2025 Reading Challenge discussion

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

It’s time to take control of your reading and rearrange your virtual bookshelves!
This yearly challenge will help you organize your reading plans around "thematic bookshelves.” Although you’re given the general concept of each of the 20 shelves, it’s up to you to fine-tune your chosen shelves to accommodate your reading tastes and plans.
You may repeat a shelf theme, if you wish, but your challenge should consist of at least two different themes, with two books minimum per shelf. Also note that you may count each book only once within this challenge, but feel free to apply that book to any of our other yearly, quarterly, and monthly challenges.

The 20 shelf themes are:
*An Author
*A Book Genre
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
*Film & Theater
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
*Food & Beverage
*Heritage & Culture
*A Hobby or Pastime
*A Listopia
*A Literary Award
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
*Nature and the Environment
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
*Science & Technology
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
*Travel

To see a sample set-up, click the spoiler tag.
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Sample Challenge Set-up
Progress: 0/36 books
An Author: Ellis Peters: 0/3
Book Length: Chunksters (500 or more pages): 0/6
Diversity: Transgender or Non-Binary Author/Protagonist: 0/4

A Listopia: Women in Translation: 0/12
A Literary Award: Hugo Award for Best Novel (Winners & nominees): 0/4
Lois MacMaster Bujold, Ursula K. LeGuin, Anne Leckie, Catherynne M. Valente, Rebecca Roanhorse
A Place: Literature by Asian Authors: 0/4
Various authors and cultures
A Time: Renaissance Era (14th-17th centuries): 0/3
House of Niccolo series, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (hide spoiler)]

How to Participate:

1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning or add them as you go. You can join this challenge at any time, as long as it's still active. If you don't state your challenge goal when signing up, you might temporarily be assigned a default goal of 20 books.

2. Whenever you finish a book for this challenge, post a new comment here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress. Please be sure to post the number of books you have completed and the number of your original (sign-up) message every time you post an update.

The challenge leader is not able to keep track of your total number of books for you because of the number of participants in the challenge. The number of the original post is used to identify you, as there can be many members with the same name. The challenge leader will not look at this post to track your progress.

Example:
Message 32 updated! 2/25 books read!

For more information about how challenges work, check out this thread or ask your challenge leader.
P.S. Please do not delete posts! It makes updating very confusing for the Moderators and other challenge participants! If you decide to leave the challenge, please just let us know. You can edit your original post to say {redacted}. Thank you!

Please join us and bend the themes to your 2022 reading plans. Let’s make like oysters and be shelfish!
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PARTICIPANTS:

Ali - 4 / 20 🐛
Allie - 9 / 50 🐛
Ann - 23 / 30 🐛
Ashleigh - 3 / 10 🐛
Ashly - 20 / 20 🐉 Completed!
Aspasia - 60 / 60 🐉 Completed!
bailey - 64 / 50 🐉 Completed!
Beth - 100 / 100 🐉 Completed!
Brittany - 34 / 51 🐛
✨ Brianna Raquel ✨ - 226 / 226 🐉 Completed!
Chalmation - 30 / 30 🐉 Completed!
Chrissie - 40 / 49 🐛
Christene Paula ✨ - 0 / 50
Christina - 0 / 10
Cordelia - 30 / 30 🐉 Completed!
CrazyAsACupcake - 0 / 20
D.L. - 3 / 20 🐛
Darlene - 50 / 50 🐉 Completed!
Dubhease - 25 / 24 🐉 Completed!
Ela (Mouse333) - 6 / 21 🐛
Elaine - 97 / 150 🐛
Frankie - 28 / 50 🐛
Greg - 12 / 70 🐛
Jane - 0 / 12
Jenn 0 / 150
Julie - 5 / 10 🐛
Kalyn - 19 / 21 🐛
Karianne - 0 / 26
Karin - 25 / 25 🐉 Completed!
Kristina - 11 / 150 🐛
Kylie - 0 / 12
lana - 0 / 20
Laura - 57 / 50 🐉 Completed!
Lilli Gilliam - 3 / 30 🐛
Lina - 66 / 20 🐉 Completed!
luna ☾ - 0 / 20
Margie - 63 / 56 🐉 Completed!
Mariana - 0 / 24
MYSTIQUE - 2 / 25 🐛
Nat - 20 / 20 🐉 Completed!
Patty - 52 / 62 🐛
Penelope - 3 / 10 🐛
Rachael #12 - 36 / 35 🐉 Completed!
Rachael #51 - 12 / 30
Rachel - 20 / 20 🐉 Completed!
Regina - 37 / 50 🐛
Sarah - 24 / 24 🐉 Completed!
Saravzee - 29 / 35 🐛
.sunflower. - 4 / 4 🐉 Completed!
Suzanne - 0 / 40
TerryJane - 145 / 110 🐉 Completed!
Truitt_T - 1 / 200 🐛
Ziggy - 46 / 46 🐉 Completed!

Updated through Message #352 on Jan 10, 2025.

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Bookworms Take Shelfies
Jan 1. - Dec. 31, 2024

117/150 Books Complete
Updated through: 6-7-24

An Author: New to Me Authors
1. A Soft Touch by Laura Lascarso 1-1-24
2. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama 1-7-24
3. Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales by Gregory Maguire 1-23-24
4. Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith 1-26-24
5. The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston 1-27-24
6. Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner 1-29-24
7. Artek by Honey Phillips 1-30-24
8. The Secret Garden: A Graphic Novel by Mariah Marsden 2-1-24
9. The House Beyond the Dunes by Mary Burton 2-8-24
10. The Ladies Rewrite the Rules by Suzanne Allain 2-9-24
11. Pregnant by the Sheikh by Olivia Gates 2-10-24
12. Valen-kitten Day: A Four-legged Cupid Story by Jaime Samms 2-16-24
13. Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs 2-16-24
14. Bride by Ali Hazelwood 2-18-24
15. You Should Smile More by Anastasia Ryan 2-22-24
16. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten 2-27-24
17. Cloudy with a Chance of Cowboy by Olivia Sands 2-29-24
18. What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris 3-4-24
19. Organizing for the Rest of Us: 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control by Dana K. White 3-6-24
20. Oh Buoy by Ava Olsen 3-8-24
21. Hellhounds Never Lie by Lori Ames 3-10-24
22. The Last Days of Lilah Goodluck by Kylie Scott 3-17-24
23. Montana Sanctuary 3-26-24
24. Georgie, All Along 3-31-24
25. Alone in a Hotel Room: An M/M Romance 4-10-24

An Author: Authors I Enjoy

Tal Bauer
1. The Rest of the Story 1-1-24
2. You & Me 1-6-24
3. Gravity 1-12-24

Lily Morton
1. Something Wicked 1-12-24
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Alexa Land
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NR Walker
1. Cronin's Key 3-9-24
2. Pieces of You 6-4-24
3. Pieces of Me 6-4-24

Nora Phoenix
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Eden Finley & Saxon James
1. Foolish Puckboy 2-13-24
2. Clueless Puckboy 2-19-24
3. Up in Flames 3-3-24

Charlie Cochet
1. Notorious 1-14-24
2. Dangerous 1-15-24
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Charlie Novak
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Nalini Singh
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Nora Roberts
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A Book Genre: Historical Romance
1. The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels 1-22-24
2. Guarding the Widow Pellingham 2-16-24
3. The League of Gentlewomen Witches 2-17-24
4. Heir of Uncertain Magic 2-21-24
5. A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem 2-24-23
6. An Heiress's Guide to Deception and Desire 3-4-24
7. Hotel of Secrets 3-5-24
8. A Spinster's Guide to Danger and Dukes 3-6-24
9. The Secret Service of Tea and Treason 3-9-24
10. The Beast and the Bookseller 3-17-24

A Book Genre: Romantic Suspense
1. The Night Island 1-13-24
2. Never Stay Gone 1-14-24
3. Bred in the Bone 1-15-24
4. Whisper of Bones 1-15-24
5. She Can Run 1-18-24
6. She Can Tell 1-19-24
7. She Can Scream 1-20-24
8. She Can Hide 1-22-24
9. She Can Kill 1-27-24
10. An Honorable Man 1-28-24

