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)
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:

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March:
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June:
July:
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November:
December:

Grab Tag: Rules

Down The Rabbit Hole: Rules

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

Presidential Biographies:

#28 -

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 -
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) Two Trains Running - August Wilson
6) How to Budget & Manage Your Money - Rachel Mercer
7) Jitney - August Wilson
8) Carlitos Páez: After the Tenth Day - Carlos Páez Vilaró
9) The Moon Is Down - John Steinbeck
10) The Most - Jessica Anthony
11) The Iron Heel - Jack London
12) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
13) Seascraper - Benjamin Wood
14) Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill
15) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
16) I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman
17) Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song - Sara Bareilles
18) Breeder and Other Stories Eugenia Collier
19) Archy and Mehitabel -Don Marquis
20) A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy - Miyamoto Musashi
21) One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories - Chris Brazier
22) Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault - Jon Krakauer
23) How I Became the Fittest Woman on Earth - Tia-Clair Toomey

May the 4th:

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)

Century Cycle - August Wilson
#1) Gem of the Ocean
#2) Joe Turner's Come and Gone
#3) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
#4) The Piano Lesson
#5) Seven Guitars
#6) Fences
#7)
#8)
#9)
#10)

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)
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
All Caught Up!!!

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
5) The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

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

James S.A. Corey
All Caught Up!!

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

Mary Roach
1) Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

Dan Jones
1) Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
2) The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
3) The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
4) Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
5) Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England
6) The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
7) The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
8) Crusaders: An Epic History Of The Wars For The Holy Lands
9) The World Aflame: The Long War 1914 - 1945
10) Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
11) The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A Medieval Ghost Story
12) Essex Dogs
13) Wolves of Winter: A Novel
14) 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 Moon Is Down
12) The Short Reign of Pippin IV
13) The Pastures of Heaven
14) The Long Valley
15) Their Blood is Strong
16) The Log from the Sea of Cortez
17) Bombs Away
18) A Russian Journal
19) Once There Was a War
20) America and Americans
21) Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
22) Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
23) Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath
24) Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War

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