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REGULAR
📚1. A book that published in 2021 - The Four Winds
📚2. An Afrofuturist book - Kindred
📚3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover - The Portrait of a Mirror
📚4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign - Fahrenheit 451
📚5. A dark academia book - Bunny
📚6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title - The Girl with the Pearl Earring
📚7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job - The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
📚8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction - Hamnet
📚9. A book with a family tree - Crazy Rich Asians
📚10. A bestseller from the 1990s - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
📚11. A book about forgetting - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
📚12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.) - Look Again
📚13. A locked-room mystery - Anxious People
📚14. A book set in a restaurant - The Chicken Sisters
📚15. A book with a black-and-white cover - Send for Me
📚16. A book by an indigenous author - The Vanishing Half
📚17. A book that has the same title as a song - Three Wishes
📚18. A book about a subject you are passionate about - Tales from the St. Joseph's Hardwood: The Hawk Will Never Die - own
📚19. A book that discusses body positivity - Big Summer
📚20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
📚21. A genre hybrid - Magic Lessons
📚22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors - A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
📚23. A book with something broken on the cover - It Ends with Us
📚24. A book by a Muslim American author - A Thousand Splendid Suns
📚25. A book that was published anonymously - Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
📚26. A book with an oxymoron in the title - Small Great Things
📚27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts - In a Holidaze
📚28. A magical realism book - The Lovely Bones
📚 29. A book set in multiple countries - The Signature of All Things
📚30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021 - Dear Bob and Sue
📚31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
📚32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z” - Queen Bee
📚33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) - Little Women
📚34. A book about a social justice issue - Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
📚35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels) - Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
📚36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads - Excavation
📚37. A book you think your best friend would like - Allie and Bea
📚38. A book about art or an artist - The Silent Patient
📚39. A book everyone seems to have read but you - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
📚40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - a debut novel (from 2019) - The Sanatorium
ADVANCED
📚41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list - 2666
📚42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list - Deliver Us from Evil
📚43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover - Grace
📚44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover - The Jungle
📚45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time - Jemima J
📚46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t - Hamilton: The Revolution
📚47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing - Jameer Nelson: This Jameer Kid
📚48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
📚49. A DNF book from your TBR list - Lab Girl
📚50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) - White Ivy

Progress: 30/30
📚1. The Girl with the Pearl Earring
📚2. Jameer Nelson: This Jameer Kid
📚3. Outlawed
📚4. The Cat Who Went Bananas
📚5. Allie and Bea
📚6. Magic Lessons
📚7. How to Find Love in a Bookshop
📚8. Thinner
📚9. The Lovely Bones
📚10. Luck or Something Like It
📚11. The Smoke Jumper
📚12. The Portrait of a Mirror
📚13. Malibu Rising
📚14. Grace
📚15. Jemima J
📚16. The High Tide Club
📚17. What's Mine and Yours
📚18. The Four Winds
📚19. Death Comes to Pemberley
📚20. Once There Were Wolves
📚21. The Lincoln Highway
📚22. The Safekeeper
📚23. The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
📚24. Different Seasons
📚25. Beneath the Stairs
📚26. N is for Noose
📚27. Tales from the St. Joseph's Hardwood: The Hawk Will Never Die
📚28. The Family
📚29. One Night in the ER
📚30. Personal Injuries

25/25 books
12/12 bingos
📚B1 - Young Adult Fantasy - The One and Only Ivan
📚B2 - Suspense - F is for Fugitive
📚B3 - Humor & Comedy - Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
📚B4 - Historical Nonfiction - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
📚B5 - Literary Fiction - Black Buck
📚I1 - Romance - Crazy Rich Asians
📚I2 - Self-Help - Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
📚I3 - Adventure - A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
📚I4 - Classics - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
📚I5 - Short Stories or Novella - The Office of Historical Corrections
📚N1 - Chick-lit - The Chicken Sisters
📚N2 - Memoir - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
📚N3 - Anything Goes - Girl with the Pearl Earring
📚N4 - Fantasy - Home Before Dark
📚N5 - Tragedy - The Lovely Bones
📚G1 - Paranormal - The Book of Life
📚G2 - General Nonfiction - Lab Girl
📚G3 - Young Adult - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
📚G4 - Science Fiction - Fahrenheit 451
📚G5 - Mystery or Thriller - C is for Corpse
📚O1 - Historical Fiction - The Things We Cannot Say
📚O2 - Crime - We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
📚O3 - Poetry - Dearly: New Poems
📚O4 - Westerns - Outlawed
📚O5 - Magical Realism - Magic Lessons