Book Length: Over 500 pages
1. Illuminae 1-21-24
2. Gemina 1-30-24
3. Heart2Heart: A Paranormal Charity Anthology (Collection), Volume 7 2-2-24
4. Big Tree 2-2-24
5. Things We Hide from the Light 2-6-24

A Fine Art: Books Featuring Musicians
1. Heartstopper: Volume Five 1-28-24
2. White Noise 2-20-24
3. The B-Side 6-6-24
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Food & Beverage: Books Featuring Chefs/Bakers
1. Beauty and Bad Blood 1-12-24
2. The Orc and the Manny 1-14-24
3. A Crooked Kind of Perfect 1-24-24
4. Prophesy 1-26-24
5. Falling for the Omega 1-27-24

Food & Beverage: Cookbooks and/or Foodie Memoirs
1. Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s 1-31-24
2. Love to Eat: 75 Easy, Craveworthy Recipes for Healthy, Intuitive Eating A Cookbook 3-4-24
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Nature and the Environment: Books Featuring Shifters
1. Mist Dragon 1-1-24
2. Coffee and Honeybuns 1-1-24
3. Winter Dragon 1-2-24
4. Cloud Dragon 1-2-24
5. Shadow Dragon 1-2-24
6. Ice Dragon 1-3-24
7. Frost Dragon 1-3-24
8. Snow Dragon 1-4-24
9. Healing the Dragon's Heart 1-5-24
10. Frozen Dragon 1-5-24

A Place: Australia
1. Bloom 2-16-24
2. Pieces of Us 6-5-24
3. The Men From Echo Creek 6-6-24
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Place: The Beach
1. Owned by the Sea 1-7-24
2. Peril at End House 2-24-24
3. The Little Flower Shop 2-25-24
4. How to Say I Do 3-17-24
5. My Killer Vacation 3-25-24
6. You Don't Know Jack 3-28-24
7. Off Plan 3-31-24
8. Starboard 6-3-24
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A Place: Space
1. The Mercenary's Mate 1-19-24
2. The Soldier's Mate 1-20-24
3. The General's Mate 1-20-24
4. The Captain's Mate 1-21-24
5. The Engineer's Mate 1-21-24
6. The Lieutenant's Mate 1-21-24
7. The Rebel's Mate 1-22-24
8. Clyde and Hay 1-23-24
9. Fire's Mate 1-23-24
10. Death's Mate 1-23-24

A Time: Christmas
1. Under the Mistletoe 1-4-24
2. A Little Christmas! Matty's Secret 1-9-24
3. Tentacles and Other Stocking Stuffers 1-15-24
4. A Beginner's Guide to Christmas Miracles 1-16-24
5. Snow Kisses for My Omega 1-29-24
6. His Gingerbread Omega 2-13-24
7. Wintering with George 2-17-24
8. Forever Ink 2-23-24
9. The Christmas Manny 4-20-24
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Travel: Books Featuring a Trip
1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1-5-24
2. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 1-5-24
3. Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume 1-11-24
4. The Adventure of Sterling Jones: A Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees Sidequest 1-16-24
5. Nettle & Bone 1-29-24

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
3/50

*A Listopia 1/20
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. #63 The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 1/4 ★★★☆☆
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*A Listopia 0/20
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
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*Book Length 2/10
500+ pages
1. Powerless by Lauren Roberts 1/13 ★★★★★ 523 pages
2. Never a Hero by Vanessa Len 1/22 ★★★★☆ 528 pages
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37/50

CULTURE: TRANSLATED FICTION
✅ The Ice Palace - Norwegian
✅ Les Misérables - French
✅ The Master and Margarita
✅ Three Women


GENRE - MYSTERY & THRILLER
✅ Midwinter Murder: Fireside Mysteries from the Queen of Crime
✅ The Sittaford Mystery
✅Ice Cold
✅The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
✅Call for the Dead
✅The Red Thumb Mark
✅Antidote to Venom
✅ Death on the Nile
✅ Murder Is Easy
✅ The Dark Wives
✅ The Moving Finger
✅ The Secret of Chimneys
✅ Two-Way Murder
✅ The Clock Strikes Twelve
✅ Five Little Pigs
✅ The Seven Dials Mystery
✅ Death of a Gossip
✅ I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
Autumn Chills: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime
Death at Bishop's Keep

TIME - 20TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION
✅ 1907 The Longest Journey
✅ 1926 Lolly Willowes
✅1931 The Fortnight in September
✅ 1933 High Rising
✅ 1934 Wild Strawberries
✅ 1935 Wigs on the Green
✅ 1936 Jamaica Inn
✅ 1945 A Fugue in Time
1945 Miss Carter and the Ifrit
✅ 1950 Tea Is So Intoxicating
1951 My Cousin Rachel
✅ 1958 After the Rain
✅ 1962 The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
✅ 1970 The Woods in Winter
1980 The Shooting Party
✅ 1988 Wyrd Sisters
✅ 1991 O Caledonia
✅ 1998 England, England
✅ 2000 Winter Solstice

I will sign up for 2 shelves

26/24

18 mystery/thrillers (genre)

1. The House Across the Lake
2. The Wife Between Us
3. The End of Her
4. Nothing More to Tell
5. Meddling Kids
6. The Writing Retreat
7. The Westing Game
8. The Murder on the Links
9. A Death at the Party
10. The Mystery Writer
11. The Birthday Girl
12. The Only One Left
13. The Midnight Feast
14. One Perfect Couple
15. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
16. Not a Happy Family
17. One of Us Is Back
18. Wrong Place Wrong Time
19. The Chateau
20. Sometimes I Lie

Nobel laureates (award)

1. The Fisher Maiden
2. Henderson the Rain King
3. The Inheritors
4. In a Free State
5. Windows and Stones: Selected Poems
6. Gravel Heart

30/30

A Genre: Historical fiction (5/5)
1. Echo
2. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
3. A Peculiar Combination
4. Lovely War
5. The Dearly Beloved

A Genre: Nonfiction (2/2)
1. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
2. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens


Page length: Over 500 pages (5/5)
1. The Whalebone Theatre
2. Gilded
3. East of Eden
4. The Last Hours
5. The Jasmine Throne

Diversity: Jewish (5/5)
1. Sword Catcher
2. The Familiar
3. Burning Girls and Other Stories
4. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
5. The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace

Category: Retellings (5/5)
1.A Court of Thorns and Roses
2. Emma of 83rd Street
3. Glass and Feathers
4. Salt & Broom
5. Cursed



A Feeling: Excitement (new releases) 5/5:
1. House of Flame and Shadow
2. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
3. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
4. Funny Story
5. Where the Library Hides

An author: Juliet Marillier (3/3)
1. Daughter of the Forest
2. Son of the Shadows
3. Child of the Prophecy

5 per category from the offered list.
-- 100 books
-- 20 categories

Updates: 240, 339
Challenge completed 10 Dec 2024

✅ An Author - Louise Penny - 5
(view spoiler)[🍁 1. A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2) by Louise Penny
🍁 2. A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2) by Louise Penny
🍁 3. The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3) by Louise Penny
🍁 4. A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4) by Louise Penny
🍁 5. The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #5) by Louise Penny (hide spoiler)]

✅ A Book Genre - horror - 5
(view spoiler)[😱 1. Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
😱 2. Psycho (Psycho, #1) by Robert Bloch
😱 3. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
😱 4. If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney, #2) by Stephen King
😱 5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (hide spoiler)]

✅ Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages) - <200 - 5
(view spoiler)[➖ 1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
➖ 2. Once Were Warriors (Once Were Warriors Trilogy, #1) by Alan Duff
➖ 3. Death of a Hero (Fiji Islands Mysteries, #0) by B.M. Allsopp
➖ 4. Ulysses S. Grant by Owen Wister
➖ 5. Madam Mortician by Tara Carr (hide spoiler)]

✅ Celebrations - Muslim holidays - 5
(view spoiler)[🌙 The Gift of Ramadan by Rabiah York Lumbard
🌙 Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story by Adib Khorram
🌙 Zahra's Blessing: A Ramadan Story by Shirin Shamsi
🌙 Hannah and the Ramadan Gift by Qasim Rashid
🌙 Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story by Hena Khan (hide spoiler)]

