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Second List✔️1. Read a book on PBT's pbt-decathlon book shelf. - The Summer Before the War - Read 15/2/25
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✔️2. Read a book set in a location and time period you would love to visit - i.e. Paris between the World Wars, Egypt during King Tut - Stars Over Sunset Boulevard - Read 23/2/25
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Set in Hollywood during the Golden Age
✔️3. Read a book with a picture on the spine - Heart, Be at Peace - Read 19/2/25
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There are pictures of leaves on the spine.
✔️4. Read a book that matches the monthly tag from last year for the month we are currently in. - James - Read 16/2/25
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The tag last year for February was Author of Color
✔️5. Read a book set in a different hemisphere than where you live - Queen of the Flowers - Read 12/2/25
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This book is set in Australia, and I live in the UK.
✔️6. Read a book with points of view from more than one character - There Are Rivers in the Sky - Read 8/2/25
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✔️7. Read a book that is mentioned in another book - The Virgin Suicides - Read 21/2/25
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Mentioned in The Perks of Being a Wallflower
✔️8. A book with the word "Love" in the title - Love & Other Dramas - Read 13/2/25
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✔️9.Read a book that won the Pulitzer Prize - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family - Read 15/2/25
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✔️10. A book that fits last month’s PBT tag - A Fine Balance - Read 17/2/25
Last month's Tag was Canada, and the author lives in Canada
✔️11. Read a cozy mystery - The Cold Light of Day - Read 22/2/25
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✔️12. A book with an example of ‘science or technology gone bad - The Lobotomist's Wife - Read 20/2/25
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Third List✔️1. A book by an author whose first and last initials are alphabetically consecutive. (Middle initials, if used, can be ignored). Example: L M Montgomery - The Secrets of Hartwood Hall - by Katie Lumsden - Read 8/3/25
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✔️2. A book with more vowels than consonants in the title - Alias Emma - Read 4/3/25
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✔️3. Read a book set in the country where one of your grandparents was born - give preference to a place that is different from where you now live (if all four grandparents were born where you now live, go another generation back - if this still is not working, use your current home country and celebrate your long heritage) Indicate the reason for the option you use. - The Skylark's Secret - Read 11/3/25
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None of my family that I am aware of have been born outside the UK, with everyone in the last 4 generations having been born in England. But, either my Grandad's grandfather or great-grandfather was born in Scotland, which is where this book is set.
✔️4. Read a book that has more then one author - Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult AND Jennifer Finney Boylan - Read 6/3/25
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✔️5. Read a book that includes at least 1 recipe - Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Read 17/3/25
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✔️6. A book you have always intended to read but never gotten around to it - Almost Gone - Read 15/3/25
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✔️7. Read a book published or set in the year you were born - The Mummy Case - Read 8/3/25
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✔️8. A book that fits the tag psychology - Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Read 27/2/25
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✔️9. A book involving evolution, revolution or change - The Women of Chateau Lafayette - Read 18/3/25
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✔️10. A book about a pilot, astronaut, or space traveler - Daughters of the Night Sky - Read 20/3/25
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✔️11. Read a book set primarily in a hospital - The Second Life of Mirielle West - Read 9/3/25
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✔️12. A book set in Africa - His Only Wife - Read 7/3/25
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Fourth List✔️1. Read a book set in the world of art - The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby - Read 24/3/25
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✔️2. A book where a featured character has a pet that isn't a cat or a dog - Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - Read 9/4/25
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Harry owns an owl, Ron has a rat, and Hagrid gets a pet dragon.
✔️3. A family saga or family drama - The Vegetarian - Read 2/4/25
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✔️4. A book with a privacy theme - People Like Her - Read 22/3/25
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✔️5. A book set in your favorite city - Vienna Spies - Read 23/3/25
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✔️6. A book involving death, dying, or grief - Sister - Read 1/4/25
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✔️7. Pick any prompt you've seen on someone else's Play Harder prompts list but haven't gotten yet yourself - Honor Bound - Read 6/4/25
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Used for the prompt to read a book with a Goodreads rating of 3.75 or less
✔️8. Read a book from the 1001 books you must read before you die list - Corelli’s Mandolin - Read 5/4/25
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✔️9. Read a book about or set in Egypt - Moon Tiger - Read 3/4/25
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✔️10. A book involving codebreaking or secret codes - Labyrinth - Read 29/3/25
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✔️11. Read a book where the same word appears twice (or more) in the title - In a Dark, Dark Wood - Read 8/4/25
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✔️12. A book set in 2 or 3 different time periods - The Last House on the Street - Read 30/3/25
Review: Posted on 31st March in the Thriller folder, but the link won't paste here.
