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📔21. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by author, A-Z. Read one book on the first page. - Possessing Genius, Tuesdays with Morrie, Ripper, Cavedweller, Experience a Memoir, Lost Kin, The Iron Tracks, Sex & the City & Us, The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Case Histories, Behind the Scenes At the Museum, Life After Life, A God in Ruins, Dancing Girls, Smart Women Finish Rich, A Man Called Ove, The Hero's Walk, The Lost Girls, Paris I Love You..., The Reserve, The Spark, Running the Rift, Open House, Hothouse Flower, 100 Days, Grand Central, The Rainbow of Desire Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Unselfie, Business As Usual, The Proof, An Ice-cream War, The Orenda, Riven Rock, Drop City, My Name is Memory, A History of Civilizations, Daring Greatly, The Runaway Princess, The Power House, The Voluntourist, A Wolf at the Table, Drunk Mom, Quirky Alone, Pass the Butterworks, Pecked to Death By Ducks, The Artists Way, Death in Sicily, True History of the Kelly Gang, A Long Way from Home📕22. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by author, Z-A. Read one book on the first page. - Blink & Caution, The Day of the Triffids, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Farthings Fortunes, The Weekend Man, The Teacher's Daughter, The Canterbury Sisters, The Treehouse, When God Was a Rabbit, A Year of Marvelous Ways, The Professor & the Madman, Our Town, The Scorched Wood People, Leaves of Grass, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, Educated, Everyone Worth Knowing, Certain Girls, Miss Fortune, The Golem & the Jinni, Honeymoon in Purdah, White Crosses, The Onion Field, The Shape of Snakes, Infinite Jest, Sweeping Up Glass, By the Light of My Father's Smile, What I Did, The Way We Are, The Aeneid, Cutting for Stone, A Map of Glass, My Father's Tears, Lulu in the Sky, Harvest Home, Changing My Mind, This is Where I Leave You, Jerry Seinfeld, The Simarillion, The Lemon Tree, All My Puny Sorrows, Confessions of a Sociopath, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, My Other Life, The Darkest Room, An Echo Through the Snow, 100 Secret Senses, The Kitchen God's Wife, Saving Fish from Drowning, Embracing the Wide Sky
📗23. Read a book from your TBR by a new to you author. - The Age of Miracles
📘24. Read a book from your TBR by another new to you author. - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1
📙25. Read a book that will either finish a series you have started or is the latest book published in a series you have started. - Switch
📔26. Read a another book that will either finish a series you have started or is the latest book published in a series you have started - Strangers She Knows
📕27. Pick a series you've been wanting to start and read the first book in that series. - Kane & Abel
📗28. Pick a series where you've only read the first book and read the next book in that same series. - The White Queen
📘29. Pick a series from a new to you author you've been wanting to start and read the first book in that series. - Killing Floor
📙30. Read any book from your TBR. - Lucky Man
📔31. Read a book that you bought in 2022 but haven't read yet. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2022. - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement
📕32. Read a book that you bought in 2021 but haven't read yet. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2021. - State of Terror
📗33. Read a book that you bought in 2020 but haven't read yet. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2020. - Five Little Indians
📘34. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by number of pages, shortest to longest. Pick a book found on the first page. (These books may be under the 100 pages for this task only). - The Power House, People of the Deer, The Trade Mission, Her Father's Daughter, Innovate Inside the Box, Laughing on the Inside, Family Furnishings, French Toast, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Leaves of Grass, Smart Women Finish Rich, Be Your Own Brand, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Whale Rider, The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, The Educated Imagination, Good Morning Midnight, Mary Janeway, Voyage in the Dark, Quirkyalone, Our Town, Paris A Love Story, The Incomparable Atuk, Courage My Love, The Courage to Teach, God Hates Us All, In Custody, Who Do You Think You Are, Comfort Me With Apples, The Iron Tracks, The Struggle is My Life, Tuesdays With Morrie, In the Sea There Are Crocodiles, The Rainbow of Desire, Rosshalde, Back on Tuesday, By the Light of My Father's Smile, Chaucer the Maker, The Opposable Mind, Long Beach Wild, The Day of the Triffids, Chronicler of the Winds, Whip It, The Artists Way, News from Thrush Green, Beyond Good & Evil, Baumgartner's Bombay, The Last Shot
📙35. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by number of pages, longest to shortest. Pick one book found on the first page. - Infinite Jest, Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, The Luminaries, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, An Echo in the Bone, Blood Memory, The Brothers Karamazov, Ama, The Passage, The Borne Ultimatum. Full Catastrophe Living, Barkskins, The Historian, Mississippi Blood, Death in Sicily, The Woman in White. Crime & Punishment, Long Walk to Freedom, A History of Civilizations, Steve Jobs, Sophie's Choice, Believing the Live, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, A Fine Balance, Lady of Hay, The Grapes of Wrath, A Perfect Spy, Cemetery Road, The Custodian of Paradise, Lady's Maid, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Shake Hands with the Devil, Freedom, The Distant Hours, Mr. Nice, The Forgotten Garden, The Little Shadows, Life After Life, Robin, The Lost Girls, The Odyssey, Cutting for Stone, The Name of the Rose, The Kitchen God's Wife, Agatha Christie Autobiography, The Angel's Game, Middlesex, The Witches of New York
📔36. Sort your TBR by 50 books per page and by title A-Z. Pick a book off of the first page. - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100 Yr Old Man, Adult Onset, The Aeneid, Agatha Christie, All My Puny Sorrows, All Roads Lead to Austen, All the Lives I Want, All Things Wise & Wonderful, Alone in the Classroom, Along the Inca Road, Already Home, Ama, American Dirt, The Angel's Game, Annie Parker Decoded, Annie's Girl, An Anthropologist on Mars, Apollo's Arrow, The Artist's Way, An Audience of Chairs, Back on Tuesday, Baking Cakes in Kigali, Balancing Acts, Barkskins, Barney's Version, Baumgartner's Bombay, Be the Pack Leader, Be Your Own Brand, The Beach, The Beauty of Humanity Movement, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Belgravia, Believing the Lie, Between Gods, Beyond Belfast, Beyond Deserving, Beyond Good & Evil, The Birth House, Bitchfest, Black List Section H, A Blade of Grass, Blink & Caution, Blink, Blood Memory, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, The Book of Negroes,
📕37. Sort your TBR by 50 books per page and by title A-Z. Pick a book off of the last page. - When God Was a Rabbit, When We Were Orphans, When You are Engulfed in Flames, Whip It, The Whisper of Legends, White Crosses, The White Masai, White Teeth, Whiteout, Who By Fire, Who Do You Think You Are, Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades, The Widower's Tale, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Winter of the World, The Witches of New York, A Wolf at the Table, The Woman in White, A Woman is No Man, The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, The Wreckage, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, A Year of Marvellous Ways, You are a Badass, You are Not So Smart, Zoo Station
📗38. Sort your TBR by 50 books per page and by title A-Z. Pick a book off of any page except first or last. - Long Walk to Freedom, A Long Way Down, A Long Way From Home, Lost Girls, The Lost Girls, Lost in Translation, Lost Kin, Loving Frank, Lucky, Lucky Man, Lulu in the Sky, The Luminaries, Making Grateful Kids, The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Homes Adventures, A Man Called Ove, Manhunting, The Manticore, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephin B, A Map of Glass, The Map of Salt and Stars, Mary Janeway, The Merchant of Venice, Mercy Among the Children, Middlese, Miller's Valley, The Mind's Eye, Mini-Shopaholic, Miss Fortune, Mississippi Blood, Moby Duck, A Monk Swimming, The Monuments Men, Moon over Marrakech, Mr Nice, Mudbound, My Father's Tears, My Ghosts, My Name is Memory, My Other Life, Mystery Writers of America Present, Mythos, The Naked of Ape, The Name of the Rose, Nanjing Requiem Narcissus & Goldmund, Necessary as Blood, New Rules, News from Thrush Green,
📘39. Pick a book that you rated five stars in 2022. Go to the book page and scroll until you see 'Lists with this book'. Click on any list for that book and pick another book from the list to read. - The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead, Barney's Version, A Promised Land, Mexican Gothic, A Woman is No Man, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, The Map of Salt and Stars, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Me & White Supremacy, Pachinko, A Long Petal of the Sea, In the Sea There Are Crocodiles, American Dirt, Americanah, The Boy on the Beach, Brick Lane, The Wives of Henry VIII, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, So You Want to Talk About Race, Dreams from My Father, Roots, Native Son, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Homegoing, We Should All Be Feminists, My Sister, the Serial Killer, The Great Alone, Educated, Where the Crawdads Sing, The Wife Between Us, Small Great Things, Barkskins, Sweetbitter, Swing Time, Red Queen, A Man Called Ove, Life After Life, Fall of Giants, The Casual Vacancy, The Passage, Winter of the World, Tuesdays with Morrie, Daring Greatly, The Tao of Pooh, Thinking Fast & Slow, The Artists Way, You are a Badass, Outliers, David & Goliath, The Tipping Point, What the Dog Saw, Steve Jobs, You are Not So Smart, Go Set a Watchman, Orphan Train,The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, One Plus One, Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, The Secret Keeper, The Girl You Left Behind, A God in Ruins, The Big Short, Moneyball, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Cooked, The Orenda, Daughters Are Forever, Five Little Indians, A Fine Balance, Alias Grace, The Book of Negroes, The Birth House, Mercy Among the Children, The Manticore, Larry's Party, Come Thou Tortoise, Gone With the Wind, Crime & Punishment, Ender’s Game, The Odyssey, Dune, The Stand. The Pillars of the Earth, The Bell Jar, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Anna Karenina, The Road, Fast Food Nation, The Naked Ape, Long Walk to Freedom, Cutting for Stone, Infidel, The Constant Gardener, Death on the Nile, Someone Knows My Name, Shake Hands with the Devil, Middlesex, Will Grayson Will Grayson, Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith,
📙40. Pick any book that you rated five stars. Go to the book page and scroll until you see 'Lists with this book'. Click on any list for that book and pick another book from the list to read.
📔41. Read a book that has a title that starts with the same letter as your first name. - Sweetbitter📕42. Read a book that has a title that starts with the same letter as your last name. - Five Little Indians
📗43. Read a book whose author's first or last name starts with the same letter as your GR screen name. - N is for Noose
📘44. Read a book published in 2023. - Muckross Abbey and Other Stories
📙45. Read a book published in 2022. - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
📔46. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Random. Pick a book off the first page. - The Glass Palace, The Innocent Sleep, Prisoner in a Red Rose Chain, Three Seconds, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, T is for Trespass, A Tale of 2 Cities, The Naked Ape, Galore, Foxfire, The Name of the Rose, The Way We Are, The Beach, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Next Queen of Heaven, Trail of Secrets, Cemetery Road, Pachinko, Various Positions, A Long Way Down, Consolation, The Woman in White, Everyone Worth Knowing, Paris I Love You but... The First Day of the Rest of My Life, Sophie's Choice, River of Smoke, When God Was a Rabbit, Codebreakers, The Opposable Mind, The Silmarillion, A Map of Glass, Let the Great World Spin, Chasing Cezanne, Dancing Girls The Whisper of Legends, The Electrical Field, By the Light of My Father's Smile, Skipping a Beat, The Merchant of Venice, The Lizard Cage, Freedom, Lucky Man, You are Not So Smart, The Day of the Triffids, The Fate of the Tearling, Devices & Desires, Mythos, An Echo in the Bone, God Hates Us All,
📕47. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Random. Pick a book off the last page. - You Are a Badass, An Equal Music, The Happiness Project, Empower, Bury Your Dead, The Polished Hoe, Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of J..., The Roots of Desire, When You Are Engulfed By Flames, Dismantled, Good To Great, Narcissus & Goldmund The Courage to Teach, Prodigal Summer, Her Father's Daughter, The Manitcore, Swing Time, Mercy Among the Children, The Calculating Stars, Moby Duck, The Proof, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Giant's House, The Optimist, Experience a Memoir
📗48. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Num Ratings. Pick a book off the first page. - Educated, Steve Jobs, The Odyssey, Tuesdays With Morrie, A Tale of Two Cities, Hamlet, The Grapes of Wrath, A Man Called Ove, Crime & Punishment, The Tipping Point, Outliers, The 7 Habits of ..., Middlesex, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Blink, American Dirt, Crazy Rich Asians, Thinking Fast & Slow, Perfume, Pachinko, Cutting for Stone, The Name of the Rose, The Casual Vacancy, Fall of Giants, The Brothers Karamazov, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Silmarillion, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The Historian, Life After Life, The Forgotten Garden, You are a Badass, The Passage, When You are Engulfed in Flames, The Storyteller, China Rich Girlfriend, Daring Greatly, The Merchant of Venice, Good To Great, David & Goliath, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, One Plus One, The Happiness Project, Freedom, The Girl You Left Behind, Rich People Problems, The Secret Keeper, Winter of the World, The Angel's Game, The Woman in White,
📘49. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Num Ratings. Pick a book off the last page. - Feathered Serpent 2012, Gielgud's Letters, Beyond Deserving, Farthing's Fortunes, The Scorched Wood People, The Question, The Burma Effect, Annie Parker Decoded, Long Beach Wild, The Tsunami File, The Fusion Marketing Biblle, Drink the Bitter Root, Courage My Love, Ama, Life Money & Illusion, The Empress Letters, Comfort Me With Apples, Laughing Matters, Mary Janeway, Business As Usual, The Last Shot, Chaucer the Maker, Born Adventurer, We Who Can Fly
📙50. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Ave Ratings. Pick a book off the first page. - Life Money & Illusion, Written in My Own Hearts Blood, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Educated, The Book of Negroes, An Echo in the Bone, Mississippi Blood, Ama, All Things Wise & Wonderful, A Man Called Ove, American Dirt, A Fine Balance, The Boy on the Beach, Winter of the World, The Brothers Karamazov, Annie's Girl, Bury Your Dead, The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Long Walk to Freedom, Pachinko, The Rainbow of Desire, Fall of Giants, Cutting for Stone, Innovate Inside the Box, The Struggle is My Life, Daring Greatly, News from Thrush Green, The Storyteller, The Tsar of Love & Techno, Mythos, Infinite Jest, Last of the Breed, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes, A Woman is No Man, Crime & Punishment, The Lizard Cage, Shake Hands with the Devil, The Grey Seas Under, Daughters are Forever, The Orenda, Narcissus & Goldmund, Prisoner of Tehran, They Poured Fire on us, Comfort Me with Apples, The Brain that Changes Itself, The God of the Hive, Necessary as Blood, Outliers, Pay It Forward,
📔51. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Ave Ratings. Pick a book off the last page. - The Electrical Field, Moon Over Marrakech, Balancing Acts, Call Me Russell, The Trade Mission, Laughing on the Outside, In Office Hours, The Incomparable Atuk, The Last Burden, Laughing Matters, The Origin of Species, The Next Queen of Heaven, The Burma Effect, Invisible Eden, Various Positions, The Reserve, My Ghosts, The Optimist, The Tsunami File, Feathered Serpent 2012, Courage My Love, Quartet for the End of Time, The Question, We Who Can Fly,
📕52. Read a book published in the same month as your birthday. - The Last of the Breed, The Giant's House, They Poured Fire on Us..., On Beauty, The Historian, Enchantment, Little Bird of Heaven, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The Forgotten Garden, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Annie's Girl, Im the Sanctuary of Outcasts, Let the Great World Spin, Dismantled, Sometimes Mine, My Name is Memory, The Bourne Objective, Promises to Keep, The Passage, Various Positions, All Roads Lead to Austen, Crazy Rich Asians, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Crazy Rich Girlfriend, The Library at Mount Char, Unselfie, Barkskins, Belgravia, Sex & the City & Us, Liar Liar,
📗53. Read a book with a cover that is at least 50% your favorite color. -
📘54. Read a book published in the year you joined Good Reads. = If I Fall If I Die, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Girl in the Woods, Life From Scratch, A Year of Marvellous Ways, The Improbability of Love, A God in Ruins, The Canterbury Sisters, China Rich Girlfriend, The Library at Mount Char, Hitman Anders & the Meaning of It All, The Tsar of Love & Techno,
📙55. Go to the main book page for a book you read in December 2022. Pick a book to read from the 'Readers Also Enjoyed' at the top right. If the book page for the book you read does not have a 'Readers Also Enjoyed' list, pick the another book you read in December and try again. - The Hypnotist, You are a Badass, Top Secret 21, Q is for Quarry, Whale Rider, Freedom, Run Towards Danger, How to Pronounce Knife, In Other Words,
📔56. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "Can't Wait" in the list name. - The Bride Test
📕57. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "Best" in the list name. - The Innocents Abroad
📗58. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "2022" in the list name. - The Swimmers
📘59. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "2023" in the list name. - Hello Beautiful
📙60. Read any book from your TBR. - Watership Down
Spring Seasonal Challenge:
You must match books to these phrases in one of three ways.