✅ Diversity (in any of its forms) - LGBTQIA+ author - 5
(view spoiler)[🏳️‍🌈 1. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
🏳️‍🌈 2. The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
🏳️‍🌈 3. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
🏳️‍🌈 4. Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
🏳️‍🌈 5. Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile (hide spoiler)]

✅ Friendship, Love, and Marriage - found family - 5
(view spoiler)[👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 1. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 2. The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 3. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire,#1) by Naomi Novik
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 4. The Friday Night Knitting Club (Friday Night Knitting Club, #1) by Kate Jacobs
👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 5. Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton (hide spoiler)]

✅ A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy) - love - 5
(view spoiler)[💘 1. Please Tell Me by Mike Omer
💘 2. Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1) by Helen Fielding
💘 3. Reasonable Fear (Joe Dillard #4) by Scott Pratt
💘 4. Conflict of Interest (Joe Dillard, #5) by Scott Pratt
💘 5. Blood Money (Joe Dillard, #6) by Scott Pratt (hide spoiler)]

✅ Film & Theater - book to Broadway - 5
(view spoiler)[🎭 1. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
🎭 2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
🎭 3. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
🎭 4. A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) by Arthur Conan Doyle
🎭 5. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum (hide spoiler)]

✅ A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts) - music - 5
(view spoiler)[🎶 1. Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
🎶 2. But I Love You Today (K-POP Promise, #3) by Love Journey
🎶 3. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
🎶 4. Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
🎶 5. Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy, #0) by Caimh McDonnell (hide spoiler)]

✅ Food & Beverage - 5
(view spoiler)[🍽️ 1. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
🍽️ 2. 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #8) by Agatha Christie
🍽️ 3. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
🍽️ 4. The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
🍽️ 5. Red Sparrow (Red Sparrow Trilogy, #1) by Jason Matthews (hide spoiler)]

✅ Heritage & Culture - 5
(view spoiler)[🏛️ 1. The Day That Never Comes (Dublin Trilogy, #2) by Caimh McDonnell
🏛️ 2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
🏛️ 3. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
🏛️ 4. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2) by Rick Riordan
🏛️ 5. Viva Durant and the Mystery at the Masquerade Ball (Viva Durant, #3) by Ashli St. Armant (hide spoiler)]

✅ A Hobby or Pastime - writing - 5
(view spoiler)[📝 1. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
📝 2. Limelight (Penny Green, #1) by Emily Organ
📝 3. Holly (Holly Gibney, #3) by Stephen King
📝 4. The Bookseller's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #1) by Ann Swinfen
📝 5. Through the Glen (The Highlands, #3) by Samantha Young (hide spoiler)]

✅ A Listopia - Best Non-Fiction (no biographies) - 5
(view spoiler)[📃1. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
📃2. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
📃3. What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
📃4. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
📃5. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch (hide spoiler)]

✅ A Literary Award - Gold Dagger Award winner - 5
(view spoiler)[🗡️ 1. The Puppet Show (Washington Poe, #1) by M.W. Craven
🗡️ 2. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
🗡️ 3. The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1) by Jane Harper
🗡️ 4. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Nicholas Meyer Holmes Pastiches, #1) by Nicholas Meyer
🗡️ 5. Tell Me What I Am by Una Mannion (hide spoiler)]

✅ Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies - 5
(view spoiler)[🙋🏼‍♀️ 1. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim
🙋🏼‍♀️ 2. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
🙋🏼‍♀️ 3. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
🙋🏼‍♀️ 4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
🙋🏼‍♀️ 5. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe by Steve Sheinkin (hide spoiler)]

✅ Nature and the Environment - 5
(view spoiler)[☀️ 1. The Bees by Laline Paull
☀️ 2. Does It Hurt? by H.D. Carlton
☀️ 3. The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2) by Ann Cleeves
☀️ 4. Thereby Hangs a Tail (A Chet and Bernie Mystery, #2) by Spencer Quinn
☀️ 5. One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2) by Ellis Peters (hide spoiler)]

✅ A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation) - set in Africa - 5
(view spoiler)[🌍 1. Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
🌍 2. Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer (Mrs. Pollifax, #12) by Dorothy Gilman
🌍 3. The Miracle at Speedy Motors (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #9) by Alexander McCall Smith
🌍 4. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
🌍 5. Lightseekers (Philip Taiwo, #1) by Femi Kayode (hide spoiler)]

✅ Science & Technology - 5
(view spoiler)[⚙️ 1. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
⚙️ 2. Murder at the Serpentine Bridge (Wrexford & Sloane, #6) by Andrea Penrose
⚙️ 3. Holmes, Marple & Poe: The Greatest Crime-Solving Team of the Twenty-First Century by James Patterson
⚙️ 4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
⚙️ 5. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (hide spoiler)]

✅ A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future) - set in 19th century - 5
(view spoiler)[📅 1. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
📅 2. Beloved by Toni Morrison
📅 3. Murder at the Merton Library (Wrexford & Sloane, #7) by Andrea Penrose
📅 4. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice by C. Alexander Hortis
📅 5. Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson (hide spoiler)]

✅ Travel - set in Asia - 5
(view spoiler)[🌏 1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
🌏 2. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
🌏 3. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
🌏 4. Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3) by Naomi Novik
🌏 5. Captive (Cal Rogan Mysteries #6) by Robert P. French (hide spoiler)]

6 Categories of 4 books in each
3/24 books

*An Author - Favourites
1. Melanie Saward - Burn

*A Book Genre - Historical Fiction

*A Literary Award - Booker, Women's Prize for Fiction, Sir Walter Scott Prize

*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies -
1. Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby audio read by the author.

*Nature and the Environment -
1. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation) Technology -
- Australia

I am in for 70 books.

Authors:
Barry Eisler 5 books

Cecilia Holland 3 books

Robert Crais 3 books

Robert B. Parker 4 books

Genres:
Mystery 25 books (1/25)
Knots and Crosses

Fantasy 10 books (1/10)
River of Stars

Science Fiction 10 books (3/10)
Star Splinter
Terms of Enlistment
Pandora's Star

Horror 5 books (4/5)
Holly
The Inn Of The Two Witches
Blood and Smoke
Heart-Shaped Box

Historical Fiction 3 books (3/3)
Radigan
Under Occupation
1356

Time:
Late 1700s (American Revolution Era) 5 books

Total: 70 books

12/70

I think this is my favourite yearly challenge! Please sign me up for 20 25 30 35 books.

COMPLETED: 36/35

✅ An Author: Naomi Novik (5)
✔️ Will Supervillains Be on the Final?
✔️ A Deadly Education (reread)
✔️ The Last Graduate (reread)
✔️ The Golden Enclaves
✔️ Buried Deep and Other Stories

✅ An Author: William Shakespeare (5)
✔️ The Two Noble Kinsmen
✔️ Henry VI, Part 1
✔️ Henry VI, Part 2
✔️ King Henry VI, Part 3
✔️ Henry VIII

✅ Book Length: 500+ pages (19)
✔️ Fourth Wing
✔️ Iron Flame
✔️ Bleak House
✔️ Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur
✔️ Vanity Fair
✔️ Fairy Tale
✔️ Murtagh
✔️ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
✔️ Zeroes
✔️ Le Mort d'Arthur, Volume 1
✔️ Le Mort d'Arthur, Vol 2
✔️ The Name of the Rose
✔️ Thief's Magic (reread)
✔️ Angel of Storms
✔️ Successor's Promise
✔️ Maker's Curse
✔️ The Wise Woman
✔️ The Complete Quin And Satterthwaite: Love Detectives
✔️ A Study in Silks

✅ Film and Theatre: Disney (3)
✔️ Fate Be Changed
✔️ Part of Your World
✔️ Mirror, Mirror

✅ A Hobby/Pastime: Chess (2)
✔️ Chess
✔️ Gentlemen and Players

✅ A Place: Discworld (2)
✔️ Eric
✔️ The Last Continent

I will sign up for 50 books, 8 shelves.

