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READ: 26/26
✔ A - Afterlight - Elle Jasper 9/6
✔ B - The Bird Eater - Ania Ahlborn 2/13
✔ C - Cold Vengeance - Douglas Preston 5/22
✔ D - Darkling - Yasmine Galenorn 7/11
✔ E - The Empire's Ghost - Isabelle Steiger 7/22/17
✔ F - Fever Dream - Douglas Preston 4/27
✔ G - The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey 4/4
✔ H - The House at Sea's End - Ruth Galloway 4/6
✔ I - In the Company of Vampires - Katie MacAlister 3/5
✔ J - Judas Kiss - J.T. Ellison 7/28
✔ K - Kinked - Thea Harrison 11/13
✔ L - The Legacy - Linda Lael Miller 3/27
✔ M - Midnight's Warrior - Donna Grant 7/20
✔ N - Never Look Back - Linda Lael Miller 5/30
✔ O - Once Upon a Marigold - Jean Ferris 3/25
✔ P - Phantom Shadows - Dianne Duvall 3/19
✔ Q - The Quiet Game - Greg Iles 5/20
✔ R - Rogue Wave - Boyd Morrison 3/4
✔ S - Some Like It Wild - Teresa Medeiros 3/13
✔ T - Tuesday's Child - Dale Mayer 2/18
✔ U - Unchained - Caris Roane 3/22
✔ V - Vampires Dead Ahead - Cheyenne McCray 12/5
✔ W - Wrayth - Pip Ballantine 3/21
✔ X - Sick Fux - Tillie Cole 12/30
✔ Y - Yours, Mine, and Ours - Mary Janice Davidson 2/19
✔ Z - The Zig Zag Girl - Elly Griffiths 12/25
CHALLENGE COMPLETE

READ: 26/26
✔ A - Dark Embers - Tessa Adams 3/24
✔ B - Lost Gods - Brom 7/1
✔ C - On What Grounds - Cleo Coyle 3/20
✔ D - Darkness Dawns - Dianne Duvall 1/25
✔ E - The Last Good Man - Kathleen Eagle 2/17
✔ F - Blue Monday - Nicci French 1/26
✔ G - Ravens - George Dawes Green 1/28
✔ H - Birdman - Mo Hayder 1/7
✔ I - Devoured by Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 7/24
✔ J - Stolen Songbird - Danielle Jensen 1/3
✔ K - The Order of Odd-Fish - James Kennedy 6/5
✔ L - Crow Lake - Mary Lawson 1/15
✔ M - Going Organic Can Kill You - Staci McLaughlin 6/2
✔ N - Concrete Savior - Yvonne Navarro 7/7
✔ O - Silenced - Kristina Ohlsson 3/30
✔ P - The Accidental Alchemist - Gigi Pandian
✔ Q -The Wicked Ways of Alexander Kidd - Paula Quinn 3/16
✔ R - Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly 2/4
✔ S - Out of the Easy - Ruta Sepetys 9/16
✔ T - The Immortals of Meluha - Amish Tripathi 1/15
✔ U - Into the Fire - Amanda Usen 12/28
✔ V - Spectacle - Rachel Vincent 6/14
✔ W - Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig 2/10
✔ X - A Killing Frost - Hannah Alexander 12/27
✔ Y - Bad Nights - Rebecca York 2/23
✔ Z - The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón 8/18
CHALLENGE COMPLETE

Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2017
New Authors: 108
[January]
1. Off Kilter - Hannah Reed 1/1 ★★★★
2. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood 1/2 ★★
3. Stolen Songbird - Danielle Jensen 1/3 ★★★★★
4. The Thrall's Tale - Judith Lindbergh 1/8 ★★
5. A Walk Across the Sun - Corban Addison 1/9 ★★★
6. The Edge of the World - Kevin Anderson 1/13 ★★
7. The Immortals of Meluha - Amish Tripathi 1/15 ★★★★
8. Crow Lake - Mary Lawson 1/15 ★★
9. Graced - Amanda Pillar 1/17 ★★★★
10. On the Growl - Celia Kyle 1/18 ★★★
11. Vicious - Kevin O'Brien 1/19 ★★★
12. Darkness Dawns - Dianne Duvall 1/25 ★★★★
13. Blue Monday - Nicci French 1/26 ★★★
14. Ravens - George Dawes Green 1/28 ★★
15. The Hawk and His Boy - Christopher Bunn 1/31 ★★
.[February]
1. Immortal - Traci L. Slatton 2/2 ★★
2. Lost - Alice Lichtenstein 2/4 ★★
3. Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig 2/10 ★
4. On the Accidental Wings of Dragons - Julie Wetzel 2/11 ★★★★
5. Sword of the Raven - Diana Duncan 2/12 ★★★★
6. The Bird Eater - Ania Ahlborn 2/13 ★★★
7. Tuesday's Child - Dale Mayer 2/18 ★★★★
8. The Edinburgh Dead - Brian Ruckley 2/23 ★★★
9. 2066 - Peter Brandt 2/23 ★★★
10. In Cold Pursuit - Sarah Andrews 2/24 ★★
11. Raising the Past - Jeremy Robinson 2/28 ★★
[March]
1. Dark Enchantment - Kathy Morgan 3/4 ★★★★
2. Rogue Wave - Boyd Morrison 3/4 ★★★
3. The Savage Altar - Åsa Larsson 3/4 ★★
4. Fish Perfume - Sammie Grace 3/6 ★★★★
5. Eaten - Susan Crockford 3/7 ★★★
6. The Never List - Koethi Zan 3/9 ★★★
7. Hot Pursuit - Kathryn Jensen 3/9 ★★★★
8. Buried in a Bog - Sheila Connolly 3/12 ★★★
9. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald 3/17 ★★★★
10. Swimming with the Dead - Kathy Brandt 3/18 ★★★
11. On What Grounds - Cleo Coyle 3/20 ★★★
12. Once Upon a Marigold - Jean Ferris 3/25 ★★★★
13. The Lazarus Machine - Paul Crilley 3/27 ★★★
14. The Accidental Alchemist - Gigi Pandian 3/28 ★★★
[April]
1. The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey 4/4 ★★★★
2. The North Water - Ian McGuire 4/10 ★★
3. The Girl with the Golden Gun - Ann Major 4/11 ★★★
4. The Scribe - Elizabeth Hunter 4/19 ★★★★
5. One Dog Night - David Rosenfelt 4/21 ★★★
6. The Conquest - Yxta Maya Murray 4/22 ★★
7. Haunted on Bourbon Street - Deanna Chase 4/26 ★★★★★
[May]
1. Ultraviolet - R.J. Anderson 5/6 ★★★★★
2. Chasing Payne - Chantel Seabrook 5/6 ★★★
3. Flora Segunda - Ysabeau S. Wilce 5/8 ★★★
4. The Woman Who Wouldn't Die - Colin Cotterill 5/14 ★★★★
5. The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade 5/16 ★★
6. The Madness of Mercury - Connie Di Marco 5/18 ★★★
7. Lethal Investments - K.O. Dahl 5/26 ★★★
[June]
1. Going Organic Can Kill You - Staci McLaughlin 6/2 ★★★
2. The Order of Odd-Fish - James Kennedy 6/5 ★★★
3. Havoc - Jack DuBrul 6/8 ★★★
4. Death Takes Priority - Jean Flowers 6/10 ★★★
5. Bella at Midnight - Diane Stanley 6/22 ★★★
6. Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma 6/24 ★★★★
7. Silent Auction - Jane Cleland 6/25 ★★★★
8. Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen 6/30 ★★★
[July]
1. Dark Roots and Cowboy Boots - Luann McLane 7/13 ★★
2. Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion 7/14 ★★★
3. A Catered St. Patrick's Day - Isis Crawford 7/14 ★★★
4. White Colander Crime - Victoria Hamilton 7/15 ★★★
5. The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Andrus Kivirähk 7/17 ★★★
6. Fatal Fixer-Upper - Jennie Bentley 7/17 ★★★★
7. The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King 7/18 ★★
8. The Empire's Ghost - Isabelle Steiger 7/22 ★★★
9. The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger 7/27 ★★
10. Heir to the Sky - Amanda Sun 7/29 ★★★★
[August]
1. Cancans, Croissants, and Caskets - Mary McHugh 8/7 ★★★
2. The Passage - Justin Cronin 8/8 ★★★
3. The Battle Sylph - L.J. McDonald 8/9 ★★★
4. Lick - Kylie Scott 8/10 ★★★
5. Blood of the Dark Moon - Adrianne Brennan 8/13 ★★
6. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón 8/18 ★★★
7. The Girl with Ghost Eyes - M.H. Boroson 8/18 ★★★★
8. Cowboy Town - Kasey Millstead 8/25 ★★★★
[September]
1. Spellbent - Lucy Snyder 9/5 ★★
2. Out of the Easy - Ruta Sepetys 9/16 ★★★
3. Happy Hour at Casa Dracula - Marta Acosta 9/18 ★★
4. Hour of the Rat - Lisa Brackmann 9/18 ★★
5. Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20 ★★★
6. Pirates! - Celia Rees 9/21 ★★★
7. Evil Harvest - Anthony Izzo 9/23 ★★
8. Year of the Hyenas - Brad Geagley 9/29 ★★★
[October]
1. Bite My Fire - Mary Hughes 10/14 ★★
2. Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor 10/17 ★★
3. Dorothy Must Die - Danielle Paige 10/19 ★★★★
4. Ukulele Murder - Leslie Langtry 10/23 ★★★
5. The Six-Gun Tarot - R.S. Belcher 10/25 ★
6. The Persian Always Meows Twice - Eileen Watkins 10/26 ★★★★
7. Burning The Map - Laura Caldwell 10/28 ★★★
[November]
1. Dolled Up to Die - Lorena McCourtney 11/6 ★★★
2. The Dragons Want Her - Angela Foxxe 11/9 ★★★
3. Forgive Me - Daniel Palmer 11/13 ★★★
4. The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley 11/18 ★★
5. How to Wash a Cat - Rebecca M. Hale 11/22 ★★★★
6. Lady of Devices - Shelley Adina 11/23 ★★★★
7. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25 ★★★★★
8. To Brie or Not To Brie - Avery Aames 11/27 ★★★
9. The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster - Scott Wilbanks 11/29 ★★★★
[December]
1. Of Grave Concern - Max McCoy 12/4 ★★★★
2. Red 1-2-3 - John Katzenbach 12/9 ★★
3. Dreadmarrow Thief - Marjory Kaptanoglu 12/9 ★★★★★
4. The NYC Werewolf: Tales, Book One - Bert Murray 12/12 ★★
5. Dead Dry - Sarah Andrews 12/13 ★
6. The Four Sworn: Spring Equinox - Lenore Sagaskie 12/15 ★★★
7. Origin Phase - RTW Lipkin 12/17 ★★★★
8. Death on Paradise Island - B.M. Allsopp 12/19 ★★★★
9. Not What You Seem - Lena Maye 12/21 ★★★★
10. The Dragon Caller - Pauline M. Ross 12/23 ★★★★★
11. Headstone - Ken Bruen 12/26 ★★★
12. A Killing Frost - Hannah Alexander 12/27 ★★★
13. Casting Spells - Barbara Bretton 12/28 ★★★★
14. Sick Fux - Tillie Cole 12/30 ★★★★★


March: Luck of the Irish
READ: 11/10
Read books set in Ireland, about Ireland, written by an Irish author or that contain characters with Irish names
✔1. Dark Enchantment - Kathy Morgan (Ireland and Fae) 3/4
✔2. St. Patrick's Day Murder - Leslie Meier (Irish name: Malone) 3/8
✔3. Irish Mist - Erin Quinn (Ireland) 3/10
✔4. Buried in a Bog - Sheila Connolly (Ireland) 3/12
✔5. Kiss Me, I'm Irish - Rozanne St Claire / Jill Shalvis / Maureen Child 3/22
✔6. Echoes in Death - J.D. Robb (Roarke) 3/29






Read books with green covers
✔1. Some Like It Wild - Teresa Medeiros 3/13

Spell-It-Out
✔G: The Accidental Alchemist - Gigi Pandian 3/28
✔O: One Fell Sweep - Ilona Andrews 3/31
✔L: The Lazarus Machine - Paul Crilley 3/27
✔D: Dark Embers - Tessa Adams 3/24




CHALLENGE COMPLETE


April Challenge
READ: 15/15
R: One Dog Night - David Rosenfelt 4/21
A: The Secret of the Nagas - Amish Tripathi 4/17
B: Books Can Be Deceiving - Jenn McKinlay 4/7
B: Born of Vengeance - Sherrilyn Kenyon 4/12
I: The North Water - Ian McGuire 4/10
T: Dead Sexy - Tate Hallaway 4/8
P: Fever Dream - Douglas Preston 4/27
O: One Fell Sweep - Ilona Andrews 4/1
L: Don't Look Now - Linda Lael Miller 4/2
K: Stuck In Shangri-La - Kasey Michaels 4/18
A: Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon - Nancy Atherton 4/22
D: Dragon of the Island - Mary Gillgannon 4/1
O: Once Upon Stilettos - Shanna Swendson 4/9
T: Tangled Threads - Jennifer Estep 4/20
S: Living on the Edge - Shannon Butcher 4/20
CHALLENGE COMPLETE


