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✅ HOB - Richard's Teamwork Makes the Dream Work!(view spoiler)[
✅ Team Sport: American Football
Book: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K. Rowling
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: Series - 7+ primary works
How it Fits: 7 book series
Book: The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
Author: Anthony Galvin
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: Author - Tony
How it Fits: AFN is Anthony
✅ Team Sport: Soccer
Book: Bank 3.0 - Why Banking is No Longer Somewhere You Go, But Something You Do
Author: Brett King
Date Read: Jan 15th
Task: Published - since 2009
How it Fits: 2012
Book: Put Anxiety Behind You: The Complete Drug-Free Program
Author: Peter Bongiorno
Date Read: Jan 15th
Task: Title - starts with a letter in PITCH
How it Fits: P
✅ Team Sport: Basketball
Book: Royal Mysteries of the Tudor Period
Author: Timothy Venning
Date Read: Feb 2nd
Task: Text - 'two'
How it Fits: "two nineteenth-century operas" p.14
Book: Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company
Author: David Howarth
Date Read: Feb 4th
Task: Author - letters of TWO
How it Fits: hOWarTh
✅ Team Sport: Baseball
Book: Energy Harvesting and Energy Efficiency: Technology, Methods, and Applications
Author: Nicu Bizon
Date Read: Feb 16th
Task: Title - double letters
How it Fits: eFFiciency
Book: The Ozempic Revolution: A Doctor's Proven Plan for Success to Help You Reverse Obesity, End Yo-Yo Dieting, and Protect Yourself from Disease
Author: Alexandra Sowa
Date Read: Feb 16th
Task: Author - initials in AMERICAS PASTIME
How it Fits: AS
✅ Team Sport: Softball
Book: Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
Author: Prit Buttar
Date Read: Mar 1st
Task: Title - all initials in GEORGE HANCOCK
How it Fits: COE
Book: Billie Eilish
Author: Billie Eilish
Date Read: Mar 2nd
Task: MC - female
How it Fits: MC is female
✅ Team Sport: Volleyball
Book: The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
Author: Peter Frankopan
Date Read: Mar 16th
Task: Title - all letters of NET
How it Fits: The NEw
Book: I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
Author: Jen Kirkman
Date Read: Mar 16th
Task: Published - 2 of 1964
How it Fits: April 16, 2013
✅ Team Sport: Rowing
Book: The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiversity Affirmative Approach
Author: Davida Hartman
Date Read: Apr 1st
Task: Title - starts with a letter in COXSWAIN
How it Fits: A
Book: Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
Author: Frances Dinkelspiel
Date Read: Apr 1st
Task: Text - 'crew'
How it Fits: "she ordered her entire crew" p.62
✅ Team Sport: Polo
Book: Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?: Olympic-Winning Strategies for Everyday Success
Author: Ben Hunt-Davis
Date Read: Apr 17th
Task: Title - all the letters of MALLET
How it Fits: wiLL iT MAkE
Book: The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine
Author: Michael Kulikowski
Date Read: Apr 18th
Task: Cover - horse
How it Fits:
✅ Team Sport: Water Polo
Book: Flee 9-5: Get 6 - 7 Figures and Do What You Love
Author: Ben Angel
Date Read: May 2nd
Task: Cover - body of water
How it Fits:
Book: Lonely Planet Scotland
Author: Lonely Planet
Date Read: May 3rd
Task: Set - Scotland
How it Fits: It is
✅ Team Sport: Cricket
Book: You Deserve This Sh!t: Get Unstuck, Find Your Path, and Become the Best Version of Yourself
Author: Jordan Tarver
Date Read: May 16th
Task: Cover - white
How it Fits:
Book: Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business
Author: David Edery
Date Read: May 17th
Task: Published - 11
How it Fits: November 11, 2008
✅ Team Sport: Wiffle Ball
Book: Our Place in the Sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era
Author: Robert Wright
Date Read: Jun 2nd
Task: MC - FN initial is in WIFFLE BALL
How it Fits: Fidel
Book: Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir
Author: Wil Wheaton
Date Read: Jun 5th
Task: Plot - char makes a joke
How it Fits: "I am embarrassed and make a joke. I say to the actors walking around the bridge, “If you need any help flying this thing, I’ve totally got your back!” " p.36
✅ Team Sport: Rugby
Book: House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
Author: Kier-la Janisse
Date Read: Jun 17th
Task: Text - 'union'
How it Fits: "the result of an unholy union between her now-dead mother and Satan himself" p.202
Book: Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
Author: Annik LaFarge
Date Read: Jun 19th
Task: Author - initials in MIDDLE AGES
How it Fits: AL
✅ Team Sport: Beach Volleyball
Book: A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19
Author: Edna Bonhomme
Date Read: Jul 2nd
Task: Pages - 2 of 1915
How it Fits: 315 pages
Book: Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
Author: Alexander Clapp
Date Read: Jul 8th
Task: Cover - beach scene
How it Fits:
✅ Team Sport: Handball
Book: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
Author: Patrick House
Date Read: Jul 18th
Task: Published - Oct
How it Fits: October 1, 2022
Book: The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture
Author: Euny Hong
Date Read: Jul 18th
Task: Set - Asia
How it Fits: South Korea
✅ Team Sport: Tennis
Book: Board Games in 100 Moves
Author: Ian Livingstone
Date Read: Aug 2nd
Task: Published - 2+ of 1988
How it Fits: 2019
Book: The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
Author: Wendy Pearlman
Date Read: Aug 2nd
Task: Text - 'eye'
How it Fits: "work as an eye for the government" p.51
✅ Team Sport: Pickleball
Book: Green Gold: The Avocado's Remarkable Journey from Humble Superfood to Toast of a Nation
Author: Sarah Allaback
Date Read: Aug 16th
Task: Cover - food item
How it Fits:
Book: One for Joy: An introvert’s guide to the secret world of solitude
Author: Tom Albrighton
Date Read: Aug 20th
Task: Published - 2021, 2022, or 2023
How it Fits: January 10, 2023
✅ Team Sport: Ice Hockey
Book: Making Disability Modern: Design Histories
Author: Bess Williamson
Date Read: Sep 1st
Task: Title - starts with letter in MONTREAL
How it Fits: It does
Book: Beating Brain Fog- Your 30-Day Plan to Think Faster, Sharper, Better
Author: Sabina Brennan
Date Read: Sep 1st
Task: Published - March
How it Fits: March 4, 2021
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HOB - Richard's D&D Adventures✅ Solo - I'm an Elf Monk
✅ Team: - I'm a Human Wizard
✅ HOB - Richard's 2025 BINGO(view spoiler)[
Book: Blade Runner
Author: Oscar Pistorius
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: Set - somewhere you've never been
How it Fits: South Africa
Book: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K. Rowling
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: Genre - I don't normally read
How it Fits: Fiction
Book: Absolutely
Author: Joanna Lumley
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: Title - 1 word
How it Fits: Absolutely = 1 word
Book: Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect
Author: Victoria Kastner
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: MC - female
How it Fits: Julia Morgan was female
Book: Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
Author: Eddie Izzard
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: Read in one sitting
How it Fits: I read it in one go
Book: So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
Author: Karl Ove Knausgård
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: Read over the course of a weekend
How it Fits: Another quick read for me
Book: The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime
Author: Chad Anderson
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: Pages - less than 300
How it Fits: 234 pages
Book: Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections
Author: Vizi Andrei
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: Genre - Non Fiction
How it Fits: 2nd MPG
Book: Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away
Author: Martin Popoff
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: Author - new to me
How it Fits: Only book I've read by this author
Book: Am I Going to Be Okay?: Money—Timely Intelligence, Actionable Ideas, Answers to the Questions that Really Matter
Author: Patti Brennan
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: Cover - your fave colour
How it Fits:
Book: The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
Author: Anthony Galvin
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: MC - male
How it Fits: Roald Amundsen was male
BINGO
Book: How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker
Author: Eve Smith
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: Author - debut novel
How it Fits: first book for this person
Book: Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People
Author: Daisy Auger-Dominguez
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: Title - 5 words
How it Fits: Burnt Out to Lit Up = 5 words
Book: Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life
Author: Scott Ian
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: Audiobook
How it Fits: I listened to the audiobook
BINGO
Book: Never Finished
Author: David Goggins
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: International best-seller
How it Fits: Very popular & high-rated book
Book: How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More.
Author: Veronica Dearly
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: In your PJs
How it Fits: It's too hot to go outside today
Book: Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria
Author: Nikolaos van Dam
Date Read: Jan 5th
Task: Set - past
How it Fits: MPG - history
Book: Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers
Author: Donna Campbell
Date Read: Jan 7th
Task: Set - near where you live
How it Fits: It's set in my state
BINGO
Book: How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies
Author: Daniel H. Wilson
Date Read: Jan 8th
Task: Set - future
How it Fits: The book is about a future armageddon.
BINGO
Book: Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success
Author: John C. Maxwell
Date Read: Jan 8th
Task: Author - I love
How it Fits: I learn a lot from his books
BINGO
Book: Read to Lead
Author: Jeff Brown
Date Read: Jan 10th
Task: Plot - books
How it Fits: It's a book about reading books
BINGO
Book: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Author: Steven Pinker
Date Read: Jan 12th
Task: Pages - 501+
How it Fits: 576 pages
Book: Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love
Author: Jessica Baum LMHC
Date Read: Jan 18th
Task: Plot - romantic
How it Fits: MPG - relationships
BINGO, BINGO, BINGO
Book: Healing the Shame that Binds You
Author: John Bradshaw
Date Read: Jan 20th
Task: Published - in decade you were born
How it Fits: 1988 (I was born in 1981)
BINGO, BINGO, COMPLETE
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HOB - Book Quest Adventure✅ Plotline Pathfinders Book Quest
HOB - 2025 A-to-Z Challenge✅ Total: 156/156
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Title
A: 2/1 - Absolutely, Joanna Lumley - ⭐️⭐️
B: 4/1 - Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People, Daisy Auger-Dominguez - ⭐️⭐️
C: 3/1 - Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away, Martin Popoff - ⭐️⭐️
D: 1/1 - Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 12/1 - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
F: 7/1 - Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place, Valya Dudycz Lupescu - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole, Anthony Galvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 14/1 - The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman, Shane Niemeyer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song, Paul Howard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
J: 17/2 - Jonathan Swift, Leo Damrosch - ⭐️⭐️
K: 12/1 - Korean Slang Expressions, TalkToMeInKorean - ⭐️⭐️
L: 1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting, Joe Gillard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 13/1 - The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go, Kute Blackson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 12/1 - Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life, Stewart Emery - ⭐️
O: 1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything, George Takei - ⭐️
P: 14/1 - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership, Richard Wood - ⭐️⭐️
Q: 12/1 - Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture, Amelia Abraham - ⭐️⭐️
R: 10/1 - Read to Lead, Jeff Brown - ⭐️⭐️
S: 5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want, Tanya Rad - ⭐️⭐️
T: 4/1 - Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life, Joshua Becker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 11/1 - Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership, John Hamm - ⭐️⭐️
V: 10/1 - Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM, Breanne Fahs - ⭐️⭐️
W: 10/1 - When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, David M. Peña-Guzmán - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
X: 19/1 - X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse, William Irwin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds, Judith O'Reilly - ⭐️
Z: 2/2 - The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom, Dan Tricarico - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
AFN
A: 10/1 - The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability, Annette Kehnel - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 15/1 - Bank 3.0 - Why Banking is No Longer Somewhere You Go, But Something You Do, Brett King - ⭐️⭐️
C: 3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime, Chad Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 4/1 - Never Finished, David Goggins - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 9/1 - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour, Elton John - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
F: 5/1 - Philosophical Posthumanism, Francesca Ferrando - ⭐️⭐️
G: 5/1 - Precision Pool: Your Guide to Mastering Key Skills, Shots, and Strategies, Gerry Kanov - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 12/1 - I Want to be Confident: Living, Working and Communicating with Confidence, Harriet Griffey - ⭐️⭐️
I: 19/1 - The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England, Ian Mortimer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
J: 1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 11/1 - The Loneliest Polar Bear, Kale Williams - ⭐️⭐️
L: 3/2 - Lonely Planet Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra, Lonely Planet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 9/1 - Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation, Mike Robbins - ⭐️⭐️
N: 16/1 - The Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making and Marketing of Atoll K, Norbert Aping - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 9/1 - Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey, Paul C. Pasles - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Q: 12/2 - She Memes Well, Quinta Brunson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 6/1 - Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture, Ryan A. Bush - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 4/1 - Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life, Scott Ian - ⭐️⭐️
T: 11/1 - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Tren Griffin - ⭐️
U: 15/2 - Think Better: Unlocking the Power of Reason, Ulrich L. Lehner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 2/1 - Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect, Victoria Kastner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
W: 12/1 - The Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers, William Irwin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
X: 28/2 - This Business of Artist Management: The Standard Reference to All Phases of Managing a Musician's Career from Both the Artist's and Manager's Point of View, Xavier M. Frascogna Jr. - ⭐️⭐️
Y: 16/2 - The Awesome Autistic Go-To Guide: A Practical Handbook for Autistic Teens and Tweens, Yenn Purkis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Z: 30/1 - Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist, Zakaria Erzinçlioğlu - ⭐️
AMN
A: 6/1 - Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask!, Dr. Megan Anna Neff - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 12/1 - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation, Andrew B. Newberg - ⭐️⭐️
C: 8/1 - Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success, John C. Maxwell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 11/1 - Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway, Stephanie Duncan Smith - ⭐️
E: 12/1 - Birdman of Alcatraz, Thomas E. Gaddis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
F: 8/1 - Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace, Raymond F. Gregory - ⭐️⭐️
G: 5/1 - The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice, M.G. Lord - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 8/1 - How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies, Daniel H. Wilson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 19/2 - 90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience, and Authenticity, Joan I. Rosenberg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
J: 18/1 - Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service, Gary J. Byrne - ⭐️⭐️
K: 13/1 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 12/2 - Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, Linda Lawrence Hunt - ⭐️⭐️
M: 1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary, Luna M. Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 19/2 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch, Karl Ove Knausgård - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 24/1 - Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need, Michael P Hoffmann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Q: 25/2 - Sous Vide at Home: The Modern Technique for Perfectly Cooked Meals A Cookbook , Lisa Q. Fetterman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 20/1 - Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success, G. Richard Shell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 3/1 - Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence, Jennifer S. Holland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 25/2 - CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans, Henry T. Greely - ⭐️⭐️
U: 28/2 - The Auschwitz Kommandant: A Daughter's Search for the Father She Never Knew, Barbara U. Cherish - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth, Mark Victor Hansen - ⭐️
W: 19/2 - The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good, Donald W. Pfaff - ⭐️⭐️
X: 26/2 - Voracious, A.X. Cole - ⭐️
Y: 27/2 - Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, Angela Y. Davis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Z: 27/2 - Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America, Michael Z. Newman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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✅ HOB - 2025 A-to-Z Challenge(view spoiler)[
ALN
A: 3/1 - Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections, Vizi Andrei - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 3/1 - Am I Going to Be Okay?: Money—Timely Intelligence, Actionable Ideas, Answers to the Questions that Really Matter, Patti Brennan - ⭐️⭐️
C: 7/1 - Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers, Caesar Campbell - ⭐️
D: 4/1 - How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More., Veronica Dearly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 11/1 - Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things, Jeremy England - ⭐️⭐️
F: 17/1 - Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain: The Practice of Informed Touch, Donna Finando - ⭐️⭐️
G: 13/1 - Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA, Richard Greene - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 15/1 - BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, Michael C. Healy - ⭐️⭐️
I: 3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️
J: 15/1 - Final Destination: Disaster: What Really Happened to Eastern Airlines, George Jehn New York - ⭐️⭐️
K: 1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education, Salman Khan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 5/1 - Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek, Daniel Levy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 8/1 - 400 Personal Growth Hack Puzzles: Guess Positive Words, Manifest your Destiny Today, Unlock Happiness and Success, Julia McMahon - ⭐️
N: 16/1 - Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?, Kevin Nealon - ⭐️⭐️
O: 9/1 - Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past, Tore C. Olsson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 10/1 - Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins, Price Pritchett - ⭐️
Q: 5/2 - AI for Life: 100+ Ways to Use Artificial Intelligence to Make Your Life Easier, More Productive…and More Fun!, Celia Quillian - ⭐️⭐️
R: 11/1 - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes, Adam Rutherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 14/1 - Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing, Matt Stroud - ⭐️⭐️
T: 13/1 - Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, Revised Edition: How the Words You Choose Shape Your Destiny, Joseph Telushkin - ⭐️⭐️
U: 16/1 - North to Paradise: A Memoir, Ousman Umar - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 21/1 - Born Both: An Intersex Life, Hida Viloria - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
W: 4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret, Congressman Mike Waltz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
X: 26/2 - Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lienu Zhuan of Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 26/1 - Literally, the Best Language Book Ever: Annoying Words and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again, Paul Yeager - ⭐️
Z: 21/1 - Anatomy of Facial Expression, Uldis Zarins - ⭐️⭐️
Char
A: 9/1 - Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death, Rita Cosby - ⭐️
Anna
B: 15/1 - If I Could Tell You Just One Thing . . .: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice, Richard Reed - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bill
C: 14/1 - Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After, Chloé Hayden - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chloé
D: 21/1 - Women from Another Planet? Our Lives in the Universe of Autism, Jean Kearns Miller - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Debbie
E: 4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Eve
F: 17/1 - Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes, Nicolas Michaud - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Finn
G: 16/1 - Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Garry
H: 2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Harry
I: 5/1 - Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother, Ivana Trump - ⭐️
Ivana
J: 13/1 - Changes That Heal: Four Practical Steps to a Happier, Healthier You, Henry Cloud - ⭐️
John
K: 5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China, Jack Weatherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Kublai
L: 15/1 - Put Anxiety Behind You: The Complete Drug-Free Program, Peter Bongiorno - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Linda
M: 11/1 - You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass): Embracing the Emotions, Habits, and Mystery That Make You You, Mike McHargue - ⭐️⭐️
Mike
N: 11/1 - Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave, Mark Mordue - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nick
O: 10/1 - Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies, Owen Gleiberman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Owen
P: 20/1 - Healing the Shame that Binds You, John Bradshaw - ⭐️⭐️
Pocaterra
Q: 17/1 - Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music, K.F.B. Fletcher - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Quorthon
R: 21/1 - Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mark Ribowsky - ⭐️⭐️
Ronnie
S: 17/1 - The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them, Peter Wohlleben - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Suzanne
T: 15/1 - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, Greg Sestero - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tommy
U: 19/2 - Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines, Patricia Monaghan - ⭐️⭐️
Ursula
V: 7/1 - Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love, Thomas Maier - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Virginia
W: 22/1 - The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone, Steven R. Gundry - ⭐️⭐️
Wim
X: 19/1 - Lead Them with Virtue: A Confucian Alternative to War, Kurtis Hagen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Xunzi
Y: 20/1 - The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore, Patricia Monaghan - ⭐️⭐️
Yallery Brown
Z: 10/1 - The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature, Silvia Montiglio - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Zeus
Set
A: 16/1 - With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs, Sandra Hogan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Australia
B: 7/1 - Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic, Tobias Churton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Berlin
C: 17/1 - What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, Stephen A. Schwarzman - ⭐️⭐️
China
D: 17/1 - Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism, Nima Sanandaji - ⭐️⭐️
Denmark
E: 21/1 - Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide, Christina Riggs - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Egypt
F: 24/1 - Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe, Violet Moller - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
France
G: 17/1 - Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month, Huw Richards - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Garden
H: 2/1 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hogwarts
I: 19/1 - Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell, Peter Caddick-Adams - ⭐️⭐️
Iwo Jima
J: 30/1 - Unlocking Japanese with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach, Paul Noble - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Japan
K: 22/2 - Lonely Planet Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei, Winnie Tan - ⭐️⭐️
Kuala Lumpur
L: 3/2 - Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band, Lawrence Gushee - ⭐️⭐️
Louisiana
M: 16/1 - Avocado: A Global History, Jeff Miller - ⭐️⭐️
Michoacán
N: 16/1 - Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland, David McKittrick - ⭐️⭐️
Northern Ireland
O: 30/1 - Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything, Aly Raisman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Olympic Games
P: 18/1 - Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote d'Azur 11, Chrissie McClatchie - ⭐️⭐️
Provence
Q: 8/2 - Freedom, Equality, Community: The Political Philosophy of Six Influential Canadians, James Bickerton - ⭐️
Qebec
R: 2/2 - The Secrets of Italy: People, Places, and Hidden Histories, Corrado Augias - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rome
S: 5/1 - Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, Nikolaos van Dam - ⭐️⭐️
Syria
T: 2/2 - Royal Mysteries of the Tudor Period, Timothy Venning - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tudor period
U: 13/2 - Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations, Craig Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️
UK
V: 30/1 - Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond, Robin George Andrews - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Volcano
W: 3/2 - Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane, Karen R. Jones - ⭐️⭐️
Wild West
X: 24/2 - The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras, Brantley Hargrove - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Xenia, Ohio
Y: 6/2 - Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman, Aisling Juanjuan Shen - ⭐️⭐️
Yangtze River Delta
Z: 7/1 - Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade, Julian Rademeyer - ⭐️⭐️
Zimbabwe
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1. Book: Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away
Author: Martin Popoff
Pages: 241
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Word Chosen: Contents
2. Book: Never Finished
Author: David Goggins
Pages: 312
Date Read: Jan 4th
Word Chosen: Finished
3. Book: The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want
Author: Tanya Rad
Pages: 237
Date Read: Jan 5th
Word Chosen: Sunshine
4. Book: Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask!
Author: Dr. Megan Anna Neff
Pages: 190
Date Read: Jan 6th
Word Chosen: Autistic
5. Book: Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace
Author: Raymond F. Gregory
Pages: 272
Date Read: Jan 8th
Word Chosen: Unlawful
6. Book: Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death
Author: Rita Cosby
Pages: 256
Date Read: Jan 9th
Word Chosen: Ambition
7. Book: Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins
Author: Price Pritchett
Pages: 146
Date Read: Jan 10th
Word Chosen: Optimism
8. Book: Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life
Author: Stewart Emery
Pages: 155
Date Read: Jan 12th
Word Chosen: Thinking
9. Book: Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?
Author: Kevin Nealon
Pages: 274
Date Read: Jan 16th
Word Chosen: Pregnant
10. Book: Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide
Author: Christina Riggs
Pages: 230
Date Read: Jan 21st
Word Chosen: Egyptian
11. Book: The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience
Author: Jules Evans
Pages: 305
Date Read: Jan 26th
Word Chosen: Ecstatic
12. Book: Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa
Author: Neil Slaven
Pages: 460
Date Read: Jan 31st
Word Chosen: Electric
13. Book: The Laughter Effect: How to Build Joy, Resilience and Positivity in Your Life
Author: Ros Ben-Moshe
Pages: 279
Date Read: Feb 1st
Word Chosen: Laughter
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✅ HOB - Richard's Author Spotlight: JP's Stand-Alone Novels(view spoiler)[
Prompt: Thrillers #1
Book: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K. Rowling
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: Title - person's name
How it Fits: Harry Potter
Prompt: Thrillers #2
Book: How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker
Author: Eve Smith
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: Plot - char is murdered
How it Fits: "a sex worker in Sweden who lost custody of her children before being murdered by her ex-partner" p.116
Prompt: Thrillers #3
Book: Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
Author: Ryan A. Bush
Date Read: Jan 6th
Task: Cover - black
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #4
Book: The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice
Author: M.G. Lord
Date Read: Jan 5th
Task: MC - a film star
How it Fits: Elizabeth Taylor
Prompt: Thrillers #5
Book: Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death
Author: Rita Cosby
Date Read: Jan 9th
Task: Cover - dark
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #6
Book: 400 Personal Growth Hack Puzzles: Guess Positive Words, Manifest your Destiny Today, Unlock Happiness and Success
Author: Julia McMahon
Date Read: Jan 8th
Task: Cover - mountains
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #7
Book: Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation
Author: Mike Robbins
Date Read: Jan 9th
Task: Text - 'secret'
How it Fits: “Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.” p.180
Prompt: Thrillers #8
Book: Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins
Author: Price Pritchett
Date Read: Jan 10th
Task: Cover - white
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #9
Book: The Loneliest Polar Bear
Author: Kale Williams
Date Read: Jan 11th
Task: Title - starts with 'The'
How it Fits: It does
Prompt: Thrillers #10
Book: Korean Slang Expressions
Author: TalkToMeInKorean
Date Read: Jan 12th
Task: Title - written in red
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #11
Book: Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA
Author: Richard Greene
Date Read: Jan 13th
Task: Published - June
How it Fits: June 7, 2016
Prompt: Thrillers #12
Book: The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go
Author: Kute Blackson
Date Read: Jan 13th
Task: Cover - body of water
How it Fits:
- beachPrompt: Thrillers #13
Book: The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman
Author: Shane Niemeyer
Date Read: Jan 14th
Task: Plot - a crime is committed
How it Fits: "I also discovered the ecstatic high of cocaine and started stealing shit from friends’ houses and committing other petty crimes in order to get the stuff." p.45
Prompt: Thrillers #14
Book: Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah
Author: Kathy Iandoli
Date Read: Jan 14th
Task: Cover - 1 person
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #15
Book: BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
Author: Michael C. Healy
Date Read: Jan 15th
Task: Cover - clouds
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #16
Book: The Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making and Marketing of Atoll K
Author: Norbert Aping
Date Read: Jan 16th
Task: Cover - 2 people
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #17
Book: Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?
