You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

2025

Badge 1
B-The Reading List (Book 10)
C-Demon Copperhead (Book 9)
D-The Art of Racing in the Rain (Book 13)
F-Fourth Wing (Book 3)
G-Bag of Bones (Book 4)
H-The Winemaker's Wife (Book 6)
L-Iron Flame (Book 11)
M-The Golem and the Jinni (Book 5)
N-Once There Were Wolves (Book 14)
P-Fable (Book 12)
R-Carrie (Book 2)
S-Cell (Book 8)
T-Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Book 15)
V-End of Watch (Book 1)
W-The Women (Book 7)

1.Badge 1, Book 1
2.Theme list, Task V - Villainy
3.End of Watch
4.Paperback 482 pages
5.Read a book with a theme of villains
6.This is the last book in the Bill Hodges trilogy. Bill and Holly Gibney are up against a villain they have seen before, Mr. Mercedes aka Brady Hartsfield.

Good to see you're on the board.

1.Badge 1, Book 2
2.Theme list, Task R-Religion
3.Carrie
4.Kindle, 322 pages
5.Read a book with a theme of religion
6.Carrie’s mother’s religious fanaticism had a negative result on her upbringing. She had a tough childhood. Her own mother wanted to kill her, believing that she was an evil child even before she was aware of Carrie’s special “gifts”. Carrie was denied basic information about biology and puberty because her mother believed if her daughter stayed pure she wouldn’t begin puberty. Due to her upbringing she was considered strange and an easy target for bullying at school. Throughout the book Carrie is confused about religion and finds it scary because of her mother’s abuse.

1.Badge 1, Book 3
2.Theme list, Task F-Fantasy
3.Fourth Wing
4.Hardcover 517 pages
5.Read a book with a theme of fantasy
6.Fantasy is listed on the mpg

1.Badge 1, Book 4
2.Theme list, Task G-Ghosts
3.Bag of Bones
4.Audiobook (21 hours, 21 minutes)
5.Read a book with a theme of ghosts
6.When writer Mike Noonan moves to his lake house he soon discovers he isn’t there alone. He isn’t sure if the presence in his home is the spirit of his deceased wife or something more sinister

That was a spooky book, all right.

1.Badge 1, Book 5
2.Theme list, Task M-Mythology
3.The Golem and the Jinni
4.Kindle 819 pages
5.Read a book with a theme of mythology
6.Mythology is listed on the mpg

1.Badge 1, Book 6
2.Theme List, Task H-History
3.The Winemaker's Wife
4.Paperback 432 pages
5.Read a book with a theme of history
6.This book is a historical fiction about WW2. Even though it is fictional it is based on realities that took place in France during WW2

1.Badge 1, Book 7
2.Theme List, Task W-Women
3.The Women
4.Audiobook 14 hours 57 minutes
5.Read a book with the theme of women
6.This book is about the experiences of the women who were nurses at the Vietnam War and also their experiences after coming home from the war.

1.Badge 1, Book 8
2.Theme List, Task S-Survival
3.Cell
4.Kindle 448 pages
5.Read a book with a theme of survival
6.After “the pulse” every cell phone user was turned into a homicidal maniac and the world goes into chaos. The survivors must find a safe place in this crazy new world.

1.Badge 1, Book 9
2.Theme List, Task C-Childhood
3.Demon Copperhead
4.Audiobook (21 hours, 3 minutes)
5.Read a book with a theme of childhood
6.This book is about the childhood of a boy born to a teenage single mother and his life growing up poor, ending up in the foster system and a variety of other challenges

1.Badge 1, Book 10
2.Theme List, Task B-Books about books
3.The Reading List
4.Kindle 380 pages
5.Read a book about books
6.This book is about a list of books and how reading them helped the two main characters build a friendship and learn some important life lessons

1.Badge 1, Book 11
2.Theme List, Task L-Love
3.Iron Flame
4.Hardcover 623 pages
5.Read a book with a theme of love
6.This book has many examples of love:romantic love, forbidden love, the love between friends and teammates, family love and even dragon love.