Fifth List✔️1. Find a book you gave 5-stars, then read a book with the same colors on the cover - Berlin - Read 13/4/25
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This is the cover of the book I own:
This is the 5-star read I have used to choose this book:
✔️ 2. A book with a character who is lonely, ostracized, or reclusive - Saving Noah - Read 11/4/25
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✔️3. A book that takes place in New York, New Mexico, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New Caledonia, New Zealand or Papua New Guinea - Not a Happy Family - Read 19/4/25
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According to the book page, this is set in Brecken Hill in upstate New York.
✔️4. Read A book on the Tournament of Books longlist (any year). - Sadness Is a White Bird - Read 17/4/25
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This was on the 2019 longlist
✔️5. A legal thriller - The Firm - Read 18/4/25
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✔️6. Read a book set in your dream holiday destination - Murder in the Dark - Read 13/4/25
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I have so many places I would love to go on holiday to, but Australia is definitely a dream holiday destination!
✔️7. A book set in the South Pacific - on land or at sea - The People in the Trees
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Novel set in Micronesia, which according to UN Maritime Zones, is in the South Pacific: https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLAT...
✔️8. A detective story from any Golden Age of Detective Fiction - The Secret Adversary - Read 17/4/25
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✔️9. A book set in Africa - Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer - Read 14/4/25
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✔️10. A book by an author born in Asia - The Woman in the Purple Skirt - Read 12/4/25
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The author was born in Japan.
✔️11. Read a mountaineering book - Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain - Read 20/4/22
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✔️12. A book that includes a family tree - Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen - Read 19/4/25
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Sixth List✔️1. Read a romance - Being Mrs Darcy - Read 1/5/25
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✔️2. Read a book where the title contains at least six words - The Girl Who Fell From The Sky - Read 5/5/25
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✔️3. Read a book that challenges you. - The Ink Black Heart - Read 5/5/25
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This was the longest book on my TBR, at over 1,000 pages
✔️4. A book with nautical elements on the cover - The Cuban Heiress - Read 10/5/25
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✔️5. Read a book with someone escaping, fleeing, or running from danger - Code Name Hélène - Read 5/5/25
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✔️6. Read a book non-fiction history book - Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis - Read 7/5/25
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✔️7. Re-read any book - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Read 30/4/25
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✔️8. Read a book whose title is a name. eg: David Copperfield - Nancy Wake - Read 4/5/25
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✔️9. Re-read the first book you remember reading that you thought was an adult book - Pride & Prejudice - Read 28/4/25
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✔️10. Read a book related to the word "green" - Earth - Read 6/5/25
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✔️11. A book originally published under a pen name - Troubled Blood - Read 26/4/25
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✔️12. Read a book with a picture on the spine - Under Occupation - Read 3/5/25
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Seventh List ✔️1. Read a book set in another time -- past or future - Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession - Read 18/5/25
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✔️2. Nonfiction book about an event that happened before you were born - A Noble Treason: The Story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Revolt Against Hitler by Richard Hanser (30-Nov-2012) Paperback - Read 26/5/25
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✔️3. A book about or set in the former USSR - The Patriots - Read 28/5/25
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✔️4. A book with a geometric shape in the title - The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle - Read 16/5/25
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✔️5. Read a play or a book with the word "play" in the title - Shadowplay - Read 29/5/25
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✔️6. A book by a BIPOC author. - Difficult Women - Read 28/5/25
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✔️7. A book includes a nonverbal character - The Frozen River - Read 30/5/25
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Martha's son Cyrus is nonverbal.
