Play Book Tag discussion

2026 New Years Resolutions:
Read for every Monthly tag
Compete in Every Challenge
Decrease my TBR (even if it's by net 1) 500 TBR Books Total
Be Mindful of Passages and Saving Them

Monthly Tag
GrabTag
Down The Rabbit Hole
Trim
Presidential Biographies
Going Long
Staying Short
May the 4th
Series
Complete their Bibliography
Monthly Planning

Monthly Tag:


January: History
1) The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - Dan Jones
2) The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It - Lawrence S. Ritter
3) The Greatest Sentence Ever Written - Walter Isaacson
4) Becket - Jean Anouilh
5) Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot
6) The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors - Dan Jones
7) Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 - Dan Jones
8) The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors - Dan Jones
9) Woodrow Wilson: A Biography - August Heckscher
10) Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages - Dan Jones


February:
March:
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:

Down The Rabbit Hole: Total Points - 15
Rules

January:
Medieval Times:
1) The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - Dan Jones
2) Becket - Jean Anouilh
3) Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot
4) The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors - Dan Jones
5) Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 - Dan Jones

5 Books = 5 Points
5 Tag matches = 5 points
5 books in one hole = 5 points
January Points = 15

Trim:

1) Peace Like a River - Leif Enger
2) A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar
3) The Untouchables - Eliot Ness
4) Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir - Catherine Gildiner
5) American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World - David Baron
6) One Day at Fenway: A Day in the Life of Baseball in America - Steve Kettmann
7) Letters From Iwo Jima - Kumiko Kakehashi
8) The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It - Lawrence S. Ritter
9) The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience - Mark Bixler
10) Boy Racer - Mark Cavendish
11) Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting - Siri Hustvedt
12) The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency - Chris Whipple
13) The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 - Thomas Pakenham
14) The Fortunate Ones - Ellen Umansky
15) An American Family - Khizr Khan
16) Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin - Hampton Sides
17) The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League - Jeff Hobbs
18) Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon - Jeffrey Kluger
19) Joshua: A Brooklyn Tale - Andrew Kane
20) The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War - Peter Englund
21) Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad - Mike Greenberg
22) Travelling to Infinity - Jane Hawking
23) The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision - Fritjof Capra
24) 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers - Doug Stanton

January - #8
February - #24

Presidential Biographies:

#28 - Woodrow Wilson: A Biography - August Heckscher
#29

Jan-Feb: Theodore Roosevelt
March-Apr: William Howard Taft
May-June: Woodrow Wilson
July-Aug: Warren G. Harding
Sep-Oct: Calvin Coolidge
Nov-Dec: Herbert Hoover

Going Long:

January -
1) The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - Dan Jones
2) Woodrow Wilson: A Biography - August Heckscher
3) Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages - Dan Jones
February -
March -
April -
May -
June -
July -
August -
September -
October -
November -
December -

Staying Short:

1) The Greatest Sentence Ever Written - Walter Isaacson
2) Radio Golf - August Wilson
3) The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
4) King Hedley II - August Wilson
5) How to Budget & Manage Your Money - Rachel Mercer
6) Carlitos Páez: After the Tenth Day - Carlos Páez Vilaró
7) The Moon Is Down - John Steinbeck
8) The Most - Jessica Anthony
9) The Iron Heel - Jack London
10) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
11) Seascraper - Benjamin Wood
12) Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill
13) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
14) I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman
15) Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song - Sara Bareilles
16) Breeder and Other Stories Eugenia Collier
17) Archy and Mehitabel -Don Marquis
18) A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy - Miyamoto Musashi
19) One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories - Chris Brazier
20) Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault - Jon Krakauer
21) How I Became the Fittest Woman on Earth - Tia-Clair Toomey
22) The Last Game of Rummikub - Andrew Carter Curtis
23) The Old Man Who Read Love Stories - Luis Sepúlveda
24) Becket - Jean Anouilh
25) Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot
26) The White Hot - Quiara Alegría Hudes
27) History Matters - David McCullough
28) Abscond - Abraham Verghese
29) Memories of the Andes - José Luis "Coche" Inciarte
30) On the Other Side of the Mountain: Memories and lessons from our sons who did not return from the Andes - María del Carmen Perrier Pérez del Castillo
31) The Old Man and the Gun: And Other Tales of True Crime - David Grann

