2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

2022 Reading Challenges (Updated: 11/6)

🎉 1. A-Z Reading Challenge: 26/26
🎉 2. Color Reading Challenge: 18/18
🎉 3. Genre Bingo: 25/25 books and 5/5 bingos
🎉 4. Popsugar Challenge 50/50
🎉 5. Hindsight is 2020: 70/70
🎉 6. I Spy Challenge: 30/30
🎉 7. Diversity in Reading: 40/40
🎉 8. TBR Challenge: 130/110
🎉 9. Bookworms Take Shelfies: 120/120
🎉 10. Serial Reader: 56/50.
🎉 11. Quarterly Challenges: Q2 - Q3
🎉 12. Quarterly Challenge: Q4
🎉 13. Monthly Challenges: April - July
🎉 14. Monthly Challenges: August - December

Outside Challenges
🎉 1. ATY in 52 Books: 52/52
🎉 2. Book Riot Read Harder: 24/24

A-Z Reading Challenge (message 90)
🎉 Progress: 26/26 🎉

A: Svetlana Alexievich - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
B: Mary Beard - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
C: Clare Beams - The Illness Lesson
D: Diane Setterfield - Once Upon a River
E: Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven
F: Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects
G: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - This Is How You Lose the Time War
H: Deborah Harkness - A Discovery of Witches
I: Ibram X. Kendi - Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
J: Stephen Graham Jones: The Only Good Indians
K: Kerry Greenwood: Cocaine Blues
L: F.K. Lukens: In Deeper Waters
M: Sarah J. Maas: House of Earth and Blood
N: Naomi Novik - A Deadly Education
O: Nnedi Okorafor - Binti
P: Sarah Penner - The Lost Apothecary
Q: Julia Quinn - The Viscount Who Loved Me
R: J. Ryan Stradal - The Lager Queen of Minnesota
S: George Saunders - Tenth of December
T: Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
U: Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
V: Nghi Vo - The Empress of Salt and Fortune
W: William Shakespeare - The Tempest
X: Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Y: Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
Z: Xiran Jay Zhao - Iron Widow

Color Reading Challenge (message 85)
🎉 First Round Progress: 18/18 🎉
Second Round Progress: 10/12

First Round: Cover Colors


✅ 1. White: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
✅ 2. Pink: In Deeper Waters by FK Luken
✅ 3. Red: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 4. Orange: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
✅ 5. Yellow: Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutan
✅ 6. Green: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅ 7. Light Blue: The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
✅ 8. Dark Blue: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
✅ 9. Purple: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
✅ 10. Brown: The Alienist by Caleb Carr
✅ 11. Black: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
✅ 12. Metallic: Godshot by Chelsea Bieker
✅ 13. 5 Colors or more: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
✅ 14. Geometric Pattern: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Staurt Turton
✅ 15. Ugly (to me): Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
✅ 16. Two or more colors in the title: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
✅ 17. “Color” in the title: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
✅ 18. Color describing word in the title: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Second Round: Title Colors



✅ 1. White: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
✅ 2. Pink: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
✅ 3. Red: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
✅ 4. Orange: The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
✅ 5. Yellow: The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews
✅ 6. Green: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
✅ 7. Light Blue: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
✅ 8. Dark Blue: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
✅ 9. Purple: Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
✅ 10. Brown: Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wisława Szymborska
✅ 11. Black: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
✅ 12. Metallic: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Genre Bingo (message 46)
🎉Progress:
25/25 Books
5/5 Bingos 🎉

✅ B1 Travel: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
✅ B2 Family Saga: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
✅ B3 Chick-Lit: The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews
✅ B4 Horror: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
✅ B5 Science Fiction: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

✅ I1 Historical Nonfiction: The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton
✅ I2 Satire: Animal Farm by George Orwell
✅ I3 Graphic Novel: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
✅ I4 Science Nonfiction: Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert Kunzig
✅ I5 Tragedy: Othello by William Shakespeare

✅ N1 Mystery/Thriller: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
✅ N2 Coming of Age: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
✅ N3 Poetry Collection (Free Space): The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limon
✅ N4 Western: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
✅ N5 Dystopian: 1984 by George Orwell

✅ G1 Literary Fiction: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
✅ G2 Self-Help: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
✅ G3 Romance: Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutan
✅ G4 Biography: Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
✅ G5 Short Stories/Novella: Tenth of December by George Saunders

✅ O1 General Nonfiction: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
✅ O2 Classics: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
✅ O3 Own Voices Literature: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
✅ O4 Crime: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
✅ O5 Memoir: Little Weirds

Popsugar Challenge (message 88)
Progress: 49/50

*Standard:
✅ 1. A book published in 2022: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
✅ 2. A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
✅ 3. A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
✅ 4. A book with a tiger on the cover or "tiger" in the title: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
✅ 5. A sapphic book: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
✅ 6. A book by a Latinx author: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
✅ 7. A book with an onomatopoeia in its title: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
✅ 8. A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
✅ 9. A book about a "found family": Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
✅ 10. An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner: Beloved by Toni Morrison
✅ 11. A #BookTok recommendation: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅ 12. A book about the afterlife: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
✅ 13. A book set in the 1980s: 1984 by George Orwell
✅ 14. A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title: The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
✅ 15. A book by a Pacific Islander author: The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
✅ 16. A book about witches: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
✅ 17. A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
✅ 18. A romance novel by a BIPOC author: Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutan
✅ 19. A book that takes place during your favorite season: , The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
✅ 20. A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
✅ 21. A book about a band or musical group: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅ 22. A book with a character on the ace spectrum: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
✅ 23. A book with a recipe in it: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
✅ 24. A book you can read in one sitting: Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
✅ 25. A book about a secret: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
✅ 26. A book with a misleading title: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
✅ 27. A Hugo Award winner: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
✅ 28. A book set during a holiday: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
✅ 29. A different book by an author you read in 2021: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
✅ 30. A book with the name of a board game in the title: Othello by William Shakespeare
✅ 31. A book featuring a man-made disaster: The Temps by Andrew DeYoung
✅ 32. A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
✅ 33. A social-horror book: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
✅ 34. A book set in Victorian times: The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews
✅ 35. A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
✅ 36. A book you know nothing about: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
✅ 37. A book about gender identity: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
✅ 38. A book featuring a party: The Guest List by Lucy Foley
✅ 39. An #OwnVoices SFF (science fiction and fantasy) book: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
✅ 40. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR (Dark Academia): A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

