The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

15.10 - Give and Take

September 10 is Swap Ideas Day.

Read a book that a fellow SRC member has read and rated 5 stars.
Required: State the SRC member.

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This help thread is open.

I went ahead and exported my GR library and copy and pasted my 5 stars below if anyone wants some inspiration. If this is taking up too much space on the help thread just say the word and I will delete it.

1984
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
8 Deaths (And Life After Them)
A Christmas Carol
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
A Monster Calls
A Streetcar Named Desire
After the Flood
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
An Unrestored Woman
August: Osage County
Ayiti
Baby Teeth
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Bunny
Call the Midwife (The Midwife Trilogy, #1)
Carrie
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
Casting Off (Wool, #3)
Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
Chouette
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
Confessions
Cujo
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Death of a Salesman
Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Dominicana
Elegy for the Undead
Elevation
Emily Eternal
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
Far from the Madding Crowd
Fever Dream
Fight Club
Final Girls
Fox 8
Frank Miller's Sin City, Volume 4: That Yellow Bastard
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Girls Burn Brighter
Goblin Market
Grasshopper Jungle
Gwendy's Button Box
Gwendy's Magic Feather
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
How Lucky
How to Be Eaten
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Imaginary Friend
In the Company of Men
It
Joyland
Know My Name
Later
Leaves of Grass
Life of Pi
Light from Other Stars
Magic for Liars
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Minique
Minority Report
Misery
Mouthful of Birds
Murder on the Orient Express
My Best Friend's Exorcism
My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Night Shift
Nightbitch
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nothing to See Here
Of Mice and Men
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
One's Company
Oryx and Crake
Out There: Stories
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)
Radicalized
Rosemary's Baby
Runner (Sam Dryden, #1)
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Second Variety
Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life
Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
Skipping Christmas
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Snuff
So You Want to Talk About Race
Strange Beasts of China
Super Extra Grande
Tender is the Flesh
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
The Audacity
The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
The Birth Yard: A Novel
The Bloody Chamber
The Body
The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #9)
The City Baker's Guide to Country Living
The Complete Stories and Poems
The Dead Zone
The Echo Wife
The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)
The Farm
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
The Girl in Red
The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11)
The Gunners
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
The Hard Goodbye (Frank Miller's Sin City, #1)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
The House on Fripp Island
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Lager Queen of Minnesota
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Light of the Fireflies
The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)
The Long Winter
The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)
The Mist
The Odd Couple
The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy
The Push
The Queen's Gambit
The Redemption of Michael Hollister (Middle Falls Time Travel, #2)
The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
The School for Good Mothers
The Shining
The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10)
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
The Stand
The Stranded (Wool, #5)
The Test
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale #2)
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Unraveling (Wool, #4)
The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)
The Virgin Suicides
The War of the Worlds
The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)
The Yellow Wallpaper
These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
Twelve Angry Men
Under The Dome
Water for Elephants
Wave
We Need to Do Something
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Wool (Wool, #1)
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
Yearbook
You Should Have Left
You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

Wow, you are organized. I will add some of mine that don't overlap with yours. I tend to give only a couple 5-star ratings each year.

Ordinary Grace
This Tender Land
The Night Circus
The Shipping News
The Goldfinch
A Place of Greater Safety
Watership Down
Middlemarch
Possession
Doomsday Book
Driftless
Song of Solomon
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of Women from 1960 to the Present
The Boys in the Boat
In the Distance
Virgil Wander
Migrations
Becoming
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
The Thursday Murder Club
The Man Who Died Twice
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Klara and the Sun

Thanks for the lists.
Just a word of caution- a title without a link can be misleading
To see someone's shelves, go to a profile
click on bookshelves
click read
sort rating descending

Here's the link to my 5 star Reads Shelf. Be careful there are some children's books on there that won't meet SRC rules.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Here's my list. Almost all fiction.

I've removed anything I knew wouldn't meet SRC rules, but best to double-check anything with MPG Childrens or Kids.