1.Badge 1, Book 12
2.Theme list, Task P-Pirates
3.Fable
4.Audiobook 8 hours 54 minutes
5.Read a book with the theme of pirates
6.Pirates is a genre listed on the main book page

1.Badge 1, Book 13
2.Theme list, Task D-Dogs
3.The Art of Racing in the Rain
4.Kindle edition 337 pages
5.Read a book with a theme of dogs
6.The narrator of this book is a dog who feels he is more like a human than a dog. He believes he has human thoughts and emotions

1.Badge 1, Book 14
2.Theme List,Task N-Nature
3.Once There Were Wolves
4.Audiobook (8 hours 27 minutes)
5.Read a book with the theme of nature
6.Nature is a genre listed on the main book page

1.Badge 1, Book 15
2.Theme List, Task T-True Crime
3.Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
4.Paperback 338 pages
5.Read a book with a theme of true crime
6.This is the true story of the murders of many members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma after they became very wealthy after oil was discovered on their land.

Congrats on finishing the first badge.

Thank you 😁

Badge 2 (List 3/4)

A-Mr. Whisper (Book 1)
B-Dark Age (Book 11)
C-Hidden Bodies
D-The Tea Rose (Book 3)
E-
F-White Oleander
G-The Hallmarked Man (Book 14)
H-As Good As Dead (Book 15)
I-Raybearer (Book 4)
J-Good Girl, Bad Blood (Book 7)
K-Never Flinch (Book 5)
L-The God of the Woods (Book 16)
M-Leviathan (Book 13)
N-Nestlings (Book 6)
O-
P-
Q-
R-Middle of the Night (Book 10)
S-Sunrise on the Reaping (Book 2)
T-The House in the Cerulean Sea (Book 12)
U-
V-
W-A Flicker in the Dark (Book 9)
Y-Onyx Storm (Book 8)
Z-

1.Badge 2, Book 1
2.List 3&4, Task A
3.Mr. Whisper
4.Kindle edition 381 pages
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with “A”
6.Author- Andrew Mayne

Good start Ashley.

1.Badge 2, Book 2
2.List 3&4, Task S
3.Sunrise on the Reaping
4.Hardcover 387 pages
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with “S”
6.Author:Suzanne Collins

1.Badge 2, Book 3
2.List 3&4, Task D
3.The Tea Rose
4.Audiobook (28 hours, 31 minutes)
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with “D”
6.Author:Jennifer Donnelly

1.Badge 2,Book 4
2.List 3&4, Task “I”
3.Raybearer
4.Audiobook (13 hours, 48 minutes)
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with “I”
6.Jordan Ifueko

1.Badge 2, Book 5
2.List 3&4, Task K
3.Never Flinch
4.Kindle (448 pages)
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with “K”
6.Author- Stephen King

i'm reading that one now for the same task.

I love all of the Holly Gibney books! She is such a great character.

Me too.

1.Badge 2, Book 6
2.List 3&4, Task “N”
3.Nestlings
4.Audiobook (13h4min)
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with N
6.Author:Nat Cassidy

1.Badge 2, Book 7
2.List 3&4, Task “J”
3.Good Girl, Bad Blood
4.Kindle 405 pages
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with “J”
6.Author:Holly Jackson

1.Badge 2, Book 8
2.List 3&4, Task “Y”
3.Onyx Storm
4.Hardcover (527 pages)
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with “Y”
6.Author:Rebecca Yarros

1.Badge 2, Book 9
2.List 3&4, Task “W”
3.A Flicker in the Dark
4.Kindle (375 pages)
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with “W”
6.Author-Stacy Willingham

1.Badge 2, Book 10
2.List 3&4, Task R
3.Middle of the Night
4.Paperback 400 pages
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with R
6.Author- Riley Sager

1.Badge 2, Book 11
2.List 3&4, Task B
3.Dark Age
4.Audiobook (33 hours 58 minutes)
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with “B”
6.Author:Pierce Brown

1.Badge 2, Book 12
2.List 3&4
3.The House in the Cerulean Sea
4.Paperback 396 pages
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with T
6.Author:T.J. Klune

1.Badge 2, Book 13
2.List 3&4, Task M
3.Leviathan
4.Kindle 483 pages
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with M
6.Author-Robert McCammon

1.Badge 2, Book 14
2.List 3&4, Task G
3.The Hallmarked Man
4.Audiobook (31 hours 8 minutes)
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with G
6.Author:Robert Galbraith

1.Badge 2, Book 15
2.List 3&4, Task H
3.As Good As Dead
4.Kindle (458 pages)
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with H
6.Author:Holly Jackson

1.Badge 2, Book 16
2.List 3&4, Task L
3.The God of the Woods
4.Hardcover 478 pages
5.Read a book where the author’s name starts with L
6.Author: Liz Moore