✔️8. Read a book found on the PBT Steeplechase shelf - The Girl in the Tree - Read 24/5/25
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✔️9. A book about or featuring an ancient civilization - Athena's Child - Read 16/5/25
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✔️10. A book that fits an art or artist tag - Stolen Beauty - Read 31/5/25
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✔️11. A book tagged "social commentary" - The Bandit Queens - Read 27/5/25
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✔️12. A book about forgery or a forgery or counterfeit - The Art Forger - Read 31/5/25
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List 8✔️1. A book with a title that includes the name of a classic board or card game, i.e. Monopoly, Checkers, Operation - Hannah's War - Read 8/6/25
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✔️2. A book with a title that includes the word "angel" or "devil" - Night Angels - Read 15/6/25
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✔️3. Read a book that is set in the opposite season from what you are currently in( i.e. if it's spring read a fall book, winter read a summer book, etc.) - Godmersham Park - Read 14/6/25
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Set in Winter (January)
✔️4. A book written in first person - Murder at Hambledon Hall - Read 7/6/25
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✔️5. A book that somebody else has read for this challenge - The Most Fun We Ever Had - Read 14/6/25
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✔️6. The book's title or author's name contains a gemstone (diamond, ruby, sapphire, etc.) - The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding - Read 11/6/25
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✔️7. A book fully or partially set in a hotel, motel, bed & breakfast, or inn (or similar) - The Maid's Secret - Read 5/6/25
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✔️8. Read a book whose author's first and last initials match your own. - The Affair - Read 9/6/25
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✔️9. Read a book that has been tagged dnf at least 1000x - The Paper Palace - Read 7/6/25
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Tagged dnf 1066 times
✔️10. Read a book about the Civil Rights Movement. - March: Book Three - Read 12/6/25
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✔️11. A book with a cover depicting a broken object or item - Hang the Moon - Read 15/6/25
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The cover shows a car being fixed, so the car must therefore be broken.
✔️12. A "light" book (however you'd like to define it) - Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping On a Dead Man - Read 10/6/25
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List 9✔️1. A biography, autobiography, or memoir - Know My Name - Read 22/6/25
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✔️2. A book with a common farm animal in the title - Piglet - Read 10/7/25
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✔️3. Read the fiction bestseller from the year you were born. If you have already read it, read the fiction bestseller from the year an immediate family member was born. - My Cousin Rachel - Read 26//6/25
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This was a bestseller in the year my Dad was born.
✔️4. A coming of age book - In Memoriam - Read 9/7/25
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✔️5. Read a book that was made into a movie - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Read 2/7/25
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✔️6. Read a book with a map - River Sing Me Home - Read 5/7/25
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✔️7. Read a book that's under 150 pages - Whose Body? - Read 30/6/25
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123 pages
✔️8. Read a book with an animal on the cover - The Household - Read 22/6/25
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- The book has a bird on the cover.✔️9. A book that fits an art or artist tag - Tulip Fever - Read 29/6/25
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✔️10, Read a book set during a honeymoon - On Chesil Beach - Read 24/6/25
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✔️11. Read a book set in the Southern Hemisphere - Unnatural Habits - Read 3/7/25
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✔️12. Read a book set in Alaska or Hawaii - Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers - Read 12/7/25
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List 10✔️1. Read a book about giving up a bad habit or overcoming an addiction - The House in the Pines - Read 26/7/25
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✔️2. A book set in the world of art - Think Again - Read 17/7/25
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✔️3. A book in which one of the characters has a pet cat - Murder and Mendelssohn - Read 22/7/25
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Phryne has a cat called Ember.
