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Your Secret Santa is Nadine
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Tasks: 11 /15
Secret Santa :
✅ A book with cover colour (>50%):
2. A book with the following word in the title:
✅ A book with " " on cover:
✅A book with " " number on page count:
✅ A book that starts with the letter (articles not included):
✅ A book with one of the author's initials having the letter:
✅ A book from one of their favourite genres:
8. A book from their read list which has been rated 4 or 5 stars:



Suggestions from the Bookish Challenge community

✅Read a book from your favourite genre and one of the suggestions from the community: Mystery/Thriller
✅ Read a book from your second favourite genre and one of the suggestions from the community: Fantasy
✅ Read a book from your third favourite genre and one of the suggestions from the community: Historical
✅ Choose any very specific genre from the community and read a book with >5 tags of that
13. Choose any favourite book read in 2024 from the community
✅ Choose any author from the top 3 favourite authors of the community and read a book based on it
15. Choose any all-time favourites from the community

For Tasks 1- 8

Your Secret Santa Nadine

🎅 A colour of cover: Yellow
🎅 A word in the title: Life
🎅 An object on the cover: Hand
🎅 A number on page count: 9
🎅 A book that starts with the letter (articles not included): N
🎅 A book with one of the author's initials having the letter: L

Favourite genres: Literary Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Contemporary

For tasks 9-15

Bookish Community Summary

Books from genres:


📚Thriller: Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher, The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup, What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall, The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward, The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, The Last Flight by Julie Clark, Finding Jake by Bryan Reardon, Brother by Ania Ahlborn, Along Came a Spider by James Patterson

📚Fantasy: Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling, Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria E. Schwab, Storm Front by Jim Butcher, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, The Carnivale of Curiosities by Amiee Gibbs, A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

📚Historical Fiction: The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer, The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley, Babel by R.F. Kuang, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The Watchmaker's Daughter by C.J. Archer, Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Very Specific Genres
✏️ Regency romance
✏️ Dark Romance
✏️ Generational/familial drama
✏️ Psychological Thriller
✏️ Greek Mythology
✏️ Psychological suspense
✏️ Circus Fiction
✏️ Taboo / erotica


Favourite Books 2024
❤️ The Radio Hour by Victoria Purman
❤️ Wild Card by Simon Rowell
❤️ A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
❤️ Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
❤️ The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
❤️ Lights Out by Navessa Allen
❤️ The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
❤️ An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
❤️ Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
❤️ Lights Out by Navessa Allen
❤️ Best Friends Forever by Margot Hunt
❤️ The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
❤️ My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
❤️ None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
❤️ The Women by Kristin Hannah
❤️ In the Garden of Monsters by Crystal King
❤️ The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson by Ellen Baker
❤️ Toxic by Nicole Blanchard
❤️ Take it Off by AshleyNicole
❤️ A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
❤️ Better Run by Alina May
❤️ Little Spider

Top authors
✍️ Terry Pratchett
✍️ Georgette Heyer
✍️ Agatha Christie
✍️ Mariana Zapata
✍️ Emily Henry
✍️ R.F. Kuang
✍️ Joya Goffney
✍️ Lisa Jewell
✍️ H. D. Carlton
✍️ Freida McFadden
✍️ Khaled Hosseini
✍️ Taylor Jenkins Reid
✍️ Louise Penny
✍️ Christina Lauren
✍️ Lauren Blakely
✍️ Jessa Kane
✍️ Pam Godwin
✍️ Eric Jerome Dickey
✍️ James Patterson


All time Favourites
💖 The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
💖 Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
💖 Persuasion by Jane Austen
💖 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
💖 Babel by R.F. Kuang
💖 The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
💖 Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
💖 Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
💖 Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
💖 The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
💖 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
💖 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
💖 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
💖 Misery by Stephen King
💖 Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
💖 And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
💖 Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
💖 A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
💖 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
💖 Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
💖 All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

✔Tasks 1-8

Your Secret Santa is Nadine

1. 🎅 A colour of cover: Yellow
by Michael Innes 25/12 3★

2. 🎅 A word in the title: Life
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins 30/3 5★

3. 🎅 An object on the cover: Hand
by Leonie Kelsall 10/12 4★

4. 🎅 A number on page count: 9 - 189p
Irish Thoroughbred by Nora Roberts 6/1 2★

5. 🎅 A book that starts with the letter (articles not included): N
Night's Edge by Charlaine Harris, Maggie Shayne, Barbara Hambly 16/12 3★

6. 🎅 A book with one of the author's initials having the letter: L
Eudora Honeysett is Quite Well, Thank You by Annie Lyons 29/12 5★

7. Nadine's Favourite genres: Literary Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Contemporary
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 1/12 3.5★
Fit: MPG Contemporary

8. Nadine rated 4 or 5 stars
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 7/10 4.5★

Tasks 9-15

9. Read a book from your favourite genre and one of the suggestions from the community: Mystery/Thriller
* Along Came a Spider by James Patterson 19/1 3★

10. Read a book from your second favourite genre and one of the suggestions from the community: Fantasy
* A Wrinkle in Time/ HP & the Philosopher's Stone

11. Read a book from your third favourite genre and one of the suggestions from the community: Historical
* The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer 20/9 5★

12. Choose any very specific genre from the community and read a book with >5 tags of that
Double Deceit by Allison Lane 30/12 2★ - Regency Romance

13. Choose any favourite book read in 2024 from the community
The Bullet That Missed

14. Choose any author from the top 3 favourite authors of the community and read a book based on it
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie 4/12 4★

15. Choose any all-time favourites from the community
Piranesi/Ender's Game/Before I Go to Sleep

Hey! sorry if I am missing something but for tasks 9-11 you need to select a book from the community faves i.e. one of the books listed here

Nistha wrote: "Hey! sorry if I am missing something but for tasks 9-11 you need to select a book from the community faves i.e. one of the books listed here"

Oh, I thought we had to read 2 books for each. Something from my favourite genre AND one of the suggestions. That's why I have two bullets underneath each one.

Ahh no, just reading from one of the community suggestions is enough :)

Nistha wrote: "Ahh no, just reading from one of the community suggestions is enough :)"

Oh, well, I was reading them anyway 😂

Haha! More books the merrier

Still going, faint but pursuing, only 3 to go. Will I make it before the end of the year, I wonder 😂🤔

Haha, same here, I am also stuck at the last 2 or 3...