May Challenge
READ: 13/14
✔1. “April showers bring May flowers.”
Read a book with flowers or rain on the cover.
A Rose from the Dead - Kate Collins 5/17

✔2. “Be that as it may.”
Read a book that has an author whose name (first or last) that begins with “B”.
Silence Fallen - Patricia Briggs 5/1

✔3. “Cinco de Mayo.”
Read a book that is fifth in a series, or has five words or letters in the title.
Night Unbound - Dianne Duvall 5/20

✔4. “Devil-may-care attitude.”
Read a book where the protagonist has this attitude.
(i.e. Heedless of caution; reckless. Jovial and rakish in manner.)
Shadow's Seduction - Kresley Cole 5/18

✔5. “He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day.”
where the protagonist is a professional fighter or gets in a fight
Cold Vengeance - Douglas Preston 5/22

✔6. “If I may be so bold...”
Reader’s Choice.
Dirty Magic - Jaye Wells 5/23

✔7. “I may be crazy, but...”
Read a book where the protagonist gets “Gaslighted”... or a little crazy, paranoid, spooked, or rattled.
White Heat - Jill Shalvis 5/2

✔8. Mae West.
Read a book with a black & white cover
Seduced by the Storm - Sydney Croft 5/9

✔9. “May Day!”
Read a book that is first in a series.
Flora Segunda - Ysabeau S. Wilce 5/8

✔10. “May he rest in peace.”
Read a book with ghosts.
The Shadowy Horses - Susanna Kearsley 5/11

✔11. “May I count on you?”
Read a book with a number in the title
15th Affair - James Patterson 5/12

✔12. “Maybe, maybe not.”
Read a book that you’ve been pondering for awhile.
The Quiet Game - Greg Iles 5/20

13. “Mayday! Mayday!”
Read a book where the protagonist works as some type of emergency personnel: fireman.
Blue Flame - Jill Shalvis

✔14. “Things may look good on the surface...”
Read a book with an attractive cover.
The Wild Irish Sea - Loucinda McGary 5/29



June Challenge
READ: 6/6
The Duke of York, Prince Andrew
✔A: Archangel's Heart - Nalini Singh 6/17
✔N: Nevernight - Jay Kristoff 6/20
✔D: Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris 6/26
✔R: Spectacle - Rachel Vincent 6/14
✔E: An English Bride In Scotland - Lynsay Sands 6/19
✔W: Wonderment in Death" from Down the Rabbit Hole - J.D. Robb 6/10






CHALLENGE COMPLETE


July Challenge
READ: 7/7
✔F: Fireproof - Alex Kava 7/6
✔I: Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion 7/14
✔R: Ash and Quill - Rachel Caine 7/26
✔E: The Empire's Ghost - Isabelle Steiger 7/22




✔I: A Catered St. Patrick's Day - Isis Crawford 7/14
✔C: Concrete Savior - Yvonne Navarro 7/7
✔E: Judas Kiss - J.T. Ellison 7/28



CHALLENGE COMPLETE


August Challenge
READ: 11/11
✔B: Blood of the Dark Moon - Adrianne Brennan 8/13
✔E: Spider’s Revenge - Jennifer Estep 8/3
✔A: Night Shift - N. Singh/I. Andrews/L. Shearin/M. Vane 8/12
✔T: Straight from the Heart - Tami Hoag 8/5
✔T: The Oath of the Vayuputras - Amish Tripathi 8/22
✔H: Hounding the Pavement - Judi McCoy 8/15
✔E: Eternal Hunger - Cameron Dean 8/3
✔H: The Harder You Fall - Gena Showalter 8/31
✔E: A Dying Fall - Elly Griffiths 8/6
✔A: Bound By Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 8/11
✔T: Natural Evil - Thea Harrison 8/17











CHALLENGE COMPLETE


September Challenge
READ: 6/6
Pirate
P: Crimson Shore - Douglas Preston 9/19
I: Fear the Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 9/28
R: Pirates! - Celia Rees 9/21
A: Afterlight - Elle Jasper 9/6
T: Forbidden Embers - Tessa Adams 9/11
E: The End Game - Catherine Coulter 9/14








October Challenge
READ: 9/9
✔S: The Six-Gun Tarot - R.S. Belcher 10/25
✔C: Burning The Map - Laura Caldwell 10/28
✔R: White Trash Zombie Unchained - Diana Rowland 10/7
✔E: The Persian Always Meows Twice - Eileen Watkins 10/26
✔A: Brother - Ania Ahlborn 10/28
✔M: Midnight's Captive - Donna Grant 10/12






✔B: Blind Faith - Rebecca Zanetti 10/16
✔O: Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor 10/17
✔O: The Outcast Dead - Elly Griffiths 10/30



CHALLENGE COMPLETE


November Challenge
READ: 7/7
✔A: The Dragons Want Her - Angela Foxxe 11/9
✔M: Dolled Up to Die - Lorena McCourtney 11/6
✔N: No Rest for the Dead - Andrew Gulli 11/20
✔E: Echoes of Ice - Boone Brux 11/26
✔S: Secrets in Death - J.D. Robb 11/3
✔I: Darkness Avenged - Alexandra Ivy 11/9
✔A: To Brie or Not To Brie - Avery Aames 11/27







CHALLENGE COMPLETE


December Challenge
READ: 9/9
✔C: Vampires Dead Ahead - Cheyenne McCray 12/5
✔H: Her Own Devices - Shelly Adina 12/7
✔R: Red 1-2-3 - John Katzenbach 12/9
✔I: Intensity - Sherrilyn Kenyon 12/9
✔S: Silver Silence - Nalini Singh 12/13
✔T: Terrier - Tamora Pierce 12/23
✔M: Mind Game - Iris Johansen 12/11
✔A: Dead Dry - Sarah Andrews 12/13
✔S: How to Seduce a Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks 12/14









CHALLENGE COMPLETE

Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2017
READ: 28/45
✔1. 14 - J.T. Ellison 3/30
2. 18 Seconds - George D. Shuman
3. Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb
✔ 4. Blood of the Dark Moon - Adrianne Brennan 8/13
5. The Calling - Inger Ash Wolfe
✔6. Cemetery Dance - Douglas Preston 3/23
✔ 7. Changeling - Yasmine Galenorn 5/11
✔8. Darkling - Yasmine Galenorn 7/11
✔ 9. Daughter of the Blood - Ann Bishop 1/22
10. Deerskin - Robin McKinley










11. Demon Mistress - Yasmine Galenorn
✔12. Don't Look Now - Linda Lael Miller 4/2
✔ 13. Dragon Wytch - Yasmine Galenorn 12/3
✔ 14. The Edge of the World - Kevin Anderson 1/13
✔ 15. Eternal Hunger - Cameron Dean 8/3
16. The Experiment - John Darnton
✔ 17. Flora Segunda - Ysabeau S. Wilce 5/8
✔ 18. Fruitcake - R.J. Kaiser 5/4
19. Heir to Sevenwaters - Juliet Marillier
20. The Hollow Hills - Mary Stewart










21. The Invisible Ring - Ann Bishop
✔ 22. I Think I Love You - Stephanie Bond 1/14
✔ 23. Judas Kiss - J.T. Ellison 7/28
✔ 24. The Lady in Question - Victoria Alexander 2/25
25. The Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart
26. Luscious Craving - Cameron Dean
✔ 27. The Memorist - M.J. Rose 1/29
✔ 28. The Murder of King Tut - James Patterson 2/10
✔ 29. The Naked Duke - Sally MacKenzie 12/16
✔ 30. Never Look Back - Linda Lael Miller 5/30










31. Night Huntress - Yasmine Galenorn
✔ 32. Once Upon Stilettos - Shanna Swendson 4/9
✔33. Our Husband - Stephanie Bond 7/19
✔ 34. Out of the Mist - JoAnn Ross 9/13
✔ 35. The Quiet Game - Greg Iles 5/20
36. Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb
✔ 37. Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly 2/4
38. Seduced By Your Spell - Lois Greiman
39. The Shadow Queen - Ann Bishop
✔ 40. She'll Never Live - Hunter Morgan 10/14










✔ 41. Some Like It Wild - Teresa Medeiros 3/13
✔ 42. Spellbent - Lucy Snyder 9/5
✔ 43. Steal the Dragon - Patricia Briggs 9/30
44. Tangled Webs - Ann Bishop
45. The Wicked Day - Mary Stewart






Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2017
Option 2: Life gives you Lemons Themed Books - books with yellow covers
READ: 11/11
✔1. The Curse of Tenth Grave - Darynda Jones 1/11
✔2. Vicious - Kevin O'Brien 1/19
✔3. The Murder of King Tut - James Patterson 2/10
✔4. Lucky Bastard - Deborah Coonts 6/7
✔5. Three Sisters - Susan Mallery 2/4
✔6. The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey 4/4
✔7. The Cat Who Said Cheese - Lillian Jackson Braun 4/5
✔8. Year of the Hyenas - Brad Geagley 9/29
✔9. Foul Play - Janet Evanovich 10/21
✔10. Burning The Map - Laura Caldwell 10/28
✔11. Sacred Cows - Karen E. Olson 5/23











Option 3: Life gives you Lemons Spell-it-Out
TERMS: 22/26
LETTERS: 212/216
✔1. Adventurous
A: Daughter of the Blood - Ann Bishop 1/22
D: Me, Myself and Why? - Mary Janice Davidson 1/1
V: Spectacle - Rachel Vincent 6/14
E: Some Like It Scot - Suzanne Enoch 1/8
N: Nautier and Wilder - Lora Leigh 1/23
T: The Thrall's Tale - Judith Lindbergh 1/8
U: Unchained - Caris Roane 3/22
R: Ravens - George Dawes Green 1/28
O: Off Kilter - Hannah Reed 1/1
U: Ultraviolet - R.J. Anderson 5/6
S: Stolen Songbird - Danielle Jensen 1/3
✔2. Big Bird
B: Birdman - Mo Hayder 1/7
I: I Think I Love You - Stephanie Bond 1/14
G: Midnight's Master - Donna Grant 1/28
B: The Beekeeper's Ball - Susan Wiggs 1/12
I: The Immortals of Meluha - Amish Tripathi 1/15
R: The Memorist - M.J. Rose 1/29
D: Darkness Dawns - Dianne Duvall 1/25
✔3. Canary
C: The Chocolate Pirate Plot - JoAnna Carl 1/7
A: A Walk Across the Sun - Corban Addison 1/9
N: Blue Monday - Nicci French 1/26
A: The Bird Eater - Ania Ahlborn 2/13
R: Rogue - Katy Evans 2/2
Y: Sword of the Rightful King - Jane Yolen 1/17
✔4. Dazzling
D: Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris 1/26
A: Die Like an Eagle - Donna Andrews 5/21
Z: The Never List - Koethi Zan 3/9
Z: Blind Faith - Rebecca Zanetti 10/16
L: The Lost Key - Catherine Coulter 1/23
I: In the Company of Vampires - Katie MacAlister 3/5
N: Nothing Gold Can Stay - Dana Stabenow 3/11
G: Fish Perfume - Sammie Grace 3/6
✔5. Exquisite
E: The Edge of the World - Kevin Anderson 1/13
X: Fire Dancer - Ann Maxwell 8/24
Q: The Wicked Ways of Alexander Kidd - Paula Quinn 3/16
U: Into the Fire - Amanda Usen 12/28
I: The Cannibals - Iain Lawrence 1/5
S: Seduced by the Storm - Sydney Croft 5/9
I: Immortal - Traci L. Slatton 2/2
T: Storm's Heart - Thea Harrison 1/30
E: The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths 4/6
✔6. Fortunate
F: The Final Cut - Catherine Coulter 1/5
O: Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood 1/2
R: Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly 2/4
T: Tick Tock - James Patterson 2/5
U:The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella 6/3
N: Night Reigns - Dianne Duvall 2/11
A: Lost - Alice Lichtenstein 2/4
T: Tuesday's Child - Dale Mayer 2/18
E: Venom - Jennifer Estep 1/21
✔7. Glowing
G: Graced - Amanda Pillar 1/17
L: Crow Lake - Mary Lawson 1/15
O: On the Growl - Celia Kyle 1/18
W: White Lion's Lady - Tina St. John 2/22
I: In Cold Pursuit - Sarah Andrews 2/24
N: Clash - Nicole Williams 2/25
G: The Accidental Alchemist - Gigi Pandian 3/28
✔8. Harmonious
H: Dead Ice - Laurell K. Hamilton 2/21
A: The Lady in Question - Victoria Alexander 2/25
R: Raising the Past - Jeremy Robinson 2/28
M: Finding Perfect - Susan Mallery 3/2
O: Omens - Kelley Armstrong 1/28
N: Aunt Dimity, Vampire Hunter - Nancy Atherton 3/26
I: Beyond the Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 3/25
O: Offside - Juliana Stone 1/29
U: Ukulele Murder - Leslie Langtry 10/23
S: Stuck In Shangri-La - Kasey Michaels 4/18

