Play Book Tag discussion

On the basis that if I build it, the books will be read, here's a stab at some 2022 goals ...

PBT monthly tag
January/Kohitātea: Science:
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Project Hail Mary
- My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (not reviewed)

February/Hui-Tanguru: Thought-Provoking
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

March/Poutū-te-rangi: Classics
- Eye of the Needle
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- Shards of Honour - 14 people at https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Barrayar (note, not tagged classics for WPF purposes)
The Warrior's Apprentice

April/Paenga-whāwhā: detective
Thread Reckoning
The Long Stitch Good Night
Twisted Threads
And Then There Were None
Threads of Evidence
The Brass Verdict
A Royal Pain
Orchestrated Death
Murder on the Orient Express
Appointment with Death
Thread and Gone
Royal Flush

May/Haratua: character-driven
Mirror Dance
Memory
Komarr

June/Pipiri: LGBT
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
The Absolutist
Ethan of Athos

July/Hōngongoi: memoir

August/Here-turi-kōkā:
September/Mahuru:
October/Whiringa-ā-nuku:
November/Whiringa-ā-rangi:
December/Hakihea:

Unofficial Trim
1. Apeirogon
2. Daughters of Sparta
3. Daughters of Night
4. The Immortalists
5. The One Cent Magenta
6. Shotgun Lovesongs
7. The Diary of a Bookseller
8. A Little Hatred
9. An American Marriage [May]
10. Priestdaddy [January]
11. Autumn [March]
12. The Clockmakers Daughter
13. Anne Frank's Diary; the graphic novel adaptation
14. Zucked
15. Beartown
16. The Bone Sparrow
17. Exactly
18. The Feather Thief [February]
19. The Miniaturist
20. The History of Bees [April}
21. Olive Kitteridge
22. Flat Caps and Mufflers
23. The Other Bennet Sister
24. A God in Ruins

Dragon Trim
1. The Secret Commonwealth
2. Troubled Blood
3. Tombland or Lamentation
4. Destiny's Conflict
5. Gemina [February]
6. Lamentation or Tombland [April]
7. Dragon book
8. That Way Lies Camelot
9. What Alice Forgot
10. Every Note Played
11. The Story of More
12. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
13. Bewilderment
14. The Women of Troy [March]
15. The Absolutist
16. Quichotte [January]
17. Hotel du Lac
18. Oath of Fealty
19. The Dead Fathers Club
20. The Woman on the Stairs

Popsugar optimism
abandoned. I really didn't like the list this year

A Game of Thrones (read along)
Each month, read during first three weeks; discussion in fourth week
A Game of Thrones - done
A Clash of Kings - April, May and June


Who's PBT's Favourite? - authors read are highlighted in bold (note this doesn't indicate votes cast). Authors eliminated are crossed out.

BRACKET A
Fiona Davis v Barbara Kingsolver
Elena Ferrante v Ruth Ozeki
Robert Hellenga v John Sandford
Diana Gabaldon v Lisa See
Talia Hibbert v Toni Morrison
Elizabeth George v Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ken Follett v Jodi Picoult
Kristin Hannah v Mary Doria Russell

Forever, Interrupted
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Playing for the Ashes
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
Eye of the Needle
Sula

BRACKET B
Michael Connolly v Stephen Graham Jones
Isabel Allende v Amor Towles
Kent Haruf v Thea Stilton
Amy Harmon v Elizabeth Strout
Ilona Andrews v Ann Patchett
Antonia Hodgson v Sophie Kinsella
Alice Hoffman v Lisa Wingate
Hala Alyan v Sharon Shinn

The Lincoln Lawyer
Burn for Me
White Hot
Wildfire
Drama at Mouseford
Sapphire Flames
Emerald Blaze
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Brass Verdict

BRACKET C
John Boyne v William Kent Kruger
Bill Bryson v Lianne Moriarty
Rhys Bowen v Terry Pratchett
Margaret Atwood v JRR Tolkein
Fredrik Backman v Connie Willis
Katherine Centre v Coco Simon
Robert Caro v Kazuo Ishiguro
Ray Bradbury v Rachel Joyce

The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Ordinary Grace
Her Royal Spyness
Murphy's Law
A Royal Pain
Royal Flush

BRACKET D
Mitch Albom v Scott Turow
Barbara Delinsky v Agota Kristof
Linda Castillo v James Michener
Linwood Barclay v Stephen King
Jane Austen v Nevil Shute
Colleen Hoover v PD James
Lois McMaster Bujold v JK Rowling/Robert Galbraith
Agatha Christie v Kate Morton

Shamed
Outsider
The Clocks
The Curse of Chalion
Shards of Honour
Barrayar
The Warrior's Apprentice
The Mysterious Affair at StylesAnd Then There Were None
Murder on the Orient Express
Appointment with Death

PBT History
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks