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[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Annetta wrote: "Hmmm. I would love to become involved if I'm not too late. My challenge is I would love to travel through history. What I mean is to begin some of my readings (I just started last week) in the mi..."

That's a great idea for a challenge! There are no time limits here, so there is no such thing as too late.

[[deleted user]]

I take that back. I am realizing that I am "biting off more than I can chew" at this time. I will look up your challenges next year.

[dely]

updated #42

[Lesserknowngems]

I'm doing a regional European tour (one book in each country) with focus on local authors (so the book doesn't have to be set in the country, but the author has to be connected to the country). Since I like history I also want to read books published before 1955. I'm so happy to find a place where people are interested in reading books outside the mainstream anglo-american literature. :)

[Dlmrose]

Dlmrose's All the Other Places- from Wikipedia List
& autonomous regions, sovereign states, dependent territories, disputed territories, etc

Africa
Ascension island The Devil's Ashpit: and other Tales of Ascension Island
Saint Helena The Monsters of St. Helena
Somaliland New Wind in a Dry Land
Tristan da Cunha Three Years in Tristan Da Cunha
Tromelin Island Between the Tides: In Search of Sea Turtles

Antarctica
British Antarctic territory
Heard and McDonald War of the Whales: A True Story
Ross Dependency Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine
South Georgia /Sandwich islands - Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia


Asia
Abkhazia Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Akrotiri and Dhekelia Small Wars
British Indian Ocean Territory A Chagos Story
Christmas Island
Nagorno-Karabakh The Karabakh Problem: Thorny Path To Freedom And Independence
Northern Cyprus The Sunrise
South Ossetia Red Station

Europe
Aland Islands Helsinki White
Isle of Man Safe House
Svalbard The Explorer's Code
Transnistria Siberian Education

Middle East
Syrian Kurdistan Come, Tell Me How You Live

North America
Saint Pierre and Miquelon The Boat Who Wouldn't Float

Oceania
American Samoa Fire Knife Dancing
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Clipperton Islands Isle of Passion
Cocos (Keeling) Island Sailing Alone around the World
Norfolk Island Heart of a Beast
Northern Mariana Islands The Master Blaster
Tokelau A Deviation from the Norm: A Pilot's Story
Wallis and Futuna Maiden Voyage

[Dlmrose]

Post 55

Adding Tokelau
A Deviation from the Norm: A Pilot's Story

[Dlmrose]

Post 55

Adding Nagorno-Karabakh
The Karabakh Problem: Thorny Path To Freedom And Independence

[Susan]

Silk Road Challenge


China- Rickshaw Boy
Kyrgyzstan- The White Ship
Tajikistan- The Sandalwood Box: Folk Tales from Tadzhikistan
Afghanistan- A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
Turkmenistan- Joe Azat
Iran- The Complete Persepolis
Iraq- Sindbad: And Other Stories from the Arabian Nights
Syria- Just Like a River
Lebanon- The Stone of Laughter
Turkey-

And three general nonfiction selections:
The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia
Arabic Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Middle Eastern Tales In Arabic and English
When Asia Was the World

10/13 Read

[Susan]

Southeast Asia

General- A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
Burma- Letters from Burma
Cambodia
East Timor
Indonesia
Laos
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand- Love Sick: The Chaotic Lives of Blue Shorts Guys
Vietnam

[Karen]

I would like to do a personal challenge, but it doesn't fit with ATW. As a lifetime challenge, I would like to read at least one newer (1990 - current, if available) biography of each of the US Presidents. I've already read a few, but not enough:

1. George Washington - Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow (read in 2016)
2. John Adams - John Adams by David McCullough (Read in 2005)
3. Thomas Jefferson -Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (read in 2014)
4. James Madison - James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney. read 02/17/2018
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Read in 2014)
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant - Grant by Ron Chernow, read 08/20/2021
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
20. James A. Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22. & 24. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt - The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin (read in 2017)
27. William Howard Taft - also in the Bully Pulpit
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren G. Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt - No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin, read 04/30/2021
33. Harry S. Truman
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower
35.John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon Johnson
37. Richard Nixon
38. Gerald Ford
39. Jimmy Carter
40. Ronald Reagan
41. George H.W. Bush
42. Bill Clinton
43. George W. Bush
44. Barak Obama - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Read in 2008)
45. Donald Trump: - Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump by John Fea - read 09/09/2018
46. Joe Biden Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden - read 11/19/2017

Bonus:
One First Lady: Becoming by Michelle Obama - read 12/7/2018
One Secretary of Treasury: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow - read 07/31/2020

[Mome_Rath]

Karen wrote: "I would like to do a personal challenge, but it doesn't fit with ATW. As a lifetime challenge, I would like to read at least one newer (1990 - current, if available) biography of each of the US Pre..."

