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Your Secret Santa is Roe
You are the Secret Santa of Nistha

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Tasks: xx/15
Secret Santa :
1. A book with cover colour (>50%):
2. A book with the following word in the title:
3. A book with " " on cover:
4. A book with " " number on page count:
5. A book that starts with the letter (articles not included):
6. A book with one of the author's initials having the letter:
7. 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

9. Read a book from your favourite genre and one of the suggestions from the community: Romance
10. Read a book from your second favourite genre and one of the suggestions from the community: Thriller
11. Read a book from your third favourite genre and one of the suggestions from the community: Mythology
12. 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
14. 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 Roe

🎅 A colour of cover: Green
🎅 A word in the title: Secret
🎅 An object on the cover: Light
🎅 A number on page count: 400
🎅 A book that starts with the letter (articles not included): D
🎅 A book with one of the author's initials having the letter: M

Favourite genres: Thriller, Cozy, Contemporary

For tasks 9-15

Bookish Community Summary

Books from genres:

📚Romance: Time After Time by Karly Lane, Icebreaker by Hannah Grace, Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney, When in Rome by Sarah Adams, All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata, All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata, Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez, An Unforgivable Love Story by B.L. Berry, Better Run by Alina May

📚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

📚Mythology: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry, A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown, Ichor by Trish D.W, Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati, Goddess of Light by P.C. Cast, Circe by Madeline Miller, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

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