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2017 STATISTICS:Official Yearly Challenges
1. Genre Bingo: 6/24
2. Dewey Decimal: 3/10
3. TBR Randomiser: 5/20
4. Listopia: 6/20
5. Let's Turn Pages: 6,495/15,000
6. Around the World in Language: 0/5
7. Popsugar: 11/52
8. Serial Reader: 2/24
9. Top 10 Faves: 1/10
10. Color Challenge: 9/15
11. A to Z - Location: 13/26
12. My Favorite Things: 4/20
13. Book Riot Read Harder: 7/20
Personal Challenges
1. Read books on TBR list from 2012: 8/19
2. Read the Bible in 12 months: 1/12
3. Every Year Challenge: 8/46
Quarterly Challenges
1. First Quarter - 2016 Goodreads Choice Award Winners/Nominees: 3/4
Monthly Challenges
1. January - Marathon Challenge 4/4 - Complete
2. February - Spanning the Globe 53,390/20,000 miles - Complete
3. March - Woman in the Book - 0/3 - Never started
Genre
Fantasy: 3
Fiction: 5
Historical Fiction: 2
Nonfiction: 4
Romance: 1
Science Fiction: 1
Authors
Kelly Corrigan: 1
Matthew Desmond: 1
Matthew Dicks: 1
David R. Gillham: 1
Homer Hickam: 1
Laura Hillenbrand: 1
Rachel Joyce: 1
Barbara Kingsolver: 1
Sarah J. Maas: 1
Marissa Meyer: 1
Ann Patchett: 1
Nora Roberts: 1
Maria Semple: 1
Daniel Suarez: 1
J.R.R. Tolkien: 1
Colson Whitehead: 1
Gender
Female: 9
Male: 7
Length
0-300 Pages: 1
301-500 Pages: 13
501-800 Pages: 2
801-1000 Pages:
Format
Hardcover: 1
Paperback: 3
eBook: 7
Audiobook: 5
Source
Audible: 4
Book Store: 3
Kindle Unlimited: 1
Library: 2
Online: 6
Year Published
1937: 1
1992: 1
1998: 1
2006: 1
2010: 1
2012: 5
2013: 1
2014: 1
2016: 4
YEARLY CHALLENGE: GENRE BINGO CHALLENGEFor this challenge, read books to make as many "bingos" as possible (five squares in a line - can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal). You can set a goal for total number of books, number of bingos, or both!
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Message #9
1.. Short Stories or Novella:
✔ 2. Science Fiction: Daemon
3. Humor:
4. Graphic Novel:
✔ 5. YA Fantasy: Heartless
6. Family Saga:
7. Classics:
✔ 8. Paranormal Romance: Island of Glass
9. Coming of Age:
10. Dystopian:
11. Crime:
12. Horror:
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✔ 13. Historical Nonfiction: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
14. Historical Romance:
15. Self-Help:
16. Adventure:
17. Literary Fiction:
✔ 18. Historical: The Underground Railroad
✔ 19. Epic/High Fantasy: The Hobbit
20. Mystery or Thriller:
21. Space Opera:
22. Tragedy:
23. Magical Realism:
24. Suspense:
6/24
YEARLY CHALLENGE: DEWEY DECIMAL NONFICTIONDuration: January 1, 2017 – December 1, 2017
Message #7
1. 000-099:
2. 100-199:
3. 200-299:
✔ 4. 300-399: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (339.460973)
5. 400-499:
6. 500-599:
✔ 7. 600-699: Rocket Boys (629.1092273)
8. 700-799:
9. 800-899:
✔ 10. 900-999: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (940.547252092)
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PERSONAL CHALLENGE: Read all the books I added to my to-read list in 2012 but haven't read yet. ✔ 1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
✔ 2. Patron Saint of Liars
✔ 3. Rocket Boys
✔ 4. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
✔ 5. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
✔ 6. City of Women
✘ 7. Ashes
✔ 8. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
✔ 9. Flight Behavior
10. Hard Magic
11. Dreadnaught
12. Theft of Swords
13. The Chaperone
14. The Yellow Birds
15. The Last Dragonslayer
16. Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
17. The Family Fang
18. The End of Your Life Book Club
19. A Modern Witch
20. Wool Omnibus
8/19
YEARLY CHALLENGE: TBR RANDOMISER 2017Duration: January 1, 2017 – December 1, 2017
Message #5
✔ 1. The Underground Railroad
✔ 2. Heartless
✔ 3. Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
✔ 4. Daemon
✔ 5. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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YEARLY CHALLENGE: LISTOPIA CHALLENGE - 2017Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Message #8
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017
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What Women Born in the 1970's Have Read So Far in 2016
✔ 1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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✔ 3. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
✔ 4. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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YEARLY CHALLENGE: LET'S TURN PAGES 2017We are always making goals about how many books we want to read in a year. How about we make a goal for number of pages we want to read?
