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Getting all organized for 2025?
Janice wrote: "Getting all organized for 2025?"lol! Can't get away with anything with you around.
Yes, My 10 week Reading Marathon is over and I have time to breathe, catch up on "paperwork" and get ready for 2025.
How about you? Have the 2025 YLTO! Annual Challenge ready to go?☺
Almeta wrote: "Janice wrote: "Getting all organized for 2025?"lol! Can't get away with anything with you around.
Yes, My 10 week Reading Marathon is over and I have time to breathe, catch up on "paperwork" an..."
I'm raring to start gophering for the 2025 challenge, but first I'm super focused on finishing the 2024 challenge. 8 books to go. It's going to be nip and tuck.
BTW, 2025 is being posted tomorrow.
2024 Seeking My Precious Tomes in Middle March
2023 Play On Words
2023 Gloom and Doom
2022 The Zest Is in the Journey
2022 Flick-Lit
2022 Give Us a Clue
2022 Celebrating Diversity
2022 Godmother's Apprentice
2021 YLTO! Museum Pieces
2021 Little Gray Cells Holdup
2021 Get a Clue
2020 Twisted Trivia
2019 The Movie Finger Writes
2018 Star Crossed Covers Zany Zodiac
2017 My Echo, My Shadow and Me
2016 Going Places
2015 The Story Never Ends, Serialously
2014 Voluminous Volumes and Miniature Matchmakers
2013 High Octane ABCs
2012 Rainbow Connection
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Snow Orphan Pamuck
The Book of Illusions
The Player of Games
on the road
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 296 pp
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Simply the Best
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NARRARTORS
Simon Vance
Grover Gardner
Simon Prebble
Anfre Holland (black voice)
Michael Page
Scott Brick
James Marsters
Richard Poe
Will Patton
George Guidall
Alexander Adams
Adam Lazarre-White
Ben Onwukwe
Cassandra Campbell
Rosario Dawson
Moniqua Plante
Mozhan Navabi
Eunice Wong
Sally Phillips
Gildart Jackson
AUTHORS
Stephen King
Spencer Quinn a.k.a. Peter Abrahams
Nathan Lowell
Anne Perry William Monk series
Colin Cotterill
Alexander McCall Smith
Roger Zelazny
Jack Williamson
Alix E. Harrow
Tananarive Due
Ashley Elston
G. M. Malliet
Aaron Elkins
Louise Douglas
Gillian Flynn
Tana French
S.J. Watson
B.A. Paris
Sophie Hannah
Sheldon Lord (Pseudonym, Lawrence Block and Donald E. Westlake)
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2025
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2024
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2023
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2022
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2021
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2020
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2019
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2018
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2017
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SAI KING RECOMMENDS
The light of stars is so damn stark.
When I look up, I fill with fear.
If all we have is what lies here,
this lonely world, this troubled place,
then cold dead stars and empty space…
Well, I see no reason to persevere,
No reason to laugh or shed a tear,
No reason to sleep or ever to wake.
No promises to keep, and none to make.
And so, at night I still raise my eyes,
to study the clear but mysterious skies
that arch above us as cold as stone.
Are you there, God? Are we alone?
The Book of Counted Sorrows
Here's the the top 100 books, taken from the official list of David Bowie
Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Room At The Top by John Braine
On Having No Head by Douglass Harding
Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
City Of Night by John Rechy
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Iliad by Homer
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell
Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall
David Bomberg by Richard Cork
Blast by Wyndham Lewis
Passing by Nella Larson
Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman
The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodieby Muriel Spark
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Puckoon by Spike Milligan
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
McTeague by Frank Norris
Money by Martin Amis
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Strange People by Frank Edwards
English Journey by J.B. Priestley
A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West
1984 by George Orwell
The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
Beano (comic, ’50s)
Raw (comic, ’80s)
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick
Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage
Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley
The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete
Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky
The Street by Ann Petry
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.
