The Lost Challenges discussion

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

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
Ariel FINISHED

Caraina FINISHED
Christina (AKA Babbling) FINISHED
Crystal FINISHED

Ferenc FINISHED

Genevieve FINISHED

Jan FINISHED
JoAnne FINISHED
Julesy FINISHED

Katrina FINISHED
Kendra FINISHED

Lali & Michelle FINISHED

Meghana
Melissa A FINISHED
Michele FINISHED

Natasha FINISHED

Olivermagnus FINISHED

Shash FINISHED
Suzanne FINISHED

Vanessa FINISHED

August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Read: 5

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Care Free Keto: How to Lose Weight and Have Fun Doing It iRick Wiggins 8/1/24
2. The Unwedding Ally Condie 8/2/24
3. Dark Water Sharon Sala 8/12/24
4. The Next Best Day Sharon Sala 8/20/24
5. Fool Me Twice at Christmas Camilla Isley 8/28/24

August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge

Single: Read 3-4 books

1) The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix 03/08/24
2) Candide - Voltaire 13/08/24
3) Rain man - Leonore Fleischer 31/08/24

FINISHED!!! August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: Aug 1, 2024 - Aug 31, 2024
(08/06/24)

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

Solitary: 5/5-6 books

1. The Unwedding Ally Condie 08/01/24
2. Shirley, I Jest! Cindy Williams 08/02/24
3. A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 08/03/24
4. Expiration Dates Rebecca Serle 08/04/24
5. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame Olivia Ford 08/04/24
6. The Princess of Las Vegas Chris Bohjalian 08/06/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Lemonade Code by Jarod Pratt - Aug. 2
2. The Golden Hour by Niki Smith - Aug. 5
3. A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat - Aug. 7
4. The Faint of Heart by Kerilynn Wilson - Aug. 8
5. Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined by David F. Walker
- Aug. 13
6. Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell - Aug. 17

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver. Read 8/3/24
2. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. Read 8/5/24
3. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow. Read 8/9/24
4. The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson Read 8/12/24
5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie byMuriel Spark. Read 8/14/24
6. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum Read 8/17/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

6/6

1. The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander 8/7/24
2. Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond 8/9/24
3. Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto 8/12/24
4. Role Playing by Cathy Yardley 8/13/24
5. The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston 8/16/24
6. We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive by Laurie Notaro 8/21/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

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

• The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff - 08/10/24
• The House of Eve - Sadeqa Johnson - 08/13/24
• The Caliph's House - Tahir Shah - 08/21/24
• The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator - Joakim Palmkvist - 08/23/24
• Fairy Tale - Stephen King - 08/25/24
• Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust - Immaculée Ilibagiza - 08/26/24

August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Read:
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

COMPLETED!

1.) The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart 8/7/2024
2.) Summer Island by Shelley Noble 8/11/2024
3.) Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey to the Heart of Africa by Brad Ricca 8/21/2024
4.) The Travelers by Chris Pavone 8/25/2024
5.) Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score 8/27/2024

Welcome everyone!

August Stand Alone
Duration: Aug. 1st, 2024 - Aug. 31st, 2024

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

7/6

1. Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning by Eli Burnstein - Aug. 12th
2. Almost American Girl by Robin Ha - Aug. 15th
3. Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker - Aug. 21st
4. All in a Day's Work by Eve Arnold - Aug. 22nd
5. Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton - Aug. 25th
6. Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood - Aug. 27th
7. Wenjack by Joseph Boyden - Aug. 28th

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

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


Solitary: Read 5-6 books


1. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher ★★★★ 4 August 2024
2. The Fury by Alex Michaelides 6 August 2024 ★★★
3. How Can I Help You by Laura Sims 11 August 2024 ★★
4. June, Reimagined by Rebekah Crane 13 August 2024 ★★
5. A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer 25 August 2024 ★★★★

Welcome Kendra and Christina!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
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Duration: July 1, 2024 - July 31, 2024
Level: Solitary (5-6 books)

0/5

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge - FINISHED
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Completed: 6/6

1. The Street Lawyer - John Grisham 8/11/24
2. Only If You're Lucky - Stacy Willingham 8/12/24
3. A Train to Moscow - Elena Gorokhova 8/20/24
4. Garden of Lies - Amanda Quick 8//26/24
5. Diesel - Lisa Lang Blakeney 8/28/24
6. To the Farthest Shores - Elizabeth Camden 8/28/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

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

01. River Mumma: A Breathtaking Fantasy Novel Brimming with Magical Realism, Zalika Reid-Benta - 8/1
02. Forgettable in Every Way, Jennifer Peel - 8/9
03. The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry - 8/21
04. Masquerade Season, Pemi Aguda - 8/25
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August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge

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

1. Nobody's Perfect by Sally Kilpatrick - 8/3
2. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill - 8/3

Welcome Meghana, Caraina, Ariel and Crystal!

August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
August 1 - 31, 2024

6 of 5-6 Complete

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion - Fannie Flagg - 8/1/24
2. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson - 8/3/24
3. The Ship of Brides - Jojo Moyes - 8/6/24
4. The Ruins - Scott Smith - 8/7/24
5. The Vacationers - Emma Straub - 8/9/24
6. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik - 8/17/24

Welcome Lynda!

