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Gail's 2026 Reading Corner
2026 STATS:0 / 120
BOOKS:
Genre
Action and Adventure:
Biography/Memoir:
Classics:
Dystopia:
Fantasy/Mythical/ Magical Realism:
Literary Fiction/General Fiction:
Historical Fiction:
History:
Horror:
Mystery:
Nonfiction:
Picture:
Romance:
Science:
Science Fiction:
Suspense/Thriller:
True Crime:
Form:
Comic/Graphic Novel:
Essays (collection):
Play:
Poetry (collection):
Short Story:
Short Stories (collection):
Length:
Very Short (<70 pages):
Short (<250 pages):
Medium (250-499 pages):
"Big" (500+ pages):
Media
Book:
eBook:
Audio:
Internet Archive:
Age
Children:
Middle Grade:
YA:
Series:
Banned/Challenged:
Debut:
Translated:
Publication Date
bef. 1900: ..
1900-1959:
1960-1979:
1980-1999:
2000-2009:
2010-2019:
2020-2025:
2026: ..........
AUTHOR:
* New to Me:
* Female:
* Diverse:
a book can be included across multiple challenges
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** Action and Adventure: the main character repeatedly finds themselves in risky, dangerous, situations.
** Fantasy/Mythical/ Magical Realism: includes prominent elements of magic, mythology, or the supernatural
** Horror: meant to cause discomfort and fear for both the character and readers. This also includes "horror for wimps".
** Mystery: The plot always revolves around a crime of sorts that must be solved—or foiled—by the protagonists
** Science Fiction: leans heavily on themes of technology and future science
** Suspense/Thriller: hero attempts to stop and defeat the villain to save their own life rather than uncover a specific crime
READING BY MONTH JAN THRU JUN0 / 60
Bolded are my favorite for the month
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1. TITLE - AUTHOR - RATING
READING BY MONTH JUL thru DEC 0 / 120
Bolded are my favorite for the month
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JUL
1. TITLE - AUTHOR - RATING
💫💫💫💫💫 BEGIN PERSONAL 💫💫💫💫💫Personal: AGATHA CHRISTIE
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Personal: BANNED/CHALLENGED READING☀ Completed X
* book - banned in school district, state
Personal: DIVERSITY IN READING AUTHORSBook must be written by an author(s) who is different from me: race, gender, sexual orientation, geography, nationality, religion, language, ability, etc. I have eliminated "straight white males" from this category.
☀ Completed x
Race or Ethnicity
born in the US, other than "white"
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Geography, Nationality, or Native Language
Not born in the US. Possibly doesn't live in the US. Could be translated. Does not include England authors.
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LGBTQ+
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Ability Challenges
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Religious / Spiritual Beliefs
only if it doesn't fit in any other category or it (subjectively) appears to be on a much higher plane than the other categories
* (author:) - (book:), religion or belief
Personal: NEW-TO-ME AUTHORS....................Female:
................................Male:
☀ Completed x
Female:
☀ (author: ) alphabetical by first name
Male:
☀ (author: ) alphabetical by first name
Personal: SHELF AWARENESScarried over from 2025 Reading Challenge group with the exception that any continent focus will be tracked separately
☀ Completed x / 29
JAN
1. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Martin Luther King-The Inconvenient Hero