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation)
The Phrases:
1. springtime - Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
2. bloom -
3. sun shining - Shopaholic and Sister
4. baby animals - The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War
5. eggs - The Vacationers
6. tulips - The Full Cupboard of Life
7. jellybeans - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
8. rainstorm - Conversations with Friends
9. sprout - The Mind's Eye
10. warming - Wise Blood
11. spring break - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
12. raincoat - Initials - A Long Petal of the Sea
Oscars 2023
Best Picture:
1. Read a book with a title that has a word from the movie title in it (excluding A/The). - Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
2. Read a book with a title that starts and ends with the same letters as the movie title. - Take a Hint, Dani Brown
3. Read a book with a title that has the same amount of letters as the movie title. (including A/The). - When You Trap a Tiger
Best Foreign Language Film:
1. Read a book with a title that has a word from the movie title in it. (excluding A/The) - The Girl from the Sea
2. Read a book with a title that starts and ends with the same letters as the movie title. - A Long Petal of the Sea
3. Read a book with a title that has the same amount of letters as the movie title. (including A/The) - Killing Floor
4. Read a book set in the submitting country of the nominated movie. - Conversations with Friends
Best Director/Best Actor/Best Actress/Best Supporting Actor/Best Supporting Actress:
1. Read a book by an author with the same initials as the nominated person (may be in reversed order) - Prodigal Summer
2. Read a book by an author with the same first or last name as the nominated person. - The Dutch House
3. Read a book set in the state where the nominated person was born - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting
Free bets
If you can't find a book to place a certain bet, you may use following free bet tasks. Each free bet task may be used only once and one book can be used only for one free bet task (and only if it hasn't been used for placing regular bets).
1. Read a book with 9 and 5 in the page count - 1 free bet. - Kane & Abel
2. Read a book with 500+ pages - 1 free bet. - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1 If your book has more than 750 pages, you'll get 2 free bets instead of 1.
3. Read a book with a MC who works in the movie industry - 1 free bet. - Dexter's Final Cut
4. Read a book with a title that starts with a letter from OSCAR - 1 free bet. - Sing, Unburied, Sing
5. Read an award winning book - 1 free bet. - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement
Nominees
Best Picture
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking
Best International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front - submitting country: Germany
Argentina, 1985 - submitting country: Argentina
Close - submitting country: Belgium
EO - submitting country: Poland
The Quiet Girl - submitting country: Ireland
Best Director
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert - born in 1988 in Massachusetts (Daniel Kwan) and in 1987 in Alabama (Daniel Scheinert)
Todd Field - born in 1964 in California
Martin McDonagh - born in 1970 in England (you may use books set in the whole of the UK)
Ruben Östlund - born in 1974 in Sweden
Steven Spielberg - born in 1946 in Ohio
*For Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert you need to complete a task only for one of them.
*For Todd Field you may use authors with the first or last name William, Todd or Field and initals WF/FW or TF/FT
*For Ruben Östlund you may use initials RÖ/ÖR or RO/OR
Best Actor
Austin Butler - born in 1991 in California
Colin Farrell - born in 1976 in Ireland
Brendan Fraser - born in 1968 in Indiana
Paul Mescal - born in 1996 in Ireland
Bill Nighy - born in 1949 in England (you may use books set in the whole of the UK)
*For Bill Nighy you may use authors with the first or last name Bill, William or Nighy and initals BN/NB or WN/NW
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett - born in 1969 in Australia
Ana de Armas - born in 1988 in Cuba
Andrea Riseborough - born in 1981 in England (you may use books set in the whole of the UK)
Michelle Williams - born in 1980 in Montana
Michelle Yeoh - born in 1962 in Malaysia
*For Cate Blanchett you may use authors with the first or last name Cate, Catherine or Blanchett
* For Ana de Armas you may use authors with initials AA
* For Michelle Yeoh you may use authors with the first or last name Michelle, Yeoh, Choo, Kheng or Khan and initals MY/YM, MK/KM or YK/KY
Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson - born in 1955 in Ireland
Brian Tyree Henry - born in 1982 in North Carolina
Judd Hirsch - born in 1935 in New York
Barry Keoghan - born in 1992 in Ireland
Ke Huy Quan - born in 1971 in Vietnam
*For Brian Tyree Henry you may use authors with initals BH/HB
* For Ke Huy Quan you may use authors with the first or last name Ke, Huy, Quan or Jonathan and initals KQ/QK or JQ/QJ
Best Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett - born in 1958 in New York
Hong Chau - born in 1979 in Thailand
Kerry Condon - born in 1983 in Ireland
Jamie Lee Curtis - born in 1958 in California
Stephanie Hsu - born in 1990 in California
*For Jamie Lee Curtis you may use authors with the initals JC/CJ
For Love of a Book Reading Challenge:
1. Book where characters celebrate a national holiday for the country you reside in - The House We Grew Up In
2. Book with a cardinal direction in the title (North, South, East, or West) - Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
3. Book set in the capital of any country. - Lilac Girls
4. Book with Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters (writing) on the cover -
5. Book where someone cooks something using fire (grill, fireplace, campfire, etc.) - Prodigal Summer
6. Book where the main character tells a friend a secret about another friend - Dear Martin
7. Book that is holiday themed (with a MPG Tag such as Holiday, Christmas, Halloween, Etc.) - Visions of Sugar Plums
8. Book with a verb in the title - Strangers She Knows
9. Book with a major character who dies before their 40th birthday - The Age of Miracles
10. Book with a title that starts and ends with the same letter - This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
11. Book where the MC has three or more children - Dexter's Final Cut
12. Book tagged "fairytale" or "folklore" - Tithe
13. Book with a title that starts with the word "The" - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
14. Book with a glass or a bottle on the cover -
15. Book where the main character is a female police officer - Murder on an Irish Farm or homicide detective - Love You More
16. Book where a character mentions a recipe. - Act Your Age, Eve Brown
17. Book with a character who swears in the book - Mexican Gothic
18. A famous author's first book - Lucky Man
19. Book with a character who is a millionaire - Kane & Abel
20. Book where someone breaks a bone - The Map of Salt and Stars
21. Book with something run by Electricity on the cover -
22. Book with a character who has a stalker - Smokin' Seventeen or who is a stalker - Hello, Summer
23. Book by an author who has more than 200,000 GR followers - Sail
24. Book about a MC who lives alone - Ashes
25. Book with a MC who has done something significant in the story before they are 20 - Earth & Sky
26. Book with a City Name in the title (can be a fake city) - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
27. Book where food is a major theme - The Storyteller
28. The last book in a series - Switch
29. Book with bare feet on the cover -
30. Book with ice on the cover -
31. Book with a 4 in the book’s average Goodreads rating - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
32. Book set in a small town - Beach Town or village - Flush
33. Book with a happy ending - Shopaholic Ties the Knot
34. Book with someone dressed in green -
, red, yellow -
, or orange on the cover -
35. Book where a natural disaster takes place - Firewing
36. Book with a Main Character who has a pet with a human name - Plum Spooky
37. Book from a series with 11 or more books in it - Plum Lucky
38. Book with no animals or humans on the cover -
39. Book with a MC who reads - Take a Hint, Dani Brown]
40. Book set in another dimension or universe - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1
41. Book with a major character who has fangs - In the Forests of the Night
42. Book with a hat on the cover -
43. Book with at least one of these agencies in the book: USPS -The Giver of Stars, FBI - Killing Floor, or ATF - One Perfect Lie
44. Book that doesn’t have any prizes listed under Literary Awards on its main page - Parting Shot
45. Book with an electronic device on the cover -
46. Book with a double vowel in the title - N is for Noose
47. Book with a cover that would be perfect for making Bookstagram photos -
48. FLOAB Buddy Read for 2023 - City of Girls
49. Book with a character who has a physical disability - Native Son
50. Book where the characters go somewhere fun like a zoo - The Queen's Gambit, museum, or an amusement park
51. Book from your favorite genre - The Catch
52. Book where someone celebrates a birthday - Sing, Unburied, Sing
53. Book where the MC has the same first and last initial (ie. Franklin Finbar) - Winter
54. Book written by an author who has published at least two series - Lord Edgware Dies
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55. Book that has a death-related word in the title (Die/Dead/Death) - Death in the Clouds
I Spy 2023
Read a book that contains a word in the title or the cover that fits one of the 25 categories mentioned below.