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

1. Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine Joseph K. Loughlin 8/2
2. Matecumbe James A. Michener 8/3
3. Messy Spirituality: God's Annoying Love for Imperfect People Mike Yaconelli 8/5
4. It Would Be Night in Caracas Karina Sainz Borgo 8/6
5. History of New Zealand: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Land of the Long White Cloud, from the Polynesians Through the Māori Musket Wars to the PresentCaptivating History 6/8
6. God Made Us Monsters William Neary 8/12
7. 13 Billion to One: A Memoir: Winning the $50 Million Lottery Has Its Price Randy Rush 8/17
8. No Second Chance Harlan Coben 8/27
9. Black Rabbit Hall Eve Chase 8/31

The Lost Challenges
August 2024 Stand Alone
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Progress: 5 out of 5

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

1. Galatea by Madeline Miller - **** - 8/1/2024 - 27 Pages
2. Coming Back by Jessi Zabarsky - **** - 8/10/2024 - 248 Pages
3. Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron by Julia Quinn - ** - 8/11/2024 - 144 Pages
4. Eat, and Love Yourself by Sweeney Boo - **** - 8/17/2024 - 160 Pages
5. Understanding Complexity by Scott E. Page - ***** - 8/17/2024 - 155 Pages


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)]

Welcome Jan and Suzanne!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge

Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Completed

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

Single: Read 3-4 books

Books: 3/3 books

1. The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi 8/4/24
2. A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir 8/13/24
3. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury 8/13/24

Welcome Natasha!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

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

1. Natural Selection: A Short Story by Elin Hilderbrand 8/14/2024

Welcome Genevieve!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
August 2024

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

1. My Ex-mas Emergency by Jennifer Peel (8/31/24)

Welcome Shash!

~~~ Complete ~~~

August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
August 1 - 31, 2024

6 of 5-6 Complete

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion - Fannie Flagg - 8/1/24
2. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson - 8/3/24
3. The Ship of Brides - Jojo Moyes - 8/6/24
4. The Ruins - Scott Smith - 8/7/24
5. The Vacationers - Emma Straub - 8/9/24
6. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik - 8/17/24

WOOHOO Lynda!

FINISHED!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Lemonade Code by Jarod Pratt - Aug. 2
2. The Golden Hour by Niki Smith - Aug. 5
3. A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat - Aug. 7
4. The Faint of Heart by Kerilynn Wilson - Aug. 8
5. Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined by David F. Walker
- Aug. 13
6. Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell - Aug. 17

Completion Post
Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver. Read 8/3/24
2. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. Read 8/5/24
3. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow. Read 8/9/24
4. The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson Read 8/12/24
5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie byMuriel Spark. Read 8/14/24
6. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum Read 8/17/24

WOOHOO Julesy and Michele!

Finished!

The Lost Challenges
August 2024 Stand Alone
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Progress: 5 out of 5

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

1. Galatea by Madeline Miller - **** - 8/1/2024 - 27 Pages
2. Coming Back by Jessi Zabarsky - **** - 8/10/2024 - 248 Pages
3. Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron by Julia Quinn - ** - 8/11/2024 - 144 Pages
4. Eat, and Love Yourself by Sweeney Boo - **** - 8/17/2024 - 160 Pages
5. Understanding Complexity by Scott E. Page - ***** - 8/17/2024 - 155 Pages

WOOHOO Suzanne!

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

6/6

1. The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander 8/7/24
2. Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond 8/9/24
3. Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto 8/12/24
4. Role Playing by Cathy Yardley 8/13/24
5. The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston 8/16/24
6. We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive by Laurie Notaro 8/21/24

WOOHOO Michelle!

August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Read:
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

COMPLETED!

1.) The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart 8/7/2024
2.) Summer Island by Shelley Noble 8/11/2024
3.) Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey to the Heart of Africa by Brad Ricca 8/21/2024
4.) The Travelers by Chris Pavone 8/25/2024
5.) Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score 8/27/2024

Completed!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

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

• The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff - 08/10/24
• The House of Eve - Sadeqa Johnson - 08/13/24
• The Caliph's House - Tahir Shah - 08/21/24
• The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator - Joakim Palmkvist - 08/23/24
• Fairy Tale - Stephen King - 08/25/24
• Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust - Immaculée Ilibagiza - 08/26/24

WOOHOO Anne and Ferenc!

FINISHED!!! August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: Aug 1, 2024 - Aug 31, 2024
(08/06/24)

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

Solitary: 5/5-6 books

1. The Unwedding Ally Condie 08/01/24
2. Shirley, I Jest! Cindy Williams 08/02/24
3. A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 08/03/24
4. Expiration Dates Rebecca Serle 08/04/24
5. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame Olivia Ford 08/04/24
6. The Princess of Las Vegas Chris Bohjalian 08/06/24

WOOHOO Mel!

FINISHED
August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Read: 5

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Care Free Keto: How to Lose Weight and Have Fun Doing It iRick Wiggins 8/1/24
2. The Unwedding Ally Condie 8/2/24
3. Dark Water Sharon Sala 8/12/24
4. The Next Best Day Sharon Sala 8/20/24
5. Fool Me Twice at Christmas Camilla Isley 8/28/24

FINISHED!
Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Single: Read 3-4 books

01. River Mumma: A Breathtaking Fantasy Novel Brimming with Magical Realism, Zalika Reid-Benta - 8/1
02. Forgettable in Every Way, Jennifer Peel - 8/9
03. The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry - 8/21
04. Masquerade Season, Pemi Aguda - 8/25

WOOHOO Ariel!

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

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

1. Natural Selection: A Short Story by Elin Hilderbrand 8/14/2024

WOOHOO Genevieve!

Finished

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

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


Solitary: Read 5-6 books


1. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher ★★★★ 4 August 2024
2. The Fury by Alex Michaelides 6 August 2024 ★★★
3. How Can I Help You by Laura Sims 11 August 2024 ★★
4. June, Reimagined by Rebekah Crane 13 August 2024 ★★
5. A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer 25 August 2024 ★★★★