✔9. Invincible
I: One Fell Sweep - Ilona Andrews 4/1
N: Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon - Nancy Atherton 4/22
V: The Covert Wolf - Bonnie Vanak 2/9
I: The North Water - Ian McGuire 4/10
N: Night Unbound - Dianne Duvall 5/20
C: The Hawk and His Boy - Christopher Bunn 1/31
I: The Quiet Game - Greg Iles 5/20
B: Buried in a Bog - Sheila Connolly 3/12
L: The Legacy - Linda Lael Miller 3/27
E: Eleventh Grave in Moonlight - Darynda Jones 2/6
✔10. Judicious
J: Books Can Be Deceiving - Jenn McKinlay 4/7
U: The Red Hunter - Lisa Unger 4/12
D: Dark Enchantment - Kathy Morgan 3/4
I: The Immortals - J.T. Ellison 6/19
C: Coming Home - Mariah Stewart 4/17
I: Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion 7/14
O: One Kick - Chelsea Cain 3/4
U: Unlucky - Jana DeLeon 7/12
S: Starting Now - Debbie Macomber 6/12
✔11. Keen
K: Kiss Me, I'm Irish - Roxanne St Claire / Jill Shalvis / Maureen Child 3/22
E: Eaten - Susan Crockford 3/7
E: Echoes in Death - J.D. Robb 3/29
N: Never Look Back - Linda Lael Miller 5/30
✔12. Lemon
L: The Lazarus Machine - Paul Crilley 3/27
E: 14 - J.T. Ellison 3/30
M: Some Like It Wild - Teresa Medeiros 3/13
O: On the Accidental Wings of Dragons - Julie Wetzel 2/11
N: Archangel's Heart - Nalini Singh 6/17
✔13. Magnificent
M: You and I, Me and You - Mary Janice Davidson 4/13
A: Dark Embers - Tessa Adams 3/24
G: Dragon of the Island - Mary Gillgannon 4/1
N: No Man's Land - David Baldacci 7/9
I: A Catered St. Patrick's Day - Isis Crawford 7/14
F: Fair Game - Jasmine Haynes 1/21
I: Bound By Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 8/11
C: The Conquest - Yxta Maya Murray 4/22
E: The Edinburgh Dead - Brian Ruckley 2/23
N: Concrete Savior - Yvonne Navarro 7/7
T: Time Thief - Katie MacAlister 2/24
✔14. Noble
N: Nevernight - Jay Kristoff 6/20
O: On Her Father's Grave - Kendra Elliott 2/27
B: Wrayth - Pip Ballantine 3/21
L: Living on the Edge - Shannon Butcher 4/20
E: The Last Good Man - Kathleen Eagle 2/17
✔15. Outstanding
O: Once a Cavalier - Linda O. Johnston 3/16
U: Unloved - Katy Regnery 9/3
T: 2066 - Peter Brandt 2/23
S: The Shadowy Horses - Susanna Kearsley 5/11
T: When a Scot Ties the Knot - Tessa Dare 4/12
A: The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Andrus Kivirähk 7/17
N: Night Shift - N. Singh/I. Andrews/L. Shearin/M. Vane 8/12
D: Desert God - Wilbur Smith 2/4
I: In Stone's Clasp - Christie Golden 11/6
N: Golden Age and Other Stories - Naomi Novik 10/9
G: The Girl with the Golden Gun - Ann Major 4/11
✔16. Prompt
P: Phantom Shadows - Dianne Duvall 3/19
R: Chains of Darkness - Caris Roane 2/27
O: On What Grounds - Cleo Coyle 3/20
M: The Striker - Monica McCarty 4/15
P: Cemetery Dance - Douglas Preston 3/23
T: Serpent's Kiss - Thea Harrison 4/22
✔17. Qualified
Q: Spirit Woman - Zara Quentin 8/27
U: Five - Ursula Poznanski 10/8
A: Blood of the Dark Moon - Adrianne Brennan 8/13
L: Lethal Investments - K.O. Dahl 5/26
I: Darkness Avenged - Alexandra Ivy 11/9
F: Fever Dream - Douglas Preston 4/27
I: Intensity - Sherrilyn Kenyon 12/9
E: The Scribe - Elizabeth Hunter 4/19
D: Dearly Depotted - Kate Collins 4/3

✔18. Remarkable
R: One Dog Night - David Rosenfelt 4/21
E: A Room Full of Bones - Elly Griffiths 5/4
M: Murder Under a Mystic Moon - Yasmine Galenorn 4/12
A: Hotwire - Alex Kava 4/29
R: Bad Nights - Rebecca York 2/23
K: Cold Plague - Daniel Kalla 2/27
A: Acts of Violets - Kate Collins 6/11
B: Born of Vengeance - Sherrilyn Kenyon 4/12
L: The Luckiest Lady in London - Sherry Thomas 4/23
E: Tangled Threads - Jennifer Estep 4/20
✔19. Splendiferous
S: The Storm - Clive Cussler 2/15
P: Harbinger - Pip Ballantine 4/25
L: Don't Look Now - Linda Lael Miller 4/2
E: Full Scoop -Janet Evanovich 5/6
N: No Rest for the Dead - Andrew Gulli 11/20
D: The Burning Wire - Jeffrey Deaver 2/18
I: Immune - Shannon Mayer 12/30
F: Fruitcake - R.J. Kaiser 5/4
E: Barely a Lady - Eileen Dreyer 5/13
R: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald 3/17
O: Once Upon Stilettos - Shanna Swendson 4/9
U: Five - Ursula Poznanski 10/8
S: So Sure Of Death - Dana Stabenow 2/16
✔20. Transcend
T: The Secret of the Nagas - Amish Tripathi 4/17
R: Red Velvet Cupcake Murder - Joanne Fluke 5/9
A: Allegiance - Susanna Sandlin 3/17
N: Silver Silence - Nalini Singh 12/13
S: Swimming with the Dead - Kathy Brandt 3/18
C: The Chase - Clive Cussler 2/7
E: An English Bride In Scotland - Lynsay Sands 6/19
N: The Naked Duke - Sally MacKenzie 12/16
D: Darkness Rises - Dianne Duvall 4/20
✔21. Unfetter
U: Under Oath - Margaret McLean 10/12
N: The Perfect Liar - Brenda Novak 7/23
F: Flora Segunda - Ysabeau S. Wilce 5/8
E: The Empire's Ghost - Isabelle Steiger 7/22
T: Dead Sexy - Tate Hallaway 4/8
T: Two Graves - Douglas Preston 6/24
E: Eternal Hunger - Cameron Dean 8/3
R: Rogue Wave - Boyd Morrison 3/4
✔22. Versatile
V: The Valcourt Heiress - Catherine Coulter 6/18
E: Spider’s Revenge - Jennifer Estep 8/3
R: A Rose from the Dead - Kate Collins 5/17
S: Sword of the Raven - Diana Duncan 2/12
A: All That Bleeds - Kimberly Frost 6/15
T: Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma 6/24
I: I Know a Secret - Tess Gerritsen 4/2
L: The Wild Irish Sea - Loucinda McGary 5/29
E: A Dying Fall - Elly Griffiths 8/6
✔23. Worthwhile
W: Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig 2/10
O: Once Upon a Marigold - Jean Ferris 3/25
R: Betrayed - Rebecca York 3/23
T: Lord's Fall - Thea Harrison 7/4
H: When Maidens Mourn - C.S. Harris 3/14
W: The Woman Who Wouldn't Die - Colin Cotterill 5/14
H: Hot Pursuit - Kathryn Jensen 3/9
I: Island of Glass - Nora Roberts 3/23
L: Midnight Rainbow - Linda Howard 5/13
E: So Close the Hand of Death - J.T. Ellison 8/29
✔24. Xanthophyll
X: Paradox - Catherine Coulter 8/22
A: Melting into You - Tracey Alvarez 6/30
N: Not What You Seem - Lena Maye 12/21
T: The Oath of the Vayuputras - Amish Tripathi 8/22
H: Haunted on Bourbon Street - Deanna Chase 4/26
O: Silenced - Kristina Ohlsson 3/30
P: The Preacher - Camilla Läckberg 5/31
H: Havoc - Jack DuBrul 6/8
Y: A Harvest of Bones - Yasmine Galenorn 2/8
L: The Savage Altar - Åsa Larsson 3/4
L: St. Patrick's Day Murder - Leslie Meier 3/8
✔25. Yippee
Y: Yours, Mine, and Ours - Mary Janice Davidson 2/19
I: In the Shadow of the Gods - Rachel Dunne 1/13
P: Cold Vengeance - Douglas Preston 5/22
P: 15th Affair - James Patterson 5/12
E: Where All the Dead Lie - J.T. Ellison 10/2
E: The Wrong Hostage - Elizabeth Lowell 10/12
✔ 26. Zest
Z: The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón 8/18
E: The Outcast Dead - Elly Griffiths 10/30
S: Better To Rest - Dana Stabenow 4/15
T: Hidden Embers - Tessa Adams 8/8
CHALLENGE COMPLETE

READ: 50/50
✔Alabama - Allegiance - Susanna Sandlin 3/17
✔Alaska - Better To Rest - Dana Stabenow 4/15
✔Arizona - Don't Look Now - Linda Lael Miller 4/2
✔Arkansas - The Bird Eater - Ania Ahlborn 2/13
✔California - The Madness of Mercury - Connie Di Marco 5/18
✔Colorado - All That Bleeds - Kimberly Frost 6/15
✔Connecticut - Books Can Be Deceiving - Jenn McKinlay 4/7
✔Delaware - She'll Never Live - Hunter Morgan 10/14
✔Florida - The Scent of Jasmine - Jude Devereau 6/11
✔Georgia - Afterlight - Elle Jasper 9/6
✔Hawaii - Rogue Wave - Boyd Morrison 3/4
✔Idaho - Almost Like Being in Love - Christina Dodd 12/31
✔Illinois - Concrete Savior - Yvonne Navarro 7/7
✔Indiana - Dearly Depotted - Kate Collins 4/3
✔Iowa - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald 3/17/17
✔Kansas - The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster - Scott Wilbanks 11/29
✔Kentucky - Dark Roots and Cowboy Boots -Luann McLane 7/13
✔Louisiana - Malevolent - Jana DeLeon 12/16
✔Maine - Fatal Fixer-Upper - Jennie Bentley 7/17
✔Maryland - Bad Nights - Rebecca York 2/23
✔Massachusetts - A Case of Need - Michael Crichton 3/11
✔Michigan - The Chocolate Pirate Plot - JoAnna Carl 1/7
✔Minnesota - Me, Myself and Why? - Mary Janice Davidson 1/1
✔Mississippi - The Quiet Game - Greg Iles 5/20
✔Missouri - A Killing Frost - Hannah Alexander 12/27
✔Montana - Lions, Tigers, and Sexy Bears Oh My! - Candace Havens 6/17
✔Nebraska - Hotwire - Alex Kava 4/29
✔Nevada - Lucky Bastard - Deborah Coonts 6/7
✔New Hampshire - Silent Auction - Jane K. Cleland 6/25
✔New Jersey - One Dog Night - David Rosenfelt 4/21
✔New Mexico - The Curse of Tenth Grave - Darynda Jones 1/11
✔New York - On What Grounds - Cleo Coyle 3/20
✔North Carolina - I Think I Love You - Stephanie Bond 1/14
✔North Dakota - Immune - Shannon Mayer 12/30
✔Ohio - Spellbent - Lucy Snyder 9/5
✔Oklahoma - The Harder You Fall - Gena Showalter 8/31
✔Oregon - The Accidental Alchemist - Gigi Pandian 3/28
✔Pennsylvania - Stuck In Shangri-La - Kasey Michaels 4/18
✔Rhode Island - Fish Perfume - Sammie Grace 3/6
✔South Carolina - Full Scoop -Janet Evanovich 5/6
✔South Dakota - Forbidden Embers - Tessa Adams 9/11
✔Tennessee - 14 - J.T. Ellison 3/30
✔Texas - One Lucky Cowboy - Carolyn Brown 5/28
✔Utah - Dead Dry - Sarah Andrews 12/13
✔Vermont - Casting Spells - Barbara Bretton 12/28
✔Virginia - Die Like an Eagle - Donna Andrews 5/21
✔Washington - Changeling - Yasmine Galenorn 5/11
✔West Virginia - Brother - Ania Ahlborn 10/28
✔Wisconsin - Dead Sexy - Tate Hallaway 4/8
✔Wyoming - The Last Good Man - Kathleen Eagle 2/17