1. Make a goal of number of pages you would like to read.
2. Read as many pages as you can in one year.
3. Since you probably don’t know what you want to read for the entire year, make your list as you go. (Be sure to post the number of pages in your book!)
If your edition doesn't have page numbers (such as an audiobook), use the most popular edition of the book (that's not an audiobook) to determine what the number of pages should be. Rereads will count for this challenge, but you have to read the entire book…no skimming!
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Message #8
January
1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - 407 pages
2. The Underground Railroad- 306 pages
3. Patron Saint of Liars - 402 pages
4. Rocket Boys - 384 pages
5. Heartless - 450 pages
January Total - 1,949 pages
February
1. Glitter and Glue: A Memoir - 224 pages
2. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - 320 pages
3. Where'd You Go, Bernadette - 351 pages
4. Daemon - 617 pages
5. City of Women - 448 pages
6. Crown of Midnight - 418 pages
February Total - 2,378 pages
March:
1. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend - 458 pages
2. Flight Behavior - 597 pages
3. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - 432 pages
4. The Hobbit - 366 pages
5. Island of Glass - 315 pages
March Total - 2,168 pages
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6,495/15,000
YEARLY CHALLENGE: AROUND THE WORLD IN LANGUAGERead books originally published in languages other than your own. You can use listopias such as Foreign Books Translated to English, Translated Speculative Fiction, and Favorite Translated Literature to get ideas.
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
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YEARLY CHALLENGE: POPSUGAR 2017 READING CHALLENGEDuration: January 1, 2017 – December 1, 2017
Message #25
1. A book recommended by a librarian:
✔ 2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
3. A book of letters:
✔ 4. An audiobook: Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
✔ 5. A book by a person of color: The Underground Railroad
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title:
7. A book that is a story within a story:
8. A book with multiple authors:
9. An espionage thriller:
10. A book with a cat on the cover:
11. A book with an author who uses a pseudonym:
12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read:
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability:
✔ 14. A book involving travel: Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
15. A book with a subtitle:
16. A book that's published in 2017:
✔ 17. A book involving a mythical creature: The Hobbit
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile:
19. A book about food:
20. A book with career advice:
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective:
22. A steampunk novel:
23. A book with a red spine:
24. A book set in the wilderness:
25. A book you loved as a child:
26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited:
✔ 27. A book with a title that's a character's name: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
✔ 28. A novel set during wartime: City of Women
29. A book with an unreliable narrator:
30. A book with pictures:
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you:
✔ 32. A book about an interesting woman: Flight Behavior
33. A book set in two different time periods:
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title:
35. A book set in a hotel:
36. A book written by someone you admire:
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017:
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas:
✔ 39. The first book in a series you haven't read before: Rocket Boys
40. A book you bought on a trip:
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42. A bestseller from 2016:
43. A book with a family-member term in the title:
44. A book that takes place over a character's life span:
45. A book about an immigrant or refugee:
46. A book from a genre/subgenre you've never heard of:
✔ 47. A book with an eccentric character: Heartless
48. A book that's more than 800 pages:
49. A book you got from a used book sale:
50. A book that's been mentioned in another book:
✔ 51. A book about a difficult topic: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
52. A book based on mythology:
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YEARLY CHALLENGE: SERIAL READER 2017Fill in the following blanks to determine how many books you will read for this challenge. You can fill in one, two, three or all four blanks to come up with the total number of books you will read. Post your responses here!
I will finish __ series I have started before this year. (# books)
I will start __ series this year. (# books)
I will read __ series from start to finish this year. (# books)
I will read __ number of books that are part of a series. (# books)
My total number of books is _____
We will track your progress in the normal fashion. We also thought we would have some fun and try a tiered tracker as well! The tiers will be Series Dabbler (reads 1-6 books), Shelf Stacker (reads 7-12 books), Under the Covers Reader (reads 12-24 books), and Serial Reader (reads 24+ books).
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Message #5
I will finish 3 series I have started before this year. (3 books)
✔ 1. Island of Glass
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✔ 1. Rocket Boys
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YEARLY CHALLENGE: TOP TEN FAVESThe Top 10 for the Reading Challengers Listopia is available for each member of our group, so please check it out and let us know what your Top Ten Faves are. Note: if a book is not the first in a series and requires that one read the previous book(s) first, please do not add it to the list.
For this challenge, set a goal for how many of these books you would like to read. You know they'll be good because your fellow Reading Challengers have already made them their favorites!
