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Books I Want to ReadOldest 24 books on TBR (as of 10/9/23)
I wonder how many I can read in 2024.
The Land of Spices - Kate O’Brien
Now in November - Josephine Winslow Johnson
A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
The Lido - Libby Page
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko
Sisters By a River - Barbara Comyn
Three Junes - Julia Glass
Christmas at Thrush Green - Miss Read
Old Filth - Jane Gardam
Anna of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
Other books:
The Book of Longings - Sue Monk Kidd
The Guncle - Steven Rowly
Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption - Susan Devan Harness
True Biz - Sara Novic
The Violin Conspiracy - Brendan Slocumb
Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms - Charlie N. Holberg
The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle - Jennifer Ryan
Read Books by These AuthorsChinua Achebe
A Man of the People
✔Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy #1)
✔No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy #2)
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy #3)
James Baldwin
Another Country
✔The Fire Next Time
✔Giovanni's Room
Go Tell It on the Mountain
If Beale Street Could Talk
✔Notes of a Native Son
George Eliot
✔Adam Bede
Brother Jacob
Daniel Deronda
Felix Holt: The Radical
✔The Lifted Veil
✔Middlemarch
✔The Mill on the Floss
✔Romola
Scenes of Clerical Life
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings
✔Silas Marner
Anne Enright
Actress
✔The Forgotten Waltz
✔The Gathering
✔The Green Road
What are You Like?
✔The Wren, the Wren 2/2024
Yesterday's Weather
Thomas Hardy
Desperate Remedies
✔Far From the Madding Crowd
The Hand of Ethelberta
Jude the Obscure
✔The Mayor of Casterbridge
A Pair of Blue Eyes
The Return of the Native
Selected Poetry
✔Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Trumpet-Major
Two on a Tower
✔Under the Greenwood Tree
Wessex Tales
✔The Woodlanders
Toni Morrison
✔Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Song of Solomon
Sula
Iris Murdoch
✔The Bell
The Black Prince
The Italian Girl
✔The Sea, The Sea
A Severed Head
Under The Net
Maggie O'Farrell
After You'd Gone
The Distance Between Us
✔Hamnet
✔The Hand That First Held Mine
✔I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
✔Instructions for a Heat Wave
The Marriage Portrait
My Lover's Lover
This Must Be the Place
✔The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
➡️Currently reading ✔ = Finished Series to Work on
British Library Crime Classics
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
To Read
Fell Murder
Murder After Christmas
Checkmate to Murder
Finished:
✔Mystery in White
✔The Santa Klaus Murder
✔Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries
✔Crossed Skis
✔Fire in the Thatch
✔Portrait of a Murderer
✔Two-Way Murder
✔The Poisoned Chocolates Case 1/2024
✔Bats in the Belfry 2/24
✔Post After Post-Mortem 3/24
✔The Murder of My Aunt
✔Death of a Bookseller
✔Death on the Riviera
✔Death of an Author
✔Thirteen Guests
✔Castle Skull
✔Arsenal Stadium Mystery
✔Surfeit of Suspects
✔Smallbone Deceased
✔Mystery in White
✔The Christmas Egg
✔The Widow of Bath
Inspectors Hannasde & Hamingway by Georgette Heyer
✔#1 Death in the Stocks 1/29/24
✔#2 Behold, Here's Poison
#3 They Found Him Dead
#4 A Blunt Instrument
#5 No Wind of Blame
✔#6 Envious Casca
#7 Duplicate Death
#8 Detection Unlimited
Ruth Galloway Mysteries by Elly Griffiths
✔#1 The Crossing Places
✔#2 The Janus Stone
✔#3 The House at Sea's End
✔#4 A Room Full of Bones
#4.5 Ruth's First Christmas Tree
✔#5 A Dying Fall
✔#6 The Outcast Dead
✔#7 The Ghost Fields
✔#8 The Woman in Blue
✔#9 The Chalk Pit
✔#10 The Dark Angel
✔#11 The Stone Circle
✔#12 The Lantern Men
#12.5 The Man in Black
✔#13 The Night Hawks
✔#14 The Locked Room
#15 The Last Remains
Mini-Reject Challenge - Book Listshttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Rejects Challenge - To Fill to 24 Prompts
✅ - Finished
➡️Currently reading ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
