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Update: message 171 (don't know how to make a link)I managed to read 6 books out of 8. I never even started The Shape of Water, because I was down with a flu the whole month and I read half of Tess of the D'Urbervilles before I had to return it to the library. I'm finishing it this month.
PART IILeftovers from 2019
104. Fatimina dlan : zgodovinski roman o fantu, razpetem med dve veri in dve ljubezni by Ildefonso Falcones
105. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
106. The World According to Garp by John Irving
107. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
108. Room by Emma Donoghue
109. The Shack by William P. Young
110. The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami
111. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzal
112. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
113. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
114. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
115. The Ruins by Scott Smith
116. 1984 by George Orwell
117. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstein
118. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
119. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
120. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
121. I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
122. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
123. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
124. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
125. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
126. Atonement by Ian McEwan
127. Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
128. Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
129. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
130. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
131. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
132. Mutiny On The Bounty by John Boyne
🌵133. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Leftovers from 2018
134. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
135. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
136. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
137. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
138. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
139. Pravila treh by Marjolijn Hof
140. Novorojen by Margaret Mazzantini
141. Zdravnik by Noah Gordon
142. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
143. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
144. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
145. Katarina, pav in jezuit by Drago Janičar
146. The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
147. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (half read)
148. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
149. Winona's Web: A Novel of Discovery by Priscilla Cogan
150. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreth
151. Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep by Siba Shakib
152. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
153. Uroki ljubezni - uroki smrti by Alma M. Karlin
154. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
155. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
📆 Leftovers from 2017
156. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
157. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
158. Io sono Dio by Giorgio Faletti
159. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
160. Dolina konj by Jean M. Auel (half read)
161. In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
📆 Leftovers from Yearly TBR 2018
162. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
163. Kraljevske norčije: Zgodovina škandalov na evropskih dvorih by Karl Shaw
🌵164. Kronika ptiča navijalca by Haruki Murakami
165. Skrivna zgodovina by Donna Tartt
166. You by Caroline Kepnes
167. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Leftovers from Yearly TBR 2019
168. The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
169. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
170. Beneške oči by Alessandro Barbero
🌵171. Moč navade : Zakaj počnemo, kar počnemo, in kako lahko to spremenimo by Charles Duhigg
172. Marija Terezija : velika Habsburžanka by Franz Herre
🌵173. The Unseen World by Liz Moore
174. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
🌵175. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
176. Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
New year, new me :-) Well, as long as books fly of the shelf. This year I'm adding my "try new authors", since I haven't read not even one in 2019 and some series that I would like to finish off.
Target: 40 books
CLEANING OUT THE TBR CLOSET 2020
Duration: Jan - Dec 2020
Progress: 11/176
PART I
1. V Sibilinem vetru by Alojz Rebula
2. Slow Heat in Heaven by Sandra Brown
3. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
4. The Swede by Robert Karjel
🌵 5. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
6. Keltove sanje by Mario Vargas Llosa
7. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
🌵 8. Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
9. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
10. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
🌵11. The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter
12. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
13. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
🌵14. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
15. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
16. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
17. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
🌵18. The History of Bees by Maja Lunde
🌵19. Savages by Shirley Conran
20. Old Surehand I by Karl May
21. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
🌵22. Kalipso by Vesna Milek
23. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
24. The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
🌵 25. The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
Try an author
26. Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
27. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
28. Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
29. Beloved by Toni Morrison
30. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
31. The City & the City by China Miéville
Yearly TBR 2020
32. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
🌵 33. Beartown by Fredrik Backman
34. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
35. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
🌵 36. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad
37. Napoleon by Alan Forrest
38. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
39. Na stičišču svetov - Slovenska zgodovina od prazgodovinskih kultur do konca 18. stoletja by Peter Štih
40. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
41. Isola by Isabel Abedi
🌵 42. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
43. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
44. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
45. Ti povem zgodbo? by Jorge Bucay
46. World War I: The Definitive Visual History from Sarajevo to Versailles by R.G. Grant
47. To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O'Connell
48. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders
49. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
50. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
51. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
52. Koža od blizu
53. Sledovi potujočih duš: Vedomci, kresniki in sorodna bajna bitja by Zmago Šmitek
54. Jezero by Tadej Golob
55. Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis
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56. The Terror by Dan Simmons
57. The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
🌵 58. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
🌵 59. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
60. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
61. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
**62. Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
63. The Good People by Hannah Kent
64. Longbourn by Jo Baker
65. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
🌵66. Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
67. The Diviners by Libba Bray
68. Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England by Paul Thomas Murphy
69. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
70. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
71. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
**72.The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
🌵73. Circe by Madeline Miller
74. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
75. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
76. Florence and Giles / The Turn of the Screw by John Harding
77. The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
78. The Mermaid by Christina Henry
79.Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
🌵 80. Vendetta by Catherine Doyle
81.The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
82.Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
83. Oscar Wilde Collection by Oscar Wilde
🌵84. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
85.I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
86. Euphoria by Lily King
87. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
88. Stars Above by Marissa Meyer
89. The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman
90. The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
91. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Series to finish
92. The Truth Factory (Smoky Barrett #4)
93. Veritas (Atto Melani #3)
94. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2)
95. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3)
96. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers #2)
97. Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers #3)
🌵 98. Shadow of Night (All Souls #2)
99. The Book of Life (All Souls #3)
100. The Girl in the Tower (Winternight #2)
101. The Winter of the Witch (Winternight #3)
102. Love and War (North & South #2)
103. Heaven and Hell (North & South #3)
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Find your magic
For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.
Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people’s thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk.
From the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, no books about magic. And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are. Back in New York City each begins a risky journey as they try to escape the family curse.
The Owens children cannot escape love even if they try, just as they cannot escape the pains of the human heart. The two beautiful sisters will grow up to be the revered, and sometimes feared, aunts in Practical Magic, while Vincent, their beloved brother, will leave an unexpected legacy.
The Mystery, Mayhem, and Murder Squad Reading Challenge - PART IDuration: 1. February -
Level: Crime Scene Investigator - 21-30 books
Completed: 0/25
📌Amateur Sleuth: The amateur sleuth tries to solve the murder of someone close. Either the police have tried and failed, or misread the murder as an accident/suicide. Both the loss and need for a solution is personal.
📌Aristocratic Detective: The aristocratic detective novels are usually - but not exclusively - featuring a member of British gentry and set in Britain’s Golden Age.
📌Caper: A caper is a comic crime story. Instead of suave and calculating, the caper chronicles the efforts of the lovable bungler or protagonist who either thinks big or ridiculously small. Finally we get to laugh.
📌Cozy Mystery: A bloodless crime and a victim who won’t be missed. The solution can be determined using emotional (Miss Marple) or logical (Poirot) reasoning.
📌Culinary Mystery: Chef, baker, wine connoisseur; if it’s ingestible and includes recipes, it’s a culinary mystery.
📌Double Act: It takes two to solve this mystery. They may be working together at the beginning, or not. Nevertheless, these partners help each other out by the end.
📌FBI/CIA/ATF: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). While the FBI, CIA, and ATF appear in many mysteries, for this sub-genre category we want books where a main character is an employee of one of these government agencies, even if they are not a field agent.
📌Forensic Specialist: A medical examiner, forensic pathologist, forensic psychologist, forensic anthropologist, forensic entomologist…you get the idea.
📌Futuristic: Set in the future, whether in our world or another.
📌Historical Mystery: Move your mystery into the past, near or far, and you've entered the realm of the historical mystery.
📌Legal: Although popular, these tales are usually penned by actual lawyers due to the demands of the information presented.
📌Medical: Doctors make effective protagonists since they seem to exist on a plane far above the rest of us. As with the “Legal” sub-genre, these tales are usually penned by actual doctors due to the demands of the information presented.
📌Missing Person Mystery: Someone’s gone missing! However, you can find one of these in most all the other sub-genres. Finding the missing person should be the focus of the storyline.
☑ Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
📌Noir: While much PI is Noir, Noir also covers stories from the other side of the fence. Noir is a mood: gritty, bleak, and unforgiving. The usual brutality is about as far from Cozy as you can get.
📌Romantic Suspense: Add a hefty dose of romance to a suspense and produce a romantic suspense novel. Not only does justice prevail, but love conquers all.
📌Rooting for the Bad Guy: Not you average heroes, still you find you can’t help yourself in cheering for them.
📌Paranormal Mystery: Paranormal books involve unusual experiences that lack a scientific explanation. Some popular subjects in paranormal books are supernatural creatures, ESP, clairvoyance, ghosts, UFOs, telepathy, and psychics.
📌Police Procedural: The police procedural emphasizes factual police operations. Law enforcement is a team effort where department politics often plays a large role. If you plan to write one of these, you need to spend time with police officers and research the tiny details which will make your story ring true. While the FBI, CIA, or other governmental agencies may make an appearance in these books and stir up the politics, they are not the main foci.
📌Private Eye: The PI is as much an American icon as the Western gunslinger. From the hardboiled PIs of the 30s and 40s to the politically correct investigators of today, this sub-genre is known for protagonists with a strong code of honor. They can be found all over the globe.
📌Professional Sleuth: The professional sleuth is an amateur sleuth in a professional setting, preferably a setting which is unique and intriguing. Not only is inside information used, but solving the crime returns order to a cloistered environment.
