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Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books


Challenge Rules
*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge

(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)

Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over.

Anne FINISHED

Bobbi FINISHED

Caraina FINISHED
Catsalive FINISHED

Elaine FINISHED
Elle FINISHED

Ferenc FINISHED

Genevieve FINISHED
Grace

Hina ♡ FINISHED

Jan FINISHED
JoAnne FINISHED

Kendra FINISHED
Kimberly FINISHED

Laila Jane

Mandy FINISHED
Melissa A FINISHED

Olivermagnus FINISHED

Pinar FINISHED

Ricka FINISHED

Shannon FINISHED
Shash FINISHED
Stephanie FINISHED
Suzanne FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge - January
Read: 3

Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

My List:
1. Man Enough Nicole Snow 1/8/23
2. Christmas at Hope Ranch Loretta C. Rogers 1/18/23
3. A Grand Season to Remember Abigail Agar 1/18/23

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

5 of 5-6 Complete

1. The Diamond Eye - Kate Quinn - 1/5/23
2. The Mistake I Made - Paula Daly - 1/13/23
3. The Dead Queens Club - Hannah Capin - 1/20/23
4. The Paris Library - Janet Skeslien Charles - 1/21/23
5. Eight Hundred Grapes - Laura Dave - 1/24/23

FINISHED!!!! Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
12/6

1. Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match Sally Thorne 01/02/23
2. The Whalebone Theatre Joanna Quinn 01/09/23
3. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg 01/12/23
4. Sailors Emmy McLean 01/12/23
5. Killers of a Certain Age Deanna Raybournb01/13/23
6. Cackle Rachel Harrison 01/18/23
7. An Anonymous Girl Greer Hendricks 01/18/23
8. Exciting Times Naoise Dolan 01/19/23
9. Donut Fall in Love Jackie Lau 01/19/23
10. When We Believed in Mermaids Barbara O'Neal 01/22/23
11. The Light Pirate Lily Brooks-Dalton 01/22/23
12.Nora Goes Off Script Annabel Monaghan 01/23/23

January 2023
Solitary
Read: 6/5-6 books

1. How You Ruined My Life - Jeff Strand 🔴🔴⚫⚫⚫ 1/2/23
2. A Midsummer Night's Scream - R.L. Stine 🔴🔴🔴🔴⚫ 1/4/23
3. Snapshot - Brandon Sanderson 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 1/6/23
4. James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories - James Herriot 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 1/12/23
5. How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills - Seth Grahame-Smith 🔴🔴🔴🔴⚫ 1/14/23
6. The Deep - Alma Katsu 🔴🔴🔴🔴⚫ 1/21/23

January Stand Alone
Duration: Jan. 1st, 2023 - Jan. 31st, 2023

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

13/6

1. Mad About You by Mhairi McFarlane - Jan. 2nd
2. Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen - Jan. 3rd
3. The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl by Melanie Chisholm - Jan. 5th
4. Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro & Cornelia Funke - Jan. 11th
5. Is This A Cookbook?: Adventures in the Kitchen by Heston Blumenthal - Jan. 13th
6. Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia by Natasha Lance Rogoff - Jan. 15th
7. Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz - Jan. 18th
8. The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay - Jan. 22nd
9. Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion by Louise Willder - Jan. 24th
10. To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - Jan. 25th
11. A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson - Jan. 25th
12. Shakespeare: Sonnets by William Shakespeare - Jan. 26th
13. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich - Jan. 29th

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 2023

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Chemistry of Love by Sariah Wilson (1/26/23)

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

Completed: 6/6

1. The Dinner - Herman Koch 1/1/23
2. Love on the Brain - Ali Hazelwood 1/2/23
3. The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak 1/3/23
4. The Boys from Biloxi - John Grisham 1/4/23
5. The Blind Side - Michael Lewis 1/7/23
6. The House Across the Lake - Riley Sager 1/9/23

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 2023

Solo: Read 1-2 books

1. The Housekeeper and the Professor | Yōko Ogawa - Jan 24
2. The Sittaford Mystery | Agatha Christie - Jan 29

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023
Read: 2

Solo: Read 1-2 books
COMPLETED


1.) Save the Date by Mary Kay Andrews 1/8/2022
2.) The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews 1/23/2023