Excellent idea! I read a book about or by a president each President's Day, and there are some great ones out there! If you are interested in learning more about Teddy Roosevelt (and counting The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism for Taft), I can highly recommend The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris and The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard. I also really appreciated John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Karen wrote: "I would like to do a personal challenge, but it doesn't fit with ATW. As a lifetime challenge, I would like to read at least one newer (1990 - current, if available) biography of each of the US Pre..."

What a cool idea!

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Dlmrose wrote: "Dlmrose's All the Other Places- from Wikipedia List
& autonomous regions, sovereign states, dependent territories, disputed territories, etc

Africa
Ascension island [book:The Devil's Ashpit: and ..."

Wow, I just noticed how many of these you have visited! You can count these toward your Circumnavigator total. Do you know how many places you have visited including these?

[Karen]

Mome_Rath wrote: "Karen wrote: "I would like to do a personal challenge, but it doesn't fit with ATW. As a lifetime challenge, I would like to read at least one newer (1990 - current, if available) biography of each..."

Thank you, I will look for Millard!

I've read Profiles in Courage (years ago). I have the Edmund Morris trilogy of Roosevelt (cannot wait to read it). The problem with a challenge like this and others is that I end up loving that person or country that I just read about and I want to read more, but instead I move on in the challenge, to the next person or country.
What I didn't expect from Bully Pulpit is how much I like Taft, and I really want to read more about him.

[Mome_Rath]

I have yet to read The Bully Pulpit, but I'm looking forward to it, since I enjoyed Team of Rivals. I'm glad to hear you liked the coverage of Taft from the book! I haven't chosen my president for 2018 yet, but I may put Taft in the running.

[Laurie]

Karen wrote: "I would like to do a personal challenge, but it doesn't fit with ATW. As a lifetime challenge, I would like to read at least one newer (1990 - current, if available) biography of each of the US Pre..."

I've thought about doing this same thing, but I hadn't considered including only such recent biographies. Maybe I'll get around to it someday. Have you seen the blog of the guy who is reading numerous bios of each president and rates and gives his analysis of each book? He is reading the bios chronologically and is up to LBJ right now.

https://bestpresidentialbios.com/curr...

[Karen]

Laurie wrote: "Karen wrote: "I would like to do a personal challenge, but it doesn't fit with ATW. As a lifetime challenge, I would like to read at least one newer (1990 - current, if available) biography of each..."

Yes! I have seen this list, and I think he added "The Best Biographies of" since I went through it last. I will be curious to see what he thinks of Chernow's book on Grant (reading this now), Dallek's book on FDR or Merry's book on McKinley (all new books). I will also be interested to see what he thinks of Caro's huge 4 book biography of LBJ. Thank you for reminding me of this list! Please forgive my gushing.

[Jovan]

My challenge is about cities in books we read. One should put one s name or nickname or name of your pet (as I came up with it returning from local fortress with the dog) and read books of cities starting with letters in your name. The challenge should last for months of how man letters are in your choosen name. For exammple, for me Jovan - five cities starting with JOVAN in five months randomly taken. I will start for the first day of Spring.

[Deanie]

I'd like to steal Kathryn's idea and read a book for each country I've visited. Since I've been adding countries every year, it'll be a long challenge:

Africa
Ethiopia -
Kenya -
Rwanda -

Europe
Austria
Croatia
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Malta
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
United Kingdom
Vatican City

North America
Canada
Mexico
United States of America

Caribbean
Aruba -
Bahamas -
Barbados
Bonaire
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Curacao
Dominica
Grenada
Haiti
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin
Sint Maarten
United States Virgin Islands

Central America
Costa Rica
Panama

[KC]

Mapping the Middle East
Started: January 2023

Progress: 1/26

1. Bahrain
2. Iran
3. Iraq
4. Israel
Michal by Jill Eileen Smith 1/25/23
5. Jordan
6. Kuwait
7. Lebanon
8. Oman
9. Palestine
10. Qatar
11. Saudi Arabia
12. Syria
13. Turkey
14. United Arab Emirates
15. Yemen
16. Egypt
17. Afghanistan
18. Akrotiri and Dhekelia
19. Cyprus
20. Kyrgyzstan
21. Libya
22. Pakistan
23. Sudan
24. Tajikstan
25. Turkmenistan
26. Uzbekistan

[Helen]

First Peoples of the Americas and Elsewhere
Starting 8-22-23
Ending 5-17-24

42 out of 42 Finished!