5-star reads

SOME OF MINE - i have changed them to provide the links

Between the World and Me
Pride and Prejudice
Six
600 Hours of Edward
The Eyre Affair
Trumpet
Into the Light
The Knife of Never Letting Go
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Cloning of Joanna May
At the Water's Edge
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Dandelion Wine
Shtum
Hotspot
Quarantine
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Frenchman's Creek
The Axeman's Jazz
An Abundance of Katherines
Sophie's World

Sorry it was my intention to be helpful not disrespectful

Heather(Gibby) wrote: "If you want to approach this differently you can go to the group's book shelf, search for the book you want to read in the search bar , then click on "view group reviews" to see if any group member..."

Not really the spirit of the task

Ok, I will join the party-LoL

Some 5 star Reads from my shelf

Non-Fiction
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
The Johnstown Flood
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

Fiction
The Revenant
In the Time of the Butterflies
City of Thieves
Skeletons at the Feast
Year of Wonders
Cutting for Stone
Under Heaven
The House at the Edge of Night

My "fantasy read" shelf has a lot of 5 star reads on it-you can see it here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Dlmrose wrote: "Heather(Gibby) wrote: "If you want to approach this differently you can go to the group's book shelf, search for the book you want to read in the search bar , then click on "view group reviews" to ..."

Right! I have been looking through the shelves of several members and I can see my TBR growing bigger and bigger LOL If time permitted I could spend hours doing that....eek!!!

here are my 5 star ratings

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Marked
Address Unknown
I Was Doctor Mengele's Assistant
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
The Republic of Trees
The Book Thief
A Feast for Crows
The Thief
The Handmaid's Tale
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Book of Lost Things
White Oleander
My Sister's Keeper
Pretties
Uglies
Size 12 Is Not Fat
A Northern Light
Divas Don't Knit
The Help
Cinder
The Language of Flowers
The Fault in Our Stars
The Baker's Daughter
The Plague
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Librarian of Auschwitz By Antonio Iturbe & Cilka's Journey By Heather Morris 2 Books Collection Set
The Girl with All the Gifts

I have more on my shelves, but those are only in Dutch or clear childrens books or otherwise probably not fitting the requirments

Tacking my shelf here too. I presorted it so all the five=stars should show up first. They fill 8 pages and part of page 9.

Pat's Book Shelf Sorted by Rating

I'm very frugal with giving 5-stars. However, if you like science fiction there's many of those on the following list. Also includes some fantasy, mystery, romance, genealogy, etc.
Kathy KS read list

The 5-stars are only on the first couple of pages; make sure you check for childrens books.

Readerboard Name: List_Addict

Thank to everyone who gave their suggestions. If I go down the rabbit hole of looking too far I will end up with a thousand more books on the TBR so this feed has ample to get me started.

Here are my recent fivers. Caveats: I love easily and I leave it to you to work out if they apply to rules and regs.

Too Like the Lightning
Seven Surrenders
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
Cinder
The Ghost Bride
The Anatomist's Wife
Beauty and the Mustache or pretty much anything Penny Reid-ish
Outlander
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Heaven's Keep
My Sister, the Serial Killer
The Darwin Affair
The Burning Sky
The Grace Year
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
From Blood and Ash
Serpent & Dove
The Chemistry of Death
Things You Save in a Fire
Six of Crows
Crooked Kingdom
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Anxious People
The Iron Flower
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Year of the Witching
Harry Potter
Department Q series
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Alice Network
Shadow Man
The First Girl Child
Little Siberia
Three Dark Crowns seriesThe Ocean at the End of the Lane
Wolf Hall
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Arc of a Scythe series
Throne of Glass series
Where the Crawdads Sing

I could go on ….

Angela IL
I will also add some of my more recent favorites:
The Last Housewife
The Last House on the Street
Little Fires Everywhere
The People We Keep
Reprieve
The Four Winds
Just Last Night
Big Lies in a Small Town
All My Mother's Lovers
This Close to Okay
My Dark Vanessa
City of Girls
Mrs. Everything
A Spark of Light
The Dream Daughter
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
The Great Alone
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Dark Matter

I have many, many more...

Here's my list of the best of the best. It is on my shelf that I call "6 star books". Be aware: List includes children's books, cookbooks, and under-100-page items.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Enjoy!

Here is mine sorted by rating. There is a mix of fiction (fantasy,mystery, romance) as well as non-fiction:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...