Start Date: February 1, 2017
End Date: June 28, 2017
Option 3: Monkey See...Monkey Do Spell-it-Out
Treasury : 25+ books
54/54 Complete
A: The Savage Altar - Åsa Larsson 3/4
M: The Legacy - Linda Lael Miller 3/27
U: Unchained - Caris Roane 3/22
S: Swimming with the Dead - Kathy Brandt 3/18
E: Echoes in Death - J.D. Robb 3/29
M: Finding Perfect - Susan Mallery 3/2
E: 14 - J.T. Ellison 3/30
N: Nothing Gold Can Stay - Dana Stabenow 3/11
T: Some Like It Wild - Teresa Medeiros 3/13
P: The Wicked Ways of Alexander Kidd - Paula Quinn 3/16
A: Allegiance - Susanna Sandlin 3/17
R: Rogue Wave - Boyd Morrison 3/4
K: Silenced - Kristina Ohlsson 3/30
P: Phantom Shadows - Dianne Duvall 3/19
E: The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths 4/6
T: Dead Sexy - Tate Hallaway 4/8
T: The Secret of the Nagas - Amish Tripathi 4/17
I: In the Company of Vampires - Katie MacAlister 3/5
N: The North Water - Ian McGuire 4/10
G: The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey 4/4
Z: The Never List - Koethi Zan 3/9
O: One Kick - Chelsea Cain 3/4
O: Once a Cavalier - Linda O. Johnston 3/16
B: Born of Vengeance - Sherrilyn Kenyon 4/12
O: One Fell Sweep - Ilona Andrews 4/1
A: Beyond the Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 3/25
T: Serpent's Kiss - Thea Harrison 4/22
S: Stuck In Shangri-La - Kasey Michaels 4/18
H: Haunted on Bourbon Street - Deanna Chase 4/26
O: Once Upon Stilettos - Shanna Swendson 4/9
W: When a Scot Ties the Knot - Tessa Dare 4/12
P: Fever Dream - Douglas Preston 4/27
H: Hotwire - Alex Kava 4/29
O: The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade 5/16
N: Nevernight - Jay Kristoff 6/20
I: The Immortals - J.T. Ellison 6/19
C: The Conquest - Yxta Maya Murray 4/22
S: Better To Rest - Dana Stabenow 4/15
H: Harbinger - Pip Ballantine 4/25
O: One Dog Night - David Rosenfelt 4/21
O: One Night in Scotland - Karen Hawkins 6/3
R: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald 3/17
A: Aunt Dimity, Vampire Hunter - Nancy Atherton 3/26
Y: You and I, Me and You - Mary Janice Davidson 4/13
L: The Luckiest Lady in London - Sherry Thomas 4/23
A: Dark Embers - Tessa Adams 3/24
U: The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella 6/3
N: Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon - Nancy Atherton 4/22
D: Darkness Rises - Dianne Duvall 4/20
R: Spectacle - Rachel Vincent 6/14
O: One Last Look - Linda Lael Miller 6/28
M: The Girl with the Golden Gun - Ann Major 4/11
A: The Accidental Alchemist - Gigi Pandian 3/28
T: Tangled Threads - Jennifer Estep 4/20
CHALLENGE COMPLETE

Start Date: February 1, 2017
End Date: June 10, 2017
FOUND 157/121+

Curious - I'm curious, I say, p117
Magnetic - confident of this magnetic electric pull, p119
Rocket - aha, you're rocket, p116

Carrot - he had carrot red hair, p17
Dinosaur - dinosaurs, Killian thought, p168

Ramadan - the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, p9

Maze - or else we'll be lost in the maze, p568

Animals - people were just like animals, p2
Circus - it's a muted circus, p188
Dictionary - she kept a dictionary and a wooden file box, p88
Donut - how'd he forget the doughnuts, p27
Farm - he went through farm help like Dixie cups, p33
Fishing - his perfect vacation was hours of fishing, p31
Library - she covered downtown, the Cup, the Library, p37
Opposite - and get this is the opposite, p56
Pancakes - she found the pancakes scorched and steaming, p83
Puppy - a puppy would be too stimulating, p235.
Tool - the tools were in the box, p180
Train - he had dreams of being on a train, p19
Zoo - a cage in a zoo, p135

Apple - mingled with the fragrant cinnamon and apples, p11
Baby - a well-baby visit, p57
Beach - they were on the beach, p19
Bike - a girl's bike leaned against the porch, p7
Birthday - her birthday-cake scented shower wash, p45
Bowling - we're bowling and there's dinner, p211
Cake - a bouquet of flowers next to a cake, p57
Christmas - an entire display of yarn for Christmas, p82
City - packed up her place in the city, p9
Costume - a costume party at Halloween, p72
Dentist - offered a job with a dentist, p65
Garden - even its garden was more traditionally English, p7
Germs - and get their germs, p69
Good Night - I'm pretty tired he told her. Good night, p204
Holidays - anyone looking to knit a sweater for the holidays, p83
Ice Cream - the ice cream colors, p7
Lemonade - I'll have cookies next time and lemonade, p108
Maple Syrup - covered in maple syrup, p218
Rainbow - staring at the pastel rainbow of silk, p200
Recycling - bottles filled the recycling bin, p273
Seasons - heralded the coming seasons, p83
Seed - planted most of her garden directly with seeds, p35
Sleepover - Deanna had agreed to a sleepover, p156
Space - just an empty space, p9

Camping - he called it urban camping, p244
Car Wash - as the car wash spat him back out, p175
Firefighter - dozens of firefighters and cops, p74
First - until the first of August, p18
George - the guy's name was George Metesky, p107
Hospital - we're at the hospital, p78
Mini Golf - Seamus took the peewees to miniature golf, p284
Rides - taking Mary Catherine on all the rides, p153
St. Patrick's Day - this is St. Patrick's Day in July, p207
Toy Store - Fao Schwartz, the famous toy store, p171

Ballet - more graceful than a ballet dancer, p53
Bunny - I checked my bugs bunny watch, p52
Flies - he thinks they're flies, p196
Halloween - Halloween hit and run, p14
Hat - he tipped an invisible hat, p53
Haunted - he thinks the place is haunted, p11
School - I also shared well in school, p257
Table - drawing my attention to a table, p214


Anniversary - they're throwing us an anniversary party, p448
Railroad - belonging to the president of the railroad, p18
Station - we should make the station in about an hour, p402
Tales - played Tales from the Vienna Woods, p138
Waves - the waves surged in from the middle of the lake, p421
Wisdom - an inner wisdom made him suspicious, p169
Yellow - not the prized yellow metal, p13

Chocolate - baked two batches of frozen chocolate chip cookies, p165
Gymnastics - Kip just started gymnastics, p29
Harvest - we're having a harvest dance, p339
Hiking - Jonathan was hiking down to the water, p210
Movie - may I go to a movie tomorrow afternoon, p57
Nap - I need a nap, p182
Parade - now their webs stretched in a parade, p12
Party - your party awaits, p398
Tree - trees, barren and bleak, 143
Visit - spirits rise to visit their loved ones, p98

Senses - sounds assaulting his senses, p14

Monkey - I've never had sex with a circus monkey before, p80
Pinata - like kids on a pinata, p55

Pennies - a thousand mud bricks for just ten pennies, p59

Thanksgiving - the weird cousin no one wanted to invite to Thanksgiving, p120

Adventure - made this little adventure look like a cake walk, p31
Dream - he used to dream he was a dragon, p42
Lost - I'll deal with it if he's lost, p40
Thank you - I'm sorry, thank you and you're welcome, p30

Aquarium - jelly fish she'd see in coastal aquariums, p67
Baseball - stared down at the baseball bat, p30
Home - no she'd go home, p29
Ocean - drove himself through the chilly ocean, p195
Police station - assisted her in the police station, p81
Roller coaster - while riding a roller coaster, p21
Sweet - pretend to kiss me all sweet and tender, p172

Bigger - moving the little kids to a bigger building, p104
Homerun - like an improptu homerun, p174
Plumber - the kind of plumber or mechanic, p126

Airport - ten minutes from the airport, p46
Beach - on the march from the beach to the huts, p354
Counting - a disaster counting its victims in the millions, p408
Factory - to destroy the factory, p453
Medal - show us your Egyptian medal, 451
Rain - rain in the desert, p343
Restaurant - a cab pulled up to the restaurant, p455
Smaller - maneuvering in smaller increments, p314
Soccer - played soccer in an amateur league, p47
Stars - once the stars came out

Dump Truck - a dump truck, a front end loader, p104
Fire - the man feeding the fire, p160
Found - found an otter charm, p98
Happy - he was fine, he sounded happy, p175
Snow - taxiways were clear of snow before the runways, p105

Bake - did you bake these yourself, p54
Banana - Savannah banana, he called her, p156
Day - he could fit into his day, p283
Delivery - driver of a produce delivery truck, p22
Feed - she'll clean up and feed up real nice, p83
Job - I started getting a lot of jobs, p156
Paws - had grown into his paws, p29
Race - I don't need to race the trucks, p267
Shine - you've taken a shine to these old horses, p274
Silly - the hell with her silly ideas, p281
Snowy - and wagged her snowy head, p162
Surprise - she turned the surprise on him, p36
Winter - you get winter kill, p265

Complete - to complete the picture of doom, p5
Librarian - from the librarian he met a couple days ago, p202
Plant - she'd do well with plants, p78
Sun - the sun had lost most of its heat, p76
Team - one of my team is running his background, p188
Trip - the trip into Portland, p9


Sticky - my hair was sticky, p16

Nursery - they looked like the Jack Sprat nursery rhyme, p54
Rescue - the princess didn't get to rescue herself, p121
Three - made me add between three and five years to his age, p4

Discovery - the discovery inbued him with sudden vigour, p51
Kite - the fine act of making kites, p79

Igloo - underground domed igloo-style homes, p11
Pizza - we used to go out for pizza, p27

Windy - damned windy place, p51

Bookstore - who worked in a secondhand bookstore, p87

Growth - microclimate here's congruous to such growth, p188
Honeybees - like a daffodil draws honeybees, p109

Valentine's Day - Ian and I got married on Valentine's Day, p317

Newspaper - on behalf of the public and my newspaper, p123
Sledding - families take to local sledding hills, p34

Treasury - greatly benefited the royal treasury, p199

Alphabet - enough for all the letters of the alphabet, p43

Easter - planning to meet up in the Easter holidays, p38

Hot Air Balloon - hopped up higher than a hot air balloon, p276

Hanukkah - much like Christmas or Hanukkah, p127

Dog Show - the art show, the flower show and the dog show, p1

Pat-A-Cake - I combed Julie's hair and played patty cake with her, p55

Tadpole - let's move out, Tadpole, p17

Paper Dolls - Samantha has faded away into a paper doll, p158

Lemonade Stand - a car wash or a lemonade stand, p292

Duration: February 13, 2017 - February 12, 2018
READ: 45/25
✔1. 2066 - Peter Brandt 2/23
✔2. Cold Plague - Daniel Kalla 2/27
✔3. The Edinburgh Dead - Brian Ruckley 2/23
✔4. The Lazarus Machine - Paul Crilley 3/27
✔5. Raising the Past - Jeremy Robinson 2/28
✔6. Cemetery Dance - Douglas Preston 3/23
✔7. Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen 6/30
✔8. One Dog Night - David Rosenfelt 4/21
✔9. The North Water - Ian McGuire 4/10
✔10. 15th Affair - James Patterson 5/12










✔11. Rogue Wave - Boyd Morrison 3/4
✔12. Fruitcake - R.J. Kaiser 5/4
✔13. The Order of Odd-Fish - James Kennedy 6/5
✔14. Evil Harvest - Anthony Izzo 9/23
✔15. Forgive Me - Daniel Palmer 11/13
✔16. Red 1-2-3 - John Katzenbach 12/9
✔17. The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster - Scott Wilbanks 11/29
✔18. Of Grave Concern - Max McCoy 12/4
✔19. Lost Gods - Brom 7/1
✔20. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón 8/18











✔21. Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion 7/14
✔22. The Quiet Game - Greg Iles 5/20
✔23. The Secret of the Nagas - Amish Tripathi 4/17
✔24. No Man's Land - David Baldacci 7/9
✔25. A Case of Need - Michael Crichton 3/11
✔26. The Woman Who Wouldn't Die - Colin Cotterill 5/14
✔27. The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade 5/16
✔28. Lethal Investments - K.O. Dahl 5/26
✔29. Havoc - Jack DuBrul 6/8
✔30. Nevernight - Jay Kristoff 6/20










✔31. The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Andrus Kivirähk 7/17
✔32. The Passage - Justin Cronin 8/8
✔33. The Girl with Ghost Eyes - M.H. Boroson 8/18
✔34. Evil Harvest - Anthony Izzo 9/23
✔35. Year of the Hyenas - Brad Geagley 9/29
✔36. Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor 10/17
✔37. Godsgrave - Jay Kristoff 10/24
✔38. The Six-Gun Tarot - R.S. Belcher 10/25
✔39. Headstone - Ken Bruen 12/26
✔40. Charming - Elliott James 1/10










✔41. Where Monsters Dwell - Jørgen Brekke 1/15
✔42. The Hike - Drew Magary 1/16
✔43. The Memory of Blood - Christopher Fowler 1/30
✔44. What Hides Within - Jason Parent 2/12
✔45. Paris Match - Stuart Woods 2/19





CHALLENGE COMPLETE

Duration: February 1 - May 31, 2017
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Start Date: March 23, 2017
Option 8: Scavenger Hunt Want-it-All
Scavenger Hunt Levels: The Big Apple : 121 + words
186/121 FOUND

Avenue of the Americas - giant glass office towers line Avenue of the Americas in the lower fifties, p64
Borough - New York City Housing Authority Borough of Manhattan, p173
Bronx - arrowing northward into the Bronx, p107
Canal Street - you can get them down on Canal Street, p173
Museum of Modern Art - leaves swirled through the sculpture garden of the MOMA, p165
Rikers Island - the vast prison complex of Riker's Island, p364

Comedians - I hadn't heard you'd turned into a stand-up comedian, p109
Deli - after a stop at the deli, p21
Magazine - flipping through a magazine, p18
Model - behind the five foot nine model-perfect beauties, p30

