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15.37 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview20.1-20.10 Riding the Metro
Read 10 books set at least 75% in 10 different real cities
Cold Justice by Taylor Stark
+15 task - Chicago
Task total: 15
Grand total: 860
Post 522 Claire wrote: "15.43FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter
Door het vuur
[author:M.J. A..."
England isn't on the list of linked countries in the original challenge - it needs to be claimed as United Kingdom. No problem, just to note you won't be able to claim any other country beginning with U (but you can claim another E).
15.35 SU 23 FavoritesRead 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons. State the season and the task (number and brief description).
WI 21-22 20.4 Day of the Jackal
Read a book with a main page genre of "thriller".
The Danger by Dick Francis
+15 Task
+ 5 Old (1983)
Task total = 20
Season total = 745
Rosemary wrote: "Post 522 Claire wrote: "15.43FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter
[book:Door het vuur|2..."
Ok, I’ll change it.
15.33 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"So My Ex-Boyfriend Is a Serial Killer by Kylie Scott
E2 - MPG: romance
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 690
15.48: FA23 Celebration of Styles (2)The Years by Annie Ernaux
LiT
LiT, 3
Aged, 2
NaN, 3
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1215
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27; 15.28; 15.29; 15.30
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36; 15.37; 15.38; 15.39; 15.40
15.41; 15.42; 15.43; 15.44; 15.45; 15.46; 15.47; 15.48;
15.49: FA23 Celebration of Styles (2)A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst
Not a Novel
LiT, 3
Aged, 2
NaN, 4
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1230
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27; 15.28; 15.29; 15.30
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36; 15.37; 15.38; 15.39; 15.40
15.41; 15.42; 15.43; 15.44; 15.45; 15.46; 15.47; 15.48;15.49;
15.50: FA23 Celebration of Styles (2)Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
Young, born 1989
LiT, 3
Aged, 2
NaN, 4
Young, 1
+15 task
+5th finisher bonus, 150
Post Total: 165
Season Total: 1395
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27; 15.28; 15.29; 15.30
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36; 15.37; 15.38; 15.39; 15.40
15.41; 15.42; 15.43; 15.44; 15.45; 15.46; 15.47; 15.48;15.49;15.50
15.51 - FA19 Pick 'n Mix 2E6 - Title contains a Q, X, or Z
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1410
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27; 15.28; 15.29; 15.30
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36; 15.37; 15.38; 15.39; 15.40
15.41; 15.42; 15.43; 15.44; 15.45; 15.46; 15.47; 15.48;15.49;15.50
15.51;
15.61: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - Summertime ... and the livin' is easy ...10.10. Title begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H). Leading articles of The, A, and An can be ignored.
The History of Everything: A Graphic Novel by Victoria Evans
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1425
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27; 15.28; 15.29; 15.30
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36; 15.37; 15.38; 15.39; 15.40
15.41; 15.42; 15.43; 15.44; 15.45; 15.46; 15.47; 15.48;15.49;15.50
15.51;
15.61;
15.44 FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter
Het hoge noorden
Ulf Kvensler
1. France
2. Nerlands
3. UK
4. Sweden
15 points
Total: 960 points
15.38 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview20.1-20.10 Riding the Metro
Read 10 books set at least 75% in 10 different real cities
Changing Tides: Savannah Mystery Series Book 1 by Veronica Mixon
+15 task - Savannah
Task total: 15
Grand total: 875
15.62: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - Summertime ... and the livin' is easy ...10.7. Number (6 / 7 / 8) is in original pub date
Contact by Carl Sagan
First published 1985
+15 task
+5 oldies
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 1445
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27; 15.28; 15.29; 15.30
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36; 15.37; 15.38; 15.39; 15.40
15.41; 15.42; 15.43; 15.44; 15.45; 15.46; 15.47; 15.48;15.49;15.50
15.51;
15.61; 15.62;
15.63: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - Summertime ... and the livin' is easy ...10.1. Number (6 /7 / 8) of letters in author's first or last name.
Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans by Elise Downing
Downing, 7 letters
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1460
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27; 15.28; 15.29; 15.30
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36; 15.37; 15.38; 15.39; 15.40
15.41; 15.42; 15.43; 15.44; 15.45; 15.46; 15.47; 15.48;15.49;15.50
15.51;
15.61; 15.62; 15.63;
15.45 FA 17 Reading Globally Overview
Read 10 books set (at least 51%) in 10 different countries, in which each country begins with a different letter
Het kleine café in Kopenhagen
Julie Caplin
1. France
2. Nerlands
3. uK
4. Sweden
5. Denmark
15 points
Total: 975 points
15.22 Summer 2023: FAVORITESRead 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons. You must state the season and the task (number and brief description) when posting your book claim.
Winter 24-25
20.4 C.J. Sansom and Caleb Carr
Read a book by C.J. Sansom, Caleb Carr, or any book with at least two of the following MPGs listed: Mystery, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Crime, History.
Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith
+15 Task (Mystery & Crime)
Season total = 530
15.17 FA15 Travel the USRead 10 books, each set in a different US State or Washington, DC. The setting will be more than 50% in the designated state.
