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(group member since Apr 29, 2012)
Congrats, Frankie, Mary and Charlene!
Thanks!
Congrats, Barb!
Congrats, Barb and L&M!
Great job, Melissa!
Congrats, Vanessa!
Congrats, Barb!
Congrats, Frankie!
Congrats, L&M and Angel!
Congrats L&M! You're our first finisher!
Mary-Megan wrote: "Next Guess:P3 - The Poisoner's Ring by Kelley Armstrong [341 pages] (5/11)"
P3 is a miss.
Michelle wrote: "GUESS #4SUSPECT - lanDscapeR (DR) - A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn - 5/8/25
CAUSE OF DEATH - Arson - Fire from Dragon - The Lake of Souls b..."
The murder was not by arson.
Meg wrote: "Professional athlete ==> Stuart Palmer - Murder on Wheels 05/04Arson ==>
The Lights of Sugarberry Cove, Heather W..."The murderer was not the professional athlete.
Mabeelle wrote: "Guess #11Suspect: Postal Worker (PW) + Cause of Death: Stabbing (pin)
La Collectionneuse des mots oubliés by Pip Williams
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The murder was not at the Three Broomsticks.
🫖Cherry
C - The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean | Susan Casey ★★★★ (08/30/23)
H - Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories | Barry Hannah ★★ (11/03/23)
E - I, Juan de Pareja | Elizabeth Borton de Treviño ★★ (01/27/24)
R - Zero Days | Ruth Ware ★ (07/23/23)
R - Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife | Mary Roach ★★ (07/27/23)
Y - Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass | Meg Medina ★★ (03/31/23)
🫖Bakewell
B - Arthur & George | Julian Barnes ★★ (07/30/23)
A - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly | Anthony Bourdain ★★ (07/20/23)
K - Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe | Kapka Kassabova ★★★★ (11/14/23)
E - You Dreamed of Empires | Álvaro Enrigue ★★★★★ (02/06/24)
W - My Murder | Katie Williams ★★ (10/15/23)
E - Murder Flies the Coop | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (02/24/24)
L - Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation | Linda Villarosa ★★★★★ (07/24/23)
L - Lock In | John Scalzi ★★★ (08/22/23)
🫖Tart
T - To Have and to Kill | Mary Jane Clark ★★★ (06/04/23)
A - Aunt Bessie Considers | Diana Xarissa ★★★ (08/12/23)
R - Revenge | Yōko Ogawa ★★★ (08/25/23)
T - A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole ★★ (06/11/23)
🫖Battenberg
B - Black Flies | Shannon Burke ★★★ (08/19/23)
A - Murder on Black Swan Lane | Andrea Penrose ★★★ (09/03/23)
T - To Be Taught, If Fortunate | Becky Chambers ★ (06/12/23)
T - When You Trap a Tiger | Tae Keller ★★★ (06/13/23)
E - Eggs in a Casket | Laura Childs ★★ (03/11/24)
N - Mother-Daughter Murder Night | Nina Simon ★★★ (10/01/23)
B - Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen ★★ (09/08/23)
E - The March | E.L. Doctorow ★★★★ (04/09/24)
R - Red Sister | Mark Lawrence ★★★★ (08/28/23)
G - Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir ★★★★★ (08/31/23)
🫖Treacle
T - To Davy Jones Below | Carola Dunn ★★★ (07/01/23)
R - Death Comes to Marlow | Robert Thorogood ★★★★ (09/20/23)
E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 1 | Chris Claremont ★★★★ (04/14/24)
A - The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree | Susan Wittig Albert ★★★ (09/11/23)
C - Cards on the Table | Agatha Christie ★★★ (11/26/23)
L - Dark Ride | Lou Berney ★★★ (10/15/23)
E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 2 | Chris Claremont ★★★★ (04/19/24)
🫖Gooseberry
G - Under Lock & Skeleton Key | Gigi Pandian ★★★ (09/25/23)
O - Vinyl Resting Place | Olivia Blacke ★★ (09/09/23)
O - Oracle Night | Paul Auster ★★ (09/12/23)
S - Mrs. Plansky's Revenge | Spencer Quinn ★★★ (08/20/23)
E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 3 | Chris Claremont ★★★ (04/24/24)
B - Penne Dreadful | Catherine Bruns ★ (10/04/23)
E - The Bullet Swallower | Elizabeth Gonzalez James ★★ (05/05/24)
R - Reading Between the Crimes | Kate Young ★★ (09/23/23)
R - Rouge | Mona Awad ★★ (10/08/23)
Y - The Ardent Swarm | Yamen Manai ★★★ (06/02/23)
🫖Fool
F - Fatherland | Robert Harris ★★ (11/12/23)
O - Mr. Fox | Helen Oyeyemi ★ (09/27/23)
O - Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl | Jonathan C. Slaght ★★★ (09/28/23)
L - The Last Place You Look | Kristen Lepionka ★★★ (11/02/23)
🫖Tiers
T - Dirt Music | Tim Winton ★★ (08/11/23)
I - I Want to Show You More | Jamie Quatro ★★ (11/02/23)
E - Excellent Women | Barbara Pym ★★★★ (05/09/24)
R - First Degree | David Rosenfelt ★★★★ (10/24/23)
S - The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic | Stephen Vladeck ★★★★ (09/09/23)
🫖Platter
P - A Line in the Sand | Kevin Powers ★★ (11/09/23)
L - Grey Sister | Mark Lawrence ★★★★ (11/28/23)
A - Seven Surrenders | Ada Palmer ★★★ (10/08/23)
T - The Long Earth | Terry Pratchett ★★★ (08/28/23)
T - The Long War | Terry Pratchett ★★ (09/29/23)
E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 4 | Chris Claremont ★★★ (05/09/24)
R - A Night in the Lonesome October | Roger Zelazny ★★★★ (11/13/23)
🫖Sweet
S - The Longest Yard Sale | Sherry Harris ★ (11/15/23)
W - Wellness | Nathan Hill ★★★ (10/16/23)
E - I Cheerfully Refuse | Leif Enger ★★★★ (05/22/24)
E - Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies | Catherine Mack ★★ (05/29/24)
T - Tempest in the Tea Leaves | Kari Lee Townsend ★★ (12/21/23)
🫖Savory
S - System Collapse | Martha Wells ★★★★★ (11/26/23)
A - Murder, Handcrafted | Isabella Alan ★★ (11/28/23)