Ballet - now she's engaged in a ballet, p37
Billion - there must have been billions of them, p152
Designer - the vehicles designers anticipated a range of situations, p263
Statue - then she freezes like a statue, p62
Theater - she was in a theater, p300
Zenith - to violet and blue at the zenith, p192
Zig Zag - it's zigzag course dictated by the trunks it passes, p370

Actor - were you ever an actor, p30
Dumbo - it's only Dumbo, p241
Foodie - there are lots of foodies out there, p16
Megalopolis - great place to live and work without turning it into a megalopolis, p15
NY Harbor - when one has seen fireworks over New York Harbor, p145
Presidential - there was even a presidential suite, p2
Zest - lettuce with lemon zest dressing, p239

Acre - almost ten acres, p69

Pastrami - warm air inside smelled of pastrami, p30
Rye - smelled of pastrami and rye bread, p30

Comedy - there will be an element of comedy headgear, p92

Battery Park - the stock exchange and Battery Park too, p200
Bloomingdales - I led her a few blocks over to Bloomingdales, p177
Broadway - a lot of broadway theaters are actually on side streets, p160
Brooklyn - cars entering the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, p118
Central Park - we could go to Central Park, p157
Dumplings - not the kind of dumplings we make back home, p190
Empire State - a good day to go to the Empire State building, p146
Fifth Avenue - to window shop on Fifth Avenue, p177
Greenich Village - stopped on a narrow street somewhere in Greenich Village, p276
Ground Zero - we made a side trip by the Ground Zero site, p201
Macys - once the Macy's parade was under way, p168
Madison Avenue - on Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue, p177
Manhattan - make it out of Manhattan before midnight, p119
Nolita - interesting little store a couple of blocks over on Nolita, p293
Plaza Hotel - my folks were charmed by the Plaza Hotel, p165
Queens - that part of Queens wasn't the most scenic, p140
Rockettes - with precision to rival the Rockettes, p191
SoHo - happy hour at one of those beautiful-people bars in SoHo, p269
Subway - I used to hate riding the subway, p71
The Island - when they couldn't get off The Island, p349
The L.I.E. - we were on the Long Island Expressway, p120
The Village - then dinner in The Village, p269
Tiffany's - made me take her picture in front of Tiffany's, p177
Times Square - I want to see Times Square, p156
Tourism - they were geared up for a day of tourism, p157
Tourist - we do't want to look like tourists, p158
Wall Street - we can show you Wall Street, p200

Dehli - in Delhi this is?, p11
Seamen - a small party of dedicated seamen, p30

Studio 54 - goings-on in the basement of Studio 54, p47


B.Q.E. - the rolls hummed along the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, p44
Bronx Zoo - lions were to be looked at from the safety of the Bronx Zoo, p57
Brooklyn Bridge - south of the Brooklyn Bridge, p44
Coney Island - a string of Russian mafia killings out on Coney Island, p147
Cooperstown - 18 Agassiz Drive, Cooperstown, NY, p110
Egg Cream - she could have an egg cream while she waited, p122
New York Police Department - Captain Hayward of the New York City Police Department, p278

Aurora - I'd seen the Aurora Borealis once, p283

Buffalo - she was a buffalo teetering on half-centimetre points, p101
Ferry - you can take the two-tier ferry, p18
Socialite - Madame Peung was one such socialist socialite, p151

Chinatown - cultivated a stable of CIs in and around Chinatown, p209

Skyscraper - never seen a car or a skyscraper, p56

Mayor - and he wants to be mayor of Natchez, p22

France - wanted to spend some time in France. p22
Punishment - little did they know their punishment wasn't necessary, p7

Agricultural - a regional agricultural festival, p130
Hot dogs - freshly grilled hotdogs, p22
Yankees - the Caerphilly Yankees at the majors level, p5

Author - the book was Mein Kempf and the author was Adolph Hitler, p337
Hudson River - on the dark surface of the Hudson River, p292
Library - branch of the New York Public Library, p206
New York Times - inside there was an article from that morning's New York Times, p91
World Trade Center - just past the fast-rising One World Trade Center, p297

Bagels - and a box of bagels for the team, p120
Lake Erie - Lake Erie was a sheet of diamonds, p176
Yiddish - since when do you speak Yiddish, p357

Ancestral - to the Tokugawa ancestral worship shrine, p289
Largest - for the largest trial in history, p307
Liberty - the court dispensing liberty, p117
Pickles - who dropped a jar of pickles, p124
Politician - from a ruthless politician to a tragic figure, p300
Vendor - a vendor lifted the lids on pots of dumplings, p113

Bartender - Kristy asked the bartender, p90
Cafe - there were two cafes, p148
Pizza - that sold bread, pizza, milk and gas, p148
Taxi - now she has to rely on buses and taxis, p51

Director - he's a director in some company in Stockholm, p14

Saks - she shops at Neiman Marcus and Saks now, p196

Corned Beef - a corned beef sandwich on the bar, p48


Eggs Benedict - I'll have your famous eggs benedict, p74
Pub - a story I'm listening to in the pub, p49
Straphanger - I try, and fail, to picture him straphanging, p200
Underground - the leaves of something growing underground, p137
Waitress - in my green-and-white waitress gear, p284

Cheesecake - and every kind of cheesecake under the sun, p240
Irish - got to be Irish or Scottish blood, p38

Actress - she had been a famous actress, p6
Chef - the coronation of the imperial chef, p90
Downtown - where are we going? downtown, p124
Premiere - he could both premiere his musical and crush the Belgian Prankster, p278
Waiter - Sefino had changed into a smart waiters uniform, p79

Downstate - I was still downstate at Indian University at the time, p3
Lady Liberty - set Lady Liberty's torch on fire, p86

Alps - the skiing is not like the Alps, p333

Buffalo Wings - I'll buy them some buffalo wings before they go, p184
Genoa - as a colony of the Italians city-state Genoa, p271
Hydroelectric power - for a massive hydroelectric power plant, p193
Niagara Falls - he could no longer hear the roar of Niagara Falls, p193
United Nations - currently stationed at the United Nations, p238

Dutch - some guy named Andy from Dutch, p6
Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) - that is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commision, p245

Albany - at a large Albany law firm, p152

New York Times Crossword - by the New York Times crossword demanded a three-letter word, p219
South - did one of your sessions go south, p196
Yonkers - born in Yonkers, p69

Cannoli - there's nothing my cannoli can't fix, p305

Phoenix - Ember, the phoenix, was easily my favorite, p28

Harlem - Ethan had been stationed in Harlem, p279
Struggling - to make you think he was struggling, p82

Villages - what of his two villages, p32

Producer - place it in the hands of a producer, p120

Playwright - the playwrights seldom mention it, p1

Germans - Germans arrived and a small settlement sprang up, p328
Gracie Mansion - the yellow bulk of a large federal-style building, Gracie Mansion, p69
Newark - two hours as D'Agosta drove away from Newark, p14
Rose - he rose and looked through a barred window, p352
Zip - several more shots zip past in the water, p341

George Washington - does Jason still wear his hair in a queue like George Washington, p10

Xenophobic - you're xenophobic, you know that, right, p69


Syracuse - for the Republican Women's Club of Greater Syracuse, p270

Ithaca - waiting tables at a coffee shop in Ithaca, p69

Publisher - Ted, who was publisher, editor and chief reporter, p270

Pretzels - and overpriced pretzel booths, p201

West - little condo in the West Village, p6

Mohawk - leaving the top to form a mohawk, p4
Waldorf Astoria - hardly the Waldorf Astoria but it would keep off the drizzling rain, p34

Park - passed a little park full of snow-covered boulders, p41

Investment banking - being an investment banker, p85

Ancestral - tired of ancestral portraits, p104
Oxford - I did my first degree at Oxford, p258

Yankee Stadium - baseball games at Yankee Stadium, p8

Big Apple - somewhere in the big apple, p115
Columbia University - usually after he goes to university. Columbia?, p13
Entreprenuer - one of Manhattan's bravest entreprenuers, p76
Jewish - learned how to manipulate from your Jewish mother, p103
Madison Square Garden - she took Best in Breed at MSG, p218

Immigration - someone had bribed the immigration officials, p53

City - just outside the main city, p37
Colony - night had fallen on the Panchavati guest colony, p37
History - you will change the course of history, p38
Public - renouncing public life is very common, p38

Center - before dragging her ass to the media center, p161
Knicks - wearing a salt-and-pepper beard and Knicks sweater, p205
Music - today's music, hard-edged rock, p95
Poughkeepsie - used sporting equipment in a mall in Poughkeepsie, p329
Vehicle - an armored vehicle, p303

Food Cart - from a nearby food cart, p166
National - use all available resources - national and international, p243

NoHo - some private club in NoHo, p39


Ellis Island - she was the proctor over Ellis Island, p83

Chelsea - taken a house in chelsea, p41

Italians - not a soul from the Italians side was around to help, p124
Naples - a small airport outside of Naples, p175

Hamptons - make a trip to the Hamptons too, p258
Lincoln Center - at night go to the ballet or opera at Lincoln Center, p243

Lox - James bit into a lox and cream cheese bagel, p9

Adirondack Mountains - located in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains of New York, p237

Fashion Week - the news showed you at Fashion Week in New York, p139

Meat Packing District - the meat packing district, which is nicer than it sounds, p239

Capital - capital of the Fae Wyld, p106
Farming - was an expansive farming village, p47

Grand Central Station - this town had turned into Grand Central Station, p101

Flatiron Building - the Elven residence was in the fashionable Flatiron district, p176
Govenors Island - Governors Island, again it's closed at night, p214

Guggenheim Museum - while the Kibbe wasn't the Guggenheim, p15

Start Date: April 1, 2017
Option 7: Scavenger Hunt Freestyle
Scavenger Hunt Levels: Veteran : 121 + words

Exhausted - I was too exhausted to enjoy it, p84
Gray - she pushed her little gray head between two people, p67
Gray-haired - that covered her neatly layered gray hair, p38
Persistent - but he's a persistent man, p88
Pinched - wrinkled her nose as she pinched the firm flesh of his cheek, p96
Priceless - isn't he priceless?, p66
Prime - to make him their prime suspect, p71
Senior - known to send senior citizens into dead faints, p15

Zenith - to violet and blue at the zenith, p192

Octogenarian - his octogenarian wife, p127

Antique - upchucked its contents all over the antique furniture, p129
Vintage - the tables were vintage formica on chrome, p24

Broken-in - wore a think broken-in leather jacket, p25
Zombie - I saw a zombie standing at the register, p1

Aged - under cover of darkness several aged tankers, p210
Ancient - ancient artifacts, dusty museums, p30
Old fashioned - I can do all the old-fashioned stuff, p98
Veteran - older than her and veterans of disaster scenes, p61

Archaic - his archaic manners meant he fit right in, p177

Unkempt - in spite of his unkempt condition, p226

Authentic - I did promise to show you an authentic side of the city, p212

Geriatric - geriatric see by candlelight, p136

Antediluvian - some antediluvian cartographer who drew these prosaic sea serpents, p8

Sophisticated - he's efficiency and sophisticated image, p267

Long-lived - or how long-lived you are, p123
Obsolete - like I said...you're obsolete, p369
Stubborn - sweetheart, the baby is being stubborn, p297

Accomplished - the more accomplished he became, p172
Accustomed - as accustomed to grappling with sick cows and horses, p54
Battered - a battered remnant of a floating dock, p292
Beat-up - a beat-up Chevy Impala was idling at the curb, p125
Competent - a reliable and competent witness, p43
Creaky - Pendergast climbed up on the creaky porch, p254
Crumbling - its fabric slowly crumbling into ruin, p58
Deep-seated - Felder felt a deep-seated need, p207
Deft - which he unlocked with a deft turn of his wrist, p54
Experienced - he experienced a huge feeling of relief, p70
Habitual - all too clearly a man of habitual restraint, p98
Incapacitated - most of them killed or incapacitated, p328
Inexhaustible - NY Public Library's seemingly inexhaustible holdings, p210
Innate - she obviously had plenty of innate cunning, p80
Jaundiced - Chief Inspector Balfour's jaundiced eye, p40
Perpetual - deeply scored frown lines betraying perpetual dismay, p41
Primitive - far too primitive for Pendergast, p97
Quavering - he heard a quavering irritated voice, p80
Ramshackle - heading back down the ramshackle street, p60
Rickety - she pulled a rickety old table over to the wall, p336
Scholarly - elegance and wealth with scholarly research, p206
Settled - the finger settled unto the button, p187
Tottering - stood a dozen tottering stacks of paper, p340
Withered - one of the mans hands was withered, p186
Wrinkled - stared at the sallow, wrinkled skin, p82

Primeval - despite the primeval god inside him, p17

Gnarled - she dug a gnarled arthritic hand into the large pocket, p30

Crippled - he didn't look crippled, p173
Old - sitting alone in an old folks home, p371

Bedraggled - looking wet, bedraggled and exhausted, p74

Byzantine - some byzantine thing of filigreed gold, p225

Classical - the needlework pattern is classical, p198
Dilapidated - the old dilapidated palace, p154
Effete - Jemmy and Inky weren't effete house cats, p99
Ratty - with their ratty t-shirts, p158

Professional - careful instruction by a professional, p33
Sapient - I don't know how sapient you find most homines, p10

Start Date: May 1, 2017
READ: 9/15
Option 1 - Best of....
Popular Most Hated Books
Inferno - Dan Brown
✔The Valcourt Heiress - Catherine Coulter 6/18
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
✔The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón 8/18
✔Forever... - Jude Deveraux 11/19