*Advanced:
✅ 41. A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
✅ 42. A book that features two languages: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
✅ 43. A book with a palindromic title: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
✅ 44. A duology (1): Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
✅ 45. A duology (2): Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
✅ 46. A book about someone leading a double life: Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
✅ 47. A book featuring a parallel reality: The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig
✅ 48. A book with two POVs: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
✅ 49. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (London): Moon Over Soho by by Ben Aaronovitch
✅ 50. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (Shanghai): Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

Hindsight is 2020 (message 77)
🎉Progress: 70/70 🎉

*Pre-1900’s Blast from the Past
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the BCE (before common era) or nonfiction about the BCE: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
✅ 2. Set between 1-1800 CE (common era) or nonfiction about the CE: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
✅ 3. Set between 1801-1900: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
✅ 4. That spans multiple decades: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
✅ 5. Set in Greece (the first Olympics): The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

*1900’s Zesty Zeros
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the 1900's: Anne of Green Gables by L.M.M Montgomery
✅ 2. Published in the 1900's: Anne of Green Gables by L.M.M. Montgomery (p.1908)
✅ 3. By an author born or died in the 1900’s: 1984 by George Orwell (b.1903)
✅ 4. Set in the Balkans (Balkan wars): Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (USA): Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

*1910’s: Transformative Teens
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the 1910's: River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
✅ 2. Published in the 1910s: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (p.1915)
✅ 3. By an author born or died in the 1910's: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (b.1914)
✅ 4. Set in or near the ocean (Titanic): Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (Germany): The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

*1920’s: Tremendous Twenties
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the 1920's: Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
✅ 2. Published in the 1920's: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (p.1926)
✅ 3. By an author born or died in the 1920's: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick(b.1928)
✅ 4. Featuring jazz music or a jazz instrument: Moon Over Soho by by Ben Aaronovitch
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (The Netherlands): The Fall by Albert Camus

*1930’s: Thirsty Thirties
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the 1930's: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
✅ 2. Published in 1930's: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (p.1934)
✅ 3. By an author born or died in 1930's: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (b.1939)
✅ 4. Featuring a character who loses a job or otherwise suffers financial hardship: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (USA): The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

**1940’s: Fatal Forties
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the 1940's: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
✅ 2. Published in the 1940's: 1984 by George Orwell (p.1949)
✅ 3. By an author born or died in the 1940's: Anne of Green Gables by L.M.M. Montgomery (d.1942)
✅ 4. Involving war (WWII): All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (Finland): The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

**1950’s: Fabulous Fifties
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the 1950's: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
✅ 2. Published in the 1950's: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
✅ 3. By an author born or died in the 1950’s: Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson (b.1950)
✅ 4. Featuring a Queen or set in a Commonwealth Realm headed by Queen Elizabeth II (reign begins): She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (Australia): Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood

*1960’s: The Swingin’ Sixties
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the 1960's: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
✅ 2. Published in the 1960's: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (p.1964)
✅ 3. By an author born or died in the 1960’s: The Fall by Albert Camus (d.1960)
✅ 4. Set in space or another celestial body (Moon Landing): Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (France): The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

*1970’s: Self-Assured Seventies
Read a Book…
✅ 1.Set in the 1970's: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅ 2. Published in the 1970's: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (p.1975)
✅ 3. By an author born or died in the 1970’s: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (d.1973)
✅ 4. By a female or LGBT+ author (Women’s and Gay Rights): Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (Canada): Anne of Green Gables by L.M.M. Montgomery

*1980’s: The Elegant Eighties
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the 1980's: 1984 by George Orwell
✅ 2. Published in the 1980's: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (p.1986)
✅ 3. By an author born or died in the 1980’s: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (b.1988)
✅ 4. Featuring radiation of some kind or set in Ukraine (Chernobyl): Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (South Korea): The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

*1990’s: The Nifty Nineties
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the 1990's: The Overstory by Richard Powers
✅ 2. Book published in the 1990's: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (p.1996)
✅ 3. By an author born or died in the 1990’s: Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Osman (b.1994)
✅ 4. Featuring character who live off-grid or “outside” of a system of government (Waco, Ruby Ridge): Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (Japan): Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami

*2000’s: Admirable Aughts
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the 2000's: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami
✅ 2. Published in the 2000's: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
✅ 3. By an author born or died in the 2000’s: Troubling a Star by Madeline L'Engle (d.2007)
✅ 4. Set in NYC (World Trade Center attack): Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (China): The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

*2010’s: The Terrific Teens
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in the 2010's: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅ 2. Published in the 2010's: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (p.2014)
✅ 3. By an author born or died in the 2010’s: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (d.2015)
✅ 4. By an Arab author (Arab Spring): The Map of Salt and Stars by by Zeyn Joukhadar
✅ 5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (Russia): Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

*2020’s and Beyond: You are Here
Read a Book…
✅ 1. Set in current times: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
✅ 2. Published in 2020’s: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
✅ 3. Set in one of the Olympic host countries (Italy): The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
✅ 4. Set in the near future (100 years or less): All Systems Red by Martha Wells
✅ 5. Set in an imagined future over 100 years from now: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