Read 25 nonfiction books
++1) The Innovations of the Ancient Americas Janey Levy 9-6-23 (Aztecs & Mayans)
++ 2) Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu J. Maarten Troost 9-11-23 (Natives on Kiribati, Vanuatu and Fiji)
++3) The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific J. Maarten Troost 9-18-23 (Natives on Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Tarawa & more islands)
++4) California's Indian Nations Ben Nussbaum 10-4-23
++5) When I was Young in Nunavut Deborah Kigjugalik Webster 10-4-23
++6) Miwok Katie Lajiness 11-2-23
++7) The Travel Book Lonely Planet Kids Lonely Planet Kids 11-10-23 (worldwide aboriginals)
++8) Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation Monique Gray Smith 11-10-23 (Canada)
++9) Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage John McWhorter 11-22-23
++10) The Story of Comock, the Eskimo as Told to Robert Flaherty Edmund Carpenter 12-13-23
++11) The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language Geoffrey K. Pullum 12-13-23 (Chapter 19 on the Eskimo Vocab. Hoax)
++12) I is for Idea: An Inventions Alphabet Marcia Schonberg 12-14-23 (F is frozen, Birdseye copied Eskimos)
++ 13) When I Was Eight Christy Jordan-Fenton 1-22-24 (Residential school)
++ 14) Hopi Tales of Destruction Ekkehart Malotki 1-25-24
++ 15) Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 2-3-24 (info. on cave dwellers)
++ 16) Girt David Hunt 2-7-24 (Australian aboriginals)
++17) What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey Audrey Young 2-18-24 (Yupik & Blackfoot medicine)
++ 18) Earth Fire: A Hopi Legend Of The Sunset Crater Eruption Ekkehart Malotki 2-20-24
++ 19) How Colors Affect You: What Science Reveals William Lidwell 2-22-24
++ 20) Cherokee Mythology: Gods, Myths, Legends and Spiritual Beliefs of the Cherokee Tribe Jim Barrow 2-25-24
++ 21) Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother Norma Dunning 2-29-24
++ 22) The Green New Deal and Beyond: The Road from Climate Emergency to Ecological Reality Stan Cox 3-6-24 (North American First Peoples)
++ 23) Kirsten on the Trail Janet Beeler Shaw 4-2-24 (Ojibwa and Sioux)
++ 24) Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message Chief Jake Swamp 4-27-24 (Mohawk)
++ 25) Dream Big Dreams: Photographs from Barack Obama's Inspiring and Historic Presidency Pete Souza 5-17-24 (Obama did more for Native Americans than all his predecessors combined!)

Read 5 fiction books DONE
1) When We Were Alone David Alexander Robertson 11-21-23
2) The Blessing Way Tony Hillerman 12-13-23
3) Adventure Jack London 1-5-24 (Solomon Island native peoples)
4) Doña Bárbara Rómulo Gallegos 2-11-24 (Venezuelan natives)
5) My Culture, My Gender, Me Cassandra Jules Corrigan 2-11-24 (various 3rd gender cultures worldwide)


Read 3 myth/legend books DONE
1) The Mouse Couple: A Hopi Folktale Ekkehart Malotki 11-18-23
2) Ka-Ha-Si and The Loon: An Eskimo Legend Terri Cohlene 11-22-23
3) The Fire Stealers: A Hopi Story Ekkehart Malotki 1-31-24

Listen to or read 4 Great Courses DONE
++1) Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity Marc Zender 8-28-23
++2) Myth in Human History Grant L. Voth 11-1-23
++3) Living History: Experiencing Great Events of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds Robert Garland 4-28-24 (The Han people of China)
++4) Great Board Games of the Ancient World by Tristan Donovan 4-28-24 (Patolli: The Lost Game of the Aztecs)

Watch 5 movies DONE
++1) "Ten Canoes" 9-4-23 about Australian Aboriginal people in North near Darwin.
++2) "Little Big Man" 10-30-23 about US tribes & Little Big Horn
++3) "Killers of the Flower Moon" 10-30-23 about Oglala wealth from oil
++ 4) "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" about US tribes in South Dakota 5-7-24
++ 5) "El Sendero de la Anaconda" about Amazon indigenous peoples in Colombia 5-8-24

[Helen]

My Own Alphabet Choices Challenge

94 out of 90+ FINISHED


Starting 11-7-23
Finished 4-27-24

Choose a word.