2. International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Replacement Life
FEB
3. Black History Month: Underground Railroad
4. Day of Remembrance of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II: They Called Us Enemy
5. World Social Justice Day: Ungrateful Refugees
MAR
6. Women's History Month: The Vanishing Half
7. International Women's Day: Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!
APR
8. National Arab American Heritage Month: In the Country of Men
9. World Health Day, World Immunization Week: Vaccine Nation: Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress
10. National Library Week, National Right to Read Day: The Freedom Writers Diary
11. LGBTQIA+ Day of Silence (Apr 10th): I'll Give You the Sun
MAY
12. Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Rental House
13. Jewish Heritage Month: Latke in the Library
14. African World Heritage Day: World We Once Lived In
15. Tulsa Race Massacre (May 31-Jun 1): Filling Station
JUNE
16. Carribean American Heritage Month: Black Cake
17. Juneteenth: On Juneteenth
18. World Refugee Day: Beekeeper of Aleppo
JULY
AUG
19. Women in Translation Month: An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
20. International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples : Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings
21. Ukraine Freedom Day: Grey Bees
SEP
22. National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools: Five Little Indians
23. Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month: Affections: A Novel
OCT
24. Filipino American History Month: Patron Saints of Nothing
25. Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Grandmother Begins the Story
26. National Immigrants Day: America is Immigrants
NOV
27. Native American Heritage Month: Berry Pickers
28. International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: The Book of Disappearance
DEC
29. International Human Rights Day: The Most Human Right
Personal: TRANSLATED☀ Completed x
☀ (book: ), from the (language)
PERSONAL: WOMEN AUTHORS TO READ BEFORE I "GO"Completed 70 / 120 authors so far
Authors I have not yet read are italicized
☀ Authors Read for 1st Time in 2026: X
* Books read for these authors in 2026: X
🌹 Another book read for already completed author
* Acevedo, Elizabeth = 1
* Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi = 3
* Alcott, Louisa May = 3
* Allende, Isabel = 5
Armstrong, Karen: A Short History of Myth
* Atkinson, Kate = 6
* Atwood, Margaret = 4
* Austen, Jane = 3
Bechdel, Allison
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
* Blume, Judy = 4
Bond, Cynthia
* Bronsky, Alina = 1
* Bronte, Charlotte = 1
* Bronte, Emily = 1
* Brooks, Geraldine = 4
* Brown, Natasha = 1
Bulawayo, NoViolet
* Butler, Octavia = 1
Byatt, A.S.: The Children's Book
Carter, Angela
* Cather, Willa = 1
Catton, Eleanor
* Christie, Agatha: (= >13)
* Danticat, Edwidge = 2
Davis, Lydia
* Desai, Anita = 1
Desai, Kiran
Didion, Joan
Donogue, Emma
* du Maurier, Daphne = 1
* Egan, Jennifer = 1
* Eliot, George = 1
* Erdrich, Louise = 3
* Ferrante, Elena = 4
* Fitzgerald, Penelope = 1
Funder, Anna
* Gay, Roxane = 1
Gilbert, Elizabeth
* Glass, Julia = 1
Gordimer, Nadine
* Grace, Patricia = 1
* Groff, A Lauren = 1
* Gyasi, Yaa = 2
Hempel, Amy
* Heyer, Georgette = 3
* Highsmith, Patricia = 2
Hulme, Keri
* Hurston, Zora Neale = 2
Jacobs, Jane
* James, PD = 14
* Jones, Tayari = 1
* Kidd, Sue Monk = 3
Kingsolver, Barbara
Kolbert, Elizabeth
Kushner, Rachel
* Lahiri, Jhumpa = 1
* Lawhon, Arial = 1
Le Guin, Ursula K.
* Lee, Harper = 2
* L'Engle, Madeleine = 1
Lessing, Dorris:
Lispector, Clarice
Lively, Penelope: Judgement Day
Luiselli, Valerie: Lost Children Archive
Lurie, Alison
MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Mantel, Hilary
* McConaghy, Charlotte = 2
* McDermott, Alice = 1
McKay, Ami
Messud, Claire
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
* Morrison, Toni = 3
* Munro, Alice = 1
Murdoch, Iris:
* Ng, Celeste = 3
* Oates, Joyce Carol = 2
O'Brien, Edna:
O'Connor, Flannery: A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
* Oyeyemi, Helen = 1
* Ozeki, Ruth = 1
* Patchett, Ann = 8
Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar
* Poliner, Elizabeth = 1
* Proulx, Annie = 1
* Reid, Taylor Jenkins = 1
Rich, Adrienne
Robinson, Marilynne
* Rowling, JK = 13
Roy, Arundhati
Russell, Karen
* Semple, Maria = 1
Shelley, Mary
* Shields, Carol = 1
* Smiley, Jane = 1
Smith, Ali
* Smith, Zadie = 2
* Solnit, Rebecca = 1
Sontag, Susan
* St. John Mandel, Emily = 2
Stein, Gertrude
Straub, Emma
* Strout, Elizabeth = 4
Szymborska, Wistawa:
* Tan, Amy = 5
* Tartt, Donna = 1
Toews, Miriam: All My Puny Sorrows
* Tyler, Anne = 9
* Walker, Alice = 1
* Ward, Jesmyn = 1
Waters, Sarah
* Wharton, Edith = 2
Wilkerson, Isabel:
* Willis, Connie = 1
* Winterson, Jeanette = 1
* Wolitzer, Meg = 2
* Woolf, Virginia = 2
* Wyld, Evie = 1
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🪷🪷🪷🪷🪷 BEGIN ATY 🪷🪷🪷🪷🪷OFFICIAL CHALLENGE
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1. A book from a genre that starts with A, T, or Y: YA: If You Find Me
2. A book with a primarily red, green or blue cover: The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
3. A book that fits a prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list: A book that would fit the 26th prompt from any ATY52 year: 2021: A short book (<210 pages) by a new to you author: Why Do You Dance When You Walk? by Abdourahman A. Waberi, Djibouti
4. A book by a new-to-you author: Carmen Posadas - Little Indiscretions
5. A book you want to read because of something you read in 2025: The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri. I read her brother Daniel's book "Everything Sad is Untrue" which is on the same topic but written for middle grade.
