PopSugar 2025:
1. A book about a POC experiencing joy and not trauma - Crazy Rich Asians
2. A book you want to read based on the last sentence - Earthly Joys
3. A book about space tourism - The Halloween Tree
4. A book with two or more books on the cover -

Death on Demand (Death on Demand, #1) by Carolyn G. Hart

or "book" in the title - The Book Woman's Daughter
5. A book with a snake on the cover or in the title -

The Comfort of Crows A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

6. A book that fills your favorite prompt from the 2015 PS Reading Challenge:
1 More than 500 pages - A Court of Mist and Fury
2 Classic romance
3 Became a movie - The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
4 Published in 2015 - Yarned and Dangerous
5 Number in the title - Notorious Nineteen
6 Written by someone under 30 - War Storm
7 Nonhuman characters - Remarkably Bright Creatures
8 Funny - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
9 Female author - Shiver
10 Mystery - Will to Live or thriller - Savage Run
11 One word title - Identity
12 Book of short stories - Victoria Line, Central Line
13 Set in a different country - Lost Roses
14 Nonfiction - American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
15 Popular author's first book - Zoo Station
16 A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet - The Next Queen of Heaven
17 Recommended by a friend - Out of Nowhere
18 Pulitzer Prize winner - Empire Falls, The Grapes of Wrath, The Road, Roots, Middlesex, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, The Wild Iris, The Road, Gilead, Less, Interpreter of Maladies, The Orphan Master's Son, Gone with the Wind, The Night Watchman, The Marriage Plot
19 Based on a true story - Far to Go
20 At the bottom of your to-read list - China Rich Girlfriend
21 A book your mom loves - The Black Echo
22 A book that scares you - The Aviator
23 A book more than 100 years old - Lady Susan
24 A book based entirely on its cover -

Ducks Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

25 A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
26 Memoir - Year of No Sugar: a Memoir
27 A book you can finish in a day - Guts
28 Antonyms in the title - Lost in the Moment and Found
29 Set somewhere you've always wanted to visit - Neighbors
30 Published the year you were born
31 A book with bad reviews - Under the Streets of Nice
32 Trilogy - The Secret Keeper of Jaipur & The Perfumist of Paris
33 From your childhood - Now We Are Six
34 A book with a love triangle - Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
35 Set in the future
36 Set in high school - The Case for Jamie
37 Color in the title - A Fugitive Green
38 A book that made you cry - The Great Alone
39 Magic -
40 Graphic novel - Sisters
41 Author you've never read before - The Last Thing He Told Me
42 A book you own but never read - Hornet's Nest
43 Hometown - Blink and Caution
44 Originally written in another language - Death on Gokumon Island
45 Set during Christmas - Son of the Black Stallion
46 Written by an author with my initials
47 A Play - True West
48 Banned book -
49 Based on or turned into a TV show - Written in My Own Heart's Blood
50 A book you started but never finished - The Kitchen God's Wife

7. A book about a cult
8. A book under 250 pages - The Hangman
9. A book that features a character going through menopause - I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
10. A book you got for free - Lost Lake
11. A book mentioned in another book - The Woman in White
12. A book about a road trip - Lost Along the Way
13. A book rated less than three stars on Goodreads - Quartet for the End of Time
14. A book about a nontraditional education - Buried Angels
15. A book that an AI chatbot recommends based on your favorite book - The Palm Wine Drinkard, Midnight's Children, The House of the Spirits, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Book of Night Women, The Fishermen, The Secret History of Las Vegas, The Buried Giant, The Night Watchman,
16. A book set in or around a body of water - The Girl from Widow Hills
17. A book about a run club - Paper Chains
18. A book containing magical creatures that aren't dragons -
19. A highly anticipated read of 2025 - The Manor of Dreams
20. A book that fills a 2024 prompt you'd like to do over (or try out)

A book with the word "leap" in the title - Leap of Faith
A bildungsroman book - Huck Finn, Anne of Avonlea, Little Women, Jane Eyre, Portrait of an Artist..., Bell Jar, David Copperfield, Middlesex, Dune, Sons & Lovers, Looking for Alaska, Wizard of Earthsea, Narcissus & Goldmund, Cat's Eye, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Paddy Clark..., Perfume, Norwegian Wood, The Bean Trees, It, I Capture the Castle, Roll of Thunder..., The Graveyard Book, The God of Small Things, The Glass Bead Game, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Marriage Plot, A Woman is No Man, River Cross My Heart, The Chrysalids, The Magicians, Conversation in the Cathedral, Of Love & Shadows, The Flood, The Prodigal Daughter
A book about a 24-year-old - Into the Wild, Hana Khan Carries On, Tom Lake, Call Me By Your Name, The Starless Sea, The Radium Girls, It Ends with Us, My Man Jeeves
A book about a writer - Tell Me
A book about K-pop
A book about pirates -
A book about women's sports - and/or by a woman athlete
A book by a blind or visually impaired author
A book by a Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing author
A book by a self-published author - The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
A book from a genre you typically avoid - H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories
A book from an animal's POV -
A book originally published under a pen name - A Catered Murder
A book recommended by a bookseller - Gray Mountain
A book recommended by a librarian - The Sleeping Car Porter
A book set 24 years before you were born (1945) -
A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list - My Name Is Memory
A book set in space -
A book set in the future -
A book set in the snow -
A book that came out in a year that ends with "24" - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
A book that centers on video games - Mind Games
A book that features dragons - Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours -
A book that was published 24 years ago (2001) - Echo Burning
A book that was turned into a musical
A book where someone dies in the first chapter - Takedown Twenty
A book with a main character who's 42 years old - Jerry Seinfeld, the Entire Domain
A book with a neurodivergent main character - The Heart Principle
A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary - Pachinko
A book with a title that is a complete sentence - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
A book with an enemies to lovers plot - The Morning After
A book with an unreliable narrator - My Sunshine Away
A book with at least 3 POVs - One Good Turn
A book with magical realism - Fortune's Daughter
A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person
A book written during NaNoWriMo
A cozy fantasy book -
A fiction book by a trans - or nonbinary author - When We Were Sisters
A horror book by a BIPOC author - As the Wicked Watch
A memoir that explores queerness - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
A nonfiction book about Indigenous people - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
A Indigenous history -
A second-chance romance - The Killing Game
An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll - From Here to the Great Unknown
An LGBTQ+ romance novel -

Advanced
A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours - The Rose Code
A book with 24 letters in the title - The Lightkeeper's Daughters
A collection of at least 24 poems - When We Were Very Young
The 24th book of an author - The Sentence
A book that starts with the letter "X"

21. A book where the main character is a politician - Moriarty
22. A book about soccer
23. A book that is considered healing fiction
24. A book with a happily single woman protagonist - R is for Ricochet
25. A book where the main character is an immigrant - A Great Country or refugee
26. A book where an adult character changes careers - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
27. A book set at a luxury resort -
28. A book that features an unlikely friendship - The Hit
29. A book about a food truck - The Beauty of Humanity Movement
30. A book that reminds you of your childhood - Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
31. A book where music plays an integral part of the storyline - The Beautiful Mystery
32. A book about an overlooked woman in history - Unsheltered
33. A book featuring an activity on your bucket list
34. A book written by an author who is neurodivergent
35. A book centering LGBTQ+ characters that isn't about coming out - Thunder Song: Essays
36. A book with silver on the cover or in the title -

The Visitor (Jack Reacher #4) by Lee Child

37. Two books with the same title (1) - Zero Day
38. Two books with the same title (2) - Zero Days
39. A classic you've never read - All Things Wise and Wonderful
40. A book about chosen family - The Maid

Advanced Prompts

Easy
41. A book by the oldest author in your TBR pile - Lessons in Chemistry
42. A book with a title that starts with the letter Y - You Think It, I'll Say It
43. A book that includes a nonverbal character - River Sing Me Home
44. A book you have always avoided reading - Along Came a Spider

Medium
45. A book with a left-handed character - The Game
46. A book where nature is the antagonist - Miller's Valley
47. A book of interconnected short stories - Lord John and the Hand of Devils

Hard
48. A book that features a married couple who don't live together - The Mother’s Secret
49. A dystopian book with a happy ending
50. A book that features a character with chronic pain - A Trick of the Light

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message 15: by Sam F (last edited Jul 22, 2025 10:10AM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:12PM

Magical Mystery Tour:

Who: 0/7
Solve cases featuring a main character (sleuth, perp, victim, or suspect) in one of the below fields.
1. Music (singer - The Beautiful Mystery, drummer, etc.)
2. Driving (courier, taxi driver, etc.)
3. Food service (chef - A Catered Murder, barista, bartender - Identity etc.)
4. Healthcare (psychiatrist, midwife, etc.) - Notorious Nineteen
5. Games (athlete, game programmer, etc.) - Mind Games
6. Books (editor, librarian, etc.) - writer - Out of Nowhere, bookseller - A Fugitive Green
7. Events (wedding planner, photographer - Shiver, etc.)

What: 0/7
What makes your case distinctive?
1. A middle grade or young adult sleuth - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
2. An emotion in the title - A Court of Mist and Fury
3. A time in the title - The Morning After
4. A color in the title - Lost Roses
5. An animal companion - Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet or narrator
6. A food on the cover -

Year of No Sugar a Memoir by Eve O. Schaub

7. A mostly white cover -

Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander, #8) by Diana Gabaldon

When: 0/7
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported (published)?
1. In the 1920s - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
2. In the last 25 years - R is for Ricochet
3. Around a holiday - Buried Angels
4. During a vacation - One Good Turn
5. In your birth month - Top Secret Twenty-One
6. Between dusk and dawn - Will to Live
7. In summer - Tom Lake

Where: 0/7
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
1. At an orchard or farm - Yarned and Dangerous
2. On an island - Death on Demand
3. In a capital city - Along Came a Spider
4. At a restaurant or bar - The Case for Jamie
5. At a hotel - The Hit or lodge - Tell Me
6. At a park - Savage Run or campground
7. In someone’s home - The Body Farm

How: 0/7
For this category, each means of murder must be distinctly different.
For example, pistols and rifles are both firearms; knives and daggers are too similar.
1.

Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4) by Lee Child

The Hangman (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6.5) by Louise Penny

H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories by Gou Tanabe

4.
5.
6.
7.

Why: 0/7
What motivated you to choose a particular case?
1. A favorite mystery author or series - A Trick of the Light
2. A favorite mystery subgenre - Lost Lake
3. On a Goodreads listopia (Which one?) - Hornet's Nest
4. Won a literary prize for crime fiction (Which one?) - The Maid
5. A challenged or banned crime book
6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year) - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
7. Average Goodreads rating of 4 stars or above - The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

Bonus Cases: 0/8
After completing all 42 standard cases, you may become an Interpol Fugitive Investigator by solving a crime in each of the eight inhabited regions of the world.
1. Africa
2. Asia
3. Europe
4. Oceania - Pachinko
5. Caribbean
6. North America - Echo Burning
7. Central America
8. South America

* * *

Ranks
When posting updates, include your case counts so that your rank will be calculated. (See post #2 for instructions.)

👀 Neighborhood Snoop: Less than 1 case per category
👞 Gumshoe: 1 case per category
🔎 Crime Scene Investigator: 2 cases per category
🕶️ Undercover Operative: 3 cases per category
👩🏻‍🔬 Forensic Analyst: 4 cases per category
👨🏽‍💼 Special Agent in Charge: 5 cases per category
👮‍♂️ Assistant Chief of Detectives: 6 cases per category
🕵🏽‍♀️ Chief of Detectives: 7 cases per category
🌐 Bonus - Interpol Fugitive Investigator: 7 cases per category PLUS 8 bonus cases

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message 16: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:14PM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:13PM

TBR JAR CHALLENGE

1) You can let Goodreads let choose your books for this challenge:

- Annie's Girl
- Shake Hands with the Devil
- Daring Greatly
- Riven Rock
- Shooting Water
- Paris A Love Story
- Dismantled
- Liar Liar
- Fiona Range
- Fall of Giants
- Cutting for Stone
- The Last Burden
- Hothouse Flower
- Lady's Maid
- Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades
- Once We Had a Country
- Ama
- Comrades & Strangers
- Mystery of Right & Wrong
- Three Seconds

2) You can use the following tasks and pick a matching book later.
1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. - Fall of Giants

2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year - No Logo, Neighbors

3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR - Infinite Jest or one that is over 500 pages. - The Kitchen God's Wife

4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. - We Who Can Fly

5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR - The Odyssey

6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR - Atlas of the Heart

7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR - Life Money & Illusion, or over 3.8 - Written in My Own Heart's Blood

8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR - Water Children, or under 3.0

9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it). - Steve Jobs

10. Read the book with the least number of ratings. - Born Adventurer

11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page - #GirlBoss, The 7 Habits of Highly..., The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man, all the way to Born Adventurer - The Beauty of Humanity Movement

12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page - Zoo Station to Winter of the World, - Written in My Own Heart's Blood

13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book. - 7 Habits of ..., The Last of the Breed

14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page. - Possessing Genius, Tuesdays with Morrie, Cavedweller, Experience A Memoir, #GirlBoss, Lost Kin, Sex & the City & Us, The Iron Tracks, New Sherlock Holmes, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Life After Life, A God in Ruins, Dancing Girls, Smart Girls Finish Rich, The Hero's Walk, The Lost Girls, Paris I Love You, The Reserve, Love Etc, The Spark, Running the Rift, Open House, Water Children, Hothouse Flower, 100 Days, Grand Central, Rainbow of Desire, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Unselfie, Business As Usual, The Proof, An Ice-Cream War, Riven Rock, Drop City, My Name Is Memory, A History of Civilizations, Daring Greatly, Atlas of the Heart, The Runaway Princess, The Power-house, The Voluntourist, A Wolf at the Table, Drunk Mom, Quirkyalone, Pass the Butterworms, Pecked to Death by Ducks, The Artist's way, Death in Sicily, True History of the Kelly Gang, The Error of Our Ways

15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page. - Blink and Caution, The Day of the Triffids, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Farthing's Fortunes, The Weekend Man, The Teacher's Daughter, The Canterbury Sisters, The Treehouse, When God Was a Rabbit, A Year of Marvellous Ways, The Professor & the Madman, The Scorched-wood People, Leaves of Grass, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, Milk with Wine, Everyone Worth Knowing, Certain Girls, Miss Fortune, Honeymoon in Purdah, White Crosses, The Onion Field, The Shape of Snakes, Infinite Jest, Sweeping Up Glass, By the Light of My Father's Smile, What I Did, The Way We Are, The Aeneid, Cutting for Stone, A Map of Glass, My Father's Tears, Lulu in the Sky, Harvest Home, Changing My Mind, This is Where I Leave You, Jerry Seinfeld, the Entire Domain, The Simarillion, The Lemon Tree, All My Puny Sorrows, The Ditchdigger's Daughter, Confessions of a Sociopath, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, My Other Life, The Darkest Room, An Echo Through the Snow, The Garden of Evening Mists, 100 Secret Senses, The Kitchen God's Wife, Saving Fish From Drowning, Embracing the Wide Sky

16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book. - The First Day of the Rest of My Life

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message 17: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:15PM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:15PM

Bibliopoly:

Corners
🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents. - Lost Roses
🔒 11. In Jail: Read a banned or challenged book.
🚘 21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes! - Savage Run
👮‍♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction - Lost Lake or true crime book. - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Utilities
💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover. -

Will to Live (Detective Kay Hunter, #2) by Rachel Amphlett

🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover. -

Taxes
💲 5. Tax: Read a book with money on the cover -

La grande rapina di Nizza by Ken Follett

or in the title. - Fortune's Daughter
💍 39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone or precious metal -

War Storm (Red Queen, #4) by Victoria Aveyard

on the cover or in the title.

Community Chest
🎁 3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?) - School - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
🎁 18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)
🎁 34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?)