I Spy Challenge (message 97)
🎉 Progress: 30/30 🎉

Primary 25:
✅ 1. Color - Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
✅ 2. Number - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
✅ 3. Things That Grow - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 4. Seasons - The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
✅ 5. First Name - Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
✅ 6. Places - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
✅ 7. Body Part - River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
✅ 8. Weapon - Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
✅ 9. Body of Water - Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
✅ 10. Form of Water - Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
✅ 11. Product of Fire - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
✅ 12. Celestial Body - Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
✅ 13. Architecture - House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 14. Senses - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
✅ 15. Royal Title - The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
✅ 16. Family Member - Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
✅ 17. Elements - House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 18. Time of Day - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
✅ 19. Metal - Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
✅ 20. Emotion/Feeling - Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
✅ 21. Animal/Insect - Cattle Stop by Kit Oliver
✅ 22. Something to Read - The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
✅ 23. Sports - The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
✅ 24. Paranormal Beings - Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson
✅ 25. Occupation - The Temps by Andrew DeYoung

Bonus 5 categories
✅ 1. Magical beings - The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews
✅ 2. Inspirational people - Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart
✅ 3. Mental Health - The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
✅ 4. Subjects - Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert Kunzig
✅ 5. Monthly themes of the 2022 Reading Challenge (November: Glass) - Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson

Diversity in Reading (message 52)
Progress: 40/40

1. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
2. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
3. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
4. Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutan
5. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
6. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
7. The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
8. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
9. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
10. The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
11. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
12. The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
13. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
14. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
15. Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
16. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
17. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
18. The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limon
19. Beloved by Toni Morrison
20. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
21. The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
22. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
23. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami
24. Peter Darling by Austin Chant
25. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
26. Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
27. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
28. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
29. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
30. Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
31. Jazz by Toni Morrison
32. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
33. The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
34. Death's End by Liu Cixin
35. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
36. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
37. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
38. While Justice Sleeps by Stacy Abrams
39. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements by Adrienne Maree Brown
40. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich

TBR Challenge (message 88)

Progress: 130/110

1. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
2. In Deeper Waters by F.K. Luken
3. Tenth of December by George Saunders
4. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
5. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
6. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
7. The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton
8. Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
9. The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
10. Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
11. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
12. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
13. Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
14. Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutan
15. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
16. The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
17. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
18. The Temps by Andrew DeYoung
19. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
20. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
21. Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson
22. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
23. The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews
24. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
25. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
26. The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
27. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
28. River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
29. The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
30. Averno by Louise Gluck
31. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
32. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
33. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
34. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
35. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
36. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
37. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
38. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
39. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
40. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
41. The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
42. The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
43. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
44. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
45. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
46. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
47. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
48. Anne of Green Gables by L.M.M. Montgomery
49. Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert Kunzig
50. The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
51. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
52. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
53. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
54. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
55. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
56. Godshot by Chelsea Bieker
57. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
58. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
59. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
60. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
61. Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
62. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
63. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
64. Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
65. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
66. The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limon
67. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
68. Beloved by Toni Morrison
69. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
70. The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
71. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
72. Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
73. The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
74. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
75. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
76. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami
77. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
78. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
79. Peter Darling by Austin Chant
80. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
81. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
82. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
83. Network Effect by Martha Wells
84. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
85. The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
86. Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
87. The Overstory by Richard Powers
88. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
89. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
90. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
91. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
92. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
93. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
94. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
95. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
96. The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
97. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart
98. The Fall by Albert Camus
99. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
100. The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey
101. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
102. Animal Farm by George Orwell
103. Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
104. Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
105. The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost
106. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
107. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
108. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
109. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
110. Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch
111. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
112. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
113. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
114. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
115. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
116. Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
117. Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch
118. Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
119. Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch
120. The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
121. False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
122. Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman
123. Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman
124. Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman
125. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
126. Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
127. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
128. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
129. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
130. Jingo by Terry Pratchett

Bookworms Take Shelfies (message 147)
Progress: 120/120

*An Author
Agatha Christie: 5/5
✅ 1. Death on the Nile
✅ 2. Murder on the Orient Express
✅ 3. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
✅ 4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
✅ 5. The A.B.C. Murders

William Shakespeare: 5/5
✅ 1. Othello
✅ 2. The Tempest
✅ 3. Titus Andronicus
✅ 4. Much Ado About Nothing
✅ 5. King Lear

*An Author
Naomi Novik 5/5
✅ 1. A Deadly Education
✅ 2. The Last Graduate
✅ 3. The Golden Enclaves
✅ 4. His Majesty's Dragon
✅ 5. Throne of Jade

*An Author
Taylor Jenkins Reid 3/3
✅ 1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
✅ 2. Daisy Jones & The Six
✅ 3. Malibu Rising

*A Book Genre
Nonfiction: 10/10
✅ 1. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
✅ 2. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
✅ 3. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
✅ 4. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
✅ 5. The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton
✅ 6. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
✅ 7. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
✅ 8. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
✅ 9. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
✅ 10. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Sports Nonfiction: 5/5
✅ 1. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
✅ 2. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
✅ 3. The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost
✅ 4. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
✅ 5. The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey

Queer Romance: 11/11
✅ 1. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
✅ 2. Cattle Stop by Kit Oliver
✅ 3. The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
✅ 4. The Wolf at the Door by Charlie Adhara
✅ 5. In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens
✅ 6. The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite
✅ 7. Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman
✅ 8. Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman
✅ 9. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
✅ 10. Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman
✅ 11. Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman

Fairytale Retellings: 5/5
✅ 1. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
✅ 2. Peter Darling by Austin Chant
✅ 3. Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry
✅ 4. Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
✅ 5. Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Anthologies: 3/3
✅ 1. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
✅ 2. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 by Diana Gabaldon
✅ 3. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements by adrienne maree brown

*Book Length
Chunksters (500 or more pages): 5/5
✅ 1. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 2. Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
✅ 3. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 4. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
✅ 5. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

*Diversity
BIPOC Authors (two books or more): 5/5
✅ 1. N.K. Jemisin
✅ 2. Colson Whitehead
✅ 3. Nghi Vo
✅ 4. Toni Morrison
✅ 5. Cixin Liu

