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Sideways Stories from Wayside School | Louis Sachar ★★★★★ (06/06/20)
✔ Mythologies and Retellings of Fairy Tales & Classics - #158
A Tale Dark & Grimm | Adam Gidwitz ★★★★ (12/06/20)
✔ Quirky Southern Fiction - #523
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter | Tom Franklin ★★ (08/30/20)
✔ Read Them Twice...At Least - #14
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J.K. Rowling ★★★ (10/31/20)
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✔ Recommended Thriller/Suspense - #1,524
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✔ Re-Readable Reads - #886
Beneath the Sugar Sky | Seanan McGuire ★★★★ (11/02/20)
✔ Science Fiction Books by Female Authors - #549
Rogue Protocol | Martha Wells ★★★★★ (05/20/20)
✔ Series Reading List - #1026
Open and Shut | David Rosenfelt ★★★★ (07/09/20)
✔ Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism and Class - #1,614
If I Had Your Face | Frances Cha ★★★★ (05/19/20)
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✔ Strong Female Characters Written by Female Authors - #1,354
Last Ride to Graceland | Kim Wright ★★★ (11/14/20)
✔ Thrillers - #685
Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★★★ (12/02/20)
✔ Top 100 Middle School Must-Reads - #15
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl ★★★★ (05/18/20)
✔ Underground Knowledge - #15
Shutter Island | Dennis Lehane ★★★★ (05/31/20)
✔ Unforgettables - #2368
The Jane Austen Society | Natalie Jenner ★★★ (06/28/20)
✔ Wanderlust - #101
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | C.S. Lewis ★★★ (12/02/20)
✔ What Book Would You Like To Live In? - #3,406
The Broken Girls | Simone St. James ★★★★ (06/02/20)
✔ What We've Read So Far in 2020 - #2,152
Wow, No Thank You. | Samantha Irby ★★★★ (05/02/20)
✔ World War II Fiction - #6
Atonement | Ian McEwan ★ (06/29/20)
✔ You Read a Book about What? - #1656
Unthinkable | Helen Thomson ★★★★ (05/21/20)
*** Completed (03/09/25) ***
✔ Best Westerns - #6
No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy ★★★ (02/06/21)
✔ Best YA Fiction with GLBTQQI themes / characters - #54
Leah on the Offbeat | Becky Albertalli ★★ (07/23/20)
✔ Big Fat Books Worth the Effort - #746
A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles ★★★★★ (02/06/21)
✔ Biography and Memoirs that are BETTER than Fiction - #33
Hyperbole and a Half | Allie Brosh ★★★ (03/22/21)
✔ Books (Besides the Bible) Recommended for Christian Readers - #52
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | C.S. Lewis ★★★ (12/02/20)
✔ Books about Books - #371
Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz ★★★ (11/28/20)
✔ Books About Faery - #12
Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer ★★★ (12/31/20)
✔ Books I wouldn't have discovered without Goodreads - #2340
A Darker Shade of Magic | V.E. Schwab ★★ (10/11/20)
✔ Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once - #19018
Welcome to Night Vale | Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor ★★★ (06/07/20)
✔ Books that Exceeded your Expectations - #235
Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein ★★★ (10/26/20)
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✔ Books that Make You Laugh - #110
Practical Demonkeeping | Christopher Moore ★★★ (05/19/20)
✔ Books that make you think - #707
Molloy | Samuel Beckett ★★★ (11/29/20)
✔ Books With Unforgettable Characters - #1,681
Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout ★★★★ (09/03/20)
✔ Books You Would Recommend to Strangers - #244
The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova ★★ (07/25/20)
✔ Chick Lit for the Beach - #43
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fannie Flagg ★★ (11/07/20)
✔ Children's Books I'll Re-Read No Matter How Old I Am - #257
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | Kate DiCamillo ★★★★★ (05/29/20)
✔ Conspiracy Fiction - #113
The Alexandria Link | Steve Berry ★★ (06/18/20)
✔ A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs - #6
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King ★★★★ (06/21/20)
✔ Dresses To Die For! - #234
These Old Shades | Georgette Heyer ★ (02/18/21)
✔ Europe Minus Men and English - #467
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk ★★★★ (05/06/21)
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✔ Fantasy Books Written for Adults - #15
The Blade Itself | Joe Abercrombie ★★★★★ (03/10/21)
✔ Favorite Chick-Lit - #146
Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote ★★★★ (07/01/20)
✔ Favorite Christmas Books - #225
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days | Jeanette Winterson ★★ (09/13/22)
✔ Favorite Gay Couples - #1,145
Cemetery Boys | Aiden Thomas ★★ (11/27/20)
✔ Favorite Historical Mystery Series - #65
Death at Wentwater Court | Carola Dunn ★★★ (12/27/20)
✔ Favourite Crime & Thrillers - #20
The Lincoln Lawyer | Michael Connelly ★★★ (06/07/20)
✔ Female Psychological Thrillers/Suspense Written by Women - #401
Don't Look for Me | Wendy Walker ★★★ (09/09/20)
✔ Five Star Fantasy Books - #210
The Alchemyst | Michael Scott ★ (06/20/20)
✔ Food-Related Non-Fiction - #25
A History of the World in 6 Glasses | Tom Standage ★★★★ (01/09/21)
✔ Ghost Stories - #57
Alias Grace | Margaret Atwood ★★ (03/03/21)
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✔ Great Books Not Many Readers Know About - #1601
The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo ★★★★★ (12/28/20)
✔ Great Debut Novels - #870
Other Voices, Other Rooms | Truman Capote ★★★ (12/02/20)
✔ Great Women Authors - #486
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls | Alissa Nutting ★★★★ (07/09/20)
✔ Hardest Book to Put Down - #1,944
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | David Mitchell ★★★★★ (01/15/21)
✔ Have You Read This Chick Lit? - #902
Sleight of Paw | Sofie Kelly ★★ (03/09/25)
✔ Historical Mysteries and Thrillers Featuring Women - #49
The Case of the Missing Marquess | Nancy Springer ★★ (12/09/20)
✔ Histories of the Everyday - #11
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements | Sam Kean ★★★★ (01/20/21)
✔ I Had No Idea This Book Would Be So Good - #722
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions | Randall Munroe ★★★★ (11/18/20)
✔ I Marked My Calendar For This Book's Release - #802
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Suzanne Collins ★ (06/10/20)
✔ I Picked It Up Because of the Cover - #505
Casino Royale | Ian Fleming ★★ (04/15/21)
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✔ I Saw the Movie & Read the Book - #1026
At Bertram's Hotel | Agatha Christie ★★ (05/09/20)
✔ Immigrant Experience Literature - #160
Inside Out & Back Again | Thanhha Lai ★★★ (11/12/20)
✔ India - #64
Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Salman Rushdie ★★★★ (10/25/20)
✔ Inspiring Books - #357
The One and Only Ivan | Katherine Applegate ★★★ (10/25/20)
✔ Is It Just Me? Books You Disliked That Everyone Else Seems To Love - #1,152
Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse ★★★ (12/19/20)
✔ LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy - #217
Down Among the Sticks and Bones | Seanan McGuire ★★★ (06/04/20)
✔ Mars Needs Women Trope - #318
Shards of Honour | Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★ (10/10/20)
✔ Men I Wish Were Real - #349
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J.K. Rowling ★★★★ (07/12/21)
