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The List of Books I read as I read them - posted MonthlyJanuary 2022 - 9/60
Winnie the Pooh - Hindsight, Popsugar & TBR Jar - 2 Jan 2022
In Time for Christmas - Degrees - 8 Jan 2022
Grosvenor Square Christmas - Shelfies - 8 Jan 2022
I love you, I hate you - Color & Degrees & TBR Jar - 10 Jan 2022
The Christmas Quilt - Shelfies & Popsugar- 18 Jan 2022
How to Stop Time - Buzzwords - 20 Jan 2022
To Sir Phillip with Love (Bridgerton 5) - Q1 STEM - 25 Jan 2022
The Magic of Believing - Lansbury Family Memoir - Shelfies - 27 Jan 2022
Cosmos - Carl Sagan - Q1 STEM & 88 Books List- 30 Jan 2022
Buzzwords 2022 by Kayla (Books and Lala on Booktube)https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
This is the Buzzwords list for 2022
Jan - who, where, when, what, why & how
Feb - pronouns - me, you, she, he, her, him, yours, ours, they, mine, we, us,
March - Location - a location in the title - NAMES OF towns, cities, countries, provinces, states, valley, mountain, parks, oceans, lakes, islands, continents, etc
April - Size words - Big, little, tiny, small, large, huge, Infinite, micro, macro. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
May - Direction - North, south, east, west, up, down, left, right, sideways, forwards, backwards, NE, NW, SE, SW,
June - All
July - Bookish words - Book, Library, Bookshop, Paper, pages, spine, chapters, words, Ink??
Aug - Items & objects - crown, house, door, key, tree,
Sept - Light and Dark - any words associated with those... light, dark, shadows, sun, moon,
Oct - Creatures & Animals - fantastical creatures permitted - spooky season - also witches, wizards,
November - ING - words that end in ING - can also include Darling!! -
December - Numbers - so any numbers in the title -
Library Thing - Dewey Decimal Classificationhttps://www.librarything.com/topic/16...
Very Long Term Project
Around 1000 books
I started working on this project in 2021. It basically means reading around 1000 books so that is a very long term project. Also NON Fiction Books only. Read one book from every category.
I still have to finish going through this list of categories and add in those books/categories that I have already read - so that I do not need to re-read them.
There are 10 large categories - 000, 100s, 200, 300s, 400s etc up to 900s.
Each of those categories have 10 categories
That makes 10 x 10 = 100 categories
And each of those smaller categories also have 10 categories - getting down to the specific number - 123, 456, 789, etc
Which means 100 x 10 = 1000 categories!!
All Non fiction Books.
The 8 books that everyone should read before they die!!Back in 2012, Neil deGrasse Tyson did an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit. Amongst all the other questions that were asked of him by Reddit users, someone asked him 'Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet?' His answer consisted of the books listed below, along with his reasons for choosing them.
1. The Bible. To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.
2. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton. To learn that the universe is a knowable place.
3. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. To learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth.
4. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. To learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos.
5. The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine. To learn how the power of rational thought is the primary source of freedom in the world.
6. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. To learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself.
7. The Art of War by Sun Tzu. To learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art.
8. The Prince by Machiavelli. To learn that people not in power will do all they can to acquire it, and people in power will do all they can to keep it.
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Apart from the Bible I plan on reading the other 7 books.
Not necessarily all of them in 2022, but I would like to make a start.
I have already learned the lesson from the Bible that Neil wanted us to know. How to think for myself.
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Update - 9 Dec 2021
One of the Shelves in the Bookworm Take Shelfies Challenge is a Listopia shelf, so I added 3 books from Neils List that I have to read in 2022.
Those 3 books are - Wealth of Nations, Age of Reason and Gullivers Travels.
The Hindsight Challenge for 2022 looks interesting as well. I signed up (Message 12)
I will be doing 28 books - 2 books per decade
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Goodreads Choice Award winners have just been announced. Only 2 of my picks won their categories.
To be honest I have not actually read any of my picks. I went with what everyone was saying and what I thought I would like.
I also said I would buy and read my choices if they won.
So in 2022, I have to purchase and read - Project Hail Mary and Anthropocene Reviewed.