Author: Kevin Nealon
Date Read: Jan 16th
Task: Title - an apostrophe
How it Fits: You're
Prompt: Thrillers #18
Book: The Let Them Theory
Author: Mel Robbins
Date Read: Jan 16th
Task: Title - starts with a letter in SAIL
How it Fits: L
Prompt: Thrillers #19
Book: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Author: bell hooks
Date Read: Jan 17th
Task: Title - compound word
How it Fits: Every Body
Prompt: Thrillers #20
Book: Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain: The Practice of Informed Touch
Author: Donna Finando
Date Read: Jan 17th
Task: Published - August
How it Fits: August 22, 2005
Prompt: Thrillers #21
Book: Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell
Author: Peter Caddick-Adams
Date Read: Jan 19th
Task: Title - double letters
How it Fits: caSSino
Prompt: Thrillers #22
Book: X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse
Author: William Irwin
Date Read: Jan 19th
Task: Title - plural
How it Fits: X-Men
Prompt: Thrillers #23
Book: Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By
Author: Cary Siegel
Date Read: Jan 26th
Task: Title - pronoun
How it Fits: Their
Prompt: Thrillers #24
Book: Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd
Author: Mark Ribowsky
Date Read: Jan 21st
Task: Title - does NOT start with a letter in GHOST
How it Fits: W
Prompt: Thrillers #25
Book: Open Book
Author: Jessica Simpson
Date Read: Jan 30th
Task: Cover - long-haired person
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #26
Book: No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth
Author: Frank Owen
Date Read: Jan 30th
Task: Title - double vowels
How it Fits: spEEd
Prompt: Thrillers #27
Book: Royal Mysteries of the Tudor Period
Author: Timothy Venning
Date Read: Feb 2nd
Task: Title - 4 O's
How it Fits: rOyal mysteries Of the tudOr periOd
Prompt: Thrillers #28
Book: 365 Health & Happiness Boosters:
Author: M.J. Ryan
Date Read: Feb 1st
Task: Title - 3+ S's
How it Fits: happineSS booSterS
Prompt: Thrillers #29
Book: It All Began With A Scream
Author: Padraic Maroney
Date Read: Feb 4th
Task: Title - play on words
How it Fits: It's about the movie "Scream".
Prompt: Thrillers #30
Book: How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home
Author: Charlie Wing
Date Read: Feb 4th
Task: Title - all the letters of HOUSE
How it Fits: 'House' is in title
Prompt: Thrillers #31
Book: Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
Author: Bo Burlingham
Date Read: Feb 6th
Task: Cover - something round
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #32
Book: Agent You: Show Up, Do the Work, and Succeed on Your Own Terms
Author: Nicole Lynn
Date Read: Feb 7th
Task: Cover - dark-haired cover model
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #33
Book: Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors
Author: Tom Bower
Date Read: Feb 11th
Task: Author - initials in BILL CLINTON
How it Fits: TB
Prompt: Thrillers #34
Book: Twelve Years in the Grave - Mind Control with Electromagnetic Spectrums, the Invisible Modern Concentration Camp.
Author: Soleilmavis Liu
Date Read: Feb 10th
Task: Title - number
How it Fits: Twelve
Prompt: Thrillers #35
Book: Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond -- The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager
Author: Mark Blake
Date Read: Feb 14th
Task: Cover - windows
How it Fits:
Prompt: Thrillers #36
Book: The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
Author: Marcelo Gleiser
Date Read: Feb 13th
Task: Title - starts with a letter in MARDI GRAS
How it Fits: I
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HOB - Symbols of Luck & Fortune: Jan✅ Total: 36/36
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🔤 Spell-Out (title)
1. C: 1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth, Mark Victor Hansen - ⭐️
2. L: 1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting, Joe Gillard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. O: 1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything, George Takei - ⭐️
4. V: 10/1 - Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM, Breanne Fahs - ⭐️⭐️
5. E: 3/1 - Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections, Vizi Andrei - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
6. R: 5/1 - Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother, Ivana Trump - ⭐️
🍀 Finding the Uncommon
7. GR - hard-to-find
5/1 - Philosophical Posthumanism, Francesca Ferrando - ⭐️⭐️
This book is the extended dissertation of Francesca Ferrando
8. Plot - unusual character trait
3/1 - Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence, Jennifer S. Holland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"If one trait paved the way for domestication, this tolerance of humans must be it." p.30
9. A book you consider a hidden gem
1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
10. Char - 'one in a million'
14/1 - Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah, Kathy Iandoli - ⭐️⭐️
"Aaliyah was more than a woman. She was one in a million." p.14
🍀 Luck & Fortune
11. MC - lucky
2/1 - Absolutely, Joanna Lumley - ⭐️⭐️
"I’ve been lucky in my life with the cars I’ve driven" p.120
12. Plot - char wins something
3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️
"I won a blue football by winning the sack race" p.47
13. Plot - a twist of fate
4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret, Congressman Mike Waltz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"that fateful day when his platoon was hit by a Taliban ambush" p.103
14. Plot - luck
3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch, Karl Ove Knausgård - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"as an artist he was lucky, in that he was noticed at the very beginning of his career" p.14
🍀 Irish Roots
15. Author - Irish
8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song, Paul Howard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
16. Set - Ireland
16/1 - Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland, David McKittrick - ⭐️⭐️
17. Plot - Irish folklore or mythology
20/1 - The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore, Patricia Monaghan - ⭐️⭐️
18. Cover - all three colours of the Irish flag
10/1 -
, Annette Kehnel - ⭐️⭐️⭐️🍀 Hope, Faith, Love, & Luck
19. Plot - overcoming hardship
2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot - from immobilised child with amputated legs to world-class sprinter.
20. Plot - faith
5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want, Tanya Rad - ⭐️⭐️
"lean into your faith" p.44
21. Plot - love
12/1 - Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture, Amelia Abraham - ⭐️⭐️
"we fell in love" p.36
22. Plot - chance
7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds, Judith O'Reilly - ⭐️
"My chance to do my good deed came at the multi-storey car park." p.72
🍀 Mysteries in the Clover Field
23. Plot - thriller with a surprise ending
21/1 - Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mark Ribowsky - ⭐️⭐️
It's in the sub-title
24. Plot - a search
1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary, Luna M. Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I was always in search of something that felt lost." p.17
25. Char - detective
7/1 - Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers, Caesar Campbell - ⭐️
"The detective butted in. ‘I reckon that’s a lot of bullshit.’" p.127
26. Plot - unexpected discovery
4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A client became her husband
🍀 The Power of Green
27. Cover - green
4/1 -
, Daisy Auger-Dominguez - ⭐️⭐️28. Plot - nature
10/1 - When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, David M. Peña-Guzmán - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
29. Plot - personal growth
4/1 - Never Finished, David Goggins - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I’d been immersed in the beauty of grinding through it and the personal growth that came with it." p.91
30. Set - forest
17/1 - The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them, Peter Wohlleben - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍀 Faith & Folklore
31. Plot - mythology
10/1 - The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature, Silvia Montiglio - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
32. Plot - magical quest
7/1 - Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic, Tobias Churton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
MC has a quest of gaining magical power
🍀 Luck of the Draw
33. MPG - one I don’t usually read
2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fiction
34. Plot - unexpected twist
3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole, Anthony Galvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Jessup’s widow did donate an unexpected $5,000, which helped." p.189
35. A book you feel lucky to have found
4/1 - How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More., Veronica Dearly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
36. Plot - gambling
4/1 - Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life, Scott Ian - ⭐️⭐️
"Once upon a time I was a professional poker player." p.67
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CCC - 2024/25 Birthstones by the Month❌ Total: 37/48 (Sparkler)
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✅ DECEMBER - Turquoise
1. Set - France
17/12 - The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA, Deborah Cadbury - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Cover - light blue
19/12 -
, Andrew Hui - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️3. Title - 'x'
18/12 - Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD, Jesse J. Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. Genre - my fave
20/12 - Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living, Mo Gawdat - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Personal development
✅ JANUARY - Garnet
1. Cover - multi-coloured but not blue
7/1 -
, Thomas Maier - ⭐️⭐️⭐️2. MPG - travel
3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole, Anthony Galvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Pages - 501+
1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
559
4. MCs - 2 best friends
2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Harry & Ron
✅ FEBRUARY - Amethyst
1. Cover - purple
4/2 -
, Evelyn Hollow - ⭐️⭐️⭐️2. Char - royal
2/2 - Royal Mysteries of the Tudor Period, Timothy Venning - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Henry VIII
3. Set - South America
6/2 - Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist, Larry Rohter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. MC - religious figure
2/2 - The Secrets of Italy: People, Places, and Hidden Histories, Corrado Augias - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pope Pius IX
✅ MARCH - Aquamarine
1. Cover - blue or green
1/3 -
, Adam Tank - ⭐️⭐️2. Title - compound word
1/3 - Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, Jamie Lendino - ⭐️
3. Cover - ocean
2/3 -
, Darryl Edwards - ⭐️⭐️⭐️4. Char - earns their living working on the water
6/3 - 1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half, Stephen R. Bown - ⭐️⭐️
Christopher Columbus, sea explorer
✅ APRIL - Diamond
1. Cover - white
10/4 -
, Nancy Tuckerman - ⭐️⭐️2. Cover - ring-shaped object
4/8 -
, Ralph De La Rosa - ⭐️⭐️⭐️3. Title - 1 word
1/4 - Dracula, Bram Stoker - ⭐️⭐️
4. Author - LN starts with a letter in DIAMOND
1/4 - Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California, Frances Dinkelspiel - ⭐️⭐️
✅ MAY - Emerald
1. Cover - bright green or dark green
9/5 -
, Edward Humes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️2. Cover - bones
3/5 -
, Bailey Brett Williams - ⭐️⭐️⭐️3. Set - ancient times
12/5 - A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors, Anthony Blond - ⭐️⭐️
4. Author - LN starts with Z, B, C, or A
2/5 - Flee 9-5: Get 6 - 7 Figures and Do What You Love, Ben Angel - ⭐️⭐️
✅ JUNE - Pearl
1. Set - island
1/6 - Sicilian Splendors: Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart, John Keahey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Cover - black
12/6 -
, Melania Trump - ⭐️3. Set - Russia
19/6 - The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine, Alexander S. Vindman - ⭐️⭐️
4. Cover - moon
5/6 -
, Rebecca Heisman - ⭐️⭐️✅ JULY - Ruby
1. Cover - deep red
2/7 -
, R.T. Kendall - ⭐️2. Title - 'fire'
15/7 - Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and Attention Deficit - Oh Look! A Chicken!, Stacey Turis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Char - wealthy
1/7 - Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History: From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks, Clifford A. Pickover - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Elon Musk
4. Author - 'King'
13/7 - Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom, Vex King - ⭐️⭐️
✅ AUGUST - Peridot
1. Cover - light green
2/8 -
, David Bienenstock - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️2. Title - alliteration
1/8 - Badass Bonita: Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera, Kim Guerra - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Plot - char cries
1/8 - Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country, Emily Benedek - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Valarie just walked the floor with her constantly crying." p.34
4. Cover - stripes
1/8 -
, Kenneth J. Doka - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️SEPTEMBER - Sapphire
1. Cover - deep blue
2. Title - starts with a letter in BLUE
1/9 - The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo, Brendan Simms - ⭐️⭐️
3. Cover - something sparkly
4. Cover - reptile
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TOAP - Richard's Ice Cream Shop✅ 1-46
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1. Book: Blade Runner
Author: Oscar Pistorius
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: 96. Char - strong
How it Fits: "I was and am far stronger and my muscles repair far more quickly" p.87
2. Book: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K. Rowling
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: 69. MPG - Children
How it Fits: It is
3. Book: Absolutely
Author: Joanna Lumley
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: 64. Author - British
How it Fits: She is British
4. Book: Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect
Author: Victoria Kastner
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: 47. Cover - something big
How it Fits:
- big interior pool5. Book: Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
Author: Eddie Izzard
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: 5. Text - 'why not'
How it Fits: "Why not spend a little less time on geography" p.151
6. Book: So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
Author: Karl Ove Knausgård
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: 37. MC - FN initial in MOOMERS
How it Fits: Edvard
7. Book: The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime
Author: Chad Anderson
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: 45. Author - initials in PEAR AND BLUE CHEESE
How it Fits: CA
8. Book: Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections
Author: Vizi Andrei
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: 18. Pages - 4 or 9
How it Fits: 190
9. Book: Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away
Author: Martin Popoff
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: 99. Cover - black
How it Fits:
10. Book: Am I Going to Be Okay?: Money—Timely Intelligence, Actionable Ideas, Answers to the Questions that Really Matter
Author: Patti Brennan
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: 2. Pages - 2 of 1932
How it Fits: 295 pages
11. Book: The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
Author: Anthony Galvin
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: 17. Author - initials in BOLOGNA
How it Fits: AG
12. Book: Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence
Author: Jennifer S. Holland
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: 4. Cover - multiple colours
How it Fits:
13. Book: How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker
Author: Eve Smith
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: 36. Cover - pink
How it Fits:
14. Book: Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret
Author: Congressman Mike Waltz
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: 58. MC - FN initial in AMAZON
How it Fits: Mike
15. Book: Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People
Author: Daisy Auger-Dominguez
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: 97. Title - starts with a letter in ISTANBUL
How it Fits: B
16. Book: Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life
Author: Scott Ian
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: 82. Author - LN initial in HOKKAIDO
How it Fits: I
17. Book: Never Finished
Author: David Goggins
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: 84. Ratings - 1,950+
How it Fits: Over 36,000
18. Book: How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More.
Author: Veronica Dearly
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: 73. Cover - visually appealing to me
How it Fits:
19. Book: Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life
Author: Joshua Becker
Date Read: Jan 4th
Task: 75. Published - 1st, 9th, or 7th
How it Fits: April 1
20. Book: Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek
Author: Daniel Levy
Date Read: Jan 5th
Task: 25. Set - small town
How it Fits: Schitt's Creek is a fictional small town
21. Book: Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria
Author: Nikolaos van Dam
Date Read: Jan 5th
Task: 6. Tagged - war
How it Fits: MPG war
22. Book: Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
Author: Jack Weatherford
Date Read: Jan 5th
Task: 87. Title - starts & ends with letters in LODY NA STAROWIŚLNEJ
How it Fits: E...S
23. Book: Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother
Author: Ivana Trump
Date Read: Jan 5th
Task: 59. MC - FN initial in TAPIOCA
How it Fits: Ivana
24. Book: The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice
Author: M.G. Lord
Date Read: Jan 5th
Task: 7. MC - popular
How it Fits: Elizabeth Taylor was an icon
25. Book: Precision Pool: Your Guide to Mastering Key Skills, Shots, and Strategies
Author: Gerry Kanov
Date Read: Jan 5th
Task: 53. Title - starts & ends with letters in HELADERIA SCANNAPIECO
How it Fits: P...L
26. Book: The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want
Author: Tanya Rad
Date Read: Jan 5th
Task: 23. Text - ‘sweet’