1. Transportation (car -
, train -
, truck -
, plane -
) - 2. Days of the week (Monday, Saturday, Wednesday)
3. A food or drink (carrot -
, chips, coffee -
, wine -
)4. Type of crime (thievery, murder - A Good Hanging, robbery)
5. Olympic sport (skiing, basketball, gymnastics, swimming -
)6. Musical instruments (saxophone, piano -
, drums -
)7. Cat family (tiger -
, tabby -
, cheetah)8. School subject (mathematics, English, chemistry, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry)
9. Type of weather (stormy -
, rainy, sunny, snowy -
)10. City in Europe (Paris, Istanbul, Athens)
11. Celebration (birthday, wedding -
, Eid)12. Something you sit on (sofa -
, chair -
, bed)13. A source of light (fire -
, lamp -
, torch)14. Art or craft (painting -
, sewing -
, scrapbooking, knitting - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting, 15. A measurement (metres, feet, pounds)
16. Something you hang on the wall (clock, picture, frame -
)17. Something you find at a circus (clown, ringmaster, popcorn, tent -
)18. A direction (North, West - Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West, East)
19. An accessory (bag, necklace -
, scarf -
, bracelet -
)20. Name for a road (avenue, street, circuit)
21. Shade of purple (plum -
, violet -
, magenta, lilac - Lilac Girls)22. Something you write (poem - The Poet X, book - The Bookseller: Stories, essay)
23. Something you walk through (tunnel, arch, gate -
, door -
)24. Something you find in a house (picture -
, kitchen, couch -
)25. A bird (raven -
, crow, pigeon)Bonus 5 categories with examples (only open for members who have finished reading for all the primary categories):
26. Something you find on a farm (pig -
, chicken, tractor, hay)27. A term of endearment (sweetheart, honey, love)
28. A chess piece (pawn -
, bishop, knight, Queen - The White Queen)29. Something yellow (corn, daffodil, amber) -
30. Technology (phone -
, computer, television)
Bookworms Take Shelfies
The 20 shelf themes are:
*An Author
- Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
- Tracy Chevalier
*A Book Genre
Non-Fiction:
- Lucky Man
- Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
- The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
- The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War
- And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
- Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health
- The Mind's Eye
- Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- If You Ask Me
- The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden
- Infidel
Thriller:
- Parting Shot
- The Catch
- Love You More
- Dexter's Final Cut
- Sail
- Mirror Image
- The Woman Inside
*Book Length (under 200)
- All For the Love of You: A Short Story from Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War
- Plum Lucky
- Ashes
- A Room of One's Own
- Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion
- Ozma of Oz
- The Full Cupboard of Life
- Visions of Sugar Plums
- Xanax Cowboy: Poems
- Animal Farm
- The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
- In the Forests of the Night
- The Swimmers
- First Bones
- The Old Man and the Sea
- The Affair of the Pink Pearl
- Whereabouts: A Novel
- The Beach of Falesá
*Book Length (500+ pages)
- Native Son
- Winter
- Kane & Abel
- Killing Floor
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1
- The Iliad
- The Secret History
- Lilac Girls
- State of Terror
- The Innocents Abroad
- Robin
*Celebrations
Weddings
- Shopaholic Ties the Knot
- The White Queen
- Devil’s Delight
- Murder on an Irish Farm
- The Bride Test
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
DABR
- Native Son
- Sing, Unburied, Sing
- This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
- Long Way Down
- Dear Martin
- The Known World
- Jazz
- Nothing Burns as Bright as You
- The Night Diary
- The Kiss Quotient
- Parable of the Sower
- The Book of Negroes
- We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
- Fresh Ink
- Dear Justyce
- An American Marriage
- The Poet X
- Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Indigenous Authors
- Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- The Marrow Thieves
- Shi-shi-etko
- The Orenda
- Five Little Indians
*Friendship
- The Age of Miracles
- Shopaholic and Sister
- Publishable By Death
- The Giver of Stars
Love
- Act Your Age, Eve Brown
- Take a Hint, Dani Brown
- Going Greek
- The Wreckage
Marriage
- The Vacationers
- This World We Live In
*Feelings
Joy -
Grief
- Firewing
- The Storyteller
- The Invisible Circus
- What the Night Sings
Adventurous
- The Map of Salt and Stars
Envy
- Conversations with Friends
*Film
Movie Adaptations
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- The Queen's Gambit
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
- A Man Called Ove
* Theater
Plays -
*A Fine Art
Visual arts
- Hello Beautiful
- The Girl You Left Behind
- Three Thousand Dollars
- Graffiti Moon
Music -
Dance
- Switch
- City of Girls
*Food & Beverage
- Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement
- Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook
- No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
- Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
- Sweetbitter
Heritage & Culture
- When You Trap a Tiger
- Our Homesick Songs
- The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
Hobby or Past-time
Books on Books
- The Bookseller: Stories
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Knitting
- Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting
Lists:
Best for Book Clubs list:
1. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
2. Middlesex
3. The Pillars of the Earth
4. Tuesdays with Morrie
5. The Other Boleyn Girl
6. The Road
7. Cutting for Stone
8. Grapes of Wrath
9. Gone With the Wind
10. East of Eden
11. Midwives
12. Loving Frank
What to Read Next
1. City of Bones
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Coraline
4. The Other Boleyn Girl
5. Pillars of the Earth
6. Speak
7. The Lost Symbol
8. The Two Towers
9. City of Ember
10. Tuesdays with Morrie
11. Brisingr
12. Stargirl
13. The Graveyard Book
14. Watership Down
15. Looking for Alaska
16. The Stand
17. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
18. The Alchemist
19. Ender’s Game
20. Slumdog Millionaire
50 Books that will Change Your Life - Indigo
1. East of Eden
2. Heart of Darkness
3. Clockwork Orange
4. The Remains of the Day
5. The Trial
6. Into Thin Air
7. The Talented Mr. Riply
8. Dubliners
9. Anna Karenina
10. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
12. A Confederacy of Dunces
13. Coming Through the Slaughter
14. Doctor Zhivago
15. Fellowship of the Ring
Best Books of 2020
1. American Dirt
2. Klara and the Sun
3. The Vanishing Half
4. Project Hail Mary
5. The Four Winds
6. Mexican Gothic
7. The Splendid and the Vile
8. A Promised Land
9. Trancendent Kingdom
10. The Girl with the Louding Voice
11. The Other Mrs.
12. The Guest List
Books that Changed My World
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Crime & Punishment
4. The Grapes of Wrath
5. Anna Karenina
6. Dune
7. Tuesdays with Morrie
8. The Odyssey
9. Hamlet
10. The Iliad
11. The Brothers Karamazov
12. Leaves of Grass
13. A Tale of 2 Cities
14. Perfume
15. Daring Greatly
16. In Cold Blood
17. The Origin of Species
18. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
19. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
20. Good to Great
Magical Mystery Tour 2023
OUR UNSOLVED CASES
WHO: 0/7
Solve cases featuring a main character (sleuth, perp, victim, or suspect) in one of the below fields.
1. Writer (author, journalist, etc.) - Flush
2. Domestic (maid, nanny, etc.) - Native Son
3. Finance (accountant, banker, etc.) - Kane & Abel
4. Fashion (designer, model, etc.) - Lord Edgware Dies
5. Politician (mayor, senator, etc.) - Killing Floor
6. Education (teacher, professor, librarian - The Bookseller: Storiesetc.)
7. Sports (coach, player, etc.) - Hello Beautiful
WHAT: 0/7
What makes your case distinctive?
1. A significant weather event (flood, blizzard, etc.) - Switch
2. A food or beverage in the title - Plum Spooky
3. Second - Mirror Image or third - Strangers She Knows in a series
4. A private investigator - Parting Shot
5. A person's name in the title - Plum Lucky
6. A paranormal element - Tithe
7. Related to a monthly theme (Which one?)
WHEN: 0/7
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported?
1. In winter - Murder on the Orient Express
2. In the 1900s
3. During a holiday - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement
4. In the A.M. hours (midnight to 11:59)
5. During a group event (wedding, reunion, etc.) - Winter
6. Reported (published) in the decade you were born - A Wrinkle in Time
7. Reported (published) in 2023 - Muckross Abbey and Other Stories
WHERE: 0/7
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
1. A national park or wilderness area - Firewing
2. A vacation destination - The Guest List
3. A ship or boat - The Catch
4. A university - Take a Hint, Dani Brown
5. A public venue (hotel, restaurant, airport, etc.) - Publishable By Death
6. On the road (commute, trip, etc.) - Sing, Unburied, Sing
7. A tropical climate - The Full Cupboard of Life
HOW: 0/7
For this category, each means of murder must be distinctly different.
For example, pistols and rifles are both firearms; knives and daggers are too similar.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
)6.
7.
WHY: 0/7
What motivated you to choose a particular case?
1. A favorite mystery author or series - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
2. A favorite mystery subgenre - Justice Hall
3. A Goodreads listopia (Which one?) - The Secret History
4. A literary prize winner for crime fiction (Which one?)
5. A celebrity book club pick (Which one?) - Mexican Gothic
6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year) = Prodigal Summer
7. Average Goodreads rating of 4 stars or above - Love You More
BONUS CASES: 0/8
Would you like to track down fugitives around the globe? To earn the rank of Interpol Fugitive Investigation Specialist, first complete all 42 standard cases above, then solve a crime committed in each of the eight inhabited regions of the world.
1. Africa - My Sister, the Serial Killer
2. Asia - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014
3. Europe - 4:50 from Paddington
4. Oceania
5. Caribbean
6. North America - The Woman Inside
7. Central America
8. South America
Valentine Bingo:TASK LIST
❤️Awesome - Read a romance book and rate it 5 stars because it is awesome. - Where the Crawdads Sing
❤️Be True - Read a book where main character stays true (loyal) to their love. - The Dutch House
❤️BFF - Read a "friends to lovers" book. - A Long Petal of the Sea
❤️Crazy 4 U - Read a book where main character does something crazy. - When You Trap a Tiger
❤️Dare Ya - Read a book where main character is dared to do something. - Muckross Abbey and Other Stories
❤️Don’t Tell - Read a book where main character is in a secret relationship. - Prodigal Summer
❤️First Kiss - Read a book where main character gets their first kiss. - The Girl from the Sea
❤️Got Cha - Read a book where main character has a moment of sudden understanding. - Red Queen
❤️Got Luv? - Read a book where main character is not sure if their partner loves them. - Dear Martin
❤️Hey You - Read a book where main character goes on a blind date or uses online dating. - The Kiss Quotient
❤️I M Sure - Read a book with a self-assured, confident main character. - Sail
❤️I Ψ You - Read a book where main characters start their relationship as lovers and only then fall in love.- Conversations with Friends
❤️Just One - Read a standalone romance book. - Going Greek
❤️Love You - Read a book with the words "I love you" in it. - Nothing Burns as Bright as You
❤️Mad 4 You - Read a book where main characters falls madly in love. - The White Queen
❤️Marry Me? - Read a book with a marriage proposal in it. - Shopaholic Ties the Knot
❤️Mi Amor - Read a book with a main character who can talk in several languages. - State of Terror
❤️My Girl - Read a book where main character "gets the girl/boy". - Texas! Sage
❤️My Hero - Read a book where main character saves their love interest. - Killing Floor
❤️No Way - Read an "enemies to lovers" book. - The Girl You Left Behind
❤️One & Only - Read a book where main character finds their "One & Only" lover. - Kane & Abel
❤️So Fine - Read a book with a person on the cover who is dressed up (e.g. in a suit). -
❤️Soul Mate - Read a book where main character finds their soulmate. - Hello Beautiful
❤️Sup Babe - Read a book where main character is called "babe". - Take a Hint, Dani Brown
❤️Sweet Pea - Read a book tagged "sweet".
❤️Too Cool - Read a book where main character has a seemingly "cold" personality. - Dexter's Final Cut
❤️Too Hot - Read a book where main character is very passionate and expressive. - Shopaholic and Sister
❤️Urs 4ever - Read a book with a HAE. - The Map of Salt and Stars
❤️XOXO - Read a book with people kissing or hugging on the cover. -
❤️Yes - Read a book with all letter of YES in title. - The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
❤️Yes Dear - Read a book with a married couple as main character. - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement
❤️Happy Valentine's day! - FREE SPACE, read any book. - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting
Monthly Challenge prompts:
January
1. Read a novel at least 150 pages long - Lord Edgware Dies
2. Read a novel by an author new to you - The Age of Miracles
3. Read a book with a one-word title - Tithe
February
1. Read a romance - Shopaholic Ties the Knot, play or poetry collection - Xanax Cowboy: Poems
2. Read a book with a two-word title - Mexican Gothic
3. Read a book by one of your favourite authors - Prodigal Summer
March
1. Read a mystery - Murder on the Orient Express or suspense novel - The Other Mrs.
2. Read a book where one of the main characters' names starts with "M" - Dear Martin
3. Read a book set in Ireland - Conversations with Friendsor with a green cover -
April
1. Read a western - Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West or adventure book - Watership Down, The Lies of Locke Lamora
2. Read a book that makes you laugh - Born a Crime, Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health
3. Read a book with a four-word title - A Man Called Ove, Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
May
1. Read a book by a female author new to you - Where the Crawdads Sing
2. Read a book by one of your favourite female authors - Death in the Clouds, A Wrinkle in Time
3. Read a book about a woman/girl you admire - Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
June
1. Read a fantasy - Parable of the Sower or graphic novel
2. Read a book set in a hot place - Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits or during the summer - Hello, Summer
3. Read any book in a series - Lilac Girls
July
1. Read a children's - Shi-shi-etko or YA book - What the Night Sings
2. Read a book by an author whose first - The Invisible Circus or last name starts with J - An American Marriage
3. Read a book set on an island - The Book of Negroes
August
1. Read a memoir - Infidel or biography - Robin
2. Read a book set in a place you love to visit - Five Little Indians or would like to travel to - A Good Hanging
3. Read a book where the main character goes on a journey (fiction - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore or non-fiction)
September
1. Read a science fiction - Season of Dragons or dystopian book - Robopocalypse
2. Read a book set in any school - One Perfect Lie, college or university
3. Read a book with an orange -
, yellow -
or red coverOctober
1. Read a book or story that is considered horror - Jamaica Inn or has supernatural elements - The Pisces
2. Read a book that has witches - Yellow Brick War, ghosts - The Guest List or vampires
3. Read a Halloween story, including picture books - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
November
1. Read a book that is set before 1950 - Rules of Civility
2. Read a non-fiction book about any topic that interests you - ADHD Women: A Holistic Approach To ADHD Management
3. Read a book that has a title with five or more words, subtitles count - Murder on an Irish Farm
December
1. Read a book originally published before 1970 - Travels with My Aunt
2. Read a classic short story - The Beach of Falesá
3. Read a book of your choice! - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
I love the way you set up how to pick books to read
Winter Reading Challenge:1. a. Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in WINTER (you can use or ignore a, an or the) - Winter
b. Read a book with snow -
, snowflakes or a snowman on the cover -
OR a book with a person wearing winter clothing (scarf, hat, warm coat etc) on the cover.c. Read a book that is between 89 and 128 pages long (you can ignore the 100 page requirement for this task). - A Room of One's Own
2. a. Read a book written by a female author. - Plum Spooky
b. Read a novel set in the 19th century. - Flush
c. Read a romance novel. - Shopaholic Ties the Knot
3. a. Read a book related to a holiday that happens in December. (Some examples: Rosa Parks Day, National Cookie Day, Dewey Decimal System Day, Nobel Prize Day, Kwanzaa, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Hanukkah, etc.)
b. Read a book that has one of the gifts referred to in The Twelve Days of Christmas shown on its cover (ignore the numbers - eg a book with a gold ring works, you don’t need a book with five gold rings!) -
c. Read a book that features a family gathering. - Prodigal Summer
4. a. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in YUKIGASSEN. - The Vacationers
b. Read a book in a series that is at least 7 books long - Lord Edgware Dies
c. Read a book set in a country where yukigassen is played (Japan, Armenia, Canada - Lucky Man, China, Finland -The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, or Slovakia).
