Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

What books are in your readathon stack?

I will not finish all of these, or even read SOME of all of these, but I like to dabble and have a variety at hand

AUDIO -
The House in the Cerulean Sea (halfway through)
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (started the other day, it's cute)
Halloween: The Official Movie Novelization - if in mood for creepy audio, haven't started at all yet


CURRENTLY READING ALREADY -
Obsession by Jonathan Kellerman
The Case of the Drowning Duck by Erle Stanley Gardner

BOOKS SET ASIDE -
Zero Cool
Beastly
The Knife Slipped
The Plains of Promise (Harlequin Romance break)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Labyrinth - series book of UF
Justice by Dan Mahoney
The Gunslinger
The Outsider by S. King
The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece
I (Still) Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories of Faith and Scholarship - nonfiction break
Ghost Road Blues - horror series starter

To finish:
Your Turn, Mr. Moto

The Order of Time

To Start:
Interior Chinatown
Red Clocks
This Book is Overdue!


Then I’ll try some BINGO too.

I had a decent TBR stack going into the Pre-Challenge for our Reverse Readathon, though I misplaced my camera cord that week and never got a photo of the whole stack. Oh well.
Here's what is left of that stack:
The Grownup, by Gillian Flynn
Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard
Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay
The Conservationist, by Nadine Gordimer
Overlord, Vol. 1: The Undead King, by Kugane Maruyama
The Killing Sea, by Richard Lewis
The Impossible Knife of Memory, by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Cat Sitter's Whiskers, by Blaize & Joan Clement
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, by Alexander McCall Smith
Growing Mindful: Explorations in the Garden to Deepen Your Awareness, by Joann Calabrese
Suffer the Little Children, by Donna Leon
The Girl of His Dreams, by Donna Leon
Stella Bain, by Anita Shreve
The Absolute Book, by Elizabeth Knox




Here is my TBR stack specifically for the Readathon:

Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn
Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
The Crossbreed, by Allan W. Eckert
Selected poems, by Yevtushenko
Ford County, by John Grisham
Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490
More Than Meets The Eye, by J.M. Gregson
What's The Worst That Could Happen?, by Donald E. Westlake
The Dreamthief's Daughter: A Tale of the Albino, by Michael Moorcock
Muslin Mystery, by Vera Dodge
Not Dark Yet, by Peter Robinson
The Real Macaw, by Donna Andrews
Death of a Dyer, by Eleanor Kuhns
Snowdrift, by Helene Tursten



I won't start the readathon stack till we hit Hour 1 officially, so till then I am just reading from the first stack.

This is my first 24h readathon and I'm so excited! I only have a small TBR, as I won't participate the entire day (only Saturday evening/night - the readathon ends at 2am Sunday in my time zone).

#1 Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
#2 The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
#3 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

Twitchy wrote: "This is my first 24h readathon and I'm so excited! I only have a small TBR, as I won't participate the entire day (only Saturday evening/night - the readathon ends at 2am Sunday in my time zone).

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That is so exciting! I hope you have a wonderful readathon!
I’m in the 2am time zone as well.

my pile so far is:
Murder on Wall Street - in progress
This Side of Murder - in progress
Wrath - in progress
Unbreakable - in progress
The Enigma Game
The Two Lost Mountains
Years (re-read/comfort read)

My stack is short because I won't be able to read
the entire 24hours .
-THE THREE MUSKETEERS by Alexander Dumas
adapted by Clarissa Hutton
-REMARKABLE by Lizzie Foley
-JAMES POTTER AND THE HALL OF ELDER'S CROSSING
by G. Norman Lippert
And maybe try my luck at Bingo for a change of pace .

I'm not reading for the entire 24 hrs but I've learned that it's nice to have variety and some shorter books for sprints and to get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment! I definitely won't read all of these but I'm hoping to finish at least one of my current reads.

Novels:
The Chronicles of Royal High: Dragon's Wrath (currently reading)
The Question of Red (currently reading)
The Merchant and the Rogue (ARC and currently reading)
Wonder Woman: Warbringer
The Checklist
Constance
Angels Fall

Graphic Novels:
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
Batman: Year One
Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
Star Wars: Darth Vader, Vol. 1: Vader

Shorter Books (mostly middle grade):
The Cleaners (short story)
Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen
The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince
NERDY GIRLS DON'T: A Nerdy Novel, Book 2

Hi! It's my first time participating and I'm excited so I have a lot on my list :))

To finish:
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

To start:


To reread:

Books:
Firestarter by Stephen King (53%)
Patina by Jason Reynolds
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World and Other Stories by Caroline M. Yoachim

Graphic Novel
20th Century Boys, Band 5 by Naoki Urasawa
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

Novellas
The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

Audiobooks:
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke (44%)
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane

Novels
One of Us Is Lying (in progress)

Graphic Novels
Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy

Audiobooks
A Promised Land (in progress)

Hoping to finish the first two and get a good chunk further in the third.

Twitchy wrote: "This is my first 24h readathon and I'm so excited! I only have a small TBR, as I won't participate the entire day (only Saturday evening/night - the readathon ends at 2am Sunday in my time zone).

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Welcome, they are addicting!
I don't plan to read the full 24 hours either, I need some sleep, but it's fun while participating.

Books: The Cost of Knowing
Hang the Moon
The Lights of Sugarberry Cove

Audiobooks: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
My Name is Hard
Northanger Abbey

Currently reading and hoping to finish or make a good dent in:
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (novella) by Nghi Vo
Ghost-Spider, Vol. 1: Dog Days Are Over (graphic novel) by Seanan McGuire



New books I intend to dip into during readathon:
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (comfort reread)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (novella) by Becky Chambers (a favorite author)
Gather, Darkness! by Fritz Leiber
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 edited by Michio Kaku
Best Food Writing

Readathon TBR

TO FINISH


RE-READS


E-BOOKS


AUDIOBOOKS



PHYSICAL BOOKS


GRAPHIC NOVELS & MANGA