What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
+15 Task (set in Washington State - author names both Seattle and Olympic National Forest in WA in the text of the book)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 200
15.18 FA15 Travel the USRead 10 books, each set in a different US State or Washington, DC. The setting will be more than 50% in the designated state.
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
+15 Task (set in Louisiana)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 215
15.19 FA15 Travel the USRead 10 books, each set in a different US State or Washington, DC. The setting will be more than 50% in the designated state.
Triptych by Karin Slaughter
+15 Task (set in Georgia)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 230
15.34 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"Ashes of Spring by Mieko Kawakami
D4 - Female 40-60
Author born 1976 & book first published 2022 (author would have been 46yo)
length of audio: 4 hours 42 minutes
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 705
15.45 SU19 Ratings GameRead 10 books by 10 different authors based on the number of ratings on GoodReads
15-17
5,000 - 9,999 At the Gates of Darkness 9.438 ratings
Task +15
Season Total 215
15.27 FA 19 Pick 'n Mix 2The goal is to read 10 books that fit in 10 different sub-categories. No letter can be used more than twice and no number can be used more than twice.
E3. Title consists of a full sentence
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
+15 Task
Task total = 15
Season total = 760
15.36 SU 23 FavoritesRead 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons. State the season and the task (number and brief description).
FA 22 20.8 Soup's On!
Read a book where one of the characters makes, serves, or eats soup.
The End of the Story by Lydia Davis
"he made a very large pot of rather thin cabbage soup"
+15 Task
+ 5 Old (1994)
Task total = 20
Season total = 780
Task 15.14 Fall 2012 Know Your ABC’s 4th book: Letter N
Automatic Noodle (2025) by Annalee Newitz
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 280 + 15 = 295
15.39 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview20.1-20.10 Riding the Metro
Read 10 books set at least 75% in 10 different real cities
Close to Her by Elizabeth Gunn
+15 task - Tucson
Task total: 15
Grand total: 890
15.6 Fall 2010 Reading Through TimeTask 15.7 1651-1700
Read a book originally published 1651-1700.
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
+15 Task (1678)
+5 Old (1678)
Post total: 20
Season total: 490
15.30 Spring 2024 How Does Your Garden Grow?For this challenge, each book plants one or more flowers, veggies or herbs from a specific list, without repeats. Flowers: all letters of the flower in the book title. Veggies: setting (city, state, country, planet) starts with the same letter as the veggie. Herbs: page count contains the number of letters in that herb.
Planted so far, including this post: rue, dill, potato, fennel, leek, endive, lily, marigold, aster, onion, horseradish, parsley, lemon verbena, peppermint, napa cabbage
Audition by Katie Kitamura
Planting a veggie napa cabbage
+15 Task (set 100% in New York)
+100 Second sub-challenge completion
Post total: 115
Season total: 605
15.31 Summer 2017 A Counting GameFor this challenge, read books with increasing numbers of words in the title, 1-10. Books can be read in any order.
Task 15.2 - Title with 2 words
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 620
15.64: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - Summertime ... and the livin' is easy ...10.2. Number (6 /7 / 8) of words in title
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1475
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27; 15.28; 15.29; 15.30
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36; 15.37; 15.38; 15.39; 15.40
15.41; 15.42; 15.43; 15.44; 15.45; 15.46; 15.47; 15.48;15.49;15.50
15.51;
15.61; 15.62; 15.63; 15.64;
15.65: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - Summertime ... and the livin' is easy ...10.3. Number (6 / 7 / 8) of words in subtitle
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory] by Caitlin Doughty
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1490
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27; 15.28; 15.29; 15.30
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36; 15.37; 15.38; 15.39; 15.40
15.41; 15.42; 15.43; 15.44; 15.45; 15.46; 15.47; 15.48;15.49;15.50
15.51;
15.61; 15.62; 15.63; 15.64; 15.65;
15.36 SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer Winter 2018/2019 - 20.10 Over and Under: 3.75+ rating/<1001 reviews
Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff
15 task
______
15
Running total: 735
15.35 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuya Asakura
F3 - translated from Japanese
+15 Task
+5 Old (pub 2017)
Post total: 20
Season total: 725
15.26 SU 2023 FavoritesRead 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
WI 2024-25 20.10 The ___ of ___
Read a book with a title that takes the form of The Something of Something.
Task total: 15
Season total: 600
15.27 SU 2023 FavoritesRead 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons.
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
WI 2021-22 20.5 Wheels
Read one of these British novels (on Wiki list) adapted into television shows.
+15 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1886)
Task total: 20
Season total: 620
15.40 SU 21 Sub-Challenge Summer Task Overview20.1-20.10 Riding the Metro
Read 10 books set at least 75% in 10 different real cities
Trial by Fury by J.A. Jance
+15 task - Seattle
+5 - published 1986
+150 finishing bonus
Task total: 170
Grand total: 1060
15.28 FA 19 Pick 'n Mix 2The goal is to read 10 books that fit in 10 different sub-categories. No letter can be used more than twice and no number can be used more than twice.