5. a. Read a book by an author who is new to you. - Tithe
b. Read a book from a genre that is new to you (you can use a sub-genre, eg urban fantasy, historical romance, etc if you already read books from most genres). - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
c. Read a book in which all the words in the title have the same number of letters (eg The Bat, Ninth House, The Old Man and the Sea). - Kane & Abel
6. a. Read a book set in Japan.
b. Read a book that features a cat in some way. - Native Son
c. Read a magical realism novel. - When You Trap a Tiger
7. a. Read a book where the first letter of each word in the title can be found in NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS (the title must be at least three words long for this option) - Sing, Unburied, Sing
b. Read a book that looks into the past (historical fiction, history, etc) or a book that looks into the future (science fiction, fantasy, etc). - The Age of Miracles
c. Read a book that will help you keep one of your New Year resolutions OR if you don’t make resolutions then read a book related to one of the top ten New Years resolutions. - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement
8. a. Read a book set mostly in a location that begins with a letter in SWITZERLAND. - The Bookseller: Stories
b. Read a book in which a conflict between characters is a major part of the plot. Tell us what the conflict was (using spoiler tags if necessary) when recording the task as completed. - Strangers She Knows
c. Read a book that is fast-paced. - Plum Lucky
9. a. Read a book with Romance listed as one of the top five genres on its Goodreads page. - Act Your Age, Eve Brown
b. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in VALENTINE’S DAY. - The Catch
c. Read a book written in or set in the Medieval period (usually defined as the 5th to 15th centuries). - The Map of Salt and Stars
10. a. Read a book set in the American midwest. - Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health
b. Read a novel that features the wilderness. - Firewing
c. Read a coming of age story. - The Girl from the Sea
11. a. Read a book that is at least 253 pages long. - Dexter's Final Cut
b. Read a book published in a year in which the Winter Olympics took place (1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952 - Wise Blood, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998 - N is for Noose, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 - Earth & Sky, 2018)
c. Read a book where the plot “jumps” about (a non-linear narrative as it’s normally called). - Parting Shot
12. a. Read a literary fiction novel. - Conversations with Friends
b. Read a book that features a ghost. - Mexican Gothic
c. Read a book that starts with a letter in the word SHORT. - Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Monthly Challenges:
January:
This or That?
1. Early bird or night owl - N is for Noose?
2. Costume party - Tithe or pool party - The Age of Miracles?
3. Cats - Native Son or dogs -
?4. Music festival or art festival? - A Long Petal of the Sea
5. Mountains -
or ocean? - The Catch6. Cooking class - Act Your Age, Eve Brown or dance lessons?
7. Spring or autumn - Plum Spooky?
8. Ghost tour - or historical tour? - The White Queen
9. Country or city - Lord Edgware Dies
10. Thunderstorm - Strangers She Knows or snowstorm- Switch?
February:
1. February's birthstone is amethyst which is a purple quartz.
Read a book published in or set in February. - The Storyteller
2. Before modern times, purple was a very costly dye and so became associated with wealth and royalty.
Read a book featuring an extremely wealthy - Shopaholic Ties the Knot and/or royal character. - Kane & Abel
3. Purple is often liked by creative or eccentric people.
Read a book featuring an artist/actor/ - Dexter's Final Cut musician or someone who is very eccentric. - Prodigal Summer
4. Purple is often associated with mystery.
Read a mystery - Murder on the Orient Express or a book about something mystical. - Ashes
5. Purple is the most common favourite colour of adolescent girls.
Read a young adult book. - Dear Martin
6. The American military has a Purple Heart award.
Read a book featuring a hero or a military person. - Killing Floor
7. Purple Rain is a 1984 American film about rock music and Deep Purple is a rock band formed in 1968 during the flower child era.
Read a book featuring music or a musician/band/orchestra set or written in the 1960s or 1980s.
8. The Color Purple is a prize winning American book by Alice Walker.
Read a book by an author of colour. - When You Trap a Tiger
9. Porphyrophobia is the fear of purple.
Read a scary book - Mexican Gothicor a book set during a crisis. - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
10. Both the Irish name Corcoran and the Portuguese name Purpura mean purple.
Read a book by an Irish - Conversations with Friends or Portuguese author.
March:
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
1. Planets in our solar system Read a book featuring the planets of our solar system or with a planet name in the title/text. - Earth & Sky
2. Celestial objects Read a book featuring nova, super nova, comet, meteor, asteroid, black hole, wormhole, aurora, eclipse, doppler, red shift, equinox, nebula, oort, kuiper, in the title, or a book where the characters seek answers in the unknown. - Long Way Down
3. Travelling the galaxies Read a book that features a type of galactic travel in the title, or a book where the characters go on an adventure. - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1
4. For all the fans Read a book with any of the Star Wars or Star Trek ships names/words in the title (ex. Enterprise, Excelsior, Millenium, Falcon, Voyager, Defiant, Stargazer, Botany, Phoenix, Raven, Franklin, Vengeance, Nomad), or a book where the character is a fan of either franchise.
5. What's your sign? Read a book with the a constellation in the title, or a book where a character is interested in astrology.
6. The Big Bang Theory Read a nonfiction book about science - Astrophysics for People in a Hurryor about history. - This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
7. We are all stardust Read a book with any of periodic table of elements in the title or a book where characters are seeking material wealth. - The Dutch House
8. Rocketman Read a book about an astronaut or featuring a character on a non-Earth quest - The Girl from the Sea/trip - Ozma of Oz.
9. Galileo Figuero Read a book about earthbound explorers - The Map of Salt and Stars or a book where a character pushes boundaries in their chosen field. - A Room of One's Own
April:
1. You’ve decided to adopt a small animal as a pet. Yay! Of, course, you must prepare for this big responsibility.
Read about a subject you want to learn more about - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook or read a book with an animal companion. - And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
2. Your hamster needs a safe and secure cage in a temperature-controlled area.
Read a book with a building on the cover - City of Bones,
or read a book in which the weather plays a significant part. - The Secret History, Grapes of Wrath, Gone With the Wind, The Four Winds, The Snow Child, Sail3. As a burrowing prey animal, your hamster needs bedding and a nest box for sleeping and as a retreat when frightened.
Read a book with a dark cover, or read a scary - Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West or intimidating book. - The Iliad
4. Your new pet will need fresh, clean water and healthy food.
Read a book with water on the cover -
, or fill up with a book over 400 pages.5. Help your new pet stay active by providing an exercise saucer.
Read a book featuring a sport or game - Red Queen , or sprint through a book under 250 pages. - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
6. To avoid boredom, provide interactive toys and opportunities for tunneling and climbing to keep your new friend stimulated.
Read a highly anticipated book - The Known World or read a new-to-you author. - Muckross Abbey and Other Stories
7. Hamsters' incisors grow continuously, so they need gnawing blocks or untreated softwood branches to keep their teeth from becoming overgrown.
Continue a series - Jazz or read a book with trees on the cover. - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
8. Your hamster will have to spend time out of its cage, so a secure travel cage is a smart idea. They are notorious escape artists!
Read a book where a character leaves home (vacation, quest, college, etc.), or read a book that includes a crime - Three Act Tragedy
May:
1. Under the weather: To feel ill Read a book that has an important weather event - Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Futureor a book where a character is ill. - Tatouine
2. Spill the beans: to give away a secret Read a book that features cooking - Visions of Sugar Plums or a book where the character has a secret. - The House We Grew Up In
3. The ball is in your court: it's your decision Read a book that features a sport with a ball - Hello Beautiful or a book where a character must make a major decision. - Mirror Image
4. Break a leg: good luck! Read a book where a character breaks a bone - Shopaholic and Sister or where luck is a factor in the plot - Smokin' Seventeen
5. Once in a blue moon: Rarely Read a book with the moon on the cover -
or featured in the story or where the characters are seeking something rare. - Glass Sword6. Go down in flames: To fail spectacularly Read a book with fire on the cover or featured in the story - The Iliad or a book where a character fails badly. - Xanax Cowboy: Poems
7. Beat around the bush: Avoid saying something Read a book about gardening - No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and Moreor where a character gardens or a book with a character avoiding a conversation. - The Full Cupboard of Life
8. Hit the sack: Go to bed Read a book where a character hits someone - The Secret Historyor where sleeping is a major plot point - Parenthesis
9. Miss the boat: Too late Read a book with a boat on the cover -
or where a character misses a deadline. - The Kiss Quotient10. A dime a dozen: very common Read a book with money on the cover or in the title or where the main character is of the common people. - Death in the Clouds
June: EMOJI POP CULTURE
🤖 1. The 2009 film Moon featured a robot named GERTY who communicates using a neutral synthesized voice and a screen with emoji to convey emotions.
▪ Read a book featuring a non-human character, involving A.I., or first published in 2009.
🐳 2. In 2014, the Library of Congress acquired an emoji version of Herman Melville's Moby Dick created by Fred Benenson.
▪ Read a classic, a book involving the sea - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, or first published in 2014.
🎼 3. In May 2016, a musical called Emojiland premiered at Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Angeles.
▪ Read a book that inspired a musical or other artistic performance - Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits, or first published in 2016. - Lilac Girls
🎨 4. In October 2016, the Museum of Modern Art acquired the original collection of emoji distributed by NTT DoCoMo in 1999.
▪ Read a book set in a museum, about an artist, or first published in 1999 - In the Forests of the Night.
😍 5. In November 2016, the first emoji-themed convention, Emojicon, was held in San Francisco.
▪ Read a book involving a convention - The Queen's Gambit, a festival - Publishable By Death, or set in San Francisco.
🏯 6. In March 2017, the fifth season of Samurai Jack opened with an episode featuring alien characters who communicate in emoji.
▪ Read a book set in Japan - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, featuring any kind of aliens, or first published in 2017. - The Marrow Thieves
😊 7. In April 2017, a Doctor Who episode featured nanobots called Vardy, which communicate through robotic avatars that use emoji, and are sometimes referred to by the time travelers as Emojibots.
▪ Read a Sci-Fi book, a book featuring time travel, or first published in Spring. - Hello, Summer
🎬 8. In July 2017, Sony Pictures Animation released The Emoji Movie, featuring the voices of Patrick Stewart, Christina Aguilera, Sofía Vergara, Anna Faris, T. J. Miller, and other notable actors and comedians.
▪ Read a graphic novel, a book that makes you laugh - If You Ask Me , or a book with a character or author who shares a first name or surname with the above actors.
🤰 9. In September 2021, Drake released his sixth studio album, Certified Lover Boy with album cover art featuring twelve emoji of pregnant women in varying clothing colors, hair colors and skin tones.
▪ Read a book about women, with emojis on the cover, or first published in 2021. - State of Terror
💖 10. In January 2023, the winner of this group's Masthead and Logo contest selected Emoji as the theme for June.
▪ Read a book inspired by your favorite emoji, or first published in 2023.