Books Translated into English 3/3
✅ 1. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
✅ 2. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
✅ 3. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami

*A Literary Award
Pulitzer for Fiction (Winners & nominees): 9/9
✅ 1. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
✅ 2. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
✅ 3. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
✅ 4. The Overstory by Richard Powers
✅ 5. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
✅ 6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
✅ 7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
✅ 8. Beloved by Toni Morrison
✅ 9. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Hugo Award for Best Novel (Winners & nominees): 10/10
✅ 1. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
✅ 2. Ancillary Justice Anne Leckie
✅ 3. Network Effect by Martha Wells
✅ 4. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
✅ 5. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
✅ 6. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
✅ 7. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
✅ 8. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
✅ 9. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
✅ 10. Death's End by Liu Cixin

*A Listopia
1001 Books To Read Before You Die: 5/5
✅ 1. 1984 by George Orwell
✅ 2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
✅ 3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
✅ 4. Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
✅ 5. Animal Farm by George Orwell

Best Books of the Decade: 2020's: 5/5
✅ 1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
✅ 2. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
✅ 3. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 4. The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
✅ 5. The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Fantasy That Isn't Fantastic Straight White Men Doing Epic Things...: 5/5
✅ 1. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
✅ 2. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
✅ 3. Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch
✅ 4. Nimona by by N.D. Stevenson
✅ 5. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

*Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
Biographies About Women: 5/5
✅ 1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
✅ 2. Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
✅ 3. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart
✅ 4. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
✅ 5. Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

Memoirs and Autobiographies 4/4
✅ 1. Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
✅ 2. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
✅ 3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
✅ 4. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness

*A Place
Discworld: 5/5
✅ 1. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
✅ 2. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
✅ 3. Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
✅ 4. Jingo by Terry Pratchett
✅ 5. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett

*A Time
Books Published in 2022: 3/3
✅ 1. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
✅ 2. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
✅ 3. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

*Travel:
Books With Map in the Title (Or Books About Maps): 5/5
✅ 1. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
✅ 2. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
✅ 3. The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
✅ 4. Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert Kunzig
✅ 5. Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wisława Szymborska

Serial Reader Challenge (message 112)

Books: 56/50

*Starting New Series: 16/16
✅ 1. The Wheel of Time - Rober Jordan: The Eye of the World
✅ 2. The Kingkiller Chronicles - Patrick Rothfuss: The Name of the Wind
✅ 3. The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir: Gideon the Ninth
✅ 4. Anne of Green Gables - L.M.M Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
✅ 5. Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea
✅ 6. The Folk of the Air - Holly Black: The Cruel Prince
✅ 7. Crescent City - Sarah J. Maas: House of Earth and Blood
✅ 8. Imperial Radch - Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice
✅ 9. The Broken Earth - N.K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season
✅ 10. ACOTAR - Sarah J. Maas: A Court of Thorns and Roses
✅ 11. Inheritance - N.K. Jemisin: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
✅ 12. Hawthorne & Horowitz Mystery - Anthony Horowitz: The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
✅ 13. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
✅ 14. Shades of Magic - V.E. Schwab: A Darker Shade of Magic
✅ 15. All Souls - Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches
✅ 16. Miss Fischer's Murder Mysteries - Kelly Greenwood: Cocaine Blues

*Finishing Series Started Before 2022: 7/7
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronivitch
✅ 1. Moon Over Soho
✅ 2. Whispers Under Ground
✅ 3. Broken Homes
✅ 4. Foxglove Summer
✅ 5. The Hanging Tree
✅ 6. Lies Sleeping
✅ 7. False Value

*Reading Series Start to Finish: 16/16
Heartstopper by Alice Osemann
✅ 1. Heartstopper: Volume One
✅ 2. Heartstopper: Volume Two
✅ 3. Heartstopper: Volume Three
✅ 4. Heartstopper: Volume Four

The Scholomance Series by Naomi Novik
✅ 1. A Deadly Education
✅ 2. The Last Graduate
✅ 3. The Golden Enclaves

Remembrance of Earth's Past by Cixin Liu
✅ 1. The Three-Body Problem
✅ 2. The Dark Forest
✅ 3. Death's End

Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
✅ 1. All Systems Red
✅ 2. Artificial Condition
✅ 3. Rogue Protocol
✅ 4. Exit Strategy
✅ 5. Network Effect
✅ 6. Fugitive Telemetry

*Reading Books in a Series: 17/17
Temeraire Series by Naomi Novik
✅ 1. His Majesty's Dragon
✅ 2. Throne of Jade
✅ 3. Black Powder War
✅ 4. Empire of Ivory

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
✅ 1. The Fellowship of the Ring
✅ 2. The Two Towers
✅ 3. The Return of the King

Mysteries by Agatha Christie
✅ 1. Death on the Nile
✅ 2. Murder on the Orient Express
✅ 3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
✅ 4. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
✅ 5. The A.B.C. Murders

Discworld by Terry Pratchett
✅ 1. Guards! Guards!
✅ 2. Men at Arms
✅ 3. Feet of Clay
✅ 4. Jingo
✅ 5. The Fifth Elephant

QUARTERLY CHALLENGES

🎉 Q2 CELEBRATING DIVERSITY: 17/16 (msg 57) 🎉
🎉 Q2 LORE OF YORE: 13/11 (msg 40) 🎉
🎉 Q3 HAUNTED PLACES AROUND THE GLOBE: 9/7 (msg 12) 🎉
🎉 Q3 MILES OF SMILES: 10/10 (msg 8) 🎉

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QUARTER 2: APRIL - JUNE
🌎 CELEBRATING DIVERSITY 🌎
Progress: 17/16 🎉
Books with foreign holidays, foods, and loanwords: 2/2
✅ 1. The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
✅ 2. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