Find the word in Title/Subtitle, on the Cover, or in the book (tell Location)

A is for +Animal, +Adverb, +Algonquin,+Arrow, +Aboriginal DONE
1) Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation Monique Gray Smith 11-10-23 (p. 27: "This is not an Aboriginal problem")
2) Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 11-17-23 ("getting one of them arrows out" p. 782)
3) O Is for Ossicone: A Surprising Animal Alphabet Hannah Eliot 12-5-23 (title)
4) Cherokee Mythology: Gods, Myths, Legends and Spiritual Beliefs of the Cherokee Tribe Jim Barrow 2-25-24 (p. 63: "(the Algonquins)")
5) The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins Anne Curzan 2-29-24 (Lecture 21: "if we look at verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs")

B is for +Bear, +Baby, +Babylon, +Butte, +Buffalo DONE
1) The Mouse Couple: A Hopi Folktale Ekkehart Malotki 11-18-23 ("As he considered the Butte's last words, " p. 42)
2) Ghosted Michael Fry 1-8-24 ( Bear p. 182)
3) The Secret World Of Wombats Jackie French 1-21-24 (p. 40, "When a wombat is a baby")
4) ABeCedarios: Mexican Folk Art ABCs in English and Spanish Cynthia Weill 1-23-24 (p. 3, "the Buffalo, el Bufalo")
5) Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present Peter Vronsky 4-10-24 (p. 337: "Mystery, Babylon the Great.")

C is for +Castle, +Candle, +Chile, +Chili, +Chimp(anzee), +California
DONE
1) Twilight Meg Cabot 11-10-23 (p. 28: "Here in California--even though it's northern California...")
2) Planet of the Apes Pierre Boulle 11-28-23 (Chimpanzee throughout book)
3) Owl Be Home for Christmas Donna Andrews 12-27-23 (P. 251: "chili")
4) The Wide Window Lemony Snicket 1-8-24 (p. 72 Candle)
5) Creepy Castle John S. Goodall
1-22-24
6) Anarchy in Action Colin Ward 3-10-24 (p. 60: "You can post a letter from here to China or Chile.")

D is for +Donkey, (County) Derry, +Dog, +Desert
1) The Story of Comock, the Eskimo as Told to Robert Flaherty Edmund Carpenter 12-13-23 (p. 9, : "their dogs, wild as wolves")
2) Five Weeks in a Balloon Jules Verne 1-13-24 (p. 271, "braved this desert expanse.")
3) Extra Credit (February 1, 2011) Paperback Andrew Clements 1-25-24 (Donkey: p.7 "riding on a small donkey")

E is for +Exquisite, +Experience, +Eel, +East(ern) DONE
1) Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries Noah Levine 11-28-23 (p. 19-- "when we experience sadness.")
2) Man Alive! Mary Kay Zuravleff 1-10-24 (page 128 "he'd treasured her birthmark as an exquisite flaw")
3) You're Making Me Six Jim Benton 1-13-24 (p. 14 "A Majestic Eel!")
4) HostageRobert Crais 1-25-24
(p. 31: "rolling from the east')

F is for +Flour, +Fiji, +Fowl, +Fortnight, +Frantic DONE
1) The Travel Book Lonely Planet Kids Lonely Planet Kids 11-10-23 (p. 201--Fiji)
2) Adventures of Splat the Cat Rob Scotton 1-13-24 (flour)
3) Santa Paws To The Rescue Nicholas Edwards 1-20-24 (p. 66, "sounding almost frantic.")
4) The Purchase of the North Pole Jules Verne 1-26-24 (p. 105: "A fortnight went by in this way")
5) Fool's Puzzle Earlene Fowler 3-1-24 (p. 96: "numerous fowl")


G is for +Gorilla, +Gentleman, +German(y) DONE
Gentleman --Girt p. 150--about
1) The Secret Santa from the Black Lagoon Mike Thaler 1-5-24 ("Dutch and German colonists", p. 48)
2) It's Not My Fault I Know Everything Jim Benton 1-8-24 (Gorilla p. 48)
3) Girt David Hunt 2-7-24 (p. 164: "Being a gentleman...")

