Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

A-Z Challenge 2022

Start date: 1/1/2022
End date:

Books completed: 25/26

✔A - All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler 2/13
✔B - Beautiful World, Where Are You 2/25
✔C - City of Shadows 1/8
✔D - The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred 1/10
✔E - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 1/7
✔F - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law 2/14
✔G - The Guncle
✔H - House of Earth and Blood 3/3
✔I - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 1/4
✔J - Jefferson's Monticello 6/24
✔K - Killers of a Certain Age 9/29
✔L - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 1/1
✔M - The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses 4/4
✔N - North American Railroads: The Illustrated Encyclopedia 6/22
✔O - One Hundred Years of Solitude 1/20
✔P - Putting the Rabbit in the Hat 2/3
✔Q - The Queen's Gambit 1/1
✔R - The Recovery Agent 4/428
✔S - The Stranger 1/5
✔T - The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth 3/29
✔U - Under the Whispering Door 1/2
✔V - The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code 10/1
✔W - West with Giraffes
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✔Y - You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington 12/26
✔Z - The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book 12/27

New Release Challenge 2022
Duration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Completed: 82/#

✔1. I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home 1/29
✔2. Putting the Rabbit in the Hat 2/3
✔3. Show Me the Bunny 3/5
✔4. Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire 2/21
✔5. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History 2/25
✔6. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again 3/3
✔7. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir 3/11
✔8. Wild Irish Rose 5/2
✔9. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation 3/16
✔10. George V: Never a Dull Moment 3/26
✔11. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth 3/29
✔12. The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice 3/30
✔13. The First Kennedys: An Immigrant Maid, Her Bartender Son, and the Humble Roots of a Dynasty 4/1
✔14. The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses 4/4
✔15. The Diamond Eye 4/15
✔16. House of Sky and Breath 4/23
✔17. The Recovery Agent 4/28
✔18. Three Debts Paid 5/14
✔19. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy 4/16
✔20. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation 4/19
✔21. Run Rose Run 5/15
✔22. Sea of Tranquility 4/30
✔23. Hello, Molly! 5/18
✔24. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question 5/21
✔25. Out of the Corner 6/3
✔26. Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage 5/24
✔27. Book of Night 5/27
✔28. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals 6/2
✔29. Razzmatazz 6/5
✔30. The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster 6/12
✔31. Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays 6/17
✔32. Happy-Go-Lucky 7/8
✔33. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama 7/8
✔34. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks 7/17
✔35. Upgrade 7/20
✔36. The Law 7/20
✔37. An Immense World 10/5
✔38. I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays 8/6
✔39. Finding Me 8/13
✔40. The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I 8/18
✔41. Rough Draft: A Memoir 9/3
✔42. Kagen the Damned 8/30
✔43. Round Up the Usual Peacocks
✔44. Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake 9/26
✔45. Has Anyone Seen My Toes? 9/28
✔46. Killers of a Certain Age 9/29
✔47. The Man Who Could Move Clouds
✔48. Split Decision: Life Stories
✔49. The Bullet That Missed 10/6
✔50. The Winners 10/12
✔51. Tanqueray 10/11
✔52. Mother Daughter Traitor Spy 10/16
✔53. Daughter of Darkness 10/23
✔54. The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There 10/17
✔55. Unlikely Animals 10/26
✔56. Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American 10/21
✔57. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America 10/31
✔58. Switchboard Soldiers 10/31
✔59. Lessons in Chemistry 11/1
✔60. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman 11/9
✔61. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story 11/17
✔62. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 11/6
✔63. Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution 11/17
✔64. Dashing Through the Snowbirds 11/2
✔65. I'm Glad My Mom Died 11/19
✔66. Honor 11/19
✔67. Carrie Soto Is Back 11/20
✔68. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma 11/22
✔69. Black Cake 11/23
✔70. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human 11/26
✔71. The Hotel Nantucket 11/25
✔72. All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business 12/4
✔73. Peril in Paris 11/27
✔74. I Must Betray You 11/28
✔75. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World 12/5
✔76. All the Living and the Dead: from Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work 12/7
✔77. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle 12/14
✔78. Going Rogue 12/9
✔79. City of Fortune 12/11
✔80. Call Us What We Carry 12/15
✔81. Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome 12/17
✔82. The World Record Book of Racist Stories 12/19
✔83. Joan 12/23
84. Like a Rolling Stone: The Last Letter to the Editor: A Memoir

New-to-me Author Exploration Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Completed: 108/#