Chance
❓ 8. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest - Written in My Own Heart's Blood or lowest number of ratings.
❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest - The Kitchen God's Wife or newest additions. - I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
❓ 37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest - The Rose Code or lowest average star rating.- Quartet for the End of Time

Railroads
🚂 6. Reading Railroad: Read a book from a celebrity book club list, such as Oprah, Reese Witherspoon - Tom Lake, etc. Good Morning America - The Maid
🚂 16. Pennsylvania Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name. - Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
🚂 26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author B - Victoria Line, Central Line, O - or title beginning with B - Buried Angels or O. - Out of Nowhere
🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long. - Sisters

Purple Properties
🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool -

Earthly Joys (Tradescant, #1) by Philippa Gregory

or plant on the cover -

or in the title.
🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue. - Death on Gokumon Island
🏠 - The German Girl
🏠 - The Bat
🏠 - The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
🏠
🏨

Blue Properties
🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat -

The Killing Game (Eve Duncan, #2) by Iris Johansen

or head wear -

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2) by Alka Joshi

on the cover or in the title.
🟦 9. Blue: Read a book with an author - Less or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own. - The Next Queen of Heaven
🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover -

A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7) by Louise Penny

or in the title -

Yarned and Dangerous (Tangled Web Mystery, #1) by Sadie Hartwell

.
🏠 -

🏠 -

The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1) by Laura Dave

🏠 -

🏨 -

Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5) by Lee Child

Pink Properties
🌸 12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover -

or in the title.
🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author - Crazy Rich Asians or character whose nationality - When We Were Sisters or birth country is different from your own. - China Rich Girlfriend
🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover -

When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3) by A.A. Milne

or in the title. -

🏠 -

🏠 -

The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3) by Alka Joshi

🏠 -

🏠
🏨

Orange Properties
🟠 17. Orange: Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover -

The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb (July 26,2011) by Camilla Gibb

, or involving water travel. - River Sing Me Home
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious - Far to Go or spiritual beliefs are different from your own. - Shiver
🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover -

The Morning After (Savannah, #2) by Lisa Jackson

or in the title. -

🏠-

What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11) by Alan Bradley

🏠-

🏠 -

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

🏠 -

🏨-

Zero Day (John Puller, #1) by David Baldacci

Red Properties
🟥 22. Red: Read a book with a car -

Hornet's Nest (Andy Brazil, #1) by Patricia Cornwell

, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip. - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author - The Sleeping Car Porter or character whose race - As the Wicked Watch or ethnicity is different from your own. - A Great Country
🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover -

R is for Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone, #18) by Sue Grafton

or in the title. -

A Catered Murder (A Mystery with Recipes, #1) by Isis Crawford

🏠 -

Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum, #19) by Janet Evanovich

🏠 -

🏠-

🏠-

Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1) by James Patterson

🏨-

The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda

Yellow Properties
🟨 27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot -

or shoe on the cover -

Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (Agatha Raisin, #4) by M.C. Beaton

, or involving foot travel. - The Game
🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author - The Heart Principle or character who has a physical disability or impairment, an emotional or mental disorder - The Body Farm, or a neurodivergent condition. - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover -

or in the title.
🏠-

Victoria Line, Central Line by Maeve Binchy

🏠 -

🏠 -

Takedown Twenty (Stephanie Plum, #20) by Janet Evanovich

🏠 -

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

🏨 -

Green Properties
🟩 32. Green: Read a book with a thimble, sewing or craft implement on the cover - A Fugitive Green or in the title.
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author - The Hit or character whose gender is different from your own. - Running Blind
🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover or in the title. -

The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8) by Louise Penny

🏠-

A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

🏠-

Lord John and the Hand of Devils (Lord John Grey, #0.5, #1.5, #2.5) by Diana Gabaldon

🏠-

🏠 -

Top Secret Twenty-One (Stephanie Plum, #21) by Janet Evanovich

🏨 -

Dark Blue Properties
🧿 38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover -

All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6) by James Herriot

or in the title.
🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?) - Less
🏠 - Lost in the Moment and Found
🏠 - Pachinko
🏠 - The Black Echo
🏠 - Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
🏨

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message 18: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:16PM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:23PM

Out on a Limb

Trunk: Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Branch 1: Louise Penny (Series) (or Set in Quebec) - A Trick of the Light
Leaf 1: The Beautiful Mystery
Leaf 2: The Hangman
Leaf 3:

Branch 2: (female-led series) - R is for Ricochet
Leaf 1: Out of Nowhere
Leaf 2: Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
Leaf 3: Will to Live
Leaf 4: Yarned and Dangerous
Leaf 5: Death on Demand
Leaf 6: Takedown Twenty
Leaf 7: A Catered Murder
Leaf 8: What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
Leaf 9: The Killing Game
Leaf 10: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Leaf 11: The Body Farm
Leaf 12: The Maid
Leaf 13: Touch & Go
Leaf 14: The Case for Jamie
Leaf 15: The Game

Branch 3: Female contemporary author - The Heart Principle
Leaf 1: A Great Country
Leaf 2: Victoria Line, Central Line
Leaf 3: Lost Along the Way
Leaf 4: Neighbors
Leaf 5: The Girl from Widow Hills
Leaf 6: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Leaf 7: Paper Chains

Branch 4: Set in Canada - Blink and Caution
Leaf 1: The Sleeping Car Porter
Leaf 2: The Lightkeeper's Daughters
Leaf 3:
Leaf 4:

Branch 5: Award-winning book - Sisters
Leaf 1: Less
Leaf 2: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Leaf 3: Lessons in Chemistry
Leaf 4:

Branch 6: Book made into TV shows or movies - Crazy Rich Asians
Leaf 1: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Leaf 2: The Kitchen God's Wife
Leaf 3: The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Leaf 4: The Black Echo

Branch 7: Historical fiction - A Fugitive Green
Leaf 1: The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
Leaf 2: The Beauty of Humanity Movement
Leaf 3: Unsheltered
Leaf 4: Lord John and the Hand of Devils
Leaf 5: Earthly Joys
Leaf 6: Zoo Station
Leaf 7: Miller's Valley

Branch 8: Rural area - Savage Run
Leaf 1: Tell Me
Leaf 2: The Great Alone
Leaf 3: Gray Mountain
Leaf 4: Tom Lake
Leaf 5: A Day No Pigs Would Die
Leaf 6: The Aviator
Leaf 7: The Book Woman's Daughter

Branch 9: Book over 500 pages - War Storm
Leaf 1: A Court of Mist and Fury
Leaf 2: The Rose Code
Leaf 3:

Branch 10: War - Lost Roses
Leaf 1: Far to Go
Leaf 2: The German Girl
Leaf 3: Quartet for the End of Time

Branch 11: Audiobook - The Last Thing He Told Me
Leaf 1: My Man Jeeves
Leaf 2: Top Secret Twenty-One
Leaf 3: Echo Burning
Leaf 4: You Think It, I'll Say It
Leaf 5: River Sing Me Home
Leaf 6: My Sunshine Away

Branch 12: Memoir - Year of No Sugar: a Memoir
Leaf 1: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Leaf 2: From Here to the Great Unknown
Leaf 3: I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Leaf 4: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

Branch 13: Classic female authors - Lady Susan
Leaf 1: Leap of Faith
Leaf 2: Fortune's Daughter
Leaf 3: Something Wicked
Leaf 4:

Branch 14: Title starts with “A” - All Things Wise and Wonderful
Leaf 1: Along Came a Spider
Leaf 2: American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
Leaf 3: As the Wicked Watch
Leaf 4: Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley
Leaf 5:

Branch 15: Microhistory - The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Leaf 1: Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
Leaf 2:
Leaf 3:
Leaf 4:

Branch 16: POC - China Rich Girlfriend
Leaf 1: When We Were Sisters
Leaf 2: Pachinko
Leaf 3: The Perfumist of Paris
Leaf 4: The Manor of Dreams
Leaf 5:

Branch 17: Scandinavia - Buried Angels
Leaf 1: The Bat
Leaf 2: The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
Leaf 3: TBD

Branch 18: Male-led series - Running Blind
Leaf 1: The Hit
Leaf 2: Shiver
Leaf 3: Hornet's Nest
Leaf 4: Death on Gokumon Island
Leaf 5: One Good Turn
Leaf 6: The Prodigal Daughter
Leaf 7: Moriarty
Leaf 8: Zero Day
Leaf 9: Gone

Branch 19: Non-fiction - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Leaf 1: Jerry Seinfeld, the Entire Domain
Leaf 2: Under the Streets of Nice
Leaf 3: Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts
Leaf 4: The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Branch 20: Indigenous authors - Thunder Song: Essays
Leaf 1: The Sentence
Leaf 2:
Leaf 3:
Leaf 4:

Branch 21: Graphic Novels - Guts
Leaf 1: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Leaf 2: H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories
Leaf 3:

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message 19: by Sam F (last edited Jun 08, 2025 11:52AM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:24PM

TBR Tackler Challenge:

□ The Witches of New York
□ People of the Deer
□ The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
□ Blink and Caution
□ Narcissus & Goldmund
□ The Distant Hours
□ A Song for the Dark Times
□ The Next Queen of Heaven
□ The Fusion Marketing Bible
□ The Improbability of Love
□ Human Amusements
□ Drop City
□ Barney's Version
□ Pecked to Death by Ducks
□ Hamlet
□ Blink
□ Dismantled
□ Far to Go
□ Sylvia
□ They Poured Fire On Us...
□ The Treehouse
□ The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom
□ Miller's Valley
□ The Little Shadows
□ Once We had a Country
□ Galore
□ The Secret River
□ Certain Girls
□ Red Moon
□ Grit
□ Lost Girls
□ The Lizard Cage
□ An Ice-Cream War
□ Shooting Water
□ Paris: a Love Story
□ Portrait of a Killer
□ The Passage
□ In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
□ Flesh & Blood
□ Baking Cakes in Kigali
□ Beyond Belfast
□ The Hedgehog, the Fox & the Magician's Pox
□ Sometimes Mine
□ The Error of Our Ways
□ Tess of the D'Urbervilles
□ Invisible Eden
□ Slow Death by Rubber Duck
□ All the Lives I Want
□ French Toast

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message 20: by Sam F (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:24PM

I'm with the Banned Challenge:

BANNED BOOKS

Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Origin of Species
American Psycho
Grendel by by John Gardner
Tipping the Velvet
Rebecca
Peter Pan
The Charioteer
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Gender Queer: A Memoir
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Coraline
A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin

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message 21: by Sam F (last edited Sep 01, 2025 11:55AM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:31PM

Listopia Challenge:

Goodreads Most Popular in Past Decade:

1. Homegoing
2. Americanah
3. Talking to Strangers
4. Malibu Rising
5. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
6. Atomic Habits
7. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
8. A Little Life
9. Lessons in Chemistry
10. The Testaments
11. Crazy Rich Asians
12. The Great Alone
13. The Spanish Love Deception
14. Klara & the Sun
15. American Dirt
16. Pachinko
17. Project Hail Mary
18. Beautiful World Where Are You
19. Carrie Soto is Back
20. A Promised Land
21. Bear Town

Best Survival Stories
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. Sophie's Choice
3. They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky
4. The Code of the Woosters
5. The Road
6. The Stand
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. Lucky
9. Cold Cold Heart
10. Vanishing Acts
11. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12. Anna Karenina
13. As I Lay Dying
14. Babe
15. The Autobiography of a Face
16. A Bolt from the Blue & Other Essays
17. Beowolf
18. The Bell Jar
19. Brick Lane
20. Into Thin Air

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1. The Origin of Species
2. The Tipping Point
3. Packing for Mars
4. Gulp
5. Thinking Fast & Slow
6. The Coming Plague
7. The Botany of Desire
8. The Naked Ape
9. Bonk
10. The Brain that Changes Itself
11. Spook
12. The 13th Element
13. The Teenage Brain
14. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
15. The Disappearing Spoon

Best Horror Novels
1. Cold Cold Heart
2. It
3. Salem's Lot
4. The Stand
5. Hound of the Baskervilles
6. Harvest Home
7. The Historian
8. Library at Mount Char
9. The Green Mile
10. The Passage
11. Bag of Bones
12. Turn of the Screw
13. The Road
14. The Day of the Triffids
15. Doctor Sleep

Books that Exceeded Your Expectations
1. Gone With the Wind
2. Cane River
3. The Historian
4. The Forgotten Garden
5. Middlesex
6. The Pact
7. The Casual Vacancy
8. Crazy Rich Asians
9. The Road
10. Lord of the Rings
11. A Fine Balance
12. Loving Frank
13. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
14. Fall of Giants
15. The Distant Hours
16. The Sound & the Fury
17. Cutting for Stone
18. The Road
19. The Silmarillion
20. The Last Thing He Told Me
21. The Rose Code

Humourous Memoirs & Non-Fiction
1. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
2. Naked
3. Bonk
4. When You are Engulfed in Flames
5. The Botany of Desire
6. Magical Thinking
7. This is Where I Leave You
8. Britt-Marie Was Here
9. Into Thin Air
10. Hokkaido Highway Blues
11. This is Where I Leave You
12. Stupid White Men
13. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
14. Broken

You Read a Book About What?
1. The Professor & the Madman
2. Spook
3. Steve Jobs
4. The Brain that Changes Itself
5. Color
6. Naked
7. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
8. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
9. Bonk
10. All the President's Men
11. Educated
12. Blink
13. The Onion Field
14. From Scratch
15. The Disappearing Spoon

Books I would Require if I Taught an English Lit Class
1. Hamlet
2. The Handmaid's Tale
3. The Sound & the Fury
4. Beautiful Losers
5. Grapes of Wrath
6. Conversations with Myself
7. Sherlock Holmes
8. Middlesex
9. The Brothers Karamazov
10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
11. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12. East of Eden
13. Gone With the Wind
14. As I Lay Dying
15. Dune

Female Psychological Thrillers Suspense Written by Women
1. Now You See Me
2. Behind Closed Doors
3. Fingersmith
4. Promise Not to Tell
5. Island of Lost Girls
6. In The Woods
7. Find Her
8. The Wife Between Us
9. Vanishing Girls
10. V is for Vengence
11. The Lying Game
12. The Wonder
13. Find Her
14. Fingersmith
15. The Good Girl

100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime
1. Death on the Nile
2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes/ The Hound of the Baskervilles
3. The Woman in White
4. The Name of the Rose
5. In The Woods
6. Killing Floor
7. Get Shorty
8. Tell No One
9. How the Light Gets In
10. Cutting for Stone
11. The DaVinci Code
12. A Great Reckoning - all
13. The Historian
14. As I Lay Dying
15. The Eyre Affair
16. The Silent Patient
17. Natchez Burning
18. The Godfather
19. The Postman Always Rings Twice
20. None of This is True
21. A Trick of the Light

Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Americanah
4. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
5. White Teeth
6. Cutting for Stone
7. Life After Life
8. The Wives of Henry VIII
9. On Beauty
10. A Fine Balance
11. A Wizard of Earth Sea
12. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
13. Good Morning Midnight
14. Spook
15. The Wild Iris
16. The Casual Vacancy
17. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
18. A God in Ruins
19. The Beauty of Humanity Movement
20. The Blind Assassin

Major Award Winning Fiction Since 1990
1. The Road
2. The Blind Assassin
3. Alias Grace
4. Pachinko
5. Sea of Poppies
6. The Secret River
7. Middlesex
8. The Casual Vacancy
9. The Luminaries
10. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
11. Galore
12. The True History of the Kelly Gang
13. Life After Life
14. Fingersmith
15. White Teeth
16. When We Were Orphans
17. On Beauty
18. The Lacuna
19. Fight Club
20. My Name is Red

Best Books to read When Snow is Falling
1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2. Night Road
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. We Were Liars
5. The Peach Keeper
6. The Luminaries
7. The Other Boleyn Girl
8. The Distant Hours
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. Picture Perfect
11. Winter Garden
12. The Name of the Rose
13. The Historian
14. The Stand
15. The Two Towers
16. Picture Perfect
17. The Constant Princess
18. Gone With the Wind
19. None of This Is True
20. The Last Thing He Told Me
21. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

Best Feminist Fiction
1. Much Ado About Nothing
2. Fingersmith
3. The Kitchen God's Wife
4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
5. North & South
6. Alias Grace
7. Lady Oracle
8. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
9. Loving Frank
10. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
11. Good Morning Midnight
12. Fried Green Tomatoes
13. To The Lighthouse
14. Sula
15. Americanah
16. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
1. Crime & Punishment
2. Gone With the Wind
3. The Two Towers
4. The Sound & The Fury
5. Julius Caesar
6. Hamlet
7. The Return of the King
8. The Grapes of Wrath
9. As I Lay Dying
10. Anna Karenina
11. Middlesex
12. The Name of the Rose
13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14. The Count of Monte Cristo
15. Tuesdays With Morrie

Top 10 for the Reading Challengers
1. Hamlet
2. Gone With the Wind
3. The Stand
4. Sophie's Choice
5. The Road
6. The Count of Monte Cristo
7. Life After Life
8. A Fine Balance
9. The Secret Keeper
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11. The Botany of Desire
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. Middlesex
14. The Historian
15. The Forgotten Garden
16. The Two Towers
17. The Brothers Karamazov
18. The Handmaid's Tale
19. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
20. The Lost Symbol

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message 22: by Sam F (last edited Sep 01, 2025 10:55AM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:32PM

Listopias:

The Prison Book Club Discussed Books

1. A Fine Balance
2. An Ice-cream War
3. The Tipping Point
4. Blink
5. Outliers
6. Alias Grace
7. Someone Knows My Name
8. The Road
9. Don Quixote
10. Saturday
11. The Zookeeper's Wife
12. The Road
13. Dreams from my Father
14. Things I've Been Silent About
15. Saturday

Favourite Travel Books
1. Color
2. Honeymoon in Purdah
3. The Lost Girls
4. The Voluntourist
5. Out of Africa
6. Fresh Air Fiend
7. All Roads Lead to Austen
8. Maiden Voyages
9. Into Thin Air
10. Into the Wild
11. Hokkaido Highway Blues
12. Stephen Fry in America
13. Around the World in 80 Days
14. Three Men in a Boat
15. The Silent Patient

Oprah's Book Club Picks
1. Middlesex
2. A Fine Balance
3. Songs in Ordinary Time
4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
5. The Sound & The Fury
6. As I Lay Dying
7. Freedom
8. Cane River
9. River Cross My Heart
10. Open House
11. Pillars of the Earth
12. East of Eden
13. The Road
14. Anna Karenina
15. A Tale of Two Cities
16. Tara Road
17. Paradise
18. American Dirt
19. Olive Again
20. The Bluest Eye

Everyone's Read it But Me
1. Middlesex
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Tuesdays With Morrie
4. The Road
5. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
6. The Fall of Giants
7. The Name of the Rose
8. The Forgotten Garden
9. The Stand
10. A Tale of Two Cities
11. Outliers
12. Blink
13. Hamlet
14. The Other Boleyn Girl
15. House Rules
16. The Tipping Point
17. The Historian
18. Gone With the Wind
19. Brisingr
20. 7 Habits