I also signed up for - Bookworms Take Shelfies Challenge. My list is at Message 47 at the end of Page 1. I signed up for 60 books!!!! Have currently read - 6/60
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
And another new challenge - The TBR Jar.Hopefully this will use the books I am already reading. I signed up for 20 books out of the 32 prompts available.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I am message 22
Below is MY TBR Reading list
Done - 3/20
My List
1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest. The Devil's Due
2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year. The Library of Legends
3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages. Middlesex (529 pp) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (512 pp)
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages. The Little Prince
5. Read a book that is published the year or decade you were born. This Rough Magic
7.
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors. The Cylon Curse
9. Read a book that you added based on the review of another Goodreads user. The Age of Innocence
10. Read a book with a cover you love. The Silk Weaver's Wife
11.
13. Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name. (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
15. Read a book that helps you complete two or more other yearly or quarterly challenges.
19.
20. Read a book that you own. Wrath of the Gods
22. Read a book that you feel you "should" read. Red, White & Royal Blue
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format. The Viking Deception
25. Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read. Spinning
28. Read a hyped, bestseller, or award-winning book. Girls of Paper and Fire
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation. Oh Say Can You Say?
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
And I also plan on doing the Color Challenge.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I am Message 11 - 3/18
Again hopefully most of these will fit other challenges as well.
Prompts are as listed
1. Read a book with "White" or any shade of white in the cover.
OR
2.
- DONE - 10 Jan 2022 - *****3. Read a book with "Red" or any shade of red in the cover.
4. Read a book with "Orange" or any shade of orange in the cover.
5. Read a book with "Yellow" or any shade of yellow in the cover.
6.
DONE 23 Feb 20227. Read a book with "Light Blue" or any shade of light blue in the cover.
8. Read a book with "Dark Blue" or any shade of dark blue in the cover.
9. Read a book with "Purple" or any shade of purple in the cover.
10. Read a book with "Brown" or any shade of brown in the cover.
11. Read a book with "Black" or any shade of black in the cover.
12. Read a book with a Metallic color in the cover (gold, silver, bronze, etc...).
13.
DONE 17 Feb 202214. Read a book with a geometric pattern on the cover.
15. Read a book with an ugly (to you) cover.
16. Read a book with two or more color words in the title
17. Read a book with the word “Color” in the title.
18. Read a book with a word describing color in the title
(rainbow, stripes, polka dots, shiny, mosaic, etc...)
One more challenge - Clear the Shelves!! But this one is just to clear the shelves and only for books already on your shelves as of 31 Dec 2021!!
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
My original entry is message 31 and I set a goal of 50 books.
Have now done 5/50
I might follow these prompts.
Read a book you have started, set aside for a while, and now want to finish. (I do have quite a few unfinished books!!)
Read a book that you own that will help towards a yearly challenge. (Pretty much all of them!!)
I found this Universities challenge in November 2021 , and I would like to add it to my list of challenges. I have started it, but it will also run through 2022 and beyond if necessary!! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Blurb about College degrees and just how much reading is involved. Prompts listed below - but you will probably need to read the LINK to get the idea of how many books to read and how to choose them.
Degree Progression:
For this challenge you'll be progressing through the various degrees at your own pace. (Prompts listed on the link above and also listed below)
Note on Books - There will be - 45 books in total for the entire degree - IF you go all the way to PhD
You can stop after each degree if you wish. Smaller goals.
7 (AA) +13 (Bachelor) +15 (Masters) +10 (PhD)
Start at the beginning...
Associates Degree (7 books in all)
► Read 1 book from each core subject (7 books)
After completing your Associates, move on to get your Bachelors degree...
Bachelors Degree: (20 books in all)
► Choose a Major (read 10 books from any 1 subject)
► Choose a Minor (read 3 books from any 1 subject, not the same as your major)
After completing your Bachelor's Degree, you may decide you want to Master a specific topic...
Masters Degree: (35 books in all)
► Choose 1 core subject to master - read 3 books from each subcategory, read 3 books mixed and matched (any subcategory from that core group) (15 books)
♦ Note: Can choose the same or a different category from your bachelors degree
Already have a Masters Degree? Why not get a Doctorate?
PHD: (45 books in all)
► Choose 1 subcategory from your Masters and read 10 books from that subcategory.
The good thing about this challenge is that you can do this over and over again, and choose different subjects each and every time, so that it will seem like a completely new challenge!!!
