Historical Fictionistas discussion

JoLene
Narrator read = 50
312 pages = 4

Book Total = 54

Challenge Total 🟰 968
Forgot to add title. Aug3, 2023
Still Life by Louise Penny

The Book of Lost Friends by LIsa Wingate
#21 on list=21 points
HF=5 points
388 pages=4 points
On TBR since 3/2020=6 points
Book total=36 pointss

Challenge total=757 points

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
#38 = 38 points
294 pages = 2 points
HF = 5 points
TBR - May 2023 = 0 points
Total = 45 points

Challenge total = 829 points

#32 Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
312 pages = 4
HF = 5

Book Total = 41

#27 Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer
206 pages = 2
HF = 5

Book Total = 34

Challenge Total = 1,045

The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
#45 -45 pts
350pp -4pts
Dated added 7/16 -15 pts
HF -5 pts
Bonus e -5 pts
Book Total 74 pts

Challenge Total: 529 pts

Miami by Joan Didion
#43 - 43 points
240 pages - 2 points
HF - 0 points
Date added: March 4, 2022 - 2 points
TOTAL POINTS - 47 points
CUMULATIVE POINTS - 1168 points

Pianist in a Bordello by Mike C. Erickson
#35 = 35 points
233 pages = 2 points
TBR - Feb 2019 = 8 points
Total = 45 points

Challenge total = 832 points

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
#48= 48 points
546 pages = 6 points
Date added 6/01/22= 2 points
Book Total 56 points

Challenge Total 593 points

The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner
#41 on list=41 points
HF=5 points
432 pages=4 points
On TBR since 5/2018=10 points
Book total=60 points

Challenge total=817 points

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
#27 - 27 points
345 pages. - 4 points
Historical Fiction - 5 points
Date added: February 22, 2015 - 15 points
Summer Bonus (a) - 5 points
Total - 56 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1224 points

The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe
Bonus Book - Gretchen- 50 points
352 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points

Book total - 59 points
Previous challenge total - 314 points
Challenge total - 373 points
Total books read - 7

#33 The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis

384 pages = 4
HF = 5

Book Total = 42

Challenge Total = 1,087

Frankly My Dear, I'm Dead by Livia J. Washburn
#39 = 39 points
224 pages = 2 points
TBR - Oct 2021 = 2 points
Total = 43 points

Challenge total = 875 points

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
#6 - 6pts
302p - 4pts
TBR 17 Oct 2015 - 15pts
Total - 25pts

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
#11 - 11pts
216p - 2pts
TBR 29 August 2015 - 15pts
HF bonus - 5pts
Total - 33pts

Challenge total - 577pts

#35 The Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family by Amber Hunt
296 pages = 2

Book Total = 37

Challenge Total = 1,124

The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game by Edward Achorn
#46 spot - 46 points
336 pages - 4 points
Bonus A: set in Summer - 5 points
Date added: July 09, 2023 - 0 points

Book total - 55 points
Previous challenge total - 373 points
Challenge total - 428 points
Total books read - 8

Portrait of a Marriage by Pearl S. Buck
#40 on list=40 points
HF=5 points
On TBR since 5/2015=15 points
208 pages=2 points
Book total=62 points

Challenge total=879 points

1124
#29 Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm Macdonald
258 pages = 2

Book Total = 31

Challenge Total = 1,155

Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Bonus Book #2 (Jasmine) - 50pts
390p - 4pts
Total - 54pts

Challenge total - 631pts

The Olive Tree by Lucinda Riley
#50=50 points
Date added 6/2016= 15 points
608 pages= 6 points
Bonus A set in summer= 5 points
Book Total 76 points

Challenge Total 669 points

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
#35 - 35 points
279 pages - 2 points
Historical Fiction - 5 points
Date added: September 9, 2017 - 15 points
Total - 57 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1281 points

Ramses: Under the Western Acacia by Christian Jacq
#46 - 46 points
356pp - 4 pts
Date Added 7/17 - 10 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book Total: 65 pts

Challenge Total: 594 pts

Horse by Geraldine Brooks
#27 on list=27 points
HF=5 point
401 pages=4 points
Book total=36 points
Challenge total-915 Points

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
#40=40 points
372 pgs=4 points
TBR May 1, 2022= 2 points
Book Total=46 points

How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
#29=29 points
355 pgs= 4 points
TBR March 21, 2021= 4 points
Book=37 points

Challenge total= 628 points

SCORES

LORNA 1281 points
DOTTY 1151 points
LINDA 915 points
ROBIN 875 points
MAUREEN 669 points
ASHLEY MARIE 631 points
JASMINE 628 points
CHRIS 594 points
PEGGYZMUSICANDBOOKS 428 points




This year everything is on the honor system just because of the time necessary to double check everything. It's time I don't have this year. Nevertheless, I love this challenge and I love doing it with all of you. Thank you for participating.

Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
#39 - 39 points
336 pages - 4 points
Historical Fiction - 5 points
Date added: May 17, 2023 - 0 points
Total - 48 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1329 points

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
#32 = 32 points
321 pages = 4 points
HF = 5 points
TBR - July 2022 = 0 points
Total = 41 points

Challenge total = 916 points

1151
#31 A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill
349 pages = 4
HF = 5

Book Total = 40

Challenge Total = 1,191

The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff
#38 on list=38 points
HF=5 point
288 pages=2 points
On TBR since 8/2016=15 points
Book total=60 points
Challenge total=975 points

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
#35= 35 points
HF 5 points
Date added 4/21= 4 points
626 pages= 6 points

Book total 50 points

Challenge Total 719 points

D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton
#3 - 3pts
320p - 4pts
TBR 26 March 2018 - 10pts
Total - 17pts

Bring the Fire by Craig Schaefer
#50 - 50pts
427p - 4pts
TBR 17 Aug 2021 - 2pts
Total - 56pts

Challenge total - 704pts

Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline
#36 on list=36 points
On TBR since 8/2014=15 points
338 pages=4 points
Book total=55 points
'Challenge total=1030 points

After You by Jojo Moyes
#44 - 44 pts
Dated added 7/17 - 10pts
356 pages - 4 pts
Book Total: 58 pts

Challenge Total: 652 pts

1191
#19 Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
346 pages = 4
HF = 5

Book Total = 28

Challenge Total = 1,219

The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss
#45 spot - 45 points
519 pages - 6 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: Feb 15, 2014 - 15 points

Book total - 71 points
Previous challenge total - 428 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 499 points
Total books read - 9

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende #34=34 points
260 pages= 2 points
dated added 2/2023=0
HF 5 points
Book Total 41 points

Challenge Total 760

1219
#34 Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro
368 pages = 4

Book Total = 38

Challenge Total = 1,257

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
#41 - 41pts
245p - 2pts
TBR 7 Nov 2022 - 0pts
Total - 43pts

Challenge total - 747pts

1257
#12 The Screwtape Letters
234 pages = 2.

Book Total = 14

Challenge Total = 1,269

The Last Ranger by Peter Heller
#32 - 32 points
304 pages - 4 points
Historical Fiction - 0 points
Date added: June 8, 2023 - 0 points
Total - 36 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1365 points

Dead Stick by L.J. Washburn
#34 = 34 points
267 pages = 2 points
HF = 5 points
TBR - Feb 2023 = 0 points
Total = 41 points

Challenge total = 957 points

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
#26 - 26 points
262 pages - 2 points
Historical Fiction - 0 points
Date added: April 5, 2021 - 4 points
Total - 32 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1397 points

The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi
Jasmine’s TBR Bonus= 50 points
HF 5 points
368 pages= 4 points
Book Total 59 points

Challenge Total 819

1269
#13 On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
397 pages = 4

Book Total = 17

Challenge Total = 1,286

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Bonus Book -Gretchen - 50 pts
324pp (4pts)
HF (5 pts)
Book Total: 59 pts

Challenge Total: 711 pts

Elizabeth: A Novel of Elizabeth I by Evelyn Anthony
#44 spot - 44 points
365 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: June 20, 2017 - 10 points

Book total - 63 points
Previous challenge total - 499 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 562 points
Total books read - 10

Pronto by Elmore Leonard
#33 = 33 points
400 pages = 4 points
TBR - Sept 2021 = 2 points
Total = 39 points

Challenge total = 996 points

Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
#33 - 33 points
343 pages - 4 points
Historical Fiction - 5 points
Date added: December 25, 2022 - 0 points
Total - 42 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1439 points

1286
#11 The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
362 pages = 4
HF = 5

Book Total = 20

Challenge Total = 1,306

A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt
#12 - 12 points
448 pages - 4 points
Historical Fiction - 0 points
Date added: April 1, 2022 - 2 points
Total - 18 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1457 points