How it Fits: "a sweet Cavapoo puppy" p.124
27. Book: Philosophical Posthumanism
Author: Francesca Ferrando
Date Read: Jan 5th
Task: 13. Pages - 151+
How it Fits: 224
28. Book: Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask!
Author: Dr. Megan Anna Neff
Date Read: Jan 6th
Task: 28. Published - March
How it Fits: March 19, 2024
29. Book: Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
Author: Ryan A. Bush
Date Read: Jan 6th
Task: 33. Cover - something gold
How it Fits:
30. Book: Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers
Author: Caesar Campbell
Date Read: Jan 7th
Task: 54. Author - Australian
How it Fits: Author is Australian
31. Book: A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds
Author: Judith O'Reilly
Date Read: Jan 7th
Task: 72. Plot - char makes a sandwich
How it Fits: "I made three platefuls of jam sandwiches" p.149
32. Book: Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Author: Thomas Maier
Date Read: Jan 7th
Task: 32. Rating - '6'
How it Fits: 3.63
33. Book: Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place
Author: Valya Dudycz Lupescu
Date Read: Jan 7th
Task: 76. Text - any type of dessert
How it Fits: "Moral Dilemma Meringue Cookies" p.137
34. Book: Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade
Author: Julian Rademeyer
Date Read: Jan 7th
Task: 24. Title - double letters
How it Fits: LL
35. Book: Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic
Author: Tobias Churton
Date Read: Jan 7th
Task: 74. Author - initials in COCONUT
How it Fits: TC
36. Book: How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies
Author: Daniel H. Wilson
Date Read: Jan 8th
Task: 93. Text - 'stretch'
How it Fits: "stretch, ropelike, to span downed bridges" p.72
37. Book: Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace
Author: Raymond F. Gregory
Date Read: Jan 8th
Task: 50. Title - ends with a letter in VANILLA
How it Fits: L
38. Book: Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living
Author: Cheshire Calhoun
Date Read: Jan 8th
Task: 80. Title - all letters of DINGLE
How it Fits: DoING valuabLE time
39. Book: 400 Personal Growth Hack Puzzles: Guess Positive Words, Manifest your Destiny Today, Unlock Happiness and Success
Author: Julia McMahon
Date Read: Jan 8th
Task: 65. Author - new to me
How it Fits: First I've read of this author
40. Book: Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success
Author: John C. Maxwell
Date Read: Jan 8th
Task: 27. Author - 50+ books
How it Fits: He's written 100+
41. Book: I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song
Author: Paul Howard
Date Read: Jan 8th
Task: 1. Char - wealthy
How it Fits: Tara Browne
42. Book: Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
Author: Tore C. Olsson
Date Read: Jan 9th
Task: 60. Char - Ed
How it Fits: Edward H. Harriman
43. Book: Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey
Author: Paul C. Pasles
Date Read: Jan 9th
Task: 22. Text - 'delight'
How it Fits: "You that delight in figures, try your skill" p.60
44. Book: Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death
Author: Rita Cosby
Date Read: Jan 9th
Task: 77. Plot - MC has a brother
How it Fits: "Anna's brother, Donnie Hogan" p.36
45. Book: Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour
Author: Elton John
Date Read: Jan 9th
Task: 51. Plot - char moves from one place to another
How it Fits: Final world tour
46. Book: Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies
Author: Owen Gleiberman
Date Read: Jan 10th
Task: 9. Text - chocolate
How it Fits: "chocolate-brownie ice cream" p.66
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LSC - January 2025: Celebrating 250 Year of Jane Austen✅ Total: 60/60
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Jane Austen
J: 2/1 - Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 2/1 - Absolutely - ⭐️⭐️
N: 4/1 - Never Finished - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 3/1 - Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 3/1 - Am I Going to Be Okay?: Money—Timely Intelligence, Actionable Ideas, Answers to the Questions that Really Matter - ⭐️⭐️
U: 8/1 - Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace - ⭐️⭐️
S: 3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 4/1 - Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️
N: 5/1 - Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, Nikolaos van Dam - ⭐️⭐️
Steventon
S: 3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 7/1 - Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love, Thomas Maier - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 4/1 - How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More., Veronica Dearly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 12/1 - Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life - ⭐️
T: 8/1 - Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 12/1 - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation, Andrew B. Newberg - ⭐️⭐️
Regency
R: 5/1 - Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother - ⭐️
E: 7/1 - Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers - ⭐️
G: 3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 9/1 - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour, Elton John - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 14/1 - The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman, Shane Niemeyer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 3/1 - Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away - ⭐️⭐️
Y: 7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds - ⭐️
Romance
R: 6/1 - Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture, Ryan A. Bush - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 9/1 - Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past, Tore C. Olsson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret, Congressman Mike Waltz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 4/1 - Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life - ⭐️⭐️
N: 16/1 - The Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making and Marketing of Atoll K, Norbert Aping - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth - ⭐️
E: 1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Publish
P: 5/1 - Precision Pool: Your Guide to Mastering Key Skills, Shots, and Strategies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 11/1 - Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership - ⭐️⭐️
B: 1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want - ⭐️⭐️
H: 2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Posthumous
P: 5/1 - Philosophical Posthumanism - ⭐️⭐️
O: 10/1 - Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies, Owen Gleiberman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 6/1 - Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask! - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 11/1 - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Tren Griffin - ⭐️
H: 3/1 - Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence, Jennifer S. Holland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 16/1 - North to Paradise: A Memoir, Ousman Umar - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 13/1 - Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 21/1 - Anatomy of Facial Expression, Uldis Zarins - ⭐️⭐️
S: 10/1 - Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom - ⭐️⭐️
Adaptation
A: 5/1 - The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 1/1 - Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 4/1 - Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People, Daisy Auger-Dominguez - ⭐️⭐️
P: 9/1 - Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey, Paul C. Pasles - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 12/1 - Birdman of Alcatraz, Thomas E. Gaddis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 7/1 - Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 13/1 - Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, Revised Edition: How the Words You Choose Shape Your Destiny, Joseph Telushkin - ⭐️⭐️
I: 12/1 - The Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers, William Irwin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything - ⭐️
N: 16/1 - Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?, Kevin Nealon - ⭐️⭐️
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LSC - 2025 Annual Challenge✅ Total: 224/224
✅ Part 1: 55/55
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Roman Numerals
R: 1/2 - The Laughter Effect: How to Build Joy, Resilience and Positivity in Your Life, Ros Ben-Moshe - ⭐️⭐️
O: 23/2 - Olives, Lemons & Za'atar: The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 16/1 - Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland - ⭐️⭐️
A: 2/2 - How to Eat a Lobster: And Other Edible Enigmas Explained, Ashley Blom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 20/2 - Beyond the Throne: Epic Journeys, Enduring Friendships, and Surprising Tales, Kristian Nairn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 19/2 - Now Is the Way: An Unconventional Approach to Modern Mindfulness - ⭐️⭐️
U: 27/2 - Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species, Ursula K. Heise - ⭐️⭐️
M: 15/1 - BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, Michael C. Healy - ⭐️⭐️
E: 15/2 - Being Bad: Breaking the Rules and Becoming Everything You're Not Supposed to Be, Arielle Egozi - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 1/2 - 365 Health & Happiness Boosters:, M.J. Ryan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 1/2 - I Never Knew There Was a Word for It, Adam Jacot de Boinod - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 27/1 - The Language of Loss: Poetry and Prose for Grieving and Celebrating the Love of Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
S: 18/1 - Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service - ⭐️⭐️
MMXXV
M: 13/1 - The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 11/1 - Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave, Mark Mordue - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
X: 26/2 - Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lienu Zhuan of Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
X: 12/2 - X-Rays - ⭐️⭐️
V: 17/1 - Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Common Era
C: 29/1 - My Pocket Meditations for Anxiety: Anytime Exercises to Reduce Stress, Ease Worry, and Invite Calm, Carley Centen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 2/3 - Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 10/1 - Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 8/1 - 400 Personal Growth Hack Puzzles: Guess Positive Words, Manifest your Destiny Today, Unlock Happiness and Success, Julia McMahon - ⭐️
O: 3/3 - Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law - ⭐️
N: 19/2 - North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest to Reveal the True Source Behind the World's Greatest Plays - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 12/2 - Eventide: Recipes for Clambakes, Oysters, Lobster Rolls, and More from a Modern Maine Seafood Shack - ⭐️⭐️
R: 1/2 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 31/1 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
CE
C: 19/1 - Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell, Peter Caddick-Adams - ⭐️⭐️
E: 11/2 - Me, Elton John - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Anno Domini
A: 29/1 - All Tangled Up in Autism and Chronic Illness: A guide to navigating multiple conditions - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 16/2 - Energy Harvesting and Energy Efficiency: Technology, Methods, and Applications, Nicu Bizon - ⭐️⭐️
N: 14/2 - 100 Must-read Historical Novels, Nick Rennison - ⭐️⭐️
O: 6/3 - On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 11/1 - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs - ⭐️
O: 20/2 - 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life: BS-Free Wisdom to Ignite Your Inner Badass and Live the Life You Deserve, Andrea Owen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 7/1 - Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 30/1 - Is There Life Outside the Box?: An Actor Despairs - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 14/2 - Kiin: Recipes and Stories from Northern Thailand, Nuit Regular - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 29/1 - The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us - ⭐️⭐️
AD
A: 28/1 - Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law, Alecia Simmonds - ⭐️⭐️
D: 8/1 - Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lunar Year
L: 25/1 - The Long Covid Self-Help Guide: Practical Ways to Manage Symptoms - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 15/2 - Think Better: Unlocking the Power of Reason, Ulrich L. Lehner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 13/2 - A New Science of Heaven: How the new science of plasma physics is shedding light on spiritual experience - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 27/1 - The Psychology Of Weight-Loss: Gain Control of Your Weight for Good, Andrew Vashevnik - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 30/1 - Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything, Aly Raisman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 6/2 - Yes! You Are Good Enough - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 6/2 - Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms - ⭐️⭐️
A: 27/1 - Anubis―Ancient Egypt’s Lord of Death and Protection - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 30/1 - Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond, Robin George Andrews - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Snake
S: 17/1 - What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, Stephen A. Schwarzman - ⭐️⭐️
N: 9/2 - No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus explains how the world works - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 24/1 - Confessions of an Event Planner: Case Studies from the Real World of Events--How to Handle the Unexpected and How to Be a Master of Discretion, Judy Allen - ⭐️
K: 12/1 - Korean Slang Expressions - ⭐️⭐️
E: 4/2 - Atlas of Paranormal Places: A Journey to the World's Most Supernatural Places, Evelyn Hollow - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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2025
T: 2/2 - The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom, Dan Tricarico - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
W: 24/1 - Doctor Strange and Philosophy: The Other Book of Forbidden Knowledge, William Irwin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 3/2 - Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West, Edward Rice - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 8/2 - The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, Norman Doidge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 2/2 - Royal Mysteries of the Tudor Period, Timothy Venning - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 4/2 - The Geography of Hope: Real-Life Stories of Optimists Mapping a Better World, DAVID YARNOLD - ⭐️
T: 27/1 - Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
W: 21/1 - Women from Another Planet? Our Lives in the Universe of Autism - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 31/1 - Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 7/2 - Agent You: Show Up, Do the Work, and Succeed on Your Own Terms, Nicole Lynn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 26/1 - This Time for Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 26/1 - Literally, the Best Language Book Ever: Annoying Words and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again, Paul Yeager - ⭐️
F: 17/1 - Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music, K.F.B. Fletcher - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 29/1 - Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers, Ian Stewart - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 10/1 - Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM - ⭐️⭐️
E: 31/1 - Everything is Figureoutable - ⭐️⭐️
Square Year
S: 17/1 - The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Q: 1/2 - Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 14/2 - Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist - ⭐️⭐️
A: 26/1 - Creating Signature Stories: Strategic Messaging that Persuades, Energizes and Inspires, David A. Aaker - ⭐️⭐️
R: 25/1 - The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans and Planners - ⭐️⭐️
E: 30/1 - Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist, Zakaria Erzinçlioğlu - ⭐️
Y: 16/1 - Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me? - ⭐️⭐️
E: 22/1 - Energy Healing for Trauma, Stress & Chronic Illness: Uncover & Transform the Subtle Energies That Are Causing Your Greatest Hardships - ⭐️⭐️
A: 26/1 - The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 21/1 - Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mark Ribowsky - ⭐️⭐️
World Expo
W: 13/1 - Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, Revised Edition: How the Words You Choose Shape Your Destiny - ⭐️⭐️
O: 19/2 - The Ancient Science of Mantras: Wisdom of the Sages, Om Swami - ⭐️⭐️
R: 29/1 - Meditations on Intention and Being: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Mindfulness, and Compassion, Rolf Gates - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 24/1 - How to Organize Inherited Items: A Step-by-Step Guide for Dealing with Boxes of Your Parents' Stuff, Denise May Levenick - ⭐️⭐️
D: 8/1 - How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies, Daniel H. Wilson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 22/1 - The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone - ⭐️⭐️
X: 19/1 - X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 10/1 - Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins, Price Pritchett - ⭐️
O: 16/2 - Overtaken by the Night: One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Osaka
O: 16/2 - The Ozempic Revolution: A Doctor's Proven Plan for Success to Help You Reverse Obesity, End Yo-Yo Dieting, and Protect Yourself from Disease - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 16/1 - With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs, Sandra Hogan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 24/1 - Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History, Mandy Sayer - ⭐️⭐️
K: 7/1 - Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade - ⭐️⭐️
A: 21/1 - Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Japan
J: 2/1 - Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 18/1 - Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love - ⭐️⭐️
P: 5/1 - Philosophical Posthumanism - ⭐️⭐️
A: 17/1 - Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 31/1 - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - ⭐️⭐️
Basel
B: 2/1 - Blade Runner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 16/1 - Avocado: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️
S: 15/1 - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, Greg Sestero - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 20/1 - The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore - ⭐️⭐️
L: 19/1 - Lead Them with Virtue: A Confucian Alternative to War - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Euro
E: 14/1 - Edible Flowers: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 12/2 - The Tilted Playing Field: Is Criminal Justice Unfair?, H. Richard Uviller - ⭐️
R: 25/1 - My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace, Rosie Weldon - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 5/2 - Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar, Peter Olszewski - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Eurovision Song Contest
E: 12/1 - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 1/2 - Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food… and Why Can't We Stop? - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 16/1 - Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 31/1 - Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 4/1 - How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More., Veronica Dearly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 28/1 - I'm So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 10/1 - The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 28/1 - The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct - ⭐️⭐️
O: 31/1 - On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
N: 31/1 - New Aging: Live Smarter Now to Live Better Forever - ⭐️⭐️
S: 10/1 - Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom - ⭐️⭐️
O: 31/1 - Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 30/1 - No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 15/1 - Get Your Spark Back: How to Find Happiness and Reignite Your Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 17/1 - How To Tell Fate From Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions, Charles Harrington Elster - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 31/1 - The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 29/1 - Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions and Rationales - ⭐️
T: 27/1 - Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir, Terry Gilliam - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 11/1 - Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway - ⭐️
S: 6/1 - Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask! - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 24/1 - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Switzerland
S: 5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want - ⭐️⭐️
W: 10/1 - When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 28/1 - The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 19/1 - The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Z: 21/1 - Anatomy of Facial Expression, Uldis Zarins - ⭐️⭐️
E: 11/1 - Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things - ⭐️⭐️
R: 14/1 - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership, Richard Wood - ⭐️⭐️
L: 18/1 - Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote d'Azur 11 - ⭐️⭐️
A: 14/1 - The Art of Making Memories: How to Create and Remember Happy Moments - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 29/1 - Nanoparticles - Nanocomposites – Nanomaterials: An Introduction for Beginners, Dieter Vollath - ⭐️⭐️
D: 5/1 - Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria - ⭐️⭐️
FIFA Club
F: 9/1 - Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation - ⭐️⭐️
I: 27/1 - I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times - ⭐️⭐️
F: 7/1 - Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 12/1 - The Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 14/1 - Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After, Chloé Hayden - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 18/1 - Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer, Heather Lende - ⭐️⭐️
U: 30/1 - Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 9/1 - Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
World Cup
W: 4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret, Congressman Mike Waltz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 30/1 - Open Book - ⭐️⭐️
R: 13/1 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 16/1 - The Let Them Theory - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 3/1 - Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 13/1 - Changes That Heal: Four Practical Steps to a Happier, Healthier You - ⭐️
U: 30/1 - Unlocking Japanese with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 3/2 - The P.R.I.M.E.R. Goal Setting Method: The Only Goal Achievement Guide You'll Ever Need! - ⭐️⭐️
Bulgaria
B: 1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 26/1 - Unstoppable Brain: The New Neuroscience that Frees Us from Failure, Eases Our Stress, and Creates Lasting Change - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 11/1 - The Loneliest Polar Bear - ⭐️⭐️
G: 10/1 - The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 11/1 - After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 10/1 - Read to Lead - ⭐️⭐️
I: 24/1 - Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 7/1 - Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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United Nations
U: 26/1 - Undoing Urgency: Reclaim Your Time for the Things that Matter Most - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 29/1 - Not Quite the Classics - ⭐️⭐️
I: 15/1 - If I Could Tell You Just One Thing . . .: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 18/1 - What You Think of Me Is None of My Business, Terry Cole‐Whittaker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 9/1 - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour, Elton John - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 6/1 - Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 27/1 - All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian, Rae Nudson - ⭐️⭐️
A: 3/1 - Am I Going to Be Okay?: Money—Timely Intelligence, Actionable Ideas, Answers to the Questions that Really Matter - ⭐️⭐️
T: 17/1 - Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain: The Practice of Informed Touch - ⭐️⭐️
I: 14/1 - Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah, Kathy Iandoli - ⭐️⭐️
O: 24/1 - Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 21/1 - Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
I: 12/1 - I Want to be Confident: Living, Working and Communicating with Confidence - ⭐️⭐️
N: 17/1 - Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism, Nima Sanandaji - ⭐️⭐️
T: 14/1 - Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing - ⭐️⭐️
E: 7/1 - Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers - ⭐️
R: 9/1 - Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 16/1 - The Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making and Marketing of Atoll K, Norbert Aping - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 5/1 - The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 12/1 - Birdman of Alcatraz, Thomas E. Gaddis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 22/1 - Opening the Door of Your Heart and Other Buddhist Tales of Happiness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 16/1 - North to Paradise: A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 4/1 - Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life - ⭐️⭐️
O: 22/1 - On Freedom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 5/1 - Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek, Daniel Levy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 11/1 - You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass): Embracing the Emotions, Habits, and Mystery That Make You You - ⭐️⭐️
E: 5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 4/1 - Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People, Daisy Auger-Dominguez - ⭐️⭐️
R: 5/1 - Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother - ⭐️
F: 15/1 - Final Destination: Disaster: What Really Happened to Eastern Airlines - ⭐️⭐️
Q: 12/1 - Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture - ⭐️⭐️
U: 11/1 - Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership - ⭐️⭐️
A: 11/1 - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes, Adam Rutherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 14/1 - The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman, Shane Niemeyer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 8/1 - Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 8/1 - Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace - ⭐️⭐️
M: 1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 9/1 - Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death, Rita Cosby - ⭐️
I: 3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️
E: 4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 12/1 - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation, Andrew B. Newberg - ⭐️⭐️
C: 3/1 - Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away - ⭐️⭐️
E: 3/1 - Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 2/1 - Absolutely - ⭐️⭐️
N: 12/1 - Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life - ⭐️
D: 1/1 - Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 4/1 - Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth - ⭐️
H: 2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 4/1 - Never Finished - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 13/1 - Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything - ⭐️
G: 3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds - ⭐️
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GN - Richard's 2025 Video Game Ultimate Challenge✅ Part 1
Weeks: 26/52
Books: 52/104
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✅ Week 1
Title - all the letters of FROG
7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds, Judith O'Reilly - ⭐️
Cover - amphibian
7/1 -
, Valya Dudycz Lupescu - ⭐️⭐️⭐️✅ Week 2
Text - 'table'
14/1 - The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman, Shane Niemeyer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"drinking everybody under the table" p.69
Title - the letters of PONG
16/1 - Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?, Kevin Nealon - ⭐️⭐️
✅ Week 3
Cover - hat
20/1 -
, Patricia Monaghan - ⭐️⭐️Title - punctuation
21/1 - Women from Another Planet? Our Lives in the Universe of Autism, Jean Kearns Miller - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
?
✅ Week 4
Title - punctuation
29/1 - Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers, Ian Stewart - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cover - simple design
1/2 -
, M.J. Ryan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️✅ Week 5
Title - starts with a letter in MISSILE
4/2 - Is That Thing Diesel?: One Man, One Bike and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil, Paul Carter - ⭐️⭐️
Text - 'command'
4/2 - How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home, Charlie Wing - ⭐️⭐️
"command from a wall switch" p.148
✅ Week 6
MC - FN initial in ZELDA
11/2 - Me, Elton John - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Char - royal
11/2 - Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors, Tom Bower - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ Week 7
Cover - car
17/2 -
, Paul Miller-Melamed - ⭐️⭐️MPG - crime
20/2 - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, Michelle McNamara - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ Week 8
Text - 'alien'
26/2 - Life of Extremes: The Life and Times of a Polar Filmmaker, Max Quinn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"like that monster in Alien" p.202
Published - '7' or '8'
26/2 - Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lienu Zhuan of Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
February 18, 2014
✅ Week 9
Title - alliteration
3/3 - When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe, Maureen Quilligan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cover - weapon
5/3 -
, Eugene Jackson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️Scissors & German Shepard
✅ Week 10
Published - during Covid pandemic
11/3 - Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg, Paul Vallely - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2020
Plot - MC builds something
14/2 - The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, Robert Zubrin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"here was Musk, building not only the first experimental ship...but also...a shipyard and a fleet." p.10
✅ Week 11
Plot - part of a trilogy
19/3 - Horror Films of the 1990s, John Kenneth Muir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title - symbol
20/3 - End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach, William J. Knaus - ⭐️⭐️
✅ Week 12
Title - all the letters of TETRIS
28/3 - The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: Decoding History's Unsolved Mysteries, Brad Meltzer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot - char plays a game
31/3 - The Genius Within: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential, David Adam - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"playing golf with Jim." p.62
✅ Week 13
Set - space
5/4 - 13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything, John Gribbin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cover - rock
10/4 -
, John P. Clark - ⭐️⭐️⭐️✅ Week 14
Title - starts with a letter in CHAOS
10/4 - Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum, Jason Felch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cover - green
10/4 -
, Alex Howard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️✅ Week 15
Plot - MC moves to a new place
17/4 - The Pursuit of Happyness, Chris Gardner - ⭐️⭐️
The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street.
Title - 2 words
18/4 - Almost Interesting, David Spade - ⭐️⭐️
✅ Week 16
Plot - you know the MC's FN & LN
22/4 - Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations, Alton Brown - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alton Brown
Cover - animal
22/4 -
, Damien Lewis - ⭐️⭐️✅ Week 17
Text - 'maze'
1/5 - People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia, Grace Karskens - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"A maze of winding, crooked tracks" p.244
Title - all the letters of ROBOTS
1/5 - Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations: How to Read Any Opponent and Get What You Want, Greg Williams - ⭐️⭐️
✅ Week 18
Text - 'hunting'
5/5 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"coordinate hunting and food acquisition" p.106
Rating - 2.50-3.50
8/5 - Billie Holiday: A Biography, Meg Greene - ⭐️
3.43
✅ Week 19
Cover - fruit
17/5 -
, Christine Hronec - ⭐️⭐️Title - Ms., Miss, Mrs., or Mr.
17/5 - Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life, Winifred Conkling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ Week 20
Cover - cartoon-like
20/5 -
, Todd McLeish - ⭐️⭐️⭐️Title - all letters of MINE
21/5 - Hammersteins: A Musical Theatre Family, Oscar Andrew Hammerstein - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ Week 21
Set - 2+ countries
31/5 - The Weight of Sand: My 450 Days Held Hostage in the Sahara, Édith Blais - ⭐️⭐️
MC travels around Africa
Cover - weapon
2/6 -
, Rusty Firmin - ⭐️⭐️✅ Week 22
Title - 1 word
3/6 - Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia’s Greatest Empire, Herald van der Linde - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
MC - FN initial not in MICROSOFT
4/6 - Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia: The Philosopher Princess, Renee Jeffery - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Elisabeth
✅ Week 23
Title - all letters of BRICK
12/6 - Probably the Best Book on Statistics Ever Written: How to Beat the Odds and Make Better Decisions, Haim Shapira - ⭐️⭐️
Cover - yellow, green, orange, & red
13/6 -
, Ed Thompson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️✅ Week 24
Plot - a team plays a game
17/6 - The Beckham Experiment: How the World's Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America, Grant Wahl - ⭐️⭐️
"Under the captaincy of Beckham, who had a mediocre tournament, England played poorly and endured yet another disappointing quarternal exit" p.91
Title - Z
20/6 - A Jew in Gaza: Memoir: Humanitarian Heartbreak, Hubris and Horrors, Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ Week 25
Tagged - sports
27/6 - I Love Baseball, Wayne Stewart - ⭐️⭐️
MPG sports
Published - 2003, 2004, or 2005
5/7 - Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War, Tim Marshall - ⭐️⭐️
January 1, 2003
✅ Week 26
Title - starts with letter in CENTIPEDE
8/7 - Cognitive Fitness: Pain Is Inevitable. How to Alleviate It and Use It to Your Advantage., Anil Rajput - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C
Cover - insect
9/7 -
, Paul Kidby - ⭐️⭐️(hide spoiler)]
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Jan: Task 2
Book: Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education
Author: Salman Khan
Date Read: Jan 1st
Task: Cover - white
How it Fits:
Jan: Task 1
Book: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K. Rowling
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: MPG - fantasy
How it Fits: 1st MPG
Jan: Task 3
Book: Absolutely
Author: Joanna Lumley
Date Read: Jan 2nd
Task: Published - Jan
How it Fits: January 1, 2011
Jan: Task 4
Book: Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
Author: Eddie Izzard
Date Read: Jan 3rd
Task: Author - initials in PENGUIN
How it Fits: EI
Feb: Task 2
Book: The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
Author: Dawn Raffel
Date Read: Feb 2nd
Task: Text - 'valentine'
How it Fits: "what better valentine" p.172
Feb: Task 3
Book: 365 Health & Happiness Boosters:
Author: M.J. Ryan
Date Read: Feb 1st
Task: Published - Feb
How it Fits: February 29, 2000
Feb: Task 4
Book: The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom
Author: Dan Tricarico
Date Read: Feb 2nd
Task: Pages - 1 & 4
How it Fits: 174 pages
Feb: Task 1
Book: 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World
Author: Seán Hewitt
Date Read: Feb 7th
Task: MPG - romance
How it Fits: It doesn't have an MPG of Romance, but it really should. Look at the title!