✔ The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written - #78
Let the Right One In | John Ajvide Lindqvist ★★★ (11/08/20)
✔ Most Interesting World - #103
How to Train Your Dragon | Cressida Cowell ★★★ (06/23/20)
I've done as many as I could.LISTOPIA 2020
Duration: May 01, 2020 - Apr 30, 2021
Completed: 119/120
Choose from Lists
✔ 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime Readers' Picks - #5988
Piccadilly Jim | P.G. Wodehouse ★★★★ (07/16/20)
✔ 100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime Readers' Picks - #505
Lady Cop Makes Trouble | Amy Stewart ★★★ (10/09/20)
✔ 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime Readers' Picks - #873
All Systems Red | Martha Wells ★★★★★ (05/20/20)
✔ 100 Young Adult Books to Read in a Lifetime Readers Picks - #28
Matilda | Roald Dahl ★★★★ (05/13/20)
✔ African Fiction - #29
Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese ★★ (07/06/20)
✔ Beach Reads - Mysteries & Thrillers - #704
The Survivors | Jane Harper ★★ (02/09/21)
✔ Beauty and the Beast - #10
Rose Daughter | Robin McKinley ★ (01/14/22)
✔ Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels - #6
The Final Empire | Brandon Sanderson ★ (06/14/20)
✔ Best Action-Adventure Novels - #1835
Blood Rites | Jim Butcher ★★ (10/23/20)
✔ Best Adult Female Friendship Books - #15
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See ★ (05/18/20)
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✔ Best African American Books - #32
Paradise | Toni Morrison ★★ (06/17/20)
✔ Best Audiobooks - #787
Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ★★★★ (04/03/21)
✔ Best Book Cover Art - #2617
The Archived | Victoria Schwab ★★★ (07/30/20)
✔ Best Book Titles - #3843
Castle in the Air | Diana Wynne Jones ★★★ (10/15/20)
✔ Best Book With or About Dragons - #16
A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★ (12/01/20)
✔ Best Books 2019 - #43
In an Absent Dream | Seanan McGuire ★★★ (11/04/20)
✔ Best Books for Reluctant Readers - #45
James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl ★★★ (06/05/20)
✔ Best Books to Read When the Snow Is Falling - #752
Yes Please | Amy Poehler ★★★ (08/30/20)
✔ Best Books with Rural Settings - #137
A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley ★ (05/23/20)
✔ Best British and Irish Literature - #61
Possession | A.S. Byatt ★★ (09/20/20)
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✔ The Best British Crime/Mystery Fiction - #42
Peril At End House | Agatha Christie ★★★ (07/29/20)
✔ Best Canadian Literature - #1
The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood ★★★ (01/25/21)
✔ Best Children's Fantasy - #187
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | Roald Dahl ★★ (05/29/20)
✔ Best Christian Fiction - #28
Prince Caspian | C.S. Lewis ★★★ (11/22/20)
✔ Best American Civil War Books - #16
The March | E.L. Doctorow ★★★★ (04/09/24)
✔ Best Cozy Mystery Series - #1082
Lending a Paw | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (05/07/20)
✔ Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction - #94
Feed | Mira Grant ★★★★ (05/08/20)
✔ Best Ending - #1347
The Last Town | Blake Crouch ★ (08/05/20)
✔ Best Female Crime/Mystery/Thriller Writers - #43
Fingersmith | Sarah Waters ★★ (05/28/20)
✔ Best for Book Clubs - #6480
The Magician's Assistant | Ann Patchett ★★★ (05/10/20)
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✔ Best Hardboiled PI & Noir - #134
The Neon Rain | James Lee Burke ★★ (12/09/20)
✔ Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century - #481
Girl Waits with Gun | Amy Stewart ★★★ (09/23/20)
✔ Best Horror Novels - #815