Best Books of the 21st Century
Divergent - Veronica Roth
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
✔The Passage - Justin Cronin 8/8
✔Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris 6/26
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
✔Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor 10/17
✔The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella 6/3
✔Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma 6/24
✔Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion 7/14
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie











336/336 Characters Done
26/26 Creatures Done
A - Aicha Kandida
12/12 done
A: The Penguin Who Knew Too Much - Donna Andrews 2/15/18
I: Magic Triumphs - Ilona Andrews 10/4/18
C: Wicked Abyss - Kresley Cole 2/8/18
H: Highland Avenger - Hannah Howell 10/9
A: Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage - Jennifer Ashley 7/1/18
K: Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon - Kerrelyn Sparks 7/7/18
A: Little Tiny Teeth - Aaron Elkins 7/1/18
N: The NYC Werewolf: Tales, Book Two - Bert Murray 12/12/17
D: Dark Roots and Cowboy Boots - Luann McLane 7/13/17
I: Shattered Mirror - Iris Johansen 10/31/18
D: Midnight's Warrior - Donna Grant 7/20/17
A: Asking For It - Kit Tunstall 7/9/18
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B - Bakbakwakanooksiewae
20/20 done
B: The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King 7/18/17
A: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 7/27/18
K: The Knight & the Seer - Ruth Ryan Langan 4/16/18
B: Bowled Over - Kasey Michaels 1/8/18
A: Abducting Abby - S.E. Smith 7/2/18
K: So I Married a Sorcerer - Kerrelyn Sparks 4/30/18
W: The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory 6/17/18
A: Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon - Donna Andrews 7/13/18
K: The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness 5/20/18
A: Memory Zero - Keri Arthur 7/29/18
N: The NYC Werewolf: Tales, Book One - Bert Murray 12/12/17
O: The Otter of Death - Betty Webb 8/15/18
O: Outlaw Lovers: Jude and Luke - Jan Springer 8/16/18
K: Kin - Kealan Patrick Burke 6/10/18
S: Murder on the Aloha Express - Sally J. Smith 1/11/18
I: A Knight and White Satin - Jackie Ivie 8/17/18
E: Widow’s Web - Jennifer Estep 11/30/17
W: The White Mary - Kira Salak 1/18/18
A: A Promise of Fire - Amanda Bouchet 8/3/18
E: The Ghost Fields - Elly Griffiths 11/28/17
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C - Cows of Nakki
11/11 done
C: Casting Spells - Barbara Bretton 12/28/17
O: The Once and Future Duchess - Sophia Nash 7/6/18
W: Where Monsters Dwell - Jørgen Brekke 1/15/18
S: The Goblin King - Shona Husk 1/11/18
O: Out of Mind - Catherine Sampson 7/17/18
F: Forgive Me - Daniel Palmer 11/13/17
N: The Naked Duke - Sally MacKenzie 12/16/17
A: Agatha H and the Airship City - Phil & Kaja Foglio 6/13/18
K: Headstone - Ken Bruen 12/26/17
K: How to Seduce a Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks 12/14/17
I: The Ice Twins - S.K. Tremayne 7/27/18
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D - Dzoo-Noo-Qua
10/10 done
D: Forever... - Jude Deveraux 11/19/17
Z: Total Surrender - Rebecca Zanetti 8/1/18
O: O' Artful Death - Sarah Stewart Taylor 9/18/18
O: In Twilight's Shadow - Patti O'Shea 10/15/18
N: Silver Silence - Nalini Singh 12/13/17
O: In Twilight's Shadow - Patti O'Shea 10/15/18
O: The Absent One - Jussi Adler-Olsen 1/6/19
Q: Airwoman - Zara Quentin 2/1/18
U: Unloved - Katy Regnery 9/3/18
A: 24690 - A.A. Dark 2/1/18
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E - Erqigdlit
9/9 done
E: Death Echo - Elizabeth Lowell 11/25/17
R: Red 1-2-3 - John Katzenbach 12/9/17
Q: Spirit Woman - Zara Quentin 8/27/18
I: Shattered Mirror - Iris Johansen 10/31/18
G: Gingerbread Cookie Murder - Joann Fluke 7/6/17
D: Prime Cut - Diane Mott Davidson 7/4/17
L: The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker - Leanna Renee Hieber 7/20/17
I: A Catered Halloween - Isis Crawford 10/29/18
T: Three Bags Full - Leonie Swann 2/10/18
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F - Fu-Ts'ang
7/7 done
F: Death Takes Priority - Jean Flowers 6/10/17
U: The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella 6/3/17
T: Two Graves - Douglas Preston 6/24/17
S: The Scent of Jasmine - Jude Devereau 6/11/17
A: Acts of Violets - Kate Collins 6/11/17
N: Nevernight - Jay Kristoff 6/20/17
G: Going Organic Can Kill You - Staci McLaughlin 6/2/17
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G - Geri and Freki
12/12 done
G: Getting Lucky - Carolyn Brown 6/4/17
E: An English Bride In Scotland - Lynsay Sands 6/19/17
R: Down the Rabbit Hole - J.D. Robb 6/10/17
I: The Immortals - J.T. Ellison 6/19/17
A: All That Bleeds - Kimberly Frost 6/15/17
N: Archangel's Heart - Nalini Singh 6/17/17
D: Less than a Treason - Dana Stabenow 6/8/17
F: The Memory of Blood - Christopher Fowler 1/30/18
R: Spectacle - Rachel Vincent 6/14/17
E: The Empire's Ghost - Isabelle Steiger 7/22/17
K: Snipped in the Bud - Kate Collins 6/5/17
I: Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion 7/14/17

H - Hieracosphinx
13/13 done
H: Havoc - Jack DuBrul 6/8/17
I: A Catered St. Patrick's Day - Isis Crawford 7/14/17
E: Judas Kiss - J.T. Ellison 7/28/17
R: Ash and Quill - Rachel Caine 7/26/17
A: The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Andrus Kivirähk 7/17/17
C: Serpent's Kiss - Deborah Cooke 6/22/17
O: The Order of Odd-Fish - James Kennedy 6/5/17
S: Bella at Midnight - Diane Stanley 6/22/17
P: The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger 7/27/17
H: Lions, Tigers, and Sexy Bears Oh My! - Candace Havens 6/17/17
I: Devoured by Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 7/24/17
N: No Strings Attached - Kate Angell 7/31/17
X: [Xcor (hero)] The Chosen - JR Ward 4/19/19
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I - Itzpapalotl
11/11 done
I: The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman 6/6/18
T: Blood Pact - Tanya Huff 12/14/17
Z: Blind Faith - Rebecca Zanetti 10/16/17
P: Dorothy Must Die - Danielle Paige 10/19/17
A: Her Own Devices - Shelly Adina 12/7/17
P: Pig Island - Mo Hayder 11/12/17
A: Angels Of Darkness - Andrews/Singh/Shinn/Brooks 5/29/18
L: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25/17
O: Over Her Dead Body - Kate White 5/28/18
T: Terrier - Tamora Pierce 12/23/17
L: The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster - Scott Wilbanks 11/29/17
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J - Jersey Devil
11/11 done
J: The Chocolate Mouse Trap - JoAnna Carl 6/24/17
E: Mind Magic - Eileen Wilks 1/23/18
R: Ready Player One - Ernest Cline 5/29/18
S: Shadows Strike - Dianne Duvall 6/17/17
E: Deadly Sting - Jennifer Estep2/5/18
Y: Concrete Savior - Yvonne Navarro 7/7/17
D: Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris 6/26/17
E: A Hopeless Romantic - Harriet Evans 2/26/18
V: The Valcourt Heiress - Catherine Coulter 6/18/17
I: An Indomitable Beast - Alan Rabinowitz 5/31/18
L: Lucky Bastard - Deborah Coonts 6/7/17
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K - Kollimalaikanniyarka
20/20 done
K: Murder on the Rocks - Karen MacInerney 2/6/18
O: Sacred Cows - Karen E. Olson 5/23/18
L: The Gracekeepers - Kristy Logan 2/24/18
L: Hunting Season - Shelly Laurenston 3/8/18
I: I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh 6/18/18
M: Midnight's Temptation - Donna Grant 11/30/17
A: Beauty's Beast - Amanda Ashley 3/10/18
L: Laced with Magic - Barbara Bretton 3/20/18
A: A Wild Fright in Deadwood - Ann Charles 3/12/18
I: Inked Magic - Jory Strong 6/19/18
K: Best Day Ever - Kaira Rouda 4/3/18
A: Baby, Don't Go - Susan Andersen 3/27/18
N: Crush - Nicole Williams 2/3/18
N: Bay of Sighs - Nora Roberts 3/8/18
I: Invincible Summer - Alice Adams 6/29/18
Y: Bone Magic - Yasmine Galenorn 4/28/18
A: Passenger - Alexandra Bracken 3/29/18
R: Penguins and Mortal Peril - Ruby Loren 3/24/18
K: The Perfect Roommate - Minka Kent 4/9/18
A: Etched in Bone - Anne Bishop 3/31/18
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L - Llassar Llaes Gyfnewid
20/20 done
L: The Knowing - Larriane Wills 1/26/18
L: Just a Hint - Clint - Lori Foster 1/27/18
A: Rattling the Heat in Deadwood - Ann Charles 5/14/18
S: Silent Auction - Jane Cleland 6/25/17
A: Ancient Spirits - Alice Duncan 5/14/18
R: Stars of Fortune - Nora Roberts 12/31/17
L: A Dangerous Reality - LaylaWolfe 1/4/18
L: Seduced By Your Spell - Lois Greiman 1/20/17
A: The Copenhagen Affair - Amulya Malladi 5/5
E: Charming - Elliott James 1/10/18
S: Seven Stones to Stand or Fall - Diana Gabaldon 1/14/18
G: Godsgrave - Jay Kristoff 10/24/17
Y: Y is for Yesterday - Sue Grafton 4/22/18
F: The Four Sworn: Spring Equinox - Lenore Sagaskie 12/15/17
N: Not What You Seem - Lena Maye 12/21/17
E: The Woman in Blue - Elly Griffiths 12/7/17
W: Wait for Dark - Kay Hooper 10/31/17
I: My Lord Vampire - Alexandra Ivy 1/22/18
D: Dead Dry - Sarah Andrews 12/13/17
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M - Maezt-Dar L'Oudou
14/14 done
M: Malevolent - Jana DeLeon 12/16/17
A: Split - Swati Avasthi 3/23/18
E: Everlasting Enchantment - Kathryne Kennedy 12/18/17
Z: The Zig Zag Girl - Elly Griffiths 12/25/17
T: Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma 6/24/17
D: Friday's Harbor - Diane Hammond 1/24/18
A: The Traitor's Bride - Alix Nichols 5/26/18
R: Relocating MIA - Rebecca Lerwill 3/4/18
L: The Drowning - Camilla Läckberg 4/7/18
O: Owlflight - Mercedes Lackey 5/18/18
U: Five - Ursula Poznanski 10/8/18
D: Dead Level - Sarah Graves 2/4/18
O: An Occupied Grave - A.G. Barnett 5/22/18
U: Under Oath - Margaret McLean 10/12/18

