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10.1 Stylish Sci-FiMonkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
10.2 Holiday Travel
Railsea by China Miéville
10.3 NY Resolution - Bookclub books
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
10.4 Penguin Awareness Day
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
10.5 New Year New Date
(maybe Monkey from 10.1)
Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore (2005)
10.6 Year of the Snake
XOXO by Axie Oh (low lexile)
10.7 Verity
City Boy by Herman Wouk
10.8 Theater
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
10.9 Scandinavia
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
10.10 Group Reads
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
20.1 Paul Auster & Alice Munro
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
20.2 Edna O'Brien
Neon Roses by Rachel Dawson
20.3 Francine Pascal & Nelson DeMille
4321 by Paul Auster
20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr
Die Trying by Lee Child
20.5 Tom Spanbauer
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune
20.6 Akira Toriyama
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
20.7 Best Friends Forever
The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie
The Last Family in England by Matt Haig
20.8 Not How It Happened
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
20.9 International Women
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
20.10 The ___ of ___
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria E. Schwab
10.1 Stylish Sci-FiBeautyland >READ
10.2 Holiday Travel
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect >READ
Bullet Train
10.3 NY Resolutions - 1001 -
Silar Marner
Amelia >READ
10.4 Penguin Awareness Day
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
10.5 New Year New Date
10.6 Year of the Snake
10.7 Verity
Authority
10.8 Theatre
10.9 Scandinavia
10.10 Group Reads
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop >READ
20.1 Paul Auster + Alice Munro
Drop City
20.2 Edna O'Brien
The Price of Salt
20.3 Francine Pascal + Nelson Demille
Agatha Christie
P G Wodehouse
Terry Pratchett - Snuff >READ
Anthony Horowitz
AMS
Seanan McGuire
Jo Nesbo
Jim Butcher
Rhys Bowen
20.4 C. J. Sansom + Caleb Carr
Heirs and Graces >READ
20.5 Tom Spanbauer
Record of a Spaceborn Few >READ
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
20.6 Akira Toriyama
The Collected Essex County >READ
Sweet Tooth: The Deluxe Edition, Book One
20.7 Best Friends Forever
Cat Breaking Free ->READ
20.8 Int'l Women's Year (1975)
Swamplandia!
20.9 That's not how it happened
The Gunslinger
20.10 The ____ of ______
The Disappearance of Signora Giulia
10.1 10.2 train Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes
10.3 bucket list
10.4 bird Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10
20.1 arts & letters
20.2 Bechdel test
20.3 >20 books
Joyce Carol Oates:
✔️Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense
Ruth Rendell
Patricia Highsmith
Dolores Hitchens
Georges Simenon
John Updike
20.4 2 MPG’s Harm Done by Ruth Rendell (Mystery, Crime)
20.5 LGBTQ Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
20.6 none
20.7
20.8 1975 The Seduction and Other Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
20.9 Alternate Histories The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
20.10 The _____ of _____ The King of Fools by Frédéric Dard
Winter Plan10.1 Stylish Sci-Fi
✓ Orbital by Samantha Harvey
10.2 Holiday Travel (train ride)
✓ The Best American Short Stories 2024 by Lauren Groff
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie 1928
✓ Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
10.3 New Year's Resolutions (bucket list)
One of my bucket lists is to read all of Dickens' novels, Christmas books, and other notable books
✓ The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens
10.4 Penguin Awareness Day (birds)
✓ Lark Ascending by Silas House
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs by Wallace Stegner
10.5 New Year New Date (2 and 5 in publication year)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos 1925
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss 2005
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler 2025
Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey 2025
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck 2015, Norway
10.6 Year of the Snake (author initials in WOOD SNAKE)
✓ The Doctor's Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi
10.7 Verity
✓ Verity by Colleen Hoover
The City of Fallen Angels by John Berendt
Velocity by Dean Koontz
10.8 Theater (play, or a book that has been adapted into a play)
✓ Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, reading the book which was adapted into an 8 1/2 hour play in two parts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lif...
✓ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_a...
10.9 Scandinavia (Set at least 75% in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway)
✓ Brightly Shining by Ingvild H. Rishøi
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
10.10 Group Reads
✓ Authority by Jeff VanderMeer #2
20.1 Paul Auster and Alice Munro (Academy of Arts and Letters)
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Playground by Richard Powers
20.2 Edna O'Brien (Bechdel Test)
✓ Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
20.3 Francine Pascal and Nelson DeMille (pub >20 books)
✓ Christmas at Thompson Hall and Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope
✓ Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War by Ernest Hemingway
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr (two of Mystery, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Crime, History)
Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom
✓ The Couple at Number 9 by Claire Douglas
20.5 Tom Spanbauer (LGBTQ)
Lark Ascending by Silas House Or 10.4
Homage to Barcelona by Colm Tóibín
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
20.6 Akira Toriyama (graphic novel)
20.7 Best Friends Forever (cat or dog)
The Best Cat Ever by Cleveland Amory
20.8 International Women's Year (woman author died or born in 1975, or pub in 1975, or nominated for Orange/Women's Prize)
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (nominated 2006)
20.9 That's Not How It Happened (Alternate History Lists)
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
Civilizations by Laurent Binet (Sideways Award 2021)
20.10 The_____ of ______
✓ The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (mystery, historical fiction for 20.4)
✓ The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
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