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home | Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor ★★★ (11/22/20)
✔ Best Humorous Books - #661
Wayside School Is Falling Down | Louis Sachar ★★★★ (06/15/20)
✔ Best Lesbian Fiction - #1,198
Come Tumbling Down | Seanan McGuire ★★★★ (11/05/20)
✔ Best Literary Mysteries - #319
Night Soldiers | Alan Furst ★★ (11/26/20)
✔ Best Love Stories - #3,104
The Danish Girl | David Ebershoff ★ (09/25/20)
✔ Best Male Character - #970
The Thin Man | Dashiell Hammett ★★★ (07/07/20)
✔ Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography - #15
All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot ★★★★ (07/12/20)
✔ Best Middle Ages Books - #642
The Last Battle | C.S. Lewis ★★ (03/12/21)
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✔ Best Modern Mystery, Crime Fiction - #1171
The Ruin | Dervla McTiernan ★★ (10/20/20)
✔ Best Non Fiction About Music -
Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen ★★ (09/08/23)
✔ Best of Little-Known Authors - #5,100
Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls ★★ (02/27/21)Best Romance Series
✔ Best Romantic Suspense - #747
The Other Side of Midnight | Simone St. James ★★ (01/11/22)
✔ Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only - #658
The Order of Time | Carlo Rovelli ★★★ (06/08/20)
✔ Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century - #337
Artificial Condition | Martha Wells ★★★★★ (05/20/20)
✔ Best Southern Literature - #140
The Little Friend | Donna Tartt ★★ (07/23/20)
✔ Best Teen Books About Real Problems - #2023
Sadie | Courtney Summers ★★★ (06/05/20)
✔ Best Traveling Vicariously - #80
The Lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver ★★★★ (09/16/20)
I think this is the only randomizer I've ever finished and it's the year I chose to do only 10. :P2022 RANDOMIZER
Duration: Jan 01, 2022 - Dec 31, 2022
Completed: 10/10
✔ Bad Monkey | Carl Hiaasen ★★★★ (05/31/23)
✔ The Conductors | Nicole Glover ★★★★ (06/17/23)
✔ Disoriental | Négar Djavadi ★★★★ (01/19/22)
✔ Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit | Amy Stewart ★★★★ (09/26/22)
✔ Murder Buys a T-shirt | Christy Fifield ★★★ (03/06/25)
✔ Queen's Peril | E.K. Johnston ★★ (02/07/25)
✔ A Riesling to Die | J.C. Eaton ★★★ (04/12/23)
✔ This Is Happiness | Niall Williams ★★★★★ (12/10/22)
✔ Vida | Patricia Engel ★★★ (07/14/24)
✔ A Woman Is No Man | Etaf Rum ★★ (12/05/22)
*** Completed (03/06/25) ***
Finished.Solids, Liquids and Gases
Duration: Jan 01, 2025 - Jun 30, 2025
Completed: 25/25
✔ 1. Phases
✳️ Read a book first published in a year with a 3 (tell us the date of first published).
The Raven Thief | Gigi Pandian ★★★ (01/01/25)
Pub. Mar 21, 2023.
✔ 2. Matter and Energy
✳️ Read a book you added recently, please tell us when you added it. (posted after July 2024).
Darkly | Marisha Pessl ★★ (01/08/25)
Added Aug 03, 2024.
✔ 3. Gases
✳️ Read a book whose main character’s first or last name has a double consonant (as in MaTThew or in IsabeLLe, tell us the main character’s name).
Aunt Bessie Enjoys | Diana Xarissa ★★★ (01/03/25)
Bessie Cubbon.
✔ 4. Gas Molecules
✳️ Read a book you read very fast (a book you “have to finish” or maybe a short book with more than 150 pages?).
Later Gator | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (01/06/25)
Very quick pacing.
✔ 5. Gas Examples
✳️ Read a book whose title starts with O, C, D or N; disregard A, An and The.
The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth ★★★★ (01/02/25)
✔ 6. Vapor
✳️ Read a book marked "Romance" on its main GR page.
Thread on Arrival | Lea Wait ★★ (01/04/25)
✔ 7. Boiling Point
✳️ Read a book set in a hot climate, (tell us where).
Murder at the Grand Hotel | Isabella Bassett ★★ (01/11/25)
French Riviera.