Mar: Task 3
Book: Luck by Design: The Science and Serendipity of a Well-Lived Life
Author: Adam Tank
Date Read: Mar 1st
Task: Published - March
How it Fits: March 29, 2024
Mar: Task 2
Book: Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
Author: Prit Buttar
Date Read: Mar 1st
Task: Text - 'clue'
How it Fits: "A clue lies in the letter that Archduke Frederick sent" p.300
Mar: Task 4
Book: Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation
Author: Jamie Lendino
Date Read: Mar 1st
Task: Title - last letter in DETECTIVE
How it Fits: T
Mar: Task 1
Book: A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Mark Dawidziak
Date Read: Mar 2nd
Task: MPG - mystery
How it Fits: It is
Apr: Task 2
Book: A Gentleman from Japan: An Epic Sea Voyage, an Intriguing Tale of Espionage and the Forgotten Story of the First Japanese Explorer in Tudor England
Author: Thomas Lockley
Date Read: Apr 3rd
Task: Text - 'fool'
How it Fits: "actually iron pyrite, “fool’s gold.” Worth nothing." p.38
Apr: Task 3
Book: The Frozen Frontier: Polar Bound through the Northwest Passage
Author: Jane Maufe
Date Read: Apr 4th
Task: Published - April
How it Fits: April 9, 2019
Apr: Task 4
Book: A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand
Author: Philip Short
Date Read: Apr 6th
Task: Author - initials in SPACE AGE
How it Fits: PS
Apr: Task 1
Book: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Date Read: Apr 11th
Task: MPG - science fiction
How it Fits: 2nd MPG
May: Task 2
Book: People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia
Author: Grace Karskens
Date Read: May 1st
Task: Pages - 6
How it Fits: 688 pages
May: Task 4
Book: Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me
Author: Jamie Foxx
Date Read: May 1st
Task: Cover - child
How it Fits:
May: Task 3
Book: Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be
Author: Marshall Goldsmith
Date Read: May 1st
Task: Published - May
How it Fits: May 19, 2015
May: Task 1
Book: All Cats Are on the Autism Spectrum: An affirming introduction to autism
Author: Kathy Hoopmann
Date Read: May 10th
Task: MPG - Childrens
How it Fits: 7th MPG
Jun: Task 2
Book: In Cold Blood
Author: Truman Capote
Date Read: Jun 1st
Task: Title - starts with letter in PRIDE
How it Fits: I
Jun: Task 4
Book: Sicilian Splendors: Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart
Author: John Keahey
Date Read: Jun 1st
Task: Cover - outdoor scene that reminds me of summertime
How it Fits:
Jun: Task 1
Book: The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
Author: Warren Fellows
Date Read: Jun 2nd
Task: MPG - Biography/Autobiography/Memoir
How it Fits: Autobiography
Jun: Task 3
Book: Soul Contracts: Find Harmony and Unlock Your Brilliance
Author: Danielle MacKinnon
Date Read: Jun 6th
Task: Published - June
How it Fits: June 24, 2014
Jul: Task 4
Book: Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Author: R. Barker Bausell
Date Read: Jul 1st
Task: Title - starts with a letter in SUMMER
How it Fits: S
July: Task 2
Book: Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope
Author: Catherine Coleman Flowers
Date Read: Jul 2nd
Task: Pages - 7
How it Fits: 247 pages
July: Task 3
Book: Walking With Plato: A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles
Author: Gary Hayden
Date Read: Jul 12th
Task: Published - July
How it Fits: July 12, 2016
July: Task 1
Book: Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
Author: Jeffrey J. Kripal
Date Read: Jul 14th
Task: MPG - paranormal
How it Fits: 3rd MPG
Aug: Task 2
Book: Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country
Author: Emily Benedek
Date Read: Aug 1st
Task: Text - 'lazy'
How it Fits: "the cops I’ve met are lazy and complacent" p.110
Aug: Task 3
Book: Tennis For Dummies
Author: Patrick McEnroe
Date Read: Aug 4th
Task: Published - Aug
How it Fits: August 11, 1998
Sept: Task 3
Book: The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
Author: Brendan Simms
Date Read: Sep 1st
Task: Published - Sept
How it Fits: September 25, 2014
Sept: Task 2
Book: Being Britney
Author: Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
Date Read: Sep 1st
Task: Author - an initial in LABOR DAY
How it Fits: ALN initial is B
Sep: Task 4
Book: The Morning Mind: Use Your Brain to Master Your Day and Supercharge Your Life
Author: Rob Carter III
Date Read: Sep 2nd
Task: Pages - 9
How it Fits: 197
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✅ HOB - Snowball Fight
LSC - 1925 Centenary Annual Challenge✅ Total: 108/108
✅ Part 1: 36/36
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1. 1925
Author - initials in MCMXXV AD
4/1 - How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More., Veronica Dearly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Published - 2 of 1925
4/1 - Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life, Joshua Becker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2021
Pages - 2 of 1925
1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education, Salman Khan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
250
2. Ox
Title - O & X
12/1 - Korean Slang Expressions, TalkToMeInKorean - ⭐️⭐️
Cover - bovine
30/1 -
, Peter Davison - ⭐️⭐️⭐️Text - 'cow'
6/1 - Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture, Ryan A. Bush - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"get smeared with cow dung" p.96
3. NY
Set - NY
10/1 - Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM, Breanne Fahs - ⭐️⭐️
"New York had transformed her" p.41
Title - N & Y
8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song, Paul Howard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Text - 'apple'
1/1 - Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future, Richard Watson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Apple bought an Israeli start-up" p.49
4. Baby
Author - Robert
19/1 - Get a Life: A Roadmap to Rule the World, Bob Fisch - ⭐️
MC - Robert
12/1 - Birdman of Alcatraz, Thomas E. Gaddis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot - birth
16/1 - Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?, Kevin Nealon - ⭐️⭐️
5. George V
Char - George
13/1 - Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, Revised Edition: How the Words You Choose Shape Your Destiny, Joseph Telushkin - ⭐️⭐️
George H. W. Bush
Char - royalty
17/1 - How To Tell Fate From Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions, Charles Harrington Elster - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the queen of England" p.185
Plot - large fam (5+ kids)
13/1 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Weasleys
6. Calvin Coolidge
Title - all initials in CALVIN COOLIDGE
12/1 - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pages - 3 & 0
4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
310
Author - initials in PRESIDENT
10/1 - When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, David M. Peña-Guzmán - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
7. Stanley Melbourne Bruce
Set - Melbourne
11/1 - Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave, Mark Mordue - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Cave’s first great band, The Birthday Party, the Melbourne group" p.35
MPG - politics
5/1 - Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, Nikolaos van Dam - ⭐️⭐️
Author - uses initials
1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
8. Stanley Baldwin
Author - initials in STANLEY BALDWIN
3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️
Set - UK
7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds, Judith O'Reilly - ⭐️
"we stayed home in London" p.17
Cover - gold
7/1 -
, Julian Rademeyer - ⭐️⭐️9. Spelling Bee
Set - school/uni
25/1 - My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace, Rosie Weldon - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chars - kids
21/1 - Women from Another Planet? Our Lives in the Universe of Autism, Jean Kearns Miller - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"self-esteem of AS kids" p.124
Text - a new word to me
5/1 - Philosophical Posthumanism, Francesca Ferrando - ⭐️⭐️
Posthumanism
10. DeLorean
Plot - immigrant experience
16/1 - North to Paradise: A Memoir, Ousman Umar - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"we were undocumented immigrants" p.30
Cover - car
15/1 -
, Michael C. Healy - ⭐️⭐️Plot - time travel
12/1 - The Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers, William Irwin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"If it’s Kang, it’s a time travel thing." p.160
11. Paul Newman
Plot - char referred to as beautiful
9/1 - Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation, Mike Robbins - ⭐️⭐️
"our beautiful daughter, Samantha" p.110
Plot - happy marriage
26/1 - This Time for Me, Alexandra Billings - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"This is what marriage feels like. Well, for me, anyway. And I began to really like it." p.318
Plot - char cooks
14/1 - Edible Flowers: A Global History, Mary Newman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Korean women cooked and ate azaleas with rice" p.112
12. Lemmon & Curtis
Plot - char feels hot
21/1 - Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mark Ribowsky - ⭐️⭐️
"He went onto the stage, burning hot under the collar." p.90
Plot - someone disguises themselves
10/1 - The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature, Silvia Montiglio - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Athena is disguised as a woman, but is recognized as a goddess" p.284
Chars - father & daughter
20/1 - Healing the Shame that Binds You, John Bradshaw - ⭐️⭐️
"Felicia was her father’s emotional spouse" p.62
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LSC - 1925 Centenary Annual Challenge✅ Part 2: 36/36
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13. Robert Altman
Author - initials in ROBERT ALTMAN
6/1 - Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask!, Dr. Megan Anna Neff - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chars - ensemble cast
3/1 - Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away, Martin Popoff - ⭐️⭐️
3 band members
Genre - fiction, based on real life
19/1 - X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse, William Irwin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
X-Men analysed as if it was real life
14. Earthquakes
Plot - natural disaster
9/1 - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour, Elton John - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Australia was suffering through what became known as the Black Summer, where horrible wildfires were ravaging the bush." p.204
Set - starts with C
18/1 - Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote d'Azur 11, Chrissie McClatchie - ⭐️⭐️
The Cote d'Azur
Plot - building
2/1 - Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect, Victoria Kastner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"her steadfast commitment to creating buildings" p.8
15. Art Deco
Title - all initials in ART DECO
3/1 - Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections, Vizi Andrei - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
EOT
Cover - artistic
3/1 -
, Karl Ove Knausgård - ⭐️⭐️⭐️MPG - classic
2/2 - Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
16. Frank Heath
Author - initials in FRANK HEATH
5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want, Tanya Rad - ⭐️⭐️
Char - Queen
19/1 - The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England, Ian Mortimer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Queen Elizabeth
Plot - long journey
4/1 - Never Finished, David Goggins - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"It was a 240.3-mile trail race with nearly thirty thousand feet of elevation gain" p.140
17. Great Gatsby
Title - all initials in THE GREAT GATSBY
4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret, Congressman Mike Waltz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
HT
Pages - 125-200
8/1 - Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living, Cheshire Calhoun - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
195
Set - 1920s
16/1 - The Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making and Marketing of Atoll K, Norbert Aping - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"1920s and the 1930s, the two decades of Laurel and Hardy’s biggest successes" p.12
18. M.E. Norman
Set - USA
5/1 - Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother, Ivana Trump - ⭐️
Published - 2 & 3
4/1 - Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People, Daisy Auger-Dominguez - ⭐️⭐️
223
Cover - boat
4/2 -
, Andrew DeGraff - ⭐️⭐️⭐️19. Civil Rights
Plot - American Civil Rights
11/1 - After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller, Max Wallace - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the American civil rights movement" p.272
Plot - char is imprisoned
14/1 - The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman, Shane Niemeyer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title - X
11/1 - Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership, John Hamm - ⭐️⭐️
20. Amazon
Plot - char explores something
17/1 - Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes, Nicolas Michaud - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Finn and the Flame Princess successfully explore a dungeon" p.20
Book I bought on Amazon
3/1 - Am I Going to Be Okay?: Money—Timely Intelligence, Actionable Ideas, Answers to the Questions that Really Matter, Patti Brennan - ⭐️⭐️
Plot - someone disappears
3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole, Anthony Galvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"(Cook) had disappeared fourteen months earlier" p.9
21. Chrysler
Author - initials in CHRYSLER
12/1 - Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life, Stewart Emery - ⭐️
Cover - car
17/1 -
, Nima Sanandaji - ⭐️⭐️MC - works in business
10/1 - Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom, Gino Wickman - ⭐️⭐️
"I joined the family business" p.11
22. Ruth Cracknell
Author - female
2/1 - Absolutely, Joanna Lumley - ⭐️⭐️
Genre - biography
1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary, Luna M. Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Char - elderly
15/1 - If I Could Tell You Just One Thing . . .: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice, Richard Reed - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dame Judi Dench
23. Olympic Athletes
Char - female athlete
30/1 - Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything, Aly Raisman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
MC is a female gymnast in the Olympic Games
Plot - char swims
24/1 - From Under the Truck: A Memoir, Josh Brolin - ⭐️⭐️
"We were swimming" p.68
Plot - char runs
2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
MC is a Paralympic runner
24. Pussy Galore
MPG - spy
16/1 - With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs, Sandra Hogan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Char - glamorous
5/1 - The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice, M.G. Lord - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Elizabeth Taylor blessed us with her glamour" p.121
Author - English
2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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25. Margaret Mead
Set - Pacific
24/1 - Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History, Mandy Sayer - ⭐️⭐️
MGP - biology
11/1 - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes, Adam Rutherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre - bildungsroman
21/1 - Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, Micah Rajunov - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
26. Laura Ashley
Cover - furniture
23/1 -
, Ben Gazur - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Char - Welsh
17/1 - Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music, K.F.B. Fletcher - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Welsh myth of Brân the Blessed" p.104
Book that makes me feel nostalgic
10/1 - Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies, Owen Gleiberman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I watched a lot of movies in my childhood
27. Peter Sellers
Title - all initials in PETER SELLERS
3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime, Chad Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
TSE
Book that makes me laugh
7/1 - Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place, Valya Dudycz Lupescu - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre - cosy mystery
15/1 - Final Destination: Disaster: What Really Happened to Eastern Airlines, George Jehn New York - ⭐️⭐️
28. Mount Rushmore
Text - refers to one of the Presidents featured on Mt. Rushmore
8/1 - Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success, John C. Maxwell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"As Abraham Lincoln said" p.148
Set - near a mountain
7/1 - Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers, Caesar Campbell - ⭐️
"a secret graveyard down in the Snowy Mountains" p.176
Title - all initials in SOUTH DAKOTA
3/1 - Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence, Jennifer S. Holland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
DS
29. Greyscale
Author - initials in JOHN LOGIE BAIRD
1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting, Joe Gillard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Book that has been adapted into a TV series
7/1 - Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love, Thomas Maier - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot - MC uses technology
11/1 - You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass): Embracing the Emotions, Habits, and Mystery That Make You You, Mike McHargue - ⭐️⭐️
"I took the more serious turn of searching the Internet" p.34
30. Margaret Thatcher
Title - all initials in MARGARET THATCHER
4/1 - Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life, Scott Ian - ⭐️⭐️
AAA
Char - villain
8/1 - How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies, Daniel H. Wilson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the villainous pirate sneaking up behind" p.85
Char - powerful woman
11/1 - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Tren Griffin - ⭐️
Jenny Lee of GGV Capital
31. Angela Lansbury
Genre - mystery & Author - female
9/1 - Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death, Rita Cosby - ⭐️
Series book
14/1 - The Art of Making Memories: How to Create and Remember Happy Moments, Meik Wiking - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author - 31+ year career
1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth, Mark Victor Hansen - ⭐️
32. Surrealism
Plot - magical realism
7/1 - Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic, Tobias Churton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Magick & the occult
Set - France
10/1 - The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability, Annette Kehnel - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"In some regions in France" p.25
Plot - twist
13/1 - Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA, Richard Greene - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Orphan Black has many twists in the story
33. Abbey Theatre
Book that has been adapted for the stage
3/2 - Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane, Karen R. Jones - ⭐️⭐️
"David Butler’s 1953 musical starring Doris Day, whose depiction of “Calam” as a femme-faced tomboy" p.23
Char - actor
1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything, George Takei - ⭐️
George Takei
Plot - char raises money for a particular purpose
17/1 - What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, Stephen A. Schwarzman - ⭐️⭐️
"I was trying to raise money for Blackstone’s first investment fund" p.5
34. Sammy Davis Jr.
Plot - char acts & sings
14/1 - Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After, Chloé Hayden - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I made friends at acting and singing class" p.40
Plot - char is superstitious
5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China, Jack Weatherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"(Kublai's) nurse exposed him to Buddhist mysticism and superstition." p.29
Plot - char faces prejudice
12/1 - Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture, Amelia Abraham - ⭐️⭐️
35. Milestone Mo-Tel
Plot - char stays at a hotel
18/1 - Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer, Heather Lende - ⭐️⭐️
"In the cab back to our hotel" p.58
Set - small town
5/1 - Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek, Daniel Levy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fictional small town
Set - USA
9/1 - Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past, Tore C. Olsson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
36. George Bernard Shaw
GR - won an award
15/1 - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, Greg Sestero - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
San Francisco Book Festival for Biography/Autobiography (2014)
Text - letter excerpts
14/1 - Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah, Kathy Iandoli - ⭐️⭐️
"Dear Aaliyah, Not a day goes by..." p.180
Plot - love triangle
20/1 - The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore, Patricia Monaghan - ⭐️⭐️
"The love triangle between the queen and her two lovers" p.16
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1. Title - 'focus'
9/1 - Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation, Mike Robbins - ⭐️⭐️
2. Title - synonym for 'focus'
17/1 - Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain: The Practice of Informed Touch - ⭐️⭐️
Point
3. Text - 'focus'
1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting, Joe Gillard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"focus on wars, violence, and politics" p.13
4. Text - 'focuses'
2/1 - Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect, Victoria Kastner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"focuses on Julia’s residential commissions" p.209
5. Text - 'focused'
1/1 - Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future, Richard Watson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"tech culture is focused on solving" p.18
6. Text - 'focusing'
1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education, Salman Khan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"focusing attention on the lead" p.260
7. MPG - war
5/1 - Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, Nikolaos van Dam - ⭐️⭐️
8. MPG - feminism
5/1 - The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice, M.G. Lord - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
9. Cover - someone wearing pearls
11/1 -
, Max Wallace - ⭐️⭐️⭐️10. Set - Europe
7/1 - Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic, Tobias Churton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Non-Binary Memoirs
11. 1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary, Luna M. Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
12. 3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️
13. 12/1 - Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture, Amelia Abraham - ⭐️⭐️
14. 21/1 - Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, Micah Rajunov - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
15. 21/1 - Born Both: An Intersex Life, Hida Viloria - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title
16. F: 9/1 - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour, Elton John - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
17. O: 1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything, George Takei - ⭐️
18. C: 1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth, Mark Victor Hansen - ⭐️
19. U: 8/1 - Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace, Raymond F. Gregory - ⭐️⭐️
20. S: 3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch, Karl Ove Knausgård - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
AFN
21. F: 5/1 - Philosophical Posthumanism, Francesca Ferrando - ⭐️⭐️
22. O: 2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
23. C: 3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime, Chad Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
24. U: 21/1 - Anatomy of Facial Expression, Uldis Zarins - ⭐️⭐️
25. S: 4/1 - Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life, Scott Ian - ⭐️⭐️
ALN
26. F: 10/1 - Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM, Breanne Fahs - ⭐️⭐️
27. O: 7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds, Judith O'Reilly - ⭐️
28. C: 7/1 - Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers, Caesar Campbell - ⭐️
29. U: 16/1 - North to Paradise: A Memoir, Ousman Umar - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
30. S: 4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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1. New: 1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education, Salman Khan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Words: 1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting, Joe Gillard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Little: 3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch, Karl Ove Knausgård - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. Space: 3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime, Chad Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. Economy: 3/1 - Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections, Vizi Andrei - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
6. Truth: 4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret, Congressman Mike Waltz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
7. Hard: 4/1 - How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More., Veronica Dearly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
8. Things: 4/1 - Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life, Joshua Becker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
9. Matter: 8/1 - Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success, John C. Maxwell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
10. Today: 8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song, Paul Howard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
11. Boy: 11/1 - Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave, Mark Mordue - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
12. Fire: 11/1 - Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things, Jeremy England - ⭐️⭐️
13. Every: 11/1 - Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway, Stephanie Duncan Smith - ⭐️
14. After: 11/1 - After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller, Max Wallace - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
15. Miracle: 11/1 - You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass): Embracing the Emotions, Habits, and Mystery That Make You You, Mike McHargue - ⭐️⭐️
16. You're: 12/1 - Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life, Stewart Emery - ⭐️
17. Now: 12/1 - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
18. Enlightenment: 12/1 - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation, Andrew B. Newberg - ⭐️⭐️
19. Changes: 13/1 - Changes That Heal: Four Practical Steps to a Happier, Healthier You, Henry Cloud - ⭐️
20. Heal: 13/1 - Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, Revised Edition: How the Words You Choose Shape Your Destiny, Joseph Telushkin - ⭐️⭐️
21. Hurt: 14/1 - The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman, Shane Niemeyer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
22. Artist: 15/1 - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, Greg Sestero - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
23. Disaster: 15/1 - Final Destination: Disaster: What Really Happened to Eastern Airlines, George Jehn New York - ⭐️⭐️
24. Final: 16/1 - The Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making and Marketing of Atoll K, Norbert Aping - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
25. Film: 16/1 - Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
26. Theory: 16/1 - The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
27. Them: 19/1 - Lead Them with Virtue: A Confucian Alternative to War, Kurtis Hagen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
28. Virtue: 19/1 - The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence, Dinesh D'Souza - ⭐️
29. Prosperity: 21/1 - The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty, Clayton M. Christensen - ⭐️⭐️
30. Paradox: 22/1 - The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone, Steven R. Gundry - ⭐️⭐️
31. Energy: 22/1 - Energy Healing for Trauma, Stress & Chronic Illness: Uncover & Transform the Subtle Energies That Are Causing Your Greatest Hardships, Cyndi Dale - ⭐️⭐️
32. Stress: 23/1 - My Anti-Stress Year: 52 Weeks of Soothing Activities and Wellness Advice, Gilles Diederichs - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
33. Anti: 25/1 - The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning, Peter J. Hotez - ⭐️⭐️
34. Rise: 25/1 - The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans and Planners, Henry Mintzberg - ⭐️⭐️
35. Signature: 26/1 - Creating Signature Stories: Strategic Messaging that Persuades, Energizes and Inspires, David A. Aaker - ⭐️⭐️
36. Creating: 26/1 - Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide, Caroline Adams Miller - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
37. Best: 26/1 - Literally, the Best Language Book Ever: Annoying Words and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again, Paul Yeager - ⭐️
38. Language: 27/1 - The Language of Loss: Poetry and Prose for Grieving and Celebrating the Love of Your Life, Barbara Abercrombie - ⭐️⭐️
39. Loss: 27/1 - The Psychology Of Weight-Loss: Gain Control of Your Weight for Good, Andrew Vashevnik - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
40. Weight: 27/1 - What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Eating and Weight Issues, Karen R. Koenig - ⭐️⭐️
41. Eating: 28/1 - The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food, Evelyn Tribole - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
42. Intuitive: 28/1 - The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct, Francis Cholle - ⭐️⭐️
43. Compass: 28/1 - Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction, Jerry Brotton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
44. Points: 28/1 - Sex Points: Reclaim Your Sex Life with the Revolutionary Multi-point System, Bat Sheva Marcus - ⭐️⭐️
45. Sex: 28/1 - Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour, David Spiegelhalter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
46. Numbers: 29/1 - Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers, Ian Stewart - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
47. Incredible: 29/1 - The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us, Alice Roberts - ⭐️⭐️
48. Being: 29/1 - Meditations on Intention and Being: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Mindfulness, and Compassion, Rolf Gates - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
49. Meditations: 29/1 - My Pocket Meditations for Anxiety: Anytime Exercises to Reduce Stress, Ease Worry, and Invite Calm, Carley Centen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
50. Pocket: 29/1 - Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions and Rationales, Marilynn E. Doenges - ⭐️
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TOAP - Take the Plunge✅ Total: 38/38
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1. Cover - Natural body of water
8/1 -
, Julia McMahon - ⭐️2. Title - starts with a letter in PLUNGE
7/1 - Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers, Caesar Campbell - ⭐️
3. Plot - char does a workout
4/1 - Never Finished, David Goggins - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"each physical workout became a test of my mental fortitude" p.61
4. Cover - person in a costume
14/1 -
, Matt Stroud - ⭐️⭐️5. Set - New York
7/1 - Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love, Thomas Maier - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"a New York–based foundation sponsoring reproductive research" p.108
6. Cover - polar bear
11/1 -
, Kale Williams - ⭐️⭐️7. Title - 'polar'
3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole, Anthony Galvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
8. Text - 'polar'
1/1 - Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future, Richard Watson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"This is the polar opposite" p.28
Title
9. P: 5/1 - Precision Pool: Your Guide to Mastering Key Skills, Shots, and Strategies, Gerry Kanov - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
10. O: 1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything, George Takei - ⭐️
11. L: 1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting, Joe Gillard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
12. A: 2/1 - Absolutely, Joanna Lumley - ⭐️⭐️
13. R: 5/1 - Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother, Ivana Trump - ⭐️
14. B: 1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education, Salman Khan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
15. E: 1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
16. A: 4/1 - Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life, Scott Ian - ⭐️⭐️
17. R: 9/1 - Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past, Tore C. Olsson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
18. P: 5/1 - Philosophical Posthumanism, Francesca Ferrando - ⭐️⭐️
19. L: 16/1 - The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
20. U: 8/1 - Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace, Raymond F. Gregory - ⭐️⭐️
21. N: 12/1 - Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life, Stewart Emery - ⭐️
22. G: 15/1 - Get Your Spark Back: How to Find Happiness and Reignite Your Life, Rachel Marie Martin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
23. E: 5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China, Jack Weatherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
AFN/ALN
24. P: 3/1 - Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away, Martin Popoff - ⭐️⭐️
25. O: 2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
26. L: 1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary, Luna M. Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
27. A: 3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime, Chad Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
28. R: 2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
29. B: 3/1 - Am I Going to Be Okay?: Money—Timely Intelligence, Actionable Ideas, Answers to the Questions that Really Matter, Patti Brennan - ⭐️⭐️
30. E: 3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️
31. A: 3/1 - Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections, Vizi Andrei - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
32. R: 5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want, Tanya Rad - ⭐️⭐️
33. P: 8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song, Paul Howard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
34. L: 5/1 - Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek, Daniel Levy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
35. U: 16/1 - North to Paradise: A Memoir, Ousman Umar - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
36. N: 5/1 - Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, Nikolaos van Dam - ⭐️⭐️
37. G: 10/1 - Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies, Owen Gleiberman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
38. E: 4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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TLC - January 2025: Word Search✅ Total: 50/50
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1. ache
3/1 - Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence, Jennifer S. Holland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.72
2. backseat
4/1 - Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life, Scott Ian - ⭐️⭐️ - p.55
3. brown
3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch, Karl Ove Knausgård - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.27
4. burst
4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret, Congressman Mike Waltz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.67
5. charming
8/1 - Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace, Raymond F. Gregory - ⭐️⭐️ - p.202
6. chin
5/1 - The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice, M.G. Lord - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.8
7. clouds
5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China, Jack Weatherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.74
8. corner
6/1 - Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture, Ryan A. Bush - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.221
9. curious
3/1 - Am I Going to Be Okay?: Money—Timely Intelligence, Actionable Ideas, Answers to the Questions that Really Matter, Patti Brennan - ⭐️⭐️ - p.20
10. desk
8/1 - Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living, Cheshire Calhoun - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.164
11. empty
5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want, Tanya Rad - ⭐️⭐️ - p.12
12. erase
5/1 - Philosophical Posthumanism, Francesca Ferrando - ⭐️⭐️ - p.23
13. fixed
4/1 - How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More., Veronica Dearly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.176
14. footprints
4/1 - Never Finished, David Goggins - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.67
15. funerals
5/1 - Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, Nikolaos van Dam - ⭐️⭐️ - p.98
16. gas
7/1 - Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place, Valya Dudycz Lupescu - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.220
17. giant
7/1 - Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic, Tobias Churton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.122
18. gigantic
10/1 - Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom, Gino Wickman - ⭐️⭐️ - p.35
19. googled
1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education, Salman Khan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.47
20. gunshot
7/1 - Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade, Julian Rademeyer - ⭐️⭐️ - p.30
21. hammer
3/1 - Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections, Vizi Andrei - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.44
22. hidden
4/1 - Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life, Joshua Becker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.56
23. jumble
3/1 - Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away, Martin Popoff - ⭐️⭐️ - p.50
24. knob
2/1 - Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect, Victoria Kastner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.150
25. legacy
9/1 - Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey, Paul C. Pasles - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.6
26. memory
6/1 - Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask!, Dr. Megan Anna Neff - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.35
27. military
3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime, Chad Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.22
28. moonlight
7/1 - Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love, Thomas Maier - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.19
29. mortified
5/1 - Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother, Ivana Trump - ⭐️ - p.92
30. mug
7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds, Judith O'Reilly - ⭐️ - p.20
31. office
1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything, George Takei - ⭐️ - p.124
32. picture
1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth, Mark Victor Hansen - ⭐️ - p.24
33. pixie
11/1 - Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave, Mark Mordue - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.69
34. pleasant
4/1 - Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People, Daisy Auger-Dominguez - ⭐️⭐️ - p.218
35. pride
3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️ - p.78
36. railing
9/1 - Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past, Tore C. Olsson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.46
37. replay
10/1 - Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies, Owen Gleiberman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.207
38. scream
1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.117
39. shoulder
4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.30
40. shrugged
9/1 - Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death, Rita Cosby - ⭐️ - p.19
41. siren
7/1 - Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers, Caesar Campbell - ⭐️ - p.44
42. situation
1/1 - Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future, Richard Watson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.62
43. stick
2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.23
44. summer
3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole, Anthony Galvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.19
45. thrift
8/1 - Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success, John C. Maxwell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.23
46. through
1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting, Joe Gillard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.73
47. underwater
8/1 - How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies, Daniel H. Wilson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.7
48. veil
2/1 - Absolutely, Joanna Lumley - ⭐️⭐️ - p.53
49. wallpaper
8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song, Paul Howard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.61
50. warmth
1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary, Luna M. Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - p.118
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TLC - January 2025: Scattergories: O✅ Total: 14/14
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1. Title
13/1 - Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA, Richard Greene - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Orphan
2. AFN
2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Oscar
3. AMN
3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch, Karl Ove Knausgård - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ove
4. ALN
7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds, Judith O'Reilly - ⭐️
O'Reilly
5. MC
10/1 - Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies, Owen Gleiberman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Owen
6. SC
10/1 - The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature, Silvia Montiglio - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Odysseus
7. Set
15/1 - BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, Michael C. Healy - ⭐️⭐️
Oakland
8. Item
10/1 - When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, David M. Peña-Guzmán - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Octopus -
9. A place where you can swim
1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education, Salman Khan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the vast ocean of space" p.84