Read books with neurodivergent and disabled characters: 3/4
✅ 1. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
✅ 2. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
✅ 3. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
✅ 4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Diverse Books: 8/10
✅ 1. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
POC author, POC main character
✅ 2. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Jewish author
✅ 3. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
POC main character
✅ 4. The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
Latinx author
✅ 5. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
Jewish author
✅ 6. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Black author and all Black characters
✅ 7. The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
Pacific Islander author and characters
✅ 8. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Black author and Black characters
✅ 9. Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
nonfiction about a Black woman
✅ 10. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
nonfiction about a Black woman and Black family
✅ 11. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Trans author, Trans characters, and POC characters

🔍LORE OF YORE🔎
Progress: 13/11 🎉
🔍 Jack the Ripper: Who was this serial killer?
Read a book:
✅ 1. Set in the Victorian era (1837-1901 ), when the serial murders took place: The Alienist by Caleb Carr
✅ 2. Featuring an unknown killer: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

🔍 The Shroud of Turin: Its uncanny, negative imprint of the face and outline of a man's body shows injuries consistent with crucifixion.
Read a book:
✅ 3. Involving religion: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

🔍 Amelia Earhart: What happened to this female aviator?
Read a book:
✅ 5. Involving flight or a woman in a typically male career: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis

🔍 Mayan Calendar: How was such a complex and rather accurate calendar created?
Read a book:
✅ 10. Involving astronomy or set in Latin America: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis

🔍 Atlantis: Did it actually exist?
Read a book:
✅ 11. Set in a location in or on water: House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 12. Featuring a mythical element: Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

🔍 Moai statues on Easter Island: How were they transported?
Read a book:
✅ 17. Featuring a protagonist who travels somewhere or deforestation: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
✅ 18. Set in Oceania or involving the transport of goods: The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

🔍 Mystery of Oak Island and the Pirate Captain Kidd
Read a book:
✅ 19. About pirates or involving a curse: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
✅ 20. Set in Canada: Anne of Green Gables by L.M.M. Montgomery

🔍 Salem Witch Trials: Devil possession, witchcraft, or fungus-induced delusions?
Read a book:
✅ 21: Featuring a witch or a character who suffers delusions: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
✅ 22. Featuring a character who is wrongly accused or suffers discrimination: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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(view spoiler)[🎉 QUARTER 3: JULY - SEPTEMBER
👻 HAUNTED PLACES AROUND THE GLOBE 👻
Progress: 9/7 🎉

👻 HOIA FOREST, ROMANIA
✅ 1. Read a book that features a vampire, or is set in Southeastern Europe: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

👻 SALEM,MASSACHUSETTS
✅ 2. Salem, Massachusetts: Read a book that involves witchcraft, or is set in New England: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

👻 BHANGARH FOR, INDIA
✅ 3. Read a book that features a wizard, love potion, or curse, or is set in South Asia: Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

👻 EDINBURGH CASTLE, SCOTLAND
✅ 6. Read a book that features poltergeists, fairies, or spirits, or is set in the British Isles: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

👻 AL JAZIRAH AL HAMBRA, UAE
✅ 7. Read a book that features a genie or male shapeshifter, or is set in the Middle East: The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

👻 THE FORBIDDEN CITY, CHINA
✅ 8. Read a book that involves reincarnation, divination, or prophecies, or is set in East Asia: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

👻 XUNATUNICH, BELIZE
✅ 9. Read a book that involves a ghost or female shapeshifter, is set in Central America or the Caribbean: Beloved by Toni Morrison

👻 FRANKENSTEIN CASTLE, GERMANY
✅ 12. Read a book that includes a zombie or ghoul, or is set in Central Europe: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

👻 ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO
✅ 13. Roswell, New Mexico: Read a book that features ufology, extraterrestrials, or portals to other dimensions, or is set in a desert region: Network Effect by Martha Wells

🎉😊 MILES OF SMILES: 😊🎉
Progress: 10/10
For this quarterly challenge, you may select books set in these happy places, or books whose authors claim one of these countries as their birthplace or residence. If you live in one of these countries yourself, you may count only two books from your home country.

😊 GERMANY
✅ 1. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
😊 UNITED STATES
✅ 1. Beloved by Toni Morrison
✅ 2. The Underground Railroad by Coulson Whitehead
😊 UNITED KINGDOM
✅ 1. The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
✅ 2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
✅ 3. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
😊 IRELAND
✅ 1. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
😊 NETHERLANDS
✅1. The Fall by Albert Camus
😊 FRANCE
✅ 1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
✅ 2. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley (hide spoiler)]

🎉 Q4 WORD HUNT: 20/20 (msg 47) 🎉
🎉 Q4 OUT OF THE COMFORT ZONE: 10/10 (msg 33) 🎉

QUARTER 4
OCTOBER - DECEMBER

WORD HUNT
Main Words
✅ 1. Unknown
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Here the known. Here the unknown. (p.48)
✅ 2. Strange
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
"I have lived to see strange days." (p.536)
✅ 3. Mysterious
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
With a fingernail, into the frost on the wall, he scratches a verse in Greek, as though drawing mysterious glyphs to scare away thieves. (p.248)
✅ 4. Secret
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
"But keep it secret, and keep it safe!" (p.36)
✅ 5. Peculiar
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
"In the days when pianos and bathrooms were luxuries," Carnegie writes, "men regarded ability in speaking as a peculiar gift needed only by the lawyer, clergyman, or statesman." (p.60-61)
✅ 6. Curious
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
"Magic rings are - well, magical; and they are rare and curious." (p.33)
✅ 7. Moon
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
"If the Moon gave enough light, we would use it, but alas!" (p.416)
✅ 8. Crescent
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
"It's the Cross and the Crescent fighting in the prize ring--for the first time." (p.313)
✅ 9. Celestial
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Indeed, the fact that time within the game had been sped up helped with the observation, as the motion of the celestial bodies became more apparent. (p.146)
✅ 10. Glass
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
"They were found on Sam when you were rescued; the Lady Galadriel's gifts: your glass, Frodo; and your box, Sam." (p.931)
✅ 11. Mirror
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
"The mirror crack'd from side to side: 'The doom has come upon me,' cried the Lady of Shalott." (p.65)
✅ 12. Reflect
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
When introverts hit the number nine button and find they've lost a point, they slow down before moving on to the next number, as if to reflect on what went wrong. (p.300)
✅ 13. Harmony
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
The wrinkles were long and their curves gentle, as though they were trying to create a kind of harmony. (p.232)
✅ 14. Peace
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
"So they called him Gollum, and cursed him, and told him to go far away; and his grandmother, desiring peace, expelled him from the family and turned him out of her hole." (p.52)
✅ 15. Friendship
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
I had wanted his friendship, not that kind of advice. (p.157)

