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Great job, Barb!
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)
