megan’s Comments (group member since Dec 18, 2014)

megan’s comments from the The Reading Challenge Group group.

32. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster - 30 Dec

[x] The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed - The English Wife

[x] A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club - Below Stairs
Podcast: Up Yours, Downstairs

[x] Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: should be made into a movie - The City We Became

[x] A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins - The Bride Test
Lust, Pride

Reserved

To Be Read 2021
Goal: 10

2014
14. 1 DEC - Life After Life

2015
8. 5 OCT - A Confederacy of Dunces
5. 29 OCT - An Ember in the Ashes
9. 5 NOV - Did You Ever Have a Family
18. 15 NOV - Attachments
13. 17 DEC - Modern Romance

2016
3. 26 MAY - The Right Stuff

2017
17. 10 OCT - Bones Don't Lie
2. 5 NOV - The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
16. 7 NOV - Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
4. 6 DEC - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

2018
1. 13 JAN - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
12. 28 JAN - The Ruby Brooch
10. 11 FEB - The Alienist
6. 22 FEB - The Lottery
7. 2 JUNE - Death Comes to Pemberley
15. 19 JULY - The Intuitionist
11. 2 NOV - Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

Non-Fiction 2021
Goal: 25 books

January
1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - 12 Jan
2. A Very Punchable Face - 14 Jan
3. Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for the Future of Europe - 24 Jan

February
4. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - 2 Feb
5. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - 15 Feb
6. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - 19 Feb

March
7. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple - 15 March
8. The Right Stuff - 24 March
9. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin - 31 March

April
10. What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism - 7 April
11. The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World - 14 April
12. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy - 20 April
13. The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer - 30 April

May
14. Crying in H Mart - 5 May
15. A Promised Land - 10 May
16. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race - 23 May
17. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - 29 May

June
18. Yearbook - 11 June
19. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos - 17 June
20. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany - 30 June

July
21. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War - 30 July

August
22. The God Delusion - 11 Aug
23. One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 - 17 Aug
24. The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History - 25 Aug
25. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - 31 Aug

September
26. The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain - 11 Sept
27. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - 12 Sept
28. American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI - 22 Sept
29. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story - 28 Sept
30. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood - 30 Sept

October
31. The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France - 8 Oct
32. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism - 28 Oct

November
33. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos - 11 Nov
34. Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World - 15 Nov
35. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit - 18 Nov
36. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 - 22 Nov

December
37. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself - 2 Dec
38. Taste: My Life through Food - 8 Dec
39. Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am - 13 Dec
40. Not the Type - 17 Dec
41. Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine - 21 Dec
42. Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon - 25 Dec

POPSUGAR CHALLENGE

[x] A book that's published in 2021 - Concrete Rose
[x] A genre hybrid - Death Comes to Pemberley
[x] An Afrofuturist book - The Intuitionist
[x] A book set mostly outdoors - The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
[x] A book that has a heart, diamond, club or spade on the cover - A Heart So Fierce and Broken
[x]A book with something broken on the cover - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
[x] A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
[x] A book by a Muslim American author - An Ember in the Ashes
[x] A book that was published anonymously - Beowulf
[x] A dark academia book - The Maidens
[x] A book with an oxymoron in the title - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
[x] A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title - The Ruby Brooch
[x] A book about do-overs or fresh starts - What You Wish For
[x] A book where the main character works at your current or dream job - The Kindest Lie
[x] A magical realism book - The Memory Collectors
[x] A book set in multiple countries - Less
[x] A book that has won the Women's Prize For Fiction - Bel Canto
[x] A book set somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021 - Shipped
[x] A book with a family tree -Wolf Hall
[x] A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube creator, or other online personality - Not the Type
[x] A bestseller from the 1990s - The Alienist
[x] A book about forgetting - We Were Liars
[x] A book whose title starts with "Q," "X," or "Z" - The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
[x] A book you have seen on someone's bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show) - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
[x] A book featuring three generations - The Four Winds
[x] A locked-room mystery - The Sanatorium
[x] A book about a social justice issue - We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
[x] A book set in a restaurant - Number One Chinese Restaurant
[x] A book in a different format than you normally read Attachments
[x] A book with a black and white cover - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
[x] A book by an indigenous author - The Removed
[x] A book that has the same title as a song - One by One
[x] A book that has fewer than 1000 reviews on Amazon or GR - One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
[x] A book about a subject you are passionate about - Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
[x] A book you think your best friend would like - Taste: My Life through Food
[x] A book that discusses body positivity - Romancing Mister Bridgerton
[x] A book about art or an artist - The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
[x] A book everyone seems to have read but you - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
[x] A book found on a BLM reading list - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
[x] your favorite prompt on a past POPSUGAR challenge: 2019: A Book About A Family - Did You Ever Have a Family

[x] The longest book on your TBR list - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
[x] A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn't - Dear Edward
[x] The shortest book on your TBR list - The Lottery
[x] A book on your TBR list associated with your favorite person, place, or thing - Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
[x] The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover - The Hawthorne Legacy
[x] A book from your TBR list chosen at random -American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
[x] A book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover - A Confederacy of Dunces
[x] A DNF book from your TBR list - Modern Romance
[x] A book that's been on your TBR list the longest - Life After Life
[x] A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) - World Without End

2021 Reading Challenges

[x] A book with a made-up language - Ready Player Two

30. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism - 25 Nov

28. Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America - 18 Nov
29. How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference - 23 Nov

26. Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House - 12 Nov
27. The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life - 15 Nov

[x] A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character - Defy the Stars

25. American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise - 30 Oct

[x] An anthology - Stories from Suffragette City

[x] A Western - How Much of These Hills Is Gold

24. Trust: America's Best Chance - 27 Oct

23. Brief Answers to the Big Questions - 26 Oct