2023 Upside Down Tasks:Read a book that mentions Emily Dickinson or one of her works - And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
Read a book FIRST published on the 1 January (in any year) - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
Read a cookbook, make one of the recipes listed, and post a picture of your food creation in the "Upside Down Challenge thread (minimum word/page counts don't apply for this task) - Makini's Vegan Kitchen: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Plum Cookbook
Read a novella (minimum page counts don't count for this task) which has been on your "want to read" list the longest - Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Life After a Concussion
Read a book where a character has a "security blanket" or a lucky item - The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story
Read a book where the authors name contains the letters N, B, R and C - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1
Read a book where a character travels to somewhere with a different climate - Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement
"Read a ""spin off"" book (where the author is inspired by someone else's characters) Eg Young James Bond / The Beekeepers Apprentice (from Sherlock Holmes) / Shakespeare retellings " - Winter
Read a book with a tropical storm - Sail or a flash flood - The Giver of Stars
Read a book where a character drinks coconut water - The Beach of Falesá
Read a book with tennis raquets, tennis balls, a tennis court or tennis players on the cover
Read a book by an author who has published more than 20 novels - Plum Spooky
Read a book by an author born in January (of any year) - A Room of One's Own
Read a book where there is a computer virus or computer hacking - Glass Sword
Read a book where there is a tight deadline - Kane & Abel
Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a tropical island - The Old Man and the Sea
Read a book which is set under the sea - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Read a book with a palindrome over 4 letters in the title - Xanax Cowboy: Poems
Read a book with a Poker hand in title (e.g. Straight, Flush - Flush, Full House, Pair)
Read a book with a purple cover -
Read a book with a red, pink or orange dress on the cover -
Read a book with the phrase "gut feeling" in a book - Hello, Summer
Read a book with the phrase "Have a kitten" in a book - Switch
Read a book with the word Ms, Mr, - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Mrs or Miss (plurals are acceptable) in the title
Read a book with a country scene on the cover -
Read a book with a cover showing close-up of a hand(s) -
Read a book with a famous landmark on the cover
Read a book that has a title with opposite pairings (e.g. Big Little, North South) - Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health
Read a book with a pet that has a name starting with F - A Wrinkle in Time
Read a book where the cover shows someone swimming -
Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 26th of a month - Rules of Civility
Read a book that contains a Shakespeare quote in the text - Watership Down
Read a book that contains the word leek - No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
Read a book that contains the word tomato - Prodigal Summer
Read a book that contains the word watermelon -
Read a book that has the birthstone Alexandrite in the text or title
Read a book that has the birthstone Citrine in the text or title
Read a book about a group of friends. - Conversations with Friends
Read a book by one of the greatest writers of all time, as voted by all voters, on this site: https://www.ranker.com/list/best-writ... - The Brothers Karamazov, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Homer, Dickens, Tolkien, Orwell, Poe, Twain, Austen, Steinbeck, Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Faulkner, Woolf, Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, DuMaurier, Murder on the Orient Express
Read a screenplay or a book of poetry (minimum word/page counts don't apply for this task) - The Iliad
Read a book first published in June - The Age of Miracles
Read a book first published in October - Parting Shot
Read a book originally published with a different title - The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
Read a book set in the time period "Contemporary history" - Hello Beautiful
Read a book set in the time period "Middle Ages" - The White Queen
Read a book set in your home state/country - We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Read a book that has the word "Amore" in the text or title - And Thereby Hangs a Tale
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as aliens - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
Read a book whose author died 2-5 years ago - Jazz
Read a book with the word "bingle" in the text
Read a book where the character is described as dancing "like Fred Astaire" or "like Ginger Rogers" - City of Girls
Read a book where a character does not leave their house - Mexican Gothic
Read a book with the word "defenstrate" in the text - Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Read a book with a pet that has a name starting with E
Read a book on the Book Depository best books of 2022 (so far) list
(https://www.bookdepository.com/best-o...) - The Swimmers
Read a book that is written by or includes a character with your same name (or variation of... maiden, alias, etc). -
Read a book where a character travels to a new country for the first time - The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases
Read a book where a character gets sunburnt - Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Read a book where the characters play tennis
Read a book with mosquito in the text - Firewing
Read a book with a month name in the title (January-December)
Read a book with one, or more, camels on the cover -
Read a book that contains the word "conniption" - Texas! Sage
Read a book where an African country is menioned in the text - The Catch
Read a book with penguins on the cover or in the text
Read a book on the "Ten Most Popular and Must Read South African Books" list here: https://buzzsouthafrica.com/top-10-mo... - Long Walk to Freedom - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Read a book that has a hero or heroine that does something “dumb” - Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Read a book that has been on your "to read" shelf for more than 1 year - Red Queen
Read a book where the audio version is between 5:00 hours and 8:59 hours long - Strangers She Knows
Read a book that has the word "hug" in the text or title - The House We Grew Up In
Read a book that has the word "pink" in the text - Back Spin or title -
Read a book with the word winner, loser, competition or trophy (plurals are acceptable) in the title
The Upside Down Tasks con'tRead a book with the word wolf, bear, fox, lion or tiger - When You Trap a Tiger(plurals are acceptable) in the title
Read a book with a zombie - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Read a book with an airplane -
, spaceship or some type of machine on the coverRead a book with an alliteration in the title - N is for Noose
Read a book with an average goodreads rating of between 3.01 and 3.5 - Conscious Crafts: Knitting: 20 mindful makes to reconnect head, heart hands
Read a book which is listed on Amazon for less than $3
Read a book where the author has a 4 letter name (first or last) - Love You More
Read a book where the author uses initials instead of a first name - Publishable By Death
Read a book where the characters eat salad - The Girl You Left Behind
Read a book with a flower on the cover -
Read a book where an important character dies - Dear Martin
Read a book where at least 5 people are killed - Long Way Down
Read a book where MC is a virgin (at the beginning) - Nothing Burns as Bright as You
Read a book that mentions Queen Elizabeth I - The Full Cupboard of Life
Read a book that was originally published between 1901 and 1950 - Native Son
Read a book where a character has a first experience - Parenthesis
Read a book where a character has a military background or family - Killing Floor
Read a book where a character is a mermaid - The Girl from the Sea
Read a book where a character is a sports fan - One Perfect Lie
Read a book where a character is a teacher - This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
Read a book where a character is a tradesperson - The Known World
Read a book with "topsy-turvy" in the text
Read a book with "upside down" in the text - Justice Hall
Read a book with a gargoyle
Read a book that is in the "Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...) - Animal Farm
Read a book that is, or was originally, self-published - The Bookseller: Stories
Read a book that is book 4 in a series - Shopaholic and Sister
Look at your Goodreads "updates" (on the home page). Read a book that one of your friends read in the last 3 days - Hello Beautiful, Where the Crawdads Sing, Daisy Jones & the 6, A Man Called Ove, Sea of Tranquility, American Dirt, The Bell Jar, Brokeback Mountain,
Read a book that another Upside Down challenge player read in December 2022
Read a book that a NBRC Moderator read in January 2022
Read a book with a striped item on the cover -
Read a book in which a character has a baby - Lilac Girls
Read a book which has the main location (setting) as Asia - The Night Diary
Read a book which has the main location (setting) as the USA - Visions of Sugar Plums
Read a book with fire on the cover
Read a book with orange text on the cover -
Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Paranormal
Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Urban Fantasy - In the Forests of the Night
Read a book where the page numbers add to 7 (i.e. 345 pages = 3+4+5 = 12) - Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
Read a book where the title includes an ampersand - Earth & Sky
Read a book where the title starts with the letter I - If You Ask Me
Read a book where the title starts with the letter K - Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting
Read a book where a character has more than one child - The Map of Salt and Stars
Read a book where a character has visions (diviner, clairvoyant, prophet) - Muckross Abbey and Other Stories
Read a book where a character is 16 years old - The Queen's Gambit
Read a book where a character is a grim reaper
Read a book where a character is a werewolf - The Storyteller
Read a book where a character is an alcoholic - The Secret Historyor has a drug problem - Sing, Unburied, Sing
Read a book where a character is an imp
Read a book where a character lives in a city - Wise Blood
Read a book with red writing on the cover -
Read a book with blue writing on the cover -
Read a book with a flag on the cover -
Read a book with a road on the cover -
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as wishlist - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable - Tatouine
Read a book where a character is a fae - Tithe
January's Upside Down Challenge. Read a book where someone moves to, or is transported to, a country in the Southern Hemisphere - A Long Petal of the Sea
Read a book with fireworks on the cover
Read a book where the characters celebrate New Years Eve - Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits
Read a book with the name of a cocktail in the title
Read a book based in Australian or New Zealand that was turned into a movie produced in Aus/NZ
Read a book that contains at least 3 of the following ingredients required for Pavolva, in the text. (Ingredients are: eggs or egg whites ; sugar ; strawberries, kiwi fruit, mangoes, passionfruit, cream, vanilla, vinegar, cornflour, icing sugar.) - The Kiss Quotient
Read a book that contains the letters S-U-N in the title, but not in that order - Dexter's Final Cut
Sort your "to read" shelf by 'date added' and read a book that is number 251 or higher on your list (the first column before the book cover image) - Blood Memory, Sylvia, The Shape of Snakes, Hornet Flight, Whiteout, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Objective, Hitching Rides with Buddha, The Sanctuary of Outcasts, Apollo's Arrow, Her Father's Daughter, Loving Frank, Annie's Girl, Teach Yourself to Think, Comrades & Strangers, Annie Parker Decoded, The Girl in the Picture, A Wolf at the Table, A Monk Swimming, Mary Janeway, In the Sea There are Crocodiles, The Boy on the Beach, Comfort Me with Apples, The Roots of Desire, Gielgud's Letters, The Pioneer Woman, Invisible Eden, Robin, If I Fall If I Die, Balancing Acts, The Whisper of Legends, Farthings Fortunes, Cavedweller, A Civil Action, Once We Had a Country, Let the Great World Spin, Little Bird of Heaven, Who do You Think You Are, Who By Fire, Sweeping Up the Glass, Perdita, A Live Coal in the Sea, Dracula My Love, Human Amusements, The Giant's House, An Audience of Chairs, Ama, Pecked to Death by Ducks, Riven Rock, This is Where I Leave You, The Last Burden, Chaucer the Maker, The River Midnight, Origin of Haloes, War of the Wives, Death in Sicily, The Canterbury Sisters, The Empress Letters, Skipping a Beat, Deadline, The Question, Grand Central, Strangers She Knows, The Tsar of Love & Techno, The German Girl, Prisoner in a Red Rose Chain, The Consequences, Running Scared, The Lizard Cage, The House We Grew Up In, An Echo Through the Snow, The Runaway Princess, The First Day of the Rest of My Life, Certain Girls, Cloud Nine, The House on Oyster Creek, The Night Villa, A Year of Marvellous Ways, When God Was a Rabbit, The Witches of New York, Saving Fish From Drowning, Millers Valley, The End of East, An Equal Music, Miss Fortune, Falling Angels, The Hero's Walk, Erebos, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes, Call Me Russell, Consumption, Lost Kin, The Sleeper, Pass the Butterworms, Slow Death by Rubber Duck, Promises to Keep, Along the Inca Road, Elizabeth and After, A Long Way From Home, Quartet for the End of Time, Running the Rift, Believing the Lie, Rich People Problems, China Rich Girlfriend, Feathered Serpent 2012, Moby Duck, Back on Tuesday, Tuesdays with Morrie, Beyond Deserving, My Ghosts, The Error of Our Ways, Leading the Cheers, Between Gods, Business as Usual, Enchantment, Hitman Anders & the Meaning of It All, Mythos, Silent House, The Passage, River of Smoke, 10 Stupid Things Men Do..., The Weekend Man, Changing My Mind, Playing With Fire, Boom Bust Echo, BuzzMarketing, Belgravia, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, Paradise, Nanjing Requiem, Quirkyalone, Then We Set His Hair on Fire, Confessions of a Sociopath, The Grey Seas Under, Fiona Range, Spadework, The Calculating Stars, Ripper, So Much for That, Game Control, A Star Called Henry, All Roads Lead to Austen, The Reserve, Baumgartner's Bombay, Polar, Whip It, Courage My Love, Infinite Jest, Long Walk to Freedom, The Proof, Teaching, Confessions of a 40 Something..., Blink & Caution, The Optimist, Dismantled, The Treehouse, Organizing from the Inside Out, Smart Women Finish Rich, Be Your Own Brand, Laughing Matters, Full Catastrophe Living, The Fusion Marketing Bible, Good to Great, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, The Courage to Teach, The Left Us Everything, The White Masai, Drunk Mom, Buddha, Lulu in the Sky, Shooting Water, The Voluntourist, Innovate Inside the Box,
Read a book with 71-80 chapters - Mirror Image
Read a book that is in the "Best Non-Fiction (non biography)" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...) - Outliers, The Tipping Point, Blink, Fast Food Nation, Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The Professor & the Madman, The Origin of Species, Moneyball, 7 Habits of Highly..., Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Bonk, Botany of Desire, The Big Short, Thinking Fast & Slow, Spook, A Room of One's Own, No Logo, Good to Great, In Cold Blood, Audacity of Hope, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Packing For Mars, Tuesdays with Morrie, A Civil Action, What the Dog Saw, Infidel, The Happiness Project, The Brain that Changes Itself, Dance of Anger, The Coming Plague, Steve Jobs, The Sociopath Next Door, Into the Wild, The Monuments Men, Shake Hands with the Devil, Beyond Good & Evil, Naked, The Lemon Tree, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
July: The Greatest Show on Earth🤸🏽♂️ 1. Acrobats/Aerialists: These athletes and gymnasts run, spin and tumble across the ring, or hang, swing and fly in the air.
Read a book involving a sport or athletic activity, or an adventure book. - The Innocents Abroad
🐘 2. Animals: Traditionally, trained animals were used to draw in the crowds.
Read a book with a typical circus animal (dog, horse, elephant, lion, tiger, sea lion, snake, etc.) as a character, on the cover, or in the title. -
🎪 3. Big Top: This is the name for the tent used by a travelling circus.
Read a book featuring a major attraction, set in a circus, or with a red and white cover.
🤡 4. Clowns: Circus clowns perform comedy skits in distinct makeup and costumes.
Read a book involving a clown, someone in disguise - Fresh Ink, or someone who acts silly. - 4:50 from Paddington
🔥 5. Fire Eating: This spectacular act involves putting a flaming object into the mouth and extinguishing it.
Read a book with fire -
, food -
), or a drink on the cover or in the title.🤹 6. Juggling: Jugglers often manipulate multiple objects at once.
Read a book involving juggling or multitasking - Beach Town, or with a juggler's prop in the title or on the cover (ball, club, ring, plate, orange, apple, etc.)
🔪 7. Knife Throwing: This act involves one person throwing knives at, or very close to, another person.
Read a thriller - O is for Outlaw, or a book with a cutting instrument on the cover or in the title.
🦁 8. Lion Tamer: The spectacle of the tamer and the lions is a part of circus tradition.
Read a book involving any kind of training - We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, or someone in a dangerous situation - The Book of Negroes or activity.
🃏 9. Magician: Magic acts and illusions can be part of a large circus performance.
Read a book involving any kind of magic - Mouthful of Birds or illusion, or a tricky character. - This World We Live In
🎩 10. Ringmaster: The master or mistress of ceremonies traditionally wears a top hat and tail coat, greets the guests, and introduces the acts.
Read a book with formal attire on the cover -
, or with one of these words in the title: welcome, greetings, introducing, biggest, amazing, spectacular, dangerous, greatest, show, earth. Variations are also acceptable, i.e., big, danger, greatness, etc.August: Artistic Amusement
1. Calliope is the Muse of eloquence and epic poetry.
Read an epic (ancient or modern), or a book with a writing instrument -
/ crown on the cover.2. Clio is the Muse of history.
Read a classic/historical fiction, or a book with a book on the cover. -
3. Euterpe is the Muse of music.
Read a book involving music - What the Night Sings or with a musical instrument on the cover.
4. Thalia is the Muse of comedy.
Read a comedy - Robin or a book with a joyous woman or ivy on the cover. -
5. Melpomene is the Muse of tragedy.
Read a tragedy - A Good Hanging or a book with a sword/knife or footwear on the cover.
6. Terpsicore is the Muse of dance.
Read a book involving dancing or with a musical instrument in the title.
7. Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry.
Read a romance - Graffiti Moon/poetry book or a book with flowers/birds on the cover.
8. Polyhymnia is the Muse of hymns and sacred poetry.
Read a book about something sacred/religious - Infidelor with grapes/a woman wearing a cloak on the cover.