12. A book in honor of Wilkie Collins (Poll 1)
No Name - Wilkie Collins
Poor Miss Finch- Wilkie Collins
✅The Two Destinies - Wilkie Collins ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Man and Wife - Wilkie Collins
13. A book set mostly in or around a building (Poll 3)
✅The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Dorothy Sayers ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Other Birds - Sarah Addison Allen
The Hotel - Elizabeth Bowen
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free - Paulina Bren
Hotel Savoy - Joseph Roth
Grand Hotel - Vicky Baum
Meet Me at the Lake - Carley Fortune
The Club - Ellery Lloyd
The Christie Affair - Nina de Gramont
The Land of Spices - Kate O’Brien
14. A book set in a new-to-you location (Poll 3)
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese (Ethiopia)
The Baobab Beach Retreat - Kate Frost (Tanzania)
A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (Inspector Singh Investigates #1) - Shamini Flint
✅The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax #3) - Dorothy Gilman (Bulgaria) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - Cherie Jones (Barbados)
The Queen of Water - Laura Resau (Ecuador)
15. 2 Weeks: A book with “life” in the title and a book with “death” in the title (Poll 4)
Life
A Start in Life - Honore de Balzac
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise - Ruth Reichl
In This Our Life - Ellen Glasgow
✅The Candid Life of Meena Dave - Namrata Patel Audible ⭐⭐⭐⭐
You, Me, and the Colors of Life - Noa C. Walker
The Love of my Life - Rosie Walsh
A Quiet Life - Ethan Joella
Death
Death in the Devil's Acre (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt #7) - Anne Perry
Death in Zanzibar - M.M. Kaye
✅Death in the Stocks (Inspectors Hannasyde and Hemingway #1) - Georgette Heyer ⭐⭐⭐
Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn #8) - Ngaio Marsh
A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon #2) - Nevada Barr
Because I Could Not Stop for Death - Amanda Flower
16. A book set in BCE (Poll 5)
✅Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles (406 BCE)
Electra - Sophocles (420 B.C. - 414 BCE)
Agamemnon - Aeschylus (458 BCE)
The Phoenician Women - Euripides (408 BCE)
The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great #2) - Mary Renault (356 BCE - 323 BCE)
17. A book featured in a “staff picks” display at a bookstore or library (Poll 6)
✅The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer (Huntsville-Madison Co. Library) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
18. A book told from multiple character POVs (Poll 7)
✅Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Trust - Hernan Diaz
The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
The Fifth Season (Broken Earth #1) - N.K. Jemisin
The Sweetness of Forgetting - Kristin Harmel
Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
Calling for a Blanket Dance - Oscar Hokeah
19. A book recommended by an independent bookseller (Poll 8)
✅With Love from London- Sarah Jio (recommended by Curious Cat Bookshop) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The House Is on Fire - Rachel Beanland (Nowhere)
If I Ever Get Out of Here - Eric Gansworth (Birchbark)
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls - Cherie Dimaline (Birchbark)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow (Bound to Happen)
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses - Robin Kimmerer (BTH)
Family Lore - Elizabeth Acevedo (Bound to Happen)
20. A book whose title is a prepositional phrase (Poll 10)
✅On Beauty - Zadie Smith ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
In a Dark, Dark Wood - Ruth Ware
To The Bright Edge of the World - Eowyn Ivey
By Book or By Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery #1)
At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities - Heather Webber
Across the Winding River - Aimie K. Runyan
21. A book that takes place in one of the world's 100 smallest countries (Poll 8)
https://www.countries-ofthe-world.com...