H is for +Hound, +Herb, +Hedge, +Husband, +Hopi DONE
1) The Perfect Christmas: A Holiday Romance Novel Debbie Macomber 1-9-24 (p. 14 "I want a husband,")
2) The Fire Stealers: A Hopi Story Ekkehart Malotki 1-31-24 (Title)
3) The Cat Who Came in from the Cold Deric Longden 2-7-24 (p. 1: "Patrick had introduced us over the hedge.")
4) What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner Emily Yoffe 3-8-24 (p. 83: "the hound of the Baskervilles.")
5) Straw into Gold: Fairy Tales Re-spun Hilary McKay 3-19-24 (p. 7: "a handful of herbs')

I is for +Idiom, +Iceberg, +Idaho, Isthmus
1)Guinea Dog Patrick Jennings 1-26-24 (p. 27: "Idaho Jinx!")
2) What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be John McWhorter 3-1-24 (p. 197-198: "very much an idiom")
3) The Green New Deal and Beyond: The Road from Climate Emergency to Ecological Reality Stan Cox 3-6-24 (p. 13: "They think about melting icebergs.")

J is for ++Jackal, +Juniper, +Judge DONE
1) The Naughty List: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids Michael Fry 12-21-23 (Judge p. 43)
2) The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist's Reflections on Healing in a Changing World Dora Calott Wang 4-2-24 (p. 212: "the scent of juniper pine.")
3) The Pagan World: Ancient Religions Before Christianity Hans-Friedrich Mueller 4-27-24 (Jackal in lecture on Egypt)

K is for +Kitchen, +Kite, +Kentucky, +Kachina DONE
1) Lost and Found Andrew Clements 1-10-24 (p. 44 "the lock on the kitchen door")
2) Hopi Tales of Destruction Ekkehart Malotki 1-25-24 (p. 92: "the kachinas came out in the morning")
3) Before I Die Jenny Downham 2-7-24 (Disc 4, #10: kite)
4) Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe Sorrel King 2-29-24 (p. 6: "Kentucky bluegrass")

L is for +Llama, +Lamb, +Liquid, +Language DONE
1) O is for Hoolet Ishbel McFarlane 11-11-23 (p. 9: "The Open University has a Scots Language course.")
2) My Little Animal Book Roger Priddy 2-13-24 (p. 3: lamb)
3) Good Dog Dan Gemeinhart 3-6-24 (p. 229: "ran through him like liquid iron.")
4) Mysteries of the Microscopic World Bruce E. Fleury 4-10-24 (Lecture 22: "llamas")

[Helen]

Helen, cont.

M is for Maverick, +Mortar, Miwok, +Mountain, +Mouse
1) The Return Of Santa Paws Nicholas Edwards 12-24-23 (p. 48 " they made the snow-covered mountains seem dark and mysterious.")
2) Splat the Cat and the Hotshot Rob Scotton 1-23-24 cover: (mouse)
3) To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing Simon Garfield 3-8-24 (p. 328: "shells, Bren, rifle, mortar.")

N is for +Nevada, +Negotiate, +Nature, +Nation, New Mexico
1) Adventure Jack London 1-5-24 (p. 112--"negotiation")
2) What I Believe Bertrand Russell 1-28-24 (p. 1: "Man is a part of nature.")
3) Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus! Erich Origen 2-2-24 (p. 43: "migrated across the nation")
4) The January 6th Report The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol 3-1-24 (p. 212: "in Nevada, a State-court judge")

O is for +Oregon, Osage, +Observe, +Owl
1) Owls Are Good at Keeping Secrets: An Unusual Alphabet Sara O'Leary 1-17-24 (cover)
2) That's What Friends Aren't For Jim Benton 1-20-24 (p. 43 "Observe.")
3) Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned Jacob M. Appel 3-19-24 (p. 79: "Christian Longo, an Oregon inmate")

P is for +Potlatch, Pemmican,++Powder, +Pestle, +Powwow
1) Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 2-3-24 (p. 127: "and stone pestles and mealing-stones")
2) Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother Norma Dunning 2-29-24 (p. 46: banned from potlatch ceremonies")
3) The King of Torts John Grisham 4-2-24 (p. 31: "a powwow with the future on the line.")
4) Treasury of Wit and Humor Reader's Digest Association 4-25-24 (p. 73: "had gone to the powder room")