✔️January - Station Eleven (previously read)
📚February - The Snow Child
✔️March - The Night Circus (previously read)
📚April - Anxious People
📚May - The Ten Thousand Doors of January
📚June - The Midnight Library
📚July - Daughter of the Pirate King
📚August - The Alchemist
📚September - Project Hail Mary
📚October - The Lost Apothecary
November - The Goldfinch
✔️December - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (previously read)

📚January - Black Buck
📚February #1 - The Four Winds
📚February #2 - Send for Me
📚March - What's Mine and Yours
📚April - Good Company
📚May - Great Circle
📚June - Malibu Rising
📚July - Hell of a Book
📚August - The Turnout
September - Beautiful Country: A Memoir - could not read
📚October - The Lincoln Highway
📚November - The Family
⭐December - Bright Burning Things

📚January - Outlawed
📚Winter YA - You Have a Match
📚February - The Sanatorium
📚March - Infinite Country
📚Spring YA - Firekeeper's Daughter
📚April - Northern Spy
📚May - The Last Thing He Told Me
📚Summer YA - Tokyo Ever After
📚June - Seven Days in June
📚July - The Paper Palace
📚Late Summer YA - The Downstairs Girl
📚August - We Were Never Here
📚September - L.A. Weather
📚October - Sankofa
📚Fall YA - Within These Wicked Walls
📚November - The Island of Missing Trees
📚December - Lucky

DATE: July 6, 2020 - July 5, 2021
LEVEL: Washington - 25 or more books
COMPLETED: 50/50
COMPLETED JULY 5, 2021
✔️Alabama (AL) - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
📚Alaska (AK) - The Snow Child
✔️Arizona (AZ) - Half Broke Horses
📚Arkansas (AR) - True Grit
✔️California (CA) - The Quilter's Homecoming
📚Colorado (CO) - The Shining
📚Connecticut (CT) - Small Great Things
📚Delaware (DE) - Fight Club
✔️Florida (FL) - The Nickel Boys
✔️Georgia (GA) - Dear Martin
✔️Hawaii (HI) - The Unhoneymooners
📚Idaho (ID) - Housekeeping
✔️Illinois (IL) - Finding Langston
✔️Indiana (IN) - You Should See Me in a Crown
📚Iowa (IA) - Shoeless Joe
📚Kansas (KS) - The Chicken Sisters
✔️Kentucky (KY) - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
✔️Louisiana (LA) - Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery
✔️Maine (ME) - The One-in-a-Million Boy
✔️Maryland (MD) - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
✔️Massachusetts (MA) - The Identicals
✔️Michigan (MI) - The Recipe Box
✔️Minnesota (MN) - Ordinary Grace
📚Mississippi (MS) - The Runaway Jury
✔️Missouri (MO) - The Whole Town's Talking
📚Montana (MT) - The Smoke Jumper
📚Nebraska (NE) - Attachments
📚Nevada (NV) - The Heist
📚New Hampshire (NH) - A Separate Peace
✔️New Jersey (NJ) - I've Got My Eyes on You
📚New Mexico (NM) - Death Comes for the Archbishop
✔️New York (NY) - Still Life with Bread Crumbs
✔️North Carolina (NC) - A Walk to Remember
📚North Dakota (ND) - Love Medicine
✔️Ohio (OH) - Little Fires Everywhere
✔️Oklahoma (OK) - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
✔️Oregon (OR) - If I Stay
✔️Pennsylvania (PA) - Luckiest Girl Alive
✔️Rhode Island (RI) - The Geometry of Sisters
✔️South Carolina (SC) - One Summer
📚South Dakota (SD) - Black Hills
✔️Tennessee (TN) - Stillhouse Lake
✔️Texas (TX) - Lonesome Dove
📚Utah (UT) - The 19th Wife
✔️Vermont (VT) - The Broken Girls
✔️Virginia (VA) - Shine Shine Shine
✔️Washington (WA) - Rose Harbor in Bloom
📚West Virginia (WV) - The Good Lord Bird
📚Wisconsin (WI) - Little House in the Big Woods
📚Wyoming (WY) - The Cold Dish