✔️4. A book on the Tournament of Books longlist (any year) - An Untamed State - Read 21/7/25
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✔️5. A book where the protagonist is a doctor, nurse, or other medical professional - Murder in Little Italy - Read 23/7/25
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Sarah Brandt is a midwife
✔️6. A book with a palindrome in the title or author's name - The House of Eve - Read 20/7/25
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✔️7. Read a book related to the Tudors - Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen - Read 24/7/25
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✔️8. A book with a bird on the cover. - Marble Hall Murders - Read 14/7/25
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This is the cover of the edition I read:
✔️9. Health Guru Richard Simmons passed away in 2024. In his honor read a book about Health or Fitness - Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist - Read 27/7/25
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✔️10. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature - The Mermaid of Black Conch - Read 14/7/25
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✔️11. A book with a nonhuman narrator (animal, alien, monster, AI) - Artificial Condition - Read 18/7/25
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✔️12. A satirical novel - Northanger Abbey - Read 27/7/25
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List 11✔️1. Read a book set in desert - Lion in the Valley - Read 1/8/25
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✔️2. Read a book in which the main character does not have a job. - Lady of Devices - Read 1/8/25
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✔️3. Read a book from the top 10 highest rated books on your TBR - All the Glimmering Stars - Read 9/8/25
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✔️4. Read a book involving a missing person - Missing Molly - Read 31/7/25
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✔️5. Read a book with recipes in it. Make one of the recipes and include a review of the recipe in your review - Coconut Layer Cake Murder - Read 3/8/25
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✔️6. Read a book where the author shares a last name with one of your schoolteachers or professors (any grade/level/form) - Back to the Garden - Read 11/8/25
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✔️7. A book with a cover that includes shiny gold or silver lettering in Title - The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst: A Scandalous Regency Tale with Jane Austen Flair - Read 7/8/25
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✔️8. A book with the word "history" in the title - This Strange Eventful History - Read 5/8/25
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✔️9. Read a historical mystery NOT set in the US or UK - Murder Under the Tuscan Sun - Read 5/8/25
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✔️10. Read a winner or nominee of The Kitschies Award - https://thekitschies.com - Julia - Read 13/8/25
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✔️11. A book with a subtitle - Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - Read 2/8/25
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✔️12. A book by a BIPOC author. - Good Dirt - Read 4/8/25
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List 12✔️1. A book with a school subject in the title (e.g., chemistry, math, physics, history, science) - The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland - Read 20/8/25
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✔️2. Read a cultural book - The Stationery Shop - Read 27/8/25
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✔️3. Read a book featuring a widow or widower as a primary character - The Sapphire Widow - Read 20/8/25
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✔️4. Book by author who you first read for a PBT Monthly Tag - Dear Miss Lake - Read 18/8/25
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I read my first book by this author for the July 2024 Tag.
✔️5. Read a book set in the South Pacific - on land or at sea - Miss Benson's Beetle - Read 23/8/25
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✔️6. A book with one or more books on the cover - The Last Bookshop in London - Read 22/8/25
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✔️7. Read a book tagged as "conspiracy" - Heresy - Read 22/8/25
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✔️8. Read a graphic novel - They Called Us Enemy - Read 21/8/25
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✔️9. Read a middle grade classic book - Matilda - Read 19/8/25
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✔️10. Read a coming of age book - Tin Man - Read 25/8/25
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✔️11. Read a book set primarily in a country bordering the Bay of Bengal - The Missing Sister - Read 26/8/25
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✔️12.Read a book published in 2024 or 2025 - Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection - Read 19/8/25
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List 13✔️1. A book set at a ski resort - The Resort - Read 30/8/25
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✔️2. Read an essay collection - Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks - Read 11/11/25
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✔️3. A travel book - Star of the Sea - Read 8/9/25
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✔️4. Read a Newberry award winning book - Bridge to Terabithia - Read 11/11/25
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✔️5. Read a Pulitzer Prize winner. - Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America - Read 13/9/25
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✔️6. Read a Christmas romance - One Day in December - Read 30/8/25
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✔️7. Read a nonfiction book about food and or food culture - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Read 10/9/25
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✔️8. Read a book featuring a "found family" - The Emperor of Gladness - Read 4/9/25
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✔️9. Read a book you find on PBT's Happy 15th birthday shelf - Weather - Read 9/9/25
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✔️10. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics - The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris - Read 9/9/25
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✔️11. The first book in a series you'd like to read - The Lost Spy - Read 1/9/25
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✔️12. A book with the word "history" in the title - A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection - Read 2/9/25
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List 14✔️1. Read a book with the name of a month in the title the month you read it. January read in January, etc. - The October List - Read 5/10/25
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✔️2. A book in which the title asks a question - Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough - Read 27/9/25
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✔️3. A book related to rock, paper, or scissors - The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris - Read 4/10/25
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✔️4. A book with a title that appeals to you - The Running Grave - Read 21/9/25
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✔️5. A book set in South America - Two Spies in Caracas - Read 26/9/25
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✔️6. A book where the main character is a lawyer or medical doctor - The Surgeon's Daughter - Read 23/9/25
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✔️7. A book published in 2015 - What She Left Behind - Read 25/9/25
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✔️8. A book set in the South Pacific - on land or at sea - War in the South Pacific: Out in the Boondocks, U.S. Marines Tell Their Stories - Read 24/9/25
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✔️9. A book where the title includes a collective noun for animals - e.g. quiver [cobras], Murder [crows]. - A Simple Country Murder - Read 2/10/25
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✔️10. A book set in a wine region of any country - Sepulchre - Read 5/10/25
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Languedoc is a wine region in France.