10. Preoccupied with or haunted by some idea, interest, etc.
2/1 - Absolutely, Joanna Lumley - ⭐️⭐️
"I became obsessed with collecting shells" p.249
11. Not closed
1/1 - Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future, Richard Watson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Open discussion in pursuit of" p.34
12. An attempt or a bid
1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary, Luna M. Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"to offer a safe home" p.35
13. You can put it in a car or eat it
1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"back when America’s principal worries were oil prices and Marilyn Manson" p.371
14. Not young or new
1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything, George Takei - ⭐️
"I am a 75-year old man" p.8
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CCC - Countries of the World 6: Colombia✅ Total: 27/27
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1. C: 1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth, Mark Victor Hansen - ⭐️
2. O: 22/1 - On Freedom, Timothy Snyder - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. L: 1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting, Joe Gillard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. O: 22/1 - Opening the Door of Your Heart and Other Buddhist Tales of Happiness, Ajahn Brahm - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. M: 1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary, Luna M. Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
6. B: 1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education, Salman Khan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
7. I: 8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song, Paul Howard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
8. A: 2/1 - Absolutely, Joanna Lumley - ⭐️⭐️
9. Author - initials in BOGOTA
1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything, George Takei - ⭐️
10. Pages - 2 of 52,695,952
1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
559
11. Published - year has of 440,831
1/1 - Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future, Richard Watson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2016
12. Plot - pandemic
3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime, Chad Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The coronavirus pandemic highlighted just how fragile the global supply chain has become." p.64
13. Plot - char is killed by poison
14/1 - Edible Flowers: A Global History, Mary Newman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"hemlock, which is poisonous – remember how Socrates died." p.112
14. Cover - gold object
8/1 -
, Cheshire Calhoun - ⭐️⭐️⭐️15. Plot - char submerges themselves in a natural body of water
5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China, Jack Weatherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Admiral Zheng Jianu followed his men, jumped into the water and disappeared from history into the dark depths." p.84
16. Cover - green
3/1 -
, Patti Brennan - ⭐️⭐️17. Title - flower name
17/1 - The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration, Richard Barnett - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
18. Author - flower name
4/1 - Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People, Daisy Auger-Dominguez - ⭐️⭐️
19. Plot - explosion
4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret, Congressman Mike Waltz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the sound of the explosion snapped our heads around" p.99
20. Plot - chars play a game
2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"my performance at the South African Disabled Games" p.74
21. Cover - rainbow
14/1 -
, Chloé Hayden - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️22. Title - 'yellow'
9/1 - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour, Elton John - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
23. Title - 'green'
10/1 - The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability, Annette Kehnel - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
24. Title - 'blue'
14/1 - Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing, Matt Stroud - ⭐️⭐️
25. Title - 'black'
13/1 - Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA, Richard Greene - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
26. Title - 'red'
9/1 - Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past, Tore C. Olsson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
27. Cover - chocolate
22/1 -
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CCC - January 2025 Scavenger: Diet Memes Part 1✅ Total: 16/16
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1. Plot - holiday
4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I get back to our holiday accommodation" p.108
2. Cover - 2 of same item
8/1 -
, Daniel H. Wilson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️3. Cover - non-domesticated animal
7/1 -
, Julian Rademeyer - ⭐️⭐️4. Cover - 1+ eyes
1/1 -
, Luna M. Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️5. Plot - char is glad to be finished with something
7/1 - Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic, Tobias Churton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Having finished (a painting), the Beast took Gertrud for lunch and afterward enjoyed an exciting Opus." p.275
6. Plot - char expects instant gratification
17/1 - Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes, Nicolas Michaud - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Finn views the world as one of instant gratification with no long-term negative consequences." p.24
7. Title - a word starts with O
1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything, George Takei - ⭐️
8. Cover - cat
17/1 -
, Charles Harrington Elster - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️9. Plot - char has regrets
4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret, Congressman Mike Waltz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"To my regret, Ghafoorzai was right, and I was wrong." p.87
10. Cover - 4 of something
5/1 -
, Daniel Levy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️11. Cover - flame
13/1 -
, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️12. Plot - a fire
1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Butthole Surfers had pyromaniac tendencies too, using lighter fluid to set fire to their equipment and also themselves." p.165
13. Plot - an accident
2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"a dear friend of mine, Ryan, was involved in a terrible motor accident" p.98
14. Author - initials in ACCIDENTALLY
3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️
15. Plot - char loses something
3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole, Anthony Galvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Adolphus Greely, on a meteorological expedition in 1883, had lost nineteen of his twenty-five men to the cold and starvation." p.186
16. Title - all letters of LOST
1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting, Joe Gillard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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1/1: 2,121
Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education - 250 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything - 246 - ⭐️
Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary - 266 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present - 559 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth - 320 - ⭐️
The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting - 192 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2/1: 1,560
Blade Runner - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 734 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Absolutely - 330 - ⭐️⭐️
Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect - 240 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3/1: 2,295
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens - 368 - ⭐️⭐️
So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch - 252 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime - 234 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections - 190 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away - 241 - ⭐️⭐️
Am I Going to Be Okay?: Money—Timely Intelligence, Actionable Ideas, Answers to the Questions that Really Matter - 295 - ⭐️⭐️
The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole - 409 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence - 306 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
4/1: 1,833
How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker - 310 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret - 325 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People - 223 - ⭐️⭐️
Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life - 246 - ⭐️⭐️
Never Finished - 312 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More. - 146 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life - 271 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5/1: 2,284
Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek - 368 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China - 421 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother - 318 - ⭐️
The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice - 214 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Precision Pool: Your Guide to Mastering Key Skills, Shots, and Strategies - 246 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want - 237 - ⭐️⭐️
Philosophical Posthumanism - 224 - ⭐️⭐️
6/1: 486
Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask! - 190 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture - 296 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
7/1: 1,993
Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers - 299 - ⭐️
A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds - 320 - ⭐️
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love - 434 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place - 160 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade - 342 - ⭐️⭐️
Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic - 438 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
8/1: 1,572
How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies - 202 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace - 272 - ⭐️⭐️
Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living - 195 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
400 Personal Growth Hack Puzzles: Guess Positive Words, Manifest your Destiny Today, Unlock Happiness and Success - 206 - ⭐️
Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success - 313 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song - 384 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
9/1: 1,504
Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past - 271 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey - 267 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death - 256 - ⭐️
Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation - 242 - ⭐️⭐️
Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour - 468 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
10/1: 2,347
Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies - 334 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read to Lead - 240 - ⭐️⭐️
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins - 146 - ⭐️
Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM - 413 - ⭐️⭐️
The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature - 334 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability - 352 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
11/1: 2,727
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes - 416 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Loneliest Polar Bear - 288 - ⭐️⭐️
A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs - 346 - ⭐️
Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave - 401 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things - 235 - ⭐️⭐️
Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway - 215 - ⭐️
After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller - 352 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass): Embracing the Emotions, Habits, and Mystery That Make You You - 218 - ⭐️⭐️
12/1: 2,166
Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life - 155 - ⭐️
Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture - 336 - ⭐️⭐️
The Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers - 242 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Korean Slang Expressions - 164 - ⭐️⭐️
Birdman of Alcatraz - 254 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I Want to be Confident: Living, Working and Communicating with Confidence - 151 - ⭐️⭐️
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress - 576 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation - 288 - ⭐️⭐️
13/1: 1,987
Changes That Heal: Four Practical Steps to a Happier, Healthier You - 335 - ⭐️
Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, Revised Edition: How the Words You Choose Shape Your Destiny - 312 - ⭐️⭐️
Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 766 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go - 286 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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14/1: 1,743
The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership - 147 - ⭐️⭐️
Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After - 283 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing - 252 - ⭐️⭐️
Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah - 316 - ⭐️⭐️
The Art of Making Memories: How to Create and Remember Happy Moments - 285 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Edible Flowers: A Global History - 168 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
15/1: 2,248
If I Could Tell You Just One Thing . . .: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice - 254 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bank 3.0 - Why Banking is No Longer Somewhere You Go, But Something You Do - 402 - ⭐️⭐️
Get Your Spark Back: How to Find Happiness and Reignite Your Life - 354 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Put Anxiety Behind You: The Complete Drug-Free Program - 240 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made - 289 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Final Destination: Disaster: What Really Happened to Eastern Airlines - 257 - ⭐️⭐️
BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System - 452 - ⭐️⭐️
16/1: 2,014
The Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making and Marketing of Atoll K - 280 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman - 213 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
North to Paradise: A Memoir - 167 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me? - 274 - ⭐️⭐️
The Let Them Theory - 311 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland - 369 - ⭐️⭐️
With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Avocado: A Global History - 144 - ⭐️⭐️
17/1: 2,800
Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration - 257 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
How To Tell Fate From Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions - 323 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain: The Practice of Informed Touch - 401 - ⭐️⭐️
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them - 271 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics - 123 - ⭐️⭐️
Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month - 224 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism - 240 - ⭐️⭐️
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence - 385 - ⭐️⭐️
18/1: 2,058
What You Think of Me Is None of My Business - 208 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Garden to Table Cookbook: A Guide to Preserving and Cooking What You Grow - 377 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer - 176 - ⭐️⭐️
Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote d'Azur 11 - 689 - ⭐️⭐️
Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service - 305 - ⭐️⭐️
Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love - 303 - ⭐️⭐️
19/1: 1,824
The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England - 416 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Get a Life: A Roadmap to Rule the World - 254 - ⭐️
Lead Them with Virtue: A Confucian Alternative to War - 174 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell - 404 - ⭐️⭐️
The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence - 304 - ⭐️
X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
20/1: 1,164
The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore - 512 - ⭐️⭐️
Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success - 313 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Healing the Shame that Binds You - 339 - ⭐️⭐️
21/1: 2,053
Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd - 278 - ⭐️⭐️
Women from Another Planet? Our Lives in the Universe of Autism - 328 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Anatomy of Facial Expression - 224 - ⭐️⭐️
Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide - 230 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity - 286 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty - 355 - ⭐️⭐️
Born Both: An Intersex Life - 352 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
22/1: 1,486
Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams - 320 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
On Freedom - 359 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone - 331 - ⭐️⭐️
Energy Healing for Trauma, Stress & Chronic Illness: Uncover & Transform the Subtle Energies That Are Causing Your Greatest Hardships - 286 - ⭐️⭐️
Opening the Door of Your Heart and Other Buddhist Tales of Happiness - 190 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
23/1: 789
My Anti-Stress Year: 52 Weeks of Soothing Activities and Wellness Advice - 485 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food - 304 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
24/1: 2,682
Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History - 342 - ⭐️⭐️
Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need - 253 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved - 263 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Doctor Strange and Philosophy: The Other Book of Forbidden Knowledge - 271 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe - 300 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales - 306 - ⭐️⭐️
Confessions of an Event Planner: Case Studies from the Real World of Events--How to Handle the Unexpected and How to Be a Master of Discretion - 288 - ⭐️
From Under the Truck: A Memoir - 234 - ⭐️⭐️
How to Organize Inherited Items: A Step-by-Step Guide for Dealing with Boxes of Your Parents' Stuff - 134 - ⭐️⭐️
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir - 291 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
25/1: 1,450
My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace - 232 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Crucial Influence, Third Edition: Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change - 240 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning, Peter J. Hotez - 240 - ⭐️⭐️
The Long Covid Self-Help Guide: Practical Ways to Manage Symptoms - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans and Planners - 482 - ⭐️⭐️
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26/1: 2,869
The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience - 305 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Creating Signature Stories: Strategic Messaging that Persuades, Energizes and Inspires - 191 - ⭐️⭐️
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything - 492 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This Time for Me - 446 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting - 251 - ⭐️⭐️
Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By - 182 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide - 290 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Literally, the Best Language Book Ever: Annoying Words and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again - 210 - ⭐️
Undoing Urgency: Reclaim Your Time for the Things that Matter Most - 245 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Unstoppable Brain: The New Neuroscience that Frees Us from Failure, Eases Our Stress, and Creates Lasting Change - 257 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
27/1: 2,303
Anubis―Ancient Egypt’s Lord of Death and Protection - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir - 501 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century - 454 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian - 214 - ⭐️⭐️
The Language of Loss: Poetry and Prose for Grieving and Celebrating the Love of Your Life - 224 - ⭐️⭐️
I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times - 287 - ⭐️⭐️
The Psychology Of Weight-Loss: Gain Control of Your Weight for Good - 210 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Eating and Weight Issues - 257 - ⭐️⭐️
28/1: 2,479
Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law - 670 - ⭐️⭐️
The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food - 244 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct - 326 - ⭐️⭐️
Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction - 214 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Satisfaction Guaranteed: How to Have the Sex You’ve Always Wanted - 321 - ⭐️⭐️
Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour - 369 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life - 335 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
29/1: 3,263
Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers - 335 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Not Quite the Classics - 231 - ⭐️⭐️
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us - 400 - ⭐️⭐️
Meditations on Intention and Being: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Mindfulness, and Compassion - 378 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nanoparticles - Nanocomposites – Nanomaterials: An Introduction for Beginners - 320 - ⭐️⭐️
My Pocket Meditations for Anxiety: Anytime Exercises to Reduce Stress, Ease Worry, and Invite Calm - 175 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions and Rationales - 1,152 - ⭐️
All Tangled Up in Autism and Chronic Illness: A guide to navigating multiple conditions - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
30/1: 2,925
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond - 335 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Open Book - 416 - ⭐️⭐️
Unlocking Japanese with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist - 355 - ⭐️
Is There Life Outside the Box?: An Actor Despairs - 368 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything - 323 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness - 306 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life - 310 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
31/1: 2,418
The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves - 192 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness - 239 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life - 216 - ⭐️⭐️
New Aging: Live Smarter Now to Live Better Forever - 239 - ⭐️⭐️
Everything is Figureoutable - 304 - ⭐️⭐️
Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa - 460 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - 260 - ⭐️⭐️
Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom - 284 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession - 224 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title - all the letters of RESOLUTION
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership
Pages - '25'
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education
250
Title - starts & ends with a letter in NEW YEAR
Absolutely
Text - 'goal'
Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future
"it seems unlikely that human happiness is a goal of natural evolution." p.194
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Total pages: 63,613
Total books: 210
CCC - Old, Obsolete, & Obscure Words 2: Compliments✅ Total: 43/43
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AFTERNOONIFIED
Title - time word
7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds, Judith O'Reilly - ⭐️
Plot - important scene in an afternoon
7/1 - Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers, Caesar Campbell - ⭐️
"This incident apparently happened in the late afternoon" p.137
BEL-ESPRIT
Set - France
10/1 - The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability, Annette Kehnel - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"In some regions in France" p.25
Plot - ghosts
20/1 - The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore, Patricia Monaghan - ⭐️⭐️
"Some dobies were ghosts rather than fairies" p.148
CRAFTIOUS
MC - artist
10/1 - Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM, Breanne Fahs - ⭐️⭐️
Andy Warhol
Ratings - 1,200-1,400
3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch, Karl Ove Knausgård - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
1,233
DILLYDOUN
Set - Nordic country
17/1 - Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism, Nima Sanandaji - ⭐️⭐️
Plot - child is tucked in bed
3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️
"Mum tucking us into our beds" p.59
EIDENT
Cover - snow
15/1 -
, George Jehn New York - ⭐️⭐️Set - Scotland
8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song, Paul Howard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"a prolonged honeymoon in Scotland" p.28
FAUNTLET
MPG - children
2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
GINCHIEST
Plot - char receives a package
9/1 - Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death, Rita Cosby - ⭐️
"he received the packages at his house" p.12
Set - Canada
1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary, Luna M. Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I too could be officially and legally recognized as a non-binary trans person in Canada." p.153
HEART
Cover - heart
18/1 -
, Jessica Baum LMHC - ⭐️⭐️INNERLIE
Cover - beach
8/1 -
, Julia McMahon - ⭐️JOLLY-TIT
Cover - dog
3/1 -
, Jennifer S. Holland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️KILLER DILLER
MC - disabled person
11/1 - After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller, Max Wallace - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Book that has been made into a TV show
7/1 - Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love, Thomas Maier - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
LAKISH
Plot - char goes out for an enjoyable activity
10/1 - Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies, Owen Gleiberman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I went out drinking with Russell Crowe" p.252
MYN LYKING
Plot - char sings a lullaby
10/1 - The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature, Silvia Montiglio - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the men of the chorus sing a prayer to Hypnos, which is intended to work as a lullaby" p.141
Plot - mother-child relationship
5/1 - Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother, Ivana Trump - ⭐️
NACKETY
Title - silent letter
6/1 - Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture, Ryan A. Bush - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G
Plot - something is passed down through at least 2 generations
12/1 - The Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers, William Irwin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"father and son Heinrich and Helmut Zemo have both fought Captain America as Baron Zemo, carrying on a tradition of evil that stretches back twelve generations." p.40
OREFUL
Title - suffix of 'ful'
8/1 - Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace, Raymond F. Gregory - ⭐️⭐️
Plot - MC follows a code of honour
4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret, Congressman Mike Waltz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"never, ever breaking the one rule that mattered above all others: our honor code" p.79
PIPPIN
Cover - apple
18/1 -
, Kayla Butts - ⭐️⭐️⭐️Cover - red
8/1 -
, John C. Maxwell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️QUEMEFUL
Set - Germany
7/1 - Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic, Tobias Churton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
RUM
Plot - char has a double-life
4/1 - Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life, Scott Ian - ⭐️⭐️
"poker became my escape from the music business" p.169
Title - prefix
5/1 - Philosophical Posthumanism, Francesca Ferrando - ⭐️⭐️
Post
SAPIENT
Cover - person
2/1 -
, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️TRUEPENNY
Title - compound word
5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want, Tanya Rad - ⭐️⭐️
Sun Shine
Set - Victorian era (1837-1901)
3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole, Anthony Galvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The Northwest Passage was the golden grail of polar exploration and the last remaining challenge, as far as the Victorians were concerned." p.33
UMBRELLAS
Plot - char drinks alcohol
1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Hendrix was dead, having choked in his sleep after binging on alcohol and barbiturates." p.58
Plot - char's plans are impacted by rain
9/1 - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour, Elton John - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Rain was pouring all over the stage. The band and I were soaking wet. The show had to be cut short because everyone was worried we’d be electrocuted." p.214
VERSANT
Plot - makes you think about it even when you are not reading it
1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting, Joe Gillard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Set - mountainous region
4/1 - Never Finished, David Goggins - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"We rucked into the wooded mountains north of Missoula" p.186
WEALSOME
MC - wealthy
3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime, Chad Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Elon Musk
XENODOCHIAL
Plot - char moves from one place to another
2/1 - Absolutely, Joanna Lumley - ⭐️⭐️
"We have lived in Wimbledon, where we ran out of money trying to buy a house beyond our means, in Kent in a marvellous and rather rickety parsonage, and in London" p.281
YARE-WITEL
MC - intelligent
5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China, Jack Weatherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Kublai too liked to draw on techniques and materials from throughout his empire, and combine the best of what already existed to create something new and superior" p.131
Plot - char gets ready for something
4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I am more than ready for my labour to start now." p.204
ZIGGETY!