N - Nessiteras Rhombopteryx
22/22 done
N: The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley 11/18 /17
E: Field of Graves - J.T. Ellison 11/17/17
S: Silent Child - Sarah Denzil 1/25/18
S: A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab 2/9/18
I: Island of Glass - Nora Roberts 3/23/18
T: Sick Fux - Tillie Cole 12/30/17
E: The Persian Always Meows Twice - Eileen Watkins 10/26/17
R: Mister Hockey - Lia Riley 2/15/18
A: Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman 2/24/18
S: The Six-Gun Tarot - R.S. Belcher 10/25/17
R: Fish Stick Fridays - Rhys Ford 2/22/18
H: Ho-Ho-Homicide - Kaitlyn Dunnett 10/5/17
O: Oasis - Randie Lipkin 3/2/18
M: Midnight's Captive - Donna Grant 10/12/17
B: Body Check - Deirdre Martin 11/20/17
O: Ox-Tales: Earth - Mark Ellingham 2/27/18
P: Blue Labyrinth - Douglas Preston 8/14/17
T: Night's Honor - Thea Harrison 1/2/18
E: Echoes of Ice - Boone Brux 11/26/17
R: The Resurrectionist - E.B. Hudspeth 3/3/18
Y: The Sun Is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon 2/23/18
X: The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan 7/28/18
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O - Ocypete
7/7 done
O: Our Husband - Stephanie Bond 7/19/17
C: Lucky Catch - Deborah Coonts 7/8/17
Y: Darkling - Yasmine Galenorn 7/11/17
P: The Perfect Liar - Brenda Novak 7/23/17
E: The Wrong Hostage - Elizabeth Lowell 10/12/17
T: Lord's Fall - Thea Harrison 7/4/17
E: Foul Play - Janet Evanovich 10/21/17
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P - Philamaloo Bird
12/14 done
P: White Fire - Douglas Preston 7/29/17
H: Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen 6/30/17
I: When Darkness Ends - Alexandra Ivy 1/13/18
L: Lost Gods - Brom 7/1/17
A: Melting into You - Tracey Alvarez 6/30/17
M: Midnight's Seduction - Donna Grant 6/29/17
A: Fireproof - Alex Kava 7/6/17
L: The Spy Who Wants Me - Lucy Monroe 7/5/17
O: One Night in Scotland - Karen Hawkins 6/3/17
O: One Last Look - Linda Lael Miller 6/28/17
B: Blue Flame - Jill Shalvis 6/15/17
I: In the Shadow of the Gods - Rachel Dunne 1/13/18
R: The Dragon Caller - Pauline M. Ross 12/23/17
D: Starting Now - Debbie Macomber 6/12/17
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Q - Quikinna'qu
10/10 done
Q: Queen of Shadows - Dianne Sylvan 7/24/18
U: Five - Ursula Poznanski 10/8/18
I: I Know a Secret - Tess Gerritsen 4/2/18
K: Dreadmarrow Thief - Marjory Kaptanoglu 12/9/17
I: Storm Cycle - Iris & Roy Johansen 9/24/18
N: Golden Age and Other Stories - Naomi Novik 10/9/17
N: No Rest for the Dead - Andrew Gulli 11/20/17
A: Lucifer - Ava Martell 1/8/18
Q: Everything and the Moon - Julia Quinn 7/21/18
U: Ink and Bone - Lisa Unger 5/18/19
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R - Rickaboo Racker
14/14 done
R: Robot Academy - R.T.W. Lipkin 1/6/18
I: Hunt the Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 1/4/18
C: The Devil's Triangle - Catherine Coulter 12/9/17
K: Blue Hollow Falls - Donna Kauffman 9/14/17
A: Heir to the Shadows - Anne Bishop 1/29/18
B: Bite My Fire - Mary Hughes 10/14/17
O: Of Grave Concern - Max McCoy 12/4/17
O: On Turpentine Lane - Elinor Lipman 1/20/18
R: Secrets in Death - J.D. Robb 11/3/17
A: At Wolf Ranch - Jennifer Ryan 1/6/18
C: Wife by Wednesday - Catherine Bybee 12/13/17
K: The Wood Queen - Karen Mahoney 10/4/17
E: Metro Girl - Janet Evanovich 10/3/17
R: How to Wash a Cat - Rebecca M. Hale 11/22/17
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S - Snawfus
7/7 done
S: Slipknot - Linda Greenlaw 7/13/17
N: No Man's Land - David Baldacci 7/9/17
A: Heir to the Sky - Amanda Sun 7/29/17
W: White Colander Crime - Victoria Hamilton 7/15/17
F: Fatal Fixer-Upper - Jennie Bentley 7/17/17
U: The Red Hunter - Lisa Unger 4/12/18
S: Steal the Dragon - Patricia Briggs 9/30/17

T - Toatoatatavaya-O
15/15 done
T: Kinked - Thea Harrison 11/13/17
O: Strong, Sleek and Sinful - Lorie O'Clare 11/4/17
A: Brother - Ania Ahlborn 10/28/17
T: A Tale of Two Vampires - Katie MacAlister 11/16/17
O: The Obsidian Chamber - Douglas Preston 11/5/17
A: Lady of Devices - Shelley Adina 11/23/17
T: To Brie or Not To Brie - Avery Aames 11/27/17
A: Death on Paradise Island - B.M. Allsopp 12/19/17
T: Hide Your Heart - Tracey Alvarez 12/27/17
A: Duck the Halls - Donna Andrews 12/25/17
V: The Vampire King - Heather Killough-Walden 2/5/18
A: A Killing Frost - Hannah Alexander 12/27/17
Y: Night Huntress - Yasmine Galenorn 2/20/18
A: Almost Like Being in Love - Christina Dodd 12/31/17
O: Origin Phase - RTW Lipkin 12/17/17
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U - Uile Bheisd A' Chuain
17/17 done
U: Unlucky - Jana DeLeon 7/12/18
I: In Stone's Clasp - Christie Golden 11/6/17
L: Dolled Up to Die - Lorena McCourtney 11/6/17
E: By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11/17
B: The Battle Sylph - L.J. McDonald 8/9/17
H: Fear the Dark - Kay Hooper 9/23/17
E: Empire of Storms - Sarah J. Maas 9/27/17
I: Intensity - Sherrilyn Kenyon 12/9/17
S: Scone Cold Dead - Kaitlyn Dunnett 9/17/17
D: Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20/17
A: And I Darken - Kiersten White 10/30/17
C: Crimson Shore - Douglas Preston 9/19/17
H: She'll Never Live - Hunter Morgan 10/14/17
U: Into the Fire - Amanda Usen 12/28/17
A: The Dragons Want Her - Angela Foxxe 11/9/17
I: Immune - Shannon Mayer 12/30/17
N: Night Shift - N. Singh/I. Andrews/L. Shearin/M. Vane 8/12/17
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V - Volkh Vseselavevich
18/18 done
V: Violca's Dragon - Leilani Love 1/27/18
O: Out of the Mist - JoAnn Ross 9/13/17
L: Burning The Map - Laura Caldwell 10/28/17
K: Deadmen Walking - Sherrilyn Kenyon 9/4/17
H: Happy Hour at Casa Dracula - Marta Acosta 9/18/17
V: A Ghoul's Guide to Love and Murder - Victoria Laurie 3/14/18
S: Dragonsworn - Sherrilyn Kenyon 9/9/17
E: The End Game - Catherine Coulter 9/14/17
S: Shoots to Kill - Kate Collins 9/7/17
E: A Dying Fall - Elly Griffiths 8/6/17
L: Hour of the Rat - Lisa Brackmann 9/18/17
A: Afterlight - Elle Jasper 9/6/17
V: Dead Angler - Victoria Houston 4/12/18
E: Eternal Hunger - Cameron Dean 8/3/17
V: Divergent - Veronica Roth 9/22/18
I: Mind Game - Iris Johansen 12/11/17
C: Cancans, Croissants, and Caskets - Mary McHugh 8/7/17
H: Highland Wolf Pact - Selena Kitt 10/31/17
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W - Will-O-The-Wisp
12/12 done
W: Where All the Dead Lie - J.T. Ellison 10/2/17
I: Evil Harvest - Anthony Izzo 9/23/17
L: Lucky Break - Deborah Coonts 8/26/17
L: Spellbent - Lucy Snyder 9/5/17
O: Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor 10/17/17
T: Straight from the Heart - Tami Hoag 8/5/17
H: How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days - Kerrelyn Sparks 8/28/17
E: So Close the Hand of Death - J.T. Ellison 8/29/17
W: White Trash Zombie Unchained - Diana Rowland 10/7/17
I: Darkness Avenged - Alexandra Ivy 11/9/17
S: Crouching Tiger, Forbidden Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks 8/22/17
P: The Passage - Justin Cronin 8/8/17
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X - Xiang Yao
8/8 done
X: (Li-Lin Xian) The Girl with Ghost Eyes - M.H. Boroson 8/18/17
I: Fear the Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 9/28/17
A: Sliding Home - Kate Angell 8/31/17
N: Natural Evil - Thea Harrison 8/17/17
G: The Harder You Fall - Gena Showalter 8/31/17
Y: Demon Mistress - Yasmine Galenorn 3/16/18
A: Forbidden Embers - Tessa Adams 9/11/17
O: The Outcast Dead - Elly Griffiths 10/30/17
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Y - Ypotryll
8/8 done
Y: Year of the Hyenas - Brad Geagley 9/29/17
P: Photographs & Phantoms - Cindy Spencer Pape 8/16/17
O: Out of the Easy - Ruta Sepetys 9/16/17
T: Hidden Embers - Tessa Adams 8/8/17
R: Pirates! - Celia Rees 9/21/17
Y: Dragon Wytch - Yasmine Galenorn 12/3/17
L: Lick - Kylie Scott 8/10/17
L: Bengal's Quest - Lora Leigh 8/17/17
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Z - Zmag Oghjeni Vuk
14/14 done
Z: The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón 8/18/17
M: Death by the Dozen - Jenn McKinlay 8/27/17
A: Blood of the Dark Moon - Adrianne Brennan 8/13/17
G: Midnight's Kiss - Donna Grant 9/2/17
O: The Oath of the Vayuputras - Amish Tripathi 8/22
G: Going, Going, Ganache - Jenn McKinlay 9/21/17
H: Hounding the Pavement - Judi McCoy 8/15/17
J: Spider-Touched - Jory Strong 8/24/17
E: Spider’s Revenge - Jennifer Estep 8/3/17
N: Between the Duke and the Deep Blue Sea - Sophia Nash 8/5/17
I: Bound By Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 8/11/17
V: Vampires Dead Ahead - Cheyenne McCray 12/5/17
U: Ukulele Murder - Leslie Langtry 10/23/17
K: Cowboy Town - Kasey Millstead 8/25/17

Start Date: July 1, 2017
Scavenger Hunt Levels: Flip-flop : 121 + words
47/121 FOUND

Lull - took advantage of the lull in the action, p251

Bit - her eyes a bit glassy, p91

Abeyance - they could hold the prosecution in abeyance, p34

Clock - I pointed towards the clock, p18
Clone - turning into a clone of me, p65
Mimic - someone trying to mimic my voice, p77
Mirror - five minutes in front of the mirror, p102
Spell - every time she gets it in her head to cast a spell, p13
Staccato - like staccato bullet play, p35

Breath - I lay there catching my breath, p118
Renovate - if you're going to renovate an old house, p73

Allotment - put my hives in an allotment, p22
Carbon - which included a faint carbon copy, p28
Continue - and gestured that I should continue, p85
Examine - pausing to examine it, p24
Extent - to a large extent, p285
Facet - adds an interesting facet to our foe, p280
Generation - an entire generation of men subjected to it, p48
Imitate - I could probably imitate the jargon, p105
Juncture - put my finger on precisely the juncture, p244

Eternity - provide fodder for the gossip mill for eternity, p33
Fake - cubic zirconia, it's fake, p36
Mock - then he gave her a mock salute, p13

Chant - a powerful torrent of an otherworldly chant, p53
Chorus - a Greek chorus, p59
Echo - her words cast a marvelous echo, p12
Quarter - it's been quite a quarter, p91
Reign - won free reign over the whole mortal realm, p11
Space - this sacred space

Din - the sound of something over the din of the snowstorm, p125

Sequester - Ava wasn't too thrilled about being sequestered in a booth with this man, p182
Travesty - to stop this travesty of justice, p66

Ditto - yeah well...ditto, p196
Quail - have you ever watched a quail, p3

Model - remove the model of the device, p152

Zenith - shifting slightly in its evening zenith, p79

Annal - they place a red and gilded annal in his hands, p21

Delineate - the tunnels were clearly delineated, p290
Engrave - embossed and engraved, p156
Phony - a fake, grasping, deceitful phony, p58
State - what a state to face the cameras, p196
Stint - including the stint in the jail, p293

Life span - life span? he asked the seller, p181

Pirate - dressing up like a pirate, p184
Year - despite his sixty-something years, p184

Capsize - I'd have to save you if we capsized, p75

Belabor - not to belabor the point, p79

Duration: August 1, 2017 - February 28, 2018
FOUND: 51/75
A
✔️attempt - went in at the last second to attempt a field goal, p7
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️audible - breathed an audible sigh of relief, p237
Ho-Ho-Homicide - Kaitlyn Dunnett 10/5
automatic first down
B
✔️block - hunkered down like total pros all ready to block for me, p258
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️bomb - bomb proof too, p256
Dragonsworn - Sherrilyn Kenyon 9/9
C
✔️carry - as fast as her square white heels would carry her, p4
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
center (or centre)
✔️chain - that she wore on a chain, p19
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️Chicago - you're a hotshot lawyer in Chicago, p3
Ho-Ho-Homicide - Kaitlyn Dunnett 10/5
✔️contain - send some of his men to contain it, p284
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️coverage - just led to more flattering coverage, p170
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️counter - and stared across the counter, p1
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
D
✔️defense - someone who works defense behind the line of scrimmage, p64
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️down - to play one final, perfect down, p13
The Hike - Drew Magary 1/16
✔️draft - something stupid like the Vikings draft pick, p79
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️drive - wanted the drive to be over, p22
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
E
✔️East - the best spas in the east, p24
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️extra point - missed the extra point, p65
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
F
✔️field goal - to attempt a field goal, p7
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️flat - Smut's football was a little flat, p23
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️football - try out for the football team, p6
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️fumble - whenever he fumbles or messes up, p9
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
G
✔️game - didn't know what game he was playing, p191
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️Goal - my goal was the center of the block, p10
Eternal Hunger - Cameron Dean 8/3
✔️goal line - I spun and took off for the goal line, p252
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️Green Bay - Brian follows Green Bay, p79
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️guard - I could completely relax my guard, p24
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
H
✔️handoff - the first baton handoff, p127
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️hike - something about our hike was bothering me, p88
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️holding - holding the metal lid out in front of me, p111
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️huddle - Red Bend defense came out of our huddle, p251
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
I
✔️inside - kill them for setting foot inside my restaurant, p6
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️interception - interception against your archrival, p254
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️interference - not calling me on interference, p257
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
K
✔️kicker - except that the Red Bend kicker suffered enough, p65
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
L
✔️line of scrimmage - behind the line of scrimmage, p64
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️linebacker - and Bill being a linebacker, p48
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
M
✔️motion - the sudden bucking motion, p210
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
N
✔️New York - I write for some newspaper up in New York, p163
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️North - and driven north this morning, p231
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
O
✔️offense - dominate offense and all, p210
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