Around the World in 100 Books
1. My Name is Red
2. Hamlet
3. Cutting for Stone
4. Crime & Punishment
5. A Fine Balance
6. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. The Beach
9. The Kitchen God's Wife
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11. The Glass Palace
12. The True History of the Kelly Gang
13. The Secret River
14. The Girl You Left Behind
15. Anna Karenina
16. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
17. Shadows on the Rock
18. Sea of Poppies
19. Gone With the Wind
20. Into Thin Air

Best Multicultural General Fiction
1. A Fine Balance
2. Cutting for Stone
3. White Teeth
4. The Kitchen God's Wife
5. Family Matters
6. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
7. Crazy Rich Asians
8. Americanah
9. The Glass Palace
10. Interpreter of Maladies
11. Pachinko
12. Q & A
13. The Constant Gardener
14. Save Fish from Drowning
15. Let the Great World Spin

Book of the Month Club Picks
1. Swimming Lessons
2. The Great Alone
3. The Lying Game
4. Artemis
5. Pachinko
6. Swing Time
7. The Wife Between Us
8. A Woman is No Man
9. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
10. Calypso
11. The Queen of the Night
12. The Trespasser
13. The Wife Between Us
14. Ninth House
15. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Best Environmental Books
1. Diversity of Life
2. No Logo
3. Fast Food Nation
4. The Botany of Desire
5. The Coming Plague
6. The Tipping Point
7. Sleeping Naked is Green
8. Sisters of the Earth
9. Small is Beautiful
10. The Milagro Beanfield War

The Orange Prize Winners
1. La Lacuna
2. On Beauty
3. 100 Secret Senses
4. The Lizard Cage
5. Fault Lines
6. White Teeth
7. A Mercy
8. The Blind Assassin
9. Larry's Party
10. The Constant Princess

Pulitzer Prize Winners
1. Empire Falls
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The Road
4. Roots
5. Middlesex
6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
7. The Wild Iris
8. The Road
9. Gilead
10. Less
11. Interpreter of Maladies
12. The Orphan Master's Son
13. Gone with the Wind
14. The Night Watchman
15. The Marriage Plot

Medicine & Literature

1. Gulp
2. Cutting for Stone
3. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
4. Death of an Expert Witness
5. The Professor & the Madman
6. Bonk
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. An Anthropologist on Mars
9. The Birth House
10. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
11. The Coming Plague
12. Lucky
13. House Rules
14. The Brain that Changes Itself
15. Mountains Beyond Mountains

About Racism & Race Relations
1. Me and White Supremacy
2. Why I'm no Longer Talking to White People About Race
3. The Round House
4. So You Want to Talk About Race
5. Noughts & Crosses
6. Americanah
7. White Rage
8. Dreams From My Father
9. Paradise
10. Homegoing
11. White Teeth
12. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
13. Shake Hands with the Devil
14. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
15. The Fire Next Time
16. Dust Tracks on a Road
17. Eloquent Rage
18. Paradise
19. All Boys Aren't Blue
20. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Are You Well Read in Literature
1. Anna Karenina
2. Homegoing
3. Beowolf
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. Perfume
6. The Odyssey
7. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
8. Sophie's World
9. My Name is Red
10. Homecoming
11. Crazy Rich Asians
12. The Count of Monte Cristo
13. War & Peace
14. Beartown
15. Don Quiote
16. A Suitable Boy
17. Oscar & Lucinda
18. The Name of the Rose
19. Madame Bovary
20. Crime & Punishment
21. Kiss of the Spider Woman
22. Ghana Must Go
23. Smila's Sense of Snow
24. Whale Rider
25. The Brothers Karamazov
26. Of Love & Shadows
27. The Messenger
28. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
29. Cutting for Stone
30. The Garden of Evening Mists

Fargo Public Library's Tea Time Book Club
1. Love & Ruin
2. Pachinko
3. Homegoing
4. Small Great Things
5. The Handmaid's Tale
6. Unsheltered
7. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
8. Love & Ruin
9. Chronicles of a Radical Hag
10. Rainbirds

Own Voices Books
1. Crazy Rich Asians
2. Rich People Problems
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
4. So You Want to Talk About Race
5. Homegoing
6. Americanah
7. Me & White Supremacy
8. P.S. I Still Love You
9. The Rose & the Dagger
10. China Rich Girlfriend
11. Fingersmith
12. The House of the Spirits
13. Pachinko
14. Always & Forever Laura Jean
15. Educated
16. Eloquent Rage
17. All Boys Aren't Blue
18. On the Come Up
19. The Heart Principle
20. The Bluest Eye

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. Crime & Punishment
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4. Gone With the Wind
5. A Tale of Two Cities
6. The Brothers Karmazov
7. The Name of the Rose
8. Middlesex
9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
10. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
11. Anna Karenina
12. The Woman in White
13. The Sound & the Fury
14. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
15. A Fine Balance

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message 23: by Sam F (last edited Sep 01, 2025 11:57AM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:33PM

Listopias:

BBC The Big Read Top 100 Books:
1. Lord of the Rings
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. War and Peace
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Harry Potter
6. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. The Pillars of the Earth
9. Persuasion
10. Dune
11. Holes
12. Anna Karenina
13. A Suitable Boy
14. The Woman in White
15. Crime and Punishment
16. Noughts & Crosses
17. A Tale of Two Cities
18. Perfume
19. The Thorn Birds
20. Cold Comfort Farm

What Women Born in the 1960s have read so far:
1. Between Two Kingdoms
2. Thinking Fast & Slow
3. Educated
4. Project Hail Mary
5. One By One
6. Outliers
7. The Book of Longings
8. The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. Olive Again
11. The Road
12. The Silent Patient
13. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
14. A Woman is No Man
15. When the Stars Go Dark
16. Pachinko
17. Winter Garden
18. Love - Toni Morrison
19. The Testaments
20. The Peach Keeper
21. A Promised Land

Books Mentioned in Reading Lolita in Tehran
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2. Not Without My Daughter
3. Beyond Good & Evil
4. Don Quixote
5. The Count of Monte Cristo
6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7. The Blind Assassin
8. Daisy Miller
9. A Room with a View
10. Moby Dick

Best Non-Fiction:
1. Outliers
2. The Tipping Point
3. Blink
4. Fast Food Nation
5. Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
6. The Professor & the Madman
7. The Origin of Species
8. Moneyball
9. 7 Habits of Highly...
10. Color
11. Bonk
12. Botany of Desire
13. The Big Short
14. Thinking Fast & Slow
15. Spook
16. The Lemon Tree
17. No Logo
18. Good to Great
19. Lucky
20. Audacity of Hope
21. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
22. Naked
23. Packing For Mars
24. Tuesdays with Morrie
25. A Civil Action
26. What the Dog Saw
27. Beyond Good & Evil
28. Grit
29. The Brain that Changes Itself
30. Dance of Anger
31. The Coming Plague
32. Steve Jobs
33. The Sociopath Next Door
34. Into the Wild
35. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
36. Shake Hands with the Devil
37. So You Want to Talk About Race
38. The Beauty Myth

The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
1. An Ice-Cream War
2. Crime & Punishment
3. The Handmaid's Tale
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5. The Count of Monte Cristo
6. The Grapes of Wrath
7. Gone With the Wind
8. Anna Karenina
9. The Old Man & the Sea
10. The Name of the Rose
11. Dune
12. A Tale of Two Cities
13. Don Quixote
14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
15. Perfume
16. The Bell Jar
17. The Brothers Karamazov
18. The Road
19. Sophie's Choice
20. A Confederacy of Dunces
21. The Woman in White
22. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
23. A Wizard of Earthsea
24. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
25. The Blind Assassin
26. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
27. Hunger
28. A Portrait of a Young Man as an Artist
29. My Name is Red
30. The Complete Maus
31. A Fine Balance
32. Fingersmith
33. White Teeth
34. Who Do You Think You Are
35. The Constant Gardner
36. The Beach
37. The Day of the Triffids
38. True History of the Kelly Gang
39. Middlesex
40. On Beauty
41. Infinite Jest
42. Narcissus & Goldmund
43. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
44. Family Matters
45. As I Lay Dying

Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2022
1. Klara and the Sun
2. The Paris Apartment
3. The Sentence
4. Fight Night
5. The Magician
6. Cloud Cuckoo Land
7. Chouette
8. Peaces
9. My Year Abroad
10. The Seed Keeper

Toronto Public Library Great Reads Vol. 3
1. The Historian
2. Q & A
3. On Beauty
4. Saturday
5. The Night Watch
6. The Birth House
7. A Map of Glass
8. The Sea
9. Zorro
10. Arthur & George

Books that Stay with You Forever:
1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2. Jurassic Park
3. Falling Angels
4. Like Water for Chocolate
5. House of the Spirits
6. Sophie's Choice
7. Perfume
8. Crime & Punishment
9. Life After Life
10. A God in Ruins
11. Alias Grace
12. The Silmarillion
13. The Brothers Karamazov
14. The Historian
15. The Road
16. Tuesdays with Morrie
17. The Grapes of Wrath
18. The Two Towers
19. The Constant Gardener
20. Don Quixote
21. The Coming Plague
22. The Passage
23. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
24. Gone With the Wind
25. Dune
26. A Tale of Two Cities
27. The Handmaid's Tale

True Crime
Books
1. I'll be Gone in the Dark
2. Portrait of a Killer
3. Lost Girls
4. Bad Blood
5. Helter Skelter
6. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
7. The Five
8. Furious Hours
9. The Library Book
10. The Onion Field
11. Bright Young Women
12. The Professor & the Mad Man
13. Red Notice
14. All The President's Men
15. The Orchid Thief

Best for Book Clubs list:
1. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
2. Middlesex
3. The Pillars of the Earth
4. Tuesdays with Morrie
5. The Other Boleyn Girl
6. The Road
7. Cutting for Stone
8. Grapes of Wrath
9. Gone With the Wind
10. East of Eden
11. Midwives
12. Loving Frank
13. None of This is True
14. The Last Thing He Told Me
15. The Paris Apartment

What to Read Next
1. City of Bones
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Coraline
4. The Other Boleyn Girl
5. Pillars of the Earth
6. Speak
7. The Lost Symbol
8. The Two Towers
9. City of Ember
10. Tuesdays with Morrie
11. Brisingr
12. Stargirl
13. The Graveyard Book
14. The Road
15. Looking for Alaska
16. The Stand
17. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
18. The Alchemist
19. Slumdog Millionaire
20. Return of the King

50 Books that will Change Your Life - Indigo
1. East of Eden
2. Heart of Darkness
3. Clockwork Orange
4. The Remains of the Day
5. The Trial
6. Into Thin Air
7. The Talented Mr. Riply
8. Dubliners
9. Anna Karenina
10. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
12. A Confederacy of Dunces
13. Coming Through the Slaughter
14. Doctor Zhivago
15. Fellowship of the Ring

Best Books of 2020
1. American Dirt
2. Klara and the Sun
3. Malibu Rising
4. Project Hail Mary
5. A Promised Land
6. The Girl with the Louding Voice
7. The Splendid and the Vile
8. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
9. Lessons in Chemistry
10. A Court of Silver Flames
11. Remarkably Bright Creatures
12. Carrie Soto is Back
13. Klara & the Sun
14. Cloud Cuckoo Land
15. The Rose Code
16. Yellowface
17. The Women
18. The Housemaid
19. The Night Watchman
20. All Boy Aren't Blue
21. Apples Never Fall
22. Small Things Like These
23. The Personal Librarian
24. The Sentence
25. The Heart Principle

Books that Changed My World
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Crime & Punishment
4. The Grapes of Wrath
5. Anna Karenina
6. Dune
7. Tuesdays with Morrie
8. The Odyssey
9. Hamlet
10. Good to Great
11. The Brothers Karamazov
12. Leaves of Grass
13. A Tale of 2 Cities
14. Perfume
15. Daring Greatly
16. DaVinci Code
17. The Origin of Species
18. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
19. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
20. The Road

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message 24: by Sam F (last edited Sep 01, 2025 11:58AM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:33PM

Listopias:

Seasonal Reading Challenge Recommended Books:

1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. The Handmaid's Tale
4. City of Bones
5. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
6. Pillars of the Earth
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. The Eyre Affair
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. The Historian
11. Fried Green Tomatoes
12. Like Water for Chocolate
13. Middlesex
14. Cutting for Stone
15. The Passage
16. Crime & Punishment
17. The Stand
18. A Tale of Two Cities
19. Perfume
20. Tuesdays with Morrie

Quick Reads Good Books:

1. Hound of the Baskervilles
2. Three Men in a Boat
3. A Wizard of Earthsea
4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
5. The Railway Children
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox
7. Cry the Beloved Country
8. Death on the Nile
9. An Artist of the Floating World
10. Zombie
11. The Bridge on the River Kwai
12. Speak
13. Smile by Roddy Doyle
14. Taking the Titanic
15. The Uncommon Reader

Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read

1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Bell Jar
3. Persuasion
4. Beloved - read series
5. Madame Bovary
6. The Second Sex
7. The Mists of Avalon
8. To the Lighthouse
9. The Feminine Mystique
10. The Vagina Monologues
11. I Capture the Castle
12. The Lottery & Other Stories
13. The House of Mirth
14. The Virgin Suicides
15. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
16. The Beauty Myth
17. Sophie's Choice
18. Possession
19. The Story of My Life
20. Orlando

Diversify Your Bookshelves:

1. The Kitchen God's Wife
2. The Remains of the Day
3. The Children of Blood & Bone
4. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
5. Green Grass Running Water
6. Song of Solomon
7. Norwegian Wood
8. White Teeth
9. A Suitable Boy
10. Desdemona
11. Paradise - any Toni Morrison
12. Possessing the Secret of Joy - any Alice Walker
13. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
14. In Other Words
15. When We Were Orphans

Most Read Reading Challenges books
1. Yellowface
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
3. Tom Lake
4. Mad Honey
5. Carrie Soto is Back
6. A Little Life
7. Good Material
8. Lessons in Chemistry
9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
10. Weyward
11. The Great Alone
12. The Frozen River
13. The Covenant of Water
14. The Berry Pickers
15. The Housemaid
16. None of This is True
17. The Silent Patient
18. First Lie Wins
19. The Only One Left
20. The Fury
21. Pretty Girls
22. The Mystery Guest
23. Bright Young Women
24. The Maid
25. Rock Paper Scissors
26. The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue
27. Before the Coffee Gets Cold
28. Starling House
29. Project Hail Mary
30. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
and more

100 Years of Popular Books

1. Death Comes for the Archbishop
2. Passing by Nell Larsen
3. As I Lay Dying
4. The Waves
5. Testament of Youth
6. Gaudy Night
7. Murder in the Cathedral
8. The Grapes of Wrath
9. The Library of Babel
10. No Exit - Satre
11. The Glass Menagerie
12. The Members of the Wedding
13. I Capture the Castle
14. Invisible Man
15. Giovanni's Room
16. Dune
17. A Wizard of Earthsea
18. The Bluest Eye
19. The Exorcist
20. The Stepford Wives
21. If Beale Street Could Talk
22. Shogun
23. Roots
24. The Color of Magic
25. Maus
26. The Satanic Verses
27. V for Vendetta
28. Possession
29. Into Thin Air
30. All About Love
31. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
32. Middlesex
33. Cloud Atlas
34. Into the Woods
35. The Road
36. Cutting for Stone
37. The Fifth Season
38. Pachinko
39. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
40. Crying in H Mart
41. Fourth Wing
42. James - Percival Everett

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message 25: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 12:51PM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:37PM

Serial Reader Challenge:

Harry Hole series:
1. The Bat
2. Cockroaches
3. The Redbreast
4. Nemisis
5. The Devil's Star
6....

John Puller series:
1. Zero Day
2. The Forgotten
3. The Escape
4. No Man's Land

Harry Bosch series:
1. The Black Echo
2. The Black Ice
3. The Concrete Blonde
4. The Last Coyote
5. Trunk Music....

Molly the Maid series:
1. The Maid
2. The Mystery Guest
2.5 The Mistletoe Mystery
3. The Maid's Secret

Alex Cross series:
1. Along Came a Spider
2. Kiss the Girls
3. Jack & Jill
4. Cat & Mouse
5. .....

Wayward Children series:
1. Every Heart a Doorway
2. Down Among Sticks & Bones
3. Beneath the Sugar Sky
...
8. Lost in the Moment and Found
...

Jordan Manning series:
1. As the Wicked Watch
2. Watch Where They Hide

Jeeves series:
0.5 The Man with 2 Left Feet
1. My Man Jeeves.
2. The Inimitable Jeeves
3. Carry On, Jeeves
...

Tradescant series:
1. Earthly Joys
2. Virgin Earth

Andy Brazil series:
1. Hornet's Nest
2. Southern Cross
3. Isle of Dogs

Crazy Rich Asians series:
1. Crazy Rich Asians
2. China Rich Girlfriend
3. Rich People Problems

Will Robie series:
2. The Hit
2.5 Bullseye
3. The Target
4. The Guilty
5. End Game

A Court of Thorns and Roses series:
2. A Court of Mist and Fury
3. A Court of Wings & Ruin
3.5 A Court of Frost & Starlight
4. A Court of Silver Flames

Detective Kay Hunter series:
2. Will to Live
3. One to Watch
4. Hell to Pay
5. Call to Arms
6. Gone to Ground
7. Bridge to Burn
...

New Orleans series:
3. Shiver
4. Absolute Fear
5. Lost Souls
6. Malice
....