B2. Published 1951-2000
Point Zero by Seichō Matsumoto
+15 Task (1959)
+ 5 Old
Task total = 20
Season total = 800
15.32 Summer 2017 A Counting GameFor this challenge, read books with increasing numbers of words in the title, 1-10. Books can be read in any order.
Task 15.7 - Title with 7 words
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 635
15.46 SU19 Ratings GameRead 10 books by 10 different authors based on the number of ratings on GoodReads. Your books will be chosen using the following breakdown of ratings:
250,000 or more ratings
100,000 - 249,999
25,000 - 74,999
15,000 - 24,999
10,000 - 14,999
1,000 - 4,999
250 - 999
fewer than 250
The Change by Kirsten Miller, 57,892 ratings
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 1190
15.8 SU 18 Listopia TagRead 10 books found on 10 different Listopia lists using different list 'tags' for selection
The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness by Emily Anthes
Nonfiction That's Not A Memoir or Biography Tag: ATY-2021
+15 task
Season total: 175
15.29 Eyes on the Prize Redux from Fall 22Decade using = 2001 to 2010
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2002 Intl Dublin Award
15 task
5 oldie
______
20
Running total: 755
15.51 WI 15/16 Book DominoesRead 10 books by ten different authors using one of the following criteria to link each consecutive book:
decade of the author's birth
decade of the author's death
author's first name
author's last name
author's place of birth OR citizenship/residency
decade of original publication
word in title (4 letters or more)-using the Most Popular English Print edition
Each connection type can be used a maximum of two times.
Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop by Rebecca Raisin, pub. 2019
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 1205
15.36 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"Limelight (A Penny Green Victorian Mystery #1) by Emily Organ
C5 - 324-425 pages (340p)
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 740
Sub Challenge #4Growing Genres from SP 23 by Kate
Pick your favorite genre and spend some time seeing how it has grown over the years.
Read 10 books by 10 different authors. All 10 books should be from the same genre. Books must be published no fewer than 5 years apart and must cover an overall spread of at least 50 years.
I selected Mystery:
Shadow Prey by John Sandford 1990
15.39 - 2017
The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen
+15 Task
Task Total:15
Season Total: 740
Sub Challenge #4Growing Genres from SP 23 by Kate
Pick your favorite genre and spend some time seeing how it has grown over the years.
Read 10 books by 10 different authors. All 10 books should be from the same genre. Books must be published no fewer than 5 years apart and must cover an overall spread of at least 50 years.
I selected Mystery:
15.40 - 1990
Shadow Prey by John Sandford
+15 Task
+ 5 Old
Task Total: 20
Finish #3: 150
Post Total: 170
Season Total: 910
15.29 FA 19 Pick 'n Mix 2The goal is to read 10 books that fit in 10 different sub-categories. No letter can be used more than twice and no number can be used more than twice.
E1. Title contains the name of a person
Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson
+15 Task
+ 5 Old (1930)
Task total = 20
Season total = 820
15.37 SU 23 FavoritesRead 10 books that fit your favorite 20-point tasks from prior seasons. State the season and the task (number and brief description).
FA 22 20.2 King
Read any debut novel.
Grimus by Salman Rushdie
(GR description says this was his debut novel)
+15 Task
+ 5 Old (1975)
Task total = 20
Season total = 840
15.66: SU 23 Sub-Challenge Summer - Summertime ... and the livin' is easy ...10.6. Number (6 / 7 / 8) is in year of Author birth
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Born 1977
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 1505
15.1; 15.2; 15.3; 15.4; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
15.11; 15.12; 15.13; 15.14; 15.15; 15.16; 15.17; 15.18; 15.19; 15.20
15.21; 15.22; 15.23; 15.24; 15,25; 15.26; 15.27; 15.28; 15.29; 15.30
15.31; 15.32; 15.33; 15.34; 15.35; 15.36; 15.37; 15.38; 15.39; 15.40
15.41; 15.42; 15.43; 15.44; 15.45; 15.46; 15.47; 15.48;15.49;15.50
15.51;
15.61; 15.62; 15.63; 15.64; 15.65; 15.66;
15.37 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
F6 - translated from Icelandic
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 755
15.20 WI 11-12 "Christmas in Vegas"Lady of the Lake (The Witcher #5) by Andrzej Sapkowski
Author's last initial: S-T-U
Page length: 101-140/501-540 (531p)
Published date: 1989-2000 (1999)
+15 Task
+5 Old
+5 Big
+150 points for your third subchallenge completions.
Post total: 175
Season total: 930
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Read 10 books by 10 different authors based on the number of ratings on GoodReads. Your books will be chosen using the following breakdown of ratings:
250,000 or more ratings
100,000 - 249,999
75,000 - 99,99925,000 - 74,999
15,000 - 24,999
10,000 - 14,999
5,000 - 9,9991,000 - 4,999
250 - 999
fewer than 250
Ghosts of Ogden, Brigham City and Logan by Jennifer Jones, 32 ratings
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Season total: 1175