📌Proprietor Mysteries: Small business owners in mysteries are plentiful. Whether they run bookshops, bed & breakfast inns, coffeehouses, pie shoppes, or beauty shops, etc., they still like to solve a good mystery when it happens in or near their home turf.
📌Sci-Fi: While the Sci-Fi/Sci-Fy category is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology.
📌Scotland Yard: The epitome of the investigator needed to solve a mystery, Britian’s Chief Inspectors working for Scotland Yard are in a class by themselves.
📌Thriller: Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. This ride will be a bumpy one! In other words, don’t just think “spy,” as James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans falls into this sub-genre. To quote David Morrell, “As long as you have that breathlessness and sense of excitement, then they're in.”
☑ Pretty Girls - Karin Slaughter
📌Technothriller: Technothrillers are a hybrid genre, drawing subject matter generally from science fiction, thrillers, spy, action, and war. The inner workings of technology and the mechanics of various disciplines (espionage, martial arts, politics) are thoroughly explored, and the plot often turns on the particulars of that exploration.
A Lot Like Christmas: Stories by Connie Willis
This new, expanded edition of Miracle and Other Christmas Stories features twelve brilliantly reimagined holiday tales, five of which are collected here for the first time.
Christmas comes but once a year--which is too bad, because the stories in this dazzling collection are fun to read anytime. They put a speculative spin on the holiday, giving fans of acclaimed author Connie Willis a welcome gift and a dozen reasons to be of good cheer.
Brimming with Willis's trademark insights and imagination, these heartwarming tales are full of humor, absurdity, human foibles, tragedy, joy, and hope. They both embrace and send up many of the best Christmas traditions, including the Christmas newsletter, Secret Santas, office parties, holiday pageants, and Christmas dinners (both elaborate and spare). There are Rockettes, the best and worst Christmas movies, modern-day Magi, Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come--and the triumph of generosity over greed. Like the timeless classics we return to year after year, these stories affirm our faith in love, magic, and the wonder of the season.
As far as Dickens goes, my favourite of his books so far is Our Mutual Friend, his last finished book. And its so sad that this one is rearly mentioned, because it has much better story arc then others.
Good to know I'm not the only one thinking about next year list. 😀 I just get so excited. And I'm thinking to add series to finish because I keep starting new ones and never finishing anything. I have Gone in the Wind for next summer tbr. And my big endeavour will be Dante and his Divine Comedy. I only ever read Inferno because we didn't need to read it whole in school.
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
Val McDermid is one of the finest crime writers we have, whose novels have captivated millions of readers worldwide with their riveting narratives of characters who solve complex crimes and confront unimaginable evil. In the course of researching her bestselling novels McDermid has become familiar with every branch of forensics, and now she uncovers the history of this science, real-world murders and the people who must solve them.
The dead talk—to the right listener. They can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. Forensics draws on interviews with some of these top-level professionals, ground-breaking research, and McDermid’s own original interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists.
Along the way, McDermid discovers how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine one’s time of death; how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer; and how a team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist were able to uncover the victims of a genocide. It’s a journey that will take McDermid to war zones, fire scenes, and autopsy suites, and bring her into contact with both extraordinary bravery and wickedness, as she traces the history of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.
Oh My Gods!Duration:
Level: Titan- 24 books (2 books per Olympian)
Olympian Gods
♛ Zeus is the father of gods and men. Read a book about a president, monarch, ruler, or someone in a leadership position. This includes, but is not limited to: kings, princes, presidents, sheikhs, or prime minsters.
♛ Poseidon is the god of the sea. Read a book about a man who lives in close proximity to a large body of water or has a job as a fisherman, marine-biologist, or sailor. You can also read a book with a body of water on the cover. Poseidon also has a lot of children so you can read a book about a man with more than 3 children.
♛ Apollo is the god of music, poetry, prophecy, light, plague, healing and the sun. Read a book about an artist or a doctor. You can read a book with a cover that appeals to you aesthetically (in layman's terms: read a book that you think has a beautiful cover).
♛ Ares is the god of war. Read a book about a man that is or was in the military or a warrior. This includes, but is not limited to: a Marine, someone in the army, navy, or air force, a knight, viking, ninja, gladiator, mercenary, etc...
♛ Hephaestus is the god of fire and smiths. As a symbolism for fire, read a book with a predominantly red cover.
♛ Hermes is the herald of the gods. Read a book about a man who has a sense of spirituality. Or read a book with a mythical being such as an angel (think paranormal).
Olympian Goddesses
♛ Hera is the queen of the gods and the goddess of marriage and family. Read a book about a woman who is married or has children. You can also read a book about a female president, monarch, ruler, or someone in a leadership position. This includes, but is not limited to: queems, princesses, or prime minsters.