V - Vita Nostra | Marina Dyachenko & Sergey Dyachenko ★★★ (08/03/23)
O - Touch | Olaf Olafsson ★★ (10/18/23)
R - Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay ★★★ (11/25/23)
Y - Gold Boy, Emerald Girl | Yiyun Li ★★ (09/26/23)
*** Completed (04/20/25) ***
🫖Mustard
M - Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist | M.C. Beaton ★★ (07/20/23)
U - Unspeakable Things | Jess Lourey ★★ (06/16/23)
S - A Soft Place to Land | Janae Marks ★★ (03/08/23)
T - The Twisted Ones | T. Kingfisher ★★★★ (04/18/23)
A - The Crossover | Kwame Alexander ★★★ (06/05/23)
R - Yellowface | R.F. Kuang ★★ (06/10/23)
D - The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York | Deborah Blum ★★★★ (08/01/23)
🫖Coronation
C - Dancer | Colum McCann ★★★ (03/13/23)
O - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Jeanette Winterson ★★ (04/22/23)
R - Rotten to the Core | Sheila Connolly ★★ (06/10/23)
O - The Mimicking of Known Successes | Malka Ann Older ★★★ (05/04/23)
N - The Night Agent | Matthew Quirk ★★★ (06/15/23)
A - Willodeen | Katherine Applegate ★★★★ (06/05/23)
T - A House with Good Bones | T. Kingfisher ★★★★ (04/21/23)
I - Take What You Need | Idra Novey ★★ (05/01/23)
O - Old Babes in the Wood: Stories | Margaret Atwood ★★★ (05/17/23)
N - Night at the Fiestas: Stories | Kirstin Valdez Quade ★★★★ (06/22/23)
🫖Chicken
C - The Fuller Memorandum | Charles Stross ★★★ (03/14/23)
H - Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry | Harry Kemelman ★★ (07/08/23)
I - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | Nathaniel Philbrick ★★★★ (05/10/23)
C - Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead | Sara Gran ★★ (04/08/23)
K - The Kind Worth Killing | Peter Swanson ★ (09/30/23)
E - Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade | Nancy Springer ★★★★ (09/10/23)
N - The Conductors | Nicole Glover ★★★★ (06/17/23)
🫖Jam
J - Gone to the Wolves | John Wray ★★ (08/13/23)
A - Girls Like Us | Cristina Alger ★★★ (06/06/23)
M - The Keeper of Hidden Books | Madeline Martin ★★★★ (08/18/23)
🫖Pennies
P - Tom Lake | Ann Patchett ★★★★ (08/21/23)
E - Elegy on Kinderklavier | Arna Bontemps Hemenway ★★★ (10/03/23)
N - The Bangalore Detectives Club | Harini Nagendra ★★ (07/10/23)
N - Nothing to See Here | Kevin Wilson ★★★ (07/12/23)
I - In the Lives of Puppets | T.J. Klune ★★ (05/29/23)
E - American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis ★★ (10/11/23)
S - The Screaming Staircase | Jonathan Stroud ★★★★ (03/12/23)
🫖Scones
S - H is for Homicide | Sue Grafton ★★★ (03/27/23)
C - Finn | Jon Clinch ★★ (04/17/23)
O - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien ★★★ (05/30/23)
N - Nowhere Man | Aleksandar Hemon ★★ (07/24/23)
E - Learned by Heart | Emma Donoghue ★★ (10/19/23)
S - Home Fire | Kamila Shamsie ★★ (03/31/23)
🫖Lemon Curd
L - The Pale Blue Eye | Louis Bayard ★★★ (05/12/23)
E - Bones Behind the Wheel | E.J. Copperman ★★★★ (10/23/23)
M - When the Grits Hit the Fan | Maddie Day ★★★ (08/25/23)
O - Or What You Will | Jo Walton ★★★★ (06/04/23)
N - Neuromancer | William Gibson ★★★★ (08/09/23)
C - Künstlers in Paradise | Cathleen Schine ★★ (04/20/23)
U - Stones from the River | Ursula Hegi ★★★★ (06/27/23)
R - The Real Boy | Anne Ursu ★★★ (06/20/23)
D - Hammerhead Ranch Motel | Tim Dorsey ★★★★ (08/16/23)
🫖Preserves
P - The Poison Thread | Laura Purcell ★★ (09/12/23)
R - Atticus | Ron Hansen ★★ (06/23/23)
E - Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë ★★★★★ (10/29/23)
S - The Caprices | Sabina Murray ★★★★ (04/22/23)
E - The Einstein Intersection | Samuel R. Delany ★★ (11/04/23)
R - Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories | Lydia Peelle ★★★★ (06/24/23)
V - Dim Sum of All Fears | Vivien Chien ★★ (02/21/23)
E - Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose | Nancy Springer ★★★★ (11/17/23)
S - Dead in the Water | Dana Stabenow ★★★ (04/26/23)
🫖Clotted Cream
C - Free Fall | Chris Grabenstein ★★★★ (04/27/23)
L - The Quarry Girls | Jess Lourey ★★★ (06/14/23)
O - An Old, Cold Grave | Iona Whishaw ★★★ (07/01/23)
T - Murder on Gramercy Park | Victoria Thompson ★★★★ (05/05/23)
T - The Trackers | Charles Frazier ★★ (05/07/23)
E - The White Mirror | Elsa Hart ★★★★★ (11/19/23)
D - The Last Cuentista | Donna Barba Higuera ★★★ (08/24/23)
C - Cheddar Off Dead | Korina Moss ★★★ (04/28/23)
R - Rattle His Bones | Carola Dunn ★★★ (06/30/23)
E - The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | Jacqueline Kelly ★★★ (11/26/23)
A - Warrior Girl Unearthed | Angeline Boulley ★★★★ (06/12/23)
M - Ghostwritten | David Mitchell ★★★★★ (09/04/23)
🫖Devonshire
D - Soldiers of Fortune | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (10/12/23)
E - All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories | Edward P. Jones ★★ (12/14/23)
V - Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers | Jesse Q. Sutanto ★★★★ (04/10/23)
O - Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler | Lynne Olson ★★★★★ (07/07/23)
N - Basket Case | Nancy Haddock ★★★ (08/30/23)
S - Swamp Team 3 | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (04/28/23)
H - War Trash | Ha Jin ★★ (08/15/23)
I - Quietly Hostile: Essays | Samantha Irby ★★ (06/19/23)
R - Scaredy Cat | Sofie Ryan ★★★★ (07/10/23)
E - Planetary Book One | Warren Ellis ★★★ (12/16/23)
🫖Cornish
C - Dissolution | C.J. Sansom ★★ (05/01/23)
O - The Only One Left | Riley Sager ★★ (07/07/23)
R - The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code | Margalit Fox ★★★★ (07/11/23)