Savannah series:
2. The Morning After
3. Tell Me
4. The Third Grave

Tangled Web Mystery series:
1. Yarned and Dangerous
2. A Knit before Dying

The Jaipur Trilogy:
2. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
3. The Perfumist of Paris

Detective Kosuke Kindaichi Series:
2. Death on Gokumon Island
3. The Village of 8 Graves
4. The Inugami Curse
5. The Devil's Flute Murders
.....

All Creatures Great & Small:
2.All Things Bright & Beautiful
3. All Things Wise and Wonderful

Sherlock Holmes:
4. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
5. The Hound of the Baskervilles
6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
7...

Smile series:
2. Sisters
3. Guts

A Mystery with Recipes series:
1. A Catered Murder
2. A Catered Wedding
3. A Catered Christmas
4. A Catered Valentine's Day
5. A Catered Halloween
6. A Catered Birthday Party
7. A Catered Thanksgiving
8. A Catered St. Patrick's Day

Joe Pickett series:
2. Savage Run
3. Winterkill
4. Trophy Hunt...

Death on Demand series:
1. Death on Demand
2. Design for Murder
3. Something Wicked
4. Honeymoon with Murder
5. A Little Class on Murder
6. Deadly Valentine
7. The Christie Caper
8. Southern Ghost
9...
13. April Fool Dead

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message 26: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:17PM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:39PM

Serial Reader Challenge:

To finish:

Tessa Leoni series:
2. Touch & Go
3. Crash & Burn

Kane & Abel series:
2. The Prodigal Daughter
3. Shall We Tell the President

Jack Reacher series:
4. Running Blind
5. Echo Burning
6. Without Fail
7. Persuader
8. The Enemy
9. One Shot
...

Red Queen series:
4. War Storm

The Kiss Quotient series:
3. The Heart Principle

Lilac Girls series:
2. Lost Roses
3. Sunflower Sisters

Jackson Brodie Series:
2. One Good Turn
3. When Will There Be Good News?
4. Started Young Took My Dog
5. Big Sky

Charlotte Holmes series:
3. The Case for Jamie
4. A Question of Holmes

Agatha Raisin series:
0.5 Agatha's First Case
2. Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
3. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
4. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley
5. Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage
6. Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist
...

Irish Village Mystery series:
1. Murder in an Irish Village
2. Murder at an Irish Wedding
...

Horowitz's Holmes Series:
2. Moriarty
2.5 The Adventure of the Seven Christmas Cards

Shopaholic Series:
3.5. Shopaholic on Honeymoon
6. Mini Shopaholic
7. Shopaholic to the Stars
...

Elvis Cole & Joe Pike Series:
2. Stalking the Angel
3. Lullaby Town
4. Free Fall
5. Voodoo River.....

Eve Duncan Series:
2. The Killing Game
3. The Search
4. Body of Lies
4.5 Dead Aim
5. Blind Alley
6. Countdown
7. Stalemate
8. Quicksand
9. Eight Days to Live
10...

Dalziel & Pascoe series:
2. An Advancement of Learning
3. Ruling Passion
4. An April Shroud
5...

The Travis Family series:
2. Blue-eyed Devil
3. Smooth Talking Stranger
4. Brown-eyed Girl

Sherri Travis series:
4. Champagne for Buzzards
5. Highball Exit
6. Martini Regrets
7. Last Call

Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series:
2. Deadly Appraisal
3. Antiques to Die For
4. Killers Keepsakes
5. Silent Auction
...

D.I. Lottie Parker series:
2. The Stolen Girls
3. The Lost Child
4. No Safe Place
5. Tell Nobody
6. Final Betrayal
7. Broken Souls
8. Buried Angels
9. Silent Voices
10. Little Bones
11. Guilty Girl

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series:
3. The Prisoner of Heaven
4. The Labyrinth of the Spirits

Sedikhan Series:
2. The Golden Valkyrie
3. The Trustworthy Redhead
4. Capture the Rainbow
5. Touch the Horizon
6. A Summer Smile
7. And the Desert Blooms
8. Always
9. Everlasting
10. ....

The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Series:
3. The Red Queen
4. The Kingmaker's Daughter
5. The White Princess
6. The Constant Princess
7. The King's Curse
8. Three Sisters, Three Queens
9. The Other Boleyn Girl
10. The Boleyn Inheritance
11. The Taming of the Queen
12. The Queen's Fool
13. The Virgin's Lover
14. The Last Tudor
15. The Other Queen

Myron Bolitar series:
6. The Final Detail
7. Darkest Fear
8. Promise Me
9. Long Lost
10. Live Wire
11. Home

Holly Barker series:
4. Reckless Abandon
5. Iron Orchid
6. Hothouse Orchid

Mischief Bay series:
3. A Million Little Things
4. Sisters Like Us

Dorothy Must Die series:
4. The End of Oz

Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series:
4. The Harvest Man
5. Lost & Gone Forever

Inspector Lynley series:
4. A Suitable Vengeance
5. For the Sake of Elena
6. Missing Joseph
...

Penn Cage series:
3. The Devil's Punchbowl
4. Natchez Burning
5. The Bone Tree
6. Mississippi Blood
7. Southern Man

Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James #1 series:
4. Mourn Not Your Dead
5. Dreaming of the Bones
6. Kissed a Sad Goodbye
...

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency:
6. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
6.5 The Shape of Ladies
6.6. The Problem of Men
6.7 Doctors Detectives Common Sense
7. Blue Shoes and Happiness
8. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive ...

Lacey Flint series:
3. Like This For Ever
4. A Dark and Twisted Tide
5. The Dark

The Black Stallion series:
3. Son of the Black Stallion
4. The Island Stallion
5. The Black Stallion and Satan
6. The Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt
7. The Island Stallion's Fury ...

Oz series:
5. The Road to Oz
6. The Emerald City of Oz
7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz ....

Chet & Berny Mystery Series:
3. To Fetch a Thief
4. The Dog who Knew Too Much
5. A Fistful of Collars
6. The Sound & the Furry
7. Paw & Order
8. Scents & Sensability
9. Heart of Barkness
10. Of Mutts & Men
11. Tender is the Bite
12. It's a Wonderful Woof

The Inspector Banks Series:
5. Past Reason Hated
6. Wednesday's Child
7. Dry Bones that Dream
8. Innocent Graves
9. Blood at the Root
10. In a Dry Season
11. Cold is the Grave
12. Aftermath
13. Close to Home
14. Playing with Fire
15. Strange Affair
16. Piece of my Heart
17. Friend of the Devil
18. All the Colours of Darkness
19. Bad Boy
20. Watching the Dark
21. Children of the Revolution
22. Abattoir Blues
23. When the Music's Over
24. Sleeping in the Ground
25. Careless Love
26. Too Many Rivers to Cross
27. Not Yet Dark

Kay Scarpetta Series:
5. The Body Farm
6. From Potter's Field
7. Cause of Death
8. Unnatural Exposure
9. Point of Origin
10. Black Notice
11. The Last Precinct
12. Blow Fly
13. Trace
14. Predator
15. Book of the Dead
16. Scarpetta
17. The Scarpetta Factor
18. Post Mortuary
19. Red Mist
20. The Bone Bed
21. Dust
22. Flesh & Blood
23. Depraved Heart
24. Chaos

Adam Dalgliesh Series:
4. Shroud for a Nightingale
5. The Black Tower
6. Death of an Expert Witness
7. A Taste for Death
8. Devices & Desires
9. Original Sin
10. A Certain Justice
11. Death in Holy Orders
12. The Murder Room
13. The Lighthouse
14. The Private Patient

The Inheritance Cycle #1
3. Brisingr
4. Inheritance

Jason Bourne Series:
4. The Bourne Legacy
5. The Bourne Betrayal
6. The Bourne Sanction
7. The Bourne Deception
8. The Bourne Objective
9. The Bourne Dominion
10. The Bourne Imperative
11. The Bourne Retribution
12. The Bourne Ascendancy
13. The Bourne Enigma
14. The Bourne Initiative
15. The Bourne Nemesis

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes:
7. TThe Game
8. Locked Rooms
9. The Language of Bees
10. The God of the Hive
11. Pirate King
12. Garment of Shadows .....

Michael Bennett:
6. Gone
7. Burn
8. Alert
9. Bullseye
9.5 Chase
10. Haunted
10.5 Manhunt
11. Ambush
12. Blindside
13. The Russian

Patrick Hedstrom Series:
8. Buried Angels
9. The Ice Child
10. The Girl in the Woods

Virals Series:
2.5. Shift
3.5. Swipe
4. Exposure
5. Terminal
5.5. Spike

Dexter Series:
8. Dexter Is Dead

Outlander Series:
0.5 Virgins
2.5 A Fugitive Green
8. Written in My Own Heart's Blood
8.5 A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows
9. Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone

Temperance Brennan Series:
16.5. Swamp Bones
21. Cold Cold Bones
22. The Bone Hacker

The Lord of the Rings Series:
2. The Two Towers
3. The Return of the King

Kinsey Millhone Series:
18. R is for Ricochet
19. S is for Silence
20. T is for Trespass
21. U is for Undertow
22. V is for Vengence
23. W is for Wasted
24. X
25. Y is for Yesterday

Stephanie Plum Series:
19. Notorious Nineteen
20. Takedown Twenty
21. Top Secret Twenty-One
22. Tricky Twenty-Two
23. Turbo Twenty-Three
24. Hardcore Twenty-Four
25. Look Alive Twenty-Five

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series
6.5 The Hangman
7. A Trick of the Light
8. The Beautiful Mystery
9. How the Light Gets In
10. The Long Way Home
11. The Nature of the Beast
12. A Great Reckoning
13. Glass Houses
14. Kingdom of the Blind

Inspector Rebus Series:
5. The Black Book
6. Mortal Causes
7. Let It Bleed
8. Black and Blue
9. The Hanging Garden
9.5 Death Is Not the End
10. Dead Souls
11. Set in Darkness
12. The Falls
13. Resurrection Men
13.5 Beggars Banquet
14. A Question of Blood
15. Fleshmarket Close
16. The Naming of the Dead
17. Exit Music
18. Standing in Another Man's Grave
19. Saints of the Shadow Bible
19.5 In the Nick of Time: John Rebus vs. Roy Grace
20. Even Dogs in the Wild
21. Rather Be the Devil
22. In a House of Lies

Lord John Grey Series:
0.5, 1.5, 2.5 - Lord John and the Hand of Devils
2.75 The Custom of the Army
3. The Scottish Prisoner
3.5 A Plague of Zombies
3.75 Besieged

Afdeling Q Series:
5. Marco Effect
6. The Hanging Girl
7. The Scarred Woman

Charles Lenox Mysteries Series:
4.5. An East End Murder
8. The Laws of Murder
9. Home by Nightfall
10. The Inheritance
10.5. Gone Before Christmas
11. An Extravagant Death

Miss Marple Series:
1.5. The Thirteen Problems
10. A Caribbean Mystery
11. At Bertram's Hotel
12. Nemesis
13. Sleeping Murder
14. Miss Marple's Final Cases
15. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht Series:
6. The Flood

Detective D.D. Warren Series:
5.5 The 7th Month
6. Catch Me
7. Fear Nothing
7.5 3 Truths and a Lie
8. Find Her
9. Look For Me
9.5 The Guy Who Died Twice
10. Never Tell

Vanessa Michael Munroe Series:
5. The Mask

Kurt Wallander Series:
9.5 An Event in Autumn
10. The Troubled Man

Vinyl Cafe Series:
2. Home From The Vinyl Cafe: A Year Of Stories
4. Vinyl Cafe Diaries
5. Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe
5.5 Dave Cooks the Turkey
6. Extreme Vinyl Cafe
7. Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks
Vinyl Cafe: Seasons

The Queen of the Tearling Series:
0.5 The Boy
3. The Fate of the Tearling

The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe:
2. No Longer at Ease
3. Arrow of God

Hercule Poirot Series:
14. Murder in Mesopotamia
15-45

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message 27: by Sam F (last edited Jan 13, 2025 04:10PM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:40PM

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message 28: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:18PM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 12:56PM

Around the World Challenge:

1st Leg: North America
Canada:
Alberta - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
British Columbia -
Manitoba - The Sleeping Car Porter
Newfoundland -
Northwest Territories -
Nova Scotia -
Ontario - Blink and Caution
Quebec - A Trick of the Light
Prince Edward Island -
Saskatchewan -

Mexico: -

USA:
Alabama -
Alaska - The Great Alone
Arizona - The Killing Game
California - R is for Ricochet
Colorado - Sisters
Conneticut - Yarned and Dangerous
Florida -
Georgia - The Morning After
Illinois - As the Wicked Watch
Indiana -
Iowa - Leap of Faith
Kansas -
Kentucky - Mind Games
Louisiana - Shiver
Maine -
Maryland -
Massachusetts - Silver Girl
Michigan - Tom Lake
Minnesota - The Sentence
Mississippi -
Missouri - You Think It, I'll Say It
Montana - The Aviator
Nebraska -
Nevada -
New Hampshire -
New Jersey - Notorious Nineteen
New Mexico -
New York City- My Man Jeeves
New York State - A Catered Murder
North Carolina - Hornet's Nest
North Dakota -
Ohio -
Oklahoma - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Oregon - Lost Lake
Pennsylvania - A Day No Pigs Would Die
South Carolina - Death on Demand
South Dakota -
Tennessee - From Here to the Great Unknown
Texas - Out of Nowhere
Utah -
Vermont - Identity
Virginia - Running Blind
Washington, DC - The Prodigal Daughter
Washington - Thunder Song: Essays
Wisconsin -
Wyoming - Savage Run

Britain:

Andover -
Buckinghamshire - The Rose Code
Cambridge -
Cornwall -
Cotswolds - Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
Cumberland - The Woman in White
Essex - Earthly Joys
Hampshire -
Herefordshire -
Kent - Will to Live
London - Victoria Line, Central Line
Oxford -
Surrey -
Sussex -
Winchester -
Yorkshire - All Things Wise and Wonderful

2nd Leg: South America & Caribbean
Argentina -
Barbados - River Sing Me Home
Bolivia -
Brazil -
Chile -
Cuba - The German Girl
Ecuador -
Grenada -
Peru -
St. John -
Turks & Caicos -

3rd Leg: Europe
Belarus -
Chech Republich - Far to Go
Croatia -
Denmark -
France - The Perfumist of Paris
Finland -
Germany - Zoo Station
Greece -
Iceland -
Ireland - Foster
Italy -
Mallorca -
Monaco -
Morocco - Less
Norway -
Poland -
Portugal -
Romania -
Scotland - Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Spain -
Sweden - Buried Angels
Switzerland -
Turkey -
Ukraine -
Wales -

4th Leg: Middle East
Afghanistan -
Iraq -
Iran -
Lebanon -
Oman -
Palestine -
Syria - The Hit

5th Leg: Africa -
Botswana - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Burundi -
Congo -
Djibouti -
Equatorial Guinea -
Egypt -
Ghana -
Kenya -
Libya -
Nigeria -
Senegal -
Sierra Leone -
Somalia - Infidel
South Africa -
Zimbabwe -

6th Leg: Asia
Afghanistan -
Cambodia -
China - The Kitchen God's Wife
Hong Kong - China Rich Girlfriend
India - The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
Japan - Death on Gokumon Island
Kashmir -
Malaysia -
Nepal -
Pakistan - The Invisible Hand
Phillipines -
Russia - Lost Roses
Siberia -
Singapore - Crazy Rich Asians
North Korea - The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
South Korea -
Sri Lanka -
Syria -
Tahiti -
Tibet -
Turkey -
Vietnam - The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb

7th Leg: Australia & Oceania
Auckland - Paper Chains
Brisbane -
Melbourne -
Queensland -
Sydney - The Bat
New South Wales -
New Zealand -
Tasmania

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message 29: by Sam F (last edited Sep 07, 2025 05:03PM) (new)

Dec 22, 2024 04:34PM

Bookriot 2025:

1. Read a 2025 release by a BIPOC author. - The Manor of Dreams
2. Reread a childhood favorite book. - When We Were Very Young
3. Read a queer mystery.
4. Read a book about obsession. - Identity
5. Read a book about immigration - A Great Country or refugees.
6. Read a standalone fantasy book. - My Name Is Memory
7. Read a book about a piece of media you love (a TV show - Where There's Smoke, a movie, a band - Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970, newspaper - The Morning After etc).
8. Read literary fiction by a BIPOC - The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, LGBTQIA+ , and/or disabled author.
9. Read a book based solely on its setting. - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
10. Read a romance book that doesn’t have an illustrated cover. -

11. Read a work of weird horror. - The Halloween Tree
12. Read a staff pick from an indie bookstore. (Preferably, from your local indie bookstore.)
13. Read a nonfiction book about nature - All Things Wise and Wonderful or the environment.
14. Read a comic in translation.
15. Read a banned book and complete a task on Book Riot’s How to Fight Book Bans guides.
16. Read a genre-blending book. - Thunder Song: Essays
17. Read a book about little-known history. - The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
18. Read a “cozy” book by a BIPOC author. - Crazy Rich Asians
19. Read a queernorm book. - A Trick of the Light
20. Read the first book in a completed young adult or middle grade duology.
21. Read a book about a moral panic. - As the Wicked Watch
22. Read a holiday romance that isn’t Christmas. - Silver Girl
23. Read a wordless comic.
24. Pick a 2015 Read Harder Challenge task to complete.