Currently: 50/50 books; 8/8 shelves

Celebration: Christmas
1. Bright Lights, Big Christmas
2. A December to Remember
3. Christmas at the Shelter Inn
4. Faking Christmas
5. All's Fair in Love and Christmas
6. Christmas Presents
7. Three Holidays and a Wedding
8. Love, Holly
9. You Make It Feel Like Christmas
10. The Christmas Orphans Club

Genre: Fantasy
1. Lost Lake
2. At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities
3. One Christmas Morning
4. Through the Snow Globe
5. The Book of Doors

Genre: Suspense
1. Gone Tonight
2. Murder in the Family
3. The Housemaid
4. The Ghostwriter
5. A Different Kind of Gone

Genre: Nonfiction
1. Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
2. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
3. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
4. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
5. Enough

Genre: Books about Books
1. The Lost Library
2. The Wishing Game
3. The Book Club Hotel
4. The Echo of Old Books
5. The Bookshop by the Bay

Time: Summer
1. The Summer of Songbirds
2. Happy Place
3. The Five-Star Weekend
4. Before Summer Ends
5. Welcome to Beach Town
6. The Beach Trap
7. A Little Ray of Sunshine
8. My Magnolia Summer
9. The Barefoot Summer
10. The Vacation
11. A Week at the Shore

Book Length: Under 200 pages
1. The Call of the Wild. pages 137
2. Speak. pages 198
3. Just So Stories. pages 148
4. The Christmas Guest pages 96
5. Vendetta pages 188

Book Length: Over 500 Pages
1. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 pages 656
2. Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic Fairy Tales pages 656
3. Daughter of Cana pages 528
4. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes pages 517

I am going to start with 50 Books, 10 shelves to be refined later

Progress 9/50 books
3 Shelves
4 Sub shelves
*An Author

✅*A Book Genre
🐛 FANTASY
The Road to Roswell
Fourth Wing
American Mermaid
🐛 MYSTERY
The Man in the Queue
The Last Devil to Die
🐛THRILLER
Blue Moon

✅*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
🐛 OVER 500
House of Earth and Blood
House of Sky and Breath

*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
*Film & Theater
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
*Food & Beverage
*Heritage & Culture
*A Hobby or Pastime
*A Listopia
*A Literary Award
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
*Nature and the Environment
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)

✅*Science & Technology
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
*Travel

I’m signing up for 50 this year!

Progress: 64 / 50 COMPLETE


📚Author: Stephen King
🖋️1. Gwendy’s Final Task
🖋️2. Different Seasons
🖋️ 3. The Outsider
🖋️4. If It Bleeds
🖋️5. Holly
🖋️6. Blockade Billy
🖋️7. The Colorado Kid
🖋️8. Roadwork

📚Genre: Fantasty
🖋️1. Fourth Wing
🖋️2. The Princess of Death
🖋️3. Wings of Redemption
🖋️4. Ninth House
🖋️5. Baptism of Fire
🖋️6. A Court of Time
🖋️7. Crooked Kingdom
🖋️8. The Stones that Bind Us
🖋️9. Timber Hollow
🖋️10. The Fellowship of the Ring
🖋️11. Black Butler Vol. 7
🖋️12. Howl's Moving Castle

📚Genre: Cozy Mystery
🖋️1. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder
🖋️2. Sugar Cookie Murder
🖋️3. Peach Cobbler Murder
🖋️4. Cherry Cheesecake Murder
🖋️5. Potions, Poisons, & Peril

📚Genre: Science Fiction
🖋️1. Gone
🖋️2. Hunger
🖋️3. Dawn
🖋️4. Flowers for Algernon
🖋️5. War of the Unborn
🖋️6. How I Live Now
🖋️7. Unborn Rising

📚Book Length: Over 500
🖋️1. Les Miserables
🖋️2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
🖋️3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
🖋️4. CREED

📚Diversity: LGBTQIA+
🖋️1. Heartstopper vol 5
🖋️2. Bookshops & Bonedust
🖋️3. Life is Strange vol. 1
🖋️4. Life is Strange vol. 2
🖋️5. Life is Strange vol. 3
🖋️6. Life is Strange vol. 4
🖋️7. This Winter
🖋️8. The Masks She Wore

📚Genre: Thriller
🖋️1. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
🖋️2. The Cloisters
🖋️3. Panic
🖋️4. The Mystery Guest
🖋️5. The Spare Room
🖋️6. The Eyes are the Best Part
🖋️7. The Doll in the Garden
🖋️8. Decoding Jessica
🖋️9. Nothing But Blackened Teeth
🖋️10. Meddling Kids
🖋️11. Hide

📚Genre: YA
🖋️1. The Silver Eyes
🖋️2. The Screaming Staircase
🖋️3. Hunting Prince Dracula
🖋️4. The Twisted Ones

📚Genre: Romance
🖋️1. Painting With Blood
🖋️2. Pretty Little Lies
🖋️3. Fractured Fear
🖋️4. Writing with Blood
🖋️5. Into Darkness We Fall

I'm in again!

Total: 40/49

An Author: T.J. Klune 2/3

A Book Genre: Manga 10/10

Book Length: 400 - 600 pages 5/5

Diversity: Asexuality 2/2

A Feeling: Grief 4/4

Heritage & Culture: Scandinavia 1/5

A Listopia: Books banned by Nazis 4/5

A Literary Award: Deutscher Buchpreis 0/3
Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies: 3/3

A Place: Ireland 4/4

A Time: Contemporary 5/5

🐛 BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES - Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2024
Progress: 145/110 -- COMPLETE

*An Author: Ernest Hemingway
🐛 The Sun Also Rises
🐛 A Farewell to Arms

*An Author: Cormac McCarthy
🐛 Blood Meridian
🐛 The Crossing

*A Book Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
🐛 My Friend Dahmer
🐛 New Kid
🐛 Moonstruck, Vol. 1
🐛 Lighter than My Shadow
🐛 Hey, Kiddo
🐛 Wonder Woman Tempest Tossed
🐛 Lumberjanes, Vol. 1
🐛 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1
🐛 V for Vendetta
🐛 Saga, Volume 1
🐛 The Graveyard Book, Volume 1
🐛 Losing the Girl
🐛 Sheets
🐛 Delicates
🐛 Watchmen

*A Book Genre: Autobiography/Memoir
🐛 I'm Glad My Mom Died
🐛 Beautiful Country
🐛 The Unwinding of the Miracle
🐛 Hungry Heart
🐛 The Way Home
🐛 Half Broke
🐛 As Fast As Her
🐛 Book Girl
🐛 Every Falling Star
🐛 Unmasked
🐛 America the Beautiful
🐛 Somebody's Daughter
🐛 Between Two Kingdoms
🐛 Know My Name
🐛 Big Magic
🐛 The Year of Magical Thinking
🐛 Hillbilly Elegy
🐛 Hunting El Chapo
🐛 Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
🐛 Tiny Beautiful Things
🐛 Cozy
🐛 I Miss You When I Blink
🐛 Eat a Peach
🐛 The Council of Dads
🐛 Aim High
🐛 Fishing With Tardelli
🐛 Unsinkable: From Russian Orphan to Paralympic Swimming World Champion
🐛 GIMP: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand, You Can Fold - or You Can Play
🐛 Music Is History
🐛 Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance
🐛 Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life
🐛 Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
🐛 Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph
🐛 Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
🐛 Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
🐛 A Child Called "It"
🐛 Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith
🐛 Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board
🐛 The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

*A Book Genre: Biography
🐛 Singled Out
🐛 Grandma Gatewood's Walk
🐛 Cleopatra: A Life
🐛 Before and After
🐛 Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
🐛 A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttmann Created the Paralympic Games
🐛 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
🐛 Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
🐛 Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics
🐛 Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

*A Book Genre: Plays
🐛 No-No Boy
🐛 Wingspan
🐛 Hamilton: The Revolution
🐛 Othello
🐛 Top Secret
🐛 Bump

*Book Length: Under 200 Pages
🐛 A Grief Observed
🐛 Road to the Resurrection
🐛 Tropic Moon
🐛 Hurricane Song
🐛 Let Me Tell You What I Mean
🐛 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
🐛 A Brief History of Fascist Lies
🐛 Beyond Magenta
🐛 The Year of Less
🐛 Of Beetles and Angels
🐛 The Trial
🐛 The Medical Examiner
🐛 Fanny Hill
🐛 Shopgirl
🐛 The Best Way to Play
🐛 The Nose
🐛 The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
🐛 The Sorrows of Young Werther
🐛 The Shadow-Line
🐛 Nightwood
🐛 Dangling Man
🐛 Flaubert's Parrot
🐛 Three Lives
🐛 Girl One: Murder
🐛 In His Blood
🐛 I Hope You Dance
🐛 The House on Mango Street
🐛 Orbiting Jupiter
🐛 The Kite Fighters
🐛 A Murderous Macaron
🐛 Whereabouts
🐛 If I Run
🐛 The Death of Ivan Ilych
🐛 Chess Story
🐛 Bunner Sisters
🐛 Love in the Afternoon
🐛 The Orange Houses
🐛 The Last Chance Motel
🐛 The Kreutzer Sonata
🐛 The Castle of Otranto
🐛 The Burnt Orange Heresy
🐛 Hunger
🐛 The House on the Borderland