May the 4th:

Thrawn: Treason - Timothy Zahn

Series:

Red Rising Saga - Pierce Brown
#1) Red Rising
#2) Golden Son
#3) Morning Star
#4) Iron Gold
#5) Dark Age
#6) Light Bringer
#7)

The Empyrean Series - Rebecca Yarros
#1) Fourth Wing
#2) Iron Flame
#3) Onyx Storm
#4)

Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn
#1) Thrawn
#2) Thrawn: Alliances
#3)

Galactic Football League - Scott Sigler
#1) The Rookie
#1.5)
#2)
#3)
#3.4)
#3.5)
#4)
#5)
#5.4)
#5.5)
#5.6)
#6)

Captain Nemo Series - Jules Verne
#1)
#2) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#3)

Temeraire - Naomi Novik
#0.5) Vici
#1) His Majesty's Dragon
#1.5) Feast or Famine
#2) Throne of Jade
#2.5) In Autumn, a White Dragon Looks over the Wide River
#3) Black Powder War
#4)
#5)
#6)
#7)
#8)
#9)


Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
#0)
#1) Anne of Green Gables
#2) Anne of Avonlea
#3)
#4)
#5)
#6)
#7)
#8)
#9)

Book of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
#1) The City of Ember
#2) The People of Sparks
#3)
#4)

Civilizations Rise and Fall - Jared Diamond
#1) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
#2) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
#3)

Asian Saga - James Clavell
1) Shōgun
2) Tai-Pan
3)
4)
5)
6)

Love & Gelato - Jenna Evans Welch
1) Love & Gelato
2)
3)

Rules in Civility - Amor Towles
1) Rules of Civility
2)

Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
.5) Virgins
1) Outlander
2) Dragonfly in Amber
2.5) A Fugitive Green
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
7.5)
8)
8.5)
9)

The Captive's War - James S.A. Corey
1) The Mercy of Gods
1.5) Livesuit
2)

Complete their Bibliography:

John Grisham
1) Shaken: The Rush to Execute an Innocent Man - 2027

Fredrik Backman
All Caught Up!!!

Taylor Jenkins Reid
All Caught Up!!

Walter Isaacson
1) The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
2) American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
3) Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness
4) Pro and Con

John Green
1) An Abundance of Katherines
2) Will Grayson, Will Grayson
3) The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
4) The West Facade ? (2026)

James S.A. Corey
1) The Faith of Beasts

Dan Brown
All Caught Up!!

Terrence Real
1) How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women

Michael Lewis
1) The Money Culture
2) Trail Fever: Spin doctors, rented strangers, thumb wrestlers, toe suckers, grizzly bears, and other creatures on the road to the White H
3) The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
4) Next: The Future Just Happened
5) The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering The Six Classics of Economics
6) Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
7) Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
8) Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
9) The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
10) The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
11) Playing to Win
12) The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
13) Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Andy Weir
1) Theft of Pride (under the name Jack Sharp)
2) Randomize
3) The Egg and Other Stories

Malcolm Gladwell
1) The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
2) Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
3) Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

Khaled Hosseini
All Caught Up!!

Jon Krakauer
1) Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
2) Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
3) Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault

Pierce Brown
1) Red God - 2026

Jeff Kinney
All Caught Up!!

D.K. Marley
1) Kingfisher
2) the Rowan Tree

Dava Sobel
All Caught Up!!!

Erik Larson
1) Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
2) No One Goes Alone
3) Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
4) The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities

Mike Greenberg
1) Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad
2) Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life

Cormac McCarthy
1) The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
2) The Orchard Keeper
3) Outer Dark
4) Child of God
5) Suttree
6) Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
7) The Passenger
8) Stella Maris

David Grann
1) The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
2) The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
3) The Old Man and the Gun: And Other Tales of True Crime

Mary Roach
1) Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

Dan Jones
1) Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
2) Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England
3) The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
4) Crusaders: An Epic History Of The Wars For The Holy Lands
5) The World Aflame: The Long War 1914 - 1945
6) The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A Medieval Ghost Story
7) Essex Dogs
8) Wolves of Winter: A Novel
9) Lion Hearts