A book written by someone when they were under the age of 25 - Lady Susan

A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65 - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust

A collection of short stories (either by one person or an anthology by many people) - Victoria Line, Central Line

A book published by an indie press - Under the Streets of Nice

A book by - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ - The Next Queen of Heaven

A book by a person whose gender is different from your own - Running Blind

A book that takes place in Asia - Lost Roses

A book by an author from Africa - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

A book that is by or about someone from an Indigenous culture (Native Americans, Aboriginals, etc.) - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

A microhistory - The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

A YA novel - War Storm

A sci-fi novel

A romance novel - A Fugitive Green

A National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade - Less

A book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.) - Moriarty

An audiobook - R is for Ricochet

A collection of poetry - Now We Are Six

A book that someone else has recommended to you - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

A book that was originally published in another language - Buried Angels

A graphic novel, a graphic memoir - Guts or a collection of comics of any kind - Sisters

A book that you would consider a guilty pleasure (Read, and then realize that good entertainment is nothing to feel guilty over) - A Court of Mist and Fury

A book published before 1850

A book published this year - 2015 - Yarned and Dangerous

A self-improvement book (can be traditionally or non-traditionally considered “self-improvement”) - Year of No Sugar

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message 30: by Sam F (last edited Sep 01, 2025 11:01AM) (new)

Dec 27, 2024 05:12AM

YLTO 2025 Challenge:

Badge 1:

📍B - Books about books - Death on Demand
📍C - Childhood - The Prodigal Daughter
📍D - Dogs - All Things Wise and Wonderful
📍F - Fantasy - War Storm
📍G - Ghosts - Lord John and the Hand of Devils
📍H - History - Lost Roses
📍L - Love - The Heart Principle
📍M - Mythology - Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
📍N - Nature - Savage Run
📍P - Pirates - Death on Gokumon Island
📍R - Religion - Far to Go
📍S - Survival - The Morning After
📍T - True Crime - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
📍V - Villainy - The Last Thing He Told Me
📍W - Women - Identity

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message 31: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:19PM) (new)

Dec 27, 2024 05:13AM

Badge 2:

Titles:
A - Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
B - Buried Angels , The Beauty of Humanity Movement
C - Crazy Rich Asians, The Case for Jamie, A Court of Mist and Fury
D - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, A Day No Pigs Would Die
E - Earthly Joys
F - Far to Go, A Fugitive Green
G - Guts, The Girl from Widow Hills, A Great Country
H - Hornet's Nest, The Heart Principle
I - Identity, The Invisible Hand
J - Jerry Seinfeld, the Entire Domain
K - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, The Kitchen God's Wife
L - Lost Lake, The Last Thing He Told Me, A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows
M - Mind Games, The Morning After
N - Notorious Nineteen, The Next Queen of Heaven
O - Out of Nowhere
P - Pachinko, The Prodigal Daughter
Q - Quartet for the End of Time
R - R is for Ricochet, The Rose Code
S - Sisters, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
T - Tell Me, A Trick of the Light
U - Unsheltered
V - Victoria Line, Central Line
W - Will to Live
Y - Year of No Sugar
Z - Zoo Station

Badge 3:

Female Authors -
A - Rachel Amphlett
B - Sandra Brown
C - Patricia Cornwell
D - Laura Dave
E - Janet Evanovich
F
G - Sue Grafton
H - Helen Hoang
I - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
J - Alka Joshi
K - Martha Hall Kelly
L - Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
M - Sarah J. Maas
N
O - American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
P - Louise Penny
Q - Kate Quinn
R - Nora Roberts
S - Eve O. Schaub
T - Raina Telgemeier
U
V - Shelby Van Pelt
W -
Y
Z

Badge 4:

Male Authors -
A - Jeffrey Archer
B - David Baldacci
C - Lee Child
D - David Downing
E - Robert M. Edsel
F - Ken Follett
G - David Grann
H - Jonathan Haidt
I
J - Jonas Jonasson
K - Kevin Kwan
L
M - Phillip Margolin
N - Jo Nesbø
O
P - James Patterson
Q
R
S - Alexander McCall Smith
T - Gou Tanabe
U
V
W - P.G. Wodehouse
Y - Seishi Yokomizo
Z

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message 32: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:20PM) (new)

Dec 27, 2024 05:14AM

Badge 5:

Cover Objects -
📍A- Airplane -

The Bomber Mafia A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell

📍B- Butterfly -

📍C- Chair -

Jerry Seinfeld, the Entire Domain by Kathleen Tracy

📍D- Dishes -

📍E- Elephant -

The Game (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #7) by Laurie R. King

📍F- Fruit -

Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2) by M.C. Beaton

📍G- Gate -

📍H- Horse -

📍I- Insect -

📍J- Jewel/Jewelry -

📍K- Key
📍L- Lighthouse -

The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E. Pendziwol

📍M- Mansion -

📍N- Night Sky -

📍O- Orange Fruit -

OR 75% Orange Cover -

📍P- Picture within a picture -

The Monuments Men Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel

📍Q- Quilt
📍R- Rose -

The Case for Jamie (Charlotte Holmes, #3) by Brittany Cavallaro

📍S- Sky (50% of cover) -

Quartet for the End of Time by Johanna Skibsrud

📍T- Tea Cup -

📍U- Umbrella -

Lost Roses (Woolsey-Ferriday, #2) by Martha Hall Kelly

📍V- Vase with flowers
📍W- Water -

📍Y- Yacht OR 75% Yellow Cover -

Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4) by Seishi Yokomizo

📍Z- Zeppelin

Badge 6:

Specified Location

📍A- Alaska - The Great Alone
📍B- British Columbia - The Fire-Dwellers, Starlight, The End of East,
📍C- Congo - Heart of Darkness, A Bend in the River, The Hot Zone, The Mission Song, Swimming in the Congo,
📍D- Detroit - The Lost Hero, Bird Box, Mrs Everything, Broken Monsters, Gone to Soldiers,
📍E- Egypt - Death on the Nile, River God, Ink & Bone, The Heretic Queen,
📍F- France - Lost Roses
📍G- Georgia US - The Morning After
📍H- Hawaii - Micro, The Descendants, Hawaii
📍I- Iceland - Burial Rites, Smilla's Sense of Snow,
📍J- Jamaica - Wide Sargasso Sea, The Pineapple Bay Hotel, Here Comes the Sun,
📍K- Kenya - Out of Africa, The Constant Gardener, Born Free, Say You're One of Them, The White Masai, The Book of Secrets, Bill Bryson's African Diary, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
📍L- London - A Fugitive Green
📍M- Moscow - Anna Karenina, Gorky Park, War & Peace, The Russia House, Heart of a Dog
📍N- Nevada - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, The Stand, Burned, Desperation, We Are Called to Rise, Paradise Nevada, As You Wish, Blue Skies, 30 Years Behind Bars, Crank, Ocean's 11,
📍O- Oslo - The Bat, The Orange Girl, I'm Traveling Alone, Blood on Snow,
📍P-Pakistan - Moth Smoke, Midnight's Children, Maps for Lost Lovers, All My Rage, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, Daughter of Destiny, The Invisible Hand
📍Q- Queensland, Australia - A Town Like Alice, Wings of Fear, The Thorn Birds, Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute, The Shack By The Bay, The Forgotten Garden, The Codebreakers, The Beekeeper's Secret, The Lighthouse Keeper's Son,
📍R- Rome - Julius Caesar, I Claudius, The Aeneid, The Count of Monte Cristo, Daisy Miller, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Ides of March,
📍S- Spain - Don Quixote, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Fountains of Silence, The Prisoner of Heaven, The Queen's Vow, Red Queen,
📍T- Tuscany - A Room with a View, The Tuscan Street, Inferno, Love & Gelato, Still Life, That Month in Tuscany, I Mona Lisa,
📍U- Ukraine - The Last Green Valley, The Three Sisters, Diary of a Madman & Other Stories, Grey Bees, The Nesting Dolls, The Summer Guest, The Memory Keeper of Kyiv, A Boy in Winter, The Little Russian,
📍V- Venice - Death in Venice & Other Tales, Brideshead Revisited, The Wings of the Dove, Don't Look Now, Cry to Heaven, The Haunted Hotel, All the Lost Places, Little Dorrit, Death at La Fenice, Across the River and Into the Trees, The Glassblower of Murano, Bridge of Sighs,
📍W- Wisconsin - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The Art of Fielding, Drowning Ruth, The Simplicity of Cider, Farmer Boy,
📍Y- Yellowstone - any book with Yellowstone in title
📍Z- Zurich - The Kill Artist, Bloodline, Peter Camenzind, Behind Closed Doors, The Einstein Girl,

Badge 7:

Specific Word in Title

📍A- Away - My Sunshine Away
📍B- Black - Son of the Black Stallion, The Black Echo
📍C- Crow - The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
📍D- Dark - The Darkest Evening of the Year
📍E- Evening - Evenings at Five: A Novel and Five New Stories
📍F- Fortune - Fortune's Daughter
📍G- Girl - China Rich Girlfriend
📍H- Hand - The Invisible Hand
📍I- Island - Death on Gokumon Island
📍J- June - Goodnight June
📍K- Kind - Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
📍L- Lord - Lord John and the Hand of Devils
📍M- Murder - A Catered Murder
📍N- Name - My Name Is Memory
📍O- Opal
📍P- People
📍Q- Quiet - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts
📍R- Rain - Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
📍S- Silver - Silver Girl
📍T- Tree - The Halloween Tree
📍U- Under - Under the Streets of Nice
📍V- Valley - Miller's Valley
📍W- West - True West
📍Y- Young - When We Were Very Young
📍Z- Zebra or Zero - Zero Day

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message 33: by Sam F (last edited Sep 01, 2025 11:59AM) (new)

Dec 27, 2024 09:04AM

What to Read in 2025

📔1. Go to your home page. Scroll through the updates and read any book mentioned. - David Copperfield, East of Eden, Really Good Actually, The Grey Wolf, The Secret Keeper, Project Hail Mary, Here One Moment, A Court of Mist and Fury, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Phoenix Crown, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, The German Daughter, The Women, The Stand, Evidence of the Affair, S is for Silence,

📔2. Go to your home page again. Scroll through the updates and read another book mentioned. - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

📔3. Go to a group you are a member of and read a book off of their shelves. You may use a series substitute if needed. - The Name of the Rose, The Last Thing He Told Me, None of This is True, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Great Alone, The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Lessons in Chemistry, The Paris Apartment, Project Hail Mary, Middlesex, White Teeth, Americanah, Chocolat, Life After Life, Perfume, The Knife of Never Letting Go,

📔4. Go to your Friends list, click on Books My Friends Are Reading. Read a book from this list or a another book by an author on this list. - The Case for Jamie, Doctor Zhivago,

📔5. Go back to your Friends list, click on Books My Friends Are Reading. Read another book from this list or a another book by an author on this list. - Louise Penny - A Trick of the Light,

📔6. Choose a book from a 2024 AMMP or Game Night Challenge (that has ended) that you didn't get read. If you are new to either group or did not participate in challenges in 2024, read a book you wished you would have read in 2024. - The Bluest Eye, Cat's Eye, The Cider House Rules, Doctor Zhivago, The Feast of the Goat, Get Shorty, The House of the Spirits, Naked Lunch, White Teeth,

📔7. Read a book from your TBR published from the year you joined AMMP. - 2016 - A Court of Mist and Fury

📔8. Read one of the 5 oldest books added to your TBR. - The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, The Origin of Species

📔9. Read any book from your TBR. - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

📔10. Click on Browse, then Recommendations. Read a book listed for recommendations based on your Read shelf: click on "Read" on the "Recommendations by Shelf" section on the right. - The Women, The Lake House, The Briar Club, Notorious RBG, The Demon of Unrest, Here One Moment, The Midnight Feast, Where the Red Fern Grows, My Side of the Mountain, The Incredible Journey,

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message 34: by Sam F (last edited Oct 04, 2025 05:23AM) (new)

Dec 27, 2024 09:04AM

📕11. Click on Browse, then Recommendations. Read a book listed for recommendations based on any of your shelves: click on any shelf on the "Recommendations by Shelf" section on the right. - North & South, David Copperfield, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Age of Innocence, Far From the Maddening Crowd, The Life Impossible, Cranford, Jude the Obscure, Vanity Fair, Villette, The Turn of the Screw, The Sleeping Car Porter

📕12. Click on Browse, New Releases. Click on My Authors at the top and read a book that shows up on the list for any month in 2025. If none of the New Releases appeal, read a different book by an author that shows up on the list but it must be a series you have not read yet (or a standalone if no series). - Fredrick Bachman, Holmes Marple & Poe, Mary Kubica, Emma Lord, Lisa Genova, Jojo Moyes, You Think It, I'll Say It, Fortune's Daughter, John Green, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Emma Donoghue, Jennifer Weiner, The Hit, Isabel Allende, Wally Lamb, Stephen King, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Perfume, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Cat's Eye, The Brothers Karamazov, As You Wish, I'm A Stranger Here Myself, One Summer America 1927, Broken, Look Me in the Eye, The Lost Continent, Bonk, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Naked, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Pecked to Death By Ducks

📕13. Click on Browse, then on Lists. Pick a list that your friends have voted on and read a book from that list. Series substitute allowed. - Ready Player 2, Ender's Saga 2, Lord of the Rings, I Robot, Sherlock Holmes, Outliers, The Tipping Point, Project Hail Mary, A Fine Balance, Alias Grace, Anne of the Island, The Blind Assassin, The Birth House, Barney's Version, The Tin Flute, Mercy Among The Children, Come Thou Tortoise,

📕14. Click on Browse, then on Lists. Pick a different list that your friends have voted on (not from the list you used in #13) and read a book from that list. Series substitute allowed. - The Woman in White, Three Men in a Boat, The Women, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The Edible Woman, Local Woman Missing, The Running Man, Real Men Knit, Childern of Blood & Bone, The Railway Children, Dune, My Man Jeeves, All the President's Men, Little Men, A Woman is No Man,

📕15. Click on Browse, then on All Genres. To the right under My Favorite Genres, click on a genre and read a book from the New Releases section for that genre. If nothing appeals, pick a different genre. - The Memory Dress, Now or Never, What I Ate in One Year, Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart, Halfway There, The Specimen, Leave the Girls Behind, The Sunflower House, The Lies We Leave Behind, You Can't Hurt Me, The Liberty Scarf, The Starlets, The Queen's Cook, Flint Kill Creek, The Blue Hour, The Mighty Red.

📕16. Click on Browse, then on All Genres. To the right under My Favorite Genres, click on a genre then scroll down to Lists. Read a book from any of the lists. If nothing appeals, pick a different genre. - The Serviceberry, City of Night Birds, Love Can't Feed You, Life Form, I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying, Paper Boat, Like Mother Like Mother, The Bletchley Riddle, The Witches of El Paso, The Secret War of Julia Child, All We Thought We Knew

📕17. Click on Browse, then on Choice Awards. Read any book that has been nominated (or won) for any year or read any other book by that author. - The Women, The Ministry of Time, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

📕18. On your profile page, scroll down until you see "People (Your name) Is Following" on the right side of the page. At the top of that page, click on the link "Authors You're Following". Once there, scroll through the list of authors you're following and choose an author. Read any book by that author. If you are not following an author... you should be! But you may read a book by any author you consider a favorite. - A Fugitive Green

📕19. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by date added. Read a book off the first page. - Fall of Giants, Red Moon, Codebreakers, Sometimes Mine, The Singing Fire, Mercy Among the Children, Plan B, The Good Apprentice, An Anthropologist on Mars, Sleeping Naked is Green, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows.., Mudbound, Not My Daughter, The Freedom Writer's Diary, The Grapes of Wrath, Shake Hands with the Devil, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, Chronicler of the Winds, The Birth House, The Scorched-Wood People, Born Adventurer, Far to Go, 100 Secret Senses, The Piano Man's Daughter, The Casual Vacancy, A Fine Balance, The Historian, The Tipping Point, The Professor & The Madman, The Brain that Changes Itself, Cutting for Stone, The Forgotten Garden, The Hedgehog..., Foxfire, Honeymoon in Purdah, David & Goliath, A Train in Winter, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Chasing Cezanne, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, Drink the Bitter Root, Embracing the Wide Sky, French Toast, Long Beach Wild, Mr Nice, My Father's Tears, Possessing Genius, Prisoner of Tehran, The Lemon Tree, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, Vanilla Beans & Brodo, We Who Can Fly

📕20. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by date added. Read a book off the last page. - No Logo, The Hanging Garden, The Mystery of Right & Wrong, The Garden of Evening Mists, Identity, Where the Bird Sings Best, Milk With Wine, The Bone Woman, The Ditchdigger's Daughters, #Girlboss, Saints of the Shadow Bible, Rather Be the Evil, The Weight of Ink, Water Children, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Love Etc, The Fixer, Hornet's Nest, The Naming of the Dead, Portrait of a Killer, Southern Cross, Flesh & Blood, A Song for Dark Times, The Origin of Species, Atlas of the Heart, A Respectable Trade, Uncle Tungsten, Out of Nowhere

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message 35: by Sam F (last edited Oct 04, 2025 05:24AM) (new)

Dec 27, 2024 09:05AM

📗21. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by author, A-Z. Read one book on the first page. - Possessing Genius, Tuesdays with Morrie, Cavedweller, Experience A Memoir, #GirlBoss, Lost Kin, Sex & the City & Us, The Iron Tracks, New Sherlock Holmes, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Life After Life, A God in Ruins, Dancing Girls, Smart Girls Finish Rich, The Hero's Walk, The Lost Girls, Paris I Love You, The Reserve, Love Etc, The Spark, Running the Rift, Open House, Water Children, Hothouse Flower, 100 Days, Grand Central, Rainbow of Desire, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Unselfie, Business As Usual, The Proof, An Ice-Cream War, Riven Rock, Drop City, My Name Is Memory, A History of Civilizations, Daring Greatly, Atlas of the Heart, The Runaway Princess, The Power-house, The Voluntourist, A Wolf at the Table, Drunk Mom, Quirkyalone, Pass the Butterworms, Pecked to Death by Ducks, The Artist's way, Death in Sicily, True History of the Kelly Gang, The Error of Our Ways