Iceland, Ireland, Portugal
The Land of Spices - Kate O’Brien
Actress - Anne Enright
This Must Be the Place - Maggie O'Farrell
✅Our Lady of the Pillar - Eça de Queirós ⭐⭐⭐⭐
22. A book shelved as literary fiction (Poll 10)
The House by the River - Lena Manta
State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
This Must Be the Place - Maggie O’Farrell
Sorrow and Bliss - Meg Mason
A Quiet Life - Ethan Joella
✅The Wren, the Wren - Anne Enright ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coetzee
The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chung
A Ladder to the Sky- John Boyne
The Sea - John Banville
A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
23. A book by an author from a Southeast Asian country (Poll 5)
The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo (Malaysia)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong (Vietnam)
The Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia)
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto (Indonesia)
Dial A for Aunties - Jesse Q. Sutanto (Indonesia)
The Book of Salt - Monique Truong (Vietnam)
Map of the Invisible World - Tash Aw (Indonesia)
Absolution - Alice McDermott (Vietnam)
24. A book by an author from a country bordering the Indian Ocean (Poll 11)
The Stationery Shop - Marjan Kamali (Iran)
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan)
Recipes for Love and Murder - Sally Andrews ebook
Old Filth - Jane Gardam (Malaysia)
Cloudstreet- Tim Winton (Australia)
A Town Like Alice - Neville Shute (Australia)
The Girl in the Painting - Tea Cooper (Australia)
Devotion - Hannah Kent (Australia)
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (Pakistan)
Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi (Oman)
January Plans1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y
2. A book connected to something you read in 2023
[read other British Library Crime Classics]
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list: A book with a great first line (Poll 8)
"Dora Greenfield left her husband because she was afraid of him."
4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world
6. A book with wings on the cover
7. A book with a pronoun in the title
Other Challenges
January - Also reading10. A history or historical fiction
Barely got started in 2023 and carried over to 2024
Changed to 8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand
My library hold for the audiobook came in.
9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads(1,331 ratings as of 1/7/24)
I'm reading this book for another challenge and found it fits this prompt.
Since I found out that Geraldine Brooks is from Australia, I'm changing Horse to:8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand
Somehow the audio for The Covenant of Water was available from my library, so I snapped it up. Not sure where I'll put this.
Second round of ATY. I'll probably read a lot of historical fiction.The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese
11. A book with an X connection
Starting on my 2024 Mini Rejects Challenge: Lists & Awardshttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
1. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists (PP, Poll 6)
This is also an "N" for the Winter Reading Challenge!
For my Rejects Challenge: [message 9]15. 2 Weeks: A book with “life” in the title and a book with “death” in the title (Poll 4)
Starting to read:22. A book shelved as literary fiction (Poll 10)
2024 Mini Rejects Challenge: Lists & Awards
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year
February PlansATY Challenge
13. A book that is on a Five Books list
DNF
14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color
15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQZX)
2nd Round of ATY
6. A book with wings on the cover
8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand
Rejects Challenge
13. A book set mostly in or around a building (Poll 3)
The Paradise Guest House - Ellen Sussman
15. 2 Weeks: A book with “life” in the title and a book with “death” in the title (Poll 4) [didn't get to this in January]
Winter Reading Challenge
Other Challenges
Heartbreak Tango - Manuel Puig
16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs."✔A Villa in Sicily: Olive Oil and Murder
This book is the first in the series "A Cats and Dogs Cozy Mystery."
17. A book involving intelligence
✔The Revolution of the Moon by Andrea Camilleri.
Historical fiction based on Eleonora de Moura,a highly intelligent and capable woman who takes over as Viceroy of Palermo, Sicily in 1677 for 27 days.