Welcome Lynda, Melissa, Bobbi, Kendra, Shash, Caraina, Elle, and Anne!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw by Leah Stewart 1/11/23
2. Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan 1/12/23
3. The Upside-Down Kingdom by Donald B. Kraybill 1/16/23
4. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman 1/24/23
5. Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell 1/26/23
6. The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart 1/27/23

Welcome Shannon!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

Goal: 7/6
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Diamond Eye - Kate Quinn - 01/04/23
2. Hotel Magnifique - Emily J. Taylor - 01/07/23
3. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina - Zoraida Córdova - 01/17/23
4. Rose Napolitano kilenc élete - Donna Freitas - 01/21/23
5. In the Time of our History - Susanne Pari - 01/24/23
6. Mit kezdjünk az akaratossággal? - Pszichológiai útmutató + dacszelídítő mesék - Deliága Éva & Lovász Hajnalka - 01/27/23
7. The Villa - Rachel Hawkins - 01/30/23

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

1. Black Rose by Kate Prada 1/12/2023
2. Turkey in the Snow by Amy Lane 1/25/2023
3.Endless Summer by J.M. Snyder 1/26/2023

Welcome Ferenc and Genevieve!

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Magic by Jordi Camí 1/2/23
2. Purple and Black by K.J. Parker 1/2/23
3. The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories by Mahvesh Murad 1/3/23
4. Academic Exercises by K.J. Parker 1/3/23
5. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History by William Alexander 1/5/23
6. Bruiser by Neal Shusterman 1/6/23

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Progress: 6/6

1. A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne 1/1
2. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple 1/1
3. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley 2/1
4. Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton 3/1
5. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson 4/1
6. Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman 5/1

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 2023

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

COMPLETED 6/6

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Play Dead by Ted Dekker
2. Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
3. Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth by Adharanand Finn
4. The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
5. The History of Fiji by Alfred G. Mayer
6. Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram by Isha Sesay

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. One Year to an Organized Life: From Your Closets to Your Finances, the Week-by-Week Guide to Getting Completely Organized for Good | Regina Leeds
2. Grace Where You Are by Emily Belle Freeman (1/25/2023)

Welcome Stephanie, Hina, Jan, Grace and Kimberly!

Standalone Challenge
Jan. 1-31

3/3 Completed

1. Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors 1-5-23
2. Leave It to Plum! 1-10-23
3. Snow Big Deal 1-11-23

The Lost Challenges
January 2023 Stand Alone
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

Progress: 6 out of 6

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

Challenge Rules
(view spoiler)[*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge

(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)

Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over. (hide spoiler)]

1. I Choose Darkness by Jenny Lawson - ***** - 1/8/2023 - 25 Pages
2. Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman - ***** - 1/15/2023 - 352 Pages
3. Verity by Colleen Hoover - ***** - 1/24/2023 - 341 Pages
4. If Only It Were True by Marc Levy - ***** - 1/30/2023 - 216 Pages
5. A Christmas Memory by Richard Paul Evans - ***** - 1/30/2023 - 192 Pages
6. Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen - ***** - 1/19/2023 - 290 Pages

Welcome Elaine and Suzanne!

January Stand Alone
Duration: Jan 1 - Jan 31, 2023
Goals: Solo: 1-2 books | Single: 3-4 books | Solitary: 5-6 books
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1.) Rendezvous im Café de Flore | Caroline Bernard | 1/4/23
2.) Weihnachten mit Theodor Fontane | Theodor Fontane | 1/30/23
3.) Reden gegen den Krieg | Wolodymyr Selenskyj | 1/31/23
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5.)
6.)

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1 of 5-6 Complete

1. Gecenin Öteki Yüzü by Füruzan 1/10/23
2. Pyongyang: Kuzey Kore'ye Bir Yolculuk by Guy Delisle 1/12/23
3. Sefer by Murat Başekim 1/13/23
4. Lanetli Tavşan by Bora Chung 1/16/23
5. Lanetli Avlu by Ivo Andrić 1/22/23
6. Görme Biçimleri by John Berger

January 2023 Stand Alone

Goal: Single - 1/3

1. Layla by Colleen Hoover (01/26/23)
2.
3.

Welcome Mandy, Pinar and Laila Jane!

Finished in message 19!

Hina ♡ wrote: "Finished in message 19!"

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge.

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

0 of 5-6 Complete

1.The Villa by Rachel Hawkins - 01/07/2023
2.The Na of Wa by Verna Aardema - 01/.08/2023
3.Single with Benefits by Relentless Aaron - 01.09.2023
4.State Scarlet by David Aaron - 01.10.2023
5.Rocky Road by Rose Kent 01.16.2023
6. Abroad with the Jimmies by Lilian Bell 01.18.2023

Welcome Ricka!