✔ 8. Boiling Point of Water
✳️ Read a book whose year of first publication contains at least 2 of the following numbers: 2,1,2,1,0,0 (tell us the year published).
One of the Girls | Lucy Clarke ★★ (01/03/25)
Pub. 2022.
✔ 9. Compression
✳️ Read a book with a conversion in the story (your interpretation, tell us about it, use spoiler tags if needed).
You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist | Kari Ferrell ★★★ (01/10/25)
Kari is a convicted felon who seems to have turned her life around after a stint in prison.
✔ 10. Liquid
✳️ Read a book with liquid in a container in the cover (a glass of drink, a bottle of perfume are good examples, post the cover).
Murder on a Girls' Night Out | Anne George ★★★ (01/03/25)
Drink in a glass.
✔ 11. Liquid Examples
✳️ Read a book with a scene set underwater (tell us how your book works).
The Lost Heir | Tui T. Sutherland ★★★ (01/07/25)
Lots of scenes underwater as the SeaWing Kingdom, where the book is set, is mostly underwater.
✔ 12. Water
✳️ Read a standalone book.
Mothers and Sons | Adam Haslett ★★★ (01/09/25)
✔ 13. Solid
✳️ Read a book with a human body on the cover, (post the cover).
London Rain | Nicola Upson ★★ (01/10/25)
✔ 14. Movement of Molecules
✳️ Read a book that helps you finish a challenge (tell us the challenge’s name).
Fall of a Philanderer | Carola Dunn ★★★ (01/09/25)
Deck of Cards.
✔ 15. Ice
✳️ Read a book set in a cold climate, (tell us where).
The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare ★★★ (01/28/25)
Connecticut, winter.
✔ 16. Room Temperature Solid
✳️ Read a book with STEEL or COPPER intact in the title or author’s name, (post a link to the author’s page if you use this option).
A Tide of Black Steel | Anthony Ryan ★★★ (01/31/25)
✔ 17. Changing Phases
✳️ Read a series book, please tell us the series name.
Lowcountry Boughs of Holly | Susan M. Boyer ★★★ (01/04/25)
Liz Talbot #10.
✔ 18. Freezing Point
✳️ Read a short book (but still over 150 pages, 300 for graphic novels; tell us the number of pages).
Murder by Plum Pudding | Lee Strauss ★★★ (01/21/25)
152 pages.
✔ 19. Freezing Point of Water
✳️ Read a book with two of 0, 3 or 2 in the number of pages. (Tell us the number of pages).
Egg Drop Dead | Vivien Chien ★★★ (01/07/25)
320 pages.
✔ 20. Mercury
✳️ Read a book with something metallic on the cover (post the cover).
The Waste Lands | Stephen King ★★★ (01/13/25)
The train.
✔ 21. Solids
✳️ Read a book with a cover that has something that runs on electricity (post the cover).
Death Waits in the Dark | Julia Buckley ★ (01/15/25)
The lamp and the fan.
✔ 22. Solid-state scientists
✳️ Read a book whose author is new to you, (post a link to the author’s page).
The Owl Killers | Karen Maitland ★★★ (01/06/25)
✔ 23. Crystallographers
✳️ Read a book with something crystal like on the cover (wine glasses, snowflakes, diamonds, and table salt, are good examples, post the cover).
Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust | Mindy Quigley ★★★★ (01/11/25)
Ice cubes.
✔ 24. Plasma
✳️ Read a book with all the letters in PLASMA in the title, (any order, pay attention, it has two As).
Murder at the Spring Ball | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (03/06/25)
Murder At the SPring bALl.
✔ 25. Bose-Einstein condensates
✳️ Read a book whose series title begins with a letter in BOSE-EINSTEIN (tell us the series).
The Black Country | Alex Grecian ★★ (01/08/25)
Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad #2.
*** Completed (03/06/25) ***