✔️George Washington - His Excellency: George Washington (12/20/19)
✔️Adams, John 1797-1801 - John Adams (10/23/20)
✔️Jefferson, Thomas 1801-1809 - Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (12/1/20)
✔️Madison, James 1809-1817 - James Madison (12/16/20)
📚Monroe, James 1817-1825 - The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness (1/27/21)
📚Adams, John Quincy 1825-1829 - John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life (2/18/21)
📚Jackson, Andrew 1829-1837 - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (3/21/21)
📚Van Buren, Martin 1837-1841 - Martin Van Buren (6/7/21)
📚Harrison, William Henry 1841 - William Henry Harrison (7/22/21)
📚Tyler, John 1841-1845 - John Tyler, the Accidental President (9/8/21)
📚Polk, James 1845-1849 - Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (10/5/21)
📚 Taylor, Zachary 1849-1850 - Zachary Taylor (12/30/21)
Filmore, Millard 1850-1853
Pierce, Franklin 1853-1857
Buchanan, James 1857-1861
Lincoln, Abraham 1861-1865
Johnson, Andrew 1865-1869
Grant, Ulysses S. 1869-1877
Hayes, Rutherford B. 1877-1881
Garfield, James 1881
Arthur, Chester 1881-1885
Cleveland, Grover 1885-1893
Harrison, Benjamin 1889-1893
Cleveland, Grover 1893-1897
McKinley, William 1897-1901
Roosvelt, Theodore 1901-1909
Taft, William H. 1909-1913
Wilson, Wodrow 1913-1921
Harding, Warren 1921-1923
Coolidge, Calvin 1923-1929
Hoover, Herbert 1929-1933
Roosvelt, Franklin D. 1933-1945
Truman, Harry 1945-1953
Eisenhower, Dwight 1953-1961
Kennedy, John F 1961-1963
Johnson, Lyndon 1963-1969
Nixon, Richard 1969-1974
Ford, Gerald 1974-1977
Carter, Jimmy 1977-1981
Reagan, Ronald 1981-1989
Bush, George H.W. 1989-1993
Clinton, William J. 1993-2001
Bush, George W. 2001-2009
Obama, Barack 2009-2017
Trump, Donald J. 2017-2021
Biden, Joseph R. 2021-

Message 84
15 books/5 deductions
15/15 books
5/5 deductions
Suspects: (Color on cover)
Mr Green - green
Colonel Mustard - yellow
Mrs Peacock - blue
Professor Plum - purple
Miss Scarlet - red
Mrs White - white
Weapons
Read a book with the following word (or related word, not limited to the examples below) on the cover or in the title:
Candlestick or flames or fire
Dagger or knife or sword
Lead Pipe or musical instrument or writing instrument
Revolver or gun or pistol
Rope or string or ribbon
Wrench or spanner or any other tool
Rooms
Ballroom: Read a book which features a character who is a dancer
Billiard Room: Read a book that features your favourite hobby, game, sport or craft.
Cellar: In the board game, the solution can be found here so read a detective, mystery or true crime book
Conservatory: Read a book where a character has to save or conserve someone or something
Dining Room: Read a book with an item of food or drink on the cover
Hall: A hall tends to be the first room that welcomes you to the manor so read a book that is the first in a series.
Kitchen: Read a cookery book or a book with a chef as a character
Library: Read a book you have borrowed from a library or from someone else
Lounge: Here you can relax with a book in your favourite genre.
Secret Passages: Read a book with "secret" in the title
Study: Read a book about a subject you're passionate about or would like to learn more about
Each time complete the following sentence - "I deduce it was [suspect] in the [room] with the [weapon],"
Deduction #1
📚Suspect - Colonel Mustard - Black Buck
📚Weapon - Rope - D Is For Deadbeat
📚Room - Hall - Crazy Rich Asians
"I deduce it was Colonel Mustard in the Hall with the Rope."
Deduction #2
📚Suspect - Professor Plum - C is for Corpse
📚Weapon - Candlestick - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
📚Room - Library - The Things We Cannot Say
"I deduce it was Professor Plum in the Library with the Candlestick."
Deduction #3
📚Suspect - Mrs. White - White Ivy
📚Weapon - Candlestick - Grace
📚Room - Cellar - Three to Get Deadly
"I deduce it was Mrs. White in the Cellar with the Candlestick."
Deduction #4
📚Suspect - Mr. Green - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
📚Weapon - Revolver - The Cold Dish
📚Room - Study - Jameer: The Story of Jameer Nelson and How He Came to Be a Phenomenon on the Basketball Court and in Life
"I deduce it was Mr. Green in the Study with the Revolver."
Deduction #5
📚Suspect - Mrs. Peacock - F is for Fugitive
📚Weapon - Wrench - Lab Girl
📚Room - Kitchen - The Chicken Sisters
"I deduce it was Mrs. Peacock in the Kitchen with the Wrench."