♛ Demeter is the goddess of fertility, grain, and agriculture. Read a book where the protagonist is pregnant, is trying to get pregnant, or is someone who owns a farm, raises vegetables/flowers.
♛ Athena is the goddess of wisdom and crafts, war and strategy, and inventions in science. Read a book about a woman who can --for lack of better words-- kick some serious ass.
♛ Hestia is the virgin goddess. Read a book with a youthful character (think YA) or a virgin.
♛ Artemis is the goddess of the hunt, wild animals, childbirth, healing and plague. Read a book with foliage or animals on the cover. Or read a book about a woman who loves nature.
♛ Aphrodite is the goddess of love, sexuality, and beauty. Read a book about someone who is extremely beautiful, or in tune with her sexuality (think erotica)
- 128 pages 
- 290 pages 
- 842 pages 
- 292 pages 
- 326 pages Subtotal: 1,878
Current Total: 1,113,958
Nari--Atlantisgirl wrote: "Maybe Wide Sargrasso Sea is okay"Great. I'm currently reading something that I would like to finish first before I dive into next read. I have Sargrasso sea so I don't need to wait in line. When would you like to read it?
Anyone interested in reading these books in September?
Seems like a lot of fun so here we go. Paint your house with books -Done 👌
Level: Freestyle/Cottage
Duration: 1. September - 30. November
Completed: 10/10
Staircase
✔1. Soulless
✔2. The Lost Scrolls
✔3. Sea of Rust
✔4. The Armored Saint
Walls
✔1. My Cousin Rachel
✔2. The Dinner
✔3. Wide Sargasso Sea
✔4. In an Absent Dream
Fences (blue)
✔1. Outlander
✔2. The Titan's Curse
- 438 pages 
- 320 pages 
- 169 pages 
- 1074 pages 
- 293 pages Subtotal: 2,294
Current Total: 1,054,018
- 256 pages 
- 432 pages
- 302 pages
- 237 pages
- 698 pagesTotal: 1925 pages
Current Total: 1,006,229
- 352
- 307
- 388
- 354
- 462Subtotal: 1,863
Current total: 722,555
Reading University Challenge 🎓 Associates Degree: 0/7
Science: Assassin's Quest (fantasy)
Literature:
History:
Social Sciences: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (political science)
Art: History of Beauty (fine arts)
Language: The White Masai (Niger-Congo, Africa)
Athletics:
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The Twelve Towers Challange Duration: June 2019 -
Level: Quick as a Bunny - up to 2 years
Progress: 30/78
Tower done: ✔
Read book: ✰
12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date) + library
✰ In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
- The Shape of Water
- Traitor's Blade
- Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
✰ The Gun Seller
✰ Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
✰ Eeny Meeny
✰ I Hate Fairyland, Vol. 2: Fluff My Life
✰ Sunburn
✰ Where'd You Go, Bernadette
✰ Tess of the D'Urbervilles
✰ Wide Sargasso Sea
11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- The Shadow of the Wind
- Room
- The Ruins
- The Thorn Birds
✰ The White Masai
- The Kite Runner
- Io sono Dio
- In the Company of the Courtesan
- Five Quarters of the Orange
10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
- (#16) We Need to Talk About Kevin
- (#119) Radio Silence
✰ (#185) Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- (#246) Radiance
- (#258) Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
✰ (#376) The Armored Saint
- (#418) Leonardo da Vinci
- (#551) Mister Romance
- (#574) The Last Adventure of Constance Verity
- (#650) Semiosis
9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
- The Well of Ascension
✰ The Girl Who Played with Fire
✰ The Titan's Curse
✰ Beard Science
✰ Assassin's Quest
✰ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
✰ A Dance with Dragons
✰ Dead as a Doornail
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8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.
✰ The Black God's Drums
✰ In an Absent Dream
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
- Stars Above
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- The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
✰ A Lot Like Christmas: Stories
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7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
✰ Outlander
✰ The Handmaid's Tale
- The Book Thief
- 1984
- The Night Circus
- Gone Girl
✰ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date) + translations
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- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (translation, July 2019)
- My Dark Vanessa (March 2020)
- It (translation, June 2019)
- Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams (translation, June 2019)
- Come Tumbling Down (January 2020)
5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon
- The Snow Child
✰ The Luminaries
✰ Margaret the First
✰ The Unseen World
4 books that you started but never finished
- The Valley of Horses
- Mrs. Dalloway
✰ North and South
✰ Under the Dome
3 books that you've already read before
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Dracula
- Pride and Prejudice
2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
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1 book that intimidates you
- Fatimina dlan : zgodovinski roman o fantu, razpetem med dve veri in dve ljubezni (1600 page brick)
- 770 
- 71 
- 432 
- 114 
- 333 Subtotal: 1,720
Current total: 639,742