9. Urania is the Muse of astronomy and stars.
Read a book about astronomy (fiction or nonfiction) or a book with planets/stars on the cover or in the title.
10: The Muses can refer to one's artistic inspiration, and Muse is implicit in words and phrases such as amuse, music, musing upon, and museum (Latinised from mouseion—a place where the Muses were worshipped).
Read a book with a muse-based word in the title or a book with the letters M*U*S*E*A*R*T in the title + author’s name. - The Other Mrs.
September - To Mars with Perseverence
1. Perseverance or Percy is a car-sized Mars rover designated to explore the Jezero crater on Mars. Read a book involving any kind of exploration or a book with a motor vehicle on the cover. -
2. Perseverance has been active on Mars for 797 sols (sol is a solar day on Mars) since its landing. Read a book in which timekeeping is essential to the plot or a book with a star/celestial body on the cover. - One Perfect Lie
3. Following the rover’s arrival, NASA named the landing site Octavia E. Butler Landing. Read a sci-fi book or a book written by a woman or POC author. - Infidel
4. Perseverance is an upgraded version of its predecessor rover, Curiosity. Read the last book in a series or a book with a snoopy character.
5. Percy carries seven primary payload instruments, nineteen cameras, and two microphones. Read a book involving any kind of technology or a book with multiple POV. - The Wreckage
6. The rover also carried the mini-helicopter Ingenuity to Mars. Read a book involving flying or a book with a brilliant supporting character. - Sweetbitter
7. One of Percy’s goals is testing oxygen production from the Martian atmosphere to prepare for future crewed missions. Read a book about a crewed spaceflight mission (fiction or non fiction) or a book set in another planet/world. - Ender’s Game
8. Percy has a twin rover, Optimism, used to test operational procedures and to aid in problem solving. Read a book involving twins or a book with a positive message.
9. Perseverance is NASA’s sixth most expensive robotic planetary mission but it is cheaper than its predecessor, Curiosity. Read a book where money plays an important role or a family saga. - An American Marriage
10. Perseverance launched during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Tribute to Healthcare Workers plate was place on the rover. Read a book involving healthcare/a pandemic or a book first published in March 2020.
October:
1. Dreams About Being Chased
Read a scary book, or with someone/something running on the cover.
2. Dreams About Falling
Read a book where someone is injured - The Orendaor with something/someone falling on the cover.
3. Dreams About Flying
Read a book that takes place on an airplane or in space, or with anything flying on the cover (bird, airplane, etc.).
4. Dreams About Death
Read a murder mystery - Back Spin or a book with a coffin or dead body on the cover.
5. Dreams About Water
Read a book set in or on the water or with a body of water on the cover. - The Guest List
6. Dreams About Food
Read a book that features food or has food on cover.
7. Recurring Dreams
Read a book about time travel - Yellow Brick War, a recurring event (like Groundhog Day), or one that has multiples of an item on the cover.
8. Dreams About Animals
Read a book that features an animal or has an animal on the cover. -
9. Dreams Where You Can’t Move
Read a book where a character is trying to escape - Robopocalypse or with any type of restraint on the cover.
10. Dreams Where You Can’t Speak
Read a book originally published in a language that is not your mother tongue or with a form of communication on the cover.
Modiversary:
1. What do you like most about being a Mod?
I love being part of the Mod's team - FLOAB Mods are the best :-)
🎈- Read a book where MC works in a team. - 4:50 from Paddington
2. What is the hardest part about being a Mod?
I don't like refusing completions because a book doesn't fit the task, so I usually try to find a way to still accept the book.
🎈- Read a book that almost fits any other task: e.g. with a 9-letter word in the title instead of 10+ letters etc. - The Innocents Abroad
3. What is your favorite type of challenge - individual? Team? Long? Short? Other?
I prefer long challenges.
🎈- Read a book with a long word (10+ letters) in the title. - Whereabouts: A Novel
4. Which do you prefer more - making challenges or participating?
Both!
🎈- Read a book with a love triangle. - O is for Outlaw
5. What is your favorite Mod duty? E.g. making badges, writing rules, making tasks, finding information, etc.
Writing scripts or formulas for spreadsheets.
🎈- Read a book with the word script - Fresh Ink or formula found in the text.
6. What is the funniest thing that you have experienced as a Mod?
We've had many good laughs with the other mods when creating challenges, but I can't remember anything particular :-)
🎈- Read a book where MC forgets something important. - The Invisible Circus
7. What is your favorite part of the FLOAB group? Buddy reads? Chat threads? Challenges? Bookshelf? Other?
Challenges and buddy reads.
🎈-Read any book from buddy reads and participate in the discussion.
8. What is your favorite spot to hang out in the FLOAB group when not updating challenges?
Series challenge.
🎈- Read a book from any series challenge. - This World We Live In
9. If there was one Mod duty you could pick never to do again, what would it be?
I can't think of anything.
🎈- Read a book with an empty cover (no people/animals). -
10. How would you describe what being a Mod is or feels like in 1 word?
Amazing.
🎈- Read a book with an amazing GR rating (4.3 or higher). - Dear Justyce
TERRA INCOGNITA
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
As we Seek Out New Life & New Civilizations for the third quarter, you are invited to explore unknown regions here on Earth. To join, post a message below to let the challenge leader know how many books you plan to read.
1. The Darién Gap: So inhospitable is this 60-mile (96-kilometer) nugget of marshland and rainforest between Panama and Colombia that, even in our high-tech age of 3D printing, space tourism, and undersea railways, we still haven’t built a road that connects North and South America.
• Read a book set in an inhospitable - This World We Live In or dangerous place - Infidel, or where travel is often conducted with pirogues or canoes. - The Innocents Abroad
• Read a book set in Panama or Colombia, or a book with vegetation on the cover. -
2. Gangkhar Puensum: There remain dozens of mountains that have never been conquered. The tallest is almost certainly Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan, which tops out at 24,836 feet (7,570 meters). The country prohibits mountaineering, partly because its biggest peaks are considered sacred, but also because it lacks suitable rescue services.
• Read a book set in a sacred place - The Orenda, or set in a place where some sport or activity is banned. - What the Night Sings
• Read a book set in Bhutan or Tibet, or a book with a mountain on the cover. -
3. Sakha: Officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the largest republic of Russia has a reputation for an extreme and severe climate, with the lowest temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere in winter at -32º F (-35.5º C). In summer, the mercury regularly tops 86º F (30º C).
• Read the longest book in your TBR shelf - Case Histories, or a book set during a cold winter - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014 or a hot summer.
• Read a book set in Siberia, or a book with a very long title. -
)4. Vale do Javari: One of the largest indigenous territories in Brazil, it is named after the Javari River, the most important river of the region. Since 1851, this river has formed the border with Peru.
• Read a book involving indigenous people - Fresh Ink, or activities which endanger their habitat (such as drug trafficking, poaching, logging, mining, etc.).
• Read a book set in Brazil or Peru, or a book about an unknown civilization. - The Beach of Falesá
5. Fiordland National Park: This park contains the majority of the largest area of unmodified vegetation in New Zealand. It is also a significant refuge for many threatened native animals, ranging from dolphins and bats to reptiles, insects, and birds.
• Read a book involving animals or plants - The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden, or set in a national park.
• Read a book set in New Zealand, or a book with a body of water on the cover. -
6. Son Doong Cave: Located near the Laos–Vietnam border, Hang Sơn Đoòng has an internal, fast-flowing subterranean river and the largest cross-section of any cave, worldwide. It is the largest known cave passage in the world by volume.
• Read a book involving a cave - Season of Dragons or river, or about something mysterious - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore or dark - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror.
• Read a book set in Viet Nam - The Bride Test or Laos, or in a fictional or fantasy world. - Robopocalypse
7. The Deep Sea: We know more about the surface of Mars than we do about the bottom of the ocean, so one could be forgiven for believing that trips to the depths are limited to marine biologists. In fact, there are options for ordinary tourists like diving hotspots in Curacao and Honduras.
• Read a book taking place under water, or about any form of marine life.
• Read a book set in the Caribbean, or a book with an aquatic animal on the cover. -
8. Cape Melville National Park: Walled off by forbidding granite boulders, Cape Melville is only around 900 miles (1,448 kilometers) from Brisbane, one of Australia’s biggest cities, but the rainforest habitat might as well be a world away. Virtually inaccessible except by helicopter, scientists discovered three new-to-science species of animals in the area in 2013.
• Read a book involving any form of impenetrability, or a paranormal book.
• Read a book set in Australia - Graffiti Moon, or a book with an aircraft or wall on the cover. -
9. Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park: Located in northwest Madagascar, this national park is home to an exceptionally large number of endemic species of plants and animals that are only found within extremely small niches in the tsingys. The word tsingy can be translated into English as "where one cannot walk barefoot."
• Read a book involving endemic species, or a book where footwear plays an important role. - Yellow Brick War
• Read a book set in Madagascar, or with “island” in the title.
10. Rub’ al Khali: Literally meaning “The Empty Quarter," this is the largest contiguous sand desert in the world. The 250,000 square miles (647, 497 square kilometers) of dunes straddle Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The only signs of life are scorpions, the occasional bird, or a camel carcass.
• Read a book set in an extremely hot place, or involving oil or fossil fuel.
• Read a book set in the Arabian Peninsula, or a book originally written in Arabic.
11. Namib Desert: A coastal desert in Southern Africa, the name means “vast place.” The Namib stretches for more than 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa.
• Read a book involving coastal living - The Girl Who Wrote in Silk, or a book that is part of a series. - O is for Outlaw
• Read a book set in Angola, Namibia or South Africa, or with arthropods on the cover (insects, arachnids, myriapods or crustaceans). - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
12. Patagonia: This geographical region encompasses the southern end of South America, and is governed by Argentina and Chile. The region comprises the southern section of the Andes Mountains with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and glaciers in the west and deserts, tablelands and steppes to the east.
• Read an outdoor or travel book, or a book set in a mountainous or desert region. - Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
• Read a book set in Argentina or Chile, or a book originally written in Spanish.
13. Kamchatka: Russia’s eastern peninsula is home to some of the most spectacular volcanic activity on Earth, with more than 300 volcanoes, including one that has been erupting continuously since 1996. It’s also home to the most diverse range of salmon species and is the most densely populated brown bear habitat in the world.
• Read a book including thermal springs, volcanoes, or glaciers, or involving fish or wild animals.
• Read a book set in an extremely cold place, or with a one word title. - Whereabouts: A Novel
Design Your Own Spaceship:
Part 1: Secure Your Design Permit
In order to start your design process, you need to obtain a permit. You can do so by completing ONE of the following tasks:
🚀 Read a book with an MPG of Space Opera.
🚀 Read a book with all the letters of SPACE in the title. - Robopocalypse
🚀 Read a book with the author's first OR last initial in SHIP. - What the Night Sings
🚀 Read a book that is already in your "space" {you own in}. - Infidel
Part 2: Exterior Appearance
How will your spaceship look on the outside? Complete ONE task from each section.
➡️ Shape
🚀 Round: Read a book with something round on the cover. -
🚀 Square: Read a book with a Q in the title or author's name.
🚀 Triangle: Read a book where the MCs first initial is found in TRIANGLE. - The Pisces
🚀 Trapezoid: Read a book from the Best Books That Have Shaped America List.
➡️ Size
🚀 Small: Read a book with less than 250 pages. - The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden
🚀 Medium: Read a book that is between 250 and 350 pages. - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
🚀 Large: Read a book with more than 250 pages. - Robin
➡️ Color
🚀 Choose the color of your spaceship and read a book with that color in the title or found in the text {state passage and location}. - Yellow Brick War
➡️ Number of Rockets
🚀 Zero {your spaceship flies by some other force}: Read a standalone book. - And Thereby Hangs a Tale
🚀 For all other numbers, read that book number from a series {tell us the #}. For example, for 4 rockets, you would read book 4 from any series. - A Good Hanging
Part 3: Interior Accommodations & Destination
What about the inside of your spaceship and where are you going? Complete ONE task from each section.
➡️ Crew
🚀 Just you and one shipmate: Read a book with an even number page count. - The Woman Inside
🚀 3 or more shipmates: Read a book with an odd number page count. - A Study in Charlotte
➡️ Sleeping Quarters
🚀 1 large bunk room: Read a book with an MPG of Romance. - Graffiti Moon
🚀 A room for each shipmate: Read a book tagged Friends. - Rules of Civility
➡️ Carry a Small Pod?
🚀 Yes: Read a book from the In the Palms of Hands List.
