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Trim the TBR List💛January #19 - A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
💛February #17- A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell [Fits Feb Tag= Life] (Culture Italy, doesn't fit theme)
💛March #34 - The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker [Fits March Tag=Debut]
💛April #12 - Educated by Tara Westover. [Fits April tag=History]
💛May #24 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. [Fits May tag=Beautiful]
💛June #30 Ordinary Grace
💛July #23 The Shadow of the Wind
💛August #16 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry [Fits August tag= 21st Century]
💛September #3 Beartown by Frederik Backman [Fits September tag = Cultural]
October #32 A Monstrous Regiment of Women
(Mary Russell series, next book in series), by Laurie R King [Fits October Tag = Crime Fiction]
Trim The TBR List 2019 - Revised for July - December 2019
#1 An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones - Kelly, NancyJ
#2 A Piece of the World, by Christina Baker Kline - Nancyj, Diana, Amy
#3 Beartown by Frederik Backman Nicole, NancyJ, Oliver, MargieD2017, Charlotte, Joi, Diana
#4 When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (Nancyj, Hebah?)
#5
#6 Women of the Silk - Book Concierge, LindaC, Nancyj,
#7 The Book Thief – Kelly, Margie, Diana, NancyJ
#8 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer - Nancyj, BooknBlue
#9
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon (moved from #23)
#10 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson - Nancyj, BooknBlue
#11 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Nancy, Nicole
💛#12 Educated by Tara Westover - NancyJ, Linda C, Margie, Jw, Joy, Susie
#13 News of the World by Paulette Jiles - Nancyj, Anita, BookConcierge
#14 Poldark Saga (next in series) by Winston Graham
#15 Still Alice by Lisa Genova
💛#16 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - August 2019
💛#17 A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell – Barbara, Anita, Nancyj - February 2019
#18
💛#19 A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne - Buddy read Amy, KateNZ , Joanne, and Sue, NancyJ - Read January 2019
#20
#21 Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Jaswal – Book Concierge, BooknBlues , NancyJ, Charlotte
#22 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
💛#23 New: The Shadow of the Wind (Nancyj, margieD) Read in July 2019
[[book:Seven Stones to Stand or Fall|32739396] by Diana Gabaldon moved to: #9]
✔#24 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
#25 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
#26
#27 The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman - Kelly, Barbara, Amy, Charlotte, Nancyj
#28 These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 - Barbara, Joanne, LindaC, Nancj
#29
💛#30 Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
#31 The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (Cora, NancyJ and KSZR?)
#32 The Beekeeper's Apprentice(Mary Russell series, next book in series), by Laurie R King - Oct 2019
#33 Kindred by Octavia Butler (Magdelana, Sue, NancyJ)
💛#34 The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, (Joanne, Nicole, Hebah, NancyJ) - March 2019
#35 The Library Book by Susan Orlean - NancyJ, Oliver, Margie, Kelly)
#36 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
NEW
#23 The Shadow of the Wind (#1 or next in series)
#5 A Great Reckoning, Louise Penny (or next in series)
#18 Winternight Trilogy (#1 or next in series)
#20 Don't Let me Go
#26 Fall of Giants
#29 Stories of Your Life and Others
Eliminated
Circling the Sun #5
Storyteller's secret #9
Once Upon a River #18 (read)
Where the Crawdads Sing #20
Just an ordinary girl #26
What we talk about when we talk about love #23
Moved
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon from #23 to #9
Monthly reading and PBT tagsJanuary tag: Action and Adventure
Pillars of the Earth
Where the Red Fern Grows
Need to Know
The President is Missing
The Postman always Rings Twice
Jan - other:
Sing Unburied Sing
A Ladder to the sky
February Tag: Life
Culture/international readingJanuary culture theme = Iraq - 2 books
A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
February culture theme = Portugal - 0 books
March culture theme = South Korea - 2 books
White Chrysanthemum
Pachinko (Korea, Japan)
April culture theme= Italy - 3 books
I, Claudius
The Passion of Artemisia
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
May culture theme = Brazil - 1 book
The Air You Breathe
June culture theme = Greece - 1 book