Author - 2+
1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth, Mark Victor Hansen - ⭐️
Mark Victor Hansen & Robert G Allen
Title - rhyming words
10/1 - Read to Lead, Jeff Brown - ⭐️⭐️
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1. Harbour Arrival
Cover - red title
3/1 -
, Anthony Galvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️Cover - white title
5/1 -
, M.G. Lord - ⭐️⭐️⭐️Set - seaside
5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China, Jack Weatherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author - initials in HARBOR ARRIVAL
3/1 - Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections, Vizi Andrei - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Architectural Tour
Cover - impressive building
2/1 -
, Victoria Kastner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️Plot - MC goes to library
7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds, Judith O'Reilly - ⭐️
"I had a job working in a school library" p.224
Plot - MC goes to train station
1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary, Luna M. Ferguson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The couple greeted me at the train station in Ottawa." p.57
Plot - MC goes to art museum
3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch, Karl Ove Knausgård - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I never understood the force that light possesses in van Gogh’s pictures until I saw the originals in the museum in Amsterdam" p.34
Author - initials in ARCHITECTURAL TOUR
3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime, Chad Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Rock Church Concert
Plot - concert
1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The Rolling Stones’ disastrous Altamont concert" p.21
Title - starts with a letter in ALTAR
1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting, Joe Gillard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author - initials in ROCK CHURCH CONCERT
5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want, Tanya Rad - ⭐️⭐️
4. Outdoor Spaces
A book I consider a hidden gem
3/1 - Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence, Jennifer S. Holland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title - initials in HELSINKI ORTHODOX CEMETARY
4/1 - How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More., Veronica Dearly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
HTDHT
Author - initials in OUTDOOR SPACES
2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. Sibelius Monument & Home
Plot - music
3/1 - Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away, Martin Popoff - ⭐️⭐️
Pages - 601+
2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
734
Author - initials in SIBELIUS MONUMENT
4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
6. Culinary Nostalgia
MC - FN initial in CAFE
5/1 - Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek, Daniel Levy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Eugene
Text - 'herring'
6/1 - Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture, Ryan A. Bush - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"for every red herring" p.50
Text - 'reindeer'
2/1 - Absolutely, Joanna Lumley - ⭐️⭐️
"rode skiddoos with reindeer running alongside" p.269
Text - 'sausage'
3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️
"except sausage, eggs, and chips" p.16
Text - 'cardamom'
14/1 - Edible Flowers: A Global History, Mary Newman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"essences as well as cardamom" p.59
Text - 'stroganoff
16/1 - With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs, Sandra Hogan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"beef stroganoff and borscht" p.96
Author - initials in CULINARY NOSTALGIA
1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything, George Takei - ⭐️
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Finland
F: 10/1 - Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM, Breanne Fahs - ⭐️⭐️
I: 29/1 - The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us - ⭐️⭐️
N: 31/1 - Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa, Neil Slaven - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 26/1 - Literally, the Best Language Book Ever: Annoying Words and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again - ⭐️
A: 21/1 - Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 29/1 - Nanoparticles - Nanocomposites – Nanomaterials: An Introduction for Beginners - ⭐️⭐️
D: 8/1 - Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Helsinki
H: 13/1 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 30/1 - Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist, Zakaria Erzinçlioğlu - ⭐️
L: 26/1 - Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, Lydia Kang - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 24/1 - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir, Sly Stone - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 29/1 - Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers, Ian Stewart - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 29/1 - Not Quite the Classics - ⭐️⭐️
K: 7/1 - Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade - ⭐️⭐️
I: 28/1 - I'm So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Archipelago Cathedral
A: 18/1 - Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love - ⭐️⭐️
R: 30/1 - Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond, Robin George Andrews - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 9/1 - Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death, Rita Cosby - ⭐️
H: 12/1 - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation - ⭐️⭐️
I: 28/1 - The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct - ⭐️⭐️
P: 15/1 - Put Anxiety Behind You: The Complete Drug-Free Program - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 26/1 - The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience, Jules Evans - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 25/1 - The Long Covid Self-Help Guide: Practical Ways to Manage Symptoms - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 17/1 - Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 15/1 - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, Greg Sestero - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 31/1 - Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 13/1 - Changes That Heal: Four Practical Steps to a Happier, Healthier You - ⭐️
A: 16/1 - Avocado: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️
T: 18/1 - What You Think of Me Is None of My Business, Terry Cole‐Whittaker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 8/1 - How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 31/1 - Everything is Figureoutable - ⭐️⭐️
D: 6/1 - Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 29/1 - Meditations on Intention and Being: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Mindfulness, and Compassion, Rolf Gates - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 16/1 - The Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making and Marketing of Atoll K, Norbert Aping - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 24/1 - How to Organize Inherited Items: A Step-by-Step Guide for Dealing with Boxes of Your Parents' Stuff, Denise May Levenick - ⭐️⭐️
Uspenskin
U: 30/1 - Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 24/1 - Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History, Mandy Sayer - ⭐️⭐️
P: 14/1 - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership - ⭐️⭐️
E: 22/1 - Energy Healing for Trauma, Stress & Chronic Illness: Uncover & Transform the Subtle Energies That Are Causing Your Greatest Hardships - ⭐️⭐️
N: 31/1 - New Aging: Live Smarter Now to Live Better Forever - ⭐️⭐️
S: 20/1 - Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 12/1 - Korean Slang Expressions - ⭐️⭐️
I: 28/1 - The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 30/1 - No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Modernism
M: 11/1 - Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave, Mark Mordue - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 31/1 - On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
D: 5/1 - Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria - ⭐️⭐️
E: 22/1 - The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone - ⭐️⭐️
R: 25/1 - The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans and Planners - ⭐️⭐️
N: 29/1 - Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions and Rationales - ⭐️
I: 27/1 - I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times - ⭐️⭐️
S: 18/1 - Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service - ⭐️⭐️
M: 10/1 - Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Art Nouveau
A: 14/1 - The Art of Making Memories: How to Create and Remember Happy Moments - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 25/1 - My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace, Rosie Weldon - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 17/1 - Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain: The Practice of Informed Touch - ⭐️⭐️
N: 27/1 - All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian, Rae Nudson - ⭐️⭐️
O: 31/1 - Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 30/1 - Unlocking Japanese with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 4/1 - How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More., Veronica Dearly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 20/1 - The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore - ⭐️⭐️
A: 12/1 - The Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 26/1 - Unstoppable Brain: The New Neuroscience that Frees Us from Failure, Eases Our Stress, and Creates Lasting Change - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Jugendsali Hall
J: 13/1 - Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, Revised Edition: How the Words You Choose Shape Your Destiny, Joseph Telushkin - ⭐️⭐️
U: 26/1 - Undoing Urgency: Reclaim Your Time for the Things that Matter Most - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 15/1 - Get Your Spark Back: How to Find Happiness and Reignite Your Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 17/1 - How To Tell Fate From Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions, Charles Harrington Elster - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 21/1 - Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 3/1 - Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 17/1 - What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, Stephen A. Schwarzman - ⭐️⭐️
A: 12/1 - Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture, Amelia Abraham - ⭐️⭐️
L: 19/1 - Lead Them with Virtue: A Confucian Alternative to War - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 24/1 - Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 11/1 - After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 18/1 - Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote d'Azur 11 - ⭐️⭐️
L: 18/1 - Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer, Heather Lende - ⭐️⭐️
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Spiral Staircase
S: 17/1 - The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 10/1 - Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins, Price Pritchett - ⭐️
I: 19/1 - The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England, Ian Mortimer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 21/1 - Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mark Ribowsky - ⭐️⭐️
A: 11/1 - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes, Adam Rutherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 16/1 - The Let Them Theory - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 16/1 - With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs, Sandra Hogan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 14/1 - Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing - ⭐️⭐️
A: 7/1 - Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 15/1 - If I Could Tell You Just One Thing . . .: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 17/1 - Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month, Huw Richards - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 3/1 - Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away - ⭐️⭐️
A: 5/1 - The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 10/1 - The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 14/1 - Edible Flowers: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pipe Organ
P: 10/1 - When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, David M. Peña-Guzmán - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 14/1 - Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah, Kathy Iandoli - ⭐️⭐️
P: 9/1 - Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey, Paul C. Pasles - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 12/1 - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 31/1 - The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 16/1 - Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 10/1 - The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 4/1 - Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life - ⭐️⭐️
N: 17/1 - Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism, Nima Sanandaji - ⭐️⭐️
Orthodox Cemetery
O: 30/1 - Open Book - ⭐️⭐️
R: 10/1 - Read to Lead - ⭐️⭐️
T: 12/1 - Birdman of Alcatraz, Thomas E. Gaddis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 24/1 - Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 1/1 - Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 22/1 - Opening the Door of Your Heart and Other Buddhist Tales of Happiness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
X: 19/1 - X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth - ⭐️
E: 11/1 - Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway - ⭐️
M: 8/1 - 400 Personal Growth Hack Puzzles: Guess Positive Words, Manifest your Destiny Today, Unlock Happiness and Success, Julia McMahon - ⭐️
E: 11/1 - Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things - ⭐️⭐️
T: 11/1 - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Tren Griffin - ⭐️
E: 7/1 - Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers - ⭐️
R: 9/1 - Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds - ⭐️
Jean Sibelius Monument
J: 2/1 - Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 4/1 - Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People, Daisy Auger-Dominguez - ⭐️⭐️
N: 16/1 - Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?, Kevin Nealon - ⭐️⭐️
S: 10/1 - Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom - ⭐️⭐️
I: 12/1 - I Want to be Confident: Living, Working and Communicating with Confidence - ⭐️⭐️
B: 1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 3/1 - Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 11/1 - The Loneliest Polar Bear - ⭐️⭐️
I: 8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 21/1 - Anatomy of Facial Expression, Uldis Zarins - ⭐️⭐️
S: 6/1 - Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask! - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 7/1 - Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything - ⭐️
N: 14/1 - The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman, Shane Niemeyer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 16/1 - North to Paradise: A Memoir, Ousman Umar - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 12/1 - Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life - ⭐️
T: 8/1 - Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fish Soup
F: 9/1 - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard - ⭐️⭐️
S: 5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want - ⭐️⭐️
H: 2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 22/1 - On Freedom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 11/1 - Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership - ⭐️⭐️
P: 5/1 - Philosophical Posthumanism - ⭐️⭐️
Pulla
P: 5/1 - Precision Pool: Your Guide to Mastering Key Skills, Shots, and Strategies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 8/1 - Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace - ⭐️⭐️
L: 5/1 - Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek, Daniel Levy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 3/1 - Am I Going to Be Okay?: Money—Timely Intelligence, Actionable Ideas, Answers to the Questions that Really Matter - ⭐️⭐️
Stroganoff
S: 3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 4/1 - Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 5/1 - Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother - ⭐️
O: 13/1 - Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 2/1 - Absolutely - ⭐️⭐️
N: 4/1 - Never Finished - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 2/1 - Blade Runner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
F: 9/1 - Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation - ⭐️⭐️
F: 7/1 - Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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CCC - Too Good to be True!✅ Total: 22/22
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1. Fad
Title - !
1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything, George Takei - ⭐️
Author - hyphenated
4/1 - Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People, Daisy Auger-Dominguez - ⭐️⭐️
2. Fad diets
A book currently trending on any social media
4/1 - Never Finished, David Goggins - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author - 21+ books
8/1 - Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success, John C. Maxwell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. THE CABBAGE & URINE DIET
Set - ancient times (before 1000 AD)
10/1 - The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature, Silvia Montiglio - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. ARSENIC DIET PILLS
Plot - char is poisoned
5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China, Jack Weatherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The successful poisoning of Doqolqu" p.34
5. THE TAPEWORM DIET
Plot - char makes questionable decision
2/1 - Absolutely, Joanna Lumley - ⭐️⭐️
"I saw the film Borsalino and sent my Roller to be sprayed cream in the East End for about forty quid, a strange and reckless decision that lowered the already dismal value of the car" p.120
Author - initials in TAPEWORM
2/1 - Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
6. THE CIGARETTE DIET
MPG - history
1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J.R. Moores - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
7. THE GRAPEFRUIT DIET
Cover - citrus fruit
18/1 -
, Heather Lende - ⭐️⭐️Title - compound word
5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want, Tanya Rad - ⭐️⭐️
Sun Shine
8. THE MASTER CLEANSE
A book promoted by a celebrity
5/1 - Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek, Daniel Levy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Eugene Levy
9. THE CABBAGE SOUP DIET
Cover - vegetable
17/1 -
, Huw Richards - ⭐️⭐️⭐️10. THE DRINKING MAN'S DIET
MCs - mostly men
3/1 - Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away, Martin Popoff - ⭐️⭐️
3 male band members
11. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY DIET
Plot - char volunteers to do something dangerous
4/1 - Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret, Congressman Mike Waltz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Benavidez—a Green Beret, of course—volunteered to assist a twelve-man Special Forces patrol encircled by nearly one thousand North Vietnamese soldiers." p.130
Title - initials in SLEEPING BEAUTY
3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime, Chad Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
TSE
12. THE SCARSDALE DIET
MC - doctor
6/1 - Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask!, Dr. Megan Anna Neff - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Psych
13. THE ATKINS DIET
Title - proper name
2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot - char is health-conscious
4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker, Eve Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I wanted to concentrate on getting my mind and body healthier." p.95
14. THE BABY FOOD DIET
Published - 2000-2009
1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth, Mark Victor Hansen - ⭐️
2006
15. THE HCG DIET
Title - all the letters HCG (in that order)
12/1 - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation, Andrew B. Newberg - ⭐️⭐️
MC - works in science
7/1 - Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love, Thomas Maier - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
MC is a doctor
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CCC - Most Spoken Languages Spell with a Twist!❌ Total: 823/836
❌ Part 1: 70/80
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Mandarin Chinese 929.0
M: 16/2 - When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin, Mick Wall - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 12/6 - Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy, Judd Apatow - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 23/2 - Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 21/1 - Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.90
R: 7/5 - Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart, Rebecca Bradshaw - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 23/8 - It's Always Sunny and Philosophy: The Gang Gets Analyzed - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 8/3 - Classical Feng Shui for Health, Beauty & Longevity: Transform Your Space to Enhance Well-Being in Body & Home - ⭐️⭐️
H: 2/4 - A History of Horror, 2nd Edition - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 22/8 - In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 20/5 - Edible Houseplants: Grow Your Own Citrus, Coffee, Vanilla, and 43 Other Tasty Tropical Plants - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 21/3 - Blood and Fire: The Unbelievable Real-Life Story of Wrestling's Original Sheik, Brian R. Solomon - ⭐️⭐️
E: 17/5 - Exploring Maya Ritual Caves: Dark Secrets from the Maya Underworld - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spanish 474.7
S: 21/3 - Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 1/7 - Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History: From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks, Clifford A. Pickover - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 29/1 - All Tangled Up in Autism and Chronic Illness: A guide to navigating multiple conditions - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.37
I: 21/8 - I Used to Know That: Maths - ⭐️⭐️
S: 21/3 - Stop Stealing Dreams - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 31/3 - Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
English 372.9
E: 31/1 - Everything is Figureoutable - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.98
G: 17/3 - Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars, John Gaudet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 11/3 - Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography, Lesley-Ann Jones - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 19/8 - Imagined Life: A Speculative Scientific Journey among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 20/3 - 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany, Steven Pressman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 28/3 - Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond, Lee Harrington - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hindi 343.9
H: 28/3 - Seeing Through The Singularity: Uncovering The Cosmic Conspiracy, Douglas Haugen - ⭐️
I: 19/8 - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? - ⭐️⭐️
D: 15/2 - Deep Water: The World in the Ocean - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 28/1 - The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.32
Bengali 233.7
B: 15/2 - Being Bad: Breaking the Rules and Becoming Everything You're Not Supposed to Be - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 20/1 - The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.27
G: 15/3 - Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard - ⭐️⭐️
A: 5/6 - Taming The Black Dog Revised Edition, Bev Aisbett - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 1/3 - Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, Jamie Lendino - ⭐️
I: 18/8 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Portuguese 232.4
P: 13/2 - The Power of Ownership: Redeem Your Health, Live Life by Design, and Break the Relentless Pursuit of Normal - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 27/4 - Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change, Olga Khazan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 16/1 - Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.03
T: 28/3 - The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 5/3 - German Made Simple: Learn to speak and understand German quickly and easily - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 17/5 - Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business, David Edery - ⭐️⭐️
S: 18/3 - A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard - ⭐️⭐️
E: 16/5 - Thursday's Child, Eartha Kitt - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Russian 154.0
R: 3/5 - We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation, Matthew Riemer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 31/8 - Unfuck Your Eating: Using Science to Build a Better Relationship with Food, Health, and Body Image - ⭐️⭐️
S: 18/3 - Leviathan and Its Enemies: Mass Organization and Managerial Power in Twentieth-Century America, Samuel T. Francis - ⭐️
S: 18/3 - Success Habits of Super Achievers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 16/8 - Intimate Conversations: How to Talk to the People You Love - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 18/1 - Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.09
Japanese 125.3
J: 17/2 - Jonathan Swift - ⭐️⭐️
A: 5/6 - Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 3/2 - Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band - ⭐️⭐️
A: 4/6 - Angkor and the Khmer Civilization - ⭐️⭐️
N: 31/8 - Nature at Night: Discover the Hidden World That Comes Alive after Dark - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 16/5 - Eat, Pray, #FML - ⭐️⭐️
S: 20/1 - Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.95
E: 15/5 - Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams, Robert Englund - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Western Punjabi 92.7
W: 16/1 - With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 13/5 - My Mama, Cass: A Memoir, Owen Elliot-Kugell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 17/3 - Silk Road - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 27/3 - Through the Woods - ⭐️⭐️
E: 13/5 - Expansive Love: A Practical Guide to Relationship Anarchy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 2/5 - Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 25/8 - The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 15/1 - Put Anxiety Behind You: The Complete Drug-Free Program - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.79
U: 31/8 - Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 25/8 - NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
J: 17/2 - Babylon's Legacy: Unlocking Financial Freedom with Ancient Principles, James O Wellington - ⭐️⭐️
A: 3/6 - All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 15/2 - Best Salty Sweet Snacks: Gooey, Chewy, Crunchy Treats for Every Craving - ⭐️⭐️
I: 10/8 - It All Makes Sense Now: Embrace Your ADHD Brain to Live a Creative and Colorful Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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CCC - Most Spoken Languages Spell with a Twist!❌ Part 2: 73/76
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Yue Chinese 85.2
Y: 15/3 - The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 10/5 - Energy Magick of the Vampyre: Secret Techniques for Personal Power and Manifestation - ⭐️⭐️
C: 8/3 - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spices and Herbs: A Savory Guide to Spicing Up Your Favorite Dishes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 27/3 - Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 7/8 - Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery - ⭐️⭐️
N: 25/8 - No Bullsh*t Leadership: Why the World Needs More Everyday Leaders and Why That Leader Is You - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 9/5 - Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 6/2 - Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.85
E: 6/5 - Encyclopedia of Garden Plants for Every Location: Featuring More Than 3,000 Plants - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Vietnamese 84.6
V: 26/2 - Voracious - ⭐️
I: 4/8 - Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work, Ian Nathan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 5/5 - Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels, Craig A. Evans - ⭐️
T: 26/3 - Train Your Brain More: 60 Days to an Even Better Brain - ⭐️
N: 18/8 - No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach - ⭐️⭐️
A: 31/5 - The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven, Step-by-Step Techniques for Overcoming your Fear, Martin M. Antony - ⭐️⭐️
M: 15/2 - Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters, Melanie Joy - ⭐️⭐️
E: 2/5 - 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation, Clint Emerson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 10/2 - The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma, Mustafa Suleyman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.86
E: 2/5 - Experimental Psychology - ⭐️⭐️
Marathi 83.1
M: 15/2 - Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know® - ⭐️⭐️
A: 30/5 - The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience, Plestia Alaqad - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 25/1 - The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans and Planners - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.83
A: 24/5 - Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves, Alison Wood Brooks - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 22/3 - This Thing Called Life: Prince's Odyssey, On and Off the Record - ⭐️
H: 24/3 - How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 4/8 - Inside an Honor Killing: A Father and a Daughter Tell Their Story - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Telugu 82.0
T: 22/3 - Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 19/2 - Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.02
L: 1/3 - Luck by Design: The Science and Serendipity of a Well-Lived Life - ⭐️⭐️
G: 4/3 - Different Loving: A Complete Exploration of the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission, Gloria G. Brame - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Turkish 82.2
T: 9/2 - Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special, Thom Scott-Phillips - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.22
U: 20/7 - You're Stronger Than You Think: Tapping into the Secrets of Emotionally Resilient People, Peter A. Ubel - ⭐️⭐️
R: 4/5 - The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine, Andrea Stuart - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 20/3 - Greek and Roman Mythology A to Z, Kathleen N. Daly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 3/8 - Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics - ⭐️⭐️
S: 25/3 - Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 2/7 - Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope - ⭐️⭐️
Wu Chinese 81.7
W: 13/1 - Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, Revised Edition: How the Words You Choose Shape Your Destiny - ⭐️⭐️
U: 30/7 - Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 3/3 - Celestial Geometry: Understanding the Astronomical Meanings of Ancient Sites - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 19/3 - Horror Films of the 1990s - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 2/8 - Board Games in 100 Moves, Ian Livingstone - ⭐️⭐️
N: 14/8 - The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 29/4 - The Science of Fairy Tales : An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology, Edwin Sidney Hartland - ⭐️⭐️
S: 28/1 - Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.87
E: 28/4 - Bizarre World: A Collection of the World's Creepiest, Strangest, and Sometimes Most Hilarious Traditions, E. Reid Ross - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Korean 81.7
K: 19/3 - Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis, Michael S. Kimmel - ⭐️⭐️
O: 25/4 - A Therapist’s Guide to Consensual Nonmonogamy: Polyamory, Swinging, and Open Marriage, Rhea Orion - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 5/2 - Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.18
E: 25/4 - The Youtube Formula: How Anyone Can Unlock the Algorithm to Drive Views, Build an Audience, and Grow Revenue, Derral Eves - ⭐️⭐️
A: 24/5 - You Untangled: A DBT Skills Workbook, Practical Tools To Manage Your Emotions And Improve Your Life, Amy Tibbitts - ⭐️⭐️
N: 14/8 - Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species, Peter Nowak - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
French 79.9
F: 9/1 - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 30/4 - There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History, Rory Carroll - ⭐️⭐️
E: 25/4 - Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations, Erika Engelhaupt - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 10/8 - Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy, Andrew B. Newberg - ⭐️⭐️
C: 27/2 - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi - ⭐️⭐️
H: 4/5 - If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.79
German 75.6
G: 27/2 - The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us - ⭐️⭐️
E: 23/4 - The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, ... Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage, Erika Fatland - ⭐️⭐️