Bonus Words
✅ 1. Known
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
I remember the very night she became known as one of the showtime favorites there at the Roseland. (p.67)
✅ 2. Common
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Three Body is intended for people in your class because the common crowd cannot appreciate its meaning and mood. (p.226)
✅ 3. Sun
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The sun climbed to the noon and then rode slowly down the sky. (p.414)
✅ 4. Plastic
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Five Plywood Plastic soldiers climb out of their tin box. (p.91)
✅ 5. Conflict
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
This conflict between biology and protocol is one reason that speechmaking can be so fraught. (p.202)

OUT OF THE COMFORT ZONE
Read any books where I have no idea of what the book is about, a nonfiction book about a new topic or person, or pick at random from my TBR list.

✅ 1. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
✅ 2. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
✅ 3. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
✅ 4. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
✅ 5. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
✅ 6. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
✅ 7. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
✅ 8. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
✅ 9. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅ 10. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

MONTHLY CHALLENGES: APRIL - JULY

🎉 APRIL 🎉
🌸 The Creative Arts: 8/8
🌸 Tunes and Tomes: 8/8
🎉 MAY 🎉
🌺 Meme, Myself, and I: 10/10
🌺 Media Mayhem: 12/12
🎉 JUNE 🎉
🌷 Pardon My French: 11/11
🌷 We'll Always Have Paris: 10/10
JULY
🌹 Red By Any Other Name: 5/5
🌹 Shades of Red: 0/10

(view spoiler)[🌸 April 🌸
🎉 The Creative Arts: 8/8 (msg 58) 🎉
✅ 1. VISUAL ARTS: House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 2. DANCING: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
✅ 3. MUSIC: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅ 4. DRAMA: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
✅ 5. MEDIA ARTS: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
✅ 6. GRAPHIC DESIGN: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
✅ 7. SCULPTURE: The Maidens by by Alex Michaelides
✅ 8. LITERATURE: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

🎉 Tunes and Tomes: 8/8 (msg 46) 🎉
✅ 1. Woman by Ke$ha: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
a book by a woman
✅ 2. As It Was by Harry Styles: House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
a book released this year
✅ 3. Meant to Live by Switchfoot: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
title match in the album: the beautiful letdown
✅ 4. Mingulay Boat Song by Between Wind and Water: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
title match with boat & a book about boats
✅ 5. We Can't Stop covered by BASTILLE: Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
a book set in england
✅ 6. No Place in Heaven by Mika: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
a book about the afterlife
✅ 7. Iris covered by Phoebe & Maggie: 1984 by George Orwell
a book with an eye on the cover
✅ 8. Kill of the Night by Gin Wigmore: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
a book involving a murder (hide spoiler)]
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🌺 MAY 🌺
🎉 Meme, Myself, and I: 10/10 (msg 15) 🎉
✅ 1. A book with a word in the title that begins with the letter "M": The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
✅ 2. A book with a word in the title that begins with the letter "E": Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
✅ 3. A book with a word in the title that begins with the letter "D": Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert Kunzig
✅ 4. A book with a word in the title that begins with the letter "I": Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
✅ 5. A book with a word in the title that begins with the letter "A": The Alienist by Caleb Carr
✅ 6. A book that was made into a movie: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
✅ 7. A book that has to do with entertainment: The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
✅ 8. A book that has to do with any type of digital media: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Grady Hendrix
✅ 9. A book that involves the internet in some way: Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
✅ 10. A book that involves advertising in some way: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

🎉 Media Mayhem: 12/12 (msg 11) 🎉
🤪 books first, later produced in another medium, OR
🤪 another medium first, later published as a book

✅ 1. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
✅ 2. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
✅ 3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
✅ 4. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
✅ 5. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
✅ 6. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
✅ 7. Anne of Green Gables by L.M.M Montgomery
✅ 8. The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
✅ 9. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
✅ 10. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
✅ 11. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
✅ 12. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
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🌷 JUNE 🌷
🎉 Pardon My French: 11/11 (msg 18) 🎉
✅ C: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
✅I: Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
✅ T: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
✅ Y: Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall

✅ O: Othello by William Shakespeare
✅ F: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

✅ L: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
✅ I: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
✅ G: Godshot by Chelsea Bieker
✅ H: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
✅ T: Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel

