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Member Challenge Tracking 2025
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$helly's Reading Year 2025
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PBT Monthly Tags1. Jan Canada
A Fatal Grace
2. Feb Science
When Breath Becomes Air,
The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy,
Find a Way
3. Mar Thriller
Death on the Nile
4. Apr Fun
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
5. May Strong Women
Betty
6. Jun Summer
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
7. Jul Speculative Fiction
The Immortalists
8. Aug Family drama
Silver Sparrow,
The Book of Speculation
9. Sep Around the World
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
The Director
There Are Rivers in the Sky
The Women
The Power of One
10. Oct Sci-fi Fantasy
Starter Villain
Spinning Silver
11. Nov
12. Dec
F2F Book Club✔
✔Jan Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
✔Feb When Breath Becomes Air
Mar The Splendid and the Vile
✔ Apr Bright I Burn
✔ May Betty
✔ Jun The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Jul Yellowface
✔ Aug The Life Impossible
✔ Sep Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
✔ Oct The Women
Nov James
Play Harder List #2Tracking here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
1. Read a book in which a character travels by train
2. Read a book you know nothing about (pick it based on the title, cover, or author you love or want to try - don't read the synopsis or reviews.) The Director
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
3. Read a book that fits your favorite PBT tag from 2024
August tag -- 5 stars
The Power of One
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
***4. Read a book with a religious figure as a main character (priest, nun, monk, chaplain, pastor, vicar, rabbi, muezzin, the Pope, Buddha, prophet, etc.).***
Entered in October swap
5. A romance or love story
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
6. Read a book from a fellow PBT member's historical fiction shelf that is tagged historical fiction at least 5x
From Amy's shelf
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
7. A book with a cat on the cover.
Starter Villain
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
8. A book rated 5 stars read by any PBT member whose first name starts with the same initial as yours, i.e. Amy could read one of Anita's 5 star rated books.
SWZippy The Women
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
9. A biography or autobiography
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
10. Read a book you have borrowed from your local library.
11. Read a book by an author you've been meaning to try, but never have read before
Spinning Silver
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
12. Read a book found on PBT's Shelfagories shelf
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Possibles
1. Read a book in which a character travels by train
The Edge
Outbound Train
The Last Train to Key West
✔2. Read a book you know nothing about (pick it based on the title, cover, or author you love or want to try - don't read the synopsis or reviews.)
The Director
✔3. Read a book that fits your favorite PBT tag from 2024
August 5 stars James
The Power of One
4. Read a book with a religious figure as a main character (priest, nun, monk, chaplain, pastor, vicar, rabbi, muezzin, the Pope, Buddha, prophet, etc.).
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
Pope Joan
The Name of the Rose
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
✔5. A romance or love story
Fourth Wing
Love in the Time of Cholera
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Red, White & Royal Blue
The House in the Cerulean Sea
✔6. Read a book from a fellow PBT member's historical fiction shelf that is tagged historical fiction at least 5x
*Amy There Are Rivers in the Sky
James
Barbara M The Power of One
✔7. A book with a cat on the cover.
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Starter Villain
Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve
✔8. A book rated 5 stars read by any PBT member whose first name starts with the same initial as yours, i.e. Amy could read one of Anita's 5 star rated books.
SW Zippy The Women
✔9. A biography or autobiography
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
9 1/2 Narrow: My Life in Shoes
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
10. Read a book you have borrowed from your local library.
✔11. Read a book by an author you've been meaning to try, but never have read before ,
My Brilliant Friend
Spinning Silver
The Frozen River
The Golden Compass
12. Read a book found on PBT's Shelfagories shelf
Watchmen
The Secret History
The Stepford Wives
My Brilliant Friend
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Play Harder list #1✔ 1. A book with a plot including a circus or carnival The Book of Speculation
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 2. Read a book with the character(s) name in the title. Nina Simone in Comics!
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...?
comment=285139016#comment_285139016
✔3. A family saga or family drama Betty
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 4. Read a book by an author who is also a scientist The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 5. A book set somewhere not on Earth Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 6. Cover includes shiny gold or silver lettering in Title Silver Sparrow
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
3 stars
✔ 7. A book featuring a female athlete Find a Way
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 8. Reread a chapter book that you originally read under the age of 18. Beezus and Ramona
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 9. Read a book you’ve borrowed from a friend. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 10. Read a book that was published posthumously When Breath Becomes Air
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 11. Read an audiobook When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ 12. Read a book about or set in Eqypt. Death on the Nile
review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Bottom ShelfI'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
The Power of One (reread)
Natural Causes: Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
Thirteen Moons
Look Homeward, Angel
The Three-Body Problem
A Brief History of Seven Killings
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
New York
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction
October PossiblesSpinning Silver (PHC #11) New to me author
Watchmen (PHC#12) Shelfagories
Starter Villain (PHC #7) Cat on cover
September Possibles
Around the World meets Play Harder Challenge
The Director (PHC #2)
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War (PHC # 9)
The Power of One (PHC #6)
There Are Rivers in the Sky (PHC #10)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (PHC #5)
Coffee Shop Reads1. Shitty First Drafts by Ann Lamott 1/10/25
https://mccourt.georgetown.edu/wp-con...
In Bird by Bird
2. On Perfectionism by Ann Lamott 1/16/25
https://cottonenglish.weebly.com/uplo...
In Bird by Bird
3. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury 1/28
audio on 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales Podcast
excellent
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 4/22
F. Scott Fitzgerald story.
Maybe i should watch the movie!
Ideas
https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/
podcast 1001 Classic short stories
You Took the Last Bus Home
These Precious Days: Essays
Galatea
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January
1. A Fatal Grace (2006) 4 stars
2. Nina Simone in Comics! (2023) 4 stars
3. Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption (2009) 4 stars
4. Bird by Bird 3.5 stars
February
5. The Magician’s Nephew (1955) 3 stars
6. When Breath Becomes Air (2016) 4 stars
7. The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy (2022) 3 stars
8. Find a Way (2015) 4 stars
March
9. Death on the Nile (1937) 4 stars
10. Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1 (1968) 3 stars
11. Beezus and Ramona (1955) audio --4 stars
12. Oromay (1983) 5 stars
April
13. Bright I Burn 3 stars
14. When You Are Engulfed in Flames 3 stars
May
15. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper 2023 4 stars
16. Betty (2020) 5 stars
June
17. Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration (2021) 4 stars
18. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (2023) 4 stars
July
19. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (2023) 4 stars
20. The Immortalists (2019) 5 stars
August
21. The Life Impossible 3 stars
22. Silver Sparrow (2011) 3 stars
23. The Book of Speculation (2015) 4 stars
September
24. It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War (2014) 4 stars
25. The House in the Cerulean Sea (2020) 4 stars
26. The Director 5 stars
27. There Are Rivers in the Sky (2024) 5 stars
28. The Women (2024) 5 stars
29. The Power of One (1989) 5 stars
October
30. Starter Villain (2023) 4 stars
31. Spinning Silver (2018) 4 stars