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Message #7
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YEARLY CHALLENGE: COLOR CHALLENGEDuration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Message #55
1. White:
2. Pink:
✔ 3. Red: The Underground Railroad
✔ 4. Orange: Flight Behavior
5. Yellow:
✔ 6. Green: The Hobbit
✔ 7. Light Blue: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
✔ 8. Dark Blue: Rocket Boys
9. Purple:
✔ 10. Brown: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
✔ 11. Black: Patron Saint of Liars
12. Metallic:
✔ 13. 5 colors on the cover: Where'd You Go, Bernadette
14. A book with a color in the title of the book:
15. Read a book with a word describing colors in the title:
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YEARLY CHALLENGE: A TO Z LOCATION EDITIONTo go with our "Around the World Theme," we have decided to do a Location Edition! For this challenge you will read books with cities, states, provinces, countries, and worlds that fit for each letter of the alphabet. You may only use one location per book, and you may use fictional locations for this challenge.
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Message #8
✔ A: Antartica - Where'd You Go, Bernadette
✔ B: Berlin, Germany - City of Women
✔ C: Coalwood, West Virginia - Rocket Boys
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✔ F: Feathertown, TN - Flight Behavior
✔ G: Georgia - The Underground Railroad
✔ H: Habit, Kentucky - Patron Saint of Liars
✔ I: Ireland - Island of Glass
✔ J: Japan - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
✔ K: Kingsbridge, England - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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✔ M: Milwaukee, WI - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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✔ S: Sydney, Australia - Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
✔ T: Thousand Oaks, CA - Daemon
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✔ W: Wonderland - Heartless
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YEARLY CHALLENGE: MY FAVORITE THINGSFor this challenge, you will fill in the blanks with your favorite things and find "new to you" books that match each category. You can either find a book that has the same same words in the title, is about the same subject, has a picture of your favorite thing on the cover, is written by the same author, or is the next in a series. The choice is yours as long as you have never read the book before!
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Message #32
✔ 1. My favorite fiction book is: For My Lady's Heart - Heartless (Has heart in both titles)
2. My favorite non-fiction is: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
✔ 3. My favorite author is: Nora Roberts - Island of Glass
4. My favorite genre is: Romance
5. My favorite fairy/folk tale is: Beauty and the Beast
✔ 6. My favorite male book character is: Roarke - Daemon (Tech savvy)
7. My favorite female book character is: Eve Dallas
✔ 8. My favorite song: Go Big or Go Home by American Authors - The Hobbit
9. My favorite movie is: Notting Hill
10. My favorite television show is: The 100
11. My favorite color is: Purple
12. My favorite real animal is: Dog
13. My favorite talking animal is: Wilbur
14. My favorite number is: 6
15. My favorite food is: Pizza
16. My favorite real place to visit is: State Park Campgrounds
17. My favorite book land to visit is: Erilea
18. My favorite month is: September
19. My favorite quote is: Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain)
20. My favorite non-book hobby is: Knitting
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YEARLY CHALLENGE: BOOK RIOT'S READ HARDER CHALLENGE 2017Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Message #6
1. Read a book about sports.
✔ 2. Read a debut novel: Patron Saint of Liars
3. Read a book about books.
4. Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author.
5. Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative.
6. Read an all-ages comic.
✔ 7. Read a book published between 1900 and 1950: The Hobbit
8. Read a travel memoir.
✔ 9. Read a book you’ve read before: Crown of Midnight
✔ 10. Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
✔ 11. Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location: Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
✔ 12. Read a fantasy novel: Heartless
13. Read a nonfiction book about technology.
✔ 14. Read a book about war: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
15. Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+.
16. Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country.
17. Read a classic by an author of color.
18. Read a superhero comic with a female lead.
19. Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey
20. Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel
21. Read a book published by a micropress.
22. Read a collection of stories by a woman.
23. Read a collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love.
24. Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color.
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PERSONAL CHALLENGE: Read the bible in twelve months✔ January: Genesis and Exodus
February: Leviticus and Numbers
March: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth
April: 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings
May: 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther
June: Job and Psalms
July: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah
August: Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel
September: Finish Old Testament
October: Matthew, Mark, Luke
November, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians
December: Finish the New Teastament
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JANUARY MONTHLY CHALLENGE: MARATHON CHALLENGEThis is not a sprint, but a way to spend January in the pages! Pick the number of pages or books you would like to read in January and post them below. The goal is to get the New Year started fast! Who would have thought that by hurrying up and sitting with a book, that you could do a marathon?
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2017
Message #7
✔ 1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
✔ 2. The Underground Railroad
✔ 3. Patron Saint of Liars
✔ 4. Rocket Boys
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QUARTERLY CHALLENGE: 2016 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNERSRead the winner in as many categories as you can, or if you prefer, you can also include the non-winning nominees in your list.