N - The Great Witches Baking Show | Nancy Warren ★★★ (09/01/23)
I - In the Lake of the Woods | Tim O'Brien ★ (07/05/23)
S - Styx and Stones | Carola Dunn ★★ (06/30/23)
H - The Last Child | John Hart ★★ (08/23/23)
🫖Victoria
V - Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name | Vendela Vida ★ (07/07/23)
I - I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home | Lorrie Moore ★★ (07/14/23)
C - Clytemnestra | Costanza Casati ★★★★ (05/29/23)
T - The 100-Year-Old Secret | Tracy Barrett ★★ (05/10/23)
O - 1984 | George Orwell ★★★★★ (07/23/23)
R - Quichotte | Salman Rushdie ★★★ (07/13/23)
I - The Imposters | Tom Rachman ★ (08/09/23)
A - Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton ★★ (06/13/23)
🫖Sponge Cake
S - The Golem's Eye | Jonathan Stroud ★★★★★ (07/15/23)
P - The Last Ranger | Peter Heller ★★★ (08/24/23)
O - Over the Woodward Wall | A. Deborah Baker ★★★★ (08/11/23)
N - Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII | Chester Nez ★★★ (09/26/23)
G - The Black Company | Glen Cook ★★★★ (08/18/23)
E - Bayou Book Thief | Ellen Byron ★★★★ (12/29/23)
C - Citizen Vince | Jess Walter ★★★★ (06/22/23)
A - The Amulet of Samarkand | Jonathan Stroud ★★★★★ (06/19/23)
K - Whiskey Sour | J.A. Konrath ★★★ (10/31/23)
E - Planetary Book Two | Warren Ellis ★★★★ (01/18/24)
🫖Chocolate
C - Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel | James Luceno ★★ (07/21/23)
H - Gods Without Men | Hari Kunzru ★★ (10/05/23)
O - One of Us Is Back | Karen M. McManus ★ (08/12/23)
C - Crook Manifesto | Colson Whitehead ★★★★ (08/06/23)
O - The Oleander Sword | Tasha Suri ★★ (08/27/23)
L - Cold Brew Corpse | Tara Lush ★★★ (06/23/23)
A - All the Sinners Bleed | S.A. Cosby ★★★★ (07/03/23)
T - Trust | Hernan Diaz ★★★★★ (05/20/23)
E - Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands | Heather Fawcett ★★★ (01/24/24)
🫖Biscuit
B - Lowcountry Bordello | Susan M. Boyer ★★★ (07/05/23)
I - The Wind Knows My Name | Isabel Allende ★★ (09/01/23)
S - Mouthful of Birds | Samanta Schweblin ★★ (07/29/23)
C - Booking the Crook | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (08/29/23)
U - The Underneath | Kathi Appelt ★★ (11/18/23)
I - Murder, Plainly Read | Isabella Alan ★★ (10/22/23)
T - Murder in a Scottish Garden | Traci Hall ★★★ (05/21/23)
🫖Jaffa
J - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | James McBride ★★★★ (09/04/23)
A - The Long Song | Andrea Levy ★ (07/05/23)
F - Murder at Redwood Cove | Janet Finsilver ★★★ (09/19/23)
F - The Fall of the House of Cabal | Jonathan L. Howard ★★★★★ (09/24/23)
A - The Bone Shard Daughter | Andrea Stewart ★★★ (07/06/23)
Section 3: The Food:Tasks:
✔ 1. Read a book where someone eats a sandwich. (Tell us who and what kind.)
Up to No Gouda | Linda Reilly ★★★ (09/20/23)
All of Carly's customers order her grilled cheese sandwiches. She owns a sandwich shop.
✔ 2. Read a book with pastries or sweets on the cover (post the cover).
A Good Dog's Guide to Murder | Krista Davis ★★★★ (09/09/23)
✔ 3. Read a book where there is a coronation (tell us whose).
Richard II | William Shakespeare ★★★★ (10/30/23)
Richard's, and then Henry IV's.
✔ 4. Read a book where someone gets into a jam (your interpretation, tell us who and what).
Shadowhouse Fall | Daniel José Older ★★★ (10/20/23)
Juan, Anthony and Izzy get arrested at the end during a protest for Sierra.
✔ 5. Read a book with a character you consider to be a fool (your interpretation, tell us who and why).
Pachinko | Min Jin Lee ★★ (10/22/23)
Sunja who is groomed by an older married man when she's young, which is fine, but then he spends his entire life controlling her life and Sunja not only accepts it but is also grateful, which according to me is stupid.
✔ 6. Read a book you consider to be sweet or savory (your interpretation, tell us which and why).
The Last Devil to Die | Richard Osman ★★★★★ (10/25/23)
I was expecting this book to be savory as it is a murder mystery, but it has a side thread of Elizabeth and Stephen that is really quite moving. I'd call this sweet.
✔ 7. Read a book with a meat or vegetable on the cover (post the cover).
Cooked Goose | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (09/08/23)
✔ 8. Read a book with something on the cover that has "tiers" in it -- it can be something as simple as a staircase or bookshelves or a chair with horizontal railings up the back, for example. (Post the cover.)
Aunt Bessie Decides | Diana Xarissa ★★★ (11/08/23)
There are stairs and the castle has several stories (tiers).
✔ 9. Read a book that has a character you consider to be "chicken" (your interpretation, tell us who).
The Death of Lucy Kyte | Nicola Upson ★★★ (06/12/24)
Josephine. She has a rather active imagination, scares herself and usually needs someone (Marta) to tell her to snap out of it.
✔ 10. Read a book that has all the letters of "SCONE" in the title, in any order.
Symphony of Secrets | Brendan Slocumb ★★★ (05/20/23)
SymphONy of sECrets.
✔ 11. Read a book that has something copper-colored on the cover. (Post the cover.)
The Only Pirate at the Party | Lindsey Stirling ★★★ (10/23/23)
Her hair! Also some of the hardware on her clothes.
✔ 12. Read a book that takes place in England (specifically).
Peril on the Page | Margaret Loudon ★ (08/18/23)
✔ 13. Read a book set in the Victorian era, that has a character named Victoria (or variations), or has an author named Victoria (or variations).