📗22. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by author, Z-A. Read one book on the first page. - Blink and Caution, The Day of the Triffids, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Farthing's Fortunes, The Weekend Man, The Teacher's Daughter, The Canterbury Sisters, The Treehouse, When God Was a Rabbit, A Year of Marvellous Ways, The Professor & the Madman, The Scorched-wood People, Leaves of Grass, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, Milk with Wine, Everyone Worth Knowing, Certain Girls, Miss Fortune, Honeymoon in Purdah, White Crosses, The Onion Field, The Shape of Snakes, Infinite Jest, Sweeping Up Glass, By the Light of My Father's Smile, What I Did, The Way We Are, The Aeneid, Cutting for Stone, A Map of Glass, My Father's Tears, Lulu in the Sky, Harvest Home, Changing My Mind, This is Where I Leave You, Jerry Seinfeld, the Entire Domain, The Simarillion, The Lemon Tree, All My Puny Sorrows, The Ditchdigger's Daughter, Confessions of a Sociopath, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, My Other Life, The Darkest Room, An Echo Through the Snow, The Garden of Evening Mists, 100 Secret Senses, The Kitchen God's Wife, Saving Fish From Drowning, Embracing the Wide Sky

📗23. Read a book from your TBR by a new to you author. - Lost Lake

📗24. Read a book from your TBR by another new to you author. - The Last Thing He Told Me

📗25. Read a book that will either finish a series you have started or is the latest book published in a series you have started. - The Heart Principle

📗26. Read a another book that will either finish a series you have started or is the latest book published in a series you have started - War Storm

📗27. Pick a series you've been wanting to start and read the first book in that series. - Hornet's Nest

📗28. Pick a series where you've only read the first book and read the next book in that same series. - Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet

📗29. Pick a series from a new to you author you've been wanting to start and read the first book in that series. - Crazy Rich Asians

📗30. Read any book from your TBR. - Notorious Nineteen

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message 36: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:21PM) (new)

Dec 27, 2024 09:05AM

📘31. Read a book that you acquired in 2024 but haven't read yet - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2024. - Out of Nowhere, Identity, Mind Games, A Great Country, Thunder Song: Essays

📘32. Read a book that you acquired in 2023 but haven't read yet. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2023. - The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

📘33. Read a book that you acquired in 2022 but haven't read yet. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2022.

📘34. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by number of pages, shortest to longest. Read a book found on the first page. (These books may be under the 100 pages for this task only). - Gielgud's Letters, The Power-house, The Trade Mission, Hornet's Nest, Southern Cross, We Who Can Fly, Family Furnishings, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Leaves of Grass, French Toast, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Whale Rider, The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, The Educated Imagination, Good Morning Midnight, Mary Janeway, Be Your Own Brand, Voyage in the Dark, Quirkyalone, Paris A Love Story, The Incomparable Atuk, Long Beach Wild, Courage My Love, God Hates Us All, In Custody, Who Do You Think You Are, Comfort Me With Apples, The Iron Tracks, The Struggle is My Life, Tuesdays With Morrie, In the Sea There Are Crocodiles, The Rainbow of Desire, Back on Tuesday, By the Light of My Father's Smile, Chaucer the Maker, The Courage to Teach, The Opposable Mind, The Day of the Triffids, New Rules, Chronicler of the Winds, Whip It, The Artist's Way, Beyond Good & Evil, News from Thrush Green, Baumgartner's Bombay, Love Etc, The Last Shot, Call Me Russell, #GirlBoss

📘35. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by number of pages, longest to shortest. Read a book found on the first page. - Infinite Jest, Fall of Giants, Winter of The World, The Luminaries, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Red Moon, Blood Memory, The Brother's Karamazov, The Passage, Full Catastrophe Living, Barkskins, The Historian, Mississippi Blood, The Origin of Species, Death in Sicily, A Brief History of 7 Killings, Crime & Punishment, Long Walk to Freedom, History of Civilizations, Steve Jobs, Sophie's Choice, Believing the Lie, A Perfect Spy, The Wind-up Bird Chronicles, A Fine Balance, Lady of Hay, Grapes of Wrath, Cemetery Road, Custodian of Paradise, Lady's Maid, The Weight of Ink, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Shake Hands with the Devil, Freedom, The Distant Hours, Cutting for Stone, Mr. Nice, The Mystery of Right & Wrong, The Name of the Rose, The Forgotten Garden, The Naming of the Dead, Little Shadows, Life After Life, The Lost Girls, The Odyssey, The Kitchen God's Wife, Agatha Christie, Middlesex, The Witches of New York, No Logo

📘36. Sort your TBR by 50 books per page and by title A-Z. Read a book off of the first page. - #GirlBoss, The 7 Habits of Highly..., The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man, all the way to Born Adventurer - The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb

📘37. Sort your TBR by 50 books per page and by title A-Z. Read a book off of the last page. - Zoo Station to Winter of the World - Written in My Own Heart's Blood

📘38. Sort your TBR by 50 books per page and by title A-Z. Read a book off of any page except the first or last. - Crazy Rich Asians, Hornet's Nest, Far to Go, Victoria Line, Central Line

📘39. Pick a book that you rated five stars in 2024. Go to the book page and scroll until you see 'Lists with this book'. Click on any list for that book and read a book from the list. (If you didn't rate any book 5 stars, then choose the highest GR rated book from your 2024 read list). - Tuck Everlasting, The She Was Gone, All the Bright Places, Jurassic Park, Norweigian Wood, Ninth House, Along Came a Spider, Before I Fall, Brisingr, The Wife Between Us, The Great Alone, The Simarillion, Under the Dome, The Patriot Games, Blindsighted, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, Naked, The Luminaries, The Two Towers, Emotional Intelligence, A Tale of Two Cities, The Forgotten Garden, A Court of Mist and Fury, In A Dark Dark Wood, House Rules, The Eyre Affair, The Casual Vacancy, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Silent Patient, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, House of the Spirits, There There, Small Great Things, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., The Virgin Blue, The Twentieth Wife, The Secret Keeper, A Fine Balance, Lady of Hay, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, The Kingmaker's Daughter,

📘40. Pick another book that you rated five stars. Go to the book page and scroll until you see 'Lists with this book'. Click on any list for that book and read a book from the list. (If you didn't rate any book 5 stars, then choose the highest GR rated book from your 2024 read list). - The Bear & The Nightingale, A Great Reckoning, The Lying Game, Behold The Dreamers, The Story of a New Name, Life After Life, Three Wishes, Milk & Honey, Swing Time, Americanah, The Radium Girls, Burial Rites, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, Doctor Sleep, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, The Artist's Way, Shake Hands with the Devil, No Logo, The Testaments, Naked Lunch, The Lincoln Lawyer, Salem's Lot, Cutting for Stone, The Clockmaker's Daughter, Hamlet, A Woman is No Man, The Stand, Pillars of the Earth, The Fellowship of the Ring, Anna Karenina, Tipping the Velvet, Orphan Train, Carrie Soto is Back, Crazy Rich Asians,

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message 37: by Sam F (last edited Sep 07, 2025 05:04PM) (new)

Dec 27, 2024 09:05AM

📙41. Read a book that has a title that starts with the same letter as your first name. - Savage Run

📙42. Read a book that has a title that starts with the same letter as your last name. - Far to Go

📙43. Read a book whose author's first or last name starts with the same letter as your GR screen name. - A Great Country

📙44. Read a book published in 2025. - The Manor of Dreams

📙45. Read a book published in 2024. - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

📙46. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Random. Read a book off the first page. - Who do You Think You Are, The Lacuna, News from Thrush Green, The Last Burden, Origin of Haloes, The Templars, Possessing Genius, Middlesex, Chronicler of the Winds, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, Courage My Love, Sophie's Choice, Making Grateful Kids, The Secret Keeper, Confessions of a Sociopath, A Year of Marvelous Ways, Cavedweller, Quirkyalone, The Night Villa, Buzz Marketing, A Map of Glass, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, A Fine Balance, Once We Had a Country, Running Scared, Innovate Inside the Box, Nanjing Requiem, MiniShopaholic, The Tsar of Love and Techno, Winter of the World, A History of Civilizations, Comfort Me With Apples, All Roads Lead to Austen, The Secret River, Apollo's Arrow, Lady's Maid, China Rich Girlfriend, 7 Habits, Thinking Fast & Slow, Playing with Fire, The White Masai, Lucky Man, Polar, Runner, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Blood Memory, Trail of Secrets, Daughters Are Forever, Dancing Girls, Alone in the Classroom

📙47. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Random. Read a book off the last page. - The Naming of the Dead, Swing Time, Game Control, Empower, The Last Burden, The Freedom Writers Diary, The Naked Ape, The Bone Woman, Growing up Poor, The Runaway Princess, Chronicler of the Winds, Erebos

📙48. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Num Ratings. Read a book off the first page. - Steve Jobs, The Odyssey, Tuesdays with Morrie, Hamlet, Tale of Two Cities, Crime & Punishment, Grapes of Wrath, Tipping Point, Outliers, 7 Habits, Middlesex, American Dirt, Thinking Fast & Slow, Pachinko, Crazy Rich Asians, Perfume, Cutting for Stone, The Name of the Rose, The Brothers Karamazov, Fall of Giants, The Casual Vacancy, The Silmillarion, The Windup Bird Chronicles, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Historian, You are a Badass, Good to Great, Life After Life, The Forgotten Garden, Daring Greatly, China Rich Girlfriend, The Passage, When You are Engulfed in Flames, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Merchant of Venice, David & Goliath, One Plus One, Rich People Problems, Freedom, Winter of the World, The Secret Keeper, White Teeth, A Woman is No Man, A Portrait of the Artist..., A Fine Balance, This is Where I Leave You, The Aeneid, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, The Tenth Circle

📙49. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Num Ratings. Read a book off the last page. - Comfort Me With Apples, Life Money Illusion, The Empress Letters, Mary Janeway, Laughing Matters, Business As Usual, The Last Shot, Milk With Wine, Born Adventurer, Chaucer the Maker, We Who Can Fly, Water Children

📙50. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Ave Ratings. Read a book off the first page. - Life Money & Illusion, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, All Things Wise and Wonderful, Mississippi Blood, The Brothers Karamazov, Winter of the World, A Fine Balance, The Boy on the Beach, American Dirt, Annie's Girl, Long Walk to Freedom, New Sherlock Holmes, Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Pachinko, Milk with Wine, The Struggle is My Life, Cutting for Stone, Atlas of the Heart, Fall of Giants, Mary Janeway, News from Thrush Green, Rainbow of Desire, Daring Greatly, Crime & Punishment, The Tsar of Love & Techno, The Last of the Breed, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes, A Woman is No Man, Infinite Jest, Innovate Inside the Box, Shake Hands With the Devil, The Gray Seas Under, The Lizard Cage, Narcissus and Goldmund, They Poured Fire On Us..., Prisoner of Tehran, The Brain that Changes Itself, God of the Hive, Pay It Forward, Necessary as Blood, Ditchdigger's Daughters, Tuesdays with Morrie, Lulu in the Sky, Thinking Fast & Slow, Sophie's Choice, Barney's Version, Family Furnishings, 7 Habits, The Secret Keeper

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message 38: by Sam F (last edited Jul 25, 2025 07:42AM) (new)

Dec 27, 2024 09:05AM

📚51. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Ave Ratings. Read a book off the last page. - Various Positions, Invisible Eden, The Reserve, My Ghosts, The Optimist, The Tsunami File, Feather Serpent, Courage My Love, Quartet for the End of Time, The Question, We Who Can Fly, Water Children

📚52. Read a book published in the same month as your birthday. - Crazy Rich Asians

📚53. Read a book with a cover that is at least 50% your favorite color. -

📚54. Read a book published in the year you joined Goodreads. - 2015 - Yarned and Dangerous

📚55. Go to the main book page for a book you read in December 2024. Scroll down to the 'Readers Also Enjoyed' section and read a book listed there. If the book page for the book you read does not have a 'Readers Also Enjoyed' section or none of the books appeal, pick another book you read in December and try again. - The Illegal, A Complicated Kindness, The Book of Awesome, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, The Women, The Berry Pickers, Tom Lake, Remarkably Bright Creatures, The Briar Club, Gilead, Small Things Like These, Pulphead, Notorious Nineteen, Q is for Quarry, Moon of the Turning Leaves, The Phoenix Crown

📚56. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "Can't Wait" in the list name. - The Maid

📚57. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "Best" in the list name. - The Sentence

📚58. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "2024" in the list name. - Mind Games, Thunder Song: Essays

📚59. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "2025" in the list name.

📚60. Read any book from your TBR - Buried Angels, The Next Queen of Heaven

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message 39: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 12:56PM) (new)

Jan 05, 2025 11:37AM

For the Love of Books 2025 Reading Challenge:

1. Book with two numbers from 2025 in page count (can repeat the 2) - Notorious Nineteen

2. Book someone raved about but you haven't had the chance to read yet - Out of Nowhere

3. Book where the MC is a housekeeper or a maid - Lost Roses

4. Book where someone takes a photograph - not selfie - Identity

5. Book with a candle on the cover -

6. Book where the MC does something to improve their health - Year of No Sugar

7. Book from a country or region with a very different cultural background than your own - Buried Angels

8. Book with less than 100 reviews - Jerry Seinfeld, the Entire Domain

9. Book that was originally self-published and later picked up by a publisher - The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

10. Book that intentionally leaves plot points unresolved - Will to Live

11. Book of historical fiction that deliberately bends the facts - Written in My Own Heart's Blood

12. Book entirely set in a single room or confined space - The Beautiful Mystery

13. Book that blends two or more genres, like sci-fi romance or historical fantasy - War Storm

14. Book set entirely in a single day

15. Book with the same page count as your 2024 average book length - 306 pages - My Sunshine Away

16. Book with the same rating as your 2024 average book rating - 3.3 -

17. Book with with a word associated with pirate-speak found in the text

18. Book that fits into the Futuristic Genre

19. Book with a riddle found in it - The Morning After

20. Book written by a single mother - JK Rowling, Jeannette Walls, Cheryl Strayed, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Gilbert, Toni Morrison, Anne Lamott, Dorothy Parker, Mary Shelley, Zora Neale Hurston, Jeanette Winterson, From Here to the Great Unknown

21. Book with with Oktoberfest found in the text or celebrated

22. Book where the MC has a dream or a nightmare - Mind Games

23. Book with food being eaten that you have never tried - R is for Ricochet

24. Book with something that generates electricity on the cover -

25. Book with the ocean taking up more than 50% of the cover -

26. Book with outerspace taking up more than 50% of the cover

27. Book with a cover that could also be a video game cover -

The Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

28. Book with Peas on or in the book (Snow, Garden, Snap) - American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America

29. Book set on the African Continent - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

30. Book with a snake on the cover -

31. Book that is an International Bestseller - The Bat

32. Book with "chamomile" in the text - Earthly Joys

33. Book with a mission that feels impossible - A Fugitive Green

34. Book that has been nominated for a Goodreads Award - Sisters

35. Book that has an AI character

36. Book that is 70% or more jewel tone colored -

37. Book with eyes on the cover that are not on a face -

Thunder Song Essays by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

38. Book with something on the cover that could glow in blacklight -

39. Book with a reflection of something on the cover -

40. Book where MC is a first responder - The Killing Game

41. Book with a MC who could have avoided something if they told the truth - The Heart Principle

42. Book with neon text on the cover -

43. Book with a holiday other than Christmas - Buried Angels

44. Book that has been featured in any book subscription service or box

45. Book where fear makes characters turn on each other - Far to Go

46. Book with outdated technology on the cover -

47. Book without the word "THE" in the first sentence - Running Blind

48. FLOAB Buddy Read for 2024

49. Book featuring a Cult or the Occult - A Catered Murder

50. Book that breaks the fourth wall - Crazy Rich Asians

51. Book that is a sequel - The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

52. Book published in 2025 - The Manor of Dreams

53. Book that is a Celebrity Bookclub Pick - The Last Thing He Told Me

54. Book that is a first in a new-to-you book series - Hornet's Nest

55. Book that is a debut - Yarned and Dangerous

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message 40: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:24PM) (new)

Jan 13, 2025 04:11PM

ATY Reading Challenge 2025:

1. A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A -

, T -

, or Y

2. A prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list

A book with an animal on the cover -

A book set in a different hemisphere than where you live - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
A book told from multiple character POVs - Lost Roses
A book that comforts you
A book involving love
A book involving money – R is for Ricochet or a lack of money - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title
A book involving a train - Will to Live, plane - Gray Mountain or automobile -

One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2) by Kate Atkinson

A book about a historical figure - Earthly Joys
A winner or nominee from GR choice awards 2024 - From Here to the Great Unknown
A book related to fungi - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
A book involving mountains - Mind Games
A book related to "civil rights" - A Great Country or human rights
A book title or author’s first - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness or last name starting with J
A book published in a quarter-century year (e.g. 1925, 1950, 1975, 2000 - Running Blind, 2025)
A book with an East-West connection - Crazy Rich Asians
A book with a primarily red -