✔️11. Read a collection by a poet who is not from North America or Europe - Home Body - Read 28/9/25
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✔️12. A book with a title containing the name of a real or fictional planet - Toward the Midnight Sun - Read 27/9/25
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Midnight is apparently the name of a planet in the Dr Who universe.
List 15 - Final List✔️1. Read a celebrity memoir - Crying in H Mart - Read 12/10/25
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✔️2. Read a book published in January, June, or July of any year - The Saints of Swallow Hill - Read 11/10/25
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✔️3. A book tagged "favorite, favourite, favorites, or favourites" at least 100 times - Atmosphere - Read 8/10/25
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4. Read a book you find on PBT's Happy 15th birthday PBT shelf
✔️5. Read a book of poetry - Call Us What We Carry - Read 19/10/25
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✔️6. A book on the Tournament of Books longlist (any year) - That Kind of Mother - Read 19/10/25
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✔️7. Fiction or non-fiction featuring the history of Australia or Oceania - A Room Made of Leaves - Read 13/10/25
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✔️8. Read a book set in December - The Walnut Tree - Read 11/10/25
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✔️9. Read a book by an author whose name includes a middle initial. - The Seamstress of New Orleans by Diane C. McPhail - Read 17/10/25
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✔️10. Read a fiction book featuring a religious ritual - Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets - Read 16/10/25
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There are many instances of characters at prayer, and the marital bed is also blessed by a priest following Anna and Henry's wedding.
✔️11. Read a book with a cat on the cover. - Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II - Read 14/10/25
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✔️12. Read a book with the word 'wedding' in the title - The Wedding Murders - Read 18/10/25
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Diane C. McPhail (other topics)Jodi Picoult (other topics)
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I would not normally plan out all of my books in advance for a challenge like this, but I have for this first list so I could work out which books to pack last before I move later this month.
✔️ 1. A book with a compass direction in the title - They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Read 1/2/25
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✔️ 2. Read a book that's new to you and that a PBT member has on their top ten list of 2024 - My Friends - Read 25/1/25
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✔️ 3. Read a book by an author you've been meaning to try, but never have read before - The Engineer's Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood - Read 19/1/25
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✔️ 4. Book set in your favorite City - The Mozart Code (Vienna) - Read 19/1/25
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✔️✔️5. Read 2 books, one fiction, one nonfiction, that have something in common - The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Read 5/2/25
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AND The Souls of Black Folk - Read 6/2/25
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✔️6. A book with an example of ‘science or technology gone bad’ - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty - Read 5/2/25
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✔️ 7. A book you have always intended to read but never gotten around to it - Code Name Sapphire - 31/1/25
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✔️ 8. Read a book that won the Pulitzer Prize - King: A Life - Read 19/1/25
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✔️ 9. Read a book featuring a current or historical person you admire. - White Houses - Read 5/1/25
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✔️ 10. Read a book that starts with the last letter of the last book you read - State of Terror - Read 7/1/25
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✔️ 11. A book that involves the mind, brain, or neuroscience - When Breath Becomes Air - Read 2/2/25
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✔️ 12. A book featuring a struggle with mental health - Fight Night - Read 11/1/25
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