*Book Length: Over 500 Pages
🐛 Tess of the D’Urbervilles
🐛 Les Misérables
🐛 Faust
🐛 The Lincoln Highway

*Science & Technology
🐛 Ms. Adventure
🐛 Cosmic Queries
🐛 Rise of the Rocket Girls
🐛 Four Thousand Weeks
🐛 Bewilderment
🐛 Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
🐛 The Origin of Species
🐛 The Woman Who Split the Atom

*A Time: Winter
🐛 Winter Street
🐛 The Indifferent Stars Above
🐛 Winter Stroll
🐛 Winter Storms
🐛 Winter Solstice
🐛 The Children's Blizzard
🐛 The Arctic Fury

*A Time: World War II
🐛 Measure of a Man
🐛 Secret Soldiers
🐛 A Train in Winter
🐛 They Called Us Enemy
🐛 Dance With The Devil
🐛 The Comfort of Ghosts
🐛 Schindler’s List
🐛 All the Flowers in Paris
🐛 The Little Wartime Library

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES - Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2024


20/20


*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)

5/5

✔ 1The Witch Hunter By Max Seeck ( Finland) 1/8 4 stars
✔ 2 Night of the Witch By Sara Raasch ( Germany) 1/22 5 stars
✔ 3The Secret Life of Bees By Sue Monk Kidd ( Sylvan North Carolina) 6/9 5 stars
✔ 4The Measure By Nikki Erlick ( Manhattan, New York) 7/11 5 stars
✔ 5 A Walk to Remember By Nicholas Sparks ( Beaufort, North Carolina) 7/28 3.5 stars




*A Book Genre : fiction

5/5

1.Middle of the Night By Riley Sager 6/30 4 stars
2 The Family Experiment By John Marrs 7/31 5 stars
3Brave New World By Aldous Huxley 10/3 3.5 stars
4The Collected Regrets of Clover By Mikki Brammer 10/20 4.5 stars
5.The House in the Cerulean Sea By T.J. Klune 11/18 5 stars





*A Book Genre : Nonfiction

5/5

✔ 1.Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up In the Royal Family: From the Plantagenets to the Cambridges By Tom Quinn 1/25 3.5 stars
✔ 2The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science By Kate Zernike 3/21 5 stars
✔ 3Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown By Nicola Tallis 4/15 5 stars
✔ 4.The Young Elizabeth By Alison Plowden 5/12 3 stars
✔ 5.Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine By Joanna Jolly 12/13 4 stars



*A Book Genre: Historical fiction

5/5

✔ 1.Take My Hand 2/18 3.5 stars
✔ 2The Seventh Veil of Salome By Silvia Moreno-Garcia 9/16 4 stars
✔ 3Brave By Mesu Andrews 10/24 4.5 stars
✔ 4The Winter People By Jennifer McMahon 11/3 5 stars
✔ 5The Murderess By Laurie Notaro 11/27 3.5 stars

Goal: 20/20

Complete 11/24!

*An Author - John Dickson Carr
The Problem of the Green Capsule 3/28
The Problem of the Wire Cage 4/30
The Man Who Could Not Shudder 5/4
The Case of the Constant Suicides 5/6

*A Book Genre - Poetry
An American Sunrise 1/9
The Trees Witness Everything 1/13
Pilgrim Bell: Poems 1/23
Customs: Poems 1/15

*A Listopia - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Wuthering Heights 5/5
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 5/26
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 11/24
The House of the Spirits 2/13

*A Literary Award - Edgar Award
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line 2/25
The Red Palace 1/21
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 7/12
Before the Fall 5/6

*Nature and the Environment
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance 7/27
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them 6/18
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World 9/4
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey 10/27

7/1 updated my yearly goal, again :p
28/30

*Book Length: Small but Fierce {books less than 250 pages}
1. A Kilt for Christmas 4 stars
2. The Magpie Lord 4 stars
3. Nettle & Bone 5 stars
4. The Never King 4 stars
5. The Dark One 4 stars

*Diversity (in any of its forms): LGBTQ
1. A Marvellous Light 3 stars
2. Spectred Isle 4 stars
3. Bonded by Thorns 4 stars
4. Lord Mouse 3 stars
5. What Feasts at Night 5 stars

*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
1. A Holiday by Gaslight 5 stars
2. Starling House 5 stars
3. Awakened and Betrayed 4 stars
4. Three Swedish Mountain Men 4 stars
5. The Marked and the Broken 3 stars

*Nature and the Environment: Things with Sharp Teeth
1. Kiss of Steel (Vampires) 4 stars
2. Their Vicious Darling 4 stars
3. Woven by Gold 2 stars
4. The Beast 4 stars
5. The Hunter 3 stars

*A Place: Off the Beaten Path
1. Wild Scottish Love 3 stars
2. My Savage Alien Rescuer 3 stars
3. The Witchwood Knot 4 stars
4. The Fae Princes 5 stars
5. The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer 3 stars

*A Time: Historical Mysteries
1. The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal 5 stars
2. A Grave Robbery 5 stars
3. Lady Avely's Guide to Truth and Magic 2.5 stars
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BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
January 01, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Progress: 11/150

Sign me up for 150 books!

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I am joining for 20, thanks! :)

📸 Bookworms Take Shelfies - Yearly Challenge 📸
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2024

📸 Progress: 66/20 📸 - COMPLETED!

Tracking my books in my corner

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A TIME - 1960s COUNTERCULTURE

1. The White Album by Joan Didion
2. Naked in the Woods: My Unexpected Years in a Hippie Commune by Margaret Grundstein
3. The Haight-Ashbury: A History by Charles Perry
4. Woodstock '69: Three Days of Peace, Music, and Medical Care by Myron Gittell

BIOGRAPHIES/AUTOBIOGRAPHIES/MEMOIRS

1. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger
2. Solito by Javier Zamora
3. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin

A FEELING - LOVE

1. Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living by Pema Chödrön
2. Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie
3. Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness by Chögyam Trungpa

A BOOK GENRE - NONFICTION

1. Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future by Jean M. Twenge
2. Kid Me Not: An anthology by child-free women of the '60s now in their 60s by Aralyn Hughes
3. The Fourth Turning Is Here: by Neil Howe

I'll do 50

Progress 57/50
💎 done ♻ re-read ⏳Currently reading
📖 physical Copy 🎧 Audiobook 📱 Kindle/digital

An Author: JD Robb
💎🎧♻1. Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished January)
💎🎧♻2. Ritual in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished January)
💎🎧3. Random in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished February)
💎🎧♻4. Promises in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished February)
💎🎧♻5. Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished February)
💎🎧♻6. Missing in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished February)
💎🎧♻7. Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished March)
💎🎧♻8. Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished March)
💎🎧♻9. Possession in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished March)
💎🎧♻10. Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished March)
💎📖♻11. New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb (Finished March)
💎📖♻12. Chaos in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished March)
💎🎧♻13. Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished April)
💎🎧♻14. Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished May)
💎🎧♻15. Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished May)
💎🎧♻16. Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished June)
💎🎧♻17. Taken in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished June)
💎🎧♻18. Concealed in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished June)
💎🎧♻19. Festive in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished July)
💎🎧♻20. Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished July)
💎🎧♻21. Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished July)
💎🎧♻22. Wonderment in Death by J.D. Robb (Finished August)


Genre: Memoir/Autobiography
💎🎧1. People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges by Jen Mann (Finished February)
💎🎧2. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (Finished February)
💎🎧3. Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits by Reese Witherspoon (Finished February)
💎🎧4. Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer by Heather Lende (Finished March)
💎🎧5. Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables by Phil Vischer (Finished April)
💎🎧6. I Choose Darkness by Jenny Lawson (Finished May)
💎🎧7. Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile (Finished May)
💎🎧8. I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro (Finished June)