Universities promptsCore Subjects: Science, Literature, History, Social Science, Art, Language, Athletics
Sub Categories:
Science: science fiction, earth science, life science, applied science
Literature: american novel, european novel, world novel, graphic novel
History: alternate history, american history, european history, world history
Social Science: anthropology, psychology, education, political science
Art: fine arts, visual arts, music, art history
Language: indo-european, sino-tibetan, niger-congo, austronesian
Athletics: baseball, olympics, cricket, sports history
Universities - Sub Sub Categories Science:
Science Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal or Dystopian genre
Earth Science - fiction or non-fiction book about climate change, a natural disaster, or located primarily on/in the ocean or underground
Life Science - fiction or nonfiction book about an animal(s) or plant(s)
Applied Science - fiction or non-fiction book about a medical condition/epidemic/breakthrough or where a main character is a doctor or nurse
Literature:
American Novel - literature genre set in North America or by a North American author(s)
European Novel - literature genre set in Europe or by a European author(s)
World Novel - literature genre set outside of North America and Europe or by an author from outside of North America and Europe
Graphic Novel/Manga - graphic novel or manga genre & at least 200 pages in length
History (historical book defined as the book's timeline occurring at least 30 years prior to the publication date):
Alternate History - alternative history genre
American History - fiction or non-fiction historical book set in North America
European history - fiction or non-fiction historical book set in Europe
World history - fiction or non-fiction historical book set outside of North American and Europe
Social Science:
Anthropology - fiction or non-fiction book set in a culture or country different from yours (state your culture or country of origin)
Psychology - fiction or non-fiction book about psychology, psychological disorders, a psychiatrist, or where the main character has a mental disorder
Education - fiction or non-fiction book about education, an educator (school administration or teacher), or set in a school
Political Science - fiction or non-fiction book about a political movement, politician, or set in a "great power" state (UK, China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, or US)
Art:
Fine Arts - fiction or non-fiction book where a fine art piece(s) or a fine artist(s) plays a major role in the plot (if not obvious state how); fine art is defined here as painting, drawing, comics, photography, and sculpture
Visual Arts - fiction or non-fiction book where a visual art piece(s) or a visual artist(s) plays a major role in the plot (if not obvious state how); visual art is defined here as dance, theater, and film
Music - fiction or non-fiction book where a musical piece(s) or a musician plays a major role in the plot (if not obvious state how)
Art History - fiction or non-fiction book set in ancient Greece or Rome
Language:
Indo-European - fiction or non-fiction book set in Spain, Russia or India
Sino-Tibetan - fiction or non-fiction book set in China or Japan
Niger-Congo - fiction or non-fiction book set in Africa
Austronesian - fiction or non-fiction book set in Australia or south east Asia
Athletics:
Baseball - fiction or non-fiction book about baseball or baseball player
Olympics - fiction or non-fiction book about the olympics, an olympian or any olympic sport (other than baseball or cricket)
Cricket - fiction or non-fiction book about cricket or set in an International Cricket Council (ICC) full member country (Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West India, or Zimbabwe)
Sports History - fiction or non-fiction historical book about any sport
So starting with the Associates DegreeAssociates Degree (7 books in all)
► Read 1 book from each core subject (7 books) - Each book MUST fit one of the sub sub category prompts listed above.
Core Subjects:
Science -
Literature -
History - Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (33 years before publication)
Social Science - The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts [I am from NZ and live in Canada and am of UK descent] (Anthropology)
Art -
Language - The Lost Man (Australia)
Athletics -
OK OK So I caved and am also doing the Popsugar 2022 challenge as well. I found enough books to possibly do 35 so I upgraded to the full 40 books. BUT this will be the LAST challenge and if I dont finish this one, I will NOT feel bad.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Original Message Number 26
6/40
1. A book published in 2022 -
OR
2. A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship -
3. A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society -
4. A book with a tiger on the cover or "tiger" in the title -
5. A sapphic book -
6. A book by a Latinx author -
7. A book with an onomatopoeia in its title -
8. A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid
9. A book about a "found family" -
10. An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner -
11. A #BookTok recommendation
12. A book about the afterlife -
13. A book set in the 1980s -
14. A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title -
15. A book by a Pacific Islander author
16. A book about witches -
17. A book becoming a movie in 2022 -
18.
DONE 12 Jan 202219. A book that takes place during your favorite season
20. A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read
21. A book about a band or musical group -
22.
DONE 16 Feb 202223.
24.
25. A book about a secret -
OR
26. A book with a misleading title
27. A Hugo Award winner -
28.