🎉 We'll Always Have Paris: 10/10 (msg 25) 🎉
✅ 1. City of Light: Read a book set in Paris or with a source of light on the cover: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
✅ 2. City of Love: Read a book with "love" in the title or in the romantic genre: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
✅ 3. Fashion Capital: Read a book about fashion or with something relating to fashion on the cover: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
✅ 4. Café et croissant: Read a book about a food & beverage professional or with food/drink on the cover: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
✅ 5. Paris la nuit: Read a book about sexual/gender diversity or involving a night out: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
✅ 6. Cruise on the Seine: Read a book set in a boat or involving a romantic dinner: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
✅ 7. Afternoon at the museum: Read a book set in a museum or about an artist: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
✅ 8. Books at Shakespeare & Co.: Read a book by a French author or translated from French: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
✅ 9. Night at the Opera: Read a book involving music or adapted into a musical: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
✅ 10. Trip to Versailles: Read a book set in a palace/château or a historical fiction: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
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🌹 JULY 🌹
🎉 Red By Any Other Name: 5/5 (msg 9) 🎉
✅ 1. Rose: Read a book with rose in the title or a book with a picture of any type of flower on the cover: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
✅ 2. Garnet: Garnets are the January birthstone, so read a book set during January or published in January: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
✅ 3. Crimson: Read a book with a red cover or a book with the word red in the title: The Underground Railroad by Coulson Whitehead
✅ 6. Blood: Read a book with blood in the title or on the cover, or read a mystery: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
✅ 9. Auburn: Read a book featuring a redhead on the cover or a book with a main character with red hair: Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

🎉 Shades of Red: 10/10 (msg 12) 🎉



✅ 1. Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
✅ 2. Beloved by Toni Morrison
✅ 3. The Nickel Boys by Coulson Whitehead
✅ 4. The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limon
✅ 5. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
✅ 6. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
✅ 7. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
✅ 8. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
✅ 9. The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
✅ 10. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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MONTHLY CHALLENGES: JULY - OCTOBER

🎉 AUGUST 🎉
🌎 Have Book, Will Travel: 10/10
🌎 The Sky's the Limit: 5/5
🎉 SEPTEMBER 🎉
🤝 Trust Fall: 10/10
🤝 Trust in Your Reads: 10/10
🎉 OCTOBER 🎉
🌙 Moonstruck: 5/5
🌙 Chasing the MOON: 3/3
🎉 NOVEMBER 🎉
💎 All About Glass: 5/5
💎 Topaz Pizzazz: 5/5
🎉 DECEMBER 🎉
🎵 Sweet Harmonies: 10/10

(view spoiler)[🌎 AUGUST 🌎

🎉 Have Book, Will Travel: 10/10 (msg 10) 🎉
✅ 1. Have book, will travel: read a book set in your favorite place in the world or in a place you hope to visit someday.
🌎 The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
✅ 2. Take the road less traveled: read the book with fewest ratings in your TBR list.
🌎 Peter Darling by Austin Chant
✅ 3. Safe travels! Read a travelog.
🌎 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
✅ 4. Travel broadens the mind: read a book set in a different country or translated from a language other than your own.
🌎 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami
✅ 5. Travel by...: read a book featuring a form of transportation on the cover, in the storyline, or in the title.
🌎 Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
✅ 6. Bad news travels fast: read a book involving some kind of trouble or misfortune.
🌎 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
✅ 7. Travel light: read a book under 200 pages.
🌎 Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
✅ 8. Travel in a body: read a book where a group of people travel to a destination (journey, pilgrimage, voyage, trip, etc.).
🌎 The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
✅ 9. Travel widely: read a book set on two or more continents.
🌎 The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
✅ 10. T▪R▪A▪V▪E▪L: read a book which includes these six letters in the title and/or author's name.
🌎 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

🎉 The Sky's the Limit: 5/5 (msg 7) 🎉
✅ 1. The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
✅ 2. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami
✅ 3. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
✅ 4. The Metamorphisis by Franz Kafka
✅ 5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[🤝 SEPTEMBER 🤝

🎉 Trust Exercises: 10/10 (msg 9) 🎉
✅ 1. The Overstory by Richard Powers
✅ 2. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
✅ 3. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
✅ 4. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
✅ 5. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
✅ 6. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
✅ 7. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
✅ 8. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
✅ 9. Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
✅ 10. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

🎉 Trust in Your Reads: 10/10 (msg 14) 🎉
✅ 1. Shelf Trust: Read a book that has been shelved under “trust” on Goodreads: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
✅ 2. Author Trust: Read a book from an author that you have read before and trust their writing: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
✅ 3. Relationship Trust: Trust is a big part of relationships. Read a book from the romance genre or that has a friendship between characters: The Overstory by Richard Powers
✅ 4. Fact Trust: When reading non-fiction, being able to trust the author that the information is correct is important. Read a non-fiction book: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart
✅ 5. Team Trust; Being Trustworthy is a big part of being on a team. Read a fantasy or adventure genre novel that involves a group of characters who need to trust one another: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
✅ 6. Trust fund: Read a book where money plays a role: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
✅ 7. TrusT: Read a book whose title includes at least two Ts: Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
✅ 8. Trust the Universe: Use a random letter generator and trust that the letter it picks will result in a wonderful book pick. The letter picked should be the first letter in the authors last name or first letter in the title (L): A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
✅ 9. TBR Trust: Set your Goodreads TBR list to show 10 books per page, then choose Random in the Sort menu. Pick one of the books on the first page and trust that it will be good read: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemesin
✅ 10. Reader Trust: Read a book whose average rating is over 4.0 on GoodReads: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[🌙 OCTOBER 🌙

🎉 Moonstruck: 5/5 (msg 15) 🎉

✅ 3. Man in the moon. Read a book with a full moon or a face on the cover The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
✅ 5. Living on the moon. Read a book set in space or on another world, or a sci-fi book: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
✅ 6. Once in a blue moon. Read a genre or author you rarely read: The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey
✅ 8. Tidal effects. Read a book set at the shore or involving the sea: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
✅ 10. When the moon eclipses the sun. Read a book with a brilliant supporting character or the second book in a series: The Two Towers by J.R. Tolkien

🎉 Chasing the Moon: 3/3 (msg 9) 🎉
✅ 1. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
✅ 2. Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry
✅ 3. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[💎 NOVEMBER 💎