R: 30/4 - Fear: An Alternative History of the World, Robert Peckham - ⭐️⭐️
M: 14/2 - Memory Palaces and Masonic Lodges: Esoteric Secrets of the Art of Memory - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 27/1 - Anubis―Ancient Egypt’s Lord of Death and Protection - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.56
N: 9/8 - Stop Procrastinating: A Simple Guide to Hacking Laziness, Building Self Discipline, and Overcoming Procrastination, Nils Salzgeber - ⭐️
Tamil 75.0
T: 20/3 - The Third Perspective: Brave Expression in the Age of Intolerance - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 24/5 - An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 9/2 - Chasing We-ness: Cultivating Empathy and Leadership in a Polarized World, William Marsiglio - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.50
I: 27/7 - International Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Fraternal Orders - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 26/2 - Life of Extremes: The Life and Times of a Polar Filmmaker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Urdu 70.2
U: 19/7 - The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace - ⭐️⭐️
R: 20/2 - The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order, Robert S. Westman - ⭐️ - 4.20
D: 24/1 - Doctor Strange and Philosophy: The Other Book of Forbidden Knowledge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.27
U: 9/7 - The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists - ⭐️⭐️
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Javanese 68.3
J: 14/2 - The Future Leader: 9 Skills and Mindsets to Succeed in the Next Decade, Jacob Morgan - ⭐️⭐️
A: 24/5 - Because He's Jeff Goldblum: The Movies, Memes, and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor, Travis M. Andrews - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 7/2 - Video Game of the Year: A Year-by-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 23/5 - The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World, Arthur Herman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 4/8 - 100 Days of Baggage Reclaim: The Self-Esteem Project, Natalie Lue - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 19/4 - The Empowerment Solution: Six Keys to Unlocking Your Full Potential with the Subconscious Mind - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 16/3 - Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, Scotty Bowers - ⭐️
E: 22/1 - Energy Healing for Trauma, Stress & Chronic Illness: Uncover & Transform the Subtle Energies That Are Causing Your Greatest Hardships - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.65
Italian 64.8
I: 26/7 - Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 19/3 - Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding, David F. Tolin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 22/5 - ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 16/1 - The Let Them Theory - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.38
I: 24/7 - Ice Walker: A Polar Bear's Journey through the Fragile Arctic - ⭐️⭐️
A: 21/5 - As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda - ⭐️⭐️
N: 4/8 - Long Live: The Definitive Guide to the Folklore and Fandom of Taylor Swift, Nicole Pomarico - ⭐️⭐️
Egyptian Arabic 64.6
E: 19/4 - Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 25/2 - Glow Discharge Plasmas in Analytical Spectroscopy - ⭐️
Y: 5/7 - Your Coping Skills Aren't Working: How to Break Free from the Habits that Once Helped You But Now Hold You Back - ⭐️⭐️
P: 1/7 - The Perfectionist's Dilemma: Learn the Art of Self-Compassion and Become a Happy Achiever - ⭐️⭐️
T: 16/3 - Take Back Your Joy: Fighting for Purpose When Life Is More Than You Can Handle - ⭐️
I: 22/7 - Innovating Out of Crisis: How Fujifilm Survived (and Thrived) As Its Core Business Was Vanishing - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 21/5 - An Edited Life: Simple Steps to Streamlining Your Life, at Work and at Home, Anna Newton - ⭐️⭐️
N: 1/8 - Algebra is Useful: 5000 Practice Problems to Show how Algebraic Identities can be used to Simplify Arithmetic Calculations, Norman Sanko - ⭐️
A: 19/5 - The Woodpecker Method, Axel Smith - ⭐️⭐️
R: 28/4 - The Library of the Lost: In Search of Forgotten Authors, Roger Dobson - ⭐️⭐️
A: 16/5 - Startup Your Life: Hustle and Hack Your Way to Happiness, Anna Akbari - ⭐️⭐️
B: 15/2 - Born to Run: My Story - ⭐️⭐️
I: 12/2 - In Our Words: Queer Stories from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Writers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.64
C: 26/2 - Cults and Conspiracies: A Literary History - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gujarati 57.0
G: 25/2 - The Great Pearl Heist: London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Necklace - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 26/6 - The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide: Tools and Techniques to Hit the Trail - ⭐️⭐️
J: 8/2 - Freedom, Equality, Community: The Political Philosophy of Six Influential Canadians, James Bickerton - ⭐️
A: 15/5 - Better Than Normal: How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional, Dale Archer - ⭐️⭐️
R: 27/4 - Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 12/5 - A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors - ⭐️⭐️
T: 27/1 - Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.75
I: 20/7 - The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression - ⭐️⭐️
Iranian Persian 56.4
I: 17/7 - Identities Through Fashion: A Multidisciplinary Approach - ⭐️⭐️
R: 26/4 - Rapport: The Four Ways to Read People - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 11/5 - The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures, Lawrence Anthony - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 30/7 - On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, Nate Silver - ⭐️⭐️
I: 14/7 - Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Can't See Clearly, Isaac Lidsky - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 9/5 - And God Created Burton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 30/7 - No Bullsh*t Strategy: A Founder’s Guide to Gaining Competitive Advantage with a Strategy That Actually Works - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 3/2 - The P.R.I.M.E.R. Goal Setting Method: The Only Goal Achievement Guide You'll Ever Need! - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.05
E: 18/4 - Echoes of Valhalla: The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 24/4 - Pavlov's Legacy: How and What Animals Learn, Robert A. Boakes - ⭐️
S: 16/3 - A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity - ⭐️⭐️
I: 10/7 - Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989 - ⭐️⭐️
A: 9/5 - Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want, Robert Anthony - ⭐️⭐️
N: 28/7 - Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia, Natasha Lance Rogoff - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bhojpuri 52.2
B: 12/2 - Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America - ⭐️⭐️
H: 8/3 - The Survival Doctor's Complete Handbook: WHAT TO DO WHEN HELP IS NOT ON THE WAY!, James Hubbard - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.25
O: 27/4 - Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
J: 8/2 - Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music, John Fogerty - ⭐️⭐️
P: 29/1 - Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 22/6 - The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 22/4 - A Rage to Conquer: Twelve Battles That Changed the Course of Western History - ⭐️⭐️
I: 3/7 - In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Southern Min 50.1
S: 15/3 - Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations, Simon Schama - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 25/4 - An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford - ⭐️⭐️
U: 16/6 - Unqualified : love and relationship advice from a celebrity who just wants to help - ⭐️⭐️
T: 26/1 - This Time for Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.10
H: 18/3 - A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 17/4 - Emoti-coms: A marketing guide to communicating through emotions. - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 21/4 - Silent Spring, Rachel Carson - ⭐️⭐️
N: 28/7 - Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone, Nimsdai Purja - ⭐️⭐️
M: 11/2 - Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 3/7 - Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now, Vincent Ialenti - ⭐️⭐️
N: 22/7 - NeuroScience Fiction - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hakka 48.2
H: 22/1 - Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.82
A: 5/5 - Classical Mythology A to Z: An Encyclopedia of Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Heroines, Nymphs, Spirits, Monsters, and Places, Annette Giesecke - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 19/3 - Kindness: The Little Thing that Matters Most - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 7/3 - Building Self-Confidence for Dummies, Kate Burton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 3/5 - Bucket List Adventures: 10 Incredible Journeys to Experience Before You Die, Annette White - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Jin Chinese 46.9
J: 21/1 - Women from Another Planet? Our Lives in the Universe of Autism, Jean Kearns Miller - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 1/7 - A Field Guide to Earthlings: An Autistic/Asperger View of Neurotypical Behavior, Ian Ford - ⭐️⭐️
N: 18/7 - Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 7/3 - Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 20/1 - Healing the Shame that Binds You - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.09
I: 28/6 - In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity - ⭐️
N: 18/7 - The Drawing Bible, Craig Nelson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 16/4 - Empty Your Cup: Why We Have Low Self-Esteem and How Mindfulness Can Help - ⭐️⭐️
S: 14/3 - My Extraordinary Ordinary Life, Sissy Spacek - ⭐️⭐️
E: 14/4 - eSCAPE: The 4 Stages of Becoming A Successful Entrepreneur - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hausa 43.9
H: 18/3 - Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 2/5 - Flee 9-5: Get 6 - 7 Figures and Do What You Love, Ben Angel - ⭐️⭐️
U: 10/6 - Unchain Your Brain: 10 Steps to Breaking the Addictions That Steal Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
S: 14/3 - A Sailor in the Sahara: The Life and Travels in Africa of Hugh Clapperton, Commander RN - ⭐️⭐️
A: 14/1 - The Art of Making Memories: How to Create and Remember Happy Moments - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.89
Kannada 43.6
K: 22/2 - Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, Dan Koeppel - ⭐️⭐️
A: 1/5 - Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me - ⭐️⭐️
N: 16/7 - Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing, Norm Stamper - ⭐️⭐️
N: 13/7 - El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord, Noah Hurowitz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 30/4 - After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion - ⭐️⭐️
D: 17/1 - Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.13
A: 29/4 - American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Indonesian 43.6
I: 27/6 - I Love Baseball - ⭐️⭐️
N: 12/7 - Blockchain Bubble or Revolution: The Present and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, Neel Mehta - ⭐️⭐️
D: 2/7 - The Condiment Book: A Brilliantly Flavourful Guide to Food's Unsung Heroes, Claire Dinhut - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 25/4 - Fatty Liver Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, Olivia Fontana - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 11/7 - Never Give Up! Relentless Determination To Overcome Life's Challenges - ⭐️
E: 14/1 - Edible Flowers: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.48
S: 14/3 - Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today's Rip-off Artists - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 27/6 - Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 29/4 - Memories Before and After the Sound of Music: An Autobiography, Agathe von Trapp - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 11/7 - The Nazis and the Supernatural: The Occult Secrets of Hitler's Evil Empire - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Yoruba 43.6
Y: 6/3 - The Mercury Retrograde Book: Turn Chaos into Creativity to Repair, Renew and Revamp Your Life, Yasmin Boland - ⭐️
O: 25/4 - Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History, Owen Davies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 20/4 - 10 Days to a Sharper Memory, Russell Roberts - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 2/6 - Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump - ⭐️⭐️
B: 15/1 - BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.66
A: 28/4 - Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
Polish 40.0
P: 14/1 - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership - ⭐️⭐️
O: 20/4 - Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS - ⭐️⭐️
L: 27/6 - Learn Spanish: 6 books in 1: The Ultimate Spanish Language Books collection to Learn Starting from Zero, Have Fun and Become Fluent like a Native Speaker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 26/6 - Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 6/1 - Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask! - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.40
H: 15/3 - Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia, Peter Hopkirk - ⭐️⭐️
Xiang Chinese 37.3
X: 19/1 - X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 24/6 - It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower - ⭐️⭐️
A: 28/4 - The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 8/7 - At Your Best: How to Get Time, Energy, and Priorities Working in Your Favor, Carey Nieuwhof - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 24/2 - Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?, Jane M. Gaines - ⭐️⭐️
C: 1/3 - Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 - ⭐️⭐️
H: 12/3 - Horror Films of the 1980s - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 15/1 - If I Could Tell You Just One Thing . . .: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.76
N: 28/6 - Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 12/4 - Leveling Up: How To Master The Game of Life, Eric Siu - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 8/3 - Superior: Creating a Superior Culture of Excellence - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 11/4 - The Eight: A Season in the Tradition of Harvard Crew - ⭐️⭐️
Malayalam 37.1
M: 10/2 - Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 25/4 - After Disney: Toil, Trouble, and the Transformation of America's Favorite Media Company - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 22/2 - Letters from Elvis: Shocking Revelations to His Secret Confidante - ⭐️
A: 22/4 - Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations, Alton Brown - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 16/1 - Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me? - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.41
A: 21/4 - Fluid: The Approach Applied by Geniuses Over Centuries, Ashish Jaiswal - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 17/2 - 2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks, John Lloyd - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 20/4 - Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform Your Life, Annie Zimmerman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 2/2 - Man and His Symbols - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Odia 34.5
O: 22/1 - On Freedom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.32
D: 12/2 - We Just Got On With It: Changes Before, During and After the Second World War in Northern Ireland, Doreen McBride - ⭐️⭐️
I: 24/6 - Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil - ⭐️⭐️
A: 19/4 - Activate Your Life: 50 Transformational Exercises From Coaches Around The World - ⭐️⭐️
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Maithili 33.9
M: 30/1 - Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 18/4 - Almost Interesting - ⭐️⭐️
I: 24/6 - I Thought It Would Be Better Than This: Rise From Disappointment, Regain Control, and Rebuild a Life You Love - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 16/3 - Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 12/1 - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.90
I: 23/6 - Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 8/2 - The Little Book of Slow: Live Mindfully and Enjoy the Simple Things - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 22/6 - If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sudanese Arabic 33.3
S: 18/1 - Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.36
U: 27/5 - Undistracted: Capture Your Purpose. Rediscover Your Joy. - ⭐️⭐️
D: 10/2 - Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy: Read and Gain Advantage on All Wisdom Checks - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 15/4 - All You Need to Know About the Music Business: Eleventh Edition - ⭐️⭐️
N: 25/6 - No Greater Love - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 30/3 - Be A Plant-Based Woman Warrior: Live Fierce, Stay Bold, Eat Delicious: A Cookbook, Jane Esselstyn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 8/3 - A Social Media Survival Guide: How to Use the Most Popular Platforms and Protect Your Privacy - ⭐️⭐️
E: 29/3 - Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror, Erik Prince - ⭐️
A: 13/4 - Breaking the Jump: The Secret Story of Parkour's High Flying Rebellion, Julie Angel - ⭐️⭐️
R: 16/4 - The Poetry of Robert Frost, Robert Frost - ⭐️⭐️
A: 17/1 - Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.36
B: 14/2 - Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond -- The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 20/6 - In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 25/2 - CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans - ⭐️⭐️
Burmese 33.0
B: 12/1 - Birdman of Alcatraz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.90
U: 17/1 - Unashamed: Healing Our Brokenness and Finding Freedom from Shame - ⭐️
R: 14/4 - How To Present To Absolutely Anyone: Confident Public Speaking and Presenting in Every Situation, Mark Rhodes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 30/1 - Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist - ⭐️
E: 24/3 - Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book: A question for every day of the year - ⭐️
S: 7/3 - Social Anxiety For Dummies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 22/3 - Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Eastern Punjabi 32.6
E: 20/3 - End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach - ⭐️⭐️
A: 13/4 - Mr. America: How Muscular Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden Transformed the Nation Through Sex, Salad, and the Ultimate Starvation Diet, Mark Adams - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 19/2 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 15/3 - Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy, Talia Mae Bettcher - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 19/3 - My Point...And I Do Have One, Ellen DeGeneres - ⭐️
R: 13/4 - Level Up: Your Mental Toughness Boot Camp, Michelle Ribeiro - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 20/6 - Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing - ⭐️⭐️
P: 27/1 - The Psychology Of Weight-Loss: Gain Control of Your Weight for Good - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 20/5 - Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 21/6 - Not Just Me: Anxiety, depression, and learning to embrace your weird - ⭐️⭐️
J: 8/1 - 400 Personal Growth Hack Puzzles: Guess Positive Words, Manifest your Destiny Today, Unlock Happiness and Success, Julia McMahon - ⭐️
A: 12/4 - Alfred Hitchcock - ⭐️⭐️
B: 15/1 - Bank 3.0 - Why Banking is No Longer Somewhere You Go, But Something You Do - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.36
I: 16/6 - Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sunda 32.4
S: 17/1 - The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.42
U: 17/5 - Unlock Your Macro Type: • Identify Your True Body Type • Understand Your Carb Tolerance • Accelerate Fat Loss - ⭐️⭐️
N: 19/6 - Notes from Deep Time - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 9/2 - Do Bigger Things: A Practical Guide to Powerful Innovation in a Changing World - ⭐️⭐️
A: 11/4 - Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go, Amy Wright Glenn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Algerian Arabic 34.7
A: 10/4 - The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, 50th Anniversay Edition - ⭐️⭐️
L: 7/2 - Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple - ⭐️⭐️
G: 23/2 - Gods, Heroes and Monsters: Myths and Legends from Around the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 15/3 - Freedom from Your Inner Critic: A Self-Therapy Approach, Jay Earley - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 11/4 - Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 15/6 - Is This Anything? - ⭐️⭐️
A: 10/4 - Attitude: Vision, Change, Learning, Fear & Boldness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 16/6 - Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography, Nick Rennison - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 9/4 - Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire - ⭐️⭐️
R: 10/4 - Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering, K.F. Riley - ⭐️
A: 7/4 - Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden - ⭐️⭐️
B: 14/1 - Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.73
I: 7/6 - Ice Cream Social: The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 23/2 - The Complete Book of Five Rings - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Moroccan Arabic 27.5
M: 29/1 - Meditations on Intention and Being: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Mindfulness, and Compassion - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 2/6 - Our Place in the Sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era - ⭐⭐
R: 4/8 - The Monkey Is the Messenger: Meditation and What Your Busy Mind Is Trying to Tell You, Ralph De La Rosa - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 17/4 - Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism, Vol. 2 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 21/2 - Children’s Propaganda Games of the Second World War: Playing and Collecting Nazi and Allied War Games - ⭐️⭐️
C: 21/2 - Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film, Craig Ian Mann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 6/4 - The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 15/6 - Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean, Naomi Oreskes - ⭐️⭐️
A: 5/4 - Americana: The Kinks, the Riff, the Road: The Story - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 8/4 - Strategies of Genius, Volume Three, Robert B. Dilts - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 4/2 - Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company - ⭐️ - 2.87
B: 8/2 - The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 1/6 - In Xanadu - ⭐️⭐️
C: 20/2 - The Complete Guide to Adaptogens: From Ashwagandha to Rhodiola, Medicinal Herbs That Transform and Heal - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Ukrainian 27.3
U: 3/5 - Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You - ⭐️⭐️
K: 12/1 - Korean Slang Expressions - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.32
R: 8/4 - Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916 - ⭐️⭐️
A: 5/4 - Amenhotep Iii: Egypt's Radiant Pharaoh - ⭐️⭐️
N: 8/6 - Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent, N.D. Wilson - ⭐⭐
I: 1/6 - In Cold Blood - ⭐⭐
I: 28/5 - Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 1/4 - The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiversity Affirmative Approach - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 7/6 - The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx, Nikki Sixx - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Igbo 27.0
I: 27/5 - Inside the Hotel Rwanda: The Surprising True Story ... and Why It Matters Today - ⭐️⭐️
G: 14/2 - What Is It All But Luminous: Notes From an Underground Man, Art Garfunkel - ⭐️ - 2.74
B: 28/1 - Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction, Jerry Brotton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 12/4 - 1984, George Orwell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Northern Uzbek 25.1
N: 5/6 - The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't - ⭐️⭐️
O: 26/3 - Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals, Oliver Bullough - ⭐️⭐️
R: 4/4 - Riddle of the Feathered Dragons: Hidden Birds of China - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 14/3 - This Beautiful Day: Daily Wisdom from Mister Rogers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 14/3 - How to Win Friends & Influence People - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 9/3 - The Everything Solar Power For Beginners: 2 Books in 1 A Detailed Guide on How to Design & install Solar Energy and Off grid Solar System for Vans, Cabins, Boats, and Homes. - ⭐️⭐️
R: 4/4 - Your Soul Had a Dream, Your Life Is It: How to Be Held by Life When It Feels Like Everything Is Falling Apart, Rebecca Campbell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 31/5 - Networked David Lynch: Critical Perspectives on Cinematic Transmediality - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 28/4 - Unlocked: Embrace Your Greatness, Find the Flow, Discover Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Z: 13/5 - Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, Perry Zurn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 24/1 - From Under the Truck: A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.21
E: 15/3 - Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 20/2 - The Bhagavad Gita, Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - ⭐️⭐️
Sindhi 24.6
S: 13/2 - The Freedom Model for Addictions: Escape the Treatment and Recovery Trap, Steven Slate - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 25/5 - The Sorites Principle: How to harness the power of perseverance, Ian Gibbs - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 21/1 - Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.29
D: 25/1 - The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning, Peter J. Hotez - ⭐️⭐️
H: 11/3 - How to Read a Chicken's Mind: Understand How Chickens Learn, Perceive People, Express Emotions, and Pass Down Knowledge - ⭐️⭐️
I: 22/5 - Imposter No More: Overcome Self-Doubt and Imposterism to Cultivate a Successful Career - ⭐️⭐️
North Levantine Arabic 24.6
N: 30/5 - Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World, Nick Lane - ⭐️⭐️
O: 22/3 - Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos, Ogi Ogas - ⭐️⭐️
R: 3/4 - A Brief History of Thailand: Monarchy, War and Resilience: The Fascinating Story of the Gilded Kingdom at the Heart of Asia, Richard A. Ruth - ⭐️⭐️
T: Toronto, Lonely Planet - ⭐️⭐️
H: 7/3 - Hidden in the Heavens: How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 5/2 - Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 19/1 - The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence - ⭐️
A: 12/1 - Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture, Amelia Abraham - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.06
N: 25/5 - Nature's Architect: The beaver's return to our wild landscapes - ⭐️⭐️
T: 4/3 - Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland - ⭐️⭐️
I: 19/5 - The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 23/5 - Nine Lives: My time as the MI6's top spy inside al-Qaeda - ⭐️⭐️
E: 6/3 - Fitter. Calmer. Stronger.: A Mindful Approach to Exercise and Nutrition, Ellie Goulding - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 4/4 - $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No, Alex Hormozi - ⭐️⭐️
R: 2/4 - The Sweet Polish Kitchen: A Celebration of Home Baking and Nostalgic Treats, Ren Behan - ⭐️⭐️
A: 3/4 - The Wild World Handbook: Creatures, Andrea Debbink - ⭐️⭐️
B: 24/1 - Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales - ⭐️⭐️
I: 18/5 - Veronica Mars and Philosophy: Investigating the Mysteries of Life (Which is a Bitch Until You Die), William Irwin - ⭐️⭐️
C: 16/2 - Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Romanian 24.3
R: 29/3 - Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different - ⭐️⭐️
O: 15/3 - Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 29/1 - My Pocket Meditations for Anxiety: Anytime Exercises to Reduce Stress, Ease Worry, and Invite Calm - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 31/3 - The Genius Within: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential, David Adam - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 18/5 - Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading, Nina Sankovitch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 6/5 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944 - ⭐️⭐️
A: 30/3 - The Ancient Alien Question: A New Inquiry Into the Existence, Evidence, and Influence of Ancient Visitors - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 12/1 - Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life - ⭐️ - 3.46
Tagalog 23.6
T: 2/3 - Design Your Work: Praxis Volume 1, Tiago Forte - ⭐️⭐️
A: 29/3 - Value-Based Fees: How to Charge What You're Worth and Get What You Charge, Alan Weiss - ⭐️⭐️
G: 13/2 - Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before - ⭐️⭐️
A: 12/1 - The Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.72
L: 3/2 - Lonely Planet Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 8/3 - Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman, Mallory O'Meara - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 4/2 - The Geography of Hope: Real-Life Stories of Optimists Mapping a Better World - ⭐️
Dutch 23.1
D: 14/1 - Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.32
U: 26/4 - The Ultimate Guide to Body Recomposition - ⭐️⭐️
T: 28/2 - A Beginner's Guide to Watercolor Painting: Step-by-Step Lessons for Portraits, Landscapes and Still Lifes, Takako Miyoshi - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 10/2 - Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 3/3 - How to Be Great at The Stuff You Hate: The Straight-Talking Guide to Networking, Persuading and Selling - ⭐️
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Saʽidi Arabic 22.4
S: 28/2 - The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country - ⭐️⭐️
A: 29/3 - Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives, Autumn Whitefield-Madrano - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 1/5 - Is Anyone Listening?: What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 6/1 - Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.20
I: 26/4 - Intermediate Poker Mathematics - ⭐️
A: 27/3 - Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World, Aja Raden - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 29/3 - Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 26/3 - Psychology 101: The 101 Ideas, Concepts and Theories that Have Shaped Our World, Adrian Furnham - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 21/1 - Born Both: An Intersex Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 22/4 - In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature's Scents, Dominique Roques - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 8/2 - Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?, Daniel Chandler - ⭐️⭐️
Gan Chinese 22.1
G: 3/2 - Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick - ⭐️⭐️
A: 25/3 - Africa's Business Revolution: How to Succeed in the World's Next Big Growth Market - ⭐️⭐️
N: 17/5 - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 7/2 - 101 Places Not to See Before You Die, Catherine Price - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 3/3 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 21/4 - Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation Postmaster: The Top Secret Story Behind 007 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 16/5 - The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 4/3 - Play Like a Girl: How a Soccer School in Kenya's Slums Started a Revolution, Ellie Roscher - ⭐️⭐️
S: 28/1 - Satisfaction Guaranteed: How to Have the Sex You’ve Always Wanted - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.22
E: 3/3 - Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, Elyse Graham - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Amharic 21.9
A: 25/3 - Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 25/1 - My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace, Rosie Weldon - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 28/2 - House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 23/3 - The Stories Behind Astrology: Discover the mythology of the zodiac & stars, Alison Davies - ⭐️⭐️
R: 28/3 - Rebel King: The Making of a Monarch - ⭐️⭐️
I: 20/2 - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.12
C: 4/2 - Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Northern Pashto 20.9
N: 14/5 - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 6/3 - On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 27/3 - Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose - ⭐️
T: 28/2 - This Business of Artist Management: The Standard Reference to All Phases of Managing a Musician's Career from Both the Artist's and Manager's Point of View - ⭐️⭐️
H: 24/2 - The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, Victor Hugo - ⭐️⭐️
E: 12/1 - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.20
R: 24/3 - Fentanyl Nation: Toxic Politics and America's Failed War on Drugs, Ryan Hampton - ⭐️⭐️