John Steinbeck
1) Cup of Gold
2) To a God Unknown
3) Tortilla Flat
4) In Dubious Battle
5) Cannery Row
6) The Wayward Bus
7) Sweet Thursday
8) The Winter of Our Discontent
9) The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
10) The Red Pony
11) The Short Reign of Pippin IV
12) The Pastures of Heaven
13) The Long Valley
14) Their Blood is Strong
15) The Log from the Sea of Cortez
16) Bombs Away
17) A Russian Journal
18) Once There Was a War
19) America and Americans
20) Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
21) Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
22) Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath
23) Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War

January Planning

Monthly Tag: History:
1) Woodrow Wilson: A Biography - August Heckscher
2) The Greatest Sentence Ever Written - Walter Isaacson
3) Jewish Antiquities - Flavius Josephus
4) The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - Dan Jones
5) The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors - Dan Jones
6) The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors - Dan Jones
7) Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages - Dan Jones
8) Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 - Dan Jones
9) Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands - Dan Jones
10) The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It - Lawrence S. Ritter
11) Ridgeline - Michael Punke

Rabbit Hole:
Medieval Times:
1) The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - Dan Jones
2) The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors - Dan Jones
3) The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors - Dan Jones
4) Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages - Dan Jones
5) Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 - Dan Jones
6) Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands - Dan Jones
Play:
1) King Hedley II - August Wilson
2) Radio Golf - August Wilson
3) Becket - Jean Anouilh
4) Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot
Journey to the stars
World War I
Ancient Heroes & Monsters

GrabTag: January

Trim:
8) The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It - Lawrence S. Ritter

Long Book:
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - Dan Jones

Short Book:
1) King Hedley II - August Wilson
2) Radio Golf - August Wilson
3) The Greatest Sentence Ever Written - Walter Isaacson

Presidential Biography:
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography - August Heckscher

February Planning

Monthly Tag: Love:
1) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
2) The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
3) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
4) The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert - John M. Gottman
5) Possession - A.S. Byatt
6) The Old Man Who Read Love Stories - Luis Sepúlveda

Rabbit Hole:
Reconstruction:
1) News of the World - Paulette Jiles
2) Amity - Nathan Harris
3) The Sweetness of Water - Nathan Harris
4) The Book of Lost Friends - Lisa Wingate
5) Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
6) Ridgeline - Michael Punke

GrabTag: February

Trim:
24) 12 Strong - Doug Stanton

Long Book:
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Short Book:
1) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
2) The Old Man Who Read Love Stories - Luis Sepúlveda