Listopia: Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

💎📖1. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (Finished January)
💎📖2. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun (Finished March)
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Children's/YA Titles

💎📖♻1. Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine (Finished February)
💎📖2. Who Was Roald Dahl? by True Kelley (Finished February)
💎🎧3. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Finished April)
💎📖4. Who Was Jesus? by Ellen Morgan (Finished April)
💎📖5. Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Finished May)
💎📖6. Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 by Ichigo Takano (Finished June)
💎🎧7. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling (Finished June)
💎📖8. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Finished July)

Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Speculative Fiction

💎📖1. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (Finished February)
💎🎧2. Slayers by Amber Benson (Finished March)
💎🎧3. Sabriel by Garth Nix (Finished April)
💎🎧4. Turn Coat by Jim Butcher(Finished April)
💎🎧5. Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James (Finished May)
💎🎧6. The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James (Finished June)


Genre: Contemporary Fiction

💎🎧1. Opposites Attract by Nora Roberts (Finished January)
💎📖2. Virgin River by Robyn Carr (Finished April)
💎📱4. The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter by Janne S. Drangsholt (Finished April)
💎📖5. This Pen for Hire by Laura Levine (Finished July)
💎🎧6. The Night Before by Lisa Jackson (Finished July)
💎🎧7. The Next Always by Nora Roberts (Finished August)

Genre: Classics

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Christian Literature and Non-Fiction

💎📖1. Better: A Study of Hebrews by Jen Wilkin (Finished February)
💎🎧2. You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado (Finished March)
💎📖3. Son of God: A Bible Study for Women on the Gospel of Mark, Volume 2 by Keri Folmar (Finished April)
💎📖4. Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith by Michael Reeves (Finished May)
💎📖5. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (Finished June)

I am in for 10 books.

5/10

A Literary Award: Newberry (2/3)
1. The Graveyard Book
2. The Girl Who Drank the Moon
3.

Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies (2/5)
1. There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story
2. The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
3. It Was Me All Along
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A Feeling: Joy (0/2)
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Progress: 21/21

Book Genre: Fantasy 5/5
1. The Ninth Rain
2. Avempartha
3. Guns of the Dawn
4. Those Who Dwell in Darkness
5. Malice

Book Genre: Non-Fiction 3/3
1. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
2. Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
3. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Book Length: 500+ 13/13
1. A Soul to Keep
2. Cute but Psycho
3. Silent Scream
4. Walk for Me
5. The Pact
6. Faking with Benefits
7. You Belong to Me
8. The Lies of Locke Lamora
9. Taming Seraphine
10. Bonds of the Wolf
11. No One Left to Tell
12. Binding 13
13. Foundryside

I'm in for 30.

30/30
Challenge Complete

*A Listopia: 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime 3/3
The Sittaford Mystery
The Green Mile
✔️ Love's Labor's Lost

*Science & Technology: Forensics 3/3
The Breaking Point (Body Farm #9)
Without Mercy (Body Farm #10)
Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science

*A Place: Halifax 3/3
Grave Situation (Allan Stanton #1)
One Kill Away (Allan Stanton #2)
Sorrowful Road (Allan Stanton #3)

*Book Length: <200 pages 3/3
The Greatest Mysteries of the Ancient World: Stonehenge, the Sphinx, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon 106
Binary 171
Crank Palace: A Maze Runner Novella (The Maze Runner #3.5) 168

*An Author: Dan Ames 3/3
The Killing League (Wallace Mack #1)
The Murder Store (Wallace Mack #2)
Finders Killers (Wallace Mack #3)

*A Time: 1800s 4/4
Mrs. Stein Solves a Crime (A Victorian San Francisco Novella Book #4)
Dandy and the Dognappers (A Victorian San Francisco Novella Book #5)
The Collected Short Stories (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James)
Watson on the Orient Express (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James #8)

*Film & Theater: 4/4
Needful Things
Gerald's Game
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Dolores Claiborne

*A Book Genre: Horror 4/4
Origin
Afraid (Afraid #1)
Trapped (Afraid #2)
Endurance (Afraid #3)

*Book Length: >500 pages 3/3
State of Fear 624
Nightmares & Dreamscapes 816
Insomnia 802

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

28/50 Completed

*An Author: Favorite Authors
1.Autumn Jones Lake-Fighting the Forbidden: Ruthless & Royal #1 1/28/24
2.Laura Pavlov-Rebel 1/14/24
3.Melinda Leigh-Track Her Down
4.Natasha Madison-Mine to Honor 3/02/24
5.Karin Slaughter-Beyond Reach 1/02/24
*An Author: New To Me Authors
1.Jennifer Hartmann-Lotus
2.Brianna Labuskes-The Lies You Wrote
3.Nanci Rathbun-Truth Kills
4.M.M. Chouinard-The Dancing Girls
5.Danielle Girard-White Out

*A Book Genre: Mystery Thriller
1.The Girl in Apartment 9-A.J. Rivers 1/25/24
2.Into the Night-Elle Gray 2/16/24
3.Till Death Do Us Part-Willow Rose 3/01/24
4.At the River-Kendra Elliot 2/28/24
5.Primary Target-Dan Alatorre
*A Book Genre: Romance
1.Obsession Falls-Claire Kingsley 1/02/24
2.Love...It's Messy-Jeannine Colette
3.My One and Only-Layla Hagen
4.I Could Never-Penelope Ward 2/15/24
5.Rise After Fall-Amber Kelly

*Book Length: >400
1.418:A Not So Meet Cute-Meghan Quinn
2.443:23 Hours-Bink Cummings
3.428:The Right Move-Liz Tomforde 1/12/24
4.594:Things We Left Behind-Lucy Score
5.463:Last Rites-Sharon Sala
*Book Length:<400
1.345:Sable Peak-Devney Perry 2/02/24
2.392:In the Clearing-Robert Dugoni 1/17/24
3.374:Broken Dreams-Corinne Michaels 2/02/24
4.345:Counter to My Intelligence-Lani Lynn Vale 1/07/24
5.289:Like You Love Me-Adriana Locke 1/01/24

*Diversity: Authors of Color
01.Alexandria House-Let Me Show You 2/03/24
02.M. Robinson-Tempting Enemy
03.Ofelia Martinez-Sensation
04.Ruhi Choudhary-Their Frozen Graves
05.Kennedy Ryan-This Could Be Us
06.Sonali Dev-Lies and Other Love Languages
07.Ana Huang-Twisted Love
08.Isabella Maldonado-A Forgotten Kill
09.Tracy Clark-Fall 3/23/24
10.Rebekah Weatherspoon-Rafe 1/06/24

*A Place: Different State Location Settings
1.Nevada:Crimson Lake Road-Victor Methos 1/19/24
2.Hawaii:The Girl in Paradise-A.J. Rivers 1/26/24
3.Minnesota:Her Frozen Heart-Stacy Green 2/23/24
4.Maryland:Lost Highway-Tom Fowler
5.New Jersey:The Survivor-Jessica Gadziala
*A Place: Different Country Location Settings
1.France:Wanderlust-Lauren Blakely 1/30/24
2.Mexico:Diablo Nights-Carmen Amato 2/28/24
3.Canada:Off to the Races-Elsie Silver 2/24/24
4.Italy:Italy Ever After-Leonie Mack 3/14/24
5.Australia:Incandescent-River Savage 1/06/24

I'm doing a huge one. Wish me luck!

Bookworms Take Shelfies

226/226

I hit character limit, so here's a google sheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

**One book will be released in 2025, so it was taken out of the total count.

🌻 As soon as I've got my TBR for 2024, I'll set up my shelves <3

[TBR and Goal pending...]

Sign up for 24 books.