🚀 No: Read a book with 2 empty hands on the cover. -
➡️ Destination
🚀 Stay inside your solar system: Read a book set in the country in which you reside. - The Orenda
🚀 Travel outside your solar system: Read a book set in another country. - The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
AMMP goes to space - Pack Your Bags:
1. The Orenda
2. King's Cage
3. Fangirl
4. Hornet's Nest
5. I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus
6. A Good Hanging
7. The Happiness Project
8. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
9. The Princess of Burundi
10. Inside of a Dog
11. Infidel
12. The Brutal Telling
13. An Advancement of Learning
14. A Million Little Things
15. Yellow Brick War
16. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
17. Five Little Indians
18. An American Marriage
19. Born Adventurer
20. Embracing the Wide Sky
21. Parable of the Talents
22. Robin
23. Back Spin
24. The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden
25. Good Morning Midnight
26. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
27. A Study in Charlotte
28. Educated
29. The Handmaid's Tale
30. The Wreckage
31. The Spark
32. The Tipping Point
33. And Thereby Hangs a Tale
34. An Echo in the Bone
35. A Man Called Ove
36. Barkskins
37. All Creatures Great & Small
38. Turn Right at Machu Picchu
39. Sweetbitter
40. Rules of Civility
41. The Orchid Thief
42. The DaVinci Code
43. All My Puny Sorrows
44. Life After Life
45. Punishment
46. Spook
47. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
48. Crazy Rich Asians
49. Pachinko
50. The Virgin Blue
Reading the Zodiac
Aries (March 21 - April 19)
🌠 Read the first book in a series. - A Study in Charlotte
🌠 Read a book in which there is a sea voyage. - The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
🌠 Read a book in which a war takes place. - Infidel
Taurus (April 20 - May 20)
🌠 Read a book with MPG Romance. - Graffiti Moon
🌠 Read a book with food on the cover. -
🌠 Read a book that takes place on an island. - The Wreckage
Gemini (May 21 - June 20)
🌠 Read a book with characters who are twins. - The Poet X
🌠 Read a book with an extroverted main character. - Devil’s Delight
🌠 Read a book with a horse on the cover. -
Cancer (June 21 - July 22)
🌠 Read a book with a body of water on the cover. -
🌠 Read a book with a shy character. - Dear Justyce
🌠 Read a book with the word 'moon' in the text. - And Thereby Hangs a Tale
Leo (July 23 - August 22)
🌠 Read a book with a royal character. - Yellow Brick War
🌠 Read a book in which someone goes on a quest. - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
🌠 Read a book with the word 'coat' in the text. - A Good Hanging
Virgo (August 23 - September 22)
🌠 Read a book with MPG Nonfiction. - Robin
🌠 Read a book with a woman on the cover. -
🌠 Read a book in which someone moves to a new place. - The Woman Inside
Libra (September 23 - October 22)
🌠 Read a book with a character who is a lawyer - An American Marriage or works in law enforcement. - Murder on an Irish Farm
🌠 Read a book with a symmetrical cover. -
🌠 Read a book about a parent and child. - What the Night Sings
Scorpio (October 23 - November 21)
🌠 Read a book with MPG Paranormal.
🌠 Read a book with the word 'hunt' in the text. - One Perfect Lie
🌠 Read a book with a villain or anti-hero main character. - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21)
🌠 Read a book with a teacher character. -
🌠 Read a book with a weapon (sword, arrow, gun, etc.) in the text. Knife - The Other Mrs.
🌠 Read a book in which there is a prophecy.
Capricorn (December 22 - January 19)
🌠 Read a book with over 500 pages.
🌠 Read a book with the word 'river' in it.
🌠 Read a book with a natural landscape on the cover. -
Aquarius (January 20 - February 18)
🌠 Read a book with a character working in the medical field. - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014
🌠 Read a book that starts with A (excluding the words 'A' and 'An')
🌠 Read a book with MPG LGBT.
Pisces (February 19 - March 20)
🌠 Read the last book in a series. - The Orenda
🌠 Read a book with MPG Fantasy. - Season of Dragons
🌠 Read a book with the word 'fish' in the text. - The Pisces
Bonus Task: Your Sign
🌠 Read a second task for your zodiac sign. - Five Little Indians
🌠 Read a book originally published during the official time period for your sign. - Die Trying
Guardians of the Galaxy
1. The Guardians of the Galaxy is a fictional superhero team first appearing in comic book Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (January 1969). The initial roster consisted of Vance Astro, Martinex T'Naga, Captain Charlie-27, and Yondu Udonta. Later members included Stakar Ogord, Aleta Ogord, and Nikki.
a) Read a comic book (minimum page count not required) - El Deafo
c) Read a book that includes at least one photo within the text - The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden
2. The 'original' 2014 film is based on the 2008 comic book version. The film version of the Guardians of the Galaxy formed by accident. Their different adventures put them in the same place at the same time, and their shared goals lead to them facing Ronan together. The comic version of the Guardians, on the other hand, were formed in response to multiple attacks on the galaxy.
a) Read a book where an 'accident' of some kind happens in the story (use your judgement) - The Woman Inside
b) Read a book with MPG 'adventure' - Yellow Brick War
c) Read a book that was adapted into a film - A Man Called Ove
3. Peter Quill stands among the most powerful heroes in the MCU, but he's often presented as somewhat immature and impulsive. The Star-Lord in the comics proves far more competent. Not only does he rate alongside the best martial artists in Marvel Comics, but he's also a brilliant tactician and strategist.
a) Read a book where one of the characters has a royal title such as 'Lord' - Travels with My Aunt
b) Read a book with MPG 'new adult' or 'young adult' - A Study in Charlotte
c) Read a book with an impulsive character - Robin
4. Gamora in the films is a lot more reluctant of her history. She’s not used to enjoying her life on any level, and is more clearly traumatized by how Thanos had raised her. The comic Gamora is almost the polar opposite. When the Guardians form, she’s proud to be the Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy.
a) Read a book with a strong female MC - Infidel
b) Read a book with MPG 'historical' or 'history' - The Orenda
c) Read a book from the list Fantasy/Sci-Fi Books with Strong Female Characters - Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
5. The trilogy of Guardians has a romantic subplot focused on Star-Lord and Gamora. This romantic tension didn't exist in the comics until after the films were released.
a) Read a book with one man and one woman on the cover -
b) Read a book with MPG Romance - Graffiti Moon
c) Read a book from the list Favorite Gouples or Favorite Gay Gouples
6. In the films, Drax is established as a being with strength, but nothing especially impressive. He’s easily thrashed by Ronan the Accuser in the first film, who's specifically noted to rank far below Thanos in strength. In the comic version of Drax, the character was created to kill Thanos, and actually has killed Thanos multiple times in different storylines.
a) Read a book that features a character who is physically very strong - One Perfect Lie
b) Read a book tagged 'mythology' or includes mythological characters - The Pisces
c) Read a book from the list Best Books About Mythology
7. A running joke in the films is that Groot isn’t really able to talk...limited to "I am Groot". It comes from a development which occurred in one of the earlier books, where the character is only able to say his name. Interestingly, this comes from his vocal cords having hardened, and people who listen carefully can actually understand what he’s saying. In the comics he is a giant monster capable of saying complete sentences multiple times in the past. Groot means 'big' in Dutch.
a) Read a book with persons name in the title - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
b) Read a book with MPG 'paranormal'
c) Read a big book - more than 400 pages - The Other Mrs.
8. Rocket Raccoon is one of the founding members of the Guardians in both the comics and the films. However, the film version of Rocket is a bit more reluctant, and prefers to just work with his partner Groot.
The comic version witnessed the multiple wars which tore the galaxy apart and even helped Peter Quill fight back in multiple cases. Because of this, Rocket signed up to help protect the galaxy and avoid having to watch things escalate as bad as they did during the first two wars.
a) Read a book with an animal on the cover or in the story
b) Read a book tagged 'war' - Ender’s Game or 'military' - The Wreckage
c) Read a book from the list Best Talking-Animal Books - Watership Down
9. The Guardians in the comics have had a massive team over the years which included a variety of characters. Of course, Iron Man worked with the team in the films and Thor is teamed up with them now, so they’re no stranger to additional members. But the film Guardians are more like a found family with a tight roster. The comics have shuffled characters in and out frequently, such as Flash Thompson.
a) Read a book that includes a large family - Murder on an Irish Farm
b) Read a book with MPG 'family' - The Library of Lost and Found
c) Read a book with all the letters of T-E-A-M in the title/subtitle - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014
10. The Guardians in the films are more of a comedic group than they are a serious super-team. As a result, their biggest actions have been working to stop Ronan and then working alongside the Avengers to fight against Thanos. In both cases, their own actions weren’t always key to saving everyone. In the comics, the Guardians have faced threats which would have wiped out creation itself, such as Adam Warlock in his Magus identity, and Peter Quill’s dad working with the Universal Church of Truth.
a) Read a book with some kind of 'threat' in the story line - Devil’s Delight
b) Read a book with MPG 'humor' - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
c) Read a book where someone is 'saved' by another person (use your judgement) - Dear Justyce
11. James Gunn co-wrote and directed the Marvel Studios adaptation of Guardians of the Galaxy, which was released on August 1, 2014. His brother, Sean, has a role in the film. He was born and raised in St. Louis. He has been writing and performing at the age of twelve making 8mm films.
a) Read a book that includes an 'film' or 'celebrity' related character - The Guest List
b) Read a book that includes brothers - The Bride Test
c) Read a book with the number 12 in the page count - Season of Dragons or original publication date
12. Stan Lee is considered a Marvel icon and appears in nearly every Marvel film in a cameo role. He appeared in both Gardens of the Galaxy 1 and 2 but his role in 3 was cut primarily due to his passing in November, 2018.
a) Read a book that includes a 'speaking' character with four letters in their name. - A Good Hanging
b) Read a book where a character dies in the story (not killed) - And Thereby Hangs a Tale
c) Read a book originally published in 2018 - An American Marriage
Rule Breaker
✍️ Read a book that is less than 125 pages. - Season of Dragons
✍️ Read a graphic novel, manga or poetry book that is less than 200 pages.
✍️ Read a cookbook!
✍️ Reread a book you read in the last 6 months.
✍️ Listen to an audiobook and use the edition with the least ratings/ longest page count. - Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
✍️ Read a book that starts with an article and use it for the spell out below!
- A Study in Charlotte
✍️ Spell out RULEBREAKER using ANY letter in the book title.
R - Sweetbitter
U - A Study in Charlotte
L - The Guest List
E - Infidel
B - Robin
R - The Other Mrs.
E - Devil’s Delight
A - A Man Called Ove
K - The Wreckage
E - An American Marriage
R - One Perfect Lie
✍️ Read a book for each of the colors below whose color is definitely LESS than 50%.
Black -
White -
Blue -
Yellow -
Red -
Green -
Orange -
Pink -
Purple
Brown -
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER
1. The Original Series (1966–1969)
Read a debut book or book made into a movie. - Watership Down
2. The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Read a book in a series - Murder on an Irish Farm or a book about a family. - The Bride Test
3. Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Read a book with a number in the title - Five Little Indians or a book that takes place in space.
4. Voyager (1995–2001)
Read a book where a character takes a trip on the sea - Jamaica Inn or a trip in space. - Ender’s Game
5. Enterprise (2001–2005)
Read a book where a character has an exceptional talent - Back Spin or a book with a car on the cover.
6. Discovery (2017–present)
Read a book where a discovery is made - Season of Dragons or a book where a character is exploring.
7. Picard (2020–2023)
Read a book with a person's name in the title - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror or a book with a one word title. - Robopocalypse
8. Strange New Worlds (2022–present)
Read a book by an author you have not read before - ADHD Women: A Holistic Approach To ADHD Management or a book on the strange side. - The Pisces
9. Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979)
Read a book with something in motion on the cover -
or a book with a picture on the cover.10. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Read a book where a character seeks revenge - Yellow Brick War or a book with an evil character. - Die Trying
11. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Read a book where a character is searching for something - The Beach of Falesá or read a mystery book - My Sister, the Serial Killer.
12. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Read a book where travel is involved - The Guest List or a book where a home is featured. - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014
13. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Read a book where a character is seeking a particular destination - Travels with My Aunt or a book that is the last book in a series. - The Orenda
14. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Read a book about a country that you know little about - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood or a book set in the country.
15. Star Trek Generations (1994)
Read a book that has multiple generations in it - The Library of Lost and Foundor a book published in 1994.
16. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Read a book where a character experiences something for the first time - The Poet X or a book that has the word 'first' (or synonym) in the title.
17. Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Read a book that involves an uprising - Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation or a book with a resistance group.
18. Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Read a book where the main character has an arch enemy or a book that involves a fight. - One Perfect Lie
19. Star Trek (2009)
Read a book that is a retelling or read a science fiction book.
20. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Read a book that is scary or a book that has a dark cover. -
21. Star Trek Beyond (2016)Read a book with a character or author with one of the following names: Chekov, Anton, Yelchin, Spock, Leonard, Nimoy. (This movie was dedicated to the memory of Anton Yelchin and Leonard Nimoy.)
Where No One Has Gone Before
🔺 new releases - Season of Dragons
🔺 debuts - Watership Down
🔺 new-to-you authors - The Guest List
🔺 new-to-you audio narrators - Robopocalypse
🔺 new-to-you genres or subgenres - The Pisces
🔺 new-to-you locations or settings - Five Little Indians
🔺 new-to-you group activities - Back Spin
🔺 new-to-you book formats - The Poet X
Where Dreams Come True - Disney Challenge
Examples/ideas (not limited to these):
🔹 original story on which the movie was based (Cinderella: Cendrillon)
🔹 published in the same year as the original story (Tiana: 1812 The Frog Prince Or Iron Henry)
🔹 published in the same year as the movie release (Aurora: 1959 The Haunting of Hill House) - 1997 George of the Jungle - Back Spin
🔹 set in the same place (Belle: France The Paris Library) - The Library of Lost and Found
🔹 set in the same time period (Merida: 10th century Beowulf)
🔹 an author from the same culture/heritage (Jasmine: Arabian Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi)
🔹 a character from the same culture/heritage (Pocahontas: Native American The Plague of Doves) - Five Little Indians
🔹 a retelling/reimagining (Ariel: Part of Your World)
🔹 an iconic symbol on the cover (Snow White: apple The Apple Orchard) -
🔹 someone who shares a life experience (Raya: warrior Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War)
🔹 someone who shares a physical trait (Rapunzel: long hair Cress) - Mermaid - The Pisces
🔹 someone who shares a personality characteristic (Mulan: courageous The Hunger Games)
🔹 a princess companion animal (Moana: pig or chicken Charlotte's Web) Snow White's bunny - Watership Down
🔹 a title that you can relate to a movie song (Belle: "Be Our Guest" - The Guest List
November:First Class
1. Mary Wollstonecraft: her pamphlet A Vindication of the Rights of Women, is considered to be one of the most significant work of the early feminist movement.
• Read a book about feminism or women rights or a book written by a woman in the XVIII century or before.