Q is for +Quince, +Quilt, +Quack, +Quarry, Quail
1) I is for Idea: An Inventions Alphabet Marcia Schonberg 12-14-23 (Q is for Quince)
2) The Quilter's Apprentice Jennifer Chiaverini 1-20-24 (cover)
3) K9 Scent Detection: My Favorite Judge Lives in a Kennel Jan Kaldenbach 2-18-24 (p. 99: "a clearer scent of his quarry.")
4) Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat Gail Jarrow 3-6-24 (p.62: "Another quack medicine")

R is for +Ranger, +Roast, +Ridge, +Rabbit DONE
1) Because of the Rabbit Cynthia Lord 1-13-24 (title)
2) Earth Fire: A Hopi Legend Of The Sunset Crater Eruption Ekkehart Malotki 2-20-24 (p. 94: "dry-roasts the cornmeal')
3) Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen Candace Fleming 3-19-24 (p. 55: "Ranger?")
4) Kirsten on the Trail Janet Beeler Shaw 4-2-24 (p.21: "along a stony ridge")

S is for +Shaman, +Stone, +Spiritual, +School DONE
1) When We Were Alone David Alexander Robertson 11-21-23 (school: "at the school I went to, far away from home" no page)
2) In the Year 2889 Jules Verne
1-22-24 (stone: p. 13, "all bodies whatever-- stone, wood, metal, fibers")
3) What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey Audrey Young 2-18-24 (p. 13: "hadn't responded to the...village shaman's hands.")
4) Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think Ralph Nader 3-10-24 (p. 149: "genuine spiritual motivation.")

T is for +Temper, +Tyke,+Timber DONE
1) Wildfire Taylor Morrison 11-22-23 ("Timber: Growing trees or their wood," on p. 48)
2) Oh Baby: Flash Fictions and Prose Poetry Kim Chinquee 1-31-24 (p. 86, "She was a monster with a temper.")
3) Killed at the Whim of a Hat Colin Cotterill 3-19-24 (p. 351: "this tyke has found a way into my heart.")

U is for ++Umpqua, Uluru, +Uruguay
1) An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems Glenn Beck 3-19-24 (p. 254: "a UN soldier from Uruguay")
2) Treasury of Wit and Humor Reader's Digest Association 4-25-24 (p. 75: "When Umpqua, Oregon pupils")

V is for +Victory, +Vegetables, +Victim DONE
1) Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters Abigail Shrier 11-17-23 ("Of all of these badges of victim status, the only one that you can actually choose is 'trans'". p. 154)
2) Unleashed Laurien Berenson 1-9-24 (p. 72 "Feeling brave in the face of victory?")
3) The Christmas Wish Lindsey Kelk 1-20-24 (p. 28 "did you get the vegetables from Reg?")

W is for +Whale, +Wolf, +Wyoming DONE
1) The Blessing Way Tony Hillerman 12-13-23 (p. 11: "And behind him he heard the Wolf laughing.")
2) Comet the Unstoppable Reindeer Jim Benton 12-27-23 (Whale)
3) Sudden Fiction International: 60 Short-Short Stories Robert Shapard 2-18-24 (p. 274: "Wyoming or Idaho, probably.")

X is for ++Xavier, ++Xylophone DONE
1) The Beautiful Game: The infographic Book of Soccer John Andrews 2-20-24 (p. 57: Abel Xavier, Portugal")
2) Treasury of Wit and Humor Reader's Digest Association 4-25-24 (p. 86: "six xylophones")

Y is for Yarrow, +Yellow, +Yell, +Yonder, +Yiddish
1) I Is for Immigrants Selina Alko 12-14-23 (Y= Yiddish)
2) The Three Latkes Eric A. Kimmel 1-21-24 (p. 2 :"A red latke, a yellow latke")
3) Debating Darcy Sayantani DasGupta 3-8-24 (p. 196: "he was about to yell at me.")
4) Braided Creek Jim Harrison 4-10-24 (p. 80: "When the roll is called up yonder")

Z is for Zebra, Zinc, +Zuni, +Zither
1) Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities Russell Ash 2-11-24 (p. 89: "The Urine Dance of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.")
2) L Is for Lollygag: Quirky Words for a Clever Tongue Molly Glover 4-2-24 (p. 27: "xylophone, zither")