2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Diane's 101+ in 2020

Goal: 97/101+

January
1. ★★★★★ (2017) Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
2. ★★★☆☆ (2009) The Brutal Telling, Louise Penny
3. ★★★★☆ (2010) Bury Your Dead, Louise Penny
4. ★★★☆☆ (2011) A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny
5. ★★★☆☆ (2012) The Beautiful Mystery, Louise Penny
6. ★★★★☆ (2013) How the Light Gets In, Louise Penny
7. ★★★☆☆ (2013) The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman

February
8. ★★★★☆ (2013) Pardonable Lies, Jacqueline Winspear
9. ★★★★☆ (2019) Hair Love, Matthew A. Cherry
10. ★★★★☆ (2003) The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau
11. ★★★☆☆ (2004) The People of Sparks, Jeanne DuPrau
12. ★★★☆☆ (2008) The Diamond of Darkhold, Jeanne DuPrau
13. ★★★☆☆ (2006) The Prophet of Yonwood, Jeanne DuPrau

March
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April
14. ★★☆☆☆ (2019) The Wives, Tarryn Fisher
15. ★★★☆☆ (1983) The Anodyne Necklace, Martha Grimes
16. ★★★☆☆ (1984) The Dirty Duck, Martha Grimes
17. ★★★☆☆ (1984) Jerusalem Inn, Martha Grimes
18. ★★★☆☆ (1985) Help the Poor Struggler, Martha Grimes
19. ★★★☆☆ (1985) The Deer Leap, Martha Grimes
20. ★★☆☆☆ (1986) I Am the Only Running Footman, Martha Grimes

May
21. ★★★★☆ (2018) The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
22. ★★★☆☆ (2020) The Other Mrs., Mary Kubica
23. ★★★☆☆ (2008) When Will There Be Good News?, Kate Atkinson
24. ★★★☆☆ (2010) Started Early, Took My Dog, Kate Atkinson
25. ★★★☆☆ (2019) Big Sky, Kate Atkinson
26. ★★★☆☆ (2020) Master Class, Christina Dalcher
27. ★★★☆☆ (2006) Messenger of Truth, Jacqueline Winspear
28. ★★★☆☆ (2008) An Incomplete Revenge, Jacqueline Winspear
29. ★★★☆☆ (2009) Among the Mad, Jacqueline Winspear
30. ★★★☆☆ (2010) The Mapping of Love and Death, Jacqueline Winspear
31. ★★★☆☆ (2011) A Lesson in Secrets, Jacqueline Winspear
32. ★★★☆☆ (2012) Elegy for Eddie, Jacqueline Winspear
33. ★★★☆☆ (2012) Mr. Churchill's Secretary, Susan Elia MacNeal

June
34. ★★★☆☆ (2009) A Duty to the Dead, Charles Todd
35. ★★★☆☆ (2010) An Impartial Witness, Charles Todd
36. ★★★☆☆ (2011) A Bitter Truth, Charles Todd
37. ★★★☆☆ (2012) An Unmarked Grave, Charles Todd
38. ★★★☆☆ (2013) A Question of Honor, Charles Todd
39. ★★★☆☆ (2014) An Unwilling Accomplice, Charles Todd
40. ★★★☆☆ (2015) A Pattern of Lies, Charles Todd
41. ★★★☆☆ (2016) The Shattered Tree, Charles Todd
42. ★★★☆☆ (2017) A Casualty of War, Charles Todd
43. ★★★☆☆ (2018) A Forgotten Place, Charles Todd
44. ★★★☆☆ (2019) A Cruel Deception, Charles Todd
45. ★★★★☆ (2005) Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
46. ★★★☆☆ (2005) Pretties, Scott Westerfeld
47. ★★★☆☆ (2006) Specials, Scott Westerfeld

July
48. ★★★☆☆ (2019) Wanderers, Chuck Wendig
49. ★★★★☆ (2017) Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, Balli Kaur Jaswal
50. ★★★★☆ (2019) Recursion, Blake Crouch
51. ★★★★☆ (2018) The Witch Elm, Tana French
52. ★★★★☆ (1993) The Giver, Lois Lowry
53. ★★★★☆ (2013) The Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith

August
54. ★★★☆☆ (2015) Career of Evil, Robert Galbraith
55. ★★★★☆ (2020) The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
56. ★★★☆☆ (2014) The Silkworm, Robert Galbraith
57. ★★★☆☆ (2018) Lethal White, Robert Galbraith
58. ★★★★☆ (2008) The Likeness, Tana French
59. ★★★☆☆ (2013) Leaving Everything Most Loved, Jacqueline Winspear
60. ★★★☆☆ (2015) A Dangerous Place, Jacqueline Winspear
61. ★★★☆☆ (2016) Journey to Munich, Jacqueline Winspear

September
62. ★★★☆☆ (2017) In This Grave Hour, Jacqueline Winspear
63. ★★★☆☆ (2018) To Die But Once, Jacqueline Winspear
64. ★★★☆☆ (2019) The American Agent, Jacqueline Winspear
65. ★★★☆☆ (2018) The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris
66. ★★★★☆ (2019) A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
67. ★★★★☆ (2012) Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, Deborah Feldman
68. ★★★★☆ (2019) The Grammarians, Cathleen Schine

October
69. ★★★☆☆ (1995) The Romance Reader, Pearl Abraham
70. ★★★☆☆ (2016) Behind Closed Doors, B.A. Paris
71. ★★★☆☆ (2019) The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
72. ★★★☆☆ (2006) Raven Black, Ann Cleeves
73. ★★★★☆ (1950) A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
74. ★★★★★ (2008) Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
75. ★★★★☆ (2001) Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks

November
76. ★★★☆☆ (2020) Axiom's End, Lindsay Ellis
77. ★★★☆☆ (2020) Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith
78. ★★★☆☆ (2016) Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz
79. ★★★☆☆ (2019) The Hunting Party, Lucy Foley
80. ★★★★☆ (2019) Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson

December
81. ★★☆☆☆ (2009) The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly
82. ★★★★★ (2008) The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
83. ★★★★☆ (2009) Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
84. ★★★★☆ (2010) Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
85. ★★★☆☆ (2020) The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins
86. ★★★★☆ (2006) One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
87. ★★★★☆ (2019) On the Come Up, Angie Thomas
88. ★★★★★ (1991) Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
89. ★★★★★ (2013) A Tale for the Time Being
90. ★★★★☆ (2019) Sulwe, Lupita Nyong'o
91. ★★★★★ (1997) Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx
92. ★★★☆☆ (2017) The Secret, Book & Scone Society, Ellery Adams
93. ★★★★☆ (2019) The Night Diary, Veera Hiranandani
94. ★★★★☆ (2011) The Tiger's Wife, Téa Obreht
95. ★★★★☆ (2019) The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family, Ibtihaj Muhammad
96. ★★★☆☆ (2018) I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life, Anne Bogel
97. ★★★★☆ (1940) Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace

Wishing you the best of luck, Dianne!