6. A book related to blood, sweat, or tears: All the Colors of the Dark
7. A book with a character who appears in more than one book: Col. Race - Sparkling Cyanide
8. A book set in Africa, Asia, or Australia: Africa - Co-Wives, Co-Widows
9. A book with a number, ordinal, or iterative numeral in the title: Nineteen Steps
10. An award winning book: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (2024): The Berry Pickers
11. A historical fiction book: Byron and the Beauty
12. A book with cover text that is NOT black or white: gold: I See You've Called in Dead
13. An author's second/sophomore book: Brendan Slocumb - Symphony of Secrets
16. A book featuring a character with a similar occupation to one of the Clue/Cluedo characters: maid: The Housemaid
18. A book with a location in the title: Death on the Nile, other book with the character Col. Race
22. A book by a Korean or Korean-diaspora author: Gu Byeong-mo - Apartment Women
23. A book with a road trip or long journey: Less Is Lost
26. A book with a Z in the title and/or author name: Zuleikha - Guzel Yakhina
27. A nonfiction book: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
28. A book related to a resistance, rebellion, or revolution: The Silence and the Roar
29. A vacation book: An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
30. The most recently published book by an author…Kate Atkinson - Death at the Sign of the Rook
31… and a book from that same author's backlist: Transcription
32. A novella of 100-250 pages: Pereira Maintains
33. A book with an Indigenous character or author: both New Zealand Māori: Where the Rekohu Bone Sings
34. A book with a window on the cover: The Murder of Mr. Wickham
35. A book where all or part of the action takes place in a library, a museum, a school, or another public building: The Library
36. A book with a primary character who is a woman over 40: Mother-Daughter Murder Night
37. A book that includes a science topic: Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
38. A book that's part of a series: Dorothy Sayers Peter Whimsey and Harriet Vine: Have His Carcase
39. A book connected in some way to the "Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie: In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers: 1850-1917
40. A book that has a punctuation mark in the title: Martyr!
41. A mystery or true crime book: Gone Before Goodbye
42. A book set in an isolated location: I Who Have Never Known Men
46. A book that is not a novel: short story collection: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
47. A book with "this", "that", "these", or "those" in the title: I Need You to Read This
48. A book with something edible in the title: Black Cake
49. A second book for your favorite prompt: A novella of 100-250 pages: The Good Life Elsewhere
50. A book with a bird on its cover: Death at Bishop's Keep
51. A book published in 2026: The Murder at World's End
ATY - REJECT CHALLENGEincludes the prompts for the "Lists and Awards" challenge and the "Science, Social Issues, and A Sense of Place" challenge
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Prompts by theme:
GENRE
1. A Bildungsroman (coming-of-age) book: Checkout 19
2. A biography, memoir, or autofiction: A Manual for Cleaning Women
3. A book on one of Goodreads New Releases by Genre page: Hot Wax
4. A book related to medical science or health: The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
5. A book related to psychology, mental health or neuroscience: Selfless Act of Breathing
7. A book tagged by Goodreads readers as Literary Fiction: Happiness: A Novel
8. A magical realism or magical book: Ghost in my Suitcase
9. A mystery without a murder: Gaudy Night
JUST PLAIN FUN
10. a book by an author who shares one of your initials: H: Sadie Hartwell - A Knit before Dying
11. A book related to baking: Icing on the Murder
12. A book related to penguins: Death and the Penguin
13. A book that would fill a favorite prompt from last year's list: A Mystery or True Crime book: The Locked Room
21. A book with the word friend in the description: My Friends
LITERARY AWARENESS
22. A book about books: The Cat Who Saved Books
24. A book featured as a Book of the Month Club pick: The Lost Story (2024)
25. A book from any widely recognized list of your choice: PBS Great American Read: Ghost
26. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists: The Vanishing Half
27. A book listed in any ‘Best Books’ list of 2024 or 2025: Colored Television
28. A book on one of Obama’s reading lists: Anything is Possible
29. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2025 or 2026: Endling; The River Has Roots; Lula Dean's: Hazelbourne Ladies; Behind you is the sea; island of missing trees
30. A book set in an alternate history or an imaginary world/universe: Bozamba's Revenge
31. A book shortlisted for a Dublin Literary Award: Arthur & George
32. A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
34. A book that was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in any year: I have some Questions for You
35. A book that won an international literary award: author, László Krasznahorkai, won the Nobel Prize in 2025 and International Booker Prize in 2015: Chasing Homer
LOVED THE IDEA
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37. * Book where the first word of the second title: House at the End of Hope Street
38. * Is the same as the last word of the first title: Rental House
-. 2 Weeks: Elena knows what time the Sexton's spade doth rust.