Murder on Washington Square | Victoria Thompson ★★★★ (09/05/23)
✔ 14. Read a book with a word in the title that has a "sandwiched" letter in it.
Good Night, Irene | Luis Alberto Urrea ★★★ (06/19/23)
irENE.
✔ 15. Read a book where someone eats seafood. (Tell us who and what.)
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World | Patrik Svensson ★★★ (01/18/24)
Patrik Svensson describes his father and himself eel-fishing and then eating the eel they reeled in.
✔ 16. Read a book where members of a family sit down to eat together. (Tell us how your book fits.)
Mastering the Art of French Murder | Colleen Cambridge ★★★ (11/20/23)
Tabitha lives with her grandfather and his friend and she eats with them almost every meal.
✔ 17. Read a book with a plot line you consider "sweet." (Tell us how your book fits.)
Nona the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir ★★★★★ (01/20/24)
An odd book to choose for a sweet plot as it deals with a city in revolt against an immortal emperor, but the main character is a young girl (her soul has been transposed into a different body and as such she acts like a little child) and her whole outlook towards everything is very fresh and happy.
✔ 18. Read a book where the author's first and last initials both appear somewhere in the phrase "ham and mustard."
Harrow the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir ★★★★★ (11/01/23)
✔ 19. Read a book where a spice of some kind is important (salt and pepper also work; tell us how your book fits).
Kill 'Em with Cayenne | Gail Oust ★★ (04/20/25)
The MC owns a spice shop and there’s a lot of chatter about different kinds of peppers that could be used in the BBQ competition in town.
✔ 20. Read a book with a character who enjoys baking or is tasked with it (tell us who).
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking | T. Kingfisher ★★★★ (10/27/23)
Mona is a baker who can make magic with bread and she ends up saving her kingdom with her skill.
Spell
🫖Sandwiches
S - A Fatal Thaw | Dana Stabenow ★★★ (01/03/23)
A - All the Living and the Dead | Hayley Campbell ★★★ (04/19/23)
N - We Need New Names | NoViolet Bulawayo ★★★ (05/23/23)
D - Dust | Hugh Howey ★★★ (06/09/23)
W - Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead ★★★ (08/02/23)
I - The Raphael Affair | Iain Pears ★ (04/08/23)
C - Sag Harbor | Colson Whitehead ★★★★ (01/30/23)
H - The Siege | Helen Dunmore ★★★★ (05/18/23)
E - It's Like This, Cat | Emily Cheney Neville ★★ (06/06/23)
S - The Spear Cuts Through Water | Simon Jimenez ★★★ (01/15/23)
🫖Cucumber
C - Just Like the Other Girls | Claire Douglas ★★ (02/04/23)
U - The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival | Bozoma Saint John ★★★ (04/07/23)
C - City of the Dead | James Ponti ★★★★ (02/27/23)
U - Uneducated: A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth | Christopher Zara ★★★ (06/05/23)
M - What Lies in the Woods | Kate Alice Marshall ★★ (02/15/23)
B - The Walled Flower | Lorraine Bartlett ★ (07/01/23)
E - Escape Claws | Linda Reilly ★★★ (06/21/23)
R - Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide | Rupert Holmes ★★ (03/24/23)
🫖Mint
M - Death of a Perfect Wife | M.C. Beaton ★★★ (03/25/23)
I - A Pale View of Hills | Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★ (04/20/23)
N - The Sea of Trolls | Nancy Farmer ★★★★ (06/02/23)
T - Tehanu | Ursula K. Le Guin ★★ (04/01/23)
🫖Egg
E - Amos Fortune, Free Man | Elizabeth Yates ★ (06/25/23)
G - Gator Bait | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (07/13/23)
G - Gathering of Waters | Bernice L. McFadden ★ (07/22/23)
🫖Cress
C - Damsel in Distress | Carola Dunn ★★★★ (02/28/23)
R - The Ranger | Ace Atkins ★★ (04/05/23)
E - Adam of the Road | Elizabeth Janet Gray ★★★ (06/29/23)
S - Winter's End | Paige Shelton ★★★★ (01/24/23)
S - F is for Fugitive | Sue Grafton ★★★ (02/05/23)
🫖Watercress
W - When Red Is Black | Qiu Xiaolong ★★ (08/17/23)
A - Kopp Sisters on the March | Amy Stewart ★★★★ (04/24/23)
T - The Two Towers | J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★★ (04/05/23)
E - Eugene Onegin | Alexander Pushkin ★★★ (07/08/23)
R - The House Is on Fire | Rachel Beanland ★★★★ (05/03/23)
C - Dead in the Water | Carola Dunn ★★★ (02/28/23)
R - The Marlow Murder Club | Robert Thorogood ★★★★ (05/13/23)
E - Death Knells and Wedding Bells | Eva Gates ★★ (07/10/23)
S - G is for Gumshoe | Sue Grafton ★★★ (02/06/23)
S - South of the Buttonwood Tree | Heather Webber ★★ (02/15/23)
🫖Smoked Salmon
S - Heart of Barkness | Spencer Quinn ★★★ (02/24/23)
M - Murder, Take Two | Carol J. Perry ★★★ (05/04/23)
O - Our Missing Hearts | Celeste Ng ★★★ (03/20/23)
K - A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons | Kate Khavari ★ (08/13/23)
E - Exiles | Jane Harper ★★ (07/12/23)
D - A Death in the Family | James Agee ★★ (07/21/23)
S - Pandora | Susan Stokes-Chapman ★ (02/24/23)
A - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? | Frans de Waal ★★ (05/14/23)
L - Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park | Conor Knighton ★★★ (05/08/23)
M - Murder at St. George's Church | Lee Strauss ★★★ (06/07/23)
O - Who Fears Death | Nnedi Okorafor ★ (04/14/23)
N - Fear in the Sunlight | Nicola Upson ★★ (06/12/23)
🫖Cream Cheese
C - The September Society | Charles Finch ★★★ (03/02/23)
R - The Return of the King | J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★★ (05/14/23)
E - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin | Erik Larson ★★ (07/28/23)
A - Back When We Were Grownups | Anne Tyler ★★ (05/26/23)
M - Mao II | Don DeLillo ★★ (06/24/23)
C - Black Water Sister | Zen Cho ★★★★★ (03/03/23)
H - Bad Monkey | Carl Hiaasen ★★★★ (05/31/23)
E - Thunderstruck & Other Stories | Elizabeth McCracken ★★★★ (08/02/23)
E - Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution | Elie Mystal ★★★★★ (08/10/23)
S - The Serpent's Secret | Sayantani DasGupta ★★★ (02/25/23)
E - What Is the What | Dave Eggers ★★★ (08/07/23)
🫖Ham
H - Shift | Hugh Howey ★★★★★ (06/09/23)
A - The Accidental Tourist | Anne Tyler ★★ (05/28/23)
M - A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories | Lucia Berlin ★★★ (07/02/23)
🫖Darjeeling
D - Big Little Spies | Krista Davis ★★★ (06/01/23)
A - Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned | Walter Mosley ★★★ (02/01/23)
R - Nine Princes in Amber | Roger Zelazny ★★★ (02/13/23)
J - Mapping the Bones | Jane Yolen ★★★★ (08/07/23)
E - Topkapi: The Light of Day | Eric Ambler ★★ (04/25/23)
E - The Janus Stone | Elly Griffiths ★★★ (04/25/23)
L - The Largesse of the Sea Maiden | Denis Johnson ★★★ (03/18/23)
I - Death in a Darkening Mist | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (01/10/23)
N - Not A Creature Was Stirring | Christina Freeburn ★★ (03/19/23)
G - The Museum of Ordinary People | Mike Gayle ★★ (06/21/23)
🫖White
W - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks ★★★ (06/01/23)
H - Force of Nature | Jane Harper ★★★ (03/01/23)
I - In the Night Wood | Dale Bailey ★ (02/01/23)
T - Three Shots to the Wind | Sherry Harris ★★★ (01/23/23)
E - River Sing Me Home | Eleanor Shearer ★★ (05/03/23)
🫖Tisane
T - Night Wherever We Go | Tracey Rose Peyton ★★★★ (01/29/23)
I - Up a Road Slowly | Irene Hunt ★ (03/14/23)
S - Stella Maris | Cormac McCarthy ★★ (12/19/22)
A - All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr ★★★★★ (02/03/23)
N - Now You See Us | Balli Kaur Jaswal ★★★★ (04/07/23)
E - Spouse on Haunted Hill | E.J. Copperman ★★★★ (05/08/23)
🫖Herbal
H - Death of a Diva at Honeychurch Hall | Hannah Dennison ★★ (03/22/23)
E - The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin ★★★★ (05/12/23)
R - Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink | Richard L. Currier ★★ (02/13/23)
B - Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver ★★★★★ (03/16/23)
A - The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst ★★ (02/04/23)
L - The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom | Larry Loftis ★★★ (04/03/23)
🫖Fruit
F - Crime and Poetry | Amanda Flower ★★★ (08/17/23)
R - Maureen | Rachel Joyce ★★★ (02/27/23)
U - Unsettled Ground | Claire Fuller ★★ (03/10/23)
I - I Have Some Questions for You | Rebecca Makkai ★★ (03/24/23)
T - The New Life | Tom Crewe ★★ (01/29/23)
🫖Milk
M - Flipped for Murder | Maddie Day ★★★ (12/14/22)
I - In Plain Sight | Lorena McCourtney ★★★ (03/29/23)
L - The Lies That Bind | Kate Carlisle ★★★ (04/16/23)
K - Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic | Simon Winchester ★★★★ (05/06/23)
🫖Lemon
L - Wrong Side of the Paw | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (04/28/23)
E - The Enchanted | Rene Denfeld ★★ (05/13/23)
M - File M for Murder | Miranda James ★★ (12/24/22)
O - Oleander City | Matt Bondurant ★★★ (02/20/23)
N - A Living Remedy: A Memoir | Nicole Chung ★★★★ (05/01/23)
🫖Bitter
B - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz ★★★★ (05/02/23)
I - I is for Innocent | Sue Grafton ★★★★ (03/30/23)
T - Murder on St. Mark's Place | Victoria Thompson ★★★★ (02/14/23)
T - No Exit | Taylor Adams ★★★ (02/24/23)
E - To Have and Have Not | Ernest Hemingway ★ (05/15/23)
R - Victory City | Salman Rushdie ★★★★★ (03/07/23)
🫖Weak
W - Wolf in White Van | John Darnielle ★★ (06/15/23)
E - Bauchelain and Korbal Broach | Steven Erikson ★★★ (05/16/23)
A - The A.B.C. Murders | Agatha Christie ★★★ (02/12/23)
K - The Coloring Crook | Krista Davis ★★★ (06/03/23)
🫖Temperature
T - The Twyford Code | Janice Hallett ★★ (03/21/23)
E - The Second Collected Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach | Steven Erikson ★★★★ (05/19/23)
M - The People's Act of Love | James Meek ★ (02/12/23)
P - Hogfather | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (07/27/23)
E - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries | Heather Fawcett ★★★★ (05/21/23)
R - From a Low and Quiet Sea | Donal Ryan ★★ (03/08/23)
A - All the Broken Places | John Boyne ★ (02/22/23)
T - A Test of Wills | Charles Todd ★★ (03/28/23)
U - Unfinished | Priyanka Chopra Jonas ★★ (03/22/23)
R - Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt ★★★★ (03/11/23)
E - The Hostess with the Ghostess | E.J. Copperman ★★★★ (05/22/23)
🫖Bag
B - Bedeviled Eggs | Laura Childs ★★ (05/15/23)
A - Murder in Mesopotamia | Agatha Christie ★ (03/03/23)
G - The White Darkness | David Grann ★★★ (06/23/23)
🫖Loose Leaf
L - February | Lisa Moore ★★ (04/30/23)
O - On the Savage Side | Tiffany McDaniel ★★★ (03/04/23)
O - On Air with Zoe Washington | Janae Marks ★★★ (03/06/23)
S - The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human | Siddhartha Mukherjee ★★★★ (12/29/22)
E - Our Share of Night | Mariana Enríquez ★★★ (05/24/23)
L - Murder at Kensington Gardens | Lee Strauss ★★★ (05/04/23)
E - Amy and Isabelle | Elizabeth Strout ★★ (05/26/23)
A - Accidental Birds of the Carolinas | Marjorie Hudson ★★★ (03/15/23)
F - Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics | Gregory J. Gbur ★★★ (09/15/23)
🫖Watery
W - All Things Left Wild | James Wade ★★ (07/11/23)
A - The Saint of Wolves and Butchers | Alex Grecian ★★★ (04/16/23)
T - Wings of Fire | Charles Todd ★★ (03/30/23)
E - Everything Is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer ★★★ (05/27/23)
R - The World Record Book of Racist Stories | Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar ★★★★★ (03/13/23)
Y - The Vagrants | Yiyun Li ★★★★ (01/31/23)
Section 2: The Tea:Tasks
✔ 1. Read a book with a largely green, white, brown or black cover. (Post the cover.)
