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Hi! In march I found out about this really cool challange, but it seems it runs only on twitter or blogs and I can't find no thread dedicated to it on Goodreads.
It's called Year of the Asian Reading Challenge, it runs from jan - dec 2019 and its all about reading as many books by asian authors as you can. More informations here: https://thequietpond.com/2019/01/15/w...
It would be really fun to try it out although we are already in april.
The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
In an alternate New Orleans caught in the tangle of the American Civil War, the wall-scaling girl named Creeper yearns to escape the streets for the air--in particular, by earning a spot on-board the airship Midnight Robber. Creeper plans to earn Captain Ann-Marie’s trust with information she discovers about a Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls The Black God’s Drums.
But Creeper also has a secret herself: Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, speaks inside her head, and may have her own ulterior motivations.
Soon, Creeper, Oya, and the crew of the Midnight Robber are pulled into a perilous mission aimed to stop the Black God’s Drums from being unleashed and wiping out the entirety of New Orleans.
Vendetta by Catherine Doyle
When it comes to revenge, love is a dangerous complication.With a fierce rivalry raging between two warring families, falling in love is the deadliest thing Sophie could do. An epic debut set outside modern-day Chicago.
When five brothers move into the abandoned mansion in her neighbourhood, Sophie Gracewell's life changes forever. Irresistibly drawn to bad boy Nicoli, Sophie finds herself falling into a criminal underworld governed by powerful families. As the boys' dark secrets begin to come to light, Sophie is confronted with stinging truths about her own family, too. She must choose between two warring dynasties - the one she was born into, and the one she is falling in love with. When she does, blood will spill and hearts will break.
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Current Total: 303,770
Spring Cleaning Duration: March 20 - June 20
🔳 Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? ➡ 696
How many bookshelves do you have? ➡ 40
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? ➡ Ebooks: 107, paperback: 4, audiobooks: 3
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? ➡ 15
🔳 Post Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge?
How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list?
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many?
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many?
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list?
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when “being a writer” was not an option open to women. As one of the Queen’s attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. As the English Civil War raged on, Margaret met and married William Cavendish, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. After the War, her work earned her both fame and infamy in England: at the dawn of daily newspapers, she was “Mad Madge,” an original tabloid celebrity. Yet Margaret was also the first woman to be invited to the Royal Society of London—a mainstay of the Scientific Revolution—and the last for another two hundred years.
Margaret the First is very much a contemporary novel set in the past, rather than “historical fiction.” Written with lucid precision and sharp cuts through narrative time, it is a gorgeous and wholly new narrative approach to imagining the life of a historical woman.
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong?
Frances is been a study machine with one goal. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside. Then Frances meets Aled, and for the first time she's unafraid to be herself.
So when the fragile trust between them is broken, Frances is caught between who she was and who she longs to be. Now Frances knows that she has to confront her past. To confess why Carys disappeared…
Frances is going to need every bit of courage she has.
Engaging with themes of identity, diversity and the freedom to choose, Radio Silence is a tor de force by the most exciting writer of her generation.
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- 1273 pages
- 391 pagesSubtotal: 3,350
Current total: 184,884
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ZoologyDuration: 1 January 2019 - ??
Level: Bull Shark (25+ books)
Option: Spell It Out
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I'm doing one animal for each letter.
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Build-A-Monster Mad Scientist 0/17
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New 2 U Authors ChallengeDuration: Jan - Dec 2019
Level: Come What May
Progress: 19 books
January (3)
1. Jodi Taylor - Just One Damned Thing After Another (1/15)
2. Jessie Burton - The Miniaturist (1/24)
3. Paullina Simons - The Bronze Horseman (1/31)
February (6)
4. Robert Bryndza - The Girl in the Ice
5. Katherine Arden - The Bear and the Nightingale
6. Deborah Harkness - A Discovery of Witches
7. Becky Chambers - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (1/28)
8. Paul Tremblay - A Head Full of Ghosts (1/27)
9. Tessa Bailey - Risking it All (1/28)
March (6)
10. Zoran Smiljanič - Miramar
11. Steven Rowley - Lily and the Octopus
12. Sarah Gailey - River of Teeth
13. Deborah Wilde - The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
14. Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
15. Tara Westover - Educated
April (4)
16. Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
17. Cecelia Ahern - A Place Called Here
18. Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife
19. Albert J. Bernstein - Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry
May
20. M. L. Rio - If We Were Villains
21. Anita Šupe - Resnice in laži o hrani
22. John Steinbeck - East of Eden
23. Hope Jahren - Lab Girl
24. Jack Holland - A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
Yeonmi Park In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Ashlee Vance Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
M. J. Arlidge Eeny Meeny
Emily Nagoski Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Sebastien de Castell Traitor's Blade
Guillermo del Toro The Shape of Water
Author Alphabet Challenge 2019Duration: Jan - Dec 2019
Progress: 8/26
A. - Arden, Katherine - The Bear and the Nightingale
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Let's get cracking! 😎I had the misfortune to start 2018 with really bad picks so I completely ditched the challenge until the midyear when I finaly picked it back up. Hopefully this year is going to be different. My aim is to clear 30 to 40 books, with primary goal to read all the books from the list I posted in 2017. This year I'm also going to add books on my yearly TBR, since majority of them is from 2016 when I joined GR.
Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2019
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2019
Completed: 18/94
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1. Fatimina dlan : zgodovinski roman o fantu, razpetem med dve veri in dve ljubezni by Ildefonso Falcones
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
☑ 3. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
4. The World According to Garp by John Irving
5. North and South by John Jakes
6. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
☑ 7. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
☑ 8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
9. Room by Emma Donoghue
10. The Shack by William P. Young
11. The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami
12. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzal
13. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
14. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
16. The Ruins by Scott Smith
☑ 17. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
18. 1984 by George Orwell
19. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstein
20. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
21. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
22. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
23. I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
24. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
26. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
27. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
☑ 28. Kam si odšla by Cecelia Ahern
29. Atonement by Ian McEwan
30. Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
31. Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
32. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
33. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
34. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
35. Mutiny On The Bounty by John Boyne
36. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Leftovers from 2018
37. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
38. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
39. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
40. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
41. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
42. Pravila treh by Marjolijn Hof
43. Novorojen by Margaret Mazzantini
44. Zdravnik by Noah Gordon
45. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
46. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
47. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
48. Katarina, pav in jezuit by Drago Janičar
49. The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
50. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (half read)
51. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
52. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
53. Winona's Web: A Novel of Discovery by Priscilla Cogan
☑ 54. Bela Masajka by Corinne Hoffman
55. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreth
56. Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep by Siba Shakib
57. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
58. Uroki ljubezni - uroki smrti by Alma M. Karlin
59. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
☑ 60. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Leftovers from 2017
61. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
62. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
☑ 63. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
64. Io sono Dio by Giorgio Faletti
☑ 65. Čustveni vampirji by Albert J. Bernstein
66. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
67. Dolina konj by Jean M. Auel (half read)
68. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
☑ 69. History of Beauty by Umberto Eco
70. In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Yearly TBR 2019
☑ 71. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
☑ 72. The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
73. The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
74. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
75. Beneške oči by Alessandro Barbero
76. Moč navade : Zakaj počnemo, kar počnemo, in kako lahko to spremenimo by Charles Duhigg
☑ 77. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
78. Marija Terezija : velika Habsburžanka by Franz Herre
☑ 79. Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
☑ 80. Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
81. The Unseen World by Liz Moore
82. Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
83. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
84. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
85. Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
Leftovers from Yearly TBR 2018
☑ 86. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
☑ 87. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jody Taylor
☑ 88. Under the Dome by Stephen King
89. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
90. Kraljevske norčije: Zgodovina škandalov na evropskih dvorih by Karl Shaw
91. Kronika ptiča navijalca by Haruki Murakami
92. Skrivna zgodovina by Donna Tartt
93. You by Caroline Kepnes
94. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
I'm in. Word Ladders Challenge
Duration : 9. December 2018 -
Level : Rooftop - 16-20 Books
The Never Ending Series ChallengeDuration: 1st December 2018 - Forever
Level: Sequence = 50+ books
Series completed: 0
Books completed: 10
DNF 🔴 ✖
Finished series ☑✔
Smoky Barrett - (0/1)
The Truth Factory
The century trilogy - (0/1)
Edge of Eternity
Atto Melani - (0/1)
Veritas
A song of ice and fire - (0/2)
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Farseer trilogy - (1/2)
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Mistborn - (0/2)
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Shades of magic - (0/2)
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The lunar chronicles - (2/3)
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Harry Potter - (0/6)
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians - (0/3)
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Millennium - (0/4)
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The memoirs of lady Trent - (0/3)
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Newsflesh - (0/4)
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Iluminae - (0/2)
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Sookie Stackhouse - (0/9)
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The others - (0/4)
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Jackaby - (0/3)
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Infernal devices - (0/2)
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Winston brothers - (0/4)
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Spindle Cove - (0/4)
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On Dublin Street - (1/6)
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Mayhem in Mayfair - (0/2)
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🔴 Crossing the Line - (1/4)
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The Chronicles of St Mary's - (1/9)
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The Pillars of Reality - (0/6)
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Parasol Protectorat - (0/5)
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Wayfarers - (1/3)
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All Souls - (1/3)
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Rogue Angel --
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Kopp Sisters - (0/3)
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Her Royal Spyness --
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Guild Hunter --
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Winternight - (1/3)
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North & South - (1/3)
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Sue Burke
Tanya Huff
Miki Muster
Robert Hunter - (1/9)
The Crucifix Killer
The Executioner
One by One
An Evil Mind
I Am Death
The Caller
Anthony Trollopp
Scott Lynch
Ann Leckie
A Lee Martinez
Penny Reid
Vendetta
Golem and jinni
Terry Pratchett
Diana gabaldon
Armored saint
Seanan mcguire
Bela masajka
Alridge
Robin hobb
Douglas Adam
Dot hutchinson
Sarah gailey
Deborah wilde
Meksikajnarji
Becky Chambers
Robert bryndza
Descender
James Patterson
Philippa gregory
Imago
Kelley armstrong
Hornblower
Armentrout
Buffy
Jo nesbo
Tasha alexander
Agatha raisin
Charlaine Harris
To be continued...
Anyone interested to BR these with me in december: 
I'm just so slacking with reading and I need a kick in the butt :-)
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I'm reserving the spot for next year. TBR Tackler Challenge
Level: Spear Tackle: Read 6 books or more
Duration: Januar - August 2019
6/8
📖 #327 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (4/26)
📖 #33 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2/28)
📖 #393 The Miniaturist (1/24)
📖 #29 Lab Girl (5/30)
📖 #195 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (3/29)
▪▪➡ #61 Tess of the D'Urbervilles (8/half)
❓#360 The Shape of Water
📖 #371 Sunburn (7/15)
(backup number in case of DNF: #4 In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom)