Shiver (New Orleans, #3) by Lisa Jackson

, green or blue cover
A book with a negation in the title - Out of Nowhere
A book where the word “ten” is in the author’s name or title - The Sentence
A book where science or technology has gone wrong - Lord John and the Hand of Devils
A book set before 1900 - Written in My Own Heart's Blood
A book involving the pursuit of happiness
A book with royalty - War Storm
A book by a Generation Y (Millennial) writer - The Heart Principle
A book related to something you loved - Now We Are Six, learned about, or longed for early in your life
A book with an alliterative title - Lost Lake
A book with a city skyline on the cover -

A book with an ensemble cast - The Hit
A book shelved as literary fiction
A book with a reflection on the cover -

2 Weeks: A book related to a beginning - Agatha's First Case and a book related to an end
3 Weeks: A book relating to Blood, A book relating to Sweat, and A book relating to Tears
2 Weeks: Two books with sequential numbers in the title - Notorious Nineteen & Takedown Twenty
4 Weeks: A book connected to Northeast - Identity, A book connected to Southeast - The Morning After, A book connected to Northwest - Savage Run, & A book connected to Southwest - The Last Thing He Told Me
2 Weeks: Two books related to high - A Court of Mist and Fury and low
2 Weeks: Two books featuring complementary colors
3 Weeks: Three books by authors from 3 different European countries - 1) Sweden - Buried Angels, 2) , 3)
2 Weeks: One book that asks a question and one book that offers a solution
3 Weeks: A book relating to "up", A book relating to "down", & A book relating to "sideways"
2 Weeks: A book that matches the season/month that you read it during, and a book that is opposite the season/month that you read it in
2 Weeks: A book that is short (less than 250 pages) - Guts & A book that is long (greater than 450 pages)
2 weeks: Lost and found: One book featuring themes of loss and another "found" - The Mother’s Secret
A party book
A book with “yesterday,” “today” or “tomorrow” in the title
A book by any author who was a winner, runner-up, or finalist of any of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards - Pachinko, Homegoing, The Orphan Master's Son,
A book with skull -

or bone imagery (or in the title)
A book that takes place during a holiday - Year of No Sugar
A book involving one or more animals -

A book that is number 2 - Sisters, 5 - The Body Farm, or 25 in a series
A book club recommendation - Tom Lake
A book about books - Death on Demand
A book connected to one of the phrases attributed to Shakespeare - Something Wicked
A book related to National DNA Day - The Kitchen God's Wife
A book that comforts you
A book with a lock or keyhole on the cover -

The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1) by Nita Prose

A book with a tv or film adaptation - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
A book related to blood, sweat, or tears
A book with an occupation in the title - The Sleeping Car Porter
A book about breaking up - China Rich Girlfriend or breaking down
A book set in a country bordering the Caribbean Sea - River Sing Me Home
A book involving an island - Death on Gokumon Island
A book set wholly or partly in an underworld - Under the Streets of Nice
A vacation book
A book from a non-human point of view - Remarkably Bright Creatures
A book with ‘all’ or ‘nothing’ in the title - All Things Wise and Wonderful
A book with a main character that has a pet - Yarned and Dangerous
A book where part of or all of the story is set in an Olympic host city - Leap of Faith
A book about a strong woman - Hornet's Nest
A book connected to butterflies or moths
A satire, comedy, or humorous book - Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
A book with a cover that features a single body part -

A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck

A book with a unit of measurement in the title - Quartet for the End of Time
A book connected to a wood species or tree - The Halloween Tree
A book with a well-crafted villain - Moriarty
A book where at least part of the story is set in an country that starts with a letter in the word ANNIVERSARY - American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
A book featuring your favorite color on the cover -

A book with a lucky or unlucky symbol on the cover
A book by an author with a short last name (4 letters or fewer) - Far to Go
A book with royalty - The Rose Code
A historical fiction novel
A book related to a mirror
A book with a major character who doesn't have a job - Paper Chains
A book with a “Y” connection - You Think It, I'll Say It
A book with an "Alice" connection - The Next Queen of Heaven
A book containing a trial
A book inspired by mythology - H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories, legend, folklore, or fairytale
A book featuring a protagonist who is in mid-life - Jerry Seinfeld, the Entire Domain
A book that focuses on a journey - The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
A book set in an isolated - The Beautiful Mystery, unpopulated, or very rural locale
A book about a rivalry - Less
A book about breaking up - Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 or breaking down
A book recommended by an Independent Bookseller
A book involving the pursuit of happiness
A book with a main character who is an outsider - The Killing Game
A book where something has disappeared or is disappearing
A book with a road trip - Blink and Caution or long journey
A book with a partial face on the cover -

A book where the character has a job or career you find intriguing or would love to have
A book that is the last in its series
A book by an author from a predominantly Spanish-speaking nation, territory, or commonwealth
A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
A book with food as a major theme or plot device
A book related to butterflies or moths - The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
A book with (at least) 25 chapters
A book with a character in disguise - Top Secret Twenty-One
A book with a theme of starting over - The Prodigal Daughter
A book with a competent main character - As the Wicked Watch
A book with ‘all’ or ‘nothing’ in the title
A book by a "local" author
A book where science or technology has gone wrong - The Aviator
A book considered a classic - Lady Susan
A book related to time - Zero Day
A book with an indefinite article in the title - Along Came a Spider
A book related to theft or stealing - Neighbors
A book about libraries or library workers - The Book Woman's Daughter
A book with food as a major theme or plot device
A biography or memoir - Thunder Song: Essays
A book involving science
A book whose cover, title, or author’s name relates to SANDWICHES
A book that fits prompt no. 25 of a previous year's ATY challenge - A book involving a crime other than a murder - My Sunshine Away
A book set in a country bordering the Caribbean Sea
A book with a lucky or unlucky symbol on the cover
A microhistory - The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
A book that is an Audie award winner or nominee (read in any format)
A book based on the theme of one of six Las Vegas hotels: Luxor, Excalibur, The Flamingo, MGM Grand, Circus Circus, and Treasure Island
A book set during a revolution, revolt, or rebellion
A book that has won an Alex Award
A book with text partially obscured by the cover art -

A book that includes something mentioned in William Shakespeare's Sonnet #25
A book with a curmudgeon or grumpy character - Lost in the Moment and Found
A book that fits three other prompts on this list
A candidate for a prestigious literary award
A Gothic book
A book where you hope or expect to learn something new - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts
A book with a trial
A book with a lucky or unlucky symbol on the cover
A book at least 25 years old - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A book with a Y connection
A book with illustrations - When We Were Very Young
A book with a character who works in law enforcement - The Black Echo
A book with a protagonist who is a different gender than the author
A book involving science

3. A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song -

4. A book set underground, under sea or in an underworld
5. A book with a weird or intriguing title - My Name Is Memory

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message 41: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:26PM) (new)

Jan 13, 2025 04:11PM

ATY con't

6. A book with a serpentine element on the cover
7. A book by an author that uses 3 names - The German Girl or novellas, essays, poetry, or a mix of various brief writings
9. A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year - Klara & the Sun, The Road, The Orphan Master's Son, The Night Watchman, the Testaments, Washington Black, Pachinko, Homegoing, The Tsar of Love & Techno, A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Luminaries, Life After Life, The Round House, The Marriage Plot, Freedom, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Let the Great World Spin, The Lacuna, The Road, The Historian, On Beauty, The Fraud, Cloud Cuckoo Land,
10. A book about witches, goddesses or nuns
11. A book set in a fictional location - The Game
12. A book by an Irish author - Foster
13. A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family - The Invisible Hand
14. A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman

15. A book of secrets - The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, lies, or deception
16. A book that fits a prompt from the 2016 ATY list:

1. A book you meant to read in 2015, but didn't
2. A book set in a different continent - The Bat
3. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2015 (winner or nominated) - Go Set a Watchman, All the Bright Places, Inside the O'Briens, When the Moon is Low, PS I Still Love You, The Library at Mount Char, Red Notice, So You've Been Publically Shamed, Rising Strong, The Deep, A God in Ruins, Finders Keepers, The Nature of the Beast,
4. A book by an author you discovered in 2015
5. A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name - Son of the Black Stallion
6. The highest rated on your TBR
7. A book about books -
8. A classic book with less than 200 pages
9. A book that was mentioned in another book
10. A book by an author you feel you should have read by now
11. A book from the Rory Gilmore challenge - Crime & Punishment, Gone With the Wind, The Two Towers, The Sound & The Fury, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, The Return of the King, The Grapes of Wrath, As I Lay Dying, Anna Karenina, Middlesex, The Name of the Rose, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Count of Monte Cristo, Tuesdays With Morrie
12. A childhood classic
13. Reader’s Choice
14. A book with one of the five W’s -or H in the title - Who/What/Where/When/Why/How) - When We Were Sisters
15. A book set in the past (more than 100 years ago)
16. A book from the top 100 mystery novels
17. A book with a beautiful cover
18. A book on a summer/beach reading list
19. A non-fiction book
20. A book with a first name in the title - Goodnight June
21. A book from the Goodreads Recommendations page
22. The first book in a new to you series - Zoo Station
23. The next book in a series you are reading - Gone
24. A ""between the numbers"" book of a series (0.5, 1,5, 2.5, etc.) - A Fugitive Green
25. A book whose main character is in a profession that interests you
26. A book everyone is talking about
27. A book with a beautiful title (in your own opinion)
28. A biography, autobiography, or memoir - I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

29. A book by an author who writes under more than one name
30. A fairytale from a culture other than your own
31. A work of young adult fiction
32. A historical fiction book
33. The 16th book on your TBR - The Last Wife of Henry VIII
34. A book about mental illness
35. An award winning book
36. An identity book - a book about a different culture, religion or sexual orientation
37. A book that you've seen the movie of but haven't read
38. A book about an anti hero
39. A previous suggestion that did not make it into the list
40. A novella from your favorite genre
41. A book about a major world event (fiction or non-fiction)
42. A top 100 fantasy novel
43. A book about a thing that goes bump in the night
44. A book you're embarrassed to read in public - Two by Two
45. A book related to a hobby or passion you have
46. A crime story
47. A book with a type of food/drink in the title
48. A dystopia
49. A book with a great opening line
50. A book originally written in a language other than English
51. A short story from a well-known author
52. A book published in 2016

17. A history or historical fiction book set prior to 1925
18. A book set primarily in nature

19. A book with a cover that has a building or cityscape
20. A book with an animal, vegetable (plant), or mineral in the title
21. A book connected in some way to any collective noun for animals - Design for Murder
22. A translated novel from Asia

23. A book that involves art, music , dancing or acting
24. A book with a main character who is a brain - Where There's Smoke, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, or a criminal
25. A book with waves on the cover
26. A book by an author with a common noun in their name - True West
27. A book set in the winter

28 and 29. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles
30. A monster book
31. A book with a coastal setting - The Lightkeeper's Daughters

32. A mystery or true crime book
33. A book by an author you enjoyed but haven't gotten around to reading again for some time
34. A book title that could be a country song
35. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Lessons in Chemistry, How the Light Gets In, The Paris Apartment, The Anthropocene Reviewed, Cloud Cuckoo Land, The Radium Girls, Homegoing, The Sentence, The Night Watchman, Klara and the Sun, Pachinko, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, The Secret Place, Unsheltered, A Great Reckoning, From Scratch, Fight Night, Small Things Like These, Barkskins, Tom Lake, The Splendid & the Vile, Yellowface,

36. A book with a common household object on the cover -

Evenings at Five A Novel and Five New Stories by Gail Godwin

37. A book featuring adult friendships - Silver Girl
38 and 39. Two books with a connection from different genres
40. A book you'd consider a comfort read

41. A book that involves digging up the past - The Girl from Widow Hills
42. A book set in a manor, mansion, or estate - Leap of Faith
43. A book whose title has ten or fewer letters -
44. A haunting book - The Woman in White

45. A book by an author whose publishing career spans at least ten years - Miller's Valley
46. A book related to one of the traditional full moon names - Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
47. A book relating to fire
48. A book with a character dealing with death - The Darkest Evening of the Year

49. A book that deals with time travel, alternate universes, or alternate timelines
50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2024 or 2025 - The Women, The Berry Pickers, Homegoing, Bright Young Women, The Name of the Rose, A Tale of 2 Cities, The Round House, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Project Hail Mary, Lessons in Chemistry, The Odyssey, Q &A, Drop City, The Handmaid's Tale, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Carrie Soto is Back, The Phoenix Keeper, The Great Alone, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Lake, The Bell Jar, Small Things Like These,

51. A book published in 2025 - The Manor of Dreams
52. A book with a sunset vibes on the cover

The Anniversary List Prompts
2016: A book originally written in a language other than English
2017: A book whose title doesn't contain the letter "E"
2018: An author's debut book
2019: A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements - Lessons in Chemistry
2020: A book with an emotion in the title
2021: A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
A - Alpha -
B - Bravo
C - Charlie - China Rich Girlfriend
D - Delta -
E - Echo - Echo Burning
F - Foxtrot
G - Golf -
H - Hotel - Less
I - India - The Perfumist of Paris
J - Juliet -
K - Kilo
L - Lima -
M - Mike - Gone
N - November -
O - Oscar -
P - Papa - The German Girl
Q - Quebec - A Trick of the Light
R - Romeo
S - Sierra
T - Tango
U - Uniform - The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
V - Victor - Victoria Line, Central Line
W - Whisky -
X - X-ray
Y - Yankee - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
Z - Zulu -

2022: A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name -Touch & Go
2023: A book whose author has published more than 7 books - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
2024: A book that has been on your TBR for over a year
2025: A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family - Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley

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message 42: by Sam F (last edited Aug 20, 2025 02:02PM) (new)

Feb 08, 2025 06:15PM

Sad Songs:

1. “Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?” — Derek & the Dominos
Read a book with "love" in the title - H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories, or a game piece on the cover (domino, playing card, etc.).

2. “There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)” — Billy Ocean
Read a book with "cry" in the title, or with an ocean scene on the cover. -

3. “Sad Lookin’ Moon” — Alabama
Read a book set in the south - The Morning After, or with a moon on the cover. -

Killers of the Flower Moon The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

4. “The Sad Café” — The Eagles
Read a book with a restaurant setting - Pachinko, or with a bird on the cover. -

5. “Too Young for Sad Memories” — Alvin Stardust (Shane Fenton)
Read a young adult novel - Lost in the Moment and Found, or a book with a night sky on the cover. -

6. “So Why So Sad” — Manic Street Preachers
Read a book with a map in it -

, or with a religious leader (Rabbi, Swami, Priest, etc.). - Shiver

7. “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” — Bob Dylan
Read a book with a lady's eyes on the cover - American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America, or involving a festival. - Thunder Song: Essays

8. “Sad Girlz Luv Money” — Amaarae and Moliy
Read a book with currency on the cover -

, or with a made-up word - My Man Jeeves or spelling in the title.

9. “No More Sad Songs” — Little Mix featuring Machine Gun Kelly
Read a book with mixed genres - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, or with a firearm on the cover. -

The Hit (Will Robie, #2) by David Baldacci

10. “Sad Caper” — Hootie and the Blowfish
Read a book involving a heist - The Sentence or caper, or a book with sea life on the cover -

11. “Sad Beautiful Tragic” — Taylor Swift
Read a book with something beautiful on the cover -

, or with "swift" or a synonym in the title (quick, fast, etc.) - Savage Run.