Duration: March 1 to May 31, 2021
Message #13
25/25
📚1. Read a book that includes a party or anniversary celebration - In a Holidaze
📚2. Read a book that features a bibliophile, bookworm, librarian, or bookshop - How to Find Love in a Bookshop
📚3. Read a book that you shelved during your first month of being a member of this group. - October 2019 - Where the Story Starts
📚4. Read a book about making new friends - Bunny
📚5. Read a book that was read for this challenge by another participant - One of Us Is Next
📚6. Read a book featuring a scene with two or more people reading together - Euphoria
📚7. Read a book starting with “L,” the 12th letter of the alphabet (ignore “a” and “the”). - The Lovely Bones
📚8. Reread a book you read in 2012 - Little Women
📚9. Read a book in a series with at least 12 books - G is for Gumshoe
📚10. Read a book which has been translated into 25 or more languages - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
📚11. Read a book with at least 25 chapters or sections - E is for Evidence
📚12. Read a book set in 2012 or about a significant event you personally experienced that year - Dear Bob and Sue
📚13. Read a book either published in 2012 or included in the Best Books of 2012 listopia - The Time Keeper
📚14. Read a book with 20, 12, 2012 or 25 in the title - Twelve Sharp
📚15. Read a book with over 25,000 ratings on Goodreads - Gathering Blue
📚16. Read a book by an author who has written more than 25 books - Voices in Summer
📚17. Read a book with a title that has at least 25 characters, excluding spaces - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
📚 18. Read a book with a title starting with “Y,” the 25th letter of the alphabet (ignore “a” and “the”). - Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter
📚19. Read a book that was written when the author was under 25 years of age - Less Than Zero
📚20. Read a book written by a writer who has been writing for 25 or more years - Thinner
📚21. Read a book that you wish to read when you're 25. If you're over 25, read a book you read at that age or read a book you'd recommend now to your 25-year-old self - Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
📚22. Read a book with the word ‘silver’ in the title or with a silver cover - The Silver Star
📚23. Read the 12th or 25th book on your TBR list - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
📚24. Read a book in a series of 4 (25% of a series) - Red Queen
📚25. Read a book published in 1996 (25 years ago) Fight Club