P
✔️pocket - pulled his car keys out of his pocket, p339
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️point - might have a valid point, p81
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️possession - get possession for Red Bend, p65
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
Q
✔️Quarter - a quarter mile from the driveway, p216
Spider’s Revenge - Jennifer Estep 8/3
✔️quarterback - stuck up, spoiled Hawley quarterback could be, p9
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
R
✔️radio - like a radio that had turned off mid-song, p8
Spider’s Revenge - Jennifer Estep 8/3
✔️running back - a line backer drawing a bead on a running back, p418
Evil Harvest - Anthony Izzo 9/23
S
✔️sprint - he started his next sprint, p64
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️starter - if he wanted to be a starter, p13
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
continued...
T
Team
✔️Televised (or television) - turned off the television, p334
The End Game - Catherine Coulter 9/14
✔️touchdown - that long run downfield for the touchdown, p255
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
Training Camp
W
wide
✔️wide receiver - named after a University of Notre Dame wide receiver, p101
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
CHALLENGE COMPLETE

Start Date: September 1, 2017
Option 1: Build Your Armory
►Read books with weapons on the cover
✔ 1. Spellbent - Lucy Snyder 9/5
✔ 2. Afterlight - Elle Jasper 9/6
✔ 3. By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔ 4. Hour of the Rat - Lisa Brackmann 9/18
✔ 5. Empire of Storms - Sarah J. Maas 9/27
✔ 6. Steal the Dragon - Patricia Briggs 9/30
✔ 7. A Wild Fright in Deadwood - Ann Charles 3/12
✔ 8. Whom the Gods Love - M.M. Perry 3/26
✔ 9. Cold Reign - Faith Hunter 5/8
✔ 10. Blood, Smoke and Mirrors - Robyn Bachar 5/5










Option 2: Time to Kill Themed Books
►Read books that have Mystery, Crime, Spy, Legal Thriller, Military, and War listed as a Main Page Genre.
✔ 1. Shoots to Kill - Kate Collins (cozy) 9/7
✔ 2. The End Game - Catherine Coulter (thriller) 9/14
✔ 3. Scone Cold Dead - Kaitlyn Dunnett (mystery) 9/17
✔ 4. Crimson Shore - Douglas Preston (mystery) 9/19
✔ 5. Going, Going, Ganache - Jenn McKinlay (mystery) 9/21
✔ 6. Fear the Dark - Kay Hooper (mystery) 9/23
✔ 7. Year of the Hyenas - Brad Geagley (mystery) 9/29
✔ 8. Penguins and Mortal Peril - Ruby Loren (cozy) 3/24
✔ 9. Dead Angler - Victoria Houston (cozy) 4/12
✔ 10. Death of a Chocoholic - Lee Hollis 4/27











NBRC personal folder
Option 5: Scavenger Hunt Freestyle
►Pick a level and find the words below in the books you read. There is no limit to the number of words per book
0/179 FOUND

Duration: July 1 - September 30, 2017
READ: 63/63
✔July ~ All Tomorrow's Parties, Iceland
A: Acts of Violets - Kate Collins 6/11
L: Lucky Bastard - Deborah Coonts 6/7
L: Less than a Treason - Dana Stabenow 6/8
T: Two Graves - Douglas Preston 6/24
O: One Night in Scotland - Karen Hawkins 6/3
M: Midnight's Seduction - Donna Grant 6/29
O: One Last Look - Linda Lael Miller 6/28
R: Spectacle - Rachel Vincent 6/14
R: Ash and Quill - Rachel Caine 7/26
O: Our Husband - Stephanie Bond 7/19
W: White Colander Crime - Victoria Hamilton 7/15
S: Snipped in the Bud - Kate Collins 6/5
P: Prime Cut - Diane Mott Davidson 7/4
A: All That Bleeds - Kimberly Frost 6/15
R: Pirates! - Celia Rees 9/21
T: Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma 6/24
I: The Immortals - J.T. Ellison 6/19
E: An English Bride In Scotland - Lynsay Sands 6/19
S: Shadows Strike - Dianne Duvall 6/17
I: A Catered St. Patrick's Day - Isis Crawford 7/14
C: The Valcourt Heiress - Catherine Coulter 6/18
E: The Empire's Ghost - Isabelle Steiger 7/22
L: The Spy Who Wants Me - Lucy Monroe 7/5
A: Fireproof - Alex Kava 7/6
N: Archangel's Heart - Nalini Singh 6/17
D: Death Takes Priority - Jean Flowers 6/10
✔August ~ Doune the Rabbit Hole, Scotland
D: Darkling - Yasmine Galenorn 7/11
O: The Order of Odd-Fish - James Kennedy 6/5
U: The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella 6/3
N: Nevernight - Jay Kristoff 6/20
E: Judas Kiss - J.T. Ellison 7/28
T: Melting into You - Tracey Alvarez 6/30
H: Havoc - Jack DuBrul 6/8
E: Eternal Hunger - Cameron Dean 8/3
R: Down the Rabbit Hole - J.D. Robb 6/10
A: Heir to the Sky - Amanda Sun 7/29
B: Lost Gods - Brom 7/1
B: Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen 6/30
I: Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion 7/14
T: Lord's Fall - Thea Harrison 7/4
H: Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris 6/26
O: The Oath of the Vayuputras - Amish Tripathi 8/22
L: Slipknot - Linda Greenlaw 7/13
E: Spider’s Revenge - Jennifer Estep 8/3
S: Serpent's Kiss - Deborah Cooke 6/22
C: The Chocolate Mouse Trap - JoAnna Carl 6/24
O: Out of the Mist - JoAnn Ross 9/13
T: Straight from the Heart - Tami Hoag 8/5
L: The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker - Laura.R. Hieber 7/20
A: No Strings Attached - Kate Angell 7/31
N: No Man's Land - David Baldacci 7/9
D: The Scent of Jasmine - Jude Devereau 6/11
✔September ~ Glitch, Malta
G: Going Organic Can Kill You - Staci McLaughlin 6/2
L: Lick - Kylie Scott 8/10
I: Devoured by Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 7/24
T: Hidden Embers - Tessa Adams 8/8
C: Concrete Savior - Yvonne Navarro 7/7
H: Hounding the Pavement - Judi McCoy 8/15
M: The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Andrus Kivirähk 7/17
A: Bound By Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 8/11
L: Bengal's Quest - Lora Leigh 8/17
T: Natural Evil - Thea Harrison 8/17
A: Blood of the Dark Moon - Adrianne Brennan 8/13
CHALLENGE COMPLETE

Start Date: October 1, 2017 - March 31, 2018
Book Levels: Gone to blazes : 25+ books
READ: 109/113
✔️Option 1: Underwater Covers
►Read books with large amounts of water on the cover
1. Golden Age and Other Stories - Naomi Novik 10/9
2. Murder on the Aloha Express - Sally J. Smith 1/11
3. The White Mary - Kira Salak 1/18
4. Deadly Wipeout - Beth Prentice 2/19
5. A Hopeless Romantic - Harriet Evans 2/26





Option 2: Underwater Themed Books
►Read books that have the main part of the setting on/in water or where the main character is facing unbelievable struggles.
1. Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor (takes place at sea) 10/17
2. The Gracekeepers - Kristy Logan (takes place on an island) 2/24
3. Passenger - Alexandra Bracken (set at sea on a boat) 3/29



Option 3: Underwater Spell-it-Out
A: And I Darken - Kiersten White 10/30
B: Bite My Fire - Mary Hughes 10/14
Y: Dragon Wytch - Yasmine Galenorn 12/3
S: Secrets in Death - J.D. Robb 11/3
M: The Wood Queen - Karen Mahoney 10/4
A: Brother - Ania Ahlborn 10/28
L: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
B: Burning The Map - Laura Caldwell 10/28
E: Where All the Dead Lie - J.T. Ellison 10/2
N: The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley 11/18
E: Metro Girl - Janet Evanovich 10/3
A: The Dragons Want Her - Angela Foxxe 11/9
T: Kinked - Thea Harrison 11/13
H: Highland Avenger - Hannah Howell 10/9
C: Casting Spells - Barbara Bretton 12/28
O: The Outcast Dead - Elly Griffiths 10/30
A: Death on Paradise Island - B.M. Allsopp 12/19
S: She'll Never Live - Hunter Morgan 10/14
T: A Tale of Two Vampires - Katie MacAlister 11/16

D: Ho-Ho-Homicide - Kaitlyn Dunnett 10/5
R: Blind Faith - Rebecca Zanetti 10/16
E: The Wrong Hostage - Elizabeth Lowell 10/12
N: No Rest for the Dead - Andrew Gulli 11/20
C: The Devil's Triangle - Catherine Coulter 12/9
H: Highland Wolf Pact - Selena Kitt 10/31
E: Foul Play - Janet Evanovich 10/21
X:
E: The Woman in Blue - Elly Griffiths 12/7
C: Wife by Wednesday - Catherine Bybee 12/13
R: White Trash Zombie Unchained - Diana Rowland 10/7
A: Dead Dry - Sarah Andrews 12/13
B: Body Check - Deirdre Martin 11/20
L: Dolled Up to Die - Lorena McCourtney 11/6
E: Field of Graves - J.T. Ellison 11/17
F: Forgive Me - Daniel Palmer 11/13
A: Darkness Avenged - Alexandra Ivy 11/9
T: To Brie or Not To Brie - Avery Aames 11/27
H: How to Wash a Cat - Rebecca M. Hale 11/22
O: The Obsidian Chamber - Douglas Preston 11/5
M: Midnight's Captive - Donna Grant 10/12
L: The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster - Scott Wilbanks 11/29
E: The Persian Always Meows Twice - Eileen Watkins 10/26
S: The Six-Gun Tarot - R.S. Belcher 10/25
S: The Four Sworn: Spring Equinox - Lenore Sagaskie 12/15
G: Godsgrave - Jay Kristoff 10/24
O: Strong, Sleek and Sinful - Lorie O'Clare 11/4
U: Ukulele Murder - Leslie Langtry 10/23
N: The Naked Duke - Sally MacKenzie 12/16
D: Dreadmarrow Thief - Marjory Kaptanoglu 12/9
E: Death Echo - Elizabeth Lowell 11/25
R: The Dragon Caller - Pauline M. Ross 12/23
H: How to Seduce a Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks 12/14
A: Her Own Devices - Shelly Adina 12/7
M: Mind Game - Iris Johansen 12/11
P: Dorothy Must Die - Danielle Paige 10/19
E: The Ghost Fields - Elly Griffiths 11/28
R: Stars of Fortune - Nora Roberts 12/31
I: In Stone's Clasp - Christie Golden 11/6
M: Midnight's Temptation - Donna Grant 11/30
M: Malevolent - Jana DeLeon 12/16
E: Widow’s Web - Jennifer Estep 11/30
R: Red 1-2-3 - John Katzenbach 12/9
S: Sick Fux - Tillie Cole 12/30
E: The Zig Zag Girl - Elly Griffiths 12/25
D: Duck the Halls - Donna Andrews 12/25
N: Silver Silence - Nalini Singh 12/13
O: Of Grave Concern - Max McCoy 12/4
S: Intensity - Sherrilyn Kenyon 12/9
E: Echoes of Ice - Boone Brux 11/26
D: Almost Like Being in Love - Christina Dodd 12/31
I: Immune - Shannon Mayer 12/30
V: Vampires Dead Ahead - Cheyenne McCray 12/5
E: Everlasting Enchantment - Kathryne Kennedy 12/18
O: Origin Phase - RTW Lipkin 12/17
V: The Vampire King - Heather Killough-Walden 2/5
E: Deadly Sting - Jennifer Estep 2/5
R: Mister Hockey - Lia Riley 2/15
F: Forever... - Jude Deveraux 11/19
L: Lady of Devices - Shelley Adina 11/23
O: Ox-Tales: Earth - Mark Ellingham 2/27
W: Wait for Dark - Kay Hooper 10/31
P: Pig Island - Mo Hayder 11/12
L: Something in the House - D.L. Lewis 2/23
U: Into the Fire - Amanda Usen 12/28
N: Not What You Seem - Lena Maye 12/21
G: Midnight's Promise - Donna Grant 2/13
E: Dragon Spawn - Eileen Wilks 2/27
Q:
U:
E: Heart of Venom - Jennifer Estep 3/8
L: Love Without Blood - Raz Steel 3/10
L: Laced with Magic - Barbara Bretton 3/20
S: Simply Irresistible - Rachel Gibson 3/22
W: Whom the Gods Love - M.M. Perry 3/26
A: Hide Your Heart - Tracey Alvarez 12/27
M: McKnight in Shining Armor - Tami Hoag 3/17
P: Terrier - Tamora Pierce 12/23
U:
N: Stardust - Neil Gaiman 3/22
D: Demon Mistress - Yasmine Galenorn 3/16
E: Dragon Blood - Eileen Wilks 3/18
R: Relocating MIA - Rebecca Lerwill 3/4
S: Split - Swati Avasthi 3/24
E: Etched in Bone - Anne Bishop 3/31
A: A Killing Frost - Hannah Alexander 12/27
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