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2017
Message # 9
✔ 1. The Underground Railroad
✔ 2. Heartless
✔ 3. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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PERSONAL CHALLENGE: EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE1972:
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✔ 2010: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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✔ 2012: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
✔ 2013: Crown of Midnight
✔ 2014: Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
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✔ 2016: The Underground Railroad
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FEBRUARY MONTHLY CHALLENGE: SPANNING THE GLOBEIn keeping with our Around the World theme, let's travel through books! Set a goal for the number of miles or kilometers you plan to travel. With every book you read, choose the setting (or settings) and calculate how many miles there are between that point and the previous point using this calculator.
Rules:
- Only books based on this world count--sorry, no traveling to different galaxies. :)
- Use each setting in each book once; even if the characters travel back and forth, you can only count the setting for that book one time
- You may revisit the same setting in different books (for example, you may read two books that both take place in New York City)
- Use your best judgment on which settings in each book should be included; you should only be using primary settings
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2017
Message # 11
Starting location: Racine, WI
✔ 1. Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
• Racine, WI to Philadelphia, PA - 834 miles
• Philadelphia, PA to Sydney, Australia - 9881 miles
• Sydney, Australia to San Francisco, CA - 7432 miles
Total Miles: 18,147 miles
✔ 2. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
• San Francisco, CA to Kingsbridge, England - 5309 miles
• Kingsbridge, England to Berrick-upon-Tweed, England - 387 miles
Total Miles: 5,696 miles
✔ 3. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
• Berrick-upon-Tweed, England to Seattle, WA - 4511 miles
• Seattle, WA to Antarctica - 9593 miles
Total Miles: 14,104 miles
✔ 4. Daemon
• Antarctica to Thousand Oaks, CA - 8706 miles
• Thousand Oaks, CA to Houston, TX - 1407 miles
Total Miles: 10,113 miles
✔ 5. City of Women
• Houston, TX to Berlin, Germany - 5,330 miles
Total Miles: 5,330 miles
53,390/20,000 Miles - Complete
MARCH MONTHLY CHALLENGE: THE WOMAN IN THE BOOKThis month's theme is Women, and several members suggested challenges with prompts to read different kinds of books by and about women - this is a hybrid of those suggestions. There are a wide range of topics to help us broaden our horizons!
1. Read a book written by a female author that is new to you.
2. Read a book written by a female of color.
3. Read a nonfiction book written by a female author.
4. Read a biography (not a memoir) about a woman.
5. Read a book that is classified as “feminist.” (Can be fiction)
6. Read a book where a woman disguises herself as man.
7. Read a book where the woman in the story does not conform to gender norms.
8. Read a book about a woman/women during a time of war.
9. Read a book where the antagonist is a female.
10. Read a book with a woman's name in the title.
Choose a number of tasks to complete - you don't need to do all 10 - and post your goal here.
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2017
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QUARTERLY CHALLENGE: CLEAR ALL YOUR BOOKSHELVES CHALLENGEDuration: April 1, 2017 to June 30, 2017
This challenge is a way to clean out all of bookshelves: your physical, your electric, and your audible ones! The books you read for this challenge are books you that are already in your possession. Whatever you do for this challenge, you are not allowed to read a book obtained after April 1, 2017.
Message #27
Physical Books: 2
eBooks: 4
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Format: Link to book - Date Finished - Genre - Pages - Pub Year - Star Rating
1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - 1/7/17 - Nonfiction - 407 - 2010 - ★★★★☆
2. The Underground Railroad - 1/14/17 - Historical Fiction - 306 - 2016 - ★★★★☆
3. Patron Saint of Liars - 1/21/17 - Fiction - 402 - 1992 - ★★★☆☆
4. Rocket Boys - 1/26/17 - Nonfiction - 384 - 1998 - ★★★☆☆
5. Heartless - 1/29/17 - Fantasy - 450 - 2016 - ★★★★★
6. Glitter and Glue: A Memoir - 2/4/17 - Nonfiction - 224 - 2014 - ★★★☆☆
7. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - 2/7/17 - Fiction - 320 - 2012 - ★★★☆☆
8. Where'd You Go, Bernadette - 2/12/17 - Fiction - 351 - 2012 - ★★☆☆☆
9. Daemon - 2/19/17 - Science Fiction - 617 - 2006 - ★★★☆☆
10. City of Women - 2/21/17 - Historical Fiction - 448 - 2012 - ★★★★★
✘ Ashes - DNF
11. Crown of Midnight - 2/23/17 - Fantasy - 418 - 2013 - ★★★★★ - R
12. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend - 3/3/17 - Fiction - 458 - 2012 - ★★★☆☆
13. Flight Behavior - 3/5/17 - Fiction - 597 - 2012 - ★★★☆☆
14. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - 3/16/17 - Nonfiction - 432 - 2016 - ★★★☆☆
15. The Hobbit - 3/23/17 - Fantasy - 366 - 1937 - ★★★★☆
16. Island of Glass - 3/25/17 - Romance - 315 - 2016 - ★★★★★
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