- DONE 18 Jan 202229. A different book by an author you read in 2021 -
30. A book with the name of a board game in the title -
31. A book featuring a man-made disaster -
32. A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page
33. A social-horror book -
34. A book set in Victorian times -
35. A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title
36. A book you know nothing about
37. A book about gender identity -
38.
- DONE 2 Jan 202239. An #OwnVoices SFF (science fiction and fantasy) book -
40. A prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge -
2020 - A Book with a Book on the cover
That is it for challenges - NO MORE!!! Now I have to choose the books I want to read.
For the TBR JAR Challenge in 2022 - I have this prompt -
Choose a book with an average rating of 3.8 or higher.
So I checked the lists of all books with an average rating of 4 or higher. There are 7 books with ratings higher than 4 that I currently own. I cannot decide between them, so I will post the list for now and make the decision later.
Winnie the Pooh - (161 pp) - 4.31
The Color Purple - (224 pp) - 4.24
A man called Ove (337 pp) - 4.35
The Maze Runner - (384 pp) - 4.03
Skyward - (512 pp) - 4.5
Sapiens - (512 pp) - 4.39
11/22/63 - (800+ pp) - 4.3
I think I will do Winnie the Pooh. For 2 reasons - 1 So that it can be used for 2 challenges, and 2 - it is less than 200 pages. NONE of the other books on this list are currently being used in a challenge in 2022.
For the 2021 Goodreads challenge choice award winners, some of my picks made it to 2nd place, so I am going to add those to the list to read as well. The Lost Apothecary - Debut Novel - DONE Feb 2022
The Maidens - Mystery & Thriller
Taste - My life through food - Memoirs & Autobiographies
The Codebreaker (came in 3rd but I really really want to read this) - History & Biography
Dune Book 1 - Graphic Novels
There are some Book Series that I would like to read. Starting in 2022, I hope, and continuing beyond if necessary.. The Memoirs of Lady Trent (AU and Dragons) - https://www.goodreads.com/series/1073...
The Invisible library - https://www.goodreads.com/series/1456...
I first read Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, way back in the 1990s and I LOVED that book. I had no idea that it became a Series. I must read them all.
The Shadow of the Wind
The Angel’s Game
The Prisoner of Heaven
The Labyrinth of the Spirits
The Poppy Wars Series by R F Kuang
The Poppy Wars
The Dragon Republic
The Drowning Faith (Novella)
The Burning God
Resistance trilogy (France WW2) by Eilidh McGinness
Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité by Eilidh McGuiness.
Liberty
Equality
Fraternity
Natasha Ng's series - Girls of Paper and Fire
Becky Chambers' Series - A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
The Elm Creek Quilting Series - Jennifer Chiaverini - Some of these I have already read and reviewed. But most of these I have not yet read. At last count, there are over 30 books in this series - https://www.goodreads.com/series/4059...
The Great Library Series by Rachel Caine - https://www.goodreads.com/series/1210...
Also forgot to mention the Year and Quarterly challenges as well. There are also monthly challenges, but i have chosen to NOT Do those, since I cannot always get the chosen book within 1 month. The Yearly challenges are all listed above.
The Yearly Theme is - Mysteries of the World
The Quarterly challenges have not been mentioned at all.
For 2022, they are as follows.
The Quarterly Themes, based on the yearly theme, are:
- Quarter 1: Admiring the Natural World
- Quarter 2: Examining the Mysteries of History
- Quarter 3: Pondering the Paranormal
- Quarter 4: Exploring the Unknown
Q1 - Msg 14
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
So my Book list for The First Quarter is -
Topic - 1. A book about any STEM-related topic, interpreted broadly. - The Code Girls - The Girls from Atomic City - The Radium Girls - These are my choices - I will choose one depending on my mood!! LOL
Topic - 2. A memoir, biography, or auto-biography about someone in STEM - The Discovery of Jeanne Baret
Author - 7.
MC - 10.
Cover - 14.
OK so my challenges are all listed here for easy access. Q1 - Mother Earth - 5 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Color Challenge - 18 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Bookworm Take Shelfies - 60 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hindsight is 2022 - 28 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
TBR Jar - 20 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Popsugar challenge - 2022 - 40 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2021 Goodreads Choice Award Winners -and 2nd placegetters - My Votes - 7 books
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
1 Jan 2022 - UGH I must really be a book addict. I said I was NOT going to do UNO this year, but guess what, I couldn't help it. I filled out the form and submitted, So now I am committed.