May 1 to July 31
📚1. Where the Story Starts
📚2. Housekeeping
📚3. The Escape Room
📚4. Thinner
📚5. The Lost Orphan
📚6. Migrations
📚7. Infinite Country
📚8. Shoeless Joe
📚9. Moxie
📚10. The House in the Cerulean Sea
📚11. Good Company
📚12. Know My Name
📚13. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
📚 14. Dumplin'
📚15. The Lovely Bones
📚16. One of Us Is Next
📚17. The Office of Historical Corrections
📚18. Anxious People
📚19. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
📚20. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
📚21. Northern Spy
📚22. A Separate Peace
📚23. The Book of Unknown Americans
📚24. G is for Gumshoe
📚25. Inside the O'Briens
📚26. My Sister, the Serial Killer
📚27. Keep Moving: And Other Truths About Living Well Longer
📚28. Little House in the Big Woods
📚29. We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
📚30. Martin Van Buren
📚31. The Selection
📚32. The 19th Wife
📚33. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
📚34. The Book of Lost Names
📚35. The Midnight Library
📚36. Darkly Dreaming Dexter
📚37. The Cousins
📚38. The Heist
📚39. Luck or Something Like It
📚40. The Silent Patient
📚41. The Runaway Jury
📚42. Death Comes for the Archbishop
📚43. Interior Chinatown
📚44. They Both Die at the End
📚45. The Undomestic Goddess
📚46. Attachments
📚47. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
📚48. The Cactus
📚49. H is for Homicide
📚50. The Child Finder
📚51. The Cold Dish
📚52. The Wishing Spell
📚 53. Later
📚54. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
📚55. Murder at the Mansion
📚56. Firekeeper's Daughter
📚57. Fever 1793
📚58. Beach Read
📚59. This Time Next Year
📚60. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
📚61. Saint X
📚62. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
📚63. The Portrait of a Mirror
📚64. Love Letters
📚65. It Ends with Us
📚66. From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
📚67. Love Medicine
📚68. Three Wishes
📚69. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
📚70. The Shining
📚71. Dear Wife
📚72. An Anonymous Girl
📚73. The Smoke Jumper
📚74. Kindred
📚75. Cottage by the Sea
📚76. The Vanishing Half
📚 77. The Signature of All Things
📚78. Seven Days in June
📚79. Little Cruelties
📚80. I is for Innocent
📚81. The Perfect Stranger
📚82. Klara and the Sun
📚83. Flee, Fly, Flown
📚84. Great Circle
📚85. Ten Days in a Mad-House
📚86. Beaches, Bungalows, and Burglaries
📚87. A Family of Strangers
📚88. Ready Player One
📚89. Secrets of a Charmed Life
📚90. Malibu Rising
📚91. The Mothers
📚92. William Henry Harrison
📚93. Last Night at the Lobster
📚94. Milk Fed
📚95. Grace
📚96. Hamilton: The Revolution
📚97. Eight Perfect Murders
📚98. The Last Thing He Told Me
📚99. One Day in December
📚100. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
📚101. The Light We Lost
📚102. The Shadow of the Wind
📚103. How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People
📚104. Ladies' Night

October 9 - December 16
📚1. Death Comes to Pemberley
📚2. The Maltese Falcon
📚3. People We Meet on Vacation
📚4. A House for Mr Biswas
📚5. Once There Were Wolves
📚6. Lock Every Door
📚7. One True Loves
📚8. A Death in the Family
📚9. Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
📚10. House of Hollow
📚11. The Switch
📚12. Last Girl Gone
📚13. The Scarlet Letter
📚14. L is for Lawless
📚15. Astonish Me
📚16. The Maidens
📚17. Fall of Giants
📚18. L.A. Weather
📚19. Within These Wicked Walls
📚20. Winter of the World
📚21. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
📚22. Truly Devious
📚23. Mrs. McGinty's Dead
📚24. On Democracy
📚25. The Lincoln Highway
📚26. Not a Happy Family
📚27. A Summer Affair
📚28. Yellow Wife
📚29. Under the Tulip Tree
📚30. The Only Good Indians
📚31. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
📚32. The Island of Missing Trees
📚33. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
📚34. The Safekeeper
📚35. A Bad Day for Sunshine
📚36. M is for Malice
📚37. The Island of Sea Women
📚38. My Lovely Wife
📚39. Sankofa
📚40. Every Last Fear
📚41. Sooley
📚42. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
📚43. Home Front
📚44. We Begin at the End
📚45. The Plot
📚46. Harlem Shuffle
📚47. The Fireman
📚48. The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
📚49. The Shipping News
📚50. The Hamilton Affair
📚51. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
📚52. The Newcomer
📚53. Different Seasons
📚54. The Last Letter
📚55. The Color Purple
📚56. Before She Disappeared
📚57. Dear Evan Hansen
📚58. Flowers for Algernon
📚59. Beneath the Stairs
📚60. You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
📚61. Messenger of Truth
📚62. N is for Noose
📚63. Unearthly
Books mentioned in this topic
Personal Injuries (other topics)One Night in the ER (other topics)
The Family (other topics)
Tales from the St. Joseph's Hardwood: The Hawk Will Never Die (other topics)
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (other topics)
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How many will I read in 2021? I think I will still keep up a good reading level so I'm going for 240!
Books marked 📚 were read in 2021.
Books marked ✔️ were read in 2020 or earlier.