Presidential Biography:
Warren G. Harding - John W. Dean

March Planning

April Planning

May Planning

June Planning

July Planning

August Planning

September Planning

October Planning

November Planning

December Planning

Grab Tag: Rules

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fantasy
fiction
favorites
romance
non-fiction
2024
2025
young-adult
mystery
2023
manga
classics
historical-fiction
dnf
2022
history
series
contemporary
2021
science-fiction
horror
2020
ya
comics
2019
thriller
graphic-novels
paranormal
2018
poetry
adult
2017
book-club
2016
philosophy
biography
contemporary-romance
2015
short-stories
crime
urban-fantasy
science
memoir
2014
adventure
humor
historical-romance
m-m
lgbtq
psychology
magic
politics
mystery-thriller
2013
paranormal-romance
suspense
self-help
5-stars
dystopian
vampires
chick-lit
literature
business
new-adult
dark-romance
2012
4-stars
religion
erotica
christian
dark
drama
art
enemies-to-lovers
sports
literary-fiction
family
supernatural
cookbooks
christmas
school
mythology
sci-fi-fantasy
2011
childhood
realistic-fiction
contemporary-fiction
feminism
animals
reference
travel
novella
romantasy
music
plays
war
star-wars
age-gap
reverse-harem
friends-to-lovers
comic
bdsm
action
funny
mafia
teen
mm-romance
economics
friendship
ya-fantasy
shifters
essays
2010
cozy-mystery
true-crime
spirituality
romantic-suspense
fantasy-romance
mental-health
sports-romance
part-of-a-series
military
magical-realism
parenting
theology
health
american
love
coming-of-age
mystery-suspense
high-fantasy
biography-memoir
food
spicy
20th-century
nature
writing
comedy
stephen-king
education
alpha-male
england
british
gothic
dragons
college
retellings
smut
small-town
high-school
time-travel
collection
sociology
witches
women
self-improvement
female-author
japan
fae
speculative-fiction
anthology
personal-development
french
marvel
favorite-authors
autobiography
sapphic
detective
spiritual
usa
western
forced-proximity
leadership
translated
christianity
holiday
action-adventure
home
abuse
literary
21st-century
american-history
relationships
steampunk
crime-fiction
steamy
slow-burn
meh
cozy
recommendations
race
botm
epic-fantasy
aliens
1001-books
roman
romance-contemporary
europe
fairy-tales
africa
finance
work
death
erotic-romance
wwii
first-in-series
regency
demons
post-apocalyptic
mc
summer
angst
werewolves
adult-romance
culture
booktok
ghosts
fun
mystery-crime
rom-com
omegaverse
german
faith
american-literature
agatha-christie
zombies
made-me-cry
murder-mystery
asia
fantasia
2-stars
favorite-series
litrpg
china
2008
murder
dual-pov
hockey
design
childhood-favorites
japanese
19th-century
inspirational
dark-academia
dc
superheroes
pal
russia
menage
suspense-thriller
mf
space-opera
interesting
star-trek
survival
fantasy-paranormal
anthropology
photography
technology
canadian
medieval
space
manga-manhwa
india
harry-potter
social-justice
found-family
crime-thriller
angels
james-patterson
youth
nora-roberts
royalty
uk
russian
billionaire
women-authors
summer-reads
insta-love
academic
female-protagonist
halloween
doctor-who
romance-historical
emotional
grief
african-american
historical-mystery
harlequin
modern
single-parent
read-more-than-once
cultural
medical
film
lesbian
psychological-thriller
horror-thriller
love-triangle
cute
disability
diversity
dual-timeline
feminine-rage
New-York
polyamory
sword-and-sorcery

January GrabTag: 63 tags

*The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - Dan Jones
Tags: Academic, Royalty, UK, Medievel, europe, 21st century, england, british, biograpahy-memior, military

*The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors - Dan Jones
Tags: Recommendations, War, reference, 4-stars, politics, 2014. 2015, biography, 2016, book-club

*The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It - Lawrence S. Ritter
Tags: American-history, sports, memoir, history, 2022, 2025, 2024, non-fiction, favorites

*King Hedley II - August Wilson
Tag: African-american, plays, drama, historical- fiction, fiction

*Radio Golf - August Wilson
Tag: Race

*The Greatest Sentence Ever Written - Walter Isaacson
Tag: Philosophy

*The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors - Dan Jones
Tag: Christianity. theology, christian, religion, 2017, adult, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

*Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages - Dan Jones
Tag: dnf, 2023

*Becket - Jean Anouilh
Tag: French, literature, 20th-century, translated

*Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot
Tag: modern, murder, american literature, usa, high-school, american, 2011, school, literary fiction, 2013

*The Moon Is Down - John Steinbeck
Tag: Dystopian

February GrabTag: 84 tags

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Tag: Film, Cultural, read-more-than-once, female-protagonist, russian, interesting, Russia, pal, dark-academia, summer-reads

The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
Tag: New-York, grief, emotional, women-authors, 2008, made-me-cry, fun, summer, wwii, death

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Tag: Fantasy, Romance, inspirational, 2-stars, fantasia, faith, german, booktok, culture, Africa

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert - John M. Gottman
Tag: Work, relationships, home, leadership, spiritual, personal-development, self-improvement, sociology, college, education

Possession - A.S. Byatt
Tag: Dual-timeline, historical-mystery, 19th-century, mystery-crime, 1001-books, roman, fairy-tales, meh, literary, female-author

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories - Luis Sepúlveda
Tag: Collection, nature, magical-realism, 2010, novella, animals, contemporary-fiction, 5-stars, 2012, short-stories

News of the World - Paulette Jiles
Tag: Survival, action-adventure, women, love, coming of-of-age, friendship, travel, realistic-fiction, family, suspense

The Sweetness of Water - Nathan Harris
Tag: Diversity, social-justice, lgtbq, crime, contemporary

The Book of Lost Friends - Lisa Wingate
Tag: Favorite-authors, chick-lit, historical-romance, mystery,

Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Tag: Retellings, thriller,

Ridgeline - Michael Punke
Tag: Westerns, Adventure

Jewish Antiquities - Flavius Josephus
Tag: Classics