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This challenge is one that we do every year in a continuing effort to weed through that growing TBR list.
Choose 12 books plus 2 alternate books in case you end up with one you just can't get through after you start and see how many you can finish this year.

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My tracking post

1. A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Gods
2. The Weight of a Piano
3. The Smoke Jumper
4. Abyss-DNF, I tried but just can't get into it.
5.North and South
6. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
7. Shutter Island
8.Ghost Light
9.Shaman's Daughter
10.The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
11.The Mistress
12.Last Chance at the Someday Café

Alternates:
1. Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League
2.Drood


I feel pretty good about this selection.

1. The Reek of Red Herrings: A Dandy Gilver Mystery Feb. 19
2. Prisoners in the Palace April 21
3. Annie, Between the States
4.Lucky Bunny
5. Lavender and Old Lace. Oct.
6. A Star for Mrs. Blake
7. The Vast Memory of Love
8. Un Lun Dun June 7
9. Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
10. Eli's Promise
11. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Nov. 21
12. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

Alternates:
1. Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution
2. Kidnapped May

1st book off the list. Although I didn't read it word for word as it ended up being more just a short paragraph explaining who the gods were. I have been hoping for longer details. A good reference book I suppose.

First one of the year off this list. The Reek of Red Herrings: A Dandy Gilver Mystery was kind of hard to read because of the dialect in the book. I struggled finishing this one.

The Weight of a Piano 2 down. I struggled my way through this one a bit. It has good reviews but maybe just not the book for me.

Finally, a second one off this list.

One of my alternates done.

Got my 3rd off the list. I was a little disappointed by The Smoke Jumper, it sounded like it would be a much better book.

Tracking Post:

1. The Poet Prince
2. Heavy
3. 11/22/63
4. I Must Betray You
5.Before I Let Go
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
7. Maame
8. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
9. Legendborn
10. A Gentleman in Moscow
11. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
12. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Alternates:
1. Heartbreak Hotel
2 Ghosting: A Love Story

Karin wrote: "Tracking Post:

1. The Poet Prince
2. Heavy
3. 11/22/63
4. I Must Betray You
5.Before I Let Go
6. [book:Tomorrow, and ..."

You have a lot of various types of reading on your list. Awesome List!

Skipping my book Abyss. I tried but just can't get into it.

Melissa wrote: "My tracking post

1.A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Gods
2. The Weight of a Piano
3. The Smoke Jumper
4. Abyss-DNF, I tried but just can..."