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I Will try for level three and read 10 chunkstersLevel One
✔️1: The Whisper Sister Jennifer S. Brown 6 Jan
✔️2: Table for Two Amor Towles 16 Feb
✔️3: Horse Geraldine Brooks 22 Feb
Level Two
✔️4: America Fantastica Tim O'Brien 8 Mar
✔️5: The Complete Poems William Blake 17 Apr
✔️6: Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor 10 Jun
Level Three
✔️7: The Frozen River Ariel Lawhon 15 Jun
✔️8: Hitch 22: A Memoir Christopher Hitchens 24 Jul
✔️9: Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World Victoria Finlay 26 Sep
✔️10: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton 11 Oct
✔️11: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt 11 Oct
✔️12: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore Evan Friss 18 Oct
✔️13: Mansfield Park Jane Austen 25 Oct
Chunkster (400-599 pages)4/6
Level One
1 Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell 432 pages
2 Paradiso by Dante Alighieri 3 stars
3. Hester by Mrs. Oliphant 4 stars
Level Two
4 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch 5 stars
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Finished: 2025/08/301 Todesurteil im Old Bailey by Anne Perry (400) ✓ 02/11
2 Der Donnerstagsmordclub und die verirrte Kugel by Richard Osman (432) ✓ 02/26
3 Die Chemie des Todes by Simon Beckett (432) ✓ 03/29
4 Origamiherz by AC Collins (431) ✓ 04/10
5 Naokos Lächeln by Murakami Haruki (416) ✓ 04/25
6 Der Junge aus dem Meer by Garrett Carr (416) ✓ 05/27
7 The emperor of gladness by Ocean Vuong (416) ✓ 06/04
8 Alles Licht, das wir nicht sehen by Anthony Doerr (528) ✓ 06/25
9 Was wir ihnen antun: Kriminalroman (River-Delta-Reihe 4) by Arttu Tuominen (401) ✓ 07/20
10 Wedding People by Alison Espach (480) ✓ 08/30
And then see a chiropractor!
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Level One1 - The Mirror
2 - We Are All Guilty Here
3 - All the Colors of the Dark
Level Two
4 - Switchboard Soldiers
5 - Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
6 - The Women
Level Three
7 - Living with the Dead
8 - Interference
9 - Finding Margaret Fuller
10 - The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club.
Finished Sept 2025
Level One1. The Likeness: 480 pages - 1/16
2. The Killing Moon: 448 pages - 2/9
3. Ninth House: 453 pages - 2/22
Level Two
4. The Sanatorium: 416 pages - 3/14
5. Faithful Place: 416 pages - 3/28
6. Valley of the Dolls: 496 pages - 5/26
Level Three
7. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music: 432 pages - 8/19
8. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band: 498 pages - 9/1
9. Sunrise on the Reaping: 400 pages - 9/7
10. Call Down the Stars: 524 pages - 11/16
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I will probably read a few more but since it's already November and I read 13, I will call this done:I Will try for level three and read 10 chunksters
Level One
✔️1: The Whisper Sister Jennifer S. Brown 6 Jan
✔️2: Table for Two Amor Towles 16 Feb
✔️3: Horse Geraldine Brooks 22 Feb
Level Two
✔️4: America Fantastica Tim O'Brien 8 Mar
✔️5: The Complete Poems William Blake 17 Apr
✔️6: Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor 10 Jun
Level Three
✔️7: The Frozen River Ariel Lawhon 15 Jun
✔️8: Hitch 22: A Memoir Christopher Hitchens 24 Jul
✔️9: Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World Victoria Finlay 26 Sep
✔️10: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton 11 Oct
✔️11: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt 11 Oct
✔️12: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore Evan Friss 18 Oct
✔️13: Mansfield Park Jane Austen 25 Oct
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Table for Two (other topics)America Fantastica (other topics)
Mansfield Park (other topics)
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The Complete Poems (other topics)
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Amor Towles (other topics)Geraldine Brooks (other topics)
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And then see a chiropractor!