Krakens and Lies | Tui T. Sutherland & Kari Sutherland ★★★★ (10/09/23)
✔ 2. Read a book where someone drinks tea. (Tell us who, and is it hot or iced?)
Lonely Castle In The Mirror | Mizuki Tsujimura ★★ (10/18/23)
Aki, Fuka and Kokoro drink tea each afternoon they get together in the castle. The tea is hot.
✔ 3. Read a book with milk or a lemon visible on the cover. (Post the cover.)
A Batter of Life and Death | Ellie Alexander ★★ (08/04/23)
✔ 4. Read a book with some kind of bag on the cover (yes, a bag-style purse is fine). (Post the cover.)
Small Island | Andrea Levy ★★★ (07/04/23)
The lady on the right has a bag style purse.
✔ 5. Read a book set in India, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, or Ceylon. (Tell us which country.)
A Legacy of Murder | Connie Berry ★★★ (10/28/23)
UK.
✔ 6. Read a book about or set during the American Revolution or the time leading up to it (remember the Boston Tea Party?)
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States | Sarah Vowell ★★★★ (08/02/23)
✔ 7. Read a book about the tea or coffee trade. (Tell us how your book fits.)
The English Breakfast Murder | Laura Childs ★★★ (04/10/25)
Set in a tea shop, and there’s a lot of information about tea.
✔ 8. Read a book with some kind of fruit or herb on the cover. (Post the cover.)
Orange Crush | Tim Dorsey ★★★★ (11/24/23)
The smashed orange.
✔ 9. Read a book with all the letters of "TEAPOT" in the title (any order).
The Septembers of Shiraz | Dalia Sofer ★★ (10/30/23)
ThE sePTembers Of shirAz
✔ 10. Read a book where someone offers tea, beverages or food as a way to cope with a difficult situation. (Tell us how your book fits.)
The Plot Thickets | Julia Henry ★★★ (11/14/23)
Lily sets Stan on making and eating sandwiches so he can cope with being a suspect in a murder investigation.
✔ 11. Read a book where someone times something carefully (your interpretation, tell us how your book fits).
The Devil's Star | Jo Nesbø ★ (01/28/24)
The serial killer strikes at a specific time, and the people trying to catch him also time their surveillance carefully.
✔ 12. Read a book where two different ways of doing something are a point of contention (your interpretation, tell us how your book fits).
Loki Modern Era Epic Collection: Journey Into Mystery | Kieron Gillen ★★★ (01/27/24)
Daimon does things like saving people in the straightforward way, but that's not how Loki does it. He needs to be sneaky. Daimon isn't convinced at first but is won over.
✔ 13. Read a book with a page count divisible by 3. (Tell us how many pages your book had.)
Nemesis | Jo Nesbø ★★ (10/02/23)
474 pages.
✔ 14. Read a book with a character you consider weak, or a character you consider to be bitter. (Tell us who, which, and how.)
Night Boat to Tangier | Kevin Barry ★★ (11/08/23)
Dilly is bitter about the way her father has treated her mother and is now estranged from him.
✔ 15. Read a book where the outdoor temperature is a factor in at least one scene (your interpretation, tell us how your book fits.)
Breadcrumbs | Anne Ursu ★ (11/17/23)
The MC Hazel rescues her best friend from the clutches of the winter witch, and it involves lots of snow and almost freezing to death.
✔ 16. Read a book where someone follows a recipe. (Tell us what food or drink was made.)
Better Off Read | Nora Page ★★★ (11/13/23)
Hummingbird Cake.
✔ 17. Read a book where a specific industry or crop has a great effect on the local economy (tell us how your book fits).
The American Daughters | Maurice Carlos Ruffin ★★★★ (04/06/24)
Book about slavery – it's set in the sugarcane plantations of Louisiana and the crop is why slavery is that important and why the plantation owners have power.
✔ 18. Read a book set in a hot or tropical climate. (Tell us where.)
Silver Nitrate | Silvia Moreno-Garcia ★★★ (11/23/23)
Mexico.
✔ 19. Read a book where someone drinks something hot to warm up after being chilled or cold. (Tell us how your book fits.)
The Stranger in the Library | Eva Gates ★★★★ (06/06/24)
Lucy and Louise Jane are locked in a basement that floods, and when they are rescued they drink coffee to warm up.
✔ 20. Read a book where someone drinks something iced in order to cool off. (Tell us how your book fits.)
Pick Your Poison | Leann Sweeney ★★★ (09/14/23)
It's sweltering hot in Texas and Abby and her sister Kate are always sipping on iced tea.