39. * Book where the second book's title provides a response or continuation…: What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
40. * … of the first book's title: Elena Knows>>>>>>>>
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41. * Last name of one author: Phaedra Patrick - Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone
42. *... is the first name of the other author: Patrick Radden Keefe - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
SOCIAL AWARENESS
44. A book about Women crossing borders and boundaries: The Lion Women of Tehran
45. A book connected to a Time's person of the year: Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
46. A book exploring personal or cultural identity: Death of an Author
47. A book featuring a holiday that you don't celebrate: The Latke in the Library & Other Mystery Stories for Chanukah
48. A book nominated for an award that values peace, cultural understanding, and related social issues: Dayton Peace Prize: The Underground Railroad
49. A book that could fit the quote: “May you live in interesting times.”: So Far Gone
50. A book that includes a “forbidden” topic in polite conversation - the politics of vaccines: Vaccine Nation: Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress
51. A book that is related to one of the group’s moderators: Rad Women A-Z
52. A book that was banned or challenged: Freedom Writers Diary
54. A book with an orphaned or adopted character: BIPOC adoptee narrative:: Invisible Boy
WORLD AWARENESS
-. Three books: one in each quadrant of the world excluding North America::
55. * Read one book in the N+E hemispheres (Asia, Europe or Northern Africa): Europe (Belarus): A Replacement Life
56. * Read one book in the S+ E Hemispheres (Oceania, and Southern Africa): Oceania: Dragonfruit
57. * Read one book in the S+W hemispheres (South America): Habitus
58. A book about wildlife or nature conservation: The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
59. A book connected to the Middle East in some way: Author from Egypt: Woman at Point Zero
60. A book related to a national park: An Unforgiving Place
61. A book set in a country bordering the Indian Ocean: Kuwait: The Book Censor's Library
62. A book set in one of the world’s great cities: Tokyo: Salvation of a Saint
63. A book set in or near the Caribbean: Cuba: Simone
64. A book set in the opposite hemisphere from where you reside: Southern- Bolivia: Affections
65. A book that takes place in a country/place along the path of totality for the 2026 solar eclipse: Iceland: History. A Mess.
66. A book with a “green” topic or character: The World We Once Lived In - author founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights in Kenya
67. A book with a desert setting: Signs Preceding the End of the World
ATY - WINTER-THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMASDuration: December 1, 2025 - February 28, 2026
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1. The first letter of the title (excluding A, An and The)
2. The author's first and last initials
3. A genre on the main book page
4. The first initial of the first name of the book’s main character.
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1. December: roll=1: Michelle Zauner - Crying in H Mart
CCC - AstrologyNovember 25, 2025 – November 24, 2026
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1. SAGITTARIUS, November 22 – December 21
Read a book by an author whose first OR last initial can be found in “THEARCHER”; post a link to the author's GR page OR a book with a character who is involved in the theater (professional or amateur); tell us who OR book whose cover is predominantly (more than 50%) orange or blue; post the cover
CCC - Mine Your TBRhttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
goal is to read books I own and then donate them, rather than ebooks or audio.