A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
The Bridge by Hart Crane
All The Emperor’s Horses (aka Peking Story) by David Kidd
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey
Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich
Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Teenage by Jon Savage
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Viz (comic, early ’80s)
Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)
Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
Maldodor by Comte de Lautréamonth
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler
Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
The Insult by Rupert Thomson
In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan
A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg
2025The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly (League of Pensioners #3)
The Little Old Lady Strikes Back (League of Pensioners #4)
The Secret of Brimley Manor (Cherringham #34)
Dead Man's Wine (A Sarah McKee Mystery)
The Night Raven (Crow Investigations #1)
Choked Off (The Falconer Files, #2)
Never Blame the Gardener (A Case for the Master Sleuths)
Crimes of Love
The Frozen Shroud (Lake District Mystery, #6)
Warn Me When It's Time (A Charlie Mack Motown Mystery, 6)
Above Ground (A Jack Taggart Mystery, #2)
The Holy Thief (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #19)
An Ale of Two Cities (Literary Pub Mystery, #2)
Enter Pale Death (Joe Sandilands #12)
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
A Body on the Beach (The Rejoiner #1)
Dead End: Book One in the Kaitlyn Willis Road Signs Mystery Series (Kaitlyn Willis Road Signs Mysteries)
Time of Justice (Mara Brent Legal Thriller Series)
Quarry's Deal (Quarry #3)
Blood Is Blood (Barker & Llewelyn, #10)
How About No (The Bear Bottom Guardians MC)
An Irish Country Practice (Irish Country #12)
My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up
Love Bites (1)
Always Watching (Elite Guardians, #1)
A Body Out at Sea (The West Wales Murder Mysteries #2)
An American in Scotland (A Scottish Isle Mystery, #1)
The Dreamland Murders (Oracle #2)
His Second Chance (Montgomery Ink Legacy, #6)
The Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore and Bar (Sam Quinn #1)
The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee (44 Scotland Street, #17)
The Painted Bird
I Am Justice (Black Ops Confidential #1)
The Mistake (Off-Campus, #2)
The Draining Lake (Inspector Erlendur #6)
Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
The Last Time She Died (Blake & Byron #1)
Acqua Alta (Commissario Brunetti #5)
Locked In (Department Q, #10)
A Proposal They Can't Refuse (Vega Family Love Stories, #1)
The Golden Cage (Faye's Revenge, #1)
Bullet Train (Assassins, #2)
Hypothermia (Inspector Erlendur, #8)
All Shall Be Well (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #2)
Sun Storm (Rebecka Martinsson, #1)
Take Me Apart (Vitale Brothers)
Sleeping with the Frenemy (Vega Family Love Stories, #3)
Ace of Spades
Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
Death in the 12th House: Where Neptune Rules (Starlight Detective Agency Mysteries, 2)
Securing Jane: A SEAL of Protection: Legacy Series Novella
Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits, #1)
A Cutthroat Business (A Savannah Martin Mystery, #1)
Wine and Punishment (Literary Pub Mystery, #1)
Louisiana Hotshot (Talba Wallis, #1)
Penric's Mission (Penric and Desdemona, #3)
The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress, #1)
Hexes and Vexes (Amethyst's Wand Shop Mysteries)
Vortex Conundrum (Ghostly Guardians)
Scorpius Rising (The Scorpius Syndrome #0.5)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries (Camper & Criminals #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles, #1)
The Undetectables (The Undetectables, #1)
The Beverly Hills Beatles Burglary (Cozy Beatles Mystery #3)
Song of Ariel (Blue Light)
Ilium
The Lion's Daughter (Scoundrels, #1)
One Dark Kiss (Grimm Bargains, #2)
Close Quarters (Breed Thriller #4)
A Snowball in Hell
The Cinderella Murder (Under Suspicion, #2)
The Cabinet of Wonders (The Kronos Chronicles, #1)
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
The Back Passage (Mitch Mitchell Mystery, #1)
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)
Succubus on Top (Georgina Kincaid, #2)
Murder in Chinatown (Gaslight Mystery, #9)
Cat Out of Hell (Cats Out of Hell, #1)
The Princess Search: a Retelling of The Ugly Duckling (The Four Kingdoms, #5)
Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
Left For Dead (Ali Reynolds, #7)
Hell or High Water (Nola Céspedes, #1)
The Inventor's Secret (The Inventor's Secret, #1)
True Crime (Nathan Heller, #2)
The Bangalore Detectives Club
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)
Retribution Falls (Tales of the Ketty Jay, #1)
The Rithmatist (Rithmatist, #1)
The Iron Duke (Iron Seas, #1)
Pestilence (The Four Horsemen, #1)
Time Bomb (Alex Delaware, #5)
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
I Kill Killers (Psychological Thriller #1)
Mastering the Art of French Murder (An American In Paris, #1)
Cursed Cocktails (Tales of Aedrea, #1)
The Devil's Cave (Bruno, Chief of Police, #5)
Lady, Go Die!