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
UNO Games - Feb - April 2022
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
My Team - New Beijing
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
25 April 2022 - Update
Thank to my PC crashing all the time, I ended up having to drop out of UNO in April. I read lots of books in Feb and March but NONE iN April.
But I did still manage to complete my annual reading goal of 48 books!!
I asked on one of the Challenges the following question. Below is the response. Q
Can someone please tell me EITHER how to do the strikethru line or the green tick to indicate a book has been read? All I can do is write DONE after the book title. Thanks.
A
Robynne,
For the strikethrough, look at the upper right corner of your post then click the "(some html is ok)" link. It explains how to format your text, including strikethrough. (This can still do the strikethru on text links as well).
For the check mark, place your cursor where you want to insert the emoji then right-click to display a menu with "Emoji" at the top. This will display more sub-menus with a variety of icons. Take your pick. (My adblocker wont allow the Emoji menu to show up - so I cannot use this)
88 books that have Shaped America. LOC. I have decided to add yet another Listopia to my Reading List. There are a lot of classics that I have not yet read, so I want to read them!! One of the best lists I have found is the 88 books nominated by the Library of Congress as those that have Shaped America the most. See List Below.
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (1884)
"Alcoholics Anonymous" by anonymous (1939)
"American Cookery" by Amelia Simmons (1796)
"The American Woman's Home" by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869)
"And the Band Played On" by Randy Shilts (1987)
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand (1957)
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
"Beloved" by Toni Morrison (1987)
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown (1970)
"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London (1903)
"The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss (1957)
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller (1961)
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger (1951)
"Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White (1952)
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine (1776)
"The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" by Benjamin Spock (1946)
"A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible" by anonymous (1788)
"The Double Helix" by James D. Watson (1968)
"The Education of Henry Adams" by Henry Adams (1907)
"Experiments and Observations on Electricity" by Benjamin Franklin (1751)
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (1953)
"Family Limitation" by Margaret Sanger (1914)
"The Federalist" by anonymous/ thought to be Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay (1787)
"The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan (1963)
"The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin (1963)
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown (1947)
"A Grammatical Institute of the English Language" by Noah Webster (1783)
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (1939)
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
"Harriet, the Moses of Her People" by Sarah H. Bradford (1901)
"The History of Standard Oil" by Ida Tarbell (1904)
"History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark" by Meriwether Lewis (1814)
"How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis (1890)
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie (1936)
"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg (1956)
"The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill (1946)
"Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures" by Federal Writers' Project (1937)
"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote (1966)
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison (1952)
"Joy of Cooking" by Irma Rombauer (1931)
"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair (1906)
"Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman (1855)
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving (1820)
"Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy" by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
"Mark, the Match Boy" by Horatio Alger Jr. (1869)
"McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer" by William Holmes McGuffey (1836)
"Moby-Dick; or The Whale" by Herman Melville (1851)
"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass (1845)
"Native Son" by Richard Wright (1940)
"New England Primer" by anonymous (1803)
"New Hampshire" by Robert Frost (1923)
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac (1957)
"Our Bodies, Ourselves" by Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1971)
"Our Town: A Play" by Thornton Wilder (1938)
"Peter Parley's Universal History" by Samuel Goodrich (1837)
"Poems" by Emily Dickinson (1890)
"Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth" by Benjamin Franklin (1758)
"Pragmatism" by William James (1907)
"The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D." by Benjamin Franklin (1793)
"The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane (1895)
"Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett (1929)
"Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey (1912)
"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
"Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" by Alfred C. Kinsey (1948)
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson (1962)
"The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats (1962)
"The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)
"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner (1929)
"Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams (1923)
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert E. Heinlein (1961)
"A Street in Bronzeville" by Gwendolyn Brooks (1945)
"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams (1947)
"A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America" by Christopher Colles (1789)
"Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee (1960)
"A Treasury of American Folklore" by Benjamin A. Botkin (1944)
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith (1943)
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
"Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader (1965)
"Walden; or Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
"The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes (1925)
"Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak (1963)
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum (1900)
"The Words of Cesar Chavez" by Cesar Chavez (2002)
As I read, these will be crossed off with the date that I finish reading and hopefully review.
Todays date is 29 January 2022, so the clock starts ticking in February 2022. I could plan to read around 22 books per year for 4 years, but there is NO hurry. This list does NOT have a deadline!! Also any books I have read and reviewed in the past will be added since i will have a record of it, along with a date!!