The Penelopiad
July culture theme = Syria - 1 book
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
August culture theme = AustraliaThe Lost Man
September culture theme = Egypt Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab SpringBassemYoussef
October Spain
Other Cultural/International books:
The Widows of Malabar Hill - India 1921
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity - India
A Thread of Grace - NW Italy WWII 1943-45
The Count of Monte Cristo - France, Italy
The Caregiver - Brazil, Brazilian immigrant in California
Bless Me, Ultima - Mexican/Chicano/American
Sing, Unburied, Sing - African American
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - Native American - early 1900's
The Pillars of the Earth - England 1100's
Rebecca - England 1930s, Monte Carlo
The Picture of Dorian Gray - England 1800's
Circe - Ancient Greece
The Song of Achilles - Ancient Greece
A Place for Us - Muslim Indian immigrants in US
Exit West
Plus 'London' books in July 2019
The Lost Man - Australian
Beartown - Sweden
What the Wind Knows - Ireland
When All Is Said - Ireland
The Sun Also Rises - Spain
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Vietnam
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"- Benin, Africa
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - Newfoundland. Canada
A Great Reckoning - Quebec, Canada
The Nightingale - France
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
The Tenth Muse US, China
The Shadow of the Wind - Spain
The Heart's Invisible Furies - Ireland (Netherlands, US)
Great American Read booksRead at least 12 more GAR books focusing on genre variety, diverse authors, and big reads.
✅;The Pillars of the Earth First quarter Big Read 2019
✅The Count of Monte Cristo Second quarter 2019
Crime and Punishment Third quarter 2019
Outlander Fourth quarter 2019 - Currently reading
✅Where the Red Fern Grows -done
✅Rebecca -done
✅Adventures of Tom Sawyer - done
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -reading
✅Picture of Dorian Gray -done
✅Bless Me, Ultima - done
Foundation
✅White Teeth - July
✅The Sun Also Rises
✅Another Country
Charlotte's Web
Flowers in the attic
✅Gilead - December
Stretching boundaries - Diversity challenges COMPLETED✅Genre diversity - classic, historical fiction, mystery, thriller, gothic, children, adventure, contemporary, romance, non-fiction, memoir, fantasy. history, magical realism
✅Diversity themes - Native American, Latino American, African American, disability, lgbtq,
✅Cultural/countries - Brazil, Iraq, Italy, Korea, India, France, UK,
✅3 Century challenge - based on publication date
✅3 Country challenge - based on author's nationality and language, translated, setting
✅3 Continent challenge
"Big Books" - read at least 4 big book (800+ pages), 4 GAR - Count of Monte Cristo, Pillars of the Earth
History/culture - breadth vs depth
Local Book clubsAud Book Club
💛Need to Know- Karen Cleveland (10-Jan)
💚Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann (7-Feb) Reread
🧡The Woman in the Window - A. J. Finn (7-Mar)
💜Circe - Madeline Miller (11-Apr) Read in Nov '18. Reread.
Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate (2-May) Read in '18 (skimmed)
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph- Jan Swafford (5- Sept)
💛Plum Tea Crazy - Laura Childs (3-Oct)
💚Educated - Tara Westover (7- Nov)
💙Gilead- Marilyn Robinson (5 Dec)
Village book club
💙Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls (10-Jan) Done. Action/Adventure tag.
💜The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey (14-Feb) [India]
💚Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann (14-Mar) [Native American]
Love and Ruin - Paula McLain (April) -skipped
💛The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah (9-May)
🧡Exit West - Mohsin Hamid (13-Jun)
💜Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity - Katherine Boo (11-Jul)
💙The Nightingale- Kristin Hannah (8-Aug) - reread
💜Hidden Figures- Margot Lee Shetterly (12-Sep)
💙The Underground Railroad- Colson Whitehead (10-Oct)
💚Educated Educated: a memoir - Tara Westover (14-Nov) – Lead meeting, bring food
This is How It Always Is - Laurie Frankel (12-Dec)
Eggert
💗Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
💙Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier
💜Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
💜Lost Children Archive
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Can we vote? Thread of Grace, Golem and Jinni. Have read the Samarai's Garden years ago, and probably Women of Silk too, but I don't really remember either... Samarai's Garden?
