆ (1997, 369 pp) The Bat, Jo Nesbø
58. ★★★★★ (2007, 400 pp) The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-OlsenHaruki Murakami

May
59. ★★★★★ (2009, 338 pp) Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
60. ★★★★☆ (2018, 291 pp) Severance, Ling Ma
61. ★★★★☆ (2017, 496 pp) Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
62. ★★☆☆☆ (2016, 490 pp) All This I Will Give to You, Dolores Redondo
63. ★★★★☆ (2000, 167 pp) Go: A Coming of Age Novel, Kazuki Kaneshiro
64. ★★★☆☆ (2010, 256 pp) City of Ash and Red, Hye-Young Pyun
65. ★★★★☆ (2000, 184 pp) Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
66. ★★★★☆ (2015, 221 pp) Slade House, David Mitchell
67. ★★★★☆ (2020, 342 pp) The Mountains Sing, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
68. ★★★☆☆ (2001, 96 pp) The Strange Library, Haruki Murakami
69. ★★★☆☆ (2018, 531 pp) The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang
70. ★★★★☆ (2017, 304 pp) A Single Swallow, Ling Zhang

June
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Good luck, Diane!