2. Jane Austen: changed the literature with her now classic love stories which often examined women’s roles in society.
• Read a book by Jane Austen or a book about a love story written by a woman. - The Bride Test
3. Mary Shelley: a novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, there were few things Shelley couldn’t accomplish. Her seminal work, Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, is widely considered to be the first sci-fi novel ever.
• Read a book by Mary Shelley or read a biography, sci-fi, or travel book written by a woman
4. Edith Wharton: changed literature and history when she won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921 for her novel, The Age of Innocence.
• Read a book by Edith Wharton or a book written by another female writer in the first half of the XX century.
5. Gabriela Mistral: was the very first female Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. Not only did her writing influence Latin American poetry, but her work as a humanitarian transformed the education system in Chile and in Mexico.
• Read a book by a female Latin American author - The Poet X or a book involving female activism
6. Agatha Christie: is the best-selling novelist in history. Besides the mysteries she also wrote several dramatic novels as Mary Westmacott.
• Read a book by Agatha Christie/Mary Westmacott or any mystery book written by a woman - Murder on an Irish Farm
7. Octavia E. Butler: a talented artist ahead of her time, broke down barriers of race, sex, class and genre with her writing.
• Read a book by Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation or a book written by another female writer in the second half of the XX century
8. Jeanette Winterson: made history with her 1985 coming of age novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which is often considered the first mainstream novel about gay women.
• Read a book by Jeanette Winterson or by a LGBTQ+ author
9. Alice Walker: was the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, for her epistolary novel, The Color Purple.
• Read a book by Alice Walker or a book written by another WOC - Yellow Brick War
10. J.K. Rowling: is the first and only billionaire author, she is often credited with getting kids interested in reading again and revitalizing children’s literature. She also writes books for adults as Robert Galbraith.
• Read a book by J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith or a book written by a woman under a male pen name.
December:
May the Force Be With You
✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with.
✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way. - Five Little Indians
✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been. - There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family By Petrushevskaya, Ludmila ( Author ) Paperback 2014
✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read or re-read books written for a children - Blue Sky White Stars to young adult audience. - El Deafo
✴️ Win, we shall together.
Join this month's Group Read (TBD) or a Buddy Read (you need not sign up in advance).
Let It Be
1. Let It Be Read a book where the protagonist accepts a change in their life OR read a book with a three-word title. - Five Little Indians
2. The Beatles Read a book featuring a band OR read a book with a two-word title. - El Deafo
3. Release date – 1970 Read a book published in 1970 - Travels with My Aunt OR read a book with a disco ball or bell bottoms on the cover.
4. Let it be, Let it be, Let it be, Let it be, Yeah, there will be an answer, Let it be, Let it be, Let it be, Let it be, Let it be, Whisper words of wisdom, Let it be Read a mystery
- Murder on an Irish Farm OR read a book with 'whisper' or 'wisdom' (or synonyms) in the title
5. When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, Speaking words of wisdom, Let it be Read a book where the protagonist is in trouble - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror OR read a book by a woman author. - The Poet X
6. And in my hour of darkness, She is standing right in front of me, Speaking words of wisdom, Let it be Read a book with a dark cover -
OR read a book with a woman on the cover. -
7. And when the broken hearted, People living in the world agree, There will be an answer, Let it be Read a romance - The Bride Test OR read a book where a problem is resolved in an agreeable way. - The Library of Lost and Found
8. For though they may be parted, There is still a chance that they will see, There will be an answer, Let it be Read a book where a person/people are searching for another person/people - Rules of Civility OR read a book involving sight.
9. And when the night is cloudy, There is still a light that shines on me, Shine until tomorrow, Let it be Read a book with clouds or a light source on the cover -
OR read a book set in the future. - Ender’s Game10. I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me, Speaking words of wisdom, Let it be Read a book featuring music - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood OR read a book set in Israel.
Fall Reading ChallengeFind a book that...
- Has an orange cover -
- Fits the phrase "a falling out" - A Man Called Ove
- Has a tree on the cover -
- Is a fantasy novel - Robopocalypse
- Is set in autumn - Watership Down
- Feels cozy - Murder on an Irish Farm
- Makes you think of Thanksgiving (or giving thanks) - Rules of Civility
- Is one last summer read - One Perfect Lie
- Is witchy - Yellow Brick War
- Features family relationships - An American Marriage
- Is a book you'd read in English 101 (sample list)* - The Poet X
- Features a found family - The Wreckage
- Has a rural setting - The Guest List
- Features an athlete - Back Spin
- Was published in October - Devil’s Delight
2025 Reading Challenge
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📔1. Go to your home page. Scroll through the updates and pick any book mentioned. - Lord of the Rings, Dare to Lead, The Testaments, The ABC Murders (Poirot), Child of God, Death on the Nile, The Anthropocene Reviewed, Our Missing Hearts, A Man Called Ove, The Onion Field, Red Queen, The Pillars of the Earth, In the Woods, Where the Crawdads Sing, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Alias Grace, Mudbound, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Beartown, The Wife Between Us, Into the Wild, Sea of Tranquility, Call Me By Your Name, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Firm, Beautiful World Where Are You, Rules of Civility
📕2. Go to your home page again. Scroll through the updates and choose another book.
📗3. Go to a group you are a member of and read a book off of their shelves. You may use a series substitute if needed. - The Giver of Stars, Project Hail Mary, The Snow Child, The Starless Sea, Where the Crawdads Sing, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Red Queen, Middlesex, Murder on the Orient Express, A Man Called Ove, White Teeth, The Handmaid's Tale, Americanah, The Bell Jar, Silver Linings Playbook, Life After Life, The Golem & The Jinni, The Secret History, Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Perfume, The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Gone With the Wind, Dragonflight, The Four Winds, My Sister, the Serial Killer, The Calculating Stars, The Map of Salt and Stars, Gulp, Homegoing, The Library at Mount Char, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Prime of Miss Jean Brody, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Ender’s Game, Death on the Nile, Like Water for Chocolate, Native Son, Ready Player Two, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The DaVinci Code,
📘4. Go to your Friends list, click on Books My Friends Are Reading. Choose a book from this list or a another book by an author on this list. - Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Stuart Wood, Cassandra Clare, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, James Joyce, Louise Erdrich, Meg Cabot, Jodi Picoult, Maggie Stiefvater, Louise Penny, Robyn Carr, JK Rowling, Fall of Giants, Diana Gabaldon, Beach Town
📙5. Go back to your Friends list, click on Books My Friends Are Reading. Choose another book from this list or a another book by an author on this list. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amos Towles, Pachinko, Nora Roberts, Ian McEwan, A Study in Charlotte
📔6. Choose a book from a 2022 AMMP or Game Night Challenge (that has ended) that you didn't get read. If you are new to either group or did not participate in challenges in 2022, read a book you wished you would have read in 2022. - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, The Iliad, The DaVinci Code, Murder on the Orient Express, Tell No One, The Wife Between Us, Beartown, Dune, American Dirt, Small Great Things, A Man Called Ove, The Great Alone, Educated, Dear Martin, Where the Crawdads Sing, The Four Winds, A Breath of Snow & Ashes,
📕7. Read the earliest book published on your TBR. - The Odyssey
📗8. Read one of the 5 oldest books added to your TBR. - The Aeneid, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Leaves of Grass, The Woman in White
📘9. Read any book from your TBR. - Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
📙10. Click on Browse, then Recommendations. Pick a book listed for recommendations based on your Read Shelf. - A Promised Land, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Great Alone, The Four Winds, Into the Wild,
📔11. Click on Browse, then Recommendations. Pick a book listed for recommendations based on any of your shelves. - Five Little Indians, The Anthropocene Reviewed, Atlas of the Heart, Parable of the Sower, Sea of Tranquility, The Night Watchman, The Sentence, The Aeneid, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror, The Unexpected Guest, Cannery Row, East of Eden, As I Lay Dying, A Farewell to Arms, Talking to Strangers, Into the Wild, A Beautiful Mind, The Audacity of Hope, Letters to my Daughter, Red Queen, Homegoing, The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & the 6, Choke, Dear Martin, The Secret History The Road, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,
📕12. Click on Browse, New Releases. Click on My Authors at the top and pick a book that shows up on the list for any month in 2023. If none of the New Releases appeal, read a different book by an author that shows up in the list but it must be a series you have not read yet (or a standalone if no series). - Cormac McCarthy, James Patterson, Louise Penny, Ruth Ware, Nora Roberts, John Grisham, Harlen Coben, Rainbow Rowell, Mary Kubica, Elin Hildebrand, Jojo Moyes, Lois Lowrey, Iris Johansen, Deborah Crombie, Roxane Gay, Patricia Gibney, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Christina Dodd, Curtis Sittenfeld, Jennifer Robson, David Baldacci, Peter Robinson, Linwood Barclay,
📗13. Click on Browse, then on Lists. Pick a list that your friends have voted on and pick a book from that list to read. Series substitute allowed. - Books with Girl in the Title - The Other Boleyn Girl, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, The Girl You Left Behind, Island of Lost Girls, Foxfire, China Rich Girlfriend, Certain Girls,
📘14. Click on Browse, then on Lists. Pick a different list that your friends have voted on (not from the list you used in #13) and pick a book from that list to read. Series substitute allowed - Best Historical Mystery - The Name of the Rose, The Historian, Perfume, The Forgotten Garden, Eye of the Needle, Fingersmith, The Angel Game, next Mary Russell, Possession, Woman in White, next Charles Finch, Jamaica Inn, The Secret Keeper, The Little Stranger, Shutter Island, Crime & Punishment, Lady of Hay, Night Over Water, Alias Grace, next Lord John, Fall of Giants, My Name is Red, Hornet Flight, The Lady & the Unicorn, The Distant Hours, In a Dry Season or next Inspector Banks, Cutting for Stone,
📙15. Click on Browse, then on Explore. To the right in the drop down menu, you will see Favorite Genres. Click on a genre and read a book on the New Releases for that genre. If nothing appeals, pick a different genre.
📔16. Click on Browse, then on Explore. To the right in the drop down menu, you will see Favorite Genres. Click on a genre then scroll down to Lists. Pick a book from any of the lists and read it. If nothing appeals, pick a different genre. Interesting & Readable Nonfiction - Outliers, Blink, In Cold Blood, The Tipping Point, Fast Food Nation, Into Thin Air, Educated, Bonk, Moneyball, Packing for Mars, The Professor & The Madman, The Botany of Desire, Gulp, Tuesdays With Morrie, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, The Second Sex, Steve Jobs, The Feminine Mystique, David & Goliath, Travels with Charley, Thinking Fast & Slow, The Origin of Species, The Monuments Men, Naked, So You Want to Talk About Race, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Lucky, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, The Big Short, The Brain that Changes Itself, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, We Should All Be Feminists, The Beauty Myth, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Grunt, When You are Engulfed in Flames, Infidel, The 6 Wives of Henry VIII, You Are Not So Smart, All the President's Men, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, You are A Badass, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, The Lonely City, Dreams from my Father, The Audacity of Hope, Long Walk to Freedom, No Logo, Beyond Good & Evil, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Artists Way,
📕17. Click on Browse, then on Choice Awards. Pick any book that has been nominated (or won) for any year and read that book or any other book by that author. - Haruki Murakami, Janet Evanovich, Paula McLain, Paula Hawkins, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Harper Lee, Kristen Hannah, Neil Gaiman, Steve Jobs, Cassandra Clare, JK Rowling, The Pioneer Woman..., Broken, John Green, Dan Brown, Kate Atkinson, JRR Tolkien, Rainbow Rowell, Diana Gabaldon, Andy Weir, Peirce Brown, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Red Queen, Liane Moriarty, Colson Whitehead, Amanda Lovelace, Celeste Ng, Lauren Graham, Jojo Moyes, Madeline Miller, Educated, The Silent Patient, Daisy Jones & the Six, Mexican Gothic, Barak Obama, Conversations with Friends, Amanda Gorman, Sea of Tranquility, Brene Brown,
📗18. On your profile page, scroll down until you see "People (Your name) IS Following" on the right side of the page. Click on the link then at the top right of that page click on "Authors You're Following". Once there, scroll through the list of authors you're following and choose an author. Read any book by that author. If you are not following an author... you should be! But you may choose a book by any author you consider a favorite.
📘19. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by date added. Pick a book off the first page. - Fall of Giants, The Happiness Project, Red Moon, Codebreakers, Already Home, Sometimes Mine, The Singing Fire, Mercy Among the Children, Plan B, Case Histories, The Mind's Eye, The Good Apprentice, An Anthropologist on Mars, Sleeping Naked is Green, The Book of Negroes, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B, Mudbound, Not My Daughter, The Freedom Writer's Diary, The Grapes of Wrath, Infidel, Shake Hands With the Devil, Bury Your Dead, The Golem & the Jinni, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, Chronicler of the Winds, The Birth House, The Scorched Wood People, Born Adventurer, Far to Go, The 100 Secret Senses, The Piano Man's Daughter, The Casual Vacancy, A Fine Balance, The Historian, The Tipping Point, The Professor & the Madman, The Brain that Changes Itself, The Known World, Cutting for Stone, The Forgotten Garden, The Hedgehog Fox & Magister's Pox, Foxfire, Honeymoon in Purdah, David & Goliath, A Train in Winter, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Chasing Cezanne, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures,
📙20. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by date added. Pick a book off the last page. Creating Your Best Life, The Last Shot, My Other Life, Zoo Station, Everyone Worth Knowing, The Iron Tracks, People of the Deer, Devices & Desires, Night Over Water, Cuba Libre, Black List Section H, Cemetery Road, The Clockmaker's Daughter, Barkskins, The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100 yr old Man, The Map of Salt and Stars, Mississippi Blood, American Dirt, Daring Greatly, You Are a Badass, Personal, Drop City, Liar Liar, The Republic of Imagination, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, The Odyssey,