Mini-Rejects Challenge - Book Lists
A middle grade book that was nominated for or won an award (Poll 15)
✔The Eyes and the Impossible: by Dave Eggers
Newbery Award winner
Other Challenges
✔Linda Tressel by Anthony Trollope
18. A book with a botanical cover✔It Is Wood, It Is Stone by Gabriella Burnham
19. A book connected in some way to the flavors of Ben & Jerry's Ice cream
✔A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon
The next few in the line-up:20. A book with a single word title
✔Haven
21. A book with a title containing 6+ words
EDIT: changed to:
✔Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Never Too Late to Read Classics
British Library Crime Classics
✔Post After Post-Mortem - E.C.R. Lorac
A book set mostly in or around a building
Changed to ATY:
23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett
✔The Paradise Guest House - Ellen Sussman (set in Bali)
ATY Rejects
A book set in a new-to-you location
✔The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman
Reading:24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple)
✔Don’t Forget to Write
Finished:27. A book related to land
✔The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
Rejects Challenge: A book on a summer reading list
✔The Greengage Summer - Rumer Godden
Currently reading:
33. A book involving travel
The Scent of India - Piers Paolo Pasolini
22. A book by an author from an African country
DNF
Never Too Late to Read Classics: Latin American Authors
and
42. A book with a sound-related word in the title
✔Crick Crack, Monkey - Merle Hodge
Still reading:33. A book involving travel
✔The Scent of India - Piers Paolo Pasolini
22. A book by an author from an African country
DNF
Also reading:
30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea
✔My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk ⭐⭐
52. A cozy Mystery
DNF
ATY Rejects: A book nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award
DNF
Finished :
5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world
✔Nina Balatka - Anthony Trollope [Prague] ⭐⭐⭐
Never Too Late to Read Classics
✔Gigi and Julie de Carneilhan - Colette ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rejects Challenge: A book from the Canada Reads book list
✔Birdie - Tracey Lindberg ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
25. A book involving a crime other than murder
✔An Excellent Mystery - Ellis Peters ⭐⭐⭐
I DNF'd three books and changed to these:7. A book with a pronoun in the title
✔The Murder of My Aunt - Richard Hull ⭐⭐⭐.5
24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green purple
✔Wild Strawberries - Angela Thirkell ⭐⭐⭐⭐
A book by an author known by their initials
DNF
I finished The Merchant of Venice for Rejects Challenge: A book on a banned books list ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Started:
45. A book that is not a novel
✔The Half-Finished Heaven - Tomas Tranströmer (poetry)
30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea
The Late Monsieur Gallet - Georges Simenon (France)
28. A book related to the sea
✔Salt to the Sea
43. A book by an Edgar Award winning author
✔The Venice Sketchbook
Rejects Challenge: A book from the Are You Well-Read in World Literature? list
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Finished 4/4/2414. Read a book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous or a Person of Color
✔The Blessing Way - Tony Hillerman
Finished in April:16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs"
Pusheen the Cat's Guide to Everything by Claire Belton ⭐⭐⭐
52. A cozy mystery
The Seventh Sinner by Elizabeth Peters ⭐⭐⭐
Never Too Late to Read Classics - Short Stories
"The Ambitious Ones" by Elsa Morante ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"A Crown of Feathers" by Isaac Bashevis Singer⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently reading: Anthony Trollope group
✔Rachel Ray - Anthony Trollope
41. A book with a chilling atmosphere
✔The Stone Circle - Elly Griffiths
Finished: 22. A book by an author from an African country
The Careless Seamstress by Tjawangwa Dema. She is from Botswana.
Rejects: A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature? list
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
I'm listening to this but seem to be listening to everything but this. Maybe this month...
48. A second prompt that fits your favorite prompt: A history or historical fiction book
China Court by Rumer Godden
38. Two books with similar covers
✔#1 book: Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
46. A book related to night
✔Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer (cover is dark; action of the story is often in the dark; spooky!