✔1. C.S. Lewis 1/1
✔2. Walter Tevis 1/1
✔3. V.E. Schwab 1/4
✔4. Albert Camus 1/5
✔5. Patrick Radden Keefe 1/7
✔6. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 1/10
✔7. Will Smith 1/16
✔8. Lynda Rutledge 1/13
✔9. Weiwei Ai 1/25
✔10. Jami Attenberg 1/29
✔11. Brian Cox 2/3
✔12. Steven Rowley 1/31
✔13. Laura Dave 2/1
✔14. Mary Roach 2/14
✔15. Rebecca Donner 2/13
✔16. Anna Della Subin 2/18
✔17. Marie Benedict 2/20
✔18. Jonathan M. Katz 2/21
✔19. Sally Rooney 2/25
✔20. Lea Ypi 2/25
✔21. Johann Hari 3/3
✔22. Sarah J. Maas 3/3
✔23. Dennis Duncan 3/7
✔24. Imani Perry 3/16
✔25. Séamas O'Reilly 3/11
✔26. James Baldwin 3/8
✔27. Quan Barry 3/17
✔28. Jane Ridley 3/26
✔29. Deanna Raybourn 3/24
✔30. Wendall Thomas 3/27
✔31. Ben Rawlence 3/29
✔32. Benjamin Gilmer 3/30
✔33. Neal Thompson 4/1
✔34. Guy Leschziner 4/4
✔35. Patricia Schultz 6/19
✔36. Brian Solomon 6/22
✔37. Robert Wernick 6/25
✔38. Drew Magary 6/23
✔39. Billie Jean King 4/10
✔40. Sharon Gless 4/13
✔41. Jamie Raskin 4/16
✔42. Rosemary Sullivan 4/19
✔43. Richard Osman 4/25
✔44. Dolly Parton 5/15
✔45. Richard Rhodes 5/6
✔46. Tina Fey 5/18
✔47. Molly Shannon 5/18
✔48. Huma Abedin 5/17
✔49. Michael Schur 5/21
✔50. Jennifer Grey 6/3
✔51. Laurie Zaleski 6/2
✔52. Cecily Strong 6/5
✔53. John Gleeson 6/12
✔54. Colleen Hoover 6/8
✔55. Liane Moriarty 6/9
✔56. Kliph Nesteroff 6/15
✔57. Minnie Driver 6/17
✔58. Saul Austerlitz 6/28
✔59. Eric Barker 6/29
✔60. Milan Kundera 7/2
✔61. Markus Zusak 7/1
✔62. Virginia Woolf 7/5
✔63. Susanna Clarke 7/8
✔64. Bob Odenkirk 7/8
✔65. Ed Yong 10/5
✔66. Tom Segura 8/6
✔67. Viola Davis 8/13
✔68. Lindsey Fitzharris 8/18
✔69. Katy Tur 9/3
✔70. Chuck Palahniuk 8/31
✔71. Amber Share 8/18
✔72. Chuck Palahniuk 8/31
✔73. Liza Mundy 9/12
✔74. Alicia Keys 9/17
✔75. George Eliot 9/25
✔76. Ingrid Rojas Contreras
✔77. Ice-T
✔78. Wajahat Ali 10/21
✔79. Annie Hartnett 10/26
✔80. Nick de Semlyen 10/29
✔81. Maggie Haberman 10/31
✔82. Stephanie Johnson 10/11
✔83. Gary Janetti 10/13
✔84. Jennifer Chiaverini 10/31
✔85. Bonnie Garmus 11/1
✔86. Gabrielle Zevin 11/6
✔87. R.F. Kuang 11/17
✔88. Alan Rickman 11/9
✔89. Bono 11/17
✔90. Thrity Umrigar 11/19
✔91. Jennette McCurdy 11/19
✔92. Stephanie Foo 11/22
✔93. Charmaine Wilkerson 11/23
✔94. Siddhartha Mukherjee 11/26
✔95. Elin Hilderbrand 11/25
✔96. A.A. Milne 11/25
✔97. Mel Brooks
✔98. Ruta Sepetys 11/28
✔99. Ransom Riggs 12/1
✔100. Octavia E. Butler 12/3
✔101. J.M. Barrie 12/5
✔102. Jonathan Freedland 12/5
✔103. Hayley Campbell 12/7
✔104. Amanda Gorman 12/15
✔105. Katherine J. Chen 12/23
✔106. Paul Bloom 12/22
✔107. Alexis Coe 12/26
✔108. Peter Finn 12/27
109. Jann S. Wenner

Colorful Covers 2022
Duration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Level: Hard
Completed: 35/36


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