Lady, Go Die!
by Mickey Spillane
A Murder Most French (American In Paris Mystery, #2)
Three Hours in Paris (Kate Rees, #1)
Hangman
Black Diamond (Bruno, Chief of Police, #3)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
You Can Run (Laurel Snow, #1)
A Taste for Murder (Hemlock Falls Mysteries, #1)
The Widows Club (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #2)
Ramen Assassin
Quarry's Blood (Quarry #16)
Quarry in the Black (Quarry #13)
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #4)
The Dark Vineyard (Bruno, Chief of Police, #2)
The Wednesday Evening Club (A Case for the Master Sleuths)
The Quiet Man (McGarry Stateside, #3)
To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6)
How to Kill Men and Get Away With It (Kitty Collins, #1)
Follow Me Under (Follow Me, #2)
The Albuquerque Turkey (Radar Hoverlander #2)
The Widows' Guide to Murder (The Widows' Detective Club #1)
The Little Black Dress (Love in Las Vegas)
Murder on Lexington Avenue (Gaslight Mystery, #12)
The Late Lord Thorpe (D.C. Smith #11)
Pandemic: Patient Zero (Pandemic #1)
The Island (Hidden Iceland, #2)
Sleight of Hand: A Maisie Doss Mystery
The Silver Mark (Crow Investigations #2)
The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope #1)
Valley of the Lost (Constable Molly Smith, #2)
The Luminous Dead
Patricia Fisher: Ship's Detective
Mermaid of Venice (Mermaid of Venice, #1)
Figure Eight: A Northern Lakes Mystery (John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mysteries Book 1)
My Italian Bulldozer (Paul Stewart #1)
A Fatality in Spain (A Year in Europe #4)
The Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco, #1)
The Case of the Amorous Aunt (Perry Mason Mystery)
Beating Ruby (Spotless, #2)
Medusa (Oslo Crime Files #1)
The Pilgrim of Hate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #10)
Cut You Down (Wakeland, #2)
The Soft Whisper of Dreams (Shadows from the Past #3)
Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies (Spenser)
Dead Fast (Miami Jones Private Investigator Mystery)
In the Shadow of the Glacier (Constable Molly Smith #1)
The Second-Worst Restaurant in France (Paul Stuart, #2)
Mistress of All Evil (Villains, #4)
Cold Storage, Alaska (Cold Storage, #2)
Odd Girl Out (Quadrail, #3)
Summer of Night
The Egyptian
Where There's a Will (Gideon Oliver Mystery, #12)
The Stranger in the Library (Lighthouse Library Mystery #11)
Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti #2)
Peonies and Poison (Diana Flowers Floriculture Mysteries #4)
Lemon Curd Killer (A Teashop Mystery, #25)
Murder by Lamplight (Dr. Julia Lewis, #1)
The Miracle at Speedy Motors (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #9)
Somebody tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead (ToadWitch, #1)
No Humans Involved (Women of the Otherworld, #7)
The Monsters of Rookhaven (The Monsters of Rookhaven, #1)
A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor
Against the Currant (Spice Isle Bakery Mysteries, #1)
Fairest of All (Villains, #1)
Under Your Scars: A Dark Romance Novel
Good Blood (Gideon Oliver Mystery, #11)
The Dysasters (The Dysasters #1)
The Left Hand Of Darkness
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Other Lady Vanishes (Burning Cove, #2)
Prized (Birthmarked, #2)
Cats and Other Calamities (A Case for the Master Sleuths)
Wrong Side of Forty (Marina at Midlife, #1)
Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile, #2)
Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station (Mrs. Pollifax, #6)
Charming Your Dad
Charming the Devil
The Tourist Trail (Across Oceans)
The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Bruno, Chief of Police (Bruno, Chief of Police, #1)
Appaloosa (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #1)
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
The California Roll (Radar Hoverlander #1)
Sacred Hunger
The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13)
A Test Of Wills (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #1)
The Gentle Axe (Porfiry Petrovich, #1)
The House in the Woods (Atticus Priest #1)
Dragon and Thief (Dragonback, #1)
Bookworm (Bookworm, #1)
The Firemaker (China Thrillers, #1)
A Murder of Quality (George Smiley #2)
The Perfect Murder (Inspector Ghote, #1)
Where Oceans Hide Their Dead (Across Oceans)
Blood Ties (Kongeriket, #2) 2025 March
The Sleepwalker Legacy (Sam Jardine Crime Conspiracy Thrillers)
The Sleepwalker Legacy
The Whistler (The Whistler, #1)
Puss In Boots
Angel in the Full Moon (A Jack Taggart Mystery #3)
Earthly Remains (Commissario Brunetti, #26)
Uneasy Relations (Gideon Oliver, #15)
Unnatural Death (Kay Scarpetta, #27)
V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone, #22)
Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)
An Heiress's Guide to Deception and Desire (Ladies Most Scandalous, #2)
Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish (Mrs. Pollifax, #9)
A Theory of Haunting
Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle (Mrs. Pollifax, #8)
Cinderella (Matthew Hope, #6)
The Fourth Man (Jack Reacher, #23.5)
Baskets and Beignets (Miss Fortune Mysteries)
Bad News (Dortmunder, #10)
Hard Knocks (SC Marva Collins)
Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)
A Farewell to Arfs (Chet and Bernie Mystery, #15)
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