Finished:49. A book with a senior citizen character
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
Finished:34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's Seven Dwarfs
Lord Emsworth and Others by P.G. Wodehouse (Lord Emsworth acts dopey sometimes)
Finished: 41. A book with a chilling atmosphere
Round 1 - The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths
Round 2 - Silence for the Dead - Simone St. James
Currently Reading:4. A book related to something in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
✔The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
Back to the Classics
✔Selections From Coleridge by Coleridge; Lincoln R. Gibbs
Finished:11. A book with an X connection
Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley (Gen X author) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
38. Book 1 Two books with similar covers
39. Book 2 Two books with similar covers
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⭐⭐⭐⭐3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn't make the final list:
A book where a main character is a writer, a librarian, or a bookseller
Death of a Bookseller - Bernard J. Farmer ⭐⭐⭐.5
Rejects: A book from the NPR Books We Love list
Juliette or, the Ghosts Return in the Spring - Camille Jourdy ⭐⭐⭐⭐
19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street - Karina Yan Glaser ⭐⭐⭐.5
32. A book with a number in the title
Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Finished these in the past weeks:48 a second prompt you like: 10. a History or historical fiction
The Keepers of the House - Shirley Ann Grau ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea
The Late Monsieur Gallet - Georges Simenon ⭐⭐⭐⭐
49. A book with a senior citizen character
Crampton Hodnet - Barbara Pym⭐⭐⭐⭐
51. A book published in 2024
Somehow: Thoughts on Love - Ann Lamott ⭐⭐⭐⭐
40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover
Happiness - Aminatta Forna ⭐⭐⭐⭐
26. A book by an author known by their initials
Miss Buncle's Book - D.E. Stevenson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
17. A book involving intelligence
A Mind to MurderA Mind to Murder - P.D. James ⭐⭐⭐⭐
45. A book that is not a novel
The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham & the Making of a Masterpiece - Simon Winchester ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O’Dell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Finished:A second book that fits your favorite prompt -- 10. A history or historical fiction
Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
21. a book with a title containing 6+ words
The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre - Jean-Paul Sartre ⭐⭐⭐.5
Finished since my last post!:44. A book with a touch of magic
The Oceanography of the Moon - Glendy Vanderah ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rejects: A book on a summer reading list
Tom Lake - Ann Patchett ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
Rejects: A book longlisted for the Booker Prize
The House of Doors - Tan Twan Eng ⭐⭐⭐⭐
37. A book that is part of a series
The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway #12) - Elly Griffiths ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Back to the Classics Challenge - Reread favorite
Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
29. A book related to air
The Fury - Alex Michaelides ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rejects: A book set in B.C.E.
Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles ⭐⭐⭐⭐
31. A book related to "Going for the Gold."
Murder at the Olympics: a 1920s cozy historical mystery - Lee Strauss ⭐⭐⭐.5
36. A book featuring a character in education
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence ⭐⭐⭐⭐
13. A book on a Five Books lists
The Quarry Wood - Nan Shepherd ⭐⭐⭐⭐
[Landmarks of Scottish Literature]
Finished:35. A science or science fiction book
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde ⭐⭐⭐
Bewilderment - Richard Powers ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rejects: A book told from multiple character POV's
Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
47. A book with a two word title, with the first word being "The"
The Vampyre - John William Polidori ⭐⭐
51. A book published in 2024
1974: A Personal History - Francine Prose ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
27. A book related to land
In the Distance - Hernan Diaz ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Finished:34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs
The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris - Jenny Colgan [related to Happy because of happy endings of Colgan's books. parts of the book were sad!] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rejects: A book from the "Are You Well Read in World Literature? list
War and Turpentine - Stefan Hertmans ⭐⭐⭐
23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads or Jimmy Buffetf
Death on the Riviera - John Bude ⭐⭐⭐⭐
9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown - Shaun Bythell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rejects: A book set mostly in or around a building
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Dorothy Sayers ⭐⭐⭐⭐
32. A book with a number in the title
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd - Jim Fergus ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Finished:Rejects: A book in honor of Wilkie Collins
The Two Destinies - Wilkie Collins ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rejects: A book featured on a list for a media or celebrity book club
Wrong Place Wrong Time - Gillian McAllister ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Anthony Trollope Short Stories
Aaron Trow ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rejects: A book that is an Audie Award winner or nominee (read in any format)
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne ⭐⭐⭐⭐
12. A book that has been on your TBR for more than a year
Death in Zanzibar - M.M. Kaye ⭐⭐⭐.5
My first update since August. I have so many places to update after each book, I just dropped this thread. I finished the ATY 2024 Challenge twice. I also finished a 24-book Rejects Challenge.
My 5-star books of the past 4 1/2 months:
Our Lady of the Pillar - Eça de Queirós (55p.)