Spell
🫖Tea
T - Murder in a Scottish Shire | Traci Hall ★★★ (12/20/22)
E - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson ★★★★ (02/09/23)
A - Sleeping Murder | Agatha Christie ★★ (12/14/22)
🫖Steep
S - Nine Lives | Wendy Corsi Staub ★★★ (12/11/22)
T - Tidings of Death at Honeychurch Hall | Hannah Dennison ★★★ (01/10/23)
E - Jackal | Erin E. Adams ★★ (02/13/23)
E - Silas Marner | George Eliot ★★★★ (02/16/23)
P - Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe | Philip Plait ★★★★★ (05/23/23)
🫖Brew
B - The Winners | Fredrik Backman ★★★ (01/01/23)
R - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women | Kate Moore ★★★★ (11/19/22)
E - The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World | Jonathan Freedland ★★★★★ (02/17/23)
W - Hang the Moon | Jeannette Walls ★ (04/23/23)
🫖Black
B - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | John Boyne ★ (01/07/23)
L - Broken | Jenny Lawson ★★★★★ (02/23/23)
A - Death in the Clouds | Agatha Christie ★★★ (12/18/22)
C - The City of Brass | S.A. Chakraborty ★ (01/02/23)
K - Death Is Hard Work | Khaled Khalifa ★★★ (01/06/23)
🫖Green
G - Grilled for Murder | Maddie Day ★★★ (02/02/23)
R - Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes | Roshani Chokshi ★★ (12/03/22)
E - Clap When You Land | Elizabeth Acevedo ★★★★ (02/21/23)
E - All the Water I've Seen Is Running | Elias Rodriques ★★ (02/22/23)
N - The Night Ship | Jess Kidd ★★★ (11/27/22)
🫖Oolong
O - On Animals | Susan Orlean ★★ (11/14/22)
O - Odd Thomas | Dean Koontz ★★★ (11/15/22)
L - The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border | Francisco Cantú ★★ (03/09/23)
O - The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times | Michelle Obama ★★★★★ (11/30/22)
N - The World We Make | N.K. Jemisin ★★★★★ (11/28/22)
G - Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia | David Graeber ★★ (02/10/23)
🫖Orange Pekoe
O - One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories | B.J. Novak ★★★ (12/12/22)
R - My Sister's Grave | Robert Dugoni ★★ (12/07/22)
A - When Will There Be Good News? | Kate Atkinson ★★ (12/22/22)
N - Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★ (12/27/22)
G - The Golden Spoon | Jessa Maxwell ★★★ (04/03/23)
E - A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan ★★★★★ (03/17/23)
P - Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson ★ (06/29/23)
E - The Candy House | Jennifer Egan ★★★★★ (03/18/23)
K - Southern Sass and Killer Cravings | Kate Young ★★★ (02/16/23)
O - XOXO | Axie Oh ★★ (02/08/23)
E - Weyward | Emilia Hart ★★ (04/02/23)
🫖English Breakfast
E - Elatsoe | Darcie Little Badger ★★★★ (04/04/23)
N - Stone Blind | Natalie Haynes ★★★★★ (03/07/23)
G - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder | David Grann ★★★★★ (05/06/23)
L - The Light Pirate | Lily Brooks-Dalton ★★ (03/09/23)
I - How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures | Sabrina Imbler ★★★★ (01/08/23)
S - A Death in Vienna | Daniel Silva ★★★ (12/17/22)
H - Five Survive | Holly Jackson ★ (03/01/23)
B - Bleeding Tarts | Kirsten Weiss ★★★ (03/10/23)
R - Requiem for a Mezzo | Carola Dunn ★★★ (12/16/22)
E - The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat ★★★ (04/10/23)
A - Locust Lane | Stephen Amidon ★★ (01/24/23)
K - The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver ★★★★ (04/29/23)
F - Untethered Sky | Fonda Lee ★★★ (08/14/23)
A - The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas ★★★★ (01/28/23)
S - The Book Eaters | Sunyi Dean ★★ (12/19/22)
T - Tagged for Death | Sherry Harris ★★ (01/22/23)
🫖Earl Grey
E - A Riesling to Die | J.C. Eaton ★★★ (04/12/23)
A - Sam | Allegra Goodman ★★ (01/31/23)
R - Light from Uncommon Stars | Ryka Aoki ★★★ (01/09/23)
L - Murder at the Mortuary | Lee Strauss ★★★ (03/17/23)
G - Snow Falling on Cedars | David Guterson ★ (05/30/23)
R - The Battle of the Labyrinth | Rick Riordan ★★★ (02/03/23)
E - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania | Erik Larson ★★★★ (04/13/23)
Y - Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D' | Michael Cecchi-Azzolina ★★★ (01/02/23)
I'm finished.HIGH TEA FANTASY LIFE
Duration: Oct 01, 2022 - ?
Completed: 542/542
Section 1: The Setting:
Tasks:
✔ 1. Read a book where someone works in or owns a tea-room or cafe. Who and what kind of establishment is it?
Deja Moo | Kirsten Weiss ★★★★ (11/15/23)
Adele, Maddie's best friend, owns the tea room next to the paranormal museum.
✔ 2. Read a book with a chair on the cover. (Post the cover.)
Birder, She Wrote | Donna Andrews ★★★★ (11/07/23)
✔ 3. Read a book with a nice outdoor view on the cover. (Post the cover.)
Nation | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (11/05/23)
✔ 4. Read a book with a tea service, coffee pot, or tea/coffee cups on the cover. (Post the cover.)
Stake & Eggs | Laura Childs ★★★ (09/12/23)
✔ 5. Read a book with a table covered with a tablecloth on the cover. (Post the cover.)
Tightening the Threads | Lea Wait ★★ (09/13/23)
✔ 6. Read a book with two or more people visible on the cover. (Post the cover.)
To Be a Man: Stories | Nicole Krauss ★★ (11/11/23)
✔ 7. Read a book with a napkin of some kind visible on the cover. (Post the cover.)
The Diva Delivers on a Promise | Krista Davis ★★★ (06/20/23)
There's a napkin on each of the place settings.
✔ 8. Read a book with a knife, fork or spoon on the cover (yes, a "murder weapon" knife is fine). (Post the cover.)
Gone for Gouda | Korina Moss ★★★ (10/26/23)
✔ 9. Read a book with a room visible on the cover that you think is attractive. (Post the cover.)
Thread the Halls | Lea Wait ★★ (10/25/23)
✔ 10. Read a book where someone hosts a party of some kind. (Who, and what kind of event is it?)
Post Captain | Patrick O'Brian ★★ (11/06/23)
Jack and Stephen host a ball.
✔ 11. Read a book where flowers are visible on the cover. (Post the cover.)
Bound by Murder | Laura Gail Black ★★ (10/28/23)
✔ 12. Read a book with all the letters in the word "ROSES" appear in the author's name (must be 2 separate Ss).
Over Sea, Under Stone | Susan Cooper ★★★ (11/18/23)
SuSan cOopER.
✔ 13. Read a book where interior decor is a factor in the story. (Tell us how your book fits.)
Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow! | Donna Andrews ★★★★ (11/09/23)
The TV crew fusses a great deal about the Christmas décor in Ragnar's home, and Kevin takes to pranking them.
✔ 14. Read a book where two or more people drink beverages together (doesn't have to be tea). (Tell us how your book fits.)
Dust Child | Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai ★★ (10/27/23)
Tranq and Dave drink cocktails and 'Siamese tea' together at the bar where she works.
✔ 15. Read a book with a character you think is elegant (your interpretation, tell us who).
Murder Aboard the Flying Scotsman | Lee Strauss ★★★ (09/05/23)
Ginger.
✔ 16. Read a book with a character you believe places too much importance on appearances or superficialities (tell us who).
America for Beginners | Leah Franqui ★ (01/15/24)
Raahi's dad Ram.
✔ 17. Read a book with a character who is an "upper class" English person -- tell us who.
The Case of the Murdered Muckraker | Carola Dunn ★★ (10/24/23)
Daisy, who was titled before her wedding.