24/24-COMPLETED

Book Length (under 200 pages) - 12/12
✅1)I Drove It My Way Tales of a London Cabbie (141 pages) (3/1/24)
✅2)London Urban Legends: The Corpse on the Tube and Other Stories (194 pages) (6/1/24)
✅3)My Zombie Boyfriend (188 pages) (2/1/24)
✅4)Our Souls at Night (179 pages) (7/1/24)
✅5)New Kids on the Block: The Whole Story by Their Friends (120 pages) (8/1/24)
✅6)The Gremlins (56 pages) (9/1/24)
✅7)Hunger (144 pages) (14/1/24)
✅8)The Change Your Name Store (32 pages) (10/1/24)
✅9)Roadside Picnic (145 pages) (15/1/24)
✅10)Frosty the Snowman (Frosty the Snowman): A Classic Christmas Book for Kids (24 pages) (12/1/24)
✅11)Kissed by Magic (184 pages) (21/1/24)
✅12)Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False Identities (144 pages) (27/1/24)

Listopia: Teen Historical Fiction - 3/3
✅1)A Tale of Two Cities (4/12/24)
✅2)Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt (3/12/24)
✅3)Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey (6/11/24)

Listopia: Fluffy Romances - 2/2
✅1)Pizza My Heart: A Wish Novel (10/10/24)
✅2)The Stand-In: my life as an understudy (3/9/24)

Memoirs, Autobiographies and Biographies - 5/5
✅1)New Kids on the Block: Five Brothers and a Million Sisters (23/1/24)
✅2)The Queen (1/10/24)
✅3)Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (23/5/24)
✅4)His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (23/8/24)
✅5)New Kids on the Block 40th Anniversary Celebration (21/6/24)

A Time: Morning - 2/2
✅1)Morning Beauty, Midnight Beast (25/2/24)
✅2)Memory of Morning (15/3/24)

Progress: 3/20

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Joining!

Idk what categories yet though

I'm going to try for 3 in each category

56/62

*An Author Sarah J. Maas
1. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
2. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
3. House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

*A Book Genre - Mystery
1. The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
2. A Vintage Death by Mary Ellen Hughes
3. The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

*Book Length (under 200)
1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2. The Recital by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
3. Eternal Flame by

*Book Length (Over 500)
1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins 541 pls
2. Allegiant by Veronica Roth 545 pgs
3. Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward 511 pgs

*Celebrations
1. The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall
2. Say You'll Stay by Susan Mallery
3. A Very Merry Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams

*Diversity (in any of its forms)
1. Lone Wolf by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
2. One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
3. A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like by Ashley Graham

*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
1. Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
2. Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
3. Everlasting by Alyson Noel

*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy) Grief
1. Down World by Rebecca Phelps
2. Evermore by Alyson Noel
3. The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

*Film & Theater
1. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
2. Help Is On the Way by Mindy Kaling
3.

*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
1. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
2. Stag's Leap: Poems by Sharon Olds
3.

*Food & Beverage
1. Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi
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*Heritage & Culture
1. The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
2. Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
3. Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger

*A Hobby or Pastime
1. Crochet Your Own Dog: 14 Lifesize Amigurumi Pups to Make & Love! by Mieko Shindo
2. Pillow Talk: What's Wrong with My Sewing? by Craig Conover
3. Crocheting Reversible Amigurumi Projects: Adorable 2-Way Patterns Using Fur Yarn & Easy Methods by Jessie Van In

*A Listopia - YA Paranormal
1. Shadowland by Alyson Noel
2. Dark Flame
3. Night Star by Alyson Noel

*A Literary Award
1. The Sharp Edge of Silence by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
2. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
3. Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine

*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
1. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
2. You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life by Neil Pasricha
3. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

*Nature and the Environment
1. The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson
2. Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner
3. Greymist Fair by Francesca Zappia

*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation) (Countryside)
1. One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall
2. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
3. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

*Science & Technology
1. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
2. Baby X by Kira Peikoff
3.

*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future) (future)
1. Past Present Future by Rachel Lynn Solomon
2. Hum by Helen Phillips
3. Westfallen by Ann Brashares

*Travel
1. Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
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3.

Please put me down for 20 books. Still working on the categories.
Lana's Little Alcove 2024

I'll do 12.

Progress 0 / 12

The 20 shelf themes are:
*An Author
*A Book Genre
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
*Film & Theater
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
*Food & Beverage
*Heritage & Culture
*A Hobby or Pastime
*A Listopia
*A Literary Award
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
*Nature and the Environment
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
*Science & Technology
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
*Travel

3/30

Author: 0/3

Book Length: Under 200 0/5

Genre: Romance 2/11
1.) Ugly Love
2.) Verity

Genre: Mystery/Thriller 1/11
1.) One of Us Is Back

🥀

📕📚📖Bookworms take Shelfies - 2023📖📚📕
January 1 - December 31, 2024
(🥀 = task complete)

Updated Message #39

New to me author
🥀1. Ami Wright Deal with a Demon 1/9/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️


- Best Gay Friends Become Lovers - 0/3
🥀1. More Than Life 1/25/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2 3

Progress: 2/25

***An Author*** 0/3
- Lily Mayne
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- Tal Bauer
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- K.A. Merikan
📘1. Love Among Reptiles
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-NEW TO ME AUTHOR
🥀1. Ami Wright Deal with a Demon 1/9/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️


***Book Length (500+ pages)*** 0/3
📘1. Seven Sins of Snow
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***A Listopia*** 0/16

- Beauty and the Beast - 0/13
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- Best Gay Friends Become Lovers - 0/3
🥀1. More Than Life 1/25/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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***A Literary Award*** 3/3
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I'll do 20.

*An Author - F.T. Lukens
✅1. In Deeper Waters
✅2. So This Is Ever After
✅3 Spell Bound

*An Author - M.J May
✅4. Perfectly Perfect Pixie: Peaches's Story
✅5. Perfectly Charmed Pixie: Parsnip's Story
✅6. Perfectly Perplexing Zombie: Wendall's Story

*A Book Genre - Fantasy
✅7. Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 1
✅8. Rook
✅9. What the River Knows
✅10. Where the Library Hides
✅11. His Surrogate Omega

*Book Genre - Mystery
✅12. The Expectant Detectives
✅13. Dead Tired
✅14. A Death in Door County
✅15. The Strangest Forms
✅16. The Silence of Six

*A Place - Asia
✅17. A Silent Voice, Vol. 1
✅18. A Bánh Mì for Two
✅19. The Travelling Cat Chronicles
✅20. My Summer Of You: Vol. 3: The Summer With You: The Sequel

Process: 20/20

Progress:
5/5 shelves
19/21 books

🌟An Author
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
1. The Hawthorne Legacy ✔️
2. The Final Gambit ✔️
3. The Naturals ✔️
4. Killer Instinct ✔️

🌟An Author
- Rick Riordan
5. The Lightning Thief ✔️
6. The Sea of Monsters ✔️
7. The Titan's Curse ✔️
8. The Battle of the Labyrinth ✔️
9. The Last Olympian ✔️

🌟An Author
- Ana Huang
10. Twisted Love ✔️
11. Twisted Games ✔️

🌟An Author
- Sarah J Maas
12. A Court of Thorns and Roses ✔️
13.

🌟An Author
- Tahereh Mafi
14. Shatter Me ✔️
15.

🌟Book Length - 500+
16. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy ✔️
17. The Bane Chronicles ✔️
18. Ghosts of the Shadow Market ✔️

🌟A Book Genre - Fantasy
19. The Hunger Games ✔️
20. Catching Fire ✔️
21. Mockingjay ✔️

Sign me up for 30!