The Night Hawks - Elly Griffiths
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
The Locked Room - Elly Griffiths
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow - Rita Leganski
The Fountain Overflows (Aubrey Trilogy #1) - Rebecca West
Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis
Call Us What We Carry - Amanda Gorman
The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
The Dry Heart - Natalia Ginzburg
Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
The Dead of Winter - Nicola Upson
Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
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✅ - Finished Round 1 🟥 - Finished Round 2
➡️Currently reading ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Round 1 : 52/52 Finished 8/6/24
Round 2: 52/52 Finished 11/1/24
1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y
✅The Secret Book of Flora Lea - Patti Callahan Henry ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Three Apples Fell from the Sky - Narine Abgaryan ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. A book connected to something you read in 2023
✅The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway #10) - Elly Griffiths Audible ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list
A book with a great first line Poll 8
"Dora Greenfield left her husband because she was afraid of him"
✅The Bell - Iris Murdoch ⭐⭐⭐⭐
A book with a main character who is a writer, a librarian, or a bookseller
🟥Death of a Bookseller - Bernard Farmer ⭐⭐⭐.5
4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
✅The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - Jim DeFede ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world
✅The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James (Rome, Italy) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Nina Balatka - Anthony Trollope (Prague) ⭐⭐⭐.5
6. A book with wings on the cover
✅Night Flight - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ⭐⭐⭐
🟥Bats in the Belfry - E.C.R. Lorac
7. A book with a pronoun in the title
✅Cover Her Face - P.D. James ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Murder of My Aunt - Richard Hull ⭐⭐⭐.5
8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand
✅Horse - Geraldine Brooks (Australia) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Dance of the Happy Shades - Alice Munro (Canada) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads
✅Miss Mackenzie - Anthony Trollope (1,331 ratings 1/7/24) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown - Shaun Bythel (1,817 as of 6/26/24) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
10. A history or historical fiction book
✅The Orphan Mother - Robert Hicks ⭐⭐⭐.5
🟥The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
11. A book with an X connection
✅In a Dark, Dark Wood - Ruth Ware [Gen X author] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley [Gen X author] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year
✅Booked to Die - John Dunning (since 2020 on TBR) ⭐⭐⭐.5
🟥Death in Zanzibar - M.M. Kaye ⭐⭐⭐.5
13. A book that is on a Five Books List; reader’s choice of which list
✅The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse (Best P.G. Wodehouse Books) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Quarry Wood - Nan Shepherd (Landmarks of Scottish Literature) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color
✅Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Blessing Way - Tony Hillerman ⭐⭐⭐⭐
15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQZX)
✅The Three of Us - Ore Agbaje-Williams ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Laughing Policeman - Maj Sjöwall ⭐⭐⭐⭐
16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs"
✅A Villa in Sicily: Olive Oil and Murder - Fiona Grace ⭐⭐⭐
🟥Pusheen the Cat's Guide to Everything - Claire Belton ⭐⭐⭐
17. A book involving intelligence
✅The Revolution of the Moon - Andrea Camilleri ⭐⭐⭐
🟥A Mind to Murder - P.D. James ⭐⭐⭐⭐
18. A book with a botanical cover
✅It Is Wood, It Is Stone - Gabriella Burnham ⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Year of Lost and Found - Felicity Hayes-McCoy ⭐⭐⭐⭐
19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
✅A Girl Called Samson - Amy Harmon ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street - Karima Yan Glaser ⭐⭐⭐
20. A book with a single word title
✅Haven by Emma Donoghue ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Anna by Mia Oberlander ⭐⭐⭐
21. A book with a title containing 6+ words
✅Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre - Jean-Paul Sartre ⭐⭐⭐.5
22. A book by an author from an African country
✅The Careless Seamstress - Tjawangwa Dema [poetry) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥[book:No Longer at Ease|111085] - Chinua Achebe ⭐⭐⭐
23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett
✅The Paradise Guest House - Ellen Sussman ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Death on the Riviera - John Bude ⭐⭐⭐⭐
24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple)