✔ 18. Read a book where a ritual of some kind is important. (Tell us how your book fits.)
My Plain Jane | Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows ★★★ (11/16/23)
Ghost busting ritual is most of the plot.
✔ 19. Read a book where the title is printed in a font you consider "fancy" or "elegant" -- post the cover.
Fairy Tale | Stephen King ★★★ (12/04/23)
✔ 20. Read a book with a character you think is "traditional" (tell us how your book fits).
Aru Shah and the City of Gold | Roshani Chokshi ★★ (11/25/23)
Urvashi, she's an Indian mythological nymph and as such does things traditionally.
Spell
🫖Table
T - Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization | Neil deGrasse Tyson ★★★ (10/06/22)
A - Last Argument of Kings | Joe Abercrombie ★★★★ (10/18/22)
B - Brighton Rock | Graham Greene ★★ (12/01/22)
L - Wartime Lies | Louis Begley ★★★ (11/01/22)
E - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life | Ed Yong ★★★★ (10/05/22)
🫖Chair
C - The Book of Lost Things | John Connolly ★ (10/14/22)
H - My Broken Language: A Memoir | Quiara Alegría Hudes ★★★★ (10/03/22)
A - Shrines of Gaiety | Kate Atkinson ★★★★ (10/26/22)
I - The Iliad of Homer | Homer ★★★ (11/06/22)
R - A Flag for Sunrise | Robert Stone ★★ (10/02/22)
🫖View
V - Vicious | V.E. Schwab ★★ (11/26/22)
I - Iron Lake | William Kent Krueger ★★ (11/17/22)
E - Passing Strange | Ellen Klages ★★★ (10/08/22)
W - The Pale King | David Foster Wallace ★★★ (10/01/22)
🫖Tea Service
T - The Jasmine Throne | Tasha Suri ★★ (10/11/22)
E - Lucy by the Sea | Elizabeth Strout ★★ (10/17/22)
A - Dashing Through the Snowbirds | Donna Andrews ★★★★★ (11/13/22)
S - King John | William Shakespeare ★★★★ (10/12/22)
E - Death by Beach Read | Eva Gates ★★ (10/28/22)
R - Red Harvest | Dashiell Hammett ★★★★ (10/31/22)
V - How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future | Vaclav Smil ★★★ (01/12/23)
I - I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Iain Reid ★★ (11/25/22)
C - Pouncing on Murder | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (10/30/22)
E - Rabbit Island | Elvira Navarro ★ (10/31/22)
🫖Linen
L - Cat with a Clue | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (01/25/23)
I - The Ides of April | Lindsey Davis ★★ (12/02/22)
N - The Golden Enclaves | Naomi Novik ★★ (10/19/22)
E - The Stranger Diaries | Elly Griffiths ★★ (11/07/22)
N - Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders | Neil Gaiman ★★★★ (10/24/22)
🫖Tablecloth
T - Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries | Neil deGrasse Tyson ★★★★ (10/28/22)
A - The Ghost and the Dead Deb | Alice Kimberly ★★ (11/18/22)
B - When Women Were Dragons | Kelly Barnhill ★★ (12/06/22)
L - Lost in the Moment and Found | Seanan McGuire ★★★★ (02/02/23)
E - Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign | Stephan Talty ★★★★★ (11/17/22)
C - The Passenger | Cormac McCarthy ★★★ (11/02/22)
L - Late Checkout | Carol J. Perry ★★★ (02/05/23)
O - The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice—Crossing Antarctica Alone | Colin O'Brady ★★★ (10/16/22)
T - The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★★ (10/28/22)
H - Grace Against the Clock | Julie Hyzy ★★★ (02/08/23)
🫖China
C - A Master of Djinn | P. Djèlí Clark ★★★ (11/07/22)
H - How to Sell a Haunted House | Grady Hendrix ★★★ (02/26/23)
I - Ithaca | Claire North ★★★ (12/09/22)
N - The Killing Moon | N.K. Jemisin ★★★ (11/21/22)
A - The Twist of a Knife | Anthony Horowitz ★★ (11/24/22)
🫖Flowers
F - Flux | Jinwoo Chong ★★ (05/25/23)
L - Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo ★★★★ (02/07/23)
O - The Bullet That Missed | Richard Osman ★★★★ (10/22/22)
W - Wool | Hugh Howey ★★★★ (03/29/23)
E - Ghost in the Wind | E.J. Copperman ★★★★ (11/22/22)
R - Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman | Alan Rickman ★★★ (11/04/22)
S - The Jennifer Morgue | Charles Stross ★★ (10/30/22)
🫖Elegant
E - A Woman Is No Man | Etaf Rum ★★ (12/05/22)
L - Murder at Feathers & Flair | Lee Strauss ★★★★ (02/14/23)
E - Election | Tom Perrotta ★★ (12/10/22)
G - Grace Takes Off | Julie Hyzy ★★★ (12/01/22)
A - This Side of Murder | Anna Lee Huber ★ (12/14/22)
N - Now Is Not the Time to Panic | Kevin Wilson ★★ (11/24/22)
T - Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard | Tom Felton ★★★ (11/18/22)
🫖Quiet
Q - We Are the Light | Matthew Quick ★★ (11/29/22)
U - The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy | Anne Ursu ★★★★ (11/12/22)
I - A Killer in King's Cove | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (12/15/22)
E - The Idiot | Elif Batuman ★★ (12/13/22)
T - This Is Happiness | Niall Williams ★★★★★ (12/10/22)
🫖Décor
D - The Dog Who Knew Too Much | Krista Davis ★★ (02/23/23)
E - Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change | Elizabeth Kolbert ★★★★ (01/05/23)
C - Murder on the Flying Scotsman | Carola Dunn ★★★★ (12/30/22)
O - The Oracle Year | Charles Soule ★★★ (11/12/22)
R - Round Up the Usual Peacocks | Donna Andrews ★★★★ (11/08/22)
🫖Guests
G - Murder in Her Stocking | G.A. McKevett ★★★★ (12/12/22)
U - Uncultured: A Memoir | Daniella Mestyanek Young ★★★ (01/03/23)
E - The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up | Evanna Lynch ★★★ (01/08/23)
S - Light of the Jedi | Charles Soule ★★★ (11/30/22)
T - Murder on Astor Place | Victoria Thompson ★★★★ (12/13/22)
S - Murder at Bray Manor | Lee Strauss ★★★ (12/04/22)