12. “Sad” — Pearl Jam
Read a book with jewelry on the cover -

, or involving any sweet food (jam, pie, honey, etc.). - Year of No Sugar

13. “Mr. Dieingly Sad” — The Critters
Read a book that includes a death - Hornet's Nest, or a book with animals on the cover. -

China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2) by Kevin Kwan

14. “So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)” — The Everly Brothers
Read a book with "good" - One Good Turn or "bad" in the title - I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, or a book that includes siblings. - Lost Roses

15. “Sad Day” — The Rolling Stones
Read a book with a daytime scene on the cover -

, or with a verb in the title. - Far to Go

16. “Sad Memory” — Buffalo Springfield
Read a historical book (fiction - The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb or nonfiction - The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War), or a book with a mammal on the cover. -

17. “Sad Sun” — Deer Tick
Read a book with "sun" in the title - My Sunshine Away, or with an arachnid on the cover. -

18. “Sad Mood” — Sam Cooke
Read a book with a mood in the title - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness, or a book about a royal figure. - War Storm

19. “Don’t Be Sad” — Scotty Sire
Read a book with a negative in the title (no, can't, etc - Unsheltered.), or a book that explores fatherhood. - Written in My Own Heart's Blood

20. “Why Do I Feel So Sad” — Alicia Keys
Read a book with a question word in the title (who, where, etc.), - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust or with a musical instrument on the cover. -

Quiet Power The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain

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message 43: by Sam F (last edited Aug 19, 2025 01:44PM) (new)

Apr 18, 2025 01:01PM

National Humour Month Challenge:

Read a book tagged as "humor" - The Next Queen of Heaven
Read a book tagged as "funny" ( spelling variations acceptable) - Takedown Twenty
Read a book tagged as "laugh-out-loud"
Read a nominee from the 2017 Good Reads Choice Awards category - Best Humor - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Read a book from the Best Humorous List
Read a book from the Humorous Romance Books List
Read a book with the word "fun" in the title.
Read a book with the word "fun" in the text. - The Mother’s Secret
Read a book with the word "funny" in the text. - The Maid
Read a book with a character you find humorous. - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
Read a book that made you laugh out loud. - The Sentence
Read a book that has the acronym "lol" in the text. - China Rich Girlfriend
Read a book with the word "hilarious" in the text. - Top Secret Twenty-One
Read a book with the work "joke" in the text. - Touch & Go
Read a book which has a clown make an appearance. - Quartet for the End of Time
Read a book with "clown " in the text. - Less
Read a book in which a character plays a joke on a friend. - My Man Jeeves

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message 44: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:32PM) (new)

Apr 18, 2025 01:05PM

CHILD'S PLAY Challenge:

1. Red Rover - Read a book with a red cover, with alliteration in the title - Takedown Twenty, or about someone changing sides - China Rich Girlfriend or perspectives. - The Prodigal Daughter

2. Hide & Seek - Read a book where a character hides from a pursuer - , about someone seeking something - Unsheltered, or with a synonym for hide - Buried Angels or seek in the title. - The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

3. Freeze Tag - Read a book with a hand in the cover art -

, set in a cold environment - The Great Alone, or involving a runner. - The Body Farm

4. Capture the Flag - Read a book set in a country other than yours - Death on Gokumon Island, with a character who has been incarcerated - Echo Burning, or set during a war. - Lord John and the Hand of Devils

5. Red Light, Green Light - Read a book with a light source on the cover -

, about a road trip - Blink and Caution or other journey - Pachinko, or with a red and green cover. -

6. Ring Around the Rosie - Read a book with a flower -

or circle -

on the cover, including illness or death - One Good Turn, or with the letters R-I-N-G in the title. - Along Came a Spider

7. Follow the Leader - Read the next book in a series - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust, a book by a bestselling author - The Next Queen of Heaven, or friend's recommendation. - The Last Thing He Told Me

8. Double Dutch - Read a book with double, two - Two by Two, or twice in the title, two books with the same title - Zero Day & Zero Days, or a re-read. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

9. Simon Says - Read an epistolary book - The Girl from Widow Hills, a book with a name in the title - My Man Jeeves, or one where communication plays a key role. - Less

10. Mother, May I? - Read a book about female relationships - Lost Along the Way, written in first person - Thunder Song: Essays, or with punctuation in the title. - H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories

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message 45: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:33PM) (new)

Apr 18, 2025 01:06PM

A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS Challenge:

You will need:

A cupful of your favourite genre – What genre always lifts your spirits? Romance, fantasy, mystery? Indulge! - Unsheltered

A spoonful of your favourite author – Revisit an old favorite or discover a new gem from an author who never disappoints. - Death on Gokumon Island

A pinch of an anticipated new release – Is there a book you've been eagerly awaiting? Now’s the time to savor it. - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust

A drop of a long unread book from your TBR pile – Dust off that book you've been meaning to get to forever. - The Next Queen of Heaven

And the cherry on top: Book(s) with a pretty cover – Because sometimes, judging a book by its cover is the best kind of treat. -

A POP OF JOY Challenge:

Spark Joy
- Read a book that has been on your TBR for over 2 years - The Next Queen of Heaven
- Read a self-help book - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts

Joy
- Read a book with 'yellow' in the title or with a yellow cover -

- Read the first book in a series - A Catered Murder

Ode to Joy - In 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven used Friedrich Schiller's 1785 poem in his Symphony No. 9.
- Read a book first published in 18th or 19th centuries - Lady Susan
- Read a translated book originally written by a European author - Buried Angels

Joy of Cooking - First published in 1931, over 20 million copies are in print.
- Read a book that has been on a 'bestseller' list - Along Came a Spider
- Read a book about food and food culture - American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America, or where the main character works in a food-related industry - Tom Lake

Joy to the World - While not initially associated with Christmas, this hymn is now the most published Christmas carol in North America.
- Read a book that you have been gifted - The Last Thing He Told Me, or have gifted - The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man, in a holiday or gift exchange - China Rich Girlfriend
- Read a book by an author from a different religion - Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" or belief system (or lack thereof) than yours - A Day No Pigs Would Die

Tears of Joy 😂 - Widespread in digital communication, this emoji conveys the feeling of laughing so hard that tears are shed.
- Read a graphic novel or a book from the humor - Less and comedy genres - My Man Jeeves
- Read a book that includes new technology - Touch & Go or a science fiction book

The Joy Luck Club - A popular novel by Amy Tan that explores relationships between four Chinese immigrant mothers, their daughters, and families.
- Read a book about immigrants - Pachinko or immigration
- Read a book that has been adapted for film, television, or the stage - All Things Wise and Wonderful

Joy Ride - A ride taken for pleasure, often involving reckless driving in a stolen vehicle.
- Read a thriller - The Killing Game, or a book where the main character goes on an adventure -Earthly Joys
- Read a book with less than 120 pages, so you can zip through it - The Hangman

Joy by Jean Patou - An expensive, luxury perfume introduced in 1930, and voted Scent of the Century in 2000.
- Read a book where one of the main character is wealthy - One Good Turn, or pretends to be - The Prodigal Daughter
- Read an award winning book (any award of your choice!) - Blink and Caution

Nurse Joy - A patient and caring recurring character from the Pokémon series.
- Read a book about healthcare - The Rose Code or medicine, or about a character who works in these fields - Neighbors
- Read a book written by an East Asian woman - Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Joy of Missing Out - JOMO embraces finding joy and contentment, focusing on what you want to do, rather than what you feel pressured to do.
- Read a book with less than 500 reviews on Goodreads - Jerry Seinfeld, the Entire Domain
- Re-read and re-visit a book that you love - When We Were Very Young

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message 46: by TerryJane, Challenges (new)

May 08, 2025 10:10AM

I hope you are enjoying your 2025 reads as you progress toward your goal! 👍

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message 47: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:03PM) (new)

May 24, 2025 02:08PM

May Idioms:

• “April showers bring May flowers.” - Read a book with flowers -

or rain on the cover.

• “Be that as it may.” - Read a book with a title that starts with the letter “B”. - Blink and Caution Or has an author whose name (first or last) that begins with “B” - The Case for Jamie. Or with a series names that begins with “B” - Son of the Black Stallion. Or a character’s name (first or last) begins with “B”. - The Girl from Widow Hills

• “Cinco de Mayo.” - Read a book that is fifth in a series, or has five words - All Things Wise and Wonderful or letters in the title.

• “Come what may!” - Read a book with a futuristic setting.

• “Devil-may-care attitude.” - Read a book where the protagonist has this attitude. (i.e. Heedless of caution; reckless. Jovial and rakish in manner.) - Gray Mountain

• “He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day.” - Read a book where someone gets bullied - Neighbors Or where the protagonist is a professional fighter - or gets in a fight. - Echo Burning Or a story about survival. - The Great Alone

• “How may I help you?” - Read a book where the protagonist helps someone out. - Lord John and the Hand of Devils

• “If I may be so bold...” - Reader’s Choice. - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

• “It may account for...” - Read a book with an accountant protagonist - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine , or someone who deals with numbers - Touch & Go Or is an account based on a true historical event. - Zoo Station

• “I may be crazy, but...” - Read a book where the protagonist gets “Gaslighted” - Lost in the Moment and Found ... or a little crazy, paranoid - The Body Farm, spooked - The Halloween Tree, or rattled. - The Mother’s Secret

• “Let the chips fall where they may.” - Read a book that has the words from this expression found in the title, series name, or author’s, or character’s name [i.e. “let,” “chip(s),” “fall,” “where,” “they,” or “may”]. - Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

• Mae West. - Read a book with a black & white cover -

Or is set in Hollywood. - Jerry Seinfeld, the Entire Domain Or where the protagonist is a vamp.

• “May the better man win!” - Read a book where a competition takes place. - Tom Lake

• “May Day!” - Read a book that is first in a series. - My Man Jeeves Or where the protagonist attends a fair. - A Day No Pigs Would Die

• “May-December Relationship.” - Read a book with quite a gap in years between protagonists’ ages - Lost Along the Way

• “May the force be with you.” - Read a book with stars on the cover. -

Or is set in outer space.

• “May he rest in peace.” - Read a book with ghosts. - The Sentence Or where someone dies - As the Wicked Watch. Or has a graveyard or tombstone on the cover. - H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories

• “May I be excused?” - Read a book that is written in the first person POV. (Point of View.) - The Maid

• “May I count on you?” - Read a book with a number in the title. (Examples found on listopia’s Nothing But Numbers.) - Top Secret Twenty-One

• “May I take a message?” - Read an inspirational book. - American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America

• “May I take your order?” - Read a book where the protagonist is a waitress, or short-order cook, or takes orders of some kind. - The Sleeping Car Porter

• “May Pole” (AKA May Poll) - Read a book on a listopia list - The Rose Code, Or is set in Poland - The Prodigal Daughter. Or written by a Polish writer. Or won one of our BOM polls (past or current). (Examples found on listopia’s Best Polish Books.)

• “May the road rise to meet you...” - Read a book with a road on the cover -

. Or someone takes a road trip. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

• “May you live in interesting times...” - Read a book where someone is cursed - A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows. Or one with lots of danger - The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, uncertainty - River Sing Me Home, and chaos.

• “Maybe, maybe not.” - Read a book that you’ve been pondering for awhile. - Along Came a Spider

• “Mayday! Mayday!” - Read a book where the protagonist works as some type of emergency personnel: fireman, policeman - The Killing Game, paramedic. Or someone makes - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust or receives a distress call. - When We Were Sisters Or where someone uses a radio. Since this word may derive from the French expression “venez m'aider” - which translates to “come help me” - we’ll also take any book set in France - The Perfumist of Paris. Also, in The Handmaid's Tale, they used “Mayday” as a code to identify themselves as part of the resistance - so, we’ll take a protagonist that is part of one, or any plot involving some hidden code.

• “The merry month of May.” - Read a book that is humorous. - Less

• “Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.” - Read a book with a mirror or car on the cover. -

Or one where the protagonist is an illusionist, magician, or interacts with mirrors in some way. - The Game

• “Seven Days in May.” - Read a book that is seventh in a series. Or has the word “day(s)” in the title, series, author, or character name. We will take the alternate spelling of “Daye,” as in the series October Daye.

• “Sticks and stones may break my bones.” - Read a book with a word in the title that rhymes with “may” - You Think It, I'll Say It - or where the title rhymes alone. (Examples: Double Play (“play” rhymes with “may” -- or Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, where title is a rhyme itself.)

• “Terms & conditions may apply.” - Read a book that fits another challenge. - Moriarty

• “Things may look good on the surface...” - Read a book with an attractive cover. -

• “To whom it may concern.” - Read a book with a stand-alone “letter” in the title - I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. Or by an author with a stand-alone “letter” in their name. - My Sunshine Away Or read a book of memoirs. - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. Or one that has a letter or envelope on the cover. -

• “Try as I may.” - Read a book that was published any day in May, of any year. - Remarkably Bright Creatures

• “Warning: May be hazardous to your health.” - Read a book where someone finds themselves in a precarious situation - China Rich Girlfriend. Or where a character gets an illness - Evenings at Five: A Novel and Five New Stories. Or is a cigarette smoker. - The German Girl

• “You may well ask!” - Read a book with a question mark -- or an exclamation mark -- in the title.

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message 48: by Sam F (last edited Oct 13, 2025 01:05PM) (new)

Jul 02, 2025 06:16PM

Recreational Anger:

1. Anger Management, 2003 - This buddy comedy involves a businessman sentenced to complete an anger management program.
Read a self-help book - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, a humor or comedy book - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., or a book about male friendship.

2. The Upside of Anger, 2005 - This family drama involves a woman whose husband has disappeared, their four daughters, and a romance with a neighbor.
Read a romance - My Name Is Memory, a book involving a disappearance - The Girl from Widow Hills, or a book with a sibling group. - When We Were Sisters

3. To Sleep with Anger, 1990 - Danny Glover stars as an evil but charming drifter, who visits an old acquaintance, and brings trouble to a his family.
Read a book by a BIPOC author - American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America, a book published in the 1990’s, or a book with a manipulative character. - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

4. Day of Anger, 1967 - In this violent spaghetti western, a garbage boy becomes the pupil of a violent gunfighter.
Read a book set in Southern Europe - Under the Streets of Nice, with a weapon on the cover -

, or about a teacher-pupil relationship. - Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

5. Look Back in Anger, 1959 - Originally a UK stage play, this film tells of a disillusioned university graduate with a grudge against middle-class values.
Read a book published in the 1950’s, a play - True West, or a book that’s been adapted to - Lessons in Chemistry or from another medium.

6. Praying with Anger, 1992 - In M. Night Shyamalan’s first film, we meet an Americanized teenager of East Indian heritage who is sent back to India, where he discovers his roots.
Read a book by an Asian author - Pachinko, one that explores religion or spirituality - A Day No Pigs Would Die, or an author’s debut novel. - Lady Susan

7. La Rabia, 2008 - In this Argentinian movie, a married woman has a forbidden relationship with her neighbor, and both her mute daughter and her lover’s son know of their infidelity.
Read about someone with a communication disorder - River Sing Me Home, a book set in South America, or a book with an adulterous affair. - The Perfumist of Paris

8. Halls of Anger, 1970 - During desegregation, students at an all-black inner city school are opposed to having white kids transferred in, and a tough black teacher is brought in to assist.
Read a book involving race relations - As the Wicked Watch, a book set in a school - The Case for Jamie, or a historical fiction novel. - Tom Lake

9. Love and Anger, 1969 - This film includes five short stories by different directors.
Read an anthology, a short story collection - You Think It, I'll Say It, or a book with opposites in its title. - Lost in the Moment and Found

10. Anger, 2024 - This Italian action film involves a gambling addiction, illegal drugs, and undercover police work.
Read a new release - The Manor of Dreams, a book involving an addiction - From Here to the Great Unknown, or a crime novel. - Moriarty

11. Fighting with Anger, 2007 - In this western about a young female assassin and an older male hitman, she is targeted by the Korean government after botching a job.
Read a western, a book with male-female work partners - The Rose Code, or a book about the consequences of a mistake. - Remarkably Bright Creatures

12. The Anger, 2021 - This film involves a postwar relationship between a Lebanese woman and a European man, and explores Middle Eastern cultures and traditions.
Read a book set in the Middle East - The Invisible Hand, originally written in Arabic, or involving a cross-cultural relationship. - Where There's Smoke

13. Absolute Anger, 2023 - In this Canadian psychological noir thriller, a detective tries to solve a series of murders amidst a cat-and-mouse game with the killer.
Read a psychological thriller, a book by a Canadian author - The Sleeping Car Porter, or a detective novel. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

14. Anger Me, 2006 - This film is a biographical documentary of Avant-Garde filmmaker Kenneth Anchor.
Read a biography, an experimental literature book, or a book about visual arts. - Two by Two

15. Queen Bee's Anger, 1958 - This Japanese crime film was released in 1958.
Read a book set in Asia, involving royalty - The Game, or with an insect on the cover. -

16. Anger in the Wind, 2016 - Filmed in Niger, this film explores ethical and environmental issues surrounding uranium mining and radioactive dust.
Read a book by an African author, involving mining or miners - Gray Mountain, or a book about the environment. - The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

17. Anger of the Dead, 2015 - This horror film features a pregnant woman struggling to survive in a world where a virus is creating zombies.
Read a horror novel - The Halloween Tree, a survival/adventure story - The Great Alone, or a book with a pregnant main character. - The German Girl

18. Mad Max, 1979 - The first film in the Mad Max franchise, this post apocalyptic movie involves an Australian policeman trying to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Read a dystopian book, a book set in Australia - Paper Chains, or a book that’s the first in a series. - The Black Echo

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message 49: by JennH, Cheerleader (new)

Jul 15, 2025 07:47PM

Hi Sam! Hope all is well! Looks like you are making great progress on your goal. I love that you are doing the Out on a Limb yearly challenge from last year again. It was a fun challenge, wasn't it? Hope you are enjoying lots of wonderful books so far this year! Happy reading!

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message 50: by Sam F (last edited Oct 04, 2025 05:41AM) (new)

Aug 01, 2025 12:55PM

Van Gogh for it!

1. Sunflower: Read a book with sunflowers or other flowers on the cover, a book about gardening or botany, or with a character who is a gardener , botanist, etc. -

2. Ear: Read a book addressing a mental or physical differences, with a disabled character, or with a title word such as ear, sound, silence, listen, etc. - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts

3. France: Read a translated French classic, a book set in France - Leap of Faith, or one with French culture words in the title like bread, wine, bakery, Paris, etc.

4. Yellow: Read a book with a yellow cover -

I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

, with art tools in the cover art, or about character who is a visual artist. - The Lightkeeper's Daughters

5. Netherlands: Read a book by a Dutch author, one set in Netherlands, or with iconic Dutch elements on the cover like canals, tulips, windmills, cheese, etc.

6. Countryside: Read a book set in the countryside - Quartet for the End of Time, featuring characters connected to the land - Miller's Valley or agriculture, or reflecting themes of simplicity, tranquility, coziness, or connection to nature.

7. Starry Night: Read a book with a dark cover, with celestial motifs in the cover art, or from the dark academia, fantasy - My Name Is Memory or mystery genres. - The Black Echo

8. Isolation: Read a book about a solitary individual - From Here to the Great Unknown, with a title word like lonely, solitude, alone, one, etc., or a book that explores spirituality or creativity - Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned".

9. Museum: Read a book based in an art gallery, museum or art school, with a painting in the cover art, or with a museum-related word in the title like masterpiece, picture, artifact, curator, etc. - Design for Murder

10. V-I-N-C-E-N-T-V-A-N-G-O-G-H: Read a book that has 5 or more letters from the artist's name in the title - The Aviator, with a name in the title, or one written by an author named Vincent, Vince, Vinnie, etc.

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