Book Length over 375 pages
1. FINISHED. We Begin at the End. Chris Whitaker
2. FINISHED. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece. Tom Hanks
3. FINISHED. The Olympus Project. Zoë Routh
4. FINISHED. Velocity. Dean Koontz
5. FINISHED. Making It So: A Memoir. Patrick Stewart
6. FINISHED. Fairy Tale. Stephen King.
7. FINISHED. After You'd Gone. Maggie O'Farrell
8. FINISHED. Wanderers. Chuck Wendig


Film and Theatre
books to movies
1. Almost Famous. Cameron Crowe
2. FINISHED. Everything, Everything. Nicola Yoon
3. Wonder Boys. Michael Chabon
4. The Martian. Andy Weir
5. FINISHED. Velocity.,Dean Koontz


Food & Beverage - on the cover
1. FINISHED. Five Quarters of the Orange. Joanne Harris
2. FINISHED. Faculty Lounge. Jennifer Mathieu
3. FINISHED. Apples Never Fall. Liane Moriarty
4. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History. William Alexander


A Listopia - Best Time Travel Fiction
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams
2. Time and Time Again. Ben Elton
3. The Kingdoms. Natasha Pulley

Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
1. FINISHED. In Pieces. Sally Field
2. FINISHED Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond. Henry Winkler
3. FINISHED. I'll Be Seeing You. Elizabeth Berg
4. FINISHED. It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War. Lynsey Addario
5. FINISHED. Dying of Politeness. Geena Davis
6. FINISHED. The Reason You Walk. Wab Kinew
7. FINISHED. Run Towards the Danger. Sarah Polley
8. FINISHED. Attempting Normal. Marc Maron
9. FINISHED. Broken Horses. Brandi Carlile
10. FINISHED. Before My Time: A Memoir of Love and Fate. Ami McKay

23/30

I love setting this up every year! I think I am good with this set up

35/51 (42/51 when counting the categories I've read extra in)

Author : Ilona Andrews (maybe Ill actually start working on their backlog this year...) 0/3
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Author : Kelley Armstrong 3/4
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Author: Keri Arthur (take two on this one also) 6/3
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Author: Hailey Edwards 2/4
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Book Length 500+ pages 6/10
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Genre: Books about Books 1/3
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Genre: Pirates 2/3
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*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies 1/2
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Place: Written by a Canadian 6/5
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Science & Technology Nonfiction: 4/2
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Time: 1800's 3/3
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Time: World Wars 3/3
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Listopia 2023 Debuts 1/3
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Possibilities (view spoiler)[ Fake Dates and Mooncakes Threads That Bind To Poison a King Mother of the River Spice Road The Daughters of Izdihar She Started It Bitter Medicine (hide spoiler)]

Listopia: Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2023 4/3
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4.The Valkyrie
Possibilities (view spoiler)[ Witch King Tress of the Emerald Sea Yumi and the Nightmare Painter The Sunlit Man The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England The Daughters of Izdihar The Sword Defiant The Judas Blossom Into the Sunken City To Poison a King Labyrinth's Heart A Study in Drowning Sleep No More The Jasad Heir Bitter Medicine (hide spoiler)]

I'll sign up for 20 books!
Progress: 4/20

Author: Katherine Center
1. The Bright Side of Disaster
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Author: Agatha Christie
1. Sparkling Cyanide
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Author: Andrea Penrose
1. Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens
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Listopia: Best Books of the 19th Century
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Genre: Sci-Fi
1. Parable of the Sower
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A Feeling: Fear
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Please add me for 48 53. Thanks!

Progress: 63/53 - Challenge Complete
Shelves: 7/7

☑️A Book Genre: Climate/Eco Fiction - 5/5
2020 US: Road Out of Winter
2022 Canada: Arboreality
2023 England: Landscapes
2023 Italy: Land of Milk and Honey
2024 Nigeria: Lost Ark Dreaming

☑️Diversity: Black American Authors - 18/12
1953 Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha
1970 Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye
1973 Toni Morrison: Sula
1994 Edwidge Danticat: Breath, Eyes, Memory
2001 Suzan-Lori Parks: Topdog/Underdog
2002 Percival Everett: Erasure
2012 Karen E. Fields, Barbara J Fields: Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
2013 Jesmyn Ward: Men We Reaped: A Memoir
2016 Carol Anderson: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
2016 Kwei Quartey: Gold of Our Fathers (Darko Dawson #4)
2017 Ta-Nehisi Coates: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
2018 Cheryl Head: Wake Me When It's Over Charlie Mack #2
2023 Jesmyn Ward: Let Us Descend
2023 Bryan Washington: Family Meal
2024 Hanif Abdurraqib: There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
2024 Percival Everett: James
2024 Maurice Carlos Ruffin: The American Daughters
2024 Crystal Wilkinson: Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

☑️Diversity: Women in Translation - 12/12
1989 Morocco: Year of the Elephant: Revised Edition translated from Arabic
2000 Gabon: Awu's Story: A Novel translated from French
2007 Argentina: Elena Knows translated from Spanish
2008 Iran: In Case of Emergency translated from Farsi
2008 Japan: The Fall of Language in the Age of English translated from Japanese
2014 South Korea: Human Acts translated from Korean
2015 Russia: Bride and Groom translated from Russian
2018 Libya: Catalogue of a Private Life translated from Arabic
2019 Spain: When I Sing, Mountains Dance translated from Catalan
2020 Canada: The Future translated from French
2021 Peru: Undiscovered translated from Spanish
2023 Italy: Roman Stories translated from Italian

☑️ Nature and the Environment: Climate, gardening, natural history, wildlife - 7/5
1956 England: We Made a Garden
2020 Russia: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
2021 Multiple: The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
2021 US: New Naturalism: Designing and Planting A Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden
2023 Canada: Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
2023 US: The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
2024 US: A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars

☑️Place: The Balkans - 6/6
1960 Romania: The Great Fortune
1996 Bosnia: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
2000 Balkans: The Balkans: A Short History
2018 Bosnia: Catch the Rabbit
2021 Albania: Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
2023 Bulgaria: Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

☑️Time: Published in the 1930s - 8/8
1930 US: The Maltese Falcon
1933 Germany: The Oppermanns
1935 France: The House in Paris
1936 Poland: The Brothers Ashkenazi
1937 Egypt: Diary of a Country Prosecutor
1938 Germany: Address Unknown
1938 Italy: Cause for Alarm
1939 Turkey+: A Coffin for Dimitrios

☑️Travel: Travelogues, Road Trips, Adventures, Reportage - 7/5
1969 Spain: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
1983 El Salvador: Salvador
1998 South Georgia: Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia
2017 US: South and West: From a Notebook
2022 Uzbekistan: The White Mosque
2023 Central African Republic: Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
2023 Multiple: Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

I'll do this and my initial goal is to read 20 books. I'll be back later to choose the shelves--I love this one since I'm a big shelver.

25/25

Genre - Historical Mystery - 5/5
One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
The Raven in the Foregate by Ellis Peters
The Heretic's Apprentice by Ellis Peters
St. Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters
The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters

Diversity -5/5
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta

Nature and the Environment - 4/5
The Hike by Lucy Clarke
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
Dead Girl Fighting by Ann M. Noser
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
My Side of the Mountain

Not a Novel 5/5
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

Heavily focused on food or a restaurant plays a major part 4/5
Aunty Lee's Delights
Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder
Shoot the Breeze
Murder is a Piece of Cake
Garden Spells


The 20 shelf themes are:
*An Author
*A Book Genre
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
*Film & Theater
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
*Food & Beverage
*Heritage & Culture
*A Hobby or Pastime
*A Listopia
*A Literary Award
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies
*Nature and the Environment
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
*Science & Technology
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
*Travel

Sign me up for 10 books please!

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Tracking

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Author: Jasmine Guillory 1/5

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Genre: Witches 0/3

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Number of Pages: 500+ 2/2

1. War Storm
2. Fairy Tale

Update to Message #17

Now that I have selected specific shelves and books, I'd like to increase my goal to 60. Thanks, bailey!

I'll sign up for 24


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A Book Genre: Horror
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Book Length: Less than 100 pages
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Book Length: 100 - 200 pages
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Book Length: 200 - 300 pages
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Book Length: 300 - 500 pages
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A Listopia: Mythologies and Retellings of Fairy Tales & Classics
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A Book Genre- Historical Fiction
🪱The Painter's Daughter- Julie Klassen

Celebrations- Set at Christmas
🪱Snowbound in Montana- C. J. Carmichael
🪱The Christmas Pawdcast- Emily March

Diversity- LGBTQIA+
🪱Crossroads- Riley Hart
🪱Mister Bridesmaid- Ivy Oliver
🪱American Queen- Sierra Simone

Friendship, Love, and Marriage- A Family Member 'Dad'
🪱Star Father- Charlie N. Holmberg

A Feeling- Love (in the title)
🪱Love, Lucas- Chantele Sedgwick
🪱The Viscount Who Loved Me- Julia Quinn

Film & Theatre- Disney Inspired
🪱A Captive of Wing and Feather- Melanie Cellier
🪱A Princess of Wind and Wave- Melanie Cellier

A Hobby or Pastime- Cowboys/ Country Music
The Texan's Secret Daughter- Jolene Navarro

A Time Period- Summer Season
🪱The Summer I Turned Pretty- Jenny Han

🪱12/30

I would like to sign up for 150- thanks 🙂