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December 2025
1. The Spy- Paulo Coelho, added 12/2/2016
2. Night of Miracles- Elizabeth Berg, added 12/20/2018
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CORNERS
🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents: Asia/Europe/North America: The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
🔒 11. In Jail: Read a banned or challenged book.: Freedom Writers Diary
🚘 21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes!: Vanishing Half ( or anything else that happens first)
👮♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction or true crime book.: Look Closer
UTILITIES
💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover.: Good Citizens Need Not Fear
🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover.: Ghost in My Suitcase
CHANCE
❓ 8. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten lowest number of ratings: 12 ratings:: Bozamba's Revenge
❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions: 9/18/2016: Arthur & George
❓ 37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest: 4.64: One Day Everyone Will have Been Against This
RAILROADS
🚂 6. Reading Railroad: Read a book from a celebrity book club list: Reese's Book Club: Mother Daughter Murder
🚂 16. PA Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name: Robin Paige: Death at Bishops Keep
🚂 26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author or title beginning with B or O. : The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long: 128: Co-Wives Co-Widows
PURPLE PROPERTIES
🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover or in the title: plant: Apartment Women
🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue.: Zuleikha
BLUE PROPERTIES
🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or head wear on the cover or in the title.: Little Indiscretions
🟦 9. Blue: Read a book with an author or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own.: Less is Lost
🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title.: Anything is Possible
PINK PROPERTIES
🌸 12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover or in the title.: Icing on the Murder
🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different: Book Censor's Library
🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title.: Colored Television
ORANGE PROPERTIES
🟠 17. Orange: Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover, or involving water travel.: A Ghost in my Suitcase
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different: The Latke in the Library
🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title.: What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
RED PROPERTIES
🟥 22. Red: Read a book with a car, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip.: Affections
🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own.: Woman at Point Zero
🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title.: All the Colors of the Dark
YELLOW PROPERTIES
🟨 27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe on the cover, or involving foot travel.: Ghost
🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a neurodivergent condition.: Death on the Nile
🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title.: Martyr!
GREEN PROPERTIES
🟩 32. Green: Read a book with a sewing implement on the cover or in the title: Scissors: A Knit Before Dying
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own.: So Far Gone
🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover or in the title.: Rental House
DARK BLUE PROPERTIES
🧿 38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title.: The Cat Who Saved Books
🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?): The Berry Pickers
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DISABILITY REP CHALLENGE
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SPOOKY CREATURES
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Solve cases featuring .....
WHAT
What makes your case distinctive?
WHEN
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported?
WHERE
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
HOW
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.
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What motivated you to choose a particular case?
1. A favorite mystery author or series:
2. A favorite mystery subgenre:
3. A Goodreads listopia -
4. A literary prize winner for crime fiction:
5. A challenged or banned crime book:
6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year):
7. Average Goodreads rating of 4 stars or above:
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3. A book you meant to read in 2025: All the Colors of the Dark
4. A book that starts with the letter "Z": Zuleikha
7. A book about a granny hobby: A Knit Before Dying
11. A book with a dad as the primary caregiver: These Silent Woods
14. A book set in Michigan or written by an author from Michigan: Icing on the Murder
16. A book less than 260 pages: Why Do You Dance When You Walk
22. A book about a book club: The Toni Morrison Book Club
30. A travel ghost story: A Ghost in my Suitcase
38. A book with any type of fruit on the cover or in the title: The Berry Pickers
Advanced Prompts
43. Two books written by real-life partners or spouses (1): Death at Bishops Keep
44. Two books written by real-life partners or spouses (2): The Locked Room
50. A book about Afrofuturism: Death of an Author
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2. Shoes or slippers?
3. Pork or beef?
4. Swimming pool or beach?
5. Fruits or vegetables?
6. Cats or dogs?
7. Summer or winter?
8. Salt or pepper?
9. Cash or credit cards?
10. Cookies or chips?
11. Soda or juice?
12. Country or city?
13. Text or call?
14. Coffee or tea?
15. Black or white?
16. Driver or passenger?
17. Laptop or tablet?
18. Comedy or Horror?
19. Beer or wine?
20. Dine in or dine out?
21. Movies or TV shows?
22. iOS or Android?
23. Waffles or pancakes?
24. Early bird or night owl?
25. Football or baseball?
26. Trucks or cars?
27. Lunch or dinner?
28. Weekends or weekdays?
29. Pizza or pasta?
30. Friends or family?
31. Boys or girls?
32. Fiction or non-fiction?
33. Skiing or snowboarding?
34. Red wine or white wine?
35. Singing in the shower or singing in the car?
36. Organized or messy?
37. Costume party or pool party?
38. Music festival or art festival?
39. Mountains or ocean?
40. Ghost tour or historical tour?
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