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Progress: 6/6

1. A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne 1/1
2. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple 1/1
3. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley 2/1
4. Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton 3/1
5. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson 4/1
6. Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman 5/1

Finished!

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Magic by Jordi Camí 1/2/23
2. Purple and Black by K.J. Parker 1/2/23
3. The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories by Mahvesh Murad 1/3/23
4. Academic Exercises by K.J. Parker 1/3/23
5. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History by William Alexander 1/5/23
6. Bruiser by Neal Shusterman 1/6/23

WOOHOO Hina and Stephanie!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
6/6

1. A Chance Of Stormy Weather by Tricia Stringer 3/1 3.5★
2. My Husband's Wives by Faith Hogan 4/1 4★
3. After the Rain by Lucy Dillon 5/1 3★
4. Johnno by David Malouf 6/1 4★
5. Every Version of You by Grace Chan 7/1 3.5★
6. A Guide to Native Bees of Australia by Terry Houston 13/1 5★

Welcome Catsalive!

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

Completed: 6/6

1. The Dinner - Herman Koch 1/1/23
2. Love on the Brain - Ali Hazelwood 1/2/23
3. The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak 1/3/23
4. The Boys from Biloxi - John Grisham 1/4/23
5. The Blind Side - Michael Lewis 1/7/23
6. The House Across the Lake - Riley Sager 1/9/23

WOOHOO Caraina!

Completed

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
6/6

1. A Chance Of Stormy Weather by Tricia Stringer 3/1 3.5★
2. My Husband's Wives by Faith Hogan 4/1 4★
3. After the Rain by Lucy Dillon 5/1 3★
4. Johnno by David Malouf 6/1 4★
5. Every Version of You by Grace Chan 7/1 3.5★
6. A Guide to Native Bees of Australia by Terry Houston 13/1 5★

COMPLETED 6/6

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Play Dead by Ted Dekker
2. Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
3. Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth by Adharanand Finn
4. The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
5. The History of Fiji by Alfred G. Mayer
6. Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram by Isha Sesay

WOOHOO Catsalive and Jan!

@Jan, finish dates are needed!

Completed 6/6
Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1.The Villa by Rachel Hawkins - 01/07/2023
2.The Na of Wa by Verna Aardema- 01/.08/2023
3.Single with Benefits by Relentless Aaron- 01.09.2023
4.State Scarlet by David Aaron- 01.10.2023
5.Rocky Road7607379] 01.16.2023
6. Abroad with the Jimmies by Lilian Bell 01.18.2023

Fantastic Ricka!

January 2023
Solitary
Read: 6/5-6 books

1. How You Ruined My Life - Jeff Strand 🔴🔴⚫⚫⚫ 1/2/23
2. A Midsummer Night's Scream - R.L. Stine 🔴🔴🔴🔴⚫ 1/4/23
3. Snapshot - Brandon Sanderson 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 1/6/23
4. James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories - James Herriot 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 1/12/23
5. How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills - Seth Grahame-Smith 🔴🔴🔴🔴⚫ 1/14/23
6. The Deep - Alma Katsu 🔴🔴🔴🔴⚫ 1/21/23

FINISHED!!!! Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
12/6

1. Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match Sally Thorne 01/02/23
2. The Whalebone Theatre Joanna Quinn 01/09/23
3. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg 01/12/23
4. Sailors Emmy McLean 01/12/23
5. Killers of a Certain Age Deanna Raybournb01/13/23
6. Cackle Rachel Harrison 01/18/23
7. An Anonymous Girl Greer Hendricks 01/18/23
8. Exciting Times Naoise Dolan 01/19/23
9. Donut Fall in Love Jackie Lau 01/19/23
10. When We Believed in Mermaids Barbara O'Neal 01/22/23
11. The Light Pirate Lily Brooks-Dalton 01/22/23
12.Nora Goes Off Script Annabel Monaghan 01/23/23

Well done Bobbi and Melissa!

@Melissa, #9 is a book #1 not a stand alone.

FINISHED
Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2023

1. Black Rose by Kate Prada 1/12/2023
2. Turkey in the Snow by Amy Lane 1/25/2023
3.Endless Summer by J.M. Snyder 1/26/2023