🎉 All About Glass: 5/5 (msg 11) 🎉
✅ 1. Read a book set near a beach or with water on the cover: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
✅ 2. Read a book were the main character makes changes in their life or has a colorful cover: The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
✅ 4. Read a book that is a fast read or has something broken on the cover: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
✅ 6. Read a book that features science or has something that moves on the cover: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
✅ 8. Read a book that is a second hand/library book or has green on the cover: Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik

🎉 Topaz Pizzazz: 5/5 (msg 12) 🎉
✅ 2. Read a book set on an island or sea voyage, or involving a case of mistaken identity: Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronivitch
✅ 4. Read a book with a sovereign character (czar, queen, sultan, empress, chief, etc.), or with a beverage in the cover art/title: King Lear by William Shakespeare
✅ 5. Read a book which has been recognized with an award, or with a jewel in its title/cover art: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
✅ 6. Read a book involving a mine, or set in one or more of these source countries (Russia): A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
✅ 8. Read a book with at least 8 chapters, in a series with at least 8 books, or with 8/eight in its title: Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik (hide spoiler)]

🎵 DECEMBER 🎵

🎉 Sweet Harmonies: 10/10 (msg 3) 🎉
✅ 1. Intervals: Read a book that doesn’t take place in chronological order or where time skips around: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
✅ 2. Chords: Read a book where a group of people has to work together to accomplish something: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
✅ 3. Four-Part: Read a book with at least four different POVs: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
✅ 4. Triad: Read a book with a love triangle or a trio of main characters: Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch
✅ 5. Consonance: Read a book where a character makes a new friend or falls in love: Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman
✅ 6. Dissonance: Read a book with characters who argue, hate each other, or are otherwise opposed to each other: Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
✅ 7. Close Harmonies: Read a book set where you live or close to where you live: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
✅ 8. Open Harmonies: Read a book set on the opposite side of the world from you: Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
✅ 9. Tonal and Dominant: Read a comfort book or read a book you know nothing about: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
✅ 10. Root Chords: Read a book about returning to your roots or a family saga: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

ATY in 52 Books
Progress: 52/52

✅ 1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
✅ 2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
✅ 3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅ 4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list - A book by an indigenous author: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
✅ 5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

✅ 6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
✅ 7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind: The Alienist by Caleb Carr
✅ 8. 3 books set on three different continents - Africa: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
✅ 9. 3 books set on three different continents - South America: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis

✅ 10. 3 books set on three different continents - Asia: Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
✅ 11. A book from historical fiction genre: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
✅ 12. A book related to glass: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
✅ 13. A book about a woman in STEM: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

✅ 14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
✅ 15. A book without a person on the cover: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
✅ 16. A book related to Earth Day: The Overstory by Richard Powers
✅ 17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

✅ 18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author: Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
✅ 19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
✅ 20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
✅ 21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
✅ 22. A book with a Jewish character or author: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

✅ 23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
✅ 24. A book related to inclement weather: The Guest List by Lucy Foley
✅ 25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 26. 2 books with the same word in the title (Book 1): The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

✅ 27. 2 books with the same word in the title (Book 2): The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
✅ 28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
✅ 29. A book set on or near a body of water: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
✅ 30. A book related to mythology: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

✅ 31. A book published at least 10 years ago: The Alienist by Caleb Carr
✅ 32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer: Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
✅ 33. The next book in a series: Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
✅ 34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
✅ 35. 2 books related to flora and fauna (Book 1): The Overstory by Richard Powers

✅ 36. 2 books related to flora and fauna (Book 2): The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
✅ 37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
✅ 38. A book by a Latin American author: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
✅ 39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

✅ 40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
✅ 41. A book with a theme of food or drink: The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
✅ 42. A book with a language or nationality in the title: Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
✅ 43. A book set in a small town or rural area: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
✅ 44. A book with gothic elements: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

✅ 45. A book related to a game: Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
✅ 46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
✅ 47. A book with handwriting on the cover: Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch
✅ 48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

✅ 49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons": His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
✅ 50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
✅ 51. A book published in 2022: House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 52. A book with a time-related word in the title: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Book Riot Read Harder 2022
Progress: 24/24

✅ 1. Read a biography of an author you admire: Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
✅ 2. Read a book set in a bookstore: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
✅ 3. Read any book from the Women’s Prize shortlist/longlist/winner list: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
✅ 4. Read a book in any genre by a POC that’s about joy and not trauma: Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
✅ 5. Read an anthology featuring diverse voices: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X Kendi
✅ 6. Read a nonfiction YA comic: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
✅ 7. Read a romance where at least one of the protagonists is over 40: The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite
✅ 8. Read a classic written by a POC: Beloved by Toni Morrison
✅ 9. Read the book that’s been on your TBR the longest: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
✅ 10. Read a political thriller by a marginalized author (BIPOC, or LGBTQIA+): While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
✅ 11. Read a book with an asexual and/or aromantic main character: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
✅ 12. Read an entire poetry collection: Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson
✅ 13. Read an adventure story by a BIPOC author: The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
✅ 14. Read a book whose movie or TV adaptation you’ve seen (but haven’t read the book): Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
✅ 15. Read a new-to-you literary magazine (print or digital): F(r)iction
✅ 16. Read a book recommended by a friend with different reading tastes: The Temps by Andrew DeYoung
✅ 17. Read a memoir written by someone who is trans or nonbinary: Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
✅ 18. Read a “Best ____Writing of the year” book for a topic and year of your choice: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 by Diana Gabaldon
✅ 19. Read a horror novel by a BIPOC author: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
✅ 20. Read an award-winning book from the year you were born (Lambda Humor Award Winner, 1993): Dykes to Watch Out For: The Sequel by Alison Bechdel
✅ 21. Read a queer retelling of a classic of the canon, fairytale, folklore, or myth: Peter Darling by Austin Chant
✅ 22. Read a history about a period you know little about: Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
✅ 23. Read a book by a disabled author: Binti by by Nnedi Okorafor
✅ 24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat! (A Dystopian Novel): 1984 by George Orwell