✅Don’t Forget to Write - Sara Goodman Confino ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Wild Strawberries - Angela Thirkell ⭐⭐⭐⭐
25. A book involving a crime other than a murder
✅An Excellent Mystery - Ellis Peters ⭐⭐⭐
🟥Dog on It - Spencer Quinn ⭐⭐⭐⭐
26. A book by an author known by their initials
✅Miss Buncle's Book - D.E. Stevenson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac ⭐⭐⭐
27. A book related to land
✅The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov ⭐⭐⭐
🟥In the Distance - Hernan Diaz ⭐⭐⭐⭐
28. A book related to sea
✅Salt to the Sea - Ruta Sepetys ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Welcome to the School by the Sea - Jenny Colgan ⭐⭐⭐.5
29. A book related to air
✅The Fury - Alex Michaelides ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Sky Above the Roof: Fifty-Six Poems by Paul Verlaine - Paul Verlaine ⭐⭐⭐⭐
30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea
✅My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] ⭐⭐
🟥The Late Monsieur Gallet - Georges Simenon [France] ⭐⭐⭐.5
31. A book related to “Going for the Gold”
✅Murder at the Olympics: a 1920s cozy historical mystery (Ginger Gold Mysteries #23) - Lee Strauss
🟥Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively (Golden Man Booker Award nominee) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
32. A book with a number in the title
✅Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd - Jim Fergus ⭐⭐⭐⭐
33. A book involving travel
✅The Scent of India - Pier Paolo Pasolini ⭐⭐⭐
🟥Big Tree - Brian Selznick ⭐⭐⭐⭐
34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs
✅Lord Emsworth and Others - P.G. Wodehouse (Lord Emsworth acts "dopey" but in the title story he's pretty clever!) [first story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, others ⭐⭐⭐]
🟥The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris - Jenny Colgan [Happy] [sad, too] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
35. A science or science fiction book
✅The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde ⭐⭐⭐
🟥Bewilderment - Richard Powers ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
36. A book featuring a character in education
✅The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Women in Love (Brangwen Family #2) - D.H. Lawrence ⭐⭐⭐⭐
37. A book that is part of a series
✅The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway #12) - Elly Griffiths ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥A Zoo in My Luggage - Gerald Durrell (The Zoo Memoirs #1) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
38. Two books with similar covers: Book 1
✅Confessions of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Things You Save in a Fire - Katherine Center ⭐⭐⭐⭐
39. Two books with similar covers: Book 2
✅The Paris Bookseller - Kerri Maher ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥What You Wish For - Katherine Center ⭐⭐⭐⭐
40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover
✅Happiness - Aminatta Forna ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Lion and the Jewel - Wole Soyinka ⭐⭐⭐⭐
41. A book with a chilling atmosphere
✅The Stone Circle - Elly Griffiths ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
🟥Silence for the Dead - Simone St. James ⭐⭐⭐⭐
42. A book with a sound-related word in the title
✅Crick Crack, Monkey - Merle Hodge ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow - Rita Leganski ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author
✅The Venice Sketchbook - Rhys Bowen ⭐⭐⭐
🟥Murder in the Mews - Agatha Christie ⭐⭐⭐⭐
44. A book with a touch of magic
✅The Oceanography of the Moon - Glendy Vanderah ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Other Birds - Sarah Addison Allen ⭐⭐⭐⭐
45. A book that is not a novel
✅The Half-Finished Heaven - Tomas Tranströmer [poetry] ⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom - Simon Winchester [nonfiction] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
46. A book related to night
✅Footsteps in the Dark - Georgette Heyer ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Night Hawks - Elly Griffiths ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE
✅The Vampyre - John William Polidori ⭐⭐
🟥The River - Rumer Godden ⭐⭐⭐⭐
48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt: A history or historical fiction book
✅The Keepers of the House - Shirley Ann Grau ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
49. A book with a senior citizen character
✅No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ⭐⭐⭐
🟥Crampton Hodnet: A Novel - Barbara Pym ⭐⭐⭐⭐
50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024
✅One Two Three - Laurie Frankel ⭐⭐⭐
🟥Death of a Naturalist - Seamus Heaney ⭐⭐⭐⭐
51. A book published in 2024
✅Somehow: Thoughts on Love -Anne Lamott ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🟥1974: A Personal History - Francine Prose ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
52. A cozy mystery
✅The Seventh Sinner - Elizabeth Peters ⭐⭐⭐
🟥The Kamogawa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwai ⭐⭐⭐⭐