N: 13/5 - No Limits: Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 24/1 - The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 23/3 - American Cheese: An Indulgent Odyssey Through the Artisan Cheese World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 17/3 - Communication: Your Key to Success: Unlock the Secrets that Will Increase Productivity and Propel You to a Brighter, More Fulfilling Future, Shirley Taylor - ⭐️⭐️
H: 24/2 - The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras, Brantley Hargrove - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 26/2 - T. Rex and the Crater of Doom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 2/3 - Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Magahi 20.7
M: 13/1 - The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.27
A: 23/3 - Autism and Buddhist Practice: How Buddhism Can Help Autistic Adults Cultivate Wellbeing - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 27/1 - Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 21/3 - Caligula: A Biography, Aloys Winterling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 23/2 - Find More Birds: 111 Surprising Ways to Spot Birds Wherever You Are, Heather Wolf - ⭐️⭐️
I: 19/4 - The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thai 20.7
T: 23/2 - Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis, Tao Leigh Goffe - ⭐️⭐️
H: 17/1 - How To Tell Fate From Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.02
A: 20/3 - Asperger Syndrome in the Family: Redefining Normal - ⭐️⭐️
I: 17/4 - Invincible: My Journey from Fan to NFL Team Captain - ⭐️⭐️
Saraiki 20.0
S: 24/3 - Profit From The Source: Transforming Your Business by Putting Suppliers at the Core, Christian Schuh - ⭐️⭐️
A: 19/3 - Buried Alive: A History of Premature Burials and Accidental Interments, AJ Griffiths-Jones - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 23/3 - Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment, Todd Rose - ⭐️⭐️
A: 5/2 - AI for Life: 100+ Ways to Use Artificial Intelligence to Make Your Life Easier, More Productive…and More Fun! - ⭐️⭐️ - 5.00
I: 15/4 - Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives, Isaiah Hankel - ⭐️⭐️
K: 14/2 - The Key to Study Skills: Simple Strategies to Double Your Reading, Memory, and Focus - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 15/4 - Identically Different: Why We Can Change Our Genes - ⭐️⭐️
Khmer 16.6
K: 14/2 - Kiin: Recipes and Stories from Northern Thailand - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 22/2 - A History of Europe in 12 Cafés - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 26/1 - Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting - ⭐️⭐️
E: 17/2 - For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son's Search for Norwegian Happiness, Eric Dregni - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.16
R: 23/3 - The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chhattisgarhi 16.3
C: 3/2 - Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 21/2 - Hair - ⭐️⭐️
H: 5/2 - How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days - ⭐️⭐️
A: 18/3 - Artisanal Preserves: Small-Batch Jams, Jellies, Marmalades, and More - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 22/2 - Lonely Planet Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei, Winnie Tan - ⭐️⭐️
T: 14/1 - Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.68
I: 10/4 - It's Not Your Fault: Why Childhood Trauma Shapes You and How to Break Free - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 23/3 - Source Code: My Beginnings - ⭐️⭐️
G: 19/1 - Get a Life: A Roadmap to Rule the World - ⭐️
A: 17/3 - Great Women's Speeches: Empowering Voices that Engage and Inspire, Anna Russell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 21/3 - Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry, John J. Robinson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 20/2 - Hot and Unbothered: How to Think About, Talk About, and Have the Sex You Really Want - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 10/4 - An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine - ⭐️⭐️
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Somali 16.2
S: 8/3 - Social Media and Society: An Introduction to the Mass Media Landscape - ⭐️⭐️
O: 3/3 - Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law - ⭐️ - 4.21
M: 23/1 - My Anti-Stress Year: 52 Weeks of Soothing Activities and Wellness Advice - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 17/3 - Anything is Possible: Inspirational lessons from one of the greatest England football managers - ⭐️
L: 1/2 - The Laughter Effect: How to Build Joy, Resilience and Positivity in Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
I: 9/4 - Industrial Solvents Handbook - ⭐️
Malaysian 16.1
M: 16/1 - Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.11
A: 17/3 - Am I Making Myself Clear?: Secrets of the World's Greatest Communicators - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 27/1 - The Language of Loss: Poetry and Prose for Grieving and Celebrating the Love of Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
A: 16/3 - Accelerated Minds: Unlocking the Fascinating, Inspiring, and Often Destructive Impulses that Drive the Entrepreneurial Brain - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 11/2 - Your Soul Had a Dream, Your Life Is It: How to Be Held by Life When It Feels Like Everything Is Falling Apart - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 6/3 - 1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half, Stephen R. Bown - ⭐️⭐️
I: 9/4 - Aflame: Learning from Silence, Pico Iyer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 14/3 - Any Ordinary Day - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 6/5 - Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception, Neel Burton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cebuano 15.9
C: 3/2 - Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane - ⭐️⭐️
E: 2/3 - Extend Your Mind: Praxis Volume 2 - ⭐️
B: 11/1 - Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 26/4 - The Uncomfortable Truth: Change Your Life By Taming 10 of Your Mind's Greatest Fears - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 8/2 - Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra - The Irresistible Story of an Irrepressible Woman, Anne Aly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.19
N: 1/5 - No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 16/2 - Overtaken by the Night: One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nepali 15.8
N: 9/2 - No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus explains how the world works - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.15
E: 2/3 - Billie Eilish, Billie Eilish - ⭐️
P: 21/1 - The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty - ⭐️⭐️
A: 13/3 - After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice - ⭐️⭐️
L: 18/1 - Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote d'Azur 11 - ⭐️⭐️
I: 9/4 - Female Camp Guards: In the Sights of the Investigators in East and West Germany, Lorenz Ingmann - ⭐️
Mesopotamian Arabic 15.7
M: 1/2 - 365 Health & Happiness Boosters:, M.J. Ryan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 26/2 - Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language - ⭐️⭐️
S: 28/2 - The Seeker's Guide to The Secret Teachings of All Ages: The Authorized Companion to Manly P. Hall's Esoteric Landmark - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 16/2 - The Ozempic Revolution: A Doctor's Proven Plan for Success to Help You Reverse Obesity, End Yo-Yo Dieting, and Protect Yourself from Disease - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 17/1 - The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 13/1 - Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.75
T: 21/2 - Born to Manage: The Autobiography, Terry Venables - ⭐️
A: 13/3 - The Dark Side of Autism: Struggling to Find Peace and Understanding When Life's Not Full of Rainbows, Unicorns and Blessings, Angela Berg-Dallara - ⭐️
M: 19/1 - Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell - ⭐️⭐️
I: 6/4 - Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star, Ian Hunter - ⭐️
A: 13/3 - Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis, Annie Jacobsen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 18/4 - Money, A Love Story: Untangle Your Financial Woes and Create the Life You Really Want, Kate Northrup - ⭐️⭐️
A: 12/3 - Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell - ⭐️⭐️
R: 18/3 - Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 12/3 - Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 11/1 - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 3/4 - Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies and Symbols - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 28/1 - Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law - ⭐️⭐️
Assamese 15.3
A: 11/3 - The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie - ⭐️
S: 25/2 - Sous Vide at Home: The Modern Technique for Perfectly Cooked Meals A Cookbook - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 17/2 - The Story Is Everything: Mastering Creative Communication for Business - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 5/3 - The Alchemist - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 10/1 - Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.53
E: 26/2 - Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lienu Zhuan of Liu Xiang - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 15/2 - The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 25/2 - Emotional Healing: How to Put Yourself Back Together Again - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sinhalese 15.3
S: 12/2 - She Memes Well - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 25/3 - Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 16/4 - NEW-Lonely Planet The Netherlands 8, Nicola Williams - ⭐️⭐️
H: 15/2 - The Wonder Paradox: Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life, Jennifer Michael Hecht - ⭐️⭐️
A: 16/1 - Avocado: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.95
L: 26/1 - Literally, the Best Language Book Ever: Annoying Words and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again - ⭐️
E: 25/2 - Exposure Anxiety - The Invisible Cage: An Exploration of Self-Protection Responses in the Autism Spectrum and Beyond - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 9/2 - Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre - ⭐️⭐️
E: 25/2 - Emergency Preparedness and Survival Guide - ⭐️
Northern Kurdish 14.6
N: 14/4 - The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band, Neil Strauss - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 31/1 - Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 18/3 - First: What It Takes to Win, Rich Froning - ⭐️⭐️
T: 20/2 - The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination - ⭐️⭐️
H: 4/2 - How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home - ⭐️⭐️
E: 23/2 - Exploration of the Solar System by Infrared Remote Sensing - ⭐️
R: 15/3 - The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters, Robert Muir-Wood - ⭐️⭐️
N: 14/4 - Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, Nelson Johnson - ⭐️⭐️
K: 14/2 - The Keane Edge: Mastering The Mindset For Real, Lasting Fat Loss - ⭐️⭐️
U: 5/4 - An Unlikely Prisoner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 9/3 - Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture, Robert McParland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 15/1 - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 25/3 - Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe, Ian Stewart - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 2/2 - The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies - ⭐️⭐️
H: 14/1 - The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.15
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Hejazi Arabic 14.5
H: 13/1 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.50
E: 25/2 - Embrace Your Almost: Find Clarity and Contentment in the In-Betweens, Not-Quites, and Unknowns - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Z: 26/4 - History of Hygiene in Modern France, A: The Threshold of Disgust, Steven Zdatny - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 11/3 - American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History - ⭐️⭐️
J: 15/1 - Final Destination: Disaster: What Really Happened to Eastern Airlines, George Jehn New York - ⭐️⭐️
I: 24/3 - Women Who Love Men Who Kill: 35 True Stories of Prison Passion, Sheila Isenberg - ⭐️
A: 9/3 - Adulthood for Beginners: All the Life Secrets Nobody Bothered to Tell You - ⭐️⭐️
R: 24/2 - Radiant: The Dancer, The Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 9/3 - Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman, Abby Stein - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 9/1 - Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death - ⭐️
I: 23/3 - Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences, Alex Iantaffi - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 26/1 - Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nigerian Fulfulde 14.5
N: 12/4 - Nettle Power: Forage, Feast & Nourish Yourself with This Remarkable Healing Plant - ⭐️⭐️
I: 22/3 - Stories at Work: Unlock the Secret to Business Storytelling, Indranil Chakraborty - ⭐️⭐️
G: 15/1 - Get Your Spark Back: How to Find Happiness and Reignite Your Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.58
E: 23/2 - Body Language: Learn How to Read Others and Communicate with Confidence, Elizabeth Kuhnke - ⭐️
R: 24/2 - Flavour: Eat What You Love, Ruby Tandoh - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 22/3 - Thread of the Silkworm, Iris Chang - ⭐️⭐️
A: 9/3 - Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History on the Road and off the Tracks - ⭐️⭐️
N: 6/4 - David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire, Martha P. Nochimson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
F: 9/1 - Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation - ⭐️⭐️
U: 3/4 - Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A handbook for entrepreneurs, Uri Levine - ⭐️⭐️
L: 25/1 - The Long Covid Self-Help Guide: Practical Ways to Manage Symptoms - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
F: 7/1 - Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 19/1 - Lead Them with Virtue: A Confucian Alternative to War - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 2/4 - The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years, Ulbe Bosma - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 11/1 - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs - ⭐️
E: 22/2 - Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything, Rob Eastaway - ⭐️⭐️
Bavarian 14.1
B: 9/1 - Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 6/3 - An Architectural Approach to Level Design - ⭐️⭐️
V: 17/1 - Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 24/1 - Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.41
R: 19/2 - 90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience, and Authenticity, Joan I. Rosenberg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 19/3 - Imagine Big: Unlock the Secret to Living Out Your Dreams - ⭐️
A: 4/3 - Anxiety: Using Depth Psychology to Find a Balance in Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
N: 29/3 - Mind Over Clutter: Cleaning Your Way to a Calm and Happy Home, Nicola Lewis - ⭐️
South Azerbaijani 13.8
S: 9/2 - So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in 'Pride and Prejudice' - ⭐️
O: 31/1 - On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
U: 3/3 - Unbeaten: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Rocky Marciano - ⭐️⭐️
T: 15/2 - Think Better: Unlocking the Power of Reason - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 22/2 - Having a Martha Home the Mary Way: 31 Days to a Clean House and a Satisfied Soul - ⭐️
A: 3/3 - A More Loving World : How to increase compassion, kindness and joy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Z: 22/3 - Zhuangzi: A New Translation of the Sayings of Master Zhuang as Interpreted by Guo Xiang - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 19/2 - The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R; 18/2 - Relentless Optimism: How a Commitment to Positive Thinking Changes Everything - ⭐️⭐️
B: 5/1 - Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 2/3 - Animal Moves: How to Move Like an Animal to Get You Leaner, Fitter, Stronger and Healthier for Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 16/3 - I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids - ⭐️⭐️
J: 2/1 - Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.13
A: 28/2 - Alcatraz: The Last Escape - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 26/3 - Century of Song: 101 Songs that Shaped American Music, Noah Lefevre - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 2/3 - I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️
Greek 13.1
G: 23/1 - A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food, Ben Gazur - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 9/2 - Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System, Ray Jayawardhana - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.81
E: 18/2 - Manufacturing Happy Citizens: How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives, Edgar Cabanas - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 16/2 - Energy Harvesting and Energy Efficiency: Technology, Methods, and Applications - ⭐️⭐️
K: 12/2 - X-Rays, Kristin Thiel - ⭐️⭐️
Chittagonian 13.0
C: 26/1 - Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By, Cary Siegel - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 7/2 - 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World, Seán Hewitt - ⭐️⭐️
I: 12/1 - I Want to be Confident: Living, Working and Communicating with Confidence - ⭐️⭐️ - 3.40
T: 12/2 - The Tilted Playing Field: Is Criminal Justice Unfair? - ⭐️
T: 6/2 - Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman - ⭐️⭐️
A: 28/2 - The Auschwitz Kommandant: A Daughter's Search for the Father She Never Knew - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 18/1 - Garden to Table Cookbook: A Guide to Preserving and Cooking What You Grow - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 31/1 - Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 24/3 - A Brief History of Archaeology: Classical Times to the Twenty-First Century, Nadia Durrani - ⭐️⭐️
I: 27/2 - Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species - ⭐️⭐️
A: 27/2 - Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 21/3 - Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe - ⭐️⭐️
Kazakh 12.9
K: 8/2 - Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 27/2 - Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, Angela Y. Davis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Z: 18/4 - Xi Jinping: ---What Does Xi Want?, Zhong Wen/Zhang Jie - ⭐️⭐️
A: 27/2 - The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More - ⭐️⭐️
K: 27/1 - What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Eating and Weight Issues, Karen R. Koenig - ⭐️⭐️
H: 8/2 - A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.21
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Deccan 12.8
D: 8/1 - Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 21/2 - 100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Turn Your Home Garden into a Healthy Bird Habitat, Laura Erickson - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.28
C: 26/1 - Creating Signature Stories: Strategic Messaging that Persuades, Energizes and Inspires - ⭐️⭐️
C: 25/1 - Crucial Influence, Third Edition: Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 24/2 - Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris, Anne de Courcy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 16/2 - The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World - ⭐️⭐️
Hungarian 12.6
H: 2/2 - How to Eat a Lobster: And Other Edible Enigmas Explained - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 14/2 - Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist - ⭐️⭐️
N: 20/2 - Beyond the Throne: Epic Journeys, Enduring Friendships, and Surprising Tales, Kristian Nairn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.16
G: 10/1 - The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 22/2 - Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers - ⭐️⭐️
R: 18/2 - The Joy of Pain: Schadenfreude and the Dark Side of Human Nature, Richard H. Smith - ⭐️⭐️
I: 26/2 - I Can Read You Like A Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending With Their Body Language - ⭐️⭐️
A: 21/2 - At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 16/1 - North to Paradise: A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.26
Kinyarwanda 12.1
K: 7/1 - Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade - ⭐️⭐️
I: 15/2 - The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear - ⭐️⭐️
N: 13/3 - The Censor's Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia's Banned Books, Nicole Moore - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 9/2 - You Can't Have It All: The Basic B*tch Guide to Taking the Pressure Off - ⭐️
A: 20/2 - 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life: BS-Free Wisdom to Ignite Your Inner Badass and Live the Life You Deserve, Andrea Owen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 13/2 - Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations - ⭐️⭐️
W: 10/1 - When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 20/2 - Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 12/3 - Question Everything: 132 science questions - and their unexpected answers, New Scientist - ⭐️
D: 5/1 - Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria - ⭐️⭐️
A: 16/2 - The Awesome Autistic Go-To Guide: A Practical Handbook for Autistic Teens and Tweens - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.11
Zulu 12.1
Z: 14/2 - The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, Robert Zubrin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.11
U: 22/3 - This Is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More, Uma Naidoo - ⭐️⭐️
L: 11/1 - The Loneliest Polar Bear - ⭐️⭐️
U: 1/2 - Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food… and Why Can't We Stop? - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
South Levantine Arabic 11.6
S: 2/2 - The Secrets of Italy: People, Places, and Hidden Histories - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 31/1 - The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 30/1 - Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 11/2 - This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.11
H: 2/1 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 1/1 - The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 6/2 - Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms - ⭐️⭐️
V: 10/1 - Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM - ⭐️⭐️
A: 19/2 - Anxiety for Beginners: A Personal Investigation - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 11/3 - The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance, Nate Zinsser - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 10/2 - Twelve Years in the Grave - Mind Control with Electromagnetic Spectrums, the Invisible Modern Concentration Camp. - ⭐️
I: 13/2 - The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 7/3 - Notes from New Zealand - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 1/2 - Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity, Essie Dennis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 19/2 - The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good - ⭐️⭐️
R: 11/2 - Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 19/2 - The Ancient Science of Mantras: Wisdom of the Sages - ⭐️⭐️
B: 4/1 - Burnt Out to Lit Up: How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People - ⭐️⭐️
I: 12/2 - Identities Through Fashion: A Multidisciplinary Approach - ⭐️⭐️
C: 24/1 - Confessions of an Event Planner: Case Studies from the Real World of Events--How to Handle the Unexpected and How to Be a Master of Discretion - ⭐️
Tunisian Arabic 11.6
T: 4/2 - Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 30/1 - Unlocking Japanese with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 21/2 - Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have To Give Up in Order To Grow - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 10/2 - Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People - 3.61 - ⭐️⭐️
S: 30/1 - Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 10/2 - Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 10/2 - The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 19/2 - Now Is the Way: An Unconventional Approach to Modern Mindfulness - ⭐️⭐️
A: 7/2 - Agent You: Show Up, Do the Work, and Succeed on Your Own Terms - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 8/2 - Floral Estrangements: Taunt Your Rivals & Vanquish Your Enemies through the Language of Flowers, Rebecca Fishbein - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 7/2 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 3/1 - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens - ⭐️⭐️
I: 6/2 - Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 17/1 - Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sanaani Spoken Arabic 11.4
S: 17/1 - What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, Stephen A. Schwarzman - ⭐️⭐️
A: 4/2 - Atlas of Paranormal Places: A Journey to the World's Most Supernatural Places - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 19/2 - North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest to Reveal the True Source Behind the World's Greatest Plays - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 31/1 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 27/1 - All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian - ⭐️⭐️
N: 14/2 - 100 Must-read Historical Novels, Nick Rennison - ⭐️⭐️
I: 4/2 - Is That Thing Diesel?: One Man, One Bike and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil - ⭐️⭐️
S: 10/1 - The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 5/1 - Philosophical Posthumanism - ⭐️⭐️
O: 30/1 - Open Book - ⭐️⭐️
K: 26/1 - Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, Lydia Kang - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 31/1 - Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 13/2 - A New Science of Heaven: How the new science of plasma physics is shedding light on spiritual experience - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 26/1 - The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 5/2 - A Woman in the Polar Night, Christiane Ritter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 16/1 - The Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making and Marketing of Atoll K, Norbert Aping - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.11
B: 2/1 - Blade Runner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 1/2 - I Never Knew There Was a Word for It - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 13/1 - Changes That Heal: Four Practical Steps to a Happier, Healthier You - ⭐️
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Northern Min 11.0
N: 24/2 - Primates in Flooded Habitats: Ecology and Conservation, Katarzyna Nowak - ⭐️
O: 24/1 - Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 16/3 - 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing, Babette Rothschild - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 24/1 - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 24/1 - How to Organize Inherited Items: A Step-by-Step Guide for Dealing with Boxes of Your Parents' Stuff - ⭐️⭐️
E: 22/1 - The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone - ⭐️⭐️
R: 2/2 - Royal Mysteries of the Tudor Period - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 31/1 - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - ⭐️⭐️
M: 22/2 - Ancient Magic: A Practitioner's Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome, Philip Matyszak - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.01
I: 28/1 - I'm So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 31/1 - New Aging: Live Smarter Now to Live Better Forever - ⭐️⭐️
Southern Pashto 10.9
S: 10/1 - Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom - ⭐️⭐️
O: 22/1 - Opening the Door of Your Heart and Other Buddhist Tales of Happiness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 26/1 - Unstoppable Brain: The New Neuroscience that Frees Us from Failure, Eases Our Stress, and Creates Lasting Change - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 19/1 - The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 8/1 - How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 7/1 - Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers - ⭐️ - 3.90
R: 30/1 - Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything, Aly Raisman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 30/1 - No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 5/1 - Precision Pool: Your Guide to Mastering Key Skills, Shots, and Strategies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 11/1 - After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 5/1 - The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want - ⭐️⭐️
H: 4/1 - How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More. - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 18/1 - What You Think of Me Is None of My Business, Terry Cole‐Whittaker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 1/1 - Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything - ⭐️
Rundi 10.8
R: 21/1 - Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mark Ribowsky - ⭐️⭐️
U: 26/1 - Undoing Urgency: Reclaim Your Time for the Things that Matter Most - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 29/1 - Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions and Rationales - ⭐️
D: 1/1 - Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 24/1 - Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.81
Czech 10.7
C: 16/3 - Civil Unity: The Radical Path to Transform Our Discourse, Our Lives, and Our World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Z: 21/2 - The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 11/1 - Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway - ⭐️
C: 3/1 - Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away - ⭐️⭐️
H: 4/3 - Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, Jennifer Homans - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.01
Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic 10.5
T: 17/1 - Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain: The Practice of Informed Touch - ⭐️⭐️
A: 7/1 - Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 4/2 - It All Began With A Scream - ⭐️⭐️ - 4.10
Z: 2/2 - The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Z: 21/1 - Anatomy of Facial Expression, Uldis Zarins - ⭐️⭐️
I: 30/1 - Is There Life Outside the Box?: An Actor Despairs - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 5/1 - The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 3/1 - Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 11/1 - Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things - ⭐️⭐️
N: 29/1 - Nanoparticles - Nanocomposites – Nanomaterials: An Introduction for Beginners - ⭐️⭐️
I: 29/1 - The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us - ⭐️⭐️
A: 4/1 - Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life - ⭐️⭐️
R: 10/1 - Read to Lead - ⭐️⭐️
A: 3/1 - Am I Going to Be Okay?: Money—Timely Intelligence, Actionable Ideas, Answers to the Questions that Really Matter - ⭐️⭐️
B: 1/1 - Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 28/1 - The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct - ⭐️⭐️
C: 1/1 - Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth - ⭐️
Uyghur 10.4
U: 11/1 - Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership - ⭐️⭐️
Y: 11/1 - You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass): Embracing the Emotions, Habits, and Mystery That Make You You - ⭐️⭐️
G: 3/1 - The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 4/1 - How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 8/1 - Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace - ⭐️⭐️
R: 9/1 - Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 4.31
Eastern Min 10.3
E: 5/1 - Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 2/1 - Absolutely - ⭐️⭐️
S: 3/1 - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 8/1 - Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 1/1 - Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 5/1 - Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother - ⭐️
N: 29/1 - Not Quite the Classics - ⭐️⭐️
M: 1/1 - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.91
I: 27/1 - I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times - ⭐️⭐️
N: 4/1 - Never Finished - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sylheti 10.3
S: 3/1 - So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 7/1 - A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds - ⭐️ - 3.18
L: 18/1 - Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer, Heather Lende - ⭐️⭐️
H: 2/1 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 3/1 - Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 4/1 - Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 8/1 - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Short and Gilded Life of Tara Browne, the Man Who Inspired The Beatles' Greatest Song - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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My rating system:
⭐ - Didn't like &/or was of no use to me.
⭐⭐ - Was ok, but wouldn't re-read.
⭐⭐⭐ - I liked it & took some notes.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ - I really enjoyed it & took a lot of notes.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - I got so much value from this & would recommend to anyone.