Not a Gaiman fan yet, (have read two), but I keep Neverwhere on my TBR, because someday I will need it for a tag. It was the first to come up for action adventure on page 9.
You have some great lists Nancy. I'm super excited you joined PBT.
One last thing - I'm not the Amy that's in a buddy read for marriage of Opposites. Its merely my favorite or tied favorite book I've ever read. The other also being an Alice Hoffman book - the Dovekeepers.
Other thoughts - A Piece of the World is my number 2 if you choose it. I didn't put Storytellers Secret on my TBR because I want to read it this year for sure. I think that would make a great Buddy Read. Loved loved loved Gentleman in Moscow, Alice Network, Golem and the Jinni.... Need to look again, you many great ones up there.
Of course! Ordinary Grace! I just loved that book. I hope that helps with your list.
Amy wrote: "Can we vote? Thread of Grace, Golem and Jinni. Have read the Samarai's Garden years ago, and probably Women of Silk too, but I don't really remember either... Samarai's Garden?
Not a Gaiman fan ..."
It sounds like it's time for every Amy here to add an initial!
I may add another letter/word/name soon to my name too.
NancyJ wrote: "Samurais Garden vs women of Silk"
Already read Samurai's Garden .... I have Women Of The Silk at # 6 (I think J.W. also has it there)
Alice Network, by Kate QuinnWe were the Lucky Ones, by Georgia Hunter
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
These were all 5 star reads for me-I don't think you will wrong with any of them!
I have Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer,Hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson and Samurai's Garden on my TBR.Let me know if you decide to include them and we can line up our numbers.
Booknblues wrote: "I have Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer,Hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson and Samurai's Garden on my TBR.Let ..."
Hi, I somehow missed this message. I'm definitely including Guernsey and 100 year old man. Pick any numbers that aren't taken above.
I switched from Samurai's garden to Women of Silk.
NancyJ wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "I have Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer,Hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson and Samurai's Gard..."I added Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society at 8 and Hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared at 10
Booknblues wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "I have Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer,Hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson and..."Great! These two have been on my TBR list longer than I've been on goodreads.
2019 Goal of 50 books - completed in May.Goal raised to 100 - COMPLETED
PBT Tags 12(24) On target. >24 books
Trim the TBR 12 books. COMPLETED
Horizon Culture reads 12 (24) - COMPLETED
Around the World - COMPLETED
Great American Read - 4 quarterly Big Books + 6 others - Close - 3 quarterly, and 9 others - ON TARGET
Local Bookclubs 14-18 - COMPLETED
Giveaways - 6+ reviews - On target
Classics - 6+ - COMPLETED
HIstorical Fiction 6+ COMPLETED
Diversity 6+ COMPLETED
Stretching the boundaries goals - COMPLETED
Favorite books of 2019When All Is Said - Anne Griffin
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II - Sonia Purnell
White Chrysanthemum - Mary Lynn Bracht
The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
Educated - Tara Westover
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar
Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity - Katherine Boo
What the Wind Knows - Amy Harmon
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 - Nancy E Turner
Beartown - Fredrik Backman
Us Against You - Fredrik Backman
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
Kindred - Octavia Butler
A Ladder to the Sky - John Boyne
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love - Dani Shapiro
This is How It Always Is -Laurie Frankel
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
Favorite books of 2010-2019 (I joined goodreads in 2017, so I'm missing dates on many of the books I read before this.)The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Educated - Tara Westover
The Help - Katherine Stockett
Circe - Madeline Miller
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Outlander -Diana Gabaldon
A Man Called Ove
The Color Purple
The Heart's Invisible Furies
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Goal raised to 100
PBT Tags 12(24) On target. >24 books
Trim the TBR 12 books. On target
Horizon Culture reads 12 (24) - COMPLETED
Around the World - COMPLETED - 30 books outside of US and England
Great American Read - 4 quarterly Big Books + 6 (12) others -3 quarterly, and 9 others - ON TARGET
Local Bookclubs 14-18 - COMPLETED
Giveaways - 6+ reviews -
Classics - 6+ - COMPLETED
HIstorical Fiction 6+ COMPLETED
Diversity 6+ COMPLETED
Stretching the boundaries goals - COMPLETED