I have also started a new group for reading these 88 Books. If anyone wants to join me, they will be most welcome!!
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
I might leave this for 2023 - its a bit too much right now!!!
February 2022 - Books read this Month(Also doing UNO as well)
18/60
Love Victorious in Venice - Shelfies - DONE - 7 Feb 2022
The Venice Code - Shelfies & UNO - DONE - 11 Feb 2022
The Little Perfume Shop Off The Champs-Elysees - Shelfies & UNO - DONE - 13 Feb 2022 - DONE
Chili to Die for - Popsugar & UNO- (recipes) - DONE - 14 Feb 2022
Every Heart a Doorway - Popsugar & UNO- DONE - 16 Feb 2022
I'm glad I found you this Christmas: A warmhearted and feel-good Christmas holiday romance set in Scotland February Buzzwords - Pronouns & UNO - DONE - 16 Feb 2022
Little Bookshop of Murder - Color Challenge & UNO - DONE - 17 Feb 2022
The Lost Apothecary STEM & UNO - DONE - 21 Feb 2022
Celtic Empire Color Challenge & UNO - DONE - 23 Feb 2022
March through History ReadathonThis is being held in March 2022 again.
Hosted by Emily Cook on the Arrrgh Schooling Youtube channel.
The prompts for 2022 are basically 8 travel prompts - read historical fiction or historical nonfiction from around the world. One book each from - North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Oceania. Asia is split up into 3 sections - Central Asia (includes Middle East), East Asia and South Asia.
This is MY TBR for March.
Europe - The Lost Girl in Paris or Resistance Book 1 (both WW2)
USA - The Girls of Atomic City (Tennessee - WW2)
Chile - The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Australia - The Oceans Between us
Africa - Sands of Death - Michael Asher
East Asia - These Violent Delights
Central Asia - Marco Polo - John Man
South Asia - Conquerors - Roger Crowley
April 2022 Update
Sadly I was unable to read any of these books.
But I will leave the list up. Maybe next year!!
Q2 - Mysteries of History - Quarterly 2 - April to June 2022https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Total of 22 prompts - how many will I do?
UPDATE - OP - Msg 66
OK I have posted 3 books for this Quarter!!
A - Unknown Killer - JonBenet Ramsey - perfect murder, perfect town - boulder colorado
G - Search - Novel - author - Reeves-Stevens - confirmed - search for an artifact
Todays date - 2 August 2022 After I failed at my UNO - My PC was crashing like crazy so I had to pull out of UNO - I will not be doing UNO again.
Anyway the PC was finally fixed in June. I have mostly being reading fan fiction and creating scrapbook pages since then.
The last book I read was in May 2022 - that's when I reached the 50 books count.
This is now August and the Magical read-a-thon is on. I am currently reading 4 books for the Herbologist career - the only career with such a low number of books - most of these careers (or callings) have 5 to 7 books to read.
So my list is as follows
Christmas Express - Monique Martin - DONE - 1 August 2022
Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse
Poppy Wars - R F Kuang
Along the Amber Road - C J Schiller
I also have 1 ARC from Book Sirens to be reviewed.
Hook them or Lose Them - How to write a punchy opening line or paragraph - Day Leitao
Let's see how I do in the month of August, ok?
Update - 27 Nov 2022 2022 was not a good reading year for me. Apart from the 53 books I did read - and most of those were thanks to UNO - I barely read anything else all year. Well not books anyway. I did read plenty of fan fiction.
So In 2023 I will try some challenges - but I will cut way down on how many challenges and how many prompts I do.
I really promise that this time, I will NOT be doing UNO in 2023 since I have failed to complete all 3 that I did previously join.
I am going to cut my reading goal way for 2023 back. Maybe 24 or 26 books. 24 to cover 2 books per month or 26 to cover the alphabet.
Have to see what prompts and challenges will be happening in 2023.
Signing off for now.
I dont expect to update this any further.
I will just make up a new Members corner for 2023.
Ciao!!
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Go North, Young Man: Modern Homesteading in Alaska (other topics)Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City (other topics)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (other topics)
Celtic Empire (other topics)
The Lost Apothecary (other topics)
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There is one very long term challenge that may take many years to complete.
I am also a Mood reader, and I find that I dont like being required to read one specific book at one specific time.
So many of these challenges will have multiple books listed.
And also I can claim